While it is ultimately a matter of choice and construction process, it is a very frequent outcome that the detail is not given enough attention - not just for my skyscraper but for others I have seen as well. As a result, they're far more likely to dominate a city build in the modular style rather than complement it. Skyscrapers tend to be much more proportionate to their real equivalents, going much deeper down a block to make the correct visual profile. They're facade-oriented and quite shallow, intended to make up the face of a block but not its depth, and are just generally small overall. Modulars are like caricatures of buildings. Also, if your town is predominantly modulars or modular-style buildings, a skyscraper likely won't make a lot of thematic sense. If you're doing a downtown high rise section of a city, it really needs to be a whole neighborhood, or at least a block. A single skyscraper in a city that's otherwise filled with short buildings is going to look awkward. Slapping one together because you want something tall is going to yield poor results, but it's more an issue of underestimating the undertaking, IMO. The fact of the matter is that a skyscraper is just going to be a large build, and that's going to require a certain commitment of parts and design. Well sure, I think there can definitely be a tendency to prioritize size and scale over detail, but that's an individual's choice to make.
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