Show us your Region!

[philforhockey51 4,211]

Region of Mountain North

[Artimus 485]

Still working on the details of my latest region. In retrospective, I grew to like this region more than any other I crafted so far! 

 

 

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

Stuff going on in my low density, twin city region. Mostly suburbs living off the freeways.

[kingofsimcity 5,739]

I love how your suburbia looks... hope we'll see a CJ sometime soon

[antsel 841]

These are some very nice regions everyone. I wouldn't mind seeing some updates from some of the older posts. 

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

The region I'm mostly in currently just smashed 100 000 population milestone!

[raynev1 1,886]

Cool region there @Thin White Duke Looks challenging and fun to develope all at the same time . Is the region available on the STEX ?

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

Thank you! I tried to find it here on the STEX, but I couldn't. Here it is on the LEX, though.

[philforhockey51 4,211]

@antsel and others Update: Mountain North

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

Lantern Bluffs has expanded pretty far along the highway and grown to a population of 162, 037. In case you're wondering why it's all so green all of a sudden, there was a lot of rain over the past month.

[TakemeThere 5,834]

On 2016-09-17 at 8:15 PM, Thin White Duke said:

In case you're wondering why it's all so green all of a sudden, there was a lot of rain over the past month.

O rly? And would that explain the change in water color too?
I suspect something far more nefarious... like secret government conspiracy involving soil & water dyeing. You know it's true

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

Just now, Takingyouthere said:

O rly? And would that explain the change in water color too?
I suspect something far more nefarious... like secret government conspiracy involving soil & water dying. You know it's true

Actually, it's just a matter of the great god far above the moon changing terrain packs. 

[DavidDHetzel 1,816]

Here's Siskiyou as it stands. I'm debating weather or not I should use a premade region TBH, Love the cities I built but not the region.

[T Wrecks 10,209]

I guess that's because the mountains are too steep to really do anything with them. They just form some white spaces on the flat ground surface available for city-building, much like water. However, water bodies can be crossed by bridges, lined with seaports or promenades, etc. - what do you do with a sheer cliff, though? Not much. I guess if you had some gradual slopes, you might find more use for them - maybe as farm land, maybe for low-density residential. You could play with height levels, terraced areas, trenches, retaining walls... Wind farms may be an option, too, or some radio towers on hilltops. Or water towers. Or observation towers. Or camp sites. Some interesting applications for ploppable water also come to mind.

It's not easy to get mountains right for Simcity ("right" as in: realistic enough to look convincing, buildable enough to be interesting to play) - I'm still struggling with that aspect of the game myself.

[DavidDHetzel 1,816]

I think its more to do with how bad the edges of my tiles look, I can never seem to get a smooth transition.

[Compdude787 916]

Yeah, you should use SC4 Terraformer if you want to do your own region. That will allow you to terraform on a regional level rather than just a city level, and everything will look more coherent.

[Darrius11able 728]

This was my very first region in the game I made:

The one I'm working on atm: 

[matias93 7,535]

Some incipient development in a really big and accidented region (just omit the plain green tiles, I'm taking my time with terraforming and foresting, just a couple of places have recieved the due attention yet.

[Compdude787 916]

@ruan2010, none of your pictures are showing up. Please fix them; thanks!  

[ruan2010 15]

My main region I started with this region about 3 months ago  

[CorinaMarie 29,774]

I have been posting this region and individual city tiles in the farm thread, but I'm guessing it's ok to post just the region pics here.

Initial map render:

 

Added trees and sagebrush:

 

Current:

 

I'm playing a slow, natural growth game. Ferries are the only way to cross those rivers atm. In time the small towns will grow, the streets and roads will get upgraded, and eventually bridges will be built.

 

[Prophet42 1,503]

So I haven't posted in this thread for a while (back on page 45 ), but thought I might give an update on my region of Hebron.

Here is Hebron after 225 sim years

By now, most of the farming communities have been eaten up by city growth and are now mainly found at the outskirts of the region.  Commercial development in the downtown has not quite taken off, and the sea port is still small.  A small international airport has been built and should help spur growth.

 

Here is Hebron after another 25 sim years (250 total).  The sea port has grown and the downtown is starting to see more high-rise growth.  Not too many more farms have disappeared, but the city growth is starting to expand into more of the "green" areas.

At this point the region population is around 500,000.  Also, I have one city - En Elohim - supply water to the entire region.  The city of Hebron - Portview is supply the whole region with power and garbage disposal.  The way I play a region is I will play each city for 25 sim years and strive for reasonable and realistic growth.  After I have played each city for 25 sim years and take a picture and start the cycle over again.

 

[metasmurf 705]

@Prophet42 Damn that's sexy! Nice work, very realistic.

[Prophet42 1,503]

Thanks @metasmurf .  I do strive for realism in my cities and regions.  As I build my cities I let the "lay of the land" guide me in what to build and where to build it.  Before I put down a road or zone a tract of land I will think to myself "would this be built here if it were in the real world".  I also tend to build my regions slowly starting from farms and rural communities that slowly expand into a metropalitan area.  This means that sometimes neighborhoods are bulldozed to make way for the interstate, businesses have to make room for the road to be upgraded to an avenue or sims start to complain because their quiet little neighborhood just got noiser because of the new airport.

[Tino06 16]

Here's the region I've been working on for the past one or two years. There are plenty of unfinished spots (the airport, seaport, the whole city on the right, etc.) and it definitely needs more farms and smaller villages but overall I'm pretty satisfied with it  

Note that this is only a tiny section of the region. The map I use is panerai1's Humboldt and it's huge!

[raynev1 1,886]

@Tino06 Your region looks very nice , I especially like the farms to the east of the city center . 

[philforhockey51 4,211]

Region of Mountain North - Update        with the majority of the main city of River's End nearing completion the region has now passed 1,000,000 sims. Here is the River's End area

 

[9gruntsand1hammer 3,196]

This is the region of Sault Ste. Marie that I've been working on for 3 years. Only have the city of Sault Ste.Marie left to do. I've outlined the city boundaries because most of them don't conform to the region grid. The first picture is reference to locate each city in the region.

[Harry's Place 918]

[raynev1 1,886]

Giving this thread a bump .   Click the image to see bigger . Open in a new tab to see even bigger .

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