Oberbach

[DocJones 1]

Hello everyone!

 

After reading hundreds of post in the CJs I finally decided to share my new city Oberbach. I've been playing SimCity since the early days and still love it!!!

 

I'd also like to take this opportunity and thank all the developers that spend their free time to create useful addons for the game. Without them, SimCity wouldn't be half as good as it is now.

 

This is my first CJ. Oberbach is created on the Grenoble Region available on the STEX.

 

Enjoy, an feel free to comment.

[DocJones 1]

PART I - The foundation

 

Ok, here we go!

 

This is an overview of Oberbach. It's located on the northwestern part of the Grenoble region. We are looking southward. In the future, there is going to be a Niederbach city further down the river.

[DocJones 1]

This is going to be the heart of the city. Across the river, I will place the industrial area. And on this side of the river you can see the first parts of downtown Oberbach.

 

 

I decided to put a railroad connection to the center of the city, since it is going to be European style. So some adjustments had to be made concerning the avenue.

 

Here you can see the construction site of the Amsterdam Central Station by JENX.

[SC4 meister 7]

Wow, I love the map you are using, and everything is looking good so far.  Which water mod are you using?  It would be appreciated if you did not post right after your last post.  No biggie though, I like what I see, I'll be back...

[____----____ 37]

good start and hope to see more in the future

i like that you are building slow and planning things

out, nice start.

 

Aleking

[the_crispbread_witch 0]

Great stuff!
I see you're paying a lot of attention to detail, very good.

And I'm looking forward to see the rail station in a journal.

Is it just gonna be just Oberbach or a whole region?

Keep it up, I'm sure it will be a great cj.

[sloppet 3]

nice start! keep up the good work!

[UnkleS27 24]

its looking nice so far, I think I'll try and follow this cj,

and a quick question, how did you get you avenue to change into one way roads, I've tried that before and could never get it to work.

[Cjah 15]

Wow!This is just another great journal...

What is this the next renissanse?

[DocJones 1]

Hi guys!

 

Lots of replies already!

 

SC4 meister: I am using just a simple water mod that changes color of the water to dark blue. I can send you the file if you would like it.

 

UnkleS27: You can let avenues become one way roads simply by dragging one way roads out of the end of an avenue; you basically extend them out of the avenue. But you have to go straight for a couple tiles.

 

Till later!

[Cjah 15]

You need the NAM to do the oneway road to ave....

[oroen 0]

I like that you're starting at the beginning. I start and restart too much at the very beginning, so I always appreciate when people show us the kernels of their metropolises.

[jacqulina 162]

very nice detail and design great start

[Scaley McSlither 1,714]

Looks like a great foundation for your city! Looking forward to see how it progresses.

[UnkleS27 24]

thanks, I just downloaded the NAM and now I can change my avenues to one way roads. Looking forward to another update

[dhoppeii 12]

The region you are starting with looks great.  I also like the fact that it appears you are working this slowly....I like to see that.

[DocJones 1]

Hello again!

 

Here's my progress of the city:

 

Preparation of the industrial area. I used a large freight rail station to get the goods out of town.

 

 

Just before letting the city run for the first time.

 

 

Present state of the city. Not much developed yet

 

 

A canal in front of the large passenger rail station.

 

Till later!!!

[Scaley McSlither 1,714]

HOO-WAAAA!!!!!!!!! What a great start for your city! I love the layout. Makes me wish that the start of my current city hadn't been so chaotic. I think it's the only thing holding me back from posting a CJ of my own. Anyways, well done!

[DocJones 1]

PART II - Building the city

 

So, after laying out the basics, I'm ready to build the city's infrastructure.

 

This is the new part of the city in the west of Oberbach. Just north of the avenue running from E to W there is going to be the CBD. I have no idea how I'm going to lay it out yet

 

 

And a bit closer... The highway is probably going to run underground most of the time.

 

 

And here you can see marrast's underpass available at:

https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/index.cfm?mode=files&filetype=BAT&Str=marrast eyecandy underpasses as is

 

 

Comments welcome.

Talk to you guys later.

[UnkleS27 24]

Its starting to look really good. I like what you've done with the highway, and those billboards on top of the tunnel entrances is a nice touch

[jacqulina 162]

great update