Port Matthew and Vicinity

[2nerdy4u 1]

Nice update. Fantastic region.

[Smarty218 2]

Amazing region pics, I now get a feeling for the true height of Defender's Cliffs. The transportation map was great too.

[jacqulina 162]

hi my friend i can see you have been inspired and your doing a beautifull job.excellent work and pics

[suomi2005 52]

I love your region and nice to hear that you are expanding your use of non-maxis stuff it will really do some diffrence. I think you are doing a really great job with the maxis content allready.

Keep up the good work.

[Somebody 12]

looks good except for those damn palm tree forests, they are everywhere and just make your city look odd. please tame them or something.

[suplado! 23]

wow huge metropolis...really like the overview and the trans map!!

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

Wow, two pages.  Awesome.  Anyways, REPLIES!

bbfan02:  Thank you!  There will be continued expansion!

Shanna:  Thank you!

2nerdy4u: Thank you!

Smary218: Thank you!  Hopefully I'll stick this long enough to fill it up!

jacqulina:  Thank you!  With so many beautiful cities on this (and other) website it's hard NOT to be inspired.  I just hope that you all aren't too bored with my mediocre and slightly ugly cities

suomi2005:  Thank you!  So far my computer hasn't been bogged down too much by what I've already dl'ed.  It just takes its time loading the game.  My next machine will be bigger, stronger, and faster.

Somebody:  Hah, ok.  I was aiming for nice patches of nature to break up the constant concrete of the city, but I know they can be made much more elegantly.  This is something I aim to improve.  Sorry to have hurt your eyes so.

suplado!: Thank you!  This is probably going to end up like a Japanese-style city where it just expands and expands leaving nothing but houses and mountains across the landscape.  It's really quite something.  Tokyo just goes and goes...  I'll show some pictures in the following update.  Today we're going somewhere a little different.

And thus we segway to THE MOUNTAINS!

Mount Ahrens is just north of Port Matthew.  It is at the base of a rather sizable mountain chain and the gateway to a vast park.  Because of the unnatural way it was formed, some of the shapes are a little odd, adding to the strange beauty of the region.

The north end of Mt Ahrens is the tale end of civilization.  A few high-tech labs have flourished in the shadows of the mountains.  People here are near work and near play.  It is thus a happy place!

Heading west, the town has spilled into the bottom of a valley as water would do.  The houses have melded into the land.  There will be no highway through here, just a two-laner, Michigan style!

Ahrens Square.  This is the center of the town, and the last sign of civilization on the way to the wilds (eventually I'll have a name for it.  "The wilds" will suffice for now).

And finally, an overview of this fair town, looking west-southwest.  Next time, I'll remember to make the visual settings a bit higher so we can all see the little houses in the distance.  Sorry about that! 

Once more, thank you for your comments!  I hope to continue to improve and become more interesting!

*EDIT*  Changed "east" to "west."  Haha, sorry about that!  Got turned around there

[jacqulina 162]

hi my friend,everyone has there own styles for building cities,i do not look at one and think its ugly,i see how i used to build when i first started playing.and then as you go along everything improves,i had rebuilt many times before i was happy lol,i still do now.i see nothing that can make me feel bored,i see learning and a beginning.you are at the beginning and learning and your doing very well my friend so just keep going.im enjoying your work so far.

[KingTitan 6]

Great Update NMUSpidey.

And no way...your city is not ugly friend. Just like jacky said above....You will see you learn and improve on things...believe me...I have LOL. Read a lot on other CJ's too, they help with creating your own ideas also, and listen to contructive criticism. If you ever need help friend. Please PM me. Ill be back again for more.

Just a side not....there is a tool in the God -Mode that will smooth out terraine too. Will make it a lot easier to biuld onto smooth areas...even slightly hilly, it will make your property surrounding your structures look more custon, rather than "block-brick walls" It's a trial by error process. But your CJ is wonderful.

[suomi2005 52]

Nice update! your skills are for sure going to develop everyone starts from the bottom and makes theire way up to the top createing theire own personal style. I will for sure stay around to see more of this great Cj.

[Skram 4]

nice work, i like the mountains and your rock mod, keep it up!

[bbfan02 23]

Wow, impressive mountains! I wouldn't like to live at the foot of those mountains! Lol. Great update. Can't wait for more!

-bbfan02-

[The Big Z 103]

Great job! I love the mountains, too. Some trees in the town would make it even more beautiful! Keep up the good work!

[suplado! 23]

cool mountain side town...the huge mountain looks great overlooking the town from behind...hehe!

really like how the roads run through the side....

[Schulmanator 5,787]

The town is coming along nicely. That's a steep hill... would be great to sled on in winter!

[OffTopic 3]

Yay! Finally, a small town. All those skyscrapers were making me woozy.

[2nerdy4u 1]

Wow. Great mountains. Building on mountains is just so hard isn't it? Great work.

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

Hello everyone!  Thank you very much for the kind words.  I suppose I'm overly critical of myself

Anyways, REPLIES!

jacquilina:  Haha, I know what you mean!  Next time we're in central Port Matthew you'll have seen many changes since the last visit!

KingTitan: Thank you very much.  I actually think I have improved dramatically since even earlier this year!  I'm starting to become a bit more proud (prouder?  I'm not sure...) of my creation, and I think this next update is some of my best work yet!  I'll keep the God-Mode thing in mind as well.

suomi2005: Thank you!  Hopefully I'm a few floors up from the bottom at this point!  I have high hopes for myself.

Skram: Thank you!  I like the rock mod too.  The stock brown look was just kind of dirty and ugly, huh?

bbfan02: Haha, maybe at the top of the mountains?  But imagine having to plow the driveway in the winter.  Although if you can afford to live up there, you can hire a bulldozer!

The Big Z: Thank you!  More trees are coming.  Eventually I want to get the really cool and realistic-looking trees I have seen in some other cjs.

suplado!: Haha, I thought that was a good way to frame that particular picture.  I still have a couple more from Mt Ahrens I'll use later hehe.

Schulmanator: Thank you!  Mt Ahrens is a sledder's dream come true!  The kids LOVE snow days.

OffTopic: Haha, I hope you'll like today's update even more!

2nerdy4u: Yeah, I think so.  It's difficult to get the roads to curve properly.  In SC2k everything was evenly spaced and I felt I could follow the hills' curves much easier (and prettier).  The hills don't pay attention to the grid and it makes it tricky!  Of course, you already  knew that!

UPDATE!

Staying to the west of Port Matthew, we have Mount Plains (haha, a great name if I do say so myself) and Bedford.  Mount Plains was originally a farming community, but with the expansion of Port Matthew its economy has grown and changed to more high-tech things.  The farms have moved farther into the countryside.

First, Downtown Mount Plains.  Mount Plains has a radio station (WPLN, playing all your favorite country hits!) and is home to the Port Matthew Fairgrounds.  Midrise development helps ease the transition from dense Port Matthew to the countryside.  These are the "foothills" for the steel mountains of the city.

Moving away from downtown, we have SUBDIVISIONS!  I grew up in one of these outside of Toledo.  This is almost like home!

I'm  just so proud of these.

I should be exclusively a suburban developer!

Mount Plains was originally two small, poor farm towns with dismal education and no prospects beyond the farms.  As PM expanded, so did MtP, and a new artery was built to slice through unused farmlands to connect the two villages!  Man, I can barely contain my excitement!

I have to say though, without simgoober and Deadwoods, none of this is really possible.  Those two BATers are just awesome.

I had the settings too low when I took the pictures, so an overview will come w

[Skram 4]

Nice work, the suburbs look great, also the use of simgoober is great, and the trees look good to. Keep it up, and yes i agree with you about SimGoober and Deadwoods being great batters!

[suplado! 23]

cool downtown...i like the rail station! the suburb part looks amazing too, the roundabout at each end is really cool!

[jacqulina 162]

i see what you mean very nice suburbs there my friend.just dont critisize yourself lol your work is good.

[bbfan02 23]

Great update once again! I love the trees you used. What's the names? Great use of custom content as well.

-bbfan02-

[suomi2005 52]

Your makeing huge progress that suburb looks awesome and I like the trees you used and the train platform looks very nice.

[KingTitan 6]

Beautiful burb area there Spidy....Love the tiny bedroom communities you set up. Road's make sense too. Great update friend.

[Khorasaurus1 1]

Very cool city. I like the mountain and peninsula in the bay downtown. 

My favorite part is how the grid continues no matter what the topography is - it reminds me a lot of San Francisco.

[Mike the Mayor 51]

Nice work. The mountains looks wonderful and great that you've added more trees - the residential areas look beautiful.

[Smarty218 2]

Great couple updates. The suburbs look fantastic. The mountains are great looking.

[2nerdy4u 1]

Great update. Love the name.

[Khorasaurus1 1]

Those are really cool subdivisions. I know I don't have the patience to make my suburbs that realistic.

I also like your mountain town two updates ago.

[Andronicus22 1]

If i may give some constructive critisiam, You need some more you know, large city skyscapers.
like you could use some od Dusktroopers and Euinox's resdential and commercial biuldings {there great} also try oneil_1 and eburress. if that does not suite you try the camelot at www.sc4devotion.com. Thankies