Octavia Region

[SC4Fanatic 3]

Hi all,

A few days ago I started a new region, named Octavia. I named it after one of my best female friends (and not after that car model, just for you all to know). (big smile).

The Budapest, Hungary, region inspired me, so I made a rather big region with a river, an island somewhere in the center.

The western part of the city has some mountaneous area and the eastern part is flat (like in Budapest).

I used SC4 Terraformer to build the region.

Right now, nothing has been really built yet, but I'm planning and thinking of names for the different parts of the city.

A mega-city is impossible in SC4, so a mega-city has to consist of some big SC4-cities together.

Let's see how this develops. I have big plans and ideas, but somehow things always change when building, LOL.

It's a great pleasure to look at other's city journals and sometimes they make me jealous. Well, not really jealous, but I admire the work of others.

Why Budapest, you might ask. Well, I've been there a few times when travelling by car from Holland to southeast Romania. Budapest is a great city, Romania a great country.

Well, enough said, I'm going to work on my new region and I hope it will be something nice.

Greetings,

Jan

[bbfan02 23]

Looking like a good start. Eager to see some pictures!

-bbfan02-

[OffTopic 3]

Sounds great! Hopefully we could get some region overview shots, then your first starts!

[SC4Fanatic 3]

Still busy with the region itself and I downloaded some mods and other stuff. Credit of course to all who developed those! I made already some region overview pictures and hope to post them soon (is a rather big region 12x12 big cities, so around 48x48 km, so sometimes things get a bit slow, LOL).

What I already can tell is that it will be an european-like region, maybe with a downtown with a little american accent. I've visited many towns in my life so far, some american, but most european (I live in Europe, Netherlands to be exactly). I loved Berlin, Budapest, Cracow, Brussels, London and even Bucarest and Rome (of course) and Genova. I never was in Paris (shame on me, but I will visit that beautiful city too, I promise). And of course I visited many smaller and great-looking towns too.

So, lots of inspiration here

Sometimes I think I have to work the "wrong way" here, cause I don't want to bulldoze a lot of buildings when I build a ring-road and mayor railroads and stuff, so maybe I should first build some main infrastructure and then the rest? Any ideas? (Normally a city grows and things are added when they are needed).

[bbfan02 23]

Well, first, I always plan the zoning and then the roads and highways. But, I've seen many people do it another way. It is basically what you feel to do first.

-bbfan02-

[edmonton_stinks 5]

Check out other CJ's for ideas. You can basically do anything.

[SC4Fanatic 3]

Hi all,

Sorry for the late update. My region crashed. It was never a problem, but when I wanted to make some changes (a few extra rivers and a few nice lakes) Terraformer crashed.

The good news: no lives where lost . And although it pissed me off at first, I am happy that nothing was built yet. I just had made some pictures to show, when all went wrong .

So, I build a new region, basically the same idea and the Budapest region is stll part of it. I added some lakes, some extra rivers (and made the mountains a bit higher than they are there, but hey, after all, I'm not going to rebuild an existing city .

So far all looks good and I will post pictures as soon as possible. Seems sometimes Terraformer has some minor issues, although it's a fantastic tool for creating regions and landscapes and I'm very happy to use it.

The city will be Ameropian. I know , a new word, but what I mean is something like a mix between American and European cities.

I will keep you updated and I'm glad I finished building the new region in Terraformer. I made the new one a bit smaller then the original one to prevent future problems.

And before I might forget: A very Happy New Year with all best wishes to all of you!

[bbfan02 23]

Looking forward to seeing the new region!

-bbfan02-

[Schulmanator 5,811]

Sounds like a great concept - I agree that those are great places. I will be back for the updates.

[Joetropian1 1]

Sounds good... reminds me of my 16X16 region... it took 20 minutes just to get into a ctiy... not to mention 150MBs or so of plugins on an old and nearly full computer... OK getting of subject... Good luck on the region. Europe is a nice continent.

JT1

[Andronicus22 1]

very good idea, and yes you can biuld the main roads and all that either way you want. sometimes i find it easier if i biuld my zones then highways, also you might wanna check out cobb's biuldings some are excellent for a euro reigon. Happy building!

~andro~

[Mulefisk 15]

It would be nice to see some pics.

[jacqulina 162]

sounds great have you one pic to show us my friend

[SC4Fanatic 3]

Hi all,

Well, life was very busy lately, but here's a pic of part of the region to show the bad-looking city borders (I turned off city borders in region view, but that doesn't help). The region was made with SC4 Terraformer and if someone knows how to fix this, I would be very grateful.

I need this fix before I am starting to build (don't want to obliterate cities to fix this problem).

Thanks in advance!

Greetings,

Jan

[jjune4991 1]

2 months later...looks pretty cool. all you have to do is go into each city and save it. and then it will go away.

[jacqulina 162]

you need to go into each city reconcile then save. nice region my friend looking out for more

[Somebody 12]

no no no no no DON'T reconcile with cities next to the weird ones. it will read the neighbor as all water and mess up everything

[SC4Fanatic 3]

Hi all,

To reconcile edges or not, that seems to be the question here.

I founded 9 cities which - together - will be the central area of my region (the downtown area).

In the picture below you will see the ugly looking city borders (where rivers cross borders; this seems to be only a problem in north-south direction).

I tried to reconcile edges after establishing and saving the cities, but things mess up terribly (making all city borders like areas covered with water). I guess I have to accept this as a bug of the program? It's only looking weird in region view (in city view all is normal).

Thanks for the reactions so far. I still hope I can fix this, but this lil' problem is not the end of the world of course.

Greetings,

Jan

Here's the picture:

[jacqulina 162]

oh shucks i hope you can sort it out my friend

[gabry85 2]

When you work with SC4Terraformer, you don't have to worry about reconciling edges. Ignore that message, just save your cities in the game and it won't tell you to reconcile.

Looking forward to your CJ!