Ogdenville

[s_olah 87]

It turned out nice eventually...although I do agree a little more custom content would help...

[collgab 10]

wow, is this a realistic maxis city I see? Why it is! very nice work man, keep it up! My only advice is to go ahead and demolish abondoned buildings to let new things grow, =) other than that keep it up great work, cant wait for more!!!

[memedoug85 36]

   <>-*-<>-*-<> gdenville <>-*-<>-*-<>

Suburb in the corner. Rail entrance --->


High Tech Industry. Rail over the highway --->


My favourite commercial building --->


Jobless downtown --->


The beginning of the rival downtown --->


Western suburb --->

[memedoug85 36]

I know my CJ isn't the best so I thought I'd change the mood by showing some pictures of Wollongong.

















I'll post some close up pics down the track...

[suplado! 23]

wow -- nice rl pics...

[memedoug85 36]

I'm thinking about starting a new city! I've downloaded Pacific Heights thanks to tiwerick and I've changed the config file to only large sized cities. It's a little different to what I'm used to but I'm planning on using less Maxis forests and downloading more content.

How do people feel about giving up on regions? I suppose I can always come back to it later.

[jacqulina 162]

wonderfull job my friend why do you want to give up,it takes time to get everything the way you want,and from what i see your doing excellent allready keep up the great work

[memedoug85 36]

I need more people to tell me not to give up... If I continue with Ogdenville I'll be incorporating a rural highway!

[Lifetec 1]

It's already looking very good m8, you already showed a lot of improvement in the passed few updates, why would you stop this one? If you really want to downlaod custom content, than just fit it in this region, I'm sure it will be looking good. You'll improve even more as you did already in this CJ. Good luck m8 and keep up the good work

[memedoug85 36]

Sunken highway walls proving to be very hard to deal with!!!

[RJN 1]

Nice CJ! Nice Downtown! Good job.

[AceofSpades 1]

Most custom content you start off with is hard to deal with. But if you fool around with them and stuff they become a breeze. Don't give up this cj it's really doing well. Just a little more jobs and that's it...

[memedoug85 36]

Newsbreak

The mayor of Ogdenville has released a plan to change the entire outlook of the city. A rural highway will be built to try and improve traffic flow. Elevated highways will be replaced with ground level highways. Forests are to be demolished and replaced with more attractive parklands. New suburbs will be zoned with more jobs. There is even a plan for a subway or a monorail system in the downtown area.

It is not known at this stage how long the radical change will take to complete but the mayor assures me that it will definantly be a change for the better.

Blue areas are planned as central parklands and red lines represent the new highway.





The mayor has informed me that these pictures are only a rough draft of what will actually be built. Suggestions from the public is highly encouraged.

[jacqulina 162]

i think a rural highway is an excellent idea and perhaps more custom content too but all in all your city is allready looking fantastic your doing really well,keep up the great work

[Lifetec 1]

Wow the major has some impressive plans looking forward to the new lay-out

[memedoug85 36]

[dfnva 34]

The highway proposal sounds interesting. One thing I really like about your CJ, though, is all the trees, so hopefully too many won't be chopped down in the name of the untangling of arterials.

Dan

[farmer-alex 2]

DONT GIVE UP !

Your CJ looks great -

and the Highway proposal sounds quite interestng

I love your Industrial Area too.

[Patricius Maximus 236]

Go for it, abracadabraz85!  I would recommend the SFBT's Seasonal Woods. They are displayed well in my own Patrician Showcase. I like how you are incorporating the RHW into your cities.

For more about the RHW, you should look at Haljackey's Greater Terran Region and the Show Us Your Interchanges! thread. He has done some fantastic work, and others have as well.

I find sometimes that a complete reconstruction and massive improvement of a city or an entire region can help tremendously, even if you have to demolish a lot to do it.

Don't give up on Ogdenville - when it started it might not have been the best - but after your improvements it became a lot better. It is definetly one of the newer CJ's that have that classic "feel" to them.

I wish your region and it's mayor the best of luck.

[memedoug85 36]

Update

Heavy traffic:

The beginnings of a new downtown to the east:

Region:

I may have to demolish the rural highway. No one uses it and it takes up too much room.

[jacqulina 162]

im happy that you are continuing my friend and its looking wonderfull great planning and details keep it up

[etherian 4]

Do take a look at Seasonal Woods, they add something different to the landscape, especially with the amount of trees you're planting - sure it takes a bit more time to make it look natural, but the result are great!

I think if you're connecting cities with rural highways, its best not to connect the same ones with the elevated or ground highways - that might help with the transit problem.

[s_olah 87]

You have a very good reagionview, I really like your city, could use a bit more custom content, but not necessarily...Nice industry, to dirty for me, but it looks ok...Keep up the good work...

[memedoug85 36]

Replies: Sorry I haven't been doing this up till now but I'll get it started now...

jacqulina: thanks for the encouragement

suplado!: more real pics are coming...

Lifetec: thanx

RJN: more downtowns are being zoned, look at next pics

AceofSpades: definantly can not work with the rural highways, i'll keep them sunken ground

dfnva: defiantly no chopping down of the trees, i keep putting more in there

farmer-alex: thanks, i'm definantly not giving up

Patricius Maximus: I prefer to use the god cheat so I can plant on large scale but thanks for the suggestion

s_olah: i dont really know how a city can function without industry... thanks for the comment

Update:

Hitting 400k population if I remember correctly

[anarchy0029 2]

Hey you really have some creative works, and potential. BTW, welcome to the COFR.

[jacqulina 162]

wonderfull work and pics my friend,growth is doing well,great region.keep up the grear work.

[jjune4991 1]

it looks really good. did you ever get that rural highway done?

[ky72x 13]

Your road layouts continue to impress me. Also, I really like the high levels of traffic - very accurate and realistic. The region view looks fantastic, keep up the good work!

- Kyle

[memedoug85 36]

anarchy0029: Just wondering what the Confederacy of Free Regions is all about?

jacqulina: always love your comments

jjune4991: rural highway proposal was scratched. all highways are now sunken instead which doesnt really do anything different but its a change.

ky72x: i trying to use curved roads as much as possible from now on

more updates coming

[RJN 1]

Really nice so far! Really nice picks! Awesome regional view!