Show Us Your Beginnings!

[un1 41]

Well this is the thread to show all of your humble beginnings. It can be anything, just as long as it was your first one of that. Here's my first city:

Happy showings!!

[Smarty218 2]

Wow, that's way better than I started. At first. I spent all my money on power plants and then zoned one residential area, one commercial and one industrial and forgot to connect them with roads and power.

Funny thing is, it took me a week to figure out why nothing was growing....

[nihonkaranws 88]

Okay, this was my first try at an imperial palace:

[Nardo69 51]

I once started  a similar thread here - linkie - without much success though - you  have receieved more answers by now .. 

Since these thread are so close together maybe a moderator can move my old thread's posts here?

Bernhard

[un1 41]

My do I have a new thing I did today!! It's called:
My First Custom Port!


Please comment on it because it will be featured in my new CJ Chain Island!

[briantwigley 0]

This is my first city that I made in SC4:

[Goldfish4209 9]

My first city's long gone... on a computer that's been formatted multiple times... Anyways, my very first city consisted of the biggest R square the simulator allowed, a bridge, a barely adequate bit of I, and a huge landfill. This was before I discovered pipes, so I had a water tower cover pretty much every block. And I didn't know why I was down to

[City2TheMax 3]

Briantwigley: That's quite impressive for your first city.

[un1 41]

briantwigly: That's so very good!!

[un1 41]

Here's a bump.

That is my first airport.

Suggestions are wanted.

-un1

[City2TheMax 3]

Very nice airport! Out of curiousity, why does one of the strips have 3 lanes? dont they usualy have 2?

[GMT 389]

so you're asking for firsts, right?

well, here's some of my firsts:

my first CJ and also first regional development

my first BIG City (also CJ)

my first BAT attempts

my first (and only) upload to the stex aswell as my first modding experiments

pictures of my first ever city are n/a cuz the city doesn't exist anymore... but I know there's one city I called Lafayette in the upper right corner of the maxisland map and the other (my 2nd so to say) was on the island in maxisland and was called Dot Island (a name I reissued in my first CJ)

and my 3rd city was (also in maxisland) in the lower left corner and was called something with plateau, idk exactly anymore

[Patricius Maximus 236]

Well, I'd like to show some of my older creations, not exactly a beginning, but old nonetheless.

Note: This city was a pre-MIS one, so the large highways are OWR instead.

Here's a mosaic showing the formation of a short dual highway. Not cosmetic, but it does the job:

Madness with GLR :

And a OWR interchange feeding a ferry. I must say it is a pretty good low-capacity interchange.

That's all for this post. I may be back with more, as I have 3 "beginning" regions with some good creations, and some not-so-good.

Please post comments.

[danielcote 9]

I started out getting run out of town because I spent all of the funds on a highway that didn't even go anywhere.

[phoenix7 3]

This isn't my first city (it was on another computer that is now running Linux), but it is the best one I made in my early SC4 years.

                                                         I'm not sure why commercial never grows for me, most of the commercial in that picture is plopped.

[IsaacTham 0]

My first custom airport. hard to build! lol

Suggestions for improvement? I'll be waiting.

Isaac

[WC_EEND 9]

try using ACB-VLT's terminals ands jets and the RMIP

[jj88 23]

Interesting 'firsts'. I remember my first city which was pretty rubbish and named after my hometown. For ages I couldn't get anything other than low density residential because I didn't know you had to zone higher densities over the top! That city is long gone now after I had to wipe my computer.

[jj88 23]

Originally posted by: Patricius Maximus

Well, I'd like to show some of my older creations, not exactly a beginning, but old nonetheless.

Note: This city was a pre-MIS one, so the large highways are OWR instead.

Here's a mosaic showing the formation of a short dual highway. Not cosmetic, but it does the job:

Madness with GLR :

And a OWR interchange feeding a ferry. I must say it is a pretty good low-capacity interchange.

That's all for this post. I may be back with more, as I have 3 "beginning" regions with some good creations, and some not-so-good.

Please post comments.

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Intersting pics. That interchange looks pretty confusing . LOL about the continuous repetition of buildings on the top pic, especially the top right. I remember that being so annoying.

EDIT: Sorry about the double post, it was accidental

[Yukky 1]

this is my beginning of Phoenix AZ ^^

no population until now i´m building the streets first!

i think its a very accurate recreation until now!

[jacqulina 162]

very nice beginnings everyone

[ruennsheng 0]

I thought every beginning starts with a power station? That's lame but true!

[Boycey08 0]

This is my first attempt at making a city since getting sc4 deluxe

The top left area was to become the only area of residential development on that part of the tile, the rest would all be south of the river leaving the island for commercial developments, this is my first attempt at creating a large highway/avenue road system

The proposed area for residential development

The view of the city after development has begun and changes to the highways have been made

The roundabout is one of my busiest areas providing the quickest way out of the city (1 of 2 exits) and into the neighbouring industrial city which provides 10,329 dirty & manufacturing jobs to the 26,001 in this tile. This tile also provides 1,039 HT industrial jobs

Here is another piece of highway which leads onto a busy roundabout, avenue and one way road going towards the 2 car & passenger ferry terminals, approx. 3000 cars, 2500 buses and 130 pedestrians are shown as using the terminals when the route query is hovered

Dont mind my poor attempt as a mosaic

Just a closeup of another part of highway leading in to the residential area

Commercial will be placed to begin with, just around the football stadium and radio station, but will eventually consume almost all of this island

Thanks for looking, some comments or suggestions, be it good or bad are wanted on my layout of the highways

[Boycey08 0]

could i just get some advice please? im not asking for much

[jj88 23]

Interesting. I think you over did it a bit with the highways though Boycey... you don't need that many

[un1 41]

That reminds me of my second city Boycey.

I agree with jj88, you overused the highway tool.

-un1

[Boycey08 0]

i had a feeling i had over done it, thats why i was so desperate for some advice, thankyou

so should i delete the bottom half of highways and replace them with avenues? or wait until my development stretches that far south before deciding what to do?

[Lampala 1]

Please don't judge me by this photo, but here's my first city ever.

[naftixe 131]

My 2nd San Francisco Bay Attempt

Area being worked right now

Just teasers here

For the CJ

SFBA - version 2 

Thanks!

[newyorkrunaway1 110]

although some could use some work, great job and thanks for sharing!