Cork

[Viles 0]

Well heres my first CJ, I'm no Sim City veteran or writer but hopefully you will enjoy the sites of Cork (no relation to Cork, Ireland!).

 

The Cork Financial District, many companies hav moved into this area due to its close links with the Cork Internation Rail Station, the Motorway and the Cork underground hub (just out of picture).

 

The main building in this area is the Finance Tower, at over 400 metres tall it is currently the largest skyscraper in Cork.

[Amerikaner 42]

This is a nice start, so really good work with it. The banner at the top was a really good idea, and it was a very interesting way to introduce you new CJ. For someone that is not a Sim City Veteran you did qutie an excellent job, so great work.

[tigerplayer91 3]

Looks very good so far!

If I may suggest one thing however,

you may want to download the "Traffic Generator"

from the STex. It kind of livens cities up more by producing

a lot of traffic. It puts cars on the road, Idk I really like it

anyway, lol.

Other than that everything looks really good, Id love

to see a night pic though, thatd be cool as well! : ]

Nickk

[Schulmanator 5,787]

Love it! Great banner and intro and the city looks cool. And, as someone who lives 3 miles from the North Carolina-South Carolina border in RL, I will certainly make a visit to Cork and pay my respects.

[Kiwi n Grapes 2]

Wow nice start! The banner on top was cool! I do agree with tigerplayer91 in that you should get the traffic generator from stex, other than that, looks great!

[edmonton_stinks 5]

Good start! I like your building use, and how there isn't the same skyscraper repeated ten times. This is especially good for a first CJ.

[Deionn 137]

Noice Noice. For a newbie (Not *****), you are doing well. I wish people would read my cj like that. I onli have 104 replies. No sarcasm.

[jacqulina 162]

great start and intro and allready looking fantastic

[feliwi 4]

wow, fantastic start

[jjune4991 1]

very nice cbd. i like that tower. could you give me a link for it?

[psander5 195]

Very nice. I love the use of the BBC website! It makes it feel like a real place... in fact i may have to search google earth. I like the haze you've added to your images (i assume). It makes them look like they were taken from a distance. The CBD looks great. I look forward to seeing the rest.

[wallasey 8]

Great start; hoping to see more!

I am intrigued into what your suburbs look like!

[Viles 0]

Keep your comments comment, I enjoy reading them and will reply to them later.

 

Map of Cork City, light blue is the sea, darker blue is the commercial area, green residential. . . you know the drill.

 

Another view of the financial district showing the subway hub and in the bottom corner the commercial centre of Cork.

 

A closer look at some of the areas in the financial district.

 

[jacqulina 162]

very nice update looking great my friend

[anarchy0029 2]

good looking CJ. Looking forward for more

[Viles 0]

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Amerikaner - Thanks for your comments.

tigerplayer91 - Yes it does look like a bit of a ghost town and I'll have a look at the traffic generator.

Schulmanator - Ha! Good luck trying to find Cork where you live.

tennis162 - Thanks, unfortunatly the website lost a lot of its quality as I resized to 800 x 600.

edmonton_stinks - Thank you, I spent alot of time making sure the commerical area didn't have repeating buildings everywhere. Will be a challenge to get the same variety in other areas of the City.

deion30296 - Only 104?

jacqulina - Thanks.

feliwi - Glad you like it and thanks for replying.

jjune4991 - I take it you mean the big blue tower? You can find it here - https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/index.cfm?id=19616

 

psander5 - I did add a small effect to the images and thank you for your nice comments.

 

wallasey - You may perhaps have to wait a while before we move out to the suburbs, but I'm looking foward to see how well they turn out.

jacqulina - Thank you for your 2nd reply! Its really appreciated.

anarchy0029 - Thanks a lot, I'm also looking foward to more!

Perhaps in the next update we will move away from the Financial district for a bit.

[Viles 0]

Right, so in this update we're hopping across the motorway, to the largest stadium in Cork and its surrounding hi-rise development.

The picture below shows a statue to Cork F.C's greatest manager.

Haven't quite finsihed some of the areas in this photos, hence some repetition.

[penguin007 27]

Great start here your city is well layed out. I like the stadium and the intro was a very good idea. Good luck with the rest of the cj

Will

[psander5 195]

wow! That's an awesome stadium. What is it? I want it! I like the way you've used the statue to commemorate what must have been a fine manager indeed!

[tankmank 853]

lovely start and amazing city

[panthersimcity4 162]

I like those HK hirises in your city, they make it look more cosmopolitan.

[edmonton_stinks 5]

Don't worry about repetition among HK highrises, as many condos include massive development projects (or at least for sure in HK) that have more than one tower.

[tigerplayer91 3]

Ah I love that stadium, I could never place it quite

right in my cities. It always looked...out of place. lol

But youve done an excellent job incorporating it into yours,

keep up the great work!

[Viles 0]

Thank you for your comments, now time for an update. We are moving back across the motorway into the centre of Cork city.

Emerald Tower marks the commercial centre, while its not the tallest tower and has a simple shape, it has become the landmark of Cork.

Hi-rise offices and hotels looking out onto the Atlantic Ocean.

[penguin007 27]

Lovely city centre there some beautiful skyscrapers

Will

[jacqulina 162]

wonderfull stadium there my friend excellent looking city

[Viles 0]

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penguin007 - Thank you for commenting, good to here you think its well layed out, I always thought my cities were poorly planned.

psander5 - He was a great manager, infact the best. You can find the stadium by searching dmscopio on the STEX, the download is in two parts.

tankmank - I'm glad you like the city and thank you for your comment.

panthersimcity4 - I love the HK stuff on the  STEX they just had to be included!

edmonton_stinks - Yeah you're right, I was looking at a few pictures of Chinese cities the other day  and noticed how the highrises just repeated each other just like in sim city!

tigerplayer91 - I love that stadium too, probably my favourite on sim city and there are alot of good ones!

penguin007 - Hopefully this CJ does these great skyscrapers justice!

jacqulina - Thank you for your comement and I'm glad you like the city.

I decided to give you a sneak preview of the industrial areas in Cork.

[Viles 0]

Update time, this time I'll be showing the industrial areas on both sides of the river.

The picture below shows the main container port, both importing goods from far away factories and exporting products the products that have been manufactured in Cork.

However the manufacturing industry has declined in Cork over the latter half of the 20th century as companies looked to countries with cheaper wages. Today Cork's industry is mainly hi-tech.

But to this day a few of the large, dirty factories that transformed the region still remain in Cork.

The picture below shows a small oil refinery, which is set to be expanded to meet the increasing demand of oil, in Cork and around the world.

 

[nottheboss 1]

Nice work

very high levels of realism

[psander5 195]

Excellent industrial area! The PEG seaports look really good. Once again, I like the photo editing. It really tones down the bright blue loading cranes!

Thanks for the stadium pointer. I downloaded the rest of dmscopio's buildings aswell!