City building help

[rivindellofsimcity 0]

I've created alot of successful cities, using cheats and stuff, like the money tree, but now I'm trying to make a realistic metropolis, with a mix of lower and higher densities. My goal is to make the outskirts lower density, and the center be a "financial district" with towering office buildings. The help i mostly need, are specific skyscraper BATs from the STEX to use in the financial district, and/or helpful modds. I browse the STEX for good skyscrapers, but it's so huge i want your recommendation. Please suggest some STEX skyscrapers for my financial district, or some good modds. All help appreciated! PS, I will post some pictures of my city as it grows if you guys want, but it wont be a city journal - i make one of those later.

[TV-VCR 14]

NDEX. Includes stuff from multiple users.

[simcityplyr100 2]

As TV-VCR said, NDEX is the premier skyscraper building team on the STEX. Ill Tonkso's buildings are probably the best, especially the Eastland Grand series, the Five Ways series, and the Bishopgate series. Of course, Equinox is a close second as the best NDEX designer, although his uploads are often made by dusktrooper and a few other designers. Simgoober, a member of BSC, also has some pretty nice skyscrapers, but you can only find them if you look for them. That should be enough to get you started but you may need to find a few more to really fill up your skyline.

[binobi 2]

i would concur with what was said above, and also add that a lot of real life buildings are on stex so searching for those should provide you with some interesting stuff.

and i guess one of the easiest ways to get a lot of the best that the stex has to offer is to donate and receive the new stex collector's dvd, lots of excellent buildings are on that.

[masochist 111]

And searching the words "tower" and "office" are good ways to find skyscrapers, as well.

[rivindellofsimcity 0]

thanks guys but id like some more skyscraper names so keep posting. PS I may be making a city journal soon on my city arkanopolis keep ur eyes peeled....

[Unassigned 23]

Lotsa scrapers from HKABT, teh Hong Kong/Asia BAT Team. Also Cobb32118's works. Or you could go for the CAM (available at sc4devotion.com), users say this makes good megalopolises with realistic suburb/downtown transitions - to go CAM you will probably NEED to RTFM and spend some time sifting thru your plugins weeding in CAMpatible stuff out.