Flint, Illinois

[un1 41]

Beautiful absolutly Amazing!! I wan't to see alot more!! More!! Nice downtown but may I say maybe you should get I highway texture mod. The Maxis one is ugly to me.

Still amazing no matter what. Good luck with the rest of the city.

-un1

[GreekMan 246]

wow great start!

how do you get that nightlighting effect?

Also change your pics to JPEG

[Ntq€310 1]

uni1: thank you, i have considerd using a diffrent highway texture, but i personally feel that the mexis one works for this. I love the feedback

Greekman: hmmmm the darkend nights? well there actually a mod by gizmo28, which can be found on his site : http://gizmo.lunarpages.com

Besides that i use nothing special.

[Deionn 137]

NICE START! Just wonderful. I use the night light mod too.

[mayorbk 66]

Great Start! It's nice to add another Midwestern City to Simtropolis!!

[Haljackey 17,309]

Looks very good! One suggestion would be to resize your images to 800x600 instead of compressing them. The look a little shoppy.

Other than that, nice work!

Best,

-Haljackey

[pagenotfound 53]

Nice Start! keep it up, this is gonna be great!

[fabsies55 5]

wheres pictures?

[psander5 195]

I look forward to the pictures getting back on line!! From the comments above this sounds like it might be great, but I can't see anything!

[edmonton_stinks 5]

Your pictures have disappeared, so I can't really comment on anything about your city at the moment.

[Ntq€310 1]

Ok pictures and update 1 are back up And update 2 is coming!

[TimeMaster 4]

NTQ: I can see the pictures, since I use Safari. Do you mean that you changed them to JPG instead of PNG? I love that night view.

TimeMaster

[patriots_1228 51]

nice skyline. i definetely think you got BigSmall.

[Ntq€310 1]

Thank you all of you.

timemaster, another issue was that the sizes of the pictures not olny lowerd quality, but they were also peg which have problems with internet explorer.  so i decided to retake the pictures then repost them in jpeg, but chance happend that a error hit simcity, and i was kicked off the computer, so it had to wait. But now everything is better and we can move one!

So Update 2 is here!

 Now in that developed area ive finally got power and water, sufficent transit, and most of the civics.

Here's the police Hq next to one of the highways.

And the main hospital for the city has been built, or should i say hospital campus but yea, 1 main building, and 2 minor ones. Ill also probably add a couple of underground parking area's.

let's see other developments

All the highways have been layed down for the tile, and most of them have the highway walls.

This is one of the many exits in the area, the olny one actually not to have a road going in the middle of it, htough the predestrian bridge is very nice.

All the seawalls for the area and the bridges have been layed. Im using a mix, the more modern ones give a better sence of security, while the older ones feel more open. I like the mix.

speaking of bridges another one has been added, to give more river clutter like other cities. The avenue bridge is also a more local one compared to the highway tunnle.

Speaking of the highway tunnle,ive finally started spreading infranstructer over the river, the 

El 'Red line' comes up from the ground too, and meets with the green line which covers this area and generally the middle region between the rivers. You can see the start of the bridge too.

The zones are starting to form. with the passenger rail and fright rail lines already in place. Though there is no fright line going east in this area above, dew to another fright line do the same thing area just across the river.

Back in the already area

Im really intrested in how this area is going to develope, it's surronded by rail lines, so i think it may look very intresting once developed.

A very nice shot of downtown in the early morning hours, ill give you a sunset version next update.

And last but not least a finalshot for your viewing pleasure

Seeing as most of this is going to be surronded by medium development i cant wait until i can let loss the clock and watch it progress.

[panthersimcity4 162]

Nice, it's kind of like Chicago, only different. I love a city with unique geography, and this one is no exception.

[Schulmanator 5,787]

A well planned city... this one has loads of potential!

[un1 41]

Nice update, I can't wait for development. Nice freeways, and railraods. Bridges so one, good planning alos.

-un1

[deathtopumpkins 43]

Wow. This is... really good! That is some impressive city planning, and I love the way the infrastructure is all perfectly scenicked and planned out before the city's even let to develop. As Schulmanator said, this one's got potential!

[dfnva 34]

I'll look forward to seeing this as all the zones grow. As for the layout with your roads and rails, it looks excellent.

-Dan

[patriots_1228 51]

very nice thus far!

you have a follower.

[anik 14]

GRRRRREAT! I love it! Keep it up!

[MoSh316ddp 0]

Impressive!!

[crazyarchitect 7]

This city looks awesome so far, it looks like it could be a mini-Chicago, can't wait to see it grow.

[SimHoTToDDy 2,938]

The rail has me hooked. The planning there is very well done, something I have been trying to improve with my newer cities( rather than just grids)

Great work,

-Todd

[Mother of Invention 23]

Lovely,but I think Flint,Mi might have a complaint to file with you

[Ntq€310 1]

panthersimcity4: yea me too, i actually love chicago, and i hoped to have some aspects put into my cities.

Schulmanator: thank you, stragnly i actually just do it as i go, i randomly creat a line, or have a idea, and then i expand on that until it's something that could work in the game

un1: thank you

deathtopumpkins: Thank you

dfnva: yea me too

patriots_1228: i certainly hope i dont abuse my new power

anik: Ill try

MoSh316ddp: THanks

SimHoTToDDy: funny story it's actually lucky that type of rail system is there, since the major design of it came to me just before i started putting down the rail.

Mother of Invention: hmmm i think were a little bigger then them, besides this city is like the little brother of the chicago political machine. so i wouldn't worry

Thanks for all your feed back, update 3 will come soon, i already started taking pictures.

Just to say, im really trying to get the transit to cover more of a general area, like north-south, or Downtown-northeast, or downtown-east, while at the sametime atleast one form of it, atleast 1 line to be covering a tile. The grid hates me now i guess.

[rjm35 0]

this is some great planning. keep it up! looking forward to more development

[Ntq€310 1]

welcome to update 3!

So let's see where to start...

as you can see finally the zones are complete, for all of this tile, just waiting to grow into the urban jungle.

I really cant wait until this becomes a busy congested urban center.

But wait.......in the first picture there's a accumalation of buildings? 

Yup, you could almost call this uptown flint, but if you look closly at both downtown and uptown, you can see that the growth has really been between the main busstop, and a main el-station, transportation centerd growth.

Another hospital has been added, to spread coverage and to give capacity. You can also see a fire station.

Back in main Flint, the education centers are finally here

there are already 3 buildings like this, and could be more, you can also see a musuem being built.

Continueing my intresting area's develope, we have this general area, has all the collages currently, and is borderd by both rail and highways.

This residential area is borderd by highway's and residential walls. downtown is right by here, so i expect a highclass area.

This area is surrounded by highways, has a highway exit, a light-rail stop, it has a hospital, police station, and a library, i really wonder what transportation is going to look like for these sims.

This area is surronded by transit, and i really love how it looks, but how will it grow?

Ok were done with those, let's look around

the seawalls are all here, adn you can see part of that new area.

 closer shot of the railyard, hmmm not that good looking, not that realistic , but what city dosent have a major railwayd? 

This is the power station for the tile, as you can see security is tight.

Another shot of the bridge, sure it;s nothing new or special, but i think it really fits in.

Another shot, of both.

 A nice nightshot.

A shot of both area's together.

Now nightshot glory.

And how could i forget? a updated map of the region!

hmmm sized deminished to imrpove quality.

but yea semi-updated, though some of the most recent things areant there.

so upnext update 4: urban jubgle

[deathtopumpkins 43]

A nice big update.

How do you stand to plan out all the zones and infrastructure until the entire tile is covered before beginning to develop??? All of my urban areas have little patches of field in between districts, as I let zones develop as soon as I draw them. And infrastructure always changes to suit the needs of sims while developing.

For the railyard, may I recommend the Modular Railyard System on the STEX? [no link]

Lastly, I really like the elevated rail line by the bridge, and I can't wait to see this city develop.

[Deionn 137]

O_O