Parkopolis

[Teeparex 6]

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ComputerGuy890100- Thanks for the comment!

BrnoutJerzey- No problem

IDS2- Thanks very much

newyorkrunaway1- Lol, don't sue! Thanks for the comment.

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Update 6- Elsford Amusement Park

Parkopolis has an amusement park-YAY!

The famous entrance sign for the park. Although not as famous as the Hollywood sign.

Elsford Park is the most popular tourist destination in Parkopolis, with annual attendance figures of 2,300,000 people.

Timber! is the oldest rollercoaster in the park.

In this picture is the Elsford Haunted House, which features an electronic counter over the queue that reads 'Souls Claimed' followed by the number of attendees who have ever entered. Currently the number reads at around 6,005,000.

This picture was probably taken on a pretty cold day! Not many people at the splash park.

Angel's Flight, the newest rollercoaster in the park.

Heres an overview of the park. Thanks for visiting!

[antsel 841]

The amusement park looks great! It looks like you made plenty of custom lots to make the park look seamless. Great work!

[newyorkrunaway1 110]

nice theme park layout, i am going to be begining mine here pretty soon too. cnat wait for more! good job so far!

[SC4Poser-moser 0]

that is amazing, i love it. I remember when some of those coasters first got released and they look just amazing. it's cool how it's on the water on like an island. sweet.

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actually can you hook me up with some serch words or links to some of that stuff, I would love to make my own amusment park.

[edmonton_stinks 5]

Amazing park! It looks good enough to have been made on Rollercoaster Tycoon.

[jacqulina 162]

amazing amusement park my friend,very nicely put together

[SC4Poser-moser 0]

Originally posted by: edmonton_stinks

Amazing park! It looks good enough to have been made on Rollercoaster Tycoon.quote>

I was thinking that too, it' looks so great

[CarluX 0]

OMG!!!!! what a park!!!!

how can you make the seawalls of the park?? i tryied time and time and i cannot make like that! Help Me!

[Teeparex 6]

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selles- Thanks, although I only actually made the lots for the entrance sign! Thanks anyway.

newyorkrunaway1- I'll look forward to seeing your theme park then, though most sc4 theme parks probably have to have the same rides Thanks for your comment!

SC4Poser-moser- Yeah I made the island and I thought for a long time...'what should I do with it?' I ruled out making it another normal park, because the downtown island park is too close to it. Then I remembered you can make theme parks...

You can find all the essential theme park kit if you type 'MAPP' into the STEX search box.

edmonton_stinks- Ahh yes, Rollercoaster Tycoon was a great game. I used to have it but one of my friends snapped the CD by accident! I was literally thinking when I made the park '...This actually looks a bit like something from Rollercoaster Tycoon...'

Thanks for your comment!

jacqulina- Thanks Jacky

CarluX- Thanks! To make the seawalls is pretty easy but you'll need this download (if you want the same walls as mine)

You basically select a 'flatten terrain tool', either from God Mode or Mayor Mode (God is much better) and make your land edges straight, then plop the seawalls on them!

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I recently remembered I forgot to add the region view picture to the last update, so I'll put it here. Enjoy!

As you can see it is fairly big, but has a long way to go before I deem it 'complete'.

[Muck308 55]

I think it's coming along very nicely. The amusement park is very well spaced. I always ending up putting everything too close together.

[antsel 841]

The region view is looking good!

But to be honest, is there such thing as "complete" in SC4? Probably not, and that's what I love about the game.

[SC4Poser-moser 0]

dude, all you need is a cool port and it'll really put it all together

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

Everything looks great so far! It will be interesting to see what you include to mix it up as you expand your region. Very nice three pages going here! The amusement park reminds me a bit of Cedar Point, being huge and on a peninsula and all. The downtown area is impressive, especially at night, but most impressive are your park areas. It looks like a lot of time and effort went into making them perfect, and they do look fantastic. Great stuff here!

[Teeparex 6]

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Muck308- Thanks, although you know, sometimes attractions at theme parks are pretty close together, even overlapping each other, but you can't do that with the MAPP though, haha!

selles- Thanks selles. And yes, you would be right. Theres no such thing as complete in SC4! But you probably know what I mean, theres still a lot of empty, flat terrain in the region.

SC4Poser-moser- Yeah, although I don't actually know what the best port downloads are, or even if those downloads can be found by typing 'port' into the search box on the STEX. So if you know of any good downloads, be sure to tell me!

NMUSpidey- Thanks very much! Creating variety in the different areas of the region is always something I'm trying to achieve, so hopefully I won't run out of ideas. Thanks for the comments on my parks as well!

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Update 7

Pretty much all of the land on the large peninsula opposite downtown has now become urbanised. In this update I will show what I've done to the upper half of that peninsula, and the next update will show the lower half.

In this picture, and the one before it, you can see two buildings from my RL hometown, Basingstoke. (You can also see I slightly mucked up this night shot ahh well)

One of my attempts at a silicon valley style office campus...

And another.

Thanks for viewing!

[antsel 841]

Great update!! Again, fantastic job with all those parks. I really like how you include a wide variety of trails throughout your city. The suburban style residential areas are well executed, and I LOVE those commercial office complexes in images 8 and 9. Transportation map looks great too. I'd love to see development at the bottom of the peninsula. The transportation network there looks great.

[SC4Poser-moser 0]

great update! so search 'port' on the stex and find the port realism pack... about all you need.

[GreekMan 246]

woah this is some CJ! seeing in on selles sig i had to click it!

amazing stuff! I will be back for more

is there a way to make those canals? what water modd do you have?

[IDS2 3,346]

Awesome! Love the amusement park...I always find myself failing at those, but you executed it nicely with the waterfront style

Those suburbs look great too; coincidentally, the second Silicon Valley-style campus consists of buildings from Santa Clara! Random useless fact.

Great work as always!

[Teeparex 6]

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selles- Thanks for the comment, and thanks very much for adding my CJ to your sig! I'll post the update for the lower part of the peninsula soon, maybe tommorow.

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SC4Poser-moser- Ok, thanks! I've downloaded the realism pack (and most of the dependencies...phew!) Now I just gotta think about whether I build one...and where I'd put it...

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GreekMan- Thanks for visiting, glad you like my CJ

Those canals are just made of the normal God-mode water (although not maxis water), rather than a canal mod. Just drag the water tool inland, and straighten the edges around it, and voila! I use the Brigantine water mod for the texture.

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IDS2- Good to hear your liking the amusement park and suburbs. And a at your random useless fact!

[technicallydead 1]

Sorry if I hadn't visited your CJ for a long time coz' I'm doing my so called new city. Wow!! All thumbs up Dude! Your Region is so nice. I don't get Much skyscrapers and demands like yours.... Where did you get those parks and ploppable trees? I really like and need them...

[rjm35 0]

wow, great update! that peninsula looks like it has developed pretty well so far. The transportation map looks very good...i can't wait to see what that big circle is down at the very bottom of the area.

[TmiguelT 10]

Awesome Update. those suburbs look great. you better put some walls on those canals or they might overflow into the suburbs

[panthersimcity4 162]

I love the suburbs and the shopping centers. Very realistic.

[nottheboss 1]

All lookin great

Nice man-made island skills

Very nice theme park

Great suburbs

Keep up the postin

[Darth Apple 54]

very , very nice work , I love the air port and all the parks especially.

I just wish that simcities could be larger!

[Teeparex 6]

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jonpaulosiglos- Thanks for the comment! Some of the park pieces come from a golf pack from the STEX (open grass area and trees, as well as good golf courses!) whereas the rest is a mixmatch of Maxis parks, custom lots, and PEG ponds.

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rjm35- Thanks for your comment!

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TmiguelT- Thanks! Although I don't know of any downloadable walls for the canal edges that wouldn't look out of place, unfortunately!

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panthersimcity4- Thanks Panther

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nottheboss- Good to read you like all of it, and yep, I will keep up the postin'.

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blakesterville- Thank you, your comments are appreciated . Though I don't know what you mean by 'I wish simcities could be larger'; as far as I know, you could make them as large as your computer will allow, by editing the config.bmp file for each region.

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Update 8: Lower Peninsula

No, the circular area is not some special government area, it's basically a shopping centre!

This picture shows some of the large beachfront park...

...which continues over here.

Here you can see a small town which has become annexed into Parkopolis.

Close ups of a commercial strip on the west side of the peninsula. It spans the area where the very long sea wall (you could walk to downtown along it, only having to cross one bridge) ends and the coast becomes a beach.

New apartments are being built along the beach, all already sold, I'm afraid!

I read about, tracked down and downloaded Gizmo's night mod for this pic today. Saves me having to photoshop my night pics! Right, that's the peninsula covered. I hope you liked looking at it!

Till next time...

[GreekMan 246]

wow you are quite a city journalist! these are some great pics dude! keep it up! you got me hooked!

[Evillions 552]

Wow! I'm impressed!..... But then again I'm speechless.

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

More impressive updates! Again, the parks are great. I especially like the squiggly roads. I could never get mine to look so good.

Looks good, can't wait for more!

[TmiguelT 10]

Holly Smokes! That's impressive. I see that you put a lot of effort to create the perfect suburbs. Awesomeness unleashed!!!!. I'll be waiting for the next update.

*5 seconds later*

is the update ready?