McConnellVille II

[rjm35 0]

McConnellVille II is the successor of my old CJ McConnellVille.  My hopes are just to make a bigger, better journal for all of you.  So I hope you enjoy.

Current Overview

Update 1-  Village of Trenton

Hope you ejnoyed the update and I'll be back soon with more of McConnellVille II.  

Comments and critiques are greatly appreciated and welcomed!

-Ryan

[antsel 841]

Hey man! I remember taking a look at McConnellVille I not too long ago. I was pretty impressed with the CJ you had, it's nice to see you revive the region. Your region shot looks really good. I love what you've done with all the farmland and all the trees surrounding it.

The village of Trenton looks really good. I like the use of the W2W buildings. I love W2W, because it gives small towns a realistic feel. I also like how you chose to keep the buildings rather low key. Great excecusion, it all looks great! Keep it up, and I'm looking forward to seeing more of your region.

[jacqulina 162]

great start and intro my friend,your city is large allready,but doing great there,very nice seawalls,the rural areas are fantastic.

[Nikferni 0]

WHOA! very nice m8! those farms are very well done everything look good! keep on going!
can't wait for more!
/Nikferni

[Tomasneto 20]

Nice start, very good work!!!

[ironicepitome 0]

wow! i like it. one word of advise though, work on some sprawl. so instead of trees and farms then random skyscraper forest. it would be like a buffer zone

[Teeparex 6]

Nice work! I really like the way the farms look. Look forward to seeing more, especially that downtown!

[Follarch 327]

Very nice small town/rural setting! And the docks, amazing work there, everything lined up perfectly. On that interchange though, the on/off ramps on one side of the overpass are completely unnecessary since you had it covered on the other side for commuters.

Great work here, amazing.

[SounderBruce 173]

Your work is outstanding! Hopefully this CJ will go on longer...

[rjm35 0]

Replies

selles:thanks alot for taking the time to take a look at both my regions. I hope my continued work will keep your interest. I have been working on making more realistic small towns and your comments make me think im headed in the right direction.

jacquelina: thanks a lot for stopping by, hope to see you back!

Nikferni: hey thanks for the comments, but there is more to McConnellVille than farms, i hope you stay tuned.

Tomasneto: Thanks

ironicepitome: hey thanks for the advice, and i hear ya...i just get get so anxious trying not to build too much at once. Future plans of McConnellVille are to invade current farmlands to build more residential areas to match the demand... trust me, there will be sprawl in the region!

Teeparax: your wish is my command...check out the teaser below!

Archaen: Thanks for your comments. i personnaly take a lot of pride in building up my waterfron using thses kinds of methods. I'm glad you enjoyed it. o and that nterchange...it was my first one with thr rhw and i got a little carried away and realized it when i was done but just decided to leave it...i was hoping no one would pick up on it...o well, i hope you come back to check out future updates, one of which is planned to be completely dedicated to a new and improved regional highway system!

ComputerGuy890100: thanks for your comments, with you and everyone else sharing their opinions, i don't see a reason why i can't make this a long running CJ!

And now for a little teaser while i work on my next update: An overview of Downtown McConnellVille

[SounderBruce 173]

Cool skyline!

[De Ja Vu 117]

Dude..this looks awesome! Everything, from the downtown to the suburbs and the highways! I suggest you download some seawalls from the STEX. They would fit nicely in the CBD area. Keep it up!

-Dejavu

[rjm35 0]

Originally posted by: De Ja Vu

Dude..this looks awesome! Everything, from the downtown to the suburbs and the highways! I suggest you download some seawalls from the STEX. They would fit nicely in the CBD area. Keep it up!

-Dejavuquote>

i actually do have seawalls the problem is they have never showed up at this zoom level, no idea why, never looked into it. thanks for your comment

[rjm35 0]

UPDATE 2- The Village of Porter and Downtown McConnellVille

Village of Porter

Downtown McConnellVille

McConnellVille has a new Baseball Team: The McConnellVille Turtle Monkeys! A small island is being constructed near the CBD. This is the starting point to extending the El Rail and subway systems across the river to the stadium and its surrounding area. McConnellVille Municipal Stadium:

Construction of Island:

The completed subway tunnel that leads into the existing subway lines in Downtown:

Other side of river:

Completion of Bridge: Immediate development follows when the stadium station is opened.

Bridge in use: The Bridge is already five times over its design capacity (about 10,000 passengers daily) presenting another problem for the transportation department. Plans to open more bridges/ tunnels in the future are already being discussed and the city is open to all creative suggestions or ideas to solve its traffic problems.

Random Downtown shots:

That's all for today. Hope you enjoyed the update and as always your comments and suggestions are always wanted and appreciated.

-Ryan

[panthersimcity4 162]

Nice job, I like the downtown area on the island. I also like the small town atmosphere in the outskirts of the city.

[TmiguelT 10]

The CBD looks Awesome!!!

[De Ja Vu 117]

Awesome! I don't know where to start! The elevated rail looks really great and it's nice to see how you connected it with the underground rail. The picture of the baseball park looks really stunning. Very nice city planning!

I'm looking forward to seeing more!

-Dejavu

[Yuu Caa Sim 55]

Nice job! I really like those farms, the rural towns, and how the city is situated on the peninsula. Can't wait to see more!

[Teeparex 6]

Brilliant teaser and update, I'm very impressed . The close up shots of downtown are amazing, especially with the elevated rail. Very nice going so far!

[jacqulina 162]

wow your city is growing well my friend,love the seawalls and what you have placed around them.

[buildsolid 4]

wow this is nice, downtown looks awsome

[danielcote 9]

Nice CBS lacking a bit of details though.

[fabsies55 5]

ok seriously you gotta organise your stuff more... it goes from a small suburb to a city to a farm back to suburbs... keep it consistent

ok now your region looks fairly nice, for a city like that i'd expect suburbs to expand out past the farms first and a even bigger airport and seaport, but overall your region looks nice could have better look mountains but is nice.

your have good amount of variety and green maybe you should put some parks and stadiums in to make your region even better,

and last of all make your city better layout more dead ends in streets and roads have more roundabouts and diagonals more turns etc,

but again your region is good

i only say all this because you have great potential to do really well if you present well.

[Muck308 55]

I can dig it. The waterfront looks great and you have quite a few very nice pics. I especially like the closeup of your el to sub transition, as well as the hang gliders over the el bridge. It's pretty cool that you can still make a maxis glider look good.

[Haljackey 17,385]

Wow your CJ is looking great so far! I'll be sure to be on the lookout for more!

[antsel 841]

Great update! I really like your city. The transportation networks look really good in those random pictures of your downtown. I especially like how you brought the subway line to the surface in that island and connected it to the ballpark area with the Elevated rail bridge. Your small town looks great too, especially that central plaza area.

[rjm35 0]

REPLIES

panthersimcity4: thanks for the comment

TmiguelT: thanks

De Ja Vu: hey thanks for taking the time, i appreciate your comments and i'm pretty happy with how those turned out as well.

yunxiang: thanks for commenting, hope to see you back

Teeparex: thanks for your comments and for liking the rail, i've been working on trying to make a more realistic el system...getting closer anyway!

jacqulina: thanks again for stopping by, glad you appreciates the details.

buildsolid: thanks for the comment, appreciate it

danielcote: hey thanks for the comment, i am a bit curious what you think is missing though...

fabsies55: i really appreciate your comments and critiques. i agree that the region looks a litttle too jumbled but i am trying to ultimately make two large urbanized regions with farms and nature between them with little pockets of villages and small towns... it may be tough to see now bc so much is missing but hopefully as the region starts to fill in, it will start to look better, could just be wishful thinking though. thanks again and i hope to see you back.

Muck308: hey thanks for the comments. i really like that close up of the rail transition too, i think its the small parking lot in the back that makes it for me. hope to see you back

haljackey: hey thanks for taking the time to comment, i really appreciate it

selles: thanks for stopping by and commenting i appreciate it, o and thanks for reviving the old mcconnellville the other day lol

UPDATE: Stout City

Ok so my plan for the region from the get go was to have two main cities in the occupying the region. This is the second, smaller city of Stout.

First a region shot, eventually the land between the two cities will fill in but i have been in "city mode" for the last weel or so so the farms and villages that will eventyually develop have been put on the backburner...( image is a little squished bc of size)

That's it for today. Thanks for taking the time to look and hopefully comment. As always critiques and ideas are always encouraged.

-Ryan

[clonedclone87 95]

Hey Great Job here!!!

Keep it coming!!!

[jacqulina 162]

i allways love details my friend,the city is coming on fantastic,i love the region view,it shows the areas like farming ect of perfectly.the city is fitting in very well.

[De Ja Vu 117]

Great update! I like your choice of buildings for the CBD. The parks look really wonderful and go along very well with the sandstone pavements!