River Basin: The region where anything could happen

[smirkazor 1]

thnx for the comment darmok, u really havent missed that much. I've always prefered my way of zoning my suburbs, but if i wanted to squeeze more in, i probably would do jeroni, infact i never actually thought of doing it that way before till now lol. but by doing it that way, doesnt leave much room for recreation etc.

[sloppet 3]

Very nice update there simrkazor!

Those are some really great updates there! It's always nice to come here, and see those great shots from the game...

[Fabiocb 1]

wow very nice updates, and there are lots of them, but just one thing I don't like, it's those skyscrapers on the end/beggining os the airport lanes.

[smirkazor 1]

thnx sloppet.

Fabiocb, what is wrong with the skyscrapers on the ends of the airport, i made it so that it goes with the skyline?

[PhilsCafe 8]

Great job with your transportation networks once again. I also like when it's 'filled up'.

Keep it up.

- Phil

[capitol1 1]

interesting work their mister smirkazor

[smirkazor 1]

Hello and welcome to a new update straight from river basin, but first some comments.

Philscafe: Thx for ur continuing interests, shld be alot more to see of my imagination of transportation networks (i hope)

Capitol1: Credit card? and thnx for the comment.

Now down to business, very soon i will be just about finished with Baskingville i know its very sad but i must move on. I did Quite a large expansion this time, mainly industial, but with a tad of residential. First pic u may have seen on the previous page, but its here to remind.

Red line obviously indicates what i'm developing.

First of all i must decide where i'm going to put that ground level highway u can see there on the bottom right. So i thought, might as well connect it straight to the main raised highway, and of course it has to be sunken and heres the result.

I also tried something i've never tried before, thats making part of the sunken highway only have 1 wall, well the picture explains it all.

Next up is creating a shorline, as this is going to be an industrial area once again, we need a port obviously with some protection from the river.

Now we need to add some infrastructure such as rail station and that thing on the right of it which i have forgoton what its called, with the completed port with some lovely roundabouts.

Now comes the zoning process, using ctrl and drag to create box lots, and its nothing without some nice pipelines running through.

So i let this bit develop and hit a small problem, one of the industrial buildings that was mentioned on the previous page had some problems, not only with water, but with the industrial X2 modd to make more jobs, but it kinda goes overboard and has about 3000 jobs, and does create a bit of traffic but hey my sims need jobs so i'm not gona start complaining .

Because of this extra traffic i had to plan ahead and create some more trans networking, mainly with rail, some el rail and a bit of subways. The highways also do help a bit.

So i zoned the rest of this area and started the construction of the small residential area north of the commercial zones across the main rail lines. Using the same technique that i have been using, but with something extra.    

RRRRRRR                                          R=Road

MMMMMMM                                            S=Street

M  M  M  M                                             M=Medium res

SSSSSSSS

M  M  M  M

MMMMMMM

RRRRRRR

And this is what it looks like so far!!

Night pic

Because i have a lot of pictures to show it will be a two parter once again, dont want to have too much in a single post, this is the bulk of what i wanted to show, the next wont be so big and will show close up views. Hope you've enjoyed this edition to river basin, would love to hear ur feedback if you can, much appreciated.

Smirkazor.

[smirkazor 1]

This is the second smaller part of this update, mainly just showing a few close up views of what i've done, enjoy.

I may still need to do some tweaking with this bit below, with the amount of traffic that flows.

This is one of my favourite, looks so nice.

Thats all, next update will see the completion of Baskingville (hopefully). In the meantime enjoy the sights so far.

Smirkazor

[mightygoose 92]

i love the cliffside free way a brilliant idea, its just like something i have in my town damn you good...

[capitol1 1]

yea i deleted that hitech place with all the jobs. It took up most of my water too. But in othernews i like the peir head really good transition from the breakwater to the cdk. Also like the road network as always!Keep it up

[SpecialEddie 3]

Ok, I've just read all the pages in this CJ, and I must say, this is the best mass-transit planning I've ever seen. Sweeet job, smirkazor

[hamsterTK 93]

^^^

ditto. Awesome use of the railway electriciation BATs.

That port is teh shexyness.

[smirkazor 1]

Mightygoose: Well its another one of my all comes together ideas that looks cool things.

Capitol1: Thnx for the comment, i always do.

Specialeddie: Welcome to river basin. so u read my whole cj. hope u didnt get too bored . Mass transit really is my specialty.

HamsterTK: Wb and thnx for the comment, its teh shexyness indeed, couldnt of put it any better.

Just a quickie toady, i've put some of the finishing touches onto Baskingville, and here it is.

and a lovely city view.

Smirkazor.

[wisdom_bin 2]

i love your cities..an you must be putting lots of commitments in the cities..your detail works are perfect. i wish i can be as much commited as you are..i just cant stand planting trees and levelling the terrain everytime i develop a new area..but still have to do it..but still i wil like the finishing product but not the process of making one..

[tazdog 0]

Love all the work you have done on your city.. It's been enjoyable to browse through all the pages in this forum...

Can't wait to see the next update..

[smirkazor 1]

Wisdom_bin: Welcome to river basin, when i get going, i really get going when i play sc4, which isnt that often anymore, i really dont like to build on slopes, duno why but i dont.

Tazdog: Thnx for you comment, and welcome to river basin. and wow, i'm honoured to be the first topic that you have replied to. and you joined not long after i did and only 1 post, where u been????

Some news. Now that i have basically finished for the time being on Baskingville, i will be starting construction on a new city witch will be connected to yamamoto in the north-east, the name has not yet been decided upon by the regional government.

Smirkazor

[Bombastix 0]

Woooow! I love your downtown, It looks really nice! And the sunken highways are very good too, I need to see how to build those ramps there Great work!

[PhilsCafe 8]

Great updates. I like the port area a lot. Very nice details there smirk. The industrial sector looks quite realistic and the pipelines are a nice touch. I also like your us of the breakwaters. Keep it up.

[Fabiocb 1]

awesome work I love the harbor with the pipeline and the rails are really great looking, and by the way, you have lots of train stations.

[Darmok 34]

Good work smirk! I especially like your industrial areas!

Keep it up!

[sloppet 3]

great updates !! I really like those small residential areas..

[Battlecat 14]

Cool!  I like how this new city looks.  The industrial areas look great as does the downtown!  I'm looking forward to seeing what's comming next. 

[smirkazor 1]

i seem to be having trouble with maxwell-multinational, my capitol city. I wasnt very happy with it so i decided to change alot of it, when doing this is it seemed to mess it up alot, all commercial demands apart from the cs$ is all at its lowest. and no matter what i do it wont change, not only that but the mayor rating in my city is 5-6 bars in the red, and no matter what i do it stays around the same, i really dont understand it and i dont want to destroy the whole thing and rebuild it, any ideas?

Thnx for ur comments.

[augustachris 0]

if you're against cheating you can download the radical ordinances mod. you can raise the demand along with the mayor rating

[augustachris 0]

sorry rephrase that

if you're not against cheating

[smirkazor 1]

i've used it before, i think thats what caused the problem in the first place, when starting the region i used it to make my capitol but it made all the surrounding commercial go quite low, anyway i stopped using it and then this happened, so it might be linked to it in some way, guess its my only option unless theres something else

[capitol1 1]

i dont know if this advice is helpful or what your loking for but whenever i start a region i use a bitmap of mostly large city tiles for two reasons..I like building spread out cities and dont like opening loads of small city tiles and two the demand spreads out longerways..except for agricultural...

[sorchin 18]

very lovely journal my friend. I must say you are very skilled.

[GMT 389]

quite a time since I was here for the last visit.

great work that you've done here my friend!

waiting for more

[jacqulina 162]

awesome updates very nicely planned and layed out and wonderfull pics