Show off your cities! (Screen Shots)

[Naviss 0]

(The screen shot thread said to make a new post?)

Anyway here is some pictures of two of my cities.

Thought I'd share and get things started!

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[8elhaj 0]

Great!

[bluesin 0]

Wow lol.  I usually don't play citybuilder games and to be honest I can't get above a population of about 10k before I go bankrupt so far.  Great job though, I wish I knew how to get those bridges to work   My map has a medium sized island on it for holiday stuff and when I tried to create a bridge to/from it I couldn't get the roads to link up with it  So rebuilding and destroying the bridges over and over contributed to the demise of my city

[Brandon8181 0]

That looks great. Are you able to build HIGHWAYS in Single Player mode? Or is that only available in PO?

Looks real nice though!

Thanks,

Brandon

[Naviss 0]

Yep, SP mode you can build highways as well. The intersections like the off / on ramps are really sweet looking!

[SimDragon 3]

Nice pics to get things rolling.

Rules on this forum are that picture are no larger than 800x600 so you might want to resize before they disappear.

I see they still have the benches in the median of 4 lane roads. Not very realistic.

[Brandon8181 0]

Naviss,

The pictures really look good as I said before, since it looks like you've had some good experience playing today would you mind posting a small review about the good and bad of they game, and anything in particular you like or dislike alot?

Thank you so much,

Brandon

[Naviss 0]

Oh I didn't know that, The pictures I posted didn't break the forums frames or anything. (Or scale it differently?).

Shure Brandon, I'll look for a review thread and post in a bit. I've been in the beta since day 1 (June), And I can honestly say the final version is much better. I'm over all happy with it. Still much to fix though.

[Craig-Abcvs 1,595]

Great thread Naviss!

 

[CWLGAMER01 39]

Great work Naviss!

I like your industry -- very real!!

Anyway you can check out photos from Anderson in Simtropolis's very first CitiesXL City Journal*.

Check it out!





* according to list of current journals and not counting the forums.

[un1 41]

Amazing pictures! But the bridges really stick out.

[gingechilla 0]

Looks good. I agree with thw above about the bridges sticking out just a lil too much.

I wish my game would actually let me play >_<

[JakeMD 107]

I love the bridges!

[cheuk18me94 0]

Good, however too many Golden Bridge

[kusanagi-sama 1]

Originally posted by: bluesin

Wow lol.  I usually don't play citybuilder games and to be honest I can't get above a population of about 10k before I go bankrupt so far.  Great job though, I wish I knew how to get those bridges to work   My map has a medium sized island on it for holiday stuff and when I tried to create a bridge to/from it I couldn't get the roads to link up with it  So rebuilding and destroying the bridges over and over contributed to the demise of my city

quote>

You can't actually go bankrupt in CXL like you do in SC4. The debt just keeps getting higher and higher. (-500,000 in SC4, I went as higher than -250,000,000 in CXL once, and it was still going). 

Also, that guy's city is soooo disorganized.  I like keeping mine in a regular grid pattern.  Though, I do have to admit, it makes for a more realistic city.  I just hate wasting space like that because I want to make my population as high as possible, and don't want to go back and replace low density residential with high density.

Anyway, here's my last city before the beta went offline.  Population was a little over 1 million.  I had to give up because the map wound up getting overwhelmed by pollution after I used the cheat/unlock buildings to put oil buildings in the manufacturing district.  (upper left corner of overhead view)  (how do I get my pictures to look like the guy's above?)

[Naviss 0]

They only have 1 bridge for the highway, So yea. An the map I was on had like 5 different islands haha.

[Palpatine001 57]

Interesting indeed Navis

I suppose we all have our different building styles which will become apparent as more and more of us get the game and begin showing our works here.

Also that "Sky Tower" looks very fimilar to one I know in real life back home although squashed. lol

Btw why is Brandon so "keen" for us to post in a review thread

[MayorsmifT 1]

Here is my city from beta. It was my second city and had aprox 750k pop.

It was the first structured city of it's kind and was quite popular

Lots of people visited it and messaged me including some of the developers.

City centre

From the east

Highway running through olderst industial zone(note the glitch at the intersection - after 4 or more roads this would happen in beta)

View from the west - the main road is from the highway. You will also notice a glitch which was frequent in beta.

Also highways generally didn't work - so they where just for show!

City of smifT run on liquid gold!

Far view from north mountains.

Early shot of city centre

I was bored at 1am in the morning and made a DRIFT MOUNTAIN!

And finally granny holding up the traffic in the new and extremely large industrial zone

~JY Edit: Pictures resized, please remember to stick to the 800x600 maximum. ~

[the_sas_man 0]

brilliant

[schokoladeneis 1 193]

i have one question

Do you use cheats??

this is the best city i've ever seen.

brilliant!!

[Brandon8181 0]

Palpatine001,

I was asking for reviews so I could learn the good and bad about the game.  Originally, I had decided to buy the game, but with all the negative publicity I decided to hold off.  So, therefore I was wanting more information....so since Navis had gotten the game, and seemed to enjoy playing it I was wanting his "side" of the story...

Thanks,

Brandon

[citiesxlfan42 27]

Wow! What's with all the Negative feedback, huh? These screenies look amazing!

Anyway, my cpu is online, so that's nice. Also, highways are EYE CANDY! Jeez.

Cool pics, everyone.

[Ephemeron 17]

Originally posted by: Naviss

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Wow, that looks like San Francisco on crack! 

[Kevin 101]

Great looking pictures guys!

[Naviss 0]

Brandon, Did you end up buying the game? I really think it's worth it. Even to just try it and think bout PO or Gems down the line?

And to stay on topic;

[TranceField 0]

Here is my small town... I have about 15k residents......

Here is another shot... residential area off to the left, commercial on the bottom right, and industry is located way up in the right corner.....

Closer look at the industry/manufacturing

Residential zone

Commercial zone

Here is satellite view

[Naviss 0]

Nice but them single lane bridges are going to be in the red in no time.

[gbeats 0]

So are you guys making these cities in the solo game or the PO game?

[Asheroo 53]

 Hey guys,

I have asked community manager Philippe if I can post screens from  some of my cities I created during the beta, and he has given me the all go.

So, here we go, this is my first city I created, Rooley...

My 4th city - New Rooley...

Hope you like them.

[Brandon8181 0]

Naviss,

Gosh I love those pictures... As far as buying the game, I still haven't decided. I just found out about the useless police stations and fire stations However I REALLY like the graphics. And I do feel a little bit better about Monte Cristos commitment to bettering the game over time..... One thing is there is no stores locally that have it. And I'd rather buy it from a local store, because I know if I don't like it Target will usually take returns even on software. So... hopefully, maybe, possibly, I might get it lol. Naviss, what country are you from? If your in the USA where did you get your game? Digital download?

As far as staying on topic, I don't have any pictures... lol

Brandon