Show off your cities! (Screen Shots)

[herenthere 0]

I HATE you guys...you and your really high-resolution images because of your really good PC's...haha nice pics keep on updating!

[herenthere 0]

Originally posted by: rhenry

Asheroo, those plazas you made are ingenius. I didn't even think about that but it's a great idea the way you did them. with the pathways and stuff. Very nice.

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Are those plazas facing the back of the bldg lots? (even though there are a few cars parked there)...and I agree very nice Asheroo!

[Brady Baker 1]

Yeah, I am not going to post any screenies until I upgrade my graphics card, which I might use my tax refund for that instead of a Wii. LOL. Awesome job and shots guys. Jealousy is skyrocketing!

[roogenial 0]

Nice pics guys. I've been playing for two days(After I get home from Uni) and I have reached 400.000 inhabitants. My city is going very well, trade helps a lot, I don't like having too much industries so I buy them. I hope to show you pictures og mi city very soon. Take care.

Note: Check my join date, I read this forum since 2007 and this is my first post. Hahaha.

[masochist 111]

Asheroo, I really, really like the look of your city.  Maybe it's those high-res shots, but I might poke around a bit, see if I can't get some inspiration.

What I've got is a fledgling town that is currently at about 36,000 and in a recession (at 11% unemployment...).  But I like it anyways .  It's called Buonocitta...:

This is where it is on the planet Prospero.  I labeled some of the neighboring major cities that surround it...if you squint and use your imagination, you can see my pinhole-dot-of-a-town somewhere in the middle of all of them.

This is the map I'm working on, and the town as it stands right now (obviously subject to immediate change).  The game doesn't really establish a "North," so I chose this orientation based on Buonocitta's position on the continent (as I found out later by taking this picture using [CTRL] + [F11], North is actually in the exact opposite direction.  Oh, well...).

A closer aerial view of the town.

One of the first neighborhoods I built on this map.  Somehow, it reminds me of home.

Houses in the hills for the higher-ups.  Very...green.

This is one of the newest sections of town.  It's an "Edge City," or suburban downtown--a rather heavy plop of commercial office space that has grown because of it's excellent position at the junction of two freeways.  On the left are the offices (including the only towers in the city right now); on the right side is a nice High-Tech industrial campus.  It's a work-in-progress; I plan on adding offices to the outer edges of the roads when demand goes up.

A couple more shots:

Hope you enjoyed it!  I'll try and learn how to take some good shots of the city, then perhaps I'll post back in here.

[gnomonite 0]

how did you make those small roundabouts with a tree in the middle in this image?

[Keralis 0]

gnomonite, I belive you get that roundabout in a part of a section of the highway once your city reach a special amount of inhabitants. Not sure tho but looks like it.

[masochist 111]

Originally posted by: gnomonite

how did you make those small roundabouts with a tree in the middle in this image?

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Keralis has it.  Those roundabouts are simply part of the highway-road interchange.  All you have to do is get the highway unlocked, or play in "Expert Mode."  You can't really connect anything to them, though....

[rhenry 1]

Originally posted by: herenthere

Originally posted by: rhenry

Asheroo, those plazas you made are ingenius. I didn't even think about that but it's a great idea the way you did them. with the pathways and stuff. Very nice.

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Are those plazas facing the back of the bldg lots? (even though there are a few cars parked there)...and I agree very nice Asheroo!

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I saw that too but I forgave:-)

[rhenry 1]

Originally posted by: roogenial

Nice pics guys. I've been playing for two days(After I get home from Uni) and I have reached 400.000 inhabitants. My city is going very well, trade helps a lot, I don't like having too much industries so I buy them. I hope to show you pictures og mi city very soon. Take care.

Note: Check my join date, I read this forum since 2007 and this is my first post. Hahaha.

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Do you think this, in the long run, is more economically effective? I am dying from the demands of industry and if this is  cost effective in the long run it might be worth it. It certainly would answer the pollution issues. But what will your unqualified workers do for work? Can you just eradicate them?

I got Lo up to over 500,000 inhabitants last night and then the whole thing collapsed. Somehow I p***ed off the Qualified Workers, which is a very bad thing. I could not get them to move in, empty lots everywhere but nothing. I developed a bad rep with them and I don't know why. Once that happened the whole thing went into the toilet. I had a bout 15,000,000 c and within a fewe rounds I went negative. I started dropping by like 50,000 per round. It was insane.

I was really thinking I had it that time, too. Everything was doing so well but then came the fuel crisis, delayed yes, but there it was and all hell broke loose.

Patience. I moved too fast.

Also, do not p*** off the qualified workers. If you do that then you're absolutely screwed.

[hehe 0]

Originally posted by: rhenry

I got Lo up to over 500,000 inhabitants last night and then the whole thing collapsed. Somehow I p***ed off the Qualified Workers, which is a very bad thing. I could not get them to move in, empty lots everywhere but nothing. I developed a bad rep with them and I don't know why. Once that happened the whole thing went into the toilet. I had a bout 15,000,000 c and within a fewe rounds I went negative. I started dropping by like 50,000 per round. It was insane.

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I had this serveral times as well. In my case, many companies gone bancrupt due to the lack of qualified employees. I dealt with the situation by reducing cost in terms of trading and some citiy service buildings. In my opinion, my huge traffic problem was the root cause. As soon as I had some monex, I build new roads according to the traffic map with a view to increase the whole road system capacity.

On the other hand, you have the opportunity to lend some money with a certain payback time.

[simcitymasterman 0]

that is so cool

[roogenial 0]

Originally posted by: rhenry

Originally posted by: roogenial

Nice pics guys. I've been playing for two days(After I get home from Uni) and I have reached 400.000 inhabitants. My city is going very well, trade helps a lot, I don't like having too much industries so I buy them. I hope to show you pictures og mi city very soon. Take care.

Note: Check my join date, I read this forum since 2007 and this is my first post. Hahaha.

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Do you think this, in the long run, is more economically effective? I am dying from the demands of industry and if this is  cost effective in the long run it might be worth it. It certainly would answer the pollution issues. But what will your unqualified workers do for work? Can you just eradicate them?

I got Lo up to over 500,000 inhabitants last night and then the whole thing collapsed. Somehow I p***ed off the Qualified Workers, which is a very bad thing. I could not get them to move in, empty lots everywhere but nothing. I developed a bad rep with them and I don't know why. Once that happened the whole thing went into the toilet. I had a bout 15,000,000 c and within a fewe rounds I went negative. I started dropping by like 50,000 per round. It was insane.

I was really thinking I had it that time, too. Everything was doing so well but then came the fuel crisis, delayed yes, but there it was and all hell broke loose.

Patience. I moved too fast.

Also, do not p*** off the qualified workers. If you do that then you're absolutely screwed.

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It has worked for me. Today I almost reach 600K inhabitants and my city is better than ever.

[gnomonite 0]

 Arkham

Traffic Map. I began laying out the roads in advance to where I am planning to settle the executives and Elites.

[spott 0]

My beta cities ...

https://s206.photobucket.com/albums/bb95/svilenski/?start=0

Have fun. Game is bad and unrealistic imo

[Larks2242 251]

Wow such great citys good job everyone!!

[jeremy12 0]

Originally posted by: spott

My beta cities ...

https://s206.photobucket.com/albums/bb95/svilenski/?start=0

Have fun. Game is bad and unrealistic imoquote>

its not the game you have to use the free form tool more stop doing strait rows

[barcasam7 185]

check out my journal and great pics keep them coming https://www.simtropolis.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=401&threadid=110624&enterthread=y&STARTPAGE=2

[Craig-Abcvs 1,595]

Looking good!   

[Wrightguy0 40]

hot darn, well i've been wondern' how i get my cities all nice and big like that, mine tend to fail at 70,000-80,000 the economy tanks and my revenue goes down the tubes, i can't seem to sustain it at all

[masochist 111]

I've got a megashot that I took over the suburbs of Buonocitta.  Hope you enjoy it!

(As Haljackey might say: "Click for full resolution! (1440x900)")

[SimsRealtor 20]

masochist: that's awesome, setting that as my wallpaper , its so realistic

[Hawkeye9 0]

Wow masochist that is pure awsome!!! I may have to try this game out after seeing those shots!!!

[jeremy12 0]

wow masochist i think im going to have to start spreading out my city more, that looks amazing, and i am tossing that in my background images rotation in Win 7

[autumnsolace 0]

is it possible to fill the spaces next to the highways and interchanges? it's kind of weird to see a very tall building next to an empty grass plain with a highway a few hundred meters away

[gabry85 2]

Originally posted by: autumnsolace

is it possible to fill the spaces next to the highways and interchanges? it's kind of weird to see a very tall building next to an empty grass plain with a highway a few hundred meters awayquote>

No, each interchange acts like a transit-enabled 'building' sitting on an invisible square lot with some decorative pre-set trees, so you can't build anything within the 'lot' area.

[Davir 1]

Nice citty your all have make

[kusanagi-sama 1]

Originally posted by: masochist

I've got a megashot that I took over the suburbs of Buonocitta.  Hope you enjoy it!

(As Haljackey might say: "Click for full resolution! (1440x900)")

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I need to learn how to use the highways more efficiently.   I suppose its better to use these instead of the expressways.

[soundwave27 0]

Here's what I've got after a week of building.  Currently around 400k pop. (yeah I build slow) industry is behind the camera and a new development of industry is going up far behind the big mountian to the right. I'm almost to those highrises

[Stef42 0]

A small part of the low density city I'm making