Dragon Cities

[Skimbo 304]

This introduction of my three Dragon Cities was originally made for citiesxl.ru, but because it is in English I'll post it here for you too

I hope there are no problems with the pics, I think they are mostly JPEG, but I'm not sure

>> ffice:smarttags">ffice:smarttags">ffice:smarttags">ffice:smarttags"> First I will introduce my dragon Cities

My first  Dragon City was "Crystal Dragon" I've created it at the end of October. It was created to provide to my other cities with food and water. But after a while I got the idea to make something special.

The small village of supply, before there was the dragon:

A residential street:

And the school:

But then when I built the dragon…..:

"Crystal" ^ ^

…I knew that the city should be more than what it was ment to be.

So I began to develop it, which continues to this day.

Some more pics of the developing City:

Central office complex:

The west driveway :

The first stage of development:

2.nd Stage of Development:

The west driveway, again the same place a few weeks later:

A new office and residential district:

And a city skyline

And there's an overview:

Now even the current level 3

An aerial view of the East:

and south

The dragon was given a nametag so everyone knows it:

And the best night effects:

A new picture of the bay:

And an overview with the actual traffic datas:

[Skimbo 304]

Wow, I didn't knew that there is a maximum lengh of every post

Here is the secound Ppart:

My secound Dragon City is "Dragon cliffs"

I think most of you have seen thoose two dragons (Janus Amera-white-green)

Dragon Cliffs was the first Dragon City that was ment to be one from the beginning.

The town itself was first just a tourist's nest, near the cliffs:

The tunnel, which connects the upper to the lower District:

And a brief overview:

Stage 2

The city pointed to a very strong growth, high Pushed through the tourism revenue.

At the same time as the northern extension of the city began:

3 Bridges crossing one another in the northern district

I've finished the first plazas:

The "Cycle Park":

The "Sunrise Plaza:

A photo of the Downtown:

And an overview:

Stage 3:

The city grew still extremely fast. An eastward expansion was necessary.

The new eastern city center at sunrise:

A view from the city center into the sunrise:

Playful Traffic routing:

Mean buildings in the eastern district

From the air:

In the downtown where there added a lot of new plazas, for example:

The Central Park:

The Square Plaza

The White Cross Plaza:

The Dragon Cities Plaza:

Or Amera Park

On the coast there was a complete new residential district:

And to Luxorious BUSINESS hotel:

Then an overview:

Stage 4

When a city wants to expand it needs space, if there is no space avaiable creative solutions need to be found, solutions like this one:

Here is an Overview again:

Stage 5 The City today:

Janus and amera at night:

An Urban Landscape:

The spiral Plaza:

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And a city overview with traffic:

My third and actual Dragon City is Long zhi Cheng

This is a pic of Vevanda, the dragon of Long zhi Cheng at night:

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And on the day it looks like this:

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Zoom:

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And a small pic, when it was under construction:

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It took me much more time to build the parts of the city than it did in Dragon Cliffs or Crystal Dragon, they are usually separated by a playful boulevards:

(Central Plaza Road with main boulevards and 2):

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Another Boulevard:

Main Road at night, direction City Hall:

Main Road down to the city hall from the other side:

New office Districts:

Stage 2

The new eastern Downtown:

The "Eastern Central Boulevard"

Another - until now nameless - Plaza:

Social Housing in the background once again the East Downtown:

A view from one of the side streets of the eastern downtown to the city center:

The City at night:

[Skimbo 304]

Maximum lengh again, here is the third part:

And a normal and a market overview:

Secound I’ve got some Pics of the construction of Janus:

Third some Questions you may ask:

Why does Crystal have an oversized head?

At first I just wanted to make a bust (Head + Neck), when I’ve finished it I decided to complete it. But I actually have had less space than I’ve needed.

Is there any heavy or production industry in one of your cities?

There are just a few buildings at Crystal Dragon, this type of industry produces air pollution and waste for which I need to turn landfill that produces air pollution again…. So I said no, the only kind of industry you can find in my Dragon Cities is Hi-Tec and the energy is mostly produced by wind power plants. (So the cities are more or less climate “neutral”

Why have you built dragons?

1.)

Because they are something special. If you paint an eagle or a tiger you need to pay a lot of attention to reality. A dragon is something more creative and it is not clearly defined, how they look like.

2.)

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Here is a small pencil-drawing, but it needs still corrections:

You may also know the background….

Comments are always welcome

Journal at Citiesxl.ru (english)  http://citiesxl.ru/phpbbforum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=90

Journal at CitiesXS.de (german) www.citiesxs.de/forum/index.php/topic,797.90.html

[buildsolid 4]

The pics are amazing, you have a great talent, may I ask how long does it take to create one dragon?

[Skimbo 304]

You are allowed to ask every question

Crystal more or less 5 1/2 hrs. Janus+Amera more or less 6hrs. Vevanda more or less 7 1/2 hrs

The pencil-drawing below about 1 hr 15 minutes.

(Nice that you enjoy the pics)

[zero7 68]

The dragons are spectacular. Incredibly creative use of the decorations.

[Skimbo 304]

That's for what I've got my Trixie for

[Ocram's Razr 964]

Amazing! You are talented with the farm and park tools.

[JakeMD 107]

Love love love the pics!

[halicem 16]

Probably the most amazing cxl cities I've seen so far!

[GlobexCo 33]

Amazing work! But I think that all those pics could be used for more than one update!

[Skimbo 304]

Originally posted by: GlobexCo

Amazing work! But I think that all those pics could be used for more than one update!quote>

Jes, I could have used them for more than one update, but Simtropolis is the third site (After Cities XS, german and Citiesxl.ru, english-russian) where I've posted the journal, I wanted to start up at ST with the actual standard

@All: I am glad that you like my cities

[Larks2242 251]

Great job Skimbo, your ideas are amazing!

[Cob92 360]

Simply outstanding! The dragons look incredible, as do the cities. Love the crazy road networks, much more creative than my grids.

[Za 164]

That was probably the single most amazing thing I have seen in my nearly three years here. Congrats and keep up the fantastic work

[Skimbo 304]

Originally posted by: Za

That was probably the single most amazing thing I have seen in my nearly three years here. Congrats and keep up the fantastic work quote>

THX for the great feedback to all of you^^

And @ Za: I will continue my as you called "fantastic" work (As long, as I've got space to build on in my online cities

[Herdervriend 46]

This is really the most awesome city I've ever seen...It looks really Chinese (Dragons!) and I love it Really high quality and I am amazed you got it this far Good job

[Skimbo 304]

Long zhi Cheng - Update 1

PS: Please ignore those dam smileys showing theig tounqes, it was not possible for me to bring them away

Since the last photos where made, the city has reached by the creation of the new „River District“ 1.000.000 population, the cashflow is around +450.000. I’m sorry for the very short text.

I hope the images ain’t too big.

1.) Photos of the new plazas

The “Eastern river district central Plaza”:

“Western River District central Plaza”:

This one hasn’t got a name so far:

2.) New Boulevards:

“Eastern river district central Boulevard”:

The “New main Boulevard”:

3.) Impressions of the City (No comments)

4.) Impressions of the City (With comments)

The new Downtown at evening and noon:

A nightview of the “River district”:

An overview:

River District under construction:

5.) Traffic, Roads:

Here is a market overview:

6.) Traffic, Bus:

Typical bus station:

The network:

And an normal overview:

I Hope you’ve enjoyed the update

Greetings, Skimbo.

[Larks2242 251]

Wow, another great dragon update, seems like your getting better with everyone of them!

[Skimbo 304]

No comment, just a link: www.citiesxl.com/index.php

[Larks2242 251]

Awesome job, your city is really cool glad you got on their website!

[MandelSoft 2,769]

Your Trixie is well deserved, because I have only one thing to say about your pictures: WOW!

[Skimbo 304]

Mikeweber seems to like my dragons (And the others doo too: 3rd. community report, 3rd time mentioned)

Nice that you like my cities and dragons

@mrrnrln: you and the whole NAM-team have also well deserved yur trixies, great jobs, every time

[Skimbo 304]

Long zhi Cheng- Update 2

There was only a little development of the city in the last days, but it grew a little.

At first I've got some pictures of the city:

The park behind the city hall:

Rockman and the Rockman-Boulevard:

Social housing in the background you can see a bit of the construction area of the new BP (Sacre ceour)

The central boulevard of "New Riverside"

Bubble Park with city panorama:

one of the 5 bridges in the New Riverside district:

Hollis Boulevard:

A view from Rockman into the downtown:

Now, as special: I've made an actual map of the districts and their hoods, Vevanda hasn't got a number because no one lives in this "district" she will always have the highest number (Actual nr.4)

New Riverside:

Downtown-East:

I had to split the center (Would have been a too big screenshot:

The other part:

Now the actual overview:

I hope you've enjoyed reading this update

Greetings from Long zhi Cheng, Skimbo.

Every comment -negative or positive- is welcome

[Larks2242 251]

Another cool dragon great update!

[Skimbo 304]

[Larks2242 251]

Originally posted by: Skimbo

Ähm Larks.... I did not build a new dragon, just some new parts of Long zhi Cheng....quote>

Oh, well i still like your dragon

[NucleariA 0]

Those Dragons are incredible! I'm glad I stumbled upon this city journal. Makes me almost want to buy Cities XL.

[NucleariA 0]

Those Dragons are incredible! I'm glad I stumbled upon this city journal. Makes me almost want to buy Cities XL.

[Skimbo 304]

@Larks, NucleariA and all others: I'm glad that you like them

Today I show you my future plans for the official 4th district:

(Dam 800x600 resolution, visit page 2 on CXL.ru, there the names and the numbers are readable)

Greetings from LzC, Skimbo.