Dragon Cities

[Larks2242 251]

Looking good Skimbo, Can't wait to see it finished!

Also Welcome to page 2!

[Skimbo 304]

I think, I will not work on Long zhi Cheng and the other 3 Dragon cities I've buildt in the PO (I hope I can save and finish 'em in the SP....)

[City Planner 121]

Congratulations, some really nice stuff there in those images. Thanks for sharing.

[Skimbo 304]

I've saved the first dragon city sucsessfully. There will be an update about Crystal Dragon soon.

[Larks2242 251]

Cool sounds interesting, looking forward to the update!

[Skimbo 304]

Here it is...

(Part 1)

Please notice that you can't visit the city on it's actual standard in the PO anymore because it is in the SP now.

Update 3   (2nd.) about Crystal Dragon

That's the church of Greenfield:

Some years ago Greenfield was a small village in the middle of nothing. It did not grow for ages.

But since Crystal Dragon has started with it's extremely fast growing, the village woke up again.

It had a good reason to wake up:

So it became a part of Crystal Dragon:

With all it's problems:

(Traffic jam at Southern City West)

The citie's new plazas:

(Quadra Plaza)

The citie's new residential areas:

(Residential area around Quadra Plaza)

(Residential area around Smith-Plaza)

The citie's downtown:

(Market place at Loonmas Road, direction of view: Midfield Road and Midfield Park to Crystal Boulevard)

(New Downtown- Center Cyrcle)

(View in direction Center Cycle (from lakeside))

(View from the Southern City in direction downtown)

The citie's luxury districts:

(Fortuna Park, from the bridge in it's middle, direction of view: east)

And the citie's beautiful things:

(Fortuna park, from the pond in direction downtown)

(Fortuna Park, THE luxury resisdential area at Crystal Dragon, some millionaires are to poor for this hood)

And, of course, an overview of the city:

Greetings from Crystal Dragon, Skimbo.

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Used Mod for these parks and plazas:

New Plazas Mod (Mod by Haltendehand, Oliver, Gobo77, Malaya. Some more textures by Karel 53,  Bürger and recolors by me (Skimbo))

[Skimbo 304]

(Part 2)

The actual district overview of Crystal Dragon:

Now the single districts:

RED >>>>District boarder

YELLOW >Boarder between the hoods

GREEN >>Script

Downtown:

New Downtown:

Sunville:

Western Industrial:

Southern City:

I hope, you've enjoied the Update.

[Damastius 5]

One word, Wow! Great job!

[Larks2242 251]

Awesome job Skimbo, once again excellent dragons!

[Skimbo 304]

Here is a completely new plaza -

Full size

Full size

[Skimbo 304]

I've buildt 2 new dragons at Long zhi Cheng

If someone wants to see (A only very quick made slideshow) of the creation can find it here

The dragon's names are:

Sà fei la  (blue)

Shui jing  (gray/black)

Long zhi Cheng, new city overview:

What do you think about'em?

[Larks2242 251]

Awesome work Skimbo, your cities and dragons are incredible!

[360wert 0]

Hello Skimbo,

Good work (okay I've said it in CXS but I can't be said to often)

But, do you think whats going on in CXS, are the server down or something?

Do you know?

(And excuse me if I had make mistakes or something, i'm not so good in english.)^^

[Roger51 381]

Great work as always, love seeing your work.

[Skimbo 304]

@Larks, Roger: I'm glad that you like 'em

@360: Maybe, I don't know......

[Winter Dragon 0]

This is awesome, I really like all of the work you've put into your cities!  I'm a big fan of all things dragon as well, so this is right up my alley. Very cool Skimbo!

[DazzaDazza 29]

Yah me to. I love the dragon things as well, the blue one looks awesome

[Skimbo 304]

Thanks for these very positive comments

@Winter Dragon and Mr.Dazza: I'm very happy that other draon fans like my creations too (Motivates me)

[Skimbo 304]

Update 3 aboutCrystal Dragon

It's a long time ago since I've released the last update about a new part of one of my cities. But today there is a new one, finally.

Many things have changed at Crystal Dragon. A new district has been buildt around the old town San Chiara and the city has reached about 3.2 millions population.

At the beginning of the building of the new district I've buildt the main traffic routes. 2 of thoose boulevards have hat colourful plazas from the beginning, the rest was made more beautyful when San Chiara grew...

For example: Star Boulevard:

And Eclipse Boulevard:

The other main traffic routes are:

San Ciara Fastlane, Midfield BLVD., Yellowstone BLVD., Flame BLVD. and Rubina BLVD.

The Flame Boulevard is one of the most important traffic routes, it connects the north end of the Captain Benneck's Freeway with the Downtown of Crystal Dragon. As a Boulevard from the freeway to Eclipse boulevard, than as a tunnel road into the heart of the downtown.

Downtown tunnel exit:

Here the same Boulevard again at the cross with Rubina Boulevard:

The secound important trafficroute into the downtown area goes from the Midfield Boulevard(Centr. Office Plaza) over the Midfield Tunnel to Downttown.

Midfield BLVD, Direction San Chiara Central Office Plaza:

The third important traffic route is San Chiara Bridge and San Chiara Fastlane. (That's the oldest route)

San Chiara Fastlane at night:

Now I want to show you some pics of the different parts of San Chiara:

First two pics of the ols San Chiara at night:

Kathedral and full moon:

And the Old market street:

The Rubina Business Estates are the newest office project of the city:

From the other side of the lake:

From the upper rubina Boulevard in the morning:

And from the northern industrial area:

The secound hood of my city in which roundabouts are used to keep the traffic flowing:

The first one was the one at St. Marks Road:

(Blickrichtung San Chiara cathedral und Crystal D. Downtown sowie San Chiara central office plaza)

A view from rubina Boulevard direction north:

Upper Eclipse Boulevard, direction San Chiara central Office Plaza:

Another view of Rubina Business Estates, this time from the last emty building grounds next to Hammersmith Road:

A view from Rubina Boulevard direction Downtown. (The white plaza is part of the flame of Rubina Dragon)

Crystal River splits up the districts, on the right hand side there are the houses at Morgan road, on the left hand the ones next to Institute Road.

Now some pics from the heli. The whole city:

And San Chiara:

San Chiara, names:

Crystal Dragon in general:

overview:

Districts:

And traffic:

(I know, massive traffic problems)

I hope you've enjoied the udate, comments (positive and negative) are always welcome

Greetings from Crystal Dragon, Skimbo.

[Stef42 0]

Have I missed something!? You've got roundabouts... From CitiesXS I suppose?

Very nice city, I like the Cathedral picture at full moon!

[Skimbo 304]

Used mods: New Plazas Mod (All updates), Roundabout unlock (Oliver has only had to change one word and the roundabouts worked) and the SP-Trade mod (Necesarry for a po city that wants to survive in SP)

All from CXS, Avaiable in french, german and english.

[Stef42 0]

I'm using the Roundabout now, it's quite nice Thanks for the info Skimbo!

[Skimbo 304]

no problem: @All: Check out our new mods on CXS

[Stef42 0]

I've noticed you use a tree mod (?)

[Spikespiegel 0]

All your cities are very cool, and I keep waiting anxiously for updates

Can you please link all the mods you are using ?

[Damastius 5]

Hey man, mods don't work here.. This is what I do:

Download it,

Open it,

When he asks with which program you want to open it, i choose cities xl,

I put it in Citiesxl/paks,

I open the game, and I don't see anything new!

What did I do wrong?

[Winter Dragon 0]

That's awesome Skimbo, nice work man!

I couldn't find the roundabout mod on english forum at citiesxs, is it only deutsch at the moment? And the forest plaza, I have the plaza mod 2.3 but could not find the forests in it. Is it the extra plazas addon pak?

[Skimbo 304]

New plazas mod+expansion pack

And roundabout mod (Will be updated today or tomorrow)

I've used theese two mods for creating my cities. Sry. Roundabout mod is now in english avaiable, thx. to asheroo.

@Damastitus: I'm not the one who has created thoose mods. Please contact Malaya (New plazas) or Oliver (Roundabouts) for help.

The new plazas mod was updated a short time ago

And: Thanks for the positive feedback about my City

(Will try to write a new update soon)

[Spikespiegel 0]

Nice

The only new update I really need for citiesXL right now is a mod that enables "smaller" highway ramps (instead of the current ones, that takes up such a huge piece of land next to the highway everytime you want a ramp.

[Skimbo 304]

Have you ever seen a script of one of theese ramps (It must have been more than 10.000 lines of script)