AK Region Play 2010

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Been working on tons of random cities lately and thought i'd venture back into developing a sprawling and diverse hand terraformed region.  Nothing ground breaking here stylistically, just a lot of my same old tricks on a large scale.  Going to do all updates from here on out, by committee, so let me know what you want to see, new region shots will be added as things develope/

[GreekMan 246]

awesome! glad to see you back!  looking forward to seeing your city! can't wait to see downtown and your urban sprawl!

i just wish you had a clickable version of the region.....

[mightygoose 92]

Welcome back, the very abrupt border from suburban to rural environments is unrealistic, as is the lack of large parks in the city. However as an idealised city planner such as yourself it expresses your almost vector like city design exquisitely. I vote to see the urban suburban boundary first.

John.

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Thanks, it fades a little more than can be seen in those pictures, but spot on.  As for the urban parks, again they're there, just hard to see, i'll get to that later.

[SounderBruce 173]

Ooh...I want to venture into the metropolis...

[masochist 111]

How do you terraform your mountains?

[GMT 389]

intriguing start

waiting for more!

[crazychickensc12 84]

Ohhh boy here we go back to 2006 thats wasssup!! What up alek, amazing region incredible terraforming my friend!! Can't wait to see more!!

I actually had a question also when you do your regions are you able to keep adding new tiles by altering the bitmap without having any effect on what is already developed? Or do you create just a huge bitmap and then develop it tile by tile?

[Nardo69 51]

Welcome back AleKing! 

2010 seems to become a great year, so much old and well known "faces" popping up and coming back!  

I don't mind where you start - but then again - some nice dirty industriey with railways? 

Take care my friend! 

Bernhard 

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Originally posted by: masochist

How do you terraform your mountains?quote>

it's a pretty tedious process that involves a lot of loading adjusting, saving and going back to region view to make things match up.  I'll try to get some screen shots of the process to document it a little better/

Originally posted by: crazychickensc12

I actually had a question also when you do your regions are you able to keep adding new tiles by altering the bitmap without having any effect on what is already developed? Or do you create just a huge bitmap and then develop it tile by tile?

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a little of both, i've never had an issue loading a bitmap in mspaint and then increasing size, though the direction of where the new tiles are added is always the same, might be worth experimenting.

anyways still in the process of fading the suburban/rural areas, starting to look a lot more realistic.

[Deionn 137]

hoorah!

[tostartpressanykey 2]

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Been chugging along with terraforming and trying to improve the suburban rural blend, which is only about 10% complete and more obvious on the leftside of the sprawl.  I've included and thumbnail and full size region shot, the detail is much clearer on the full size.

Full Size

http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/6417/newregion2thumbhuge.jpg

Random metro teaser

[tostartpressanykey 2]

HOLY ST FRANCIS! This is awesome! God knows how awesomely delicious the rest o ur city is

[bourneid 13]

well, Welcome back AK...    great to see your work again

[penguin007 27]

Awesome downtown area and region there good to see you active here again your cities were always the pinnacle to follow

Will

[Deionn 137]

[Chptrk 86]

Wow! That's one amazingly epic city! I love the design of the road network you made there, great work!!

[Renedius 25]

grget my friend

[crazychickensc12 84]

Hey there AK I forget what are those 1x1 lots that provide a ton of jobs in order to create that realistic suburban sprawl? I used to have them but I think i lost them when i switched my plugins over and I can't seem to find them here or on SC4D...If anyone else knows let me know plz if AK doesnt get this!! Thanks!!

[Livin in Sim 83]

Hey, Alek, welcome back!  I see you've been keeping yourself constructively occupied.  Notice anything new lately? 

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Originally posted by: Livin in Sim

Hey, Alek, welcome back!  I see you've been keeping yourself constructively occupied.  Notice anything new lately? 

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That's so great.  I really can't say how much this site has meant to me.  SC4 is the only game i play and continue to play and only because of this site, the content, the inspiration, it's awesome, thank you.

FYI i am still building on to this region, quite a lot actually, i should update this weekend ....if i don't get bogged down doing taxes.  Remember back in the day, i'd do multiple huge updates in the same day, college was great, real life...not so much.

Thanks again.

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Originally posted by: crazychickensc12

Hey there AK I forget what are those 1x1 lots that provide a ton of jobs in order to create that realistic suburban sprawl? I used to have them but I think i lost them when i switched my plugins over and I can't seem to find them here or on SC4D...If anyone else knows let me know plz if AK doesnt get this!! Thanks!!quote>

dude, i think i'm going to invest some time and make my own this weekend.  I feel bad that i don't even remember who made those for me, it was someone in chat, the dude made it in like 5 minutes. 

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i've been doing tons of terraforming and it's a slow go, the region is much larger now, but i'll save that for another time, i have added a second metro area the region and have decided to focus more on parkland and a developed water front.   The actual city is done in the same spare no tile, concrete jungle with chicago style grid that i'm so fond of.

Tthe cities at border this have extensive seaport development and i'll show that next. 

Also in the works is a regional airport, as you all know, i don't do airports, so this is a real work in progress.

[SounderBruce 173]

Your custom content is amazing! Nice beaches! Love this CJ!

[Mother of Invention 23]

http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/1305/newcityaug2528212696983.jpg

Whats that white building on the edge of the map?

[i_love_lamp 0]

this is sweet! keep up the good work

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a large bus depot, can't say as i remember where it's from, i believe it's a latin or brazilian BAT.

[CHR 2]

Very nice city. The CBD looks very natural in terms of size and density, and the surrounds have a nice dirty urban jungle sort of feel. Your use and placement of the parks and recreation areas also seems quite natural.

[danielcote 9]

oh I love this CJ keep it up!