City of Dickson

[YannickSHE 0]

Again, fantastic updates! I like the fact that you are adding lot of green, and the city has a realistic look to it. I really enjoy your updates!

[johannesut 1]

Good job! City of Dickson is one of my three favorite cities in CXL journals

[Raceman95 4]

how do you get a big city like that, mine just seem to stop when i can't find out what to do next

[Skimbo 304]

It looks real good

[Jaybyrd05 3]

@Raceman95 - I just keep building and trading off resources.  I am buying nearly 100% of my industry minus high tech and selling LOTS of workers for income.  i nearly have the map full.... and then comes the constant tweaking and rebuilding haha.

Everyone else - thank you for the comments.  Your continued interest and wonderful comments/suggestions really help me keep this city going and growing.

Unfortunately I wasn't able to play as much this weekend as I had hoped.... I did add a couple new areas.  The city is now sitting just at 1.8mil people.  Citizen satisfaction across all wealth levels is between 80-84% and businesses are all at 100%.  Here are a few shots from around the newer areas.... I really have a LOT in mind right now I want to work on this week and give you guys a HUGE update and some surprises!!!

[Damastius 5]

Nice!!!! Could you please show us an overview of Dickson? Would be nice!!

[Stef42 0]

It's just amazing

[johannesut 1]

That's why city of Dickson is one of my 3 favorite cities in these journals.... Great update Jaybyrd05 !!!

[jacqulina 162]

awesome work my friend

[Jaybyrd05 3]

Here are the overview shots -

[Damastius 5]

Nicely done!

[Raceman95 4]

great job

[jazyje 1]

As always, simply amazing --- btw picture 8 in the last update is slowly beginning to remind me of this --

http://www.visitingdc.com/images/nashville-airport-address.jpg

I love that wall of old industrial/commercial buildings by the waterfront - I'm definitely going to try to imitate it in one of my cities...

[Raceman95 4]

what map are you using and how do you get the mods to work

[jazyje 1]

I believe Jay is using one of the green valley's maps (?)... As far as the mods, you just unzip them + drop them in your MC 'Paks' folder. Very easy.

[Jaybyrd05 3]

Yes, I am using the Wetlands map in the Green Valley area. It has a great amount of flat land to build on. The only problem with it would be the lack of water transport connections for ports, but I'm making do. And Jazy - yea I keep thinking about Nashville a lot when I am building certain areas of town. The waterfront is a huge work in progress and I really hope to make it look a lot better.

[YannickSHE 0]

Simply fantastic! I see you worked a lot on the greenery and you are renovating certain neighborhoods and everything is getting really nice. By the way, your traffic map, how do you snapshot that image using the snapshot in the game? Do you just Print Screen with your keyboard to do it? I'd like to get a couple of pictures of the traffic myself for my own journal. Your city is one of the best, keep up the good work!

[Raceman95 4]

when i do the unzip and place then it doesn't work (sandbox mod)

[jazyje 1]

Since I'm checking out this journal a couple of times a day, I may as well be Jaybird's spokesman, lol.....

Anyhow, Yannick - you highlight your traffic congestion (economy - traffic) and take a regular in-game screenshot (as you'd do with other normal screenshots) + it is saved in MC's pictures folder...

Raceman - make sure you place it in the 'PAKS' folder... It should work (if not then delete and replace it again)... although personally I'm not using the sandbox mode mod...

[YannickSHE 0]

You don't use the sandbox? How do you manage the cost per tick? Is that why you have industrial neighborhoods in the city? All the highway + the expressways + everything else is so expensive that without the sandbox and without the omnicorp cheats, I just gave up on it. How do you do it?

[jazyje 1]

I don't want to highjack this thread, but indeed, I do not use the sandbox --- this makes me think twice before doing any big spending.... It gets pretty hard to stay in the green after a while, but hey, I've managed to keep going so far with all my cities, although VOLKA's cash flow is negative now (but we have a nice savings account from the previous years --a nice cushion)...

[jazyje 1]

LOL, I'm pretty much socially-progressive when I play CXL, fiscally conservative -- kind of like in real life....

[jazyje 1]

Jaybird, pictures 4 + 6 are my favorites from your last update... Also, what is that next to that skateboard park (to the right of it ) ?

[Jaybyrd05 3]

That would be a basketball court And jazy....if I ever get creative enough to make a story-telling CJ you will more definitely be the spokesman for the maoyr

And remember - with sandbox mode the Omnicorp token adjustment is completely optional in the menu. I am not a fan of budgeting and just enjoy building and working on the city-building. I am very grateful to Moaku for creating and releasing this mod for us to use.

[jazyje 1]

Yeah, it's not like a fan of budgeting myself -- I simply believe NOT using the sandbox is a bit more realistic as it perhaps keeps teh mayor from overspending -- but then your city is the most realistic one I've seen and you use the sandbox...

[jazyje 1]

BTW, I've seen you using tennis courts before in Dickson -- are those made available after your city gets really big?

[Jaybyrd05 3]

Yea it unlocks at 750,000 (why so high I have no idea....). It cost's 8,000 credits per tick.

[Raceman95 4]

i got the mod to work but the rouadabout mod isn't working

[jazyje 1]

The roundabout mod is not available if your city is very small -- you need 5,000 residents -- I believe - for it to work....

[Raceman95 4]

i have 100,000+ cities and expert mode on, is it in a wierd location