New York City

[mayorsushi 0]

It would be awsome if u uploaded the city!

[Jesse Swiss 6]

oh yah if you uploaded this city i would nominate you for more than one trixie

[Asterion 3]

Hi everyone and thanks to Jesse Swiss, Ilikeseattle, TekindusT, jazyje and mayorsushi for your kind comments. In regard to me uploading the city, I probably will do at some point but I want to make sure it's as accurate as possible before that happens. I have recently changed quite a lot in New Jersey, including the creation of Liberty Park and Liberty Golf course.

@Tekindkus Thanks for pointing that out! I'll hopefully change it soon but I'm not quite sure of what buildings to use at the moment.

New Jersey

Liberty Park and the surrounding area

New Jersey with Liberty National Golf Club in the foreground

New York with Liberty National Golf Club in the foreground

New Jersey

Liberty Park and New York

Statue of Liberty with New Jersey

Liberty Park National Golf Course

New Jersey

[Pashler 0]

Wow! That looks really good! It would be nice to see some more shots when it gets even more precise than it already is! Keep it up!

[Jesse Swiss 6]

awesome!

[Aaron Graham 4,417]

Look so real, keep it up.

[reQuiem4adream 4]

Looks so real. AWESOME!

[poshbakerloo 186]

Its a shame there are no regions...you will end up missing a lot out of NY

[citiesxlfan42 27]

Wow! Incredible re-creation! I love it!

[LivingInThePast 364]

Hey, you've hit the mainstream! It's on Kotaku now!

Congratulations!

[valhum 23]

really amazing :wow:

[Roger51 381]

Oh wow, nice work on the golf course

[TowerDude 2,187]

This is great, it makes me wanna fire up CXL again

[Asterion 3]

Hi everybody,

Here's a new update. I'd like to thank Pashler, Jesse Swiss, Aaron Graham, reQuiem4adream, poshbakerloo, citiesxlfan42, LivingInThePast, valhum Roger51 and TowerDude for their comments but also to Kotaku for featuring this journal on their website!

Night-time street-view

Chrysler Building at night

Traffic

Ground zero at night

Downtown

Midtown

UN Building and complex - sorry it was the most accurate building in Cities Xl but it's not perfect

New York

View across the bottom of Central Park at night

UN complex during the day

Projects

Midtown from a Jersey road

Midtown from New Jersey

Brooklyn Bridge

[Heblem 600]

simply amazing, i think this is the best CXL journal, great job!

[Jesse Swiss 6]

completely crazy

[dogma555 187]

OOOOMGGGG... THIS IS CRAZY. Easily some of the best city building I've ever seen.

[diamonddog_74 32]

Looks great. However, there are some inaccuracies which surprise me since you said you used the Empire State Bldg., and Chrysler Bldg. as landmarks. They're on the wrong streets in your city. It could be a limitation of the map (is not to scale?).

In your city, the ESB is on 6th Ave. one full block west of its actual location at 34th St. and 5th Ave. 5th Ave. is the East boundary of Central Park. Similarly, your Chrysler is on 5th Ave., but IRL it is actually three avenues to the East at 42nd and Lexington.

Also, there doesn't seem to be that many streets between your Chrysler and Central Park. As I mentioned earlier, the Chrysler is at 42nd St., the South boundary of the park (Central Park South) is 59th St., 17 blocks to the North.

I don't know CXL, so I can only guess that the scale of the map is not 1:1 causing these inaccuracies. Otherwise, it's a nice NYC-like city.

[Asterion 3]

Hi everyone,

Just wanted to say thanks to Heblem, Jesse Swiss, diamonddog_74 and dogma555 for their comments.

@Diamonddog: Unfortunately the map is not 1:1 which does mean it is very difficult to get an entirely accurate road system. Also, the landmarks are part of the map and put there by Monte Cristo, so unfortunately this also creates inaccuracies as their placement was not 100% correct.

[jazyje 1]

Diamonddog, keep in mind that CXL is not Google Earth --- there are obvious limitations associated with playing the game when it comes to accurate representations --- most notably, the game is heavily tilted towards European-style architecture; also, the number of buildings is limited.... Asterion's journal is as good as it gets + will probably benefit from CXL 2011 (trains, plains, more buildings, etc)... you want other type of candy -- take a look at GTA Liberty City??....

[mayorsushi 0]

Amazing recreation!

[panfei 0]

ye,it's a good version. i hope we can see the WTC again.

[nate1245 8]

WOW!! You have an awesome CJ here!!!! I love it!! New york is an amazing city and you captured it here!!!! Very nice job well done!!!! Cant wait to see more!!!

[EL L.A.V. 0]

Maybe I should try that too, except my hometown is too small, or maybe I'll try Los Angeles. I really like the level of realism in you city. Can you show a picture of the statue of liberty?

I just realized that you already showed a few.

[Jeffmaster223 24]

exellent! how do you get that map?

and how do you get those different kinds of roads?

( i have the regular cities xl)

[gndrew 0]

Hi, I'm new to Cities XL. Is there any way you can link your cities up into a region, similar to SC4?

[Asterion 3]

Hi all and many thanks to all of your comments. I will be uploading some new screen shots soon so long as I can transfer the city to Cities XL 2011.

@Animaniacs: The roads look like that due to the Australian road textures mod by Skimbo available from here: https://www.simtropolis.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=403&threadid=115819&enterthread=y

The map is available in different unlocker mods. I recommend Globexco's one and this is also available from the above link.

@gndrew: I will hopefully be uploading my city soon when I can optimise it for Cities XL 2011.

[packersfan 666]

This looks great, I didn't realize this could actually happen in Cities XL...What happens when you get to the edge of the map, is that it, or can you connect and make a region and more of New York City like in SC4? I'm really intrigued now and might actually get Cities XL, but I'll probably wait until 2012 version since I don't have much time to play now, I'll stick with my current SC4 city.

How big is that map.  Seems like the area you've covered would have to be on two or three SC4 tiles...so I assume that it is still the standard 10x10km?  I think Cities XL is on its way, like I'll said I'll probably pick up the 2012 XL...hopefully Monte Cristo remains committed and continue to make it look and act more realistic and big city areas or at least adjacent tiles like SC4.

[Aaron Graham 4,417]

This city look really good. This is one of my most favortie Cities XL journals.

[thvers 0]

Do you build this city-map or did you downloaded it? (And where ofcourse) Because I've also a mod with the NYC map but ther are on either side of manhattan bridges en the "curved" road in Manhattan is also incorect in that mod..

[s/] sorry for my bad englisch [\s]