The New Dragon Cities

[Skimbo 304]

Heyho and welcome to the rebirth of my CXL CJ

It starts at my newest City, Welcome to:

Drakka is located on a small Atoll in the pacific ocean, has nearly no taxes on any financial stuff and very beautiful beaches.

...I will show you the city with all it's faces....

...From the rich Luna Beach with it's tourists....

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....Along the main roads...

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....and the core of the city....

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....the worker's districts.....

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...to the social housings at Morden.

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Connected via bridges.....

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And via Drakka Metro.....

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I want to show you the city how it is....

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I hope you enjoined this update, greetings from Drakka, Skimbo.

[Skimbo 304]

Welcome to the 2nd entry and the first update for:

We are at Luna Beach again, Luxury houses continue to dominate this district. This pic shows some new luxury row homes. The appartment size ranges between 435 and 450 square meters each.

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The downtown, seen from one of the places reserved for a park.

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We're back at Morden some better earning people settled at the north and south end of the small island....

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Now some pics where I stood on some roofs,

The first one is taken at Northern central- morden, social housing, lost perspectives, crime, gangs....

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This one is taken at central Morden looking towards east.

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The third one is taken a bit north to the centre, here you can see very clearly that the richer ones live next to the beach but the poor and (about 25% workless) unskilled workers live only one block away.

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Let's leave "The Troubles" and ride the Metro and bus line 8 towards Crystal Waters.

Travelling through downtown

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North Crystal waters is a very nice place to live at.... as long as there is not one of the very rare heavy storms.

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And a last pic ....

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I hope you've enjoined this update, greetings, Skimbo.

[egorgeg 0]

 Wow, that is a very nice city you got there. I like the second screen-shot in your second set of pictures. Really good.

[Guibanez_ 177]

Beautiful pics! Great work!

[Stef42 0]

You

[Ocram's Razr 964]

Your cities are always exceptional and stunningly beautiful!

[jazyje 1]

That shot of the Metro train with CBD cluster in the back is beautiful!

Where did you get the re-skinned Metro train, by the way?

[Skimbo 304]

@egorgeg: Thank you

@Guibanez: Thank you !

@Stef: Thank you, Here you go, a "future" update

@Ilikeseattle: Thank you

@Jazyje: I've made it on my own, more info about my metro skins and projects in this thread:

LINK

Welcome to the 3rd entry and the second update for:

We're out at Crystal waters again.

A lot of hi-tec firms setteled down at this district. Here, for example, below Crystal Waters Expressway.

The bus Deopt is located next to the subway station, the lines 8 and 9 serve the whole area.

Let's head back downtown via the Crystal Waters Expressway.

The busy road leads direct into the heart of the city.

Downtown impressions....

Luxorious hotels are located along the ring road

The ring road and it's way underneath the Eastern Lagoon rail bridge and the Morden Expressway.

The City Drakka has the honor to be the first city in the CXL world tsting new metro vehicles. Here one that looks like a dutch 5200 series.

I hope you'e enjoined this update, greetings, Skimbo.

[Guibanez_ 177]

Wow! Good job! I love the eleventh pic!

[Stef42 0]

That last picture looks indeed so good

[Skimbo 304]

Replies:

@Guibanez and Stef: Thank you, guys

Heyho and welcome to the fourth entry of this CJ, today I've got a shipload of new impressions of a new city:

Today I'm not really in the mood to comment each pic, so let the motives spek for themselves.

Only a little thing: We are in the city center and it's around 22PM.

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Now we're out of the city center.

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Now we're at the office park

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Now in the industrial center

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What?! Sun is already rising?!

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I hope you've enjoined this update, greetings Skimbo.

[DARKO 3]

Absolutely amazing.

U've inspired me. May I ask what resolution/monitor(hd or not) and graphics card/settings you are using?

[DARKO 3]

That las pic is weirding me out. It looks as if there is about a mile or so of beach and the road is turned in ward like a race track...is that just my eyes deceiving me?

[Skimbo 304]

my resolution is 1920x200 pixles, HD monitor. Graphics card is a GTX480, Graph settings all at maximum. The road is a simple british avenue and the beach is not as long as it looks like from this position.

[Skimbo 304]

Now that my cities got "typical Skimbo" again I'm motivated to restart CJ writeing.

Today I've got some pictures of one of my new favourite cities. It's named after a dragon in greek mythology: Hydra.(It's not the only city I've named after Hydra, Take a look at my SC4 CJ in the next time if you want to know the other one) This link is a direct plane ticket to Dragon Islands(SC4)

The city is located on a tropical island, is mostly low dense and got it's first busline when it reached the population of 790.000 people.

The two dense areas, Downtown and Habour city are located in the center and in the north of the city, connected via buslines 3, 4 and 5. Busline 1 and 2 create a ring on the about 24kilometers(15Miles) long coast road.

The most attractive foto motive of the city is the Habour City because it's located next to the water and due the north of the island is more or less protected from wind some people buildt their houses at the flat water.

Habour city seen from the water....

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Seen from the eastside

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seen from the west

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Center

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Seen from the plane.

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The (unfinished) Downtowwn in the back

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Don't ask me why I took this one.

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View from downtown back to Habour City.

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Eastbeach & Downtown.

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Yes... I've drawn a dragon again.... She hasn't got a name yet... (click on the pic for 1920x1200)

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View from far away.

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And a sattelite view.

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I hope you've enjoined this update, greetings, Skimbo. =)

[Ocram's Razr 964]

Wonderful!

[Jesse Swiss 6]

Cool I always love your dragon art!

[Stuart98 98]

I wonder what he's busy making with unlocker v4?

[Skimbo 304]

@Ilikeseattle&JesseSwiss: Thank you, guys

@Smopolis: I was one of the testers

[Stuart98 98]

Now what?

[Stuart98 98]

Now what?

[Denon333 0]

Simopolis: Double post.