Kiffissia Country

[natedoggg 0]

Kiffissia, is a small country named after it's capital, wich has one more than once the price of world's most livable city.

The country, located in the middle of the Pacific ocean is made of several islands wich are all cities themselves.

Let's start with the capital and the cultural core of the country, Kiffissia city, was founded in 1418 so it has a lot of monuments and great landmarks.

The city lost it's title of biggest city in Kiffissia in early 1993( in terms of population) 

By now (Nov. 2009) Kiffissia's population is around is around 3.4 millions

Its opponent, Gettysburg, wich is more of a financial center is now at 8.9 millions

We'll see more about Gettysburg later on through the City Journal

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The city of Kiffissia will host the 2020 summer games.

The arrival of the olympics has given the city a population boost, many projects are planned for 2020 .

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Fat away from the olympic village, new districts are placed as the demand for residential has boosted because of the olympics.

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Lots of hotel as this one offers rooftop terraces wich give us an amazing view of the city skyline.

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The city hall, it is also the gouvernment buildings, where laws are voted and where the president lives.

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Kiffissia has an amazing commute system, here is the central station right in the city center.

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This is the governemental square, on the left the city hall and government headquarters,

on the left gouvernemental offices.

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Since the Stadium is complete, the price in every district near it has risen a lot.

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The city is a cultural playground but also offer casinos and hotels in the downtown area.

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Here on the right is the Marriot and on the left is the famous Loews central Kiffissia.

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Because of its very wide streets and efficient commute system, the streets are clean and swift.

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You can see here the citiy's famous mountain Mt - Royal, wich u can see from almost everywhere in the city, especially since the NASA build a huge anthena on top of it .

It has been name like that by the king in 1783 only 23 yrs before the arrival of democracy.

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House of some CEO in Royal hills

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  Edited November 4, 2011 by natedoggg  

[natedoggg 0]

Updates made for today good night everyone !

  Edited November 4, 2011 by natedoggg  

[L1onCub 0]

Very nice. I really like it.

What about traffic congestion and citizens satisfaction. Can u pls make some screenshots for those?

[jazyje 1]

Impressive!!!!

[natedoggg 0]

L1onCub : yes i will post some pictures about the life of the citizens

[Jesse Swiss 6]

wow, not to bad, im very impressed for your first journal, you've already had more success that me

[waldenbg 0]

I LOVE IT!! is this the hong kong map?

[DARKO 3]

How did u touch these up?? Photoshop or is that untouched? Regardless one of most impressive cities I've seen for this game, if not the most. Also I'm trying figure out what graphics card/setting some of you are using that have the higher graphic usage. I have a 250 gts and a non hd monitor. Want to upgrade both but not sure if it would be that much worth it in graphic uptick.

Keep it up pal!

[Stef42 0]

Your city is awesome, the downtown looks very realistic

[Jesse Swiss 6]

wow i love that downtown and how well the city is laid out! Great Job!

[natedoggg 0]

This shall answer pretty much all the questions :

I run the game on a MAC via Boothcamp ,I use a Macbook 2010 pro edition

I used iphotos to boost up the contrast but thats pretty much it !

ANYWAYS i guess its suits u all .....

I should post updates soon !!

One love

[natedoggg 0]

Here is my UPDATE #2 

ENJOY

As you can see, the traffic in the capital is very fluid.

 

The citizens satisfaction level is also pretty high, because of all the cultural and social activities availible trough out the city !

Kiffissia's city downtown is small but really beautiful.

One of the most popular service offered by the city is it's marina, wich is popular all around the country since the country is made of several small islands, so the citizen can go visit other cities by boat.

Some of the cities most expansive houses are right on the marina's island.

A nice view of the Olympic park and of the famous marina.

Some high-tech industries, far away from downtown but only a a 10 min highway ride.

The picture was taken from a plane approaching the city. What a great shot !!

Kiffissa is a ''sportown''  they have all kinds of professional teams, like a hockey team called ''The Nationnal''

And this big building on the right is where they play in front of 24 000 people.

The city view from Kiffissia southern island wich is still by now a national park.

The famous Central park of Kiffissia small but beautiful and always clean.

You can see here the big ferris wheel, built for the 2020 Olympic games.

The island view from the top of Mt- Royal.

One of many museums in the city ( right where the avenues split)

The city only has 1 highway, but it's enough, population is really satisfied of the circulation all over Central Kiffissia.

Lot sailboats stay around the island because it has amazing view to offer.

People living in the hills have an amazing view of the downtown area.

Central Kiffissia Olympic park is an amazing place to relax and watch sunsets.

The great ''hockey building''.

The city offers huge malls really close from residential areas.

The country of Kiffissia still has a royal family like in england, and they still live in they're castle wich was built around 1450 on the side of Mt- Royal.

Once again, the Olympic park and all its fancy hotels.

The view from a rich man's pool livin in the hills.

Central Kiffissia's subway map ( before the olympics )

Sattelite view of the city.

[natedoggg 0]

As you can see the arrival of the olympics has helped the expansion of the city =D 

[selekt 0]

wow....sick city!

[selekt 0]

i like the wide roads and the boats in harbour/river mouth.

Also...what is on top of the mountain peak? Is it a radio tower? I could not find any tower like structures in Cities XL 2009 and I haven't had a chance to explore 2011 yet. I was hoping there would be some radio/tv/cell towers available...whatever it is it looks wicked!

[selekt 0]

oh...i forgot....The Island too! looks so real!

[Damastius 5]

This feels so unbelievably realistic - and yet the city is so big. Great job!

[kinnoch 0]

Okay, well I am simply beyond words. It is people like yourself who leave everyone in awe, looking at their own cities, thinking "ummmmm, duhhh what next?"

[YannickSHE 0]

How did you continue building the city? I thought u lost your cities with the bug you had?

Anyhow, impressive work. Makes me wish the game would run smooth after 1M people. And I have the most powerful computer on the market.

[jazyje 1]

Wow -- maybe my cities will look this good in 1 year of playing CXL...

I doubt it though!!!!

[natedoggg 0]

Yannickmtl: Hello .... i had another file of my city less advanced but still i could restart from there !

Wich computer are u using !? because i dont have too much troubles playin a 2.5 M city ...maybe u have something wrong

Anyways ....are u from Montreal ecause ur names ends with mtl ..... because i am from montreal !

[YannickSHE 0]

I'm using a 2 week old, brand new computer I just bought.

Windows 7, Gateway DX 4840, Intel R Core TM i5 CPU, 650@3.20GHz, 6.00GB Memory, 64-bit Operating System.

I hope I didn't buy a *****ty computer!!! lol ... 2 weeks ago I bought it.

CitiesXL runs very fine, don't get me wrong, but after 1-1.5M people in a city, it starts to lag a little bit and the auto save makes the city crash also sometimes. When I zoom out my city to the highest, the clouds or whatever is there makes my city freeze also. I play on highest settings. When I zoom in, or when I play around the city, it's usually fine.

I'm from Montreal, lived there 12 years, I'm originally from Sherbrooke. But I'm in Toronto since 3 years now. Just never changed my username.

[DARKO 3]

I wish those color tones and contrast were what the game looked like. Really nice.

[YannickSHE 0]

It does looked like that when you play with the night/day cycle.

[natedoggg 0]

UPDATE 3 COMING :

-Kiffissia suburbs

-The chinatown

-The Kiffissia marina

-Some night shots.

Also for this updates : a closer look to Central Kiffissia (downtown) 

[natedoggg 0]

There is also an OPEN POLL about my city .

I decided to let you guys decide the fate of ''Kiffissia south island'' ....

Kiffissia south island is just south of the main core of the city,it is pretty big and the terran is not flat at all but that could be arranged , it has been saved since the creation of the city as a national park until now .....

The mayor and its population decided to do something with this island .

-Here is the question .....u guys will be able submit a project idea to the mayor (me)  

What should we do about Kiffissia south Island ?

[Jesse Swiss 6]

Leisure island with lots of malls sports and cultural leisure, maybe even a separate CBD , IDK just a suggestion

[Damastius 5]

If you hadn't had airports yet i would say to build an airport on the island - but now I think a blueprint + rich homes + office area would fit the best

[jazyje 1]

Honestly, i think setting it aside for a park is pretty cool. I love cities with large open space areas for everyone to enjoy. Otherwise, a resort of sorts would be nice as well...

[Jesse Swiss 6]

Yeah i think you're right, maybe put some recreational areas for the tourists to enjoy