The City Journals

[Evillions 552]

There's something about the City Journals that just somewhat bugs me.

Every CJ I visit, its always about some European or American region. In some cases when an author tries a different style, it has to be a very clean, rich region without any slums.

Why is that???

[Sky Guy 163]

I think part of it might be the city planners in all of us. It is easier and what we have been taught all our lives to "build clean wealthy, eco-friendly cities. I try to make poor cities for my cities, but I have to catch myself sometimes too.

There has been a lot of successful poor CJ with slums and dirt, but why I haven't seen that many recently? I have no idea.

[DCMetro34 576]

I've contemplated doing something like you say... but one thing is, there is just simply more custom content out there for the "wealthier" cities than the slums. In my opinion, it also takes more work to make a really good "grimy" city, but maybe that's just me.

[Kifflom112 355]

Look at Tekindus Ghetto or New York Brooklyn Update or Selbring, you just need to search. As the maker of an upcoming CJ I do not want a lot of grimy low wealth. Here is the reason why.

I've been looking up the flora and the styles of building on the southeast near Raleigh and Charlotte. They are very clean cities, but have their bad side, but I want to make my CJ after it. I personally will like to add a run down area sort of north of downtown, but I want to be building precise and kind of upscale. Why? I just want to have a medium cookie cutter suburb city with some style to it do not want to build a very poor run down city.

Why American? I find building American in SC4 with mods is the most easy, yet fun(to me) way of building. I just like the way America plans and I don't plan on making UK or German cities.

You just need to search there are Asian and ghetto CJ's, lots of them.

[Evillions 552]

All of you bring up good points or plausible opinions.

1. Its true, you find much more wealthy, clean buildings out there than dirty buildings. From my BAT experience, getting that dirty texture look is pretty hard to do.

2. Again, with the less content for run-down buildings, you do have to use what you have. In most cases, that is rather difficult to do with the lot editor.

3. With all of the similar styled custom-content, its easier to create an American city or European city. Since this game is based off American cities, its much easier to create those types of cities.

4. There are less city journals out there with great quality within each update. Like Zulu brought up, Selbring and Ghetto Stories are perfect examples. Its just that there are coming less common these days.

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Really, I have no problem with wealthy, upscale downtowns. Hell, I build downtowns like that too, but I realized that I should branch out and try different styles. In essence, it becomes repetitive when EVERYONE builds upscale downtownsOVER and OVER and OVER again.

  Edited October 6, 2011 by Evillions  

[x493x 446]

I think it's just what we like. If you could draw a car would you draw an old junker or a Ferrari. Probably the Ferrari because it's what we dream of and want. You make what you want unless you're doing a re-creation.

[DCMetro34 576]

We can talk about cities in general, but there also CJs that have small towns and rural areas and are more about "painting the terrain". There have been some really great ones in the past, and these days there are some like Paeng's that still do that style, but it's less common to see those also.

I have been doing that style for the last couple of updates in my CJ, or trying to. There are so many different combos when it comes to rural CJing, as well. There is a ton of content out there, and you can put it together in practically any way you like.