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[Dreadnought 8,231]

WORK IN PROGRESS --

THE JADE BIGHT II

WILHELMSHAVEN SOUTH:

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Yo, guys --

The Last of the shots from the Rhinenbach Island Recreational Complex -- as promised.

Just across the pedestrian bridge from the island, we find the public boat landing -- which is nestled beneath the pub on the hilltop.  The landing is small, mainly because the water is shallow here, and the bridges to the east restrict water traffic to boats with shorter masts or none at all.  "Day Trippers" can drive in and park -- or the "boaters" can tie up at the landing.  Up one flight of SimCoug's stairs and you find yourself at terrace level with an outdoor cafe where you can get a sandwich and a pint.  Go up another level and you can enjoy the amenities at The Yorkshire Gray pub.  Each to one's own budget.

 

Here is a detail shot -- which shows both my skills -- and my lack thereof. 

 

Sadly, I have not been blessed with "bat" skills the likes of @mattb325 or @Simmer2 , so my talent lies in taking the hard work of others and putting it together in pleasing or innovative arrangements.  I do pride myself on my landscaping -- and the occasional re-lot of work by more talented members.  But I could do nothing if others had not made the original lots and props.  Therefore, as already pointed out in the previous discussions today, it is worth noting their tireless contributions to the community. 

I do hound "Simmer2" a bit about some pet projects I would like to see -- but it is NOT meant in any mean-spirited way.  I simply prefer to make the occasional "nudge" at his elbow and drop the odd hint -- rather than resort to outright begging and groveling.  Please do not -- anyone -- allow me to detract from the pleasure you derive from your chosen hobby. 

And PLEASE do continue the contributions that bring SO MUCH pleasure to the community as a whole.

Thank you for listening to my little speech. 

Contributions will be accepted at the door as you leave. 

MERRY CHRISTMAS ! 

[The British Sausage 5,449]

Yet more gridbusting, MMP work and rural scenes!

 

The circular fields (created by dedgren (Three Rivers Region)) can be found here- https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/index.php?topic=5603.0.

I presume you must be a member of SC4D to access the above link.

Enjoy the goodies!

[Krasner 1,062]

Slowly making progress on this...

[kschmidt 6,220]

Vienna Kultur CJ Out Now !

Today I publshed the next chapter in the ANNO Europe CJ series !

Enjoy !

[monkeywater 910]

Hub city of a new region.  Still working on transit network.  Huge amounts of pedmall, underground bypass highways, underground rail,

[kschmidt 6,220]

5 hours ago, monkeywater said:

Hub city of a new region.  Still working on transit network.  Huge amounts of pedmall, underground bypass highways, underground rail,

Old russsian university maybe enough ! Sc4 transport network mostly based on road traffic, I read somewhere it could be except for automata couold be adjusted to rail, subway, bus but haven´t found any answer ? This supposed to be a super high dense city it may, make shure there enough leisure, museums, parks around beside public services ! If road traffic isn´t avoiable I should at least have some avenue´´s or space for wide boulevard´s available !

 

[matias93 7,535]

Sorry for my modding clumsiness, but I don't know how to move a comment from a CJ entry to a forum thread. Help, @Cyclone Boom (?)

Anyway, this was originally posted by @tariely and I think it's a beautiful work:

been (not grandly but doggedly) busy with the Parks & Plazas Paths project, Flagstone Edition 1, now complete.

Narrow paths  (NB : there are several 2x2 big curve because I am experimenting with the lamp posts' placement)

wide paths :

  

plazas-parks (with some of CARCH splendid fountains)

I think I found a way to light fountains without the damn offset Fountain effect :

And I managed to use very few (for me) deps !!!

[Fantozzi 4,068]

Truck Stop.

[matias93 7,535]

Once again, a thing I didn't know I needed.

[art128 4,622]

Someone give a medal to that diagonal DHL truck driver. 

[Tyberius06 12,263]

@Fantozzi

....and where is the DOWNLOAD buttom???!!!! 

Very nice work, I like it!

- Tyberius

@art128 I think that manageable, I couldn't do that, but an experienced truck driver easily!  One lamp post here or there doesn't matter!

[Darrius11able 728]

Latest development of my region. Just mainly been working on farmlands and different ways of transportation.

[Fantozzi 4,068]

38 minutes ago, art128 said:

Someone give a medal to that diagonal DHL truck driver. 

After driving for 6 hours he had an urgent need. This need gave him (his truck) wings.

 

@Simmer2

If you would judge on the soccer player Ronaldo by only reading comments in social media and never watch him play - you would be convinced he is unable to play the ball at all and even can't walk upright. But most of us won't judge him by comments on the web. Most of us will judge him by the delight he did gave to us while watching. And the same with you. In the forums I might say - you could do this better, you might change that. But this doesn't correspond to the fun I have by playing with your stuff. The fun you gave to me - that's something that remains invisible.  It's only a shadow - people talking a lot, criticize a lot. It's like the fun you gave to people throwing that shadow on public area. Don't judge your work by this shadow.  The more important your work is the bigger its shadow will be. The better you do, the more critics there will be.

[11241036 5,115]

This is a city I've been working on the past weeks. As you can see, the terrain is quite challenging, especially since I usually adapt to the terrain if possible. I've been trying to create some dense W2W development at the lower part of the city. This is still a WIP, particularly there are many empty spots which need to be filled and I don't feel like flooding everything with forests. Hope you like it.

[tariely 4,499]

5 hours ago, Fantozzi said:

Truck Stop

 

@fantozzi : there are somewhat modular truck stops (Paeng, randyE) but this one is even sexier (and has a smaller footprint than either.) Where IS the DL button ?! 

[f3cs 1,063]

I've been working in this interchange.

What do you think about it?

[mattb325 28,891]

so many time...so little stations. wait...scratch that and reverse it....

It isn't modded yet - the 'hole' will be able to take any type of 15m elevated network...

[Terring 6,476]

Very nice building. You said "any type"? Does this include elevated roads? That would be cool.

[mattb325 28,891]

^^ Yep, it sure does.

This, and the last building will take any 15m network. I'm not sure I will release the lots with these variations, but here you can see an elevated road and an elevated highway...not sure what purpose they would serve apart from novelty...

[matias93 7,535]

First: simply beautiful building, particularly the nightlighting!!!

About the usage of viaduct roads, they can be very useful if you have a BRT network in your city. It's not the most elegant transit solution but, hey, it works!

[nycsc4 5,250]

4 hours ago, mattb325 said:

^^ Yep, it sure does.

This, and the last building will take any 15m network. I'm not sure I will release the lots with these variations, but here you can see an elevated road and an elevated highway...not sure what purpose they would serve apart from novelty...

Must have!  Not really even for the station or elevated capacity.  I just love the design.  Would fit very will in my city.

Here are a few new photos from the second quadrant of Downtown Vancouver.  My map split the peninsula into 4 sections.  Just reconstructed this entire section and added new zoning.  Instead of a plopped district with no population like it was before, it's now home to over 46,000 sims and over 32,000 jobs.  The marina is the second part of the Coal Harbour Marina and the forest visible in some of the photos is part of Stanley Park.

Daytime shot:

Thanks!

[Terring 6,476]

@mattb325 and @matias93: That's right, an elevated bus stop. We don't have a lot of them, and having some cars going through a building looks so cool.

@nycsc4: That's a very nice city you have there

[AsimPika3172 1,155]

Nice buildings, marines etc... Keep moving forward, @nycsc4 !

[f3cs 1,063]

I want to implement a new rapid transit corridor in the biggest highway of the city/region. It will be rail, and will be in the east riverside.

I just want you to decide for me, Rail or GLR? Of course there will be different stations then a normal GLR (They don't have enough complexity for prepayment), but it will be something more like a Surface Metro.

 

Example of the real thing

Trying to copy it!

[RobertLM78 1,598]

18 minutes ago, f3cs said:

Rail or GLR?

Depends... if you're planning to connect to other cities, Rail, if it's just local, then GLR

 

[nycsc4 5,250]

19 minutes ago, f3cs said:

I want to implement a new rapid transit corridor in the biggest highway of the city/region. It will be rail, and will be in the east riverside.

I just want you to decide for me, Rail or GLR? Of course there will be different stations then a normal GLR (They don't have enough complexity for prepayment), but it will be something more like a Surface Metro.

 

Example of the real thing

You want to use rail.  LRT (or GLR in SimCity) is meant for dense urban corridors with lots of people.  Since you're talking about building in a freeway corridor you want to use rail with a fair amount of space between stops.  It's not going to be very walkable either, being in a freeway zone, so you'll want to have parking nearby so sims will actually use it too.

[f3cs 1,063]

Well, I would have something like 2 or 3 stations per "city" tile. I still not developed the whole freeway, in the end it should have something like 24-30 km long. I think the Thing about GLR and some rail stations is that they don't seem like to have things that a rapid transit station should have.

[matias93 7,535]

12 minutes ago, f3cs said:

I would have something like 2 or 3 stations per "city" tile

Then rail, without doubt. It's cheaper, more flexible, easier to create transit hubs for. Maybe the only downside is the issue with subterranean sections of you also want to move freight, because that limits you to straight maxis tunnels.

[tariely 4,499]

Still lotting on. Now 2x2 fountain plazas with NBC's pretty modern fountains -- to go modular with 1x1 paths similarly overlaid. And still very few deps ! 

 

[nycsc4 5,250]

1 hour ago, f3cs said:

Well, I would have something like 2 or 3 stations per "city" tile. I still not developed the whole freeway, in the end it should have something like 24-30 km long. I think the Thing about GLR and some rail stations is that they don't seem like to have things that a rapid transit station should have.

Well GLR by it's definition isn't rapid transit.  It generally runs in streets or at grade and runs around the same speed as traffic.  Both in game and in real life.  Most of the GLR stations for SimCity have much of the same features as real life light rail stations.  Rapid transit is more heavy rail, subway, elevated trains, etc.  Those stations tend to have turnstiles, are bigger and many times have intersecting modes.  If you're only looking to add two or three stations per tile then go with heavy rail.  But if you're looking for turnstiles and other types of fare control, I wouldn't hold your breath, I don't know of too many SC4 stations that have those features.  I also recommend getting the RTMT which adds some multimodal functionality with the GLR/Bus/Subway (if you haven't already).  There is also a Bullet Train Mod that's part of the NAM and a High Speed Rail Mod (those may be the same thing now, I'm not sure, I've never used either).

Tl;dr.  You have lots of options, but you probably want heavy rail.  Use that for long distance and connect with with GLR lines in your denser city neighborhoods if you're looking for a multi-modal solution.