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[Drack 616]

 

thank you airman15 for this baby.

 

Looks like i'll be staying with the lot editor a little longer than expected.

[T Wrecks 10,210]

Looks like i'll be staying with the lot editor a little longer than expected.

Story of my life, bro.

[nos.17 5,247]

Look for this on the STEX soon! Just putting on the finishing touches.

 

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[cardiomonkey 32]

Look for this on the STEX soon! Just putting on the finishing touches.

 

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Wow, that is going to be really popular.

A massive retail park is definitely needed. 

[timmie 988]

Progress! My capital is expanding. Click here for the original image!

 

[Ke|is 3,337]

I really like to see my building there, I think that is a very good location for it

[T Wrecks 10,210]

I especially dig that highway bridge and the massive planned suburb next to the stadium! Aren't those the old SFBT lots with StephenHH's houses?

[timmie 988]

Yep, that's them. I did change them from R$ to R$$, though, because I have the impression that a lot of Germans live in houses like that, and not only poor people, but also people from the (lower?) middle class.

[T Wrecks 10,210]

Yes, I'd say this impression is correct. Actually, it's not so much linked to the type of house (apartment buildings like these are VERY common in German suburbs), but more to the a ea they're located in, and to their state of (dis)repair. Many older blocks get refurbished, receive new balconies and a fresh paint job, and you'd hardly recognise them if you knew their original state. Some others are located at less desirable spots and not in best shape - those would be closer to R$ speaking in SimCity terms.

[BLANKBLANK 4,414]

Look for this on the STEX soon! Just putting on the finishing touches.

 

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My only complaint would be it's not modular. That's the great thing about your relots is that you can add other lots to them and make it seamless.

[Haljackey 17,387]

High elevation city I'm working on with farms starting to surround it

 

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...And what the heck, a few more pics because why not

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'll build a real airport here, eventually

[europe.au 13]

High elevation city I'm working on with farms starting to surround it

 

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...And what the heck, a few more pics because why not

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'll build a real airport here, eventually

Dem Qantas A380s doe xD

Why not use the World Travel replacement? I think it makes a better fit than the bulkier A380s.

[airman15 4,113]

 

thank you airman15 for this baby.

 

Looks like i'll be staying with the lot editor a little longer than expected.

Looking great, Drack! And i'm really happy you enjoy the 707! It seems like the 707 never really got treated fairly SimCity, with all of the mods trying to replace it (I know i'm guilty of the same thing).

 

 

Dem Qantas A380s doe xD

Why not use the World Travel replacement? I think it makes a better fit than the bulkier A380s.

 

 

Actually, I tried to scale it as close to Srainy's A380 as possible. The problem is the Maxis airfields are ridiculously small. The dimensions for each tile is 16 square meters and the large international airport by Maxis is 35 tiles with the actual runways being 31 tiles.

 

That equates to 496 meters of runway length and for the record, the world's shortest runway is 396 meters. Let alone what the accurate size for the A380 is supposed to be, an A380 will never fit on the largest airport Maxis had to offer. 

[SharkSark 397]

 

Well it's my first time experimenting with railroads and seawalls any suggestions to fill up those empty rail tracks ?

[T Wrecks 10,210]

Why not try rsc204's recently published MMP rail cars?

[SharkSark 397]

Thank you well i had no idea there was something like rail car mmps available

[Chesh 173]

[matias93 7,535]

On 16/1/2015 at 9:03 AM, Sexysark:P said:

Well it's my first time experimenting with railroads and seawalls any suggestions to fill up those empty rail tracks ?

I'm not sure from who or where, but I've using some SFBT lots with containers and oil tanks. I'll upload a screenshot, maybe somebody recognizes it, and helps you.

EDIT: I've taken the screenshots:

  Edited August 3, 2017 by matias93  
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[TPB 563]

Howdy all!

 

Last few days I've been actually playing some towns to try and learn how to make the game work and get my towns flourishing. 

 

I kept having problems with unemployment, commute time, abandonment and low demand. After some reading around I realized it all had something to do with both the way I was laying out my towns and networks and the fact that my whole region had been built without much knowledge of the game mechanics so all my demand was kind of screwed up.

 

So I started afresh in an awesome region called Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, by drunkapple, which I find just stunning, and it is also huge which will give me plenty of room for massive fun, HA!

 

I also reinstalled the NAM with full customization options, which allowed me to discover I could select from different setting for mass transit usage and road capacity! Awesome. I am now using european mass transit usage and medium road carrying capacity, with great results, as you can see below in the bus usage image. This also probably had a great impact on commute time and therefore unemployment and abandonment, I am sure. Now some might consider this cheating, but for me this is actually more realistic, I still get traffic issues but they are now easier to solve. I should mention that I greatly improved my knowledge of optimal bus stop placement from lengthy experimentations with traffic query tool.

 

I want to keep my regions relatively free of pollution and stimulate high tech as much as possible, while developing and maintaining a farm based industrial sector, for the most part. I want urban centers to be compact and efficient so as to not mar the landscape. So to achieve this I tax dirty industry 20% from the very beginning, while lowering all types of commerce to 8.5%. I also make sure there is a school and library from the start to optimize education and get them high tech coming to town. Clinic, police and firemen are there too.

 

My ultimate aim is to develop everything without using any money cheats and I will possibly post about that in the future but for now I had to cheat in 1 million for the rail and highway network contruction, mainly due to heavy use of monorail for smooth slope forming.

 

Anyway, without further ado.. here are some pics.

 

 (I seem to have forgotten query tool on, so pardon the forest queries lol)

 

Tile Overview

 

 

 

Town Overview

 

 

 

Industry side

 

 

Farm Side

 

 

Pure High Tech

 

 

 

 

Neighborhoods

 

 

 

Town Center

 

 

 

Bus Routes (photoshopped to show a couple of roads' data)

 

 

 

Traffic

 

 

 

Health

 

 

 

Education

 

 

Demand

 

[Chesh 173]

[SimEMS38 246]

Currently laying down the groundwork for a massive national cemetery. This will eventually cover a little under half of a large city tile situated just north of the main city in my region. Got plenty left to do!!

 

[cardiomonkey 32]

Currently laying down the groundwork for a massive national cemetery. This will eventually cover a little under half of a large city tile situated just north of the main city in my region. Got plenty left to do!!

 

 

That is a lot of dead sims, but they died in honour!

[Huston 5,799]

Well, if you hadn't already seen it before, I'm undertaking a mini-project for ME:TMW. A single update that covers a small portion of Vancouver in the year 2186. Full custom content - most of them of which I'm making from scratch

 

 

Made a couple of BATs that are a WIP...

 

[SAVAGExPHOENIX 955]

You better release those BATs. If they're unfinished, release the 3D models, because I'll sure as hell finish em! They're beautiful, Huston!

[tankmank 853]

A hospital i have lot edited for my future South East Asian city that i am currently building. 

 

 

 

There are more cars in the car parks but i think they are timed props. 

[Moerp 449]

I hope this town will look good with this interchange

 

[cardiomonkey 32]

I hope this town will look good with this interchange

 

NIce interchange

 

Is that based on something in Germany?

[Moerp 449]

 

I hope this town will look good with this interchange

 

NIce interchange

 

Is that based on something in Germany?

 

Not really. I saw something similiar in the forums and thought, it would suit a german city pretty well. But interchanges of such size are quite rare. You can find similiar systems probably in new built ringways ("Umgehungsstraßen").

 

I found something comparable near Chemnitz:

 

 

A ringroad meets an interregional road ("Bundesstraße"). It's not exactly the same system though. Also these roads have more tracks than the one I used in my version.

[TPB 563]

 Ever since I came back to Simcity 4 late last year I've been searching and testing in my quest for that specific look and feel I want to achieve in my regions.

 

Having a lousy Intel HD Graphics onboard video controller doesnt help either, as I can't use any of the wonderful new HD content.

 

After playing with Columbus terrain and trees for a while, last night I thought I'd take the terrain horse for a ride again and started trying options I had overlooked last time around.

 

This is what I've achieved after a day of tinkering, all images taken on 1st Sept SimDate just after planting forest.

 

 

 

 

I must say I REALLY like this, probably not everyone's cup of tea, but wow, just wow. Compared to anything else I had achieved, this is just pure awesome.

 

This is the Cascadia Tree Controller and CPT Meadowshire Terrain Mod, along with RVT Coastal Mod.

 

I've tweaked the Terrain Parameters exemplar extensively to get the right amount of snow for this region, as well as adjusting Water settings in various ways.

 

The Estuary

 

 

The Bay

 

 

The Vale

 

 

Coastline Detail

 

 

 

 

You wouldn't believe how happy I am right now lol.

 

Now, how long do you think it will take me to plant this whole region with trees? Weeks I wager, I so wish there was a tool to auto-plant whole tile to max capacity easily..

 

 

Done two tiles out of......

 

 

 

13x13 Large tiles..... *gulp* 169.... eew. Wow see you in 2020. Ha.

 

Anyway, hope you enjoyed the pictures, cheers.

 

 

by the way, that's  Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky region if you were wondering.

[Huston 5,799]

Wow. That's a rather ambitious undertaking. I can only imagine the lag as you place the trees Beautiful work though.