Forkton - Update #24.1 - Work work, and some inspiration maybe

[TheX 2]

This is honestly one of the best cities i have ever seen.

[liberto 0]

Now that's what I call a good looking city! I really love the real look&feel you've put in it! 

 

One question though: do you have any particular trick to have parallel roads? (especially the curved ones)

 

Edit: oh, and another one: maybe I've missed it, but what map are you playing on?

[Benedict 3,119]

Nice work, you're number one on BTT again.

[iviaarten 534]

Replies:

 

89James89: It can never hurt to experiment to find what works. I just tend to bulldoze when I find out what works though to try to make it look good. I'm leaving the overflow around for a bit, it sort of suits the area

Schulmanator: Thanks!

NorthStars: Thanks, I try to keep my interchanges somewhat realistic glad it shows.

charlesnew: I have some updates on it in this post

max_13: Yeh, I'm leaving the little flood for now. Not sure what I'll end up doing with it yet.

Carnivorus: Welcome to Simtropolis, hope you enjoy your stay. Looking forward to seeing your own updates as well.

Mymyjp: Yep, steadily expanding. I've decided to keep the monument. Tell me what you think

Ultimate727: What do you think after this update?
tankmank: Bit more time between updates this time

TheX: Thanks for your kind words.

liberto: I normally use the freeform tool for my roads. It helps to draw both lanes from the same direction initially, and then reversing direction on one of them later. The map I made myself. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=413802816

Benedict: Wow, was sure that I was going to drop this week

 

 

 

Today's mods:

 

Star of today's show is the Waterfront Walkway by Tair: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=422857990

 

 

Update:

I've been quite busy with work lately, and have been a bit tired. So instead of playing I've been watching some let's play stuff on youtube to relax. It gave me some ideas though. Feeling a bit more rested, I went back to playing again today, which mean.. I have an update

 

 

Forkton is doing well. There's more tourists arriving every day, people are feeling good, have jobs, and spare money to spend. The 'Church of Prosperity', a rather odd organization to be totally frank, has decided to build a cathedral in Forkton. They decided to plant it right in the middle of the Fork. It was drawing loads of visitors. I haven't seen many people enter though, most are just taking pictures of the outside. This basically kickstarted the development of the whole area, now called 'the Finger'.

 

 

 

We decided to let the church keep the tip of the Finger, since they sort of started the whole deal. The entire Finger was surrounded by a nice walkway.

 

 

 

The people seem to enjoy looking over the busy Portside and the docks.

 

 

 

The whole area is rather upper class. There are plenty of plaza's and a brand new (really expensive) mall.

 

 

 

Since there were tourists around, an aquarium was built here as well, right across from the main park area.

 

 

 

People were quick to move in as well.

 

 

 

Along with shops, offices and services.

 

 

 

It has a rather modern feel to it.

 

 

 

That building sure is pretty.

 

 

 

Some private parking for the cardinals....

 

 

 

 

A small fair, it's called Fingertip Fair for obvious reasons.

 

 

 

OOC: I love the 'accidental symmetry' in the buildings in this picture

 

 

 

The Finger has its own ferry terminal.

 

 

 

It fits!

 

 

 

Overview of the area from the Portside bridge

 

 

 

Speaking of bridges; The farmers from Otherside were complaining that it took then way too long to get their goods over to other locations. We've added a few new bridges to accommodate them.

 

You can see the new Forkton bridge from the Spoon:

 

 

 

This one was high enough for the ferries on the first try!

 

 

 

A smaller bridge was built to give a direct connection from Otherside to the Furnace.

 

 

 

Anyways, it's been a memorable day. Forkton has officially passed the 100.000 residents mark. Crazy stuff.

[BLANKBLANK 4,414]

Great pictures but awful entry title.

[iviaarten 534]

Great pictures but awful entry title.

 

Hmz, I guess you might be correct. Seemed funny at the time, but I guess it could hurt people's feelings. I'll change it, since I don't want that.

[Haljackey 17,392]

I lobe that boardwalk! I hate to be a bother but can I ask for a link to where you got it if its not too much trouble?

 

Edit: See it at the top of your post. Gah lol.

  Edited April 12, 2015 by Haljackey  

[Balthoraz 178]

Really good! I love that broadwalk, I do not used already.

 

By the way, have you tried to place broadwalk one each other without spaces in the middle? I guess they work similar as ferry and cargo docks.

[charlesnew 262]

Holy moly! Finally! We can make waterfront walkways!

[Mymyjp 1,052]

Love what you ended up doing...and the boardwalk is really a nice find!!!!

The park area is very well done as well.

 

Another excellent entry and congratz on hitting 100,000 cims!

[max_13 128]

Ah, the waterfront walkway is awesome. I thought about doing a spotlight for this asset, but I figured you guys would see it anyway as it was a top post on reddit. Great use, also I really like what you did to the area around the citadel/cathedral thingy.

[SimWarrior 10]

Oooh waterfronts!!! Holy smokes, cities are about to get a ton prettier!

[Dazzyls 576]

I take back what I said last update. The finger looks cool! Great update!

[NorthStars 66]

I just put my house up for sale... I'm moving to Forkton!!

[Luiz P. Romanini 132]

A good mayor gives the Finger to the people

 

Great update!

[Sanshy6544 42]

Great stuff as usual :-)

[Carnivorus 19]

Awesome update. The waterfront sure brings some ideas to my mind
Also your accidential symmetry looks awesome. Everything fits just perfect in your build

[89James89 1,169]

Looks gorgeous. Loving the use of the boardwalks and the cathedral looks lovely!

 

All the dense highrises make it look like a nice looking Manhattan (or something along them lines)

 

Cheers

 

James

[iviaarten 534]

Replies:

 

Haljackey; yay reading

Balthoraz: yeh, this was as close as I could get them. When you have some slight curves as well it only makes it worse.

In the end I decided to treat them as stairs that people who fell from the boardwalk or ships can use to get back on shore

charlesnew: yes, that was exactly my thought when I saw these

Mymyjp: thanks. Yeh, it didn't turn out  too badly

max_13: thanks, I just had to play with them as soon as I found them, and the finger was the perfect place for it. Now we have to wait for decent canals

Simwarrior: yep!

Ultimate727: hehe, thanks I guess the area just had to grow into the cathedral

NorthStars: Feel free, I can always use more tax payers!

Luiz P. Romanini: That was pretty close to my original entry title, but decided against it....

Sansha: thanks

Carnivorus: thanks. I'm looking forward to seeing them pop up in other CJ's

89James89: a nice looking Manhattan... that actually sounds pretty good!

 

Not really update time:

 

work has been busy lately, just got home at around 21:00, so I can't show you an update.

 

However, I did managed to shoot some nice pictures during a project visit I did today, which seemed to fit in some way. I'm pretty bummed out the last panorama shot got completely overexposed, so much so, that even with photo editing I can't really make much more of it. I might mess around a bit more with it later, but I'll just post them.

 

Click the panorama shots for the larger version

 

Bad picture quality is from a phone camera, and me being a bit shaky standing on some scaffolding a LONG way from the ground (or river more accurately).

 

 

 

We need BIG lifting bridges in this game. Both lifting bridge decks are the size of a football field, and weigh in at around 5 million kg.

 

 

Here are the panorama shots from way up.

 

 

and the sadly overexposed one:

 

[Dazzyls 576]

I love Rotterdam, but I don't know where those picures are taken. I guess it's very far away from the city centre. Is this on the south side of Rotterdam? Hollands Diep etc. or is that river some other river? I think it's not the Maas, but it could be.

 

EDIT: I discoverd that if you look at the  first panorama, you can see most the few skyscrapers of the netherlands just above that highway on the left.

[Mymyjp 1,052]

I still like this entry!!!

Take care and I will catch up with your journal upon my return!

[Benedict 3,119]

Well done, you're number one again on BTT.

[akot378 0]

Amazing CJ! I have started reading yesterday and completed all 9 pages. Truly inspiring!!

Congrats on hitting 100k! 

[mutton noir 170]

Enjoying your journal, some great layouts throughout your city

[Monteiro 2]

This is my first post in this forum and i will only do it because of this city.

 

Its the most amazing looking city I ever saw, great job and I hope you keep posting updates.

 

Maybe someday i will have the patience and creativity to do a city that is half as good as yours

[Dyas 37]

wow, finally finished all 9 pages. i read slow. So, you are so good at roads because you do it for a living? Curious now that you posted those RL pics. I want to start a CJ now that I got the game. I plan on A: Streaming my gameplay, and than B: posting pictures with link to the VOD if you want to watch. Currently I'm trying to unlock all the buildings though by ruining some cities.

 

If you want to record video I recomend OBS.

https://obsproject.com/

 

You don't have to stream, it can be local record. I do stream to twitch, and twitch can link to youtube fore easy upload.

 

How to help configure OBS

https://obsproject.com/estimator

 

EDIT:

I bet that would look great in your city. I do not know if you have scene it yet.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=429965889

[LlamaDeluxe 0]

Love this CJ. Eagerly awaiting the next update (been too long!)

[akot378 0]

No new updates?