My Cities: Skylines CJ Scrapbook -- The Night Cometh...

[watercitymadero 805]

Yo quiero vivir ahi, que bonito que es!

 

how beautiful! 

 

 

 

Emmanuel.

[iviaarten 534]

Lovely update as always. I very much like the pictures with the observatory hill in the background. It's amazing.

 

I see a car park I recognize

About the tourism values; I removed them from the carpark to help with the commercial demand thingy. If you've installed the commercial demand fix, you can load the car park up in the asset editor and increase the tourism and entertainment values again.

You won't see that car park completely filled up though. I ran into the 64/64 prop limit way before I could add functional parking for all those spots. I guess the 8x8 lot is just too big if you want more functional spots. Might have to go for a 4x8 for better effect.

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Replies:

 

feyss: Talos is there to protect the lumber yards from pirates and invaders.

 

Vitor13: Thanks a lot! Of course it's a lot more easier in this game to realistically carry out urban planning.

 

jesper107: Type in "medium 7x4 park with playground" in the Steam CS Workshop search and you should find the park. I would be more detailed but for some reason I can't view the rest of the mods on the Workshop.

 

89James89: Thanks. More often than not I tend to go for the low angled street level shots to capture a more immersive feel.

 

CDM Madero: You're welcome!

 

iviaarten: Tamboria's observatory on the hill is akin to the Hollywood sign overlooking Los Angeles. I always love the observatories constant prominence in the background. As for those carparks, well, I did some messing around in the asset editor- almost broke the game! So I will stick to downloading content instead.

 

 

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Entry 5, Strip Mining and a Quarry

 

Just South of Great Dun Fells suburb is a strip mining site hidden away from the rest of the city.

 

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The area is called Winfeld Levellers- named because of the mines stripping away the top soil to extract various ores.

 

 

 

 

 

The buildings of Winfeld Levellers are powered by their very own coal power station which exclusively generates electricity for this area.

 

 

 

 

One cool feature I noticed about the traffic is that it slows down when driving up steep slopes! This is especially so of trucks!

 

 

 

 

 

A closer look at one of the ore drilling machines.

 

 

 

Winfeld Pit. Over the years it has been steadily dug out.

 

 

 

 

Winfeld Pit has some steep slopes!

 

 

 

The CS developers really nailed those dirt / (brown rock) textures.

 

 

 

We're still in the centre of Winfeld Pit.

 

 

 

 

 

 

A teaser shot for the next entry- Downtown in Tamboria.

[iviaarten 534]

wow, I loved what you did with the mining operation. Really creative use of the landscape there.

 

Seeing it like this I think the industry buildings (especially for the mining industry) are a bit too clean in my opinion. I hope some modder does a nice retexture on those.

 

Altogether amazing update, and that teaser is making me look forwards to the next one already

[Vitoraju 675]

The Industrial districts very are beautiful xD

[Hamish 1,370]

Love this industrial district! 

And that teaser! Can't wait for the next update

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iviaarten: Thank you! I agree that the mining buildings could do with even more dirtier textures, but the actual drill lots without the buildings still look pretty awesome.

 

Vitor13: Thanks a lot.

 

Hamish: Oh, you will enjoy this update!

 

 

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Entry 6, Downtown in Tamboria

 

 

Located a kilometre away from the CBD, this downtown is still an impressive commercial hub.

 

 

 

The modded skyscrapers keep this game very fresh.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

High density commercial zones in this game seem to have a rather nice SC3000 feel to them.

 

 

 

I can't wait for more custom skyscrapers. Every day at least a couple more are uploaded onto the Steam Workshop!

 

 

 

 

These fearless Cims are having lunch on a rooftop devoid of safety railings. Wouldn't want a strong gust of wind coming now would we?

 

 

 

 

The sky's the limit.

 

 

 

 

Purple Haze Mall in the centre.

 

 

 

 

A glimpse of the Purple Haze Mall's car park.

 

 

 

Thanks to legalized marijuana laws these hemp plants can grow with impunity next to the Purple Haze Mall's car park. Here's a link if you want to download Shroomblaze's hemp plants- http://steamcommunity.com/id/shroomblaze/myworkshopfiles/?appid=255710.

 

 

 

 

New Millennium Church. 

 

 

 

The five-way, and higher, intersections are always good fun to look at.

 

 

 

Tamboria's Grand Aquarium.

 

 

 

 

The suburb East of Downtown.

 

 

 

It's called Cities Skylines for a reason you know.

 

 

 

 

 

 

How cool is this? A football pitch at last! Link right here- http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=409402809&searchtext=football.

 

 

 

And here is Downtown in relation to the rest of Tamboria.

 

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I hope you enjoyed this entry. During this week I'll be posting an entry every day so stay tuned for a lot more!

[iviaarten 534]

Wow, you've been busy

 

Starting to build up a nice collection of custom buildings already I see. The camera angles are awesome as usual.

 

ps. thanks for linking that football pitch. Instant subscribe from me.

[Vitoraju 675]

Great update, and beautiful city! What is the population does she have?

[The candy man 0]

This game looks hyper-awesome, i'm thinking of playing it.

[perken 1]

Great city, very inspiring! How is the traffic going given that the CBD is fairly far away from the highway? What roads are you using to feed into the main high-rise areas?

[Mymyjp 1,052]

Awesome entry and I did get that football field and it does look awesome in my city!

 

Btw, bowing to the King of industrial sector....your previous update was amazing!

[jesper107 113]

Purple Haze mall! Bwahahaha!

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iviaarten: This game is going to keep me busy for many months. Already I'm thinking about starting on a new map for next week!

 

Vitor13: About 80000 I think. I will check that the next time I go back to Tamboria.

 

The candy man: It is a very solid city simulator and if you get tired of the vanilla game then there are a whole ton of mods to make things interesting.

 

perken: It is surprisingly quiet in the CBD, most of the traffic jams come from the highway intersections and the industrial areas next to them, and even those traffic jams are nothing too serious. As for the roads I use a mixture of six-lane and four-lane avenues with a smattering of two-lane one way roads in the CBD, while two-lane roads make up the vast majority of roads in Tamboria.

 

Mymyjp: Thanks a bunch! There is even more industry in this update!

 

jesper107: Excuse me while I kiss the sky!

 

 

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Entry 7, Grungy Industry

 

In Simcity 4 one of my favourite things was to create industrial areas using a plethora of mods. I also enjoy creating industrial areas in Cities Skylines to and though the building diversity is more limited, there are enough filler mods, new custom buildings and core game options to keep industrial areas interesting.

 

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Tyler Estate, an industrial sector just east of Tamboria's CBD.

 

 

 

Tyler Estate has a variety of industries: tree farms, timbre processing, ore processing, oil extraction, oil refineries and a variety of other factories to producing an assortment of goods to be shipped to Tamboria's shops and beyond the city.

 

 

 

Power stations can be useful buildings for breaking the industrial monotony.

 

 

 

 

Another useful trick is to divide the industrial area into several different districts and assign them to generic, oil, ore or wood industries.

 

 

 

Using this method one can maximize the building variety in the core game.

 

 

 

Fillers from the Steam Workshop are another big help to. Not only do they remove monotonous buildings they contribute to storage space. Sure it isn't functional but it looks good visually.

 

 

 

The second major solar farm site in Tamboria.

 

 

 

Container yards, carparks, dirt and concrete fillers are suburb monotony busters of Cities Skylines industry.

 

 

 

But nothing can beat custom buildings!

 

 

 

Tyler Pit Museum was a former coal mine shaft, but then the company outsourced to another country and the Tamborian council eventually decided to turn this building into a museum.

 

 

 

An experimental microwave power generator.

 

 

 

 

 

 

A couple of trashy billboards just beyond Tyler Estate.

 

 

 

 

It's all about them fillers.

 

 

 

 

 

The interchanges look a little scatty because I try to maximize the traffic flow and thus reduce congestion.

 

 

 

 

 

A nodding donkey!

 

 

 

Just wait until mega industrial buildings are created and proper carparks, storage areas, warehouses, smokestacks, pipelines and canals- then I go truly OTT with the industry.

 

 

 

The tree farms of Tyler Estate.

 

 

 

 

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Tomorrow it is a roam around my favourite suburb- Great Dun Fells.

 

[Mr_Maison 2,426]

That suburb on the steep hillside going up to the Observatory... just WOW!

+1 to this......love those suburbs! Good Job!

[Haljackey 17,398]

Have you played GTA V? Your hillside oil wells and industrial sectors look a lot like what's in that game.

 

If not, you can always download the GTA V city on the Steam Workshop. It's worth checking out

 

 

As a side note, you should think about promoting your work on r/citiesskylines. Nearly 1 in 10 players are subscribed on that subreddit, and I think your work deserves to be shared there. It's that good!

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Have you played GTA V? Your hillside oil wells and industrial sectors look a lot like what's in that game.

 

If not, you can always download the GTA V city on the Steam Workshop. It's worth checking out

 

 

As a side note, you should think about promoting your work on r/citiesskylines. Nearly 1 in 10 players are subscribed on that subreddit, and I think your work deserves to be shared there. It's that good!

 

I'm going to do that. Right now! Question: how do you post an image on the thread thumbnail?

[Haljackey 17,398]

I'm going to do that. Right now! Question: how do you post an image on the thread thumbnail?

 

You'd have to link to the image directly. That means your submission would only be 1 pic.

-You can also make an imgur album of your photos, the first image would display as the thumbnail.

 

If you're going to link to this thread, I don't think there's a workaround, you'd get the ST spaceship .

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I'm going to do that. Right now! Question: how do you post an image on the thread thumbnail?

 

You'd have to link to the image directly. That means your submission would only be 1 pic.

-You can also make an imgur album of your photos, the first image would display as the thumbnail.

 

If you're going to link to this thread, I don't think there's a workaround, you'd get the ST spaceship .

 

 

I'll try out an imgur album instead!

[Vitoraju 675]

The industrial districts are very beautiful and realistic!       Seeing them gives an inspiration for my industrial zones *---*

[IL. 1,043]

Looks neat  

[MINIggy03 227]

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Thanks to legalized marijuana laws these hemp plants can grow with impunity next to the Purple Haze Mall's car park. Here's a link if you want to download Shroomblaze's hemp plants- http://steamcommunity.com/id/shroomblaze/myworkshopfiles/?appid=255710.

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That's hilarious, now all we need is a hemp industry specialization! (I bet that wouldn't be too difficult to mod in) 

 

Where did you get the purple haze mall?

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Replies:

 

Mr_Maison: Thanks a lot!

 

Haljackey: I really appreciate that comment, and thanks for the advice you gave to me about Reddit.

 

Vitor13: It's becoming more easier to create reasonably realistic industrial zones- the fillers are a big help. But the massive industrial buildings and complexes are still sorely missing. I'm sure modders will get onto these in the next couple of years.

 

IL.: Thank you

 

MiNIggy03: Actually there are growable hemp farms available on the Steam Workshop, they grow as part of the forestry industry. As for Purple Haze Mall, I found it here- http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=409615847&searchtext=.

 

 

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Entry 8: The Sun God and Railways

 

Using some mods to improve the image quality and also to alter the position of the Sun, I had a hell of a time taking pictures- even if my graphics card suffered. All the links to these relevant mods can be found at the very bottom of this entry.

 

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So for some reason the city always seems to be under a constant sunset. Wait a minute...

 

 

 

After travelling to the mysterious realm of Steam Workshop the mayor returned with new Godlike powers.

 

 

 

And he positioned the Sun upon its zenith and the Cims were all dumbstruck...

 

 

 

Leaving aside this vain mayor, it is so cool to move the Sun around ingame!

 

 

 

Using the Dynamic Resolution mod one can vastly increase the anti-aliasing and smooth out the pixels.

 

 

 

The sharper picture does emphasise the textures though.

 

 

 

It works wonders for far-distance pictures though.

 

 

 

Looking up from a backyard at the Life Tower smack in the middle of Tamboria's CBD.

 

 

 

At the top of the Life Tower.

 

 

 

With the latest patch it sorted out a cargo train station bug I was having, so with that fixed I decided to lay down a rudimentary railway network.

 

 

 

And now let's briefly follow this passenger train.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The offices in this game look pretty snazzy.

 

 

 

Let's go back to Lumber Sands where there are at last cargo stations to cater for all the wood and timber.

 

 

 

 

The mining site Winfeld Levellers is back there in the distance.

 

 

 

And a freight train stops to take delivery of various timbers and logs.

 

 

 

 

Thanks to the cargo station the forestry industry has expanded in Lumber Sands. With a demand for more workers this suburb sprung up South of Lumber Sands.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'm not sure if level crossings (railway crossing for all the non-Brits) came in the latest patch. Still there is one cool and realistic feature about them...

 

 

 

Both cars and pedestrians stop when the barriers go down!

 

 

 

Carparks and storage zones reside next to the hemp plantations.

 

 

 

There are so many industrial fillers available now on the Steam Workshop!

 

 

 

Yet another overview of Tamboria.

 

 

 

And a taste of what is to come with the new camera/image mods out there in the CS Steam Workshop- sun shafts!

 

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List of mods:

Dynamic Resolution- http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=406629464&searchtext=.

Ambient Occlusion- http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=410329674&searchtext=.

Sun Shafts- http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=410805639&searchtext=.

Sun Control v2- http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=408526547&searchtext=sun+control.

[TekindusT 3,809]

This CJ is seriously setting a new standard in C:S CJing! So much quality, so many experiments and so much intelligent use of the mods that constantly flood the STEX and the Workshop!

[iviaarten 534]

Love the look of that forestry area, it's amazing, especially in the close ups

[Vitoraju 675]

I loved the photos you took at interesting angles, they are beautiful... I say the same for your town that is simply wonderful! ^^

[Indagroove 0]

Wow is that one large city. Would love to see a traffic overhead.

 

Going to have to get that sun positioning mod and the high resolution mod.

 

Great job.

[Hamish 1,370]

Wow, I love the contrast between each area in the city, which is shown in the last few updates. The quarry and the industrial zones are great because they're themed really well and has a different atmosphere from the cleaner city center. Really enjoying this CJ.

[mb1.0.2 193]

Those two sun mods are excellent...nice find! Can't wait to check them out. This is, for me, the go-to Cities: Skylines City Journal. You're a constant source of inspiration. Loving what you're doing with the vanilla game and the mods. Beautiful stuff.

[switchkeys 8]

love this city, especially the mine and i have to try out those sun mods