Welcome to Freeport

[oroen 0]

This continues to look great. Nicely done with Six Flags Freeport, and I like all the little custom BAtted stuff.

[UrbanSprawl 5]

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[Alkaola 18]

what the heck !!! where you got that neat stuff from !!! those rollercoasters , too cool man love it love this whole CJ omg that looks cool

 

wow...that smiley was so huge, my system would not even load it. needless to say - smiley gone bye bye. Mr. C.

 

 

thank man , my system crashed cos of it so i couldn't edit it

[palmgurl 1]

alk! your such a stupid freak!!![:0] nice job! six flags looks great! keep it up!

[newy2 0]

woah amazing work, the rollercoasters look awesome, good eye candy Keep up the good work

peace

[franky_83 8]

OMG, this is like the best CJ i've seen so far...and i've seen some nice ones.  Did the creator of this city create all those nice BATs?  Either way, It looks like a very entertaining place to live.

 

[UrbanSprawl 5]

Thanks for the comments!

Alkaola, franky_83: EDIT:The rollercoasters have been removed.

This is the neighborhing town of Fayette which has been annexed into Greenwood.



I-3 I-203 Junction Sign




Tulip Rd. Exit


Fayette Blvd Exit


housing subdivisions


Apartment Complexes




Expansion area for new house developers

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[oroen 0]

Definitely one of my favorites here. Again, superb work on Six Flags Freeport, with the expansions; nice to see more freeway exit guides of course; and the development overall looks wonderful. The region view is very impressive.

[fantnet 0]

Where can I download those Warehouses and Malls?

[mentarman 14]

How'd I miss out on this for so long? Looks good, I'm going to go back and look at more of it.

[UrbanSprawl 5]

Thanks oroen

fantnet: I still have to work on the little details in the bat and lot then I will release them.

mentarman: thanks.

Area Codes, every city has them.

506 is inner city Freeport and 861 is for suburban Freeport
446 is for Westmoreland, Bolivar Isl. and Las Colinas County
952 is the new area code for Augustine County



New residential and retail growth in the Santa Rosa Valley in 2 new townships Dogwood Heights and Munford Heights. Valley City is the largest city and the county seat for Santa Rosa County.



Freeways through the area

[jacqulina 162]

very nice i love the roller coasters,great work

[Traffic_Jam 0]

Great work!

[UrbanSprawl 5]

Updated Region shot of the Augustine area


Downtown Augustine


Midtown District


Uptown District


Poplar Acres District


Southside


New development in Augustine


When Freeport Interplanetary Spaceport was built it was in the middle of nowhere in Lake County. Huge demand for new growth occured after the Spaceport was built and Launchpad City was founded.


The first launch at this spaceport.


Carmax built here first when there was nothing hoping for growth. Growth didn't come in time so they closed this center. The Interplanetary Spaceport was built afterwards and this abandoned building was turned into an auto rental center.


Avis, Budget, and Alamo operate out of this building.


Centerport Business Center has offices, hotels, restauraunts and shops.


This is the first neighborhood in Lake County and Launchpad City and it's rapidly growing.


Launchpad Center Mall is planned to open here

[gurrgkud 2]

UrbanSprawl

 

Wow very nice... very nice indeed! Im liking it. there's a lot of creative things in here. Very good job. I cant wait to see that new mall!  Keep it up!!

[Dan Ryan 0]

how did you make those custom signs, are you going to put then up for download?

[Nexis 1]

i like your spaceport.

[scififan68 23]

geeze! awsome cj! I wish I could get my hands on some of those costom buildings.

[petercintn 0]

My mind is boggeled.  I mean boggeled!  I'm new to this version and to the web site.  I can't believe what I've just seen!  DUDE!!!!  There ain't no words, man.  Impressed don't cover it by a looonnnggg shot.

[oroen 0]

Exquisite! Really, just... well... just great! Always with the custom buildings. Very office/tech-suburbia. The stack interchange in Poplar Acres looks like something from real life, when a four-way interchange is planned but never finished, so you're left with a fun stub.

[jacqulina 162]

excellent update love what you are doing,great planning

[UrbanSprawl 5]

Thanks for the comments!

Region shot




Welcome to Cucamonga Heights


Walnut Woods Community was the first development in the city


Later addition to Walnut Woods


Commercial Development along NASA Blvd.


NASA Blvd - Fielder Hwy Intersection


Newer portion of the city along Fielder Hwy.


Cucamonga Heights Industrial Park


Newer subdivision with large but affordable homes.


These new large homes have become very popular and usually sell out before they finish the subdivision.

[UrbanSprawl 5]

Dorianville welcome sign


View of most of the town. This town is rapidly turning into a suburban community.


Downtown Dorianville




Dorianville Estates Neighborhood


Newer development in the city.


Dorianville Trace subdivision

[sorchin 18]

Grat job US.

I love how you have personalized the street signs. Did you do that in the LOT EDITOR??? Or are they your own creation???

Great CJ my friend...

[abyrd23 0]

Gr8 job US . I can tell you took a serious amount of time working on this city. It seems different that evey city has its own independant large-scale downtown. Kind of like L.A. It would be cool if you released some of those rollercoasters to the exchange.

 

by the way, how do you take pictures of your whole region if the screen can't fit it all on there?

 

thanx

-aaron

[UrbanSprawl 5]

sorchin: thanks!!

abyrd23: thanks. The program is called Region Census. I think you can get it from Simtropolis.

Sorry for slow updates. I've been busy lately and wasn't able to get on SC4 as much as I wanted to.


Here's an updated region view of the Augustine area.


The 700 Freeway was cancelled due to opposition and was built as East and South Parkway instead.


Night view of the booming Eastside. About 196,000 reside in the Eastside.


Eastside Place business district.


Union Park Neighborhood


Union-Mendenhall Intersection


Augustine Heights District




Tri-Cities University Area




Mendenhall Square Neighborhood


Mendenhall Place Neighborhood


East Trails Park


Park Place Neighborhood



While all this growth was occuring in the city there was some growth out in the suburbs, particularly in Launchbase City.


Dorianville Rd exit in Launchbase City


The mall that was planned as Lunchbase Center Mall was named Deer Run Mall after the name of the district it's in. Dillars, Macy's and Sears are anchors of this mall.


The mall has turned Deer Run from a small exurban community to a busy suburban city as hundreds of new stores were built around the mall.

[sorchin 18]

Great update again US.

Can you explain a little more how you Personalized your road and city entrance signs?

They look amazingYou created them yourself in the BAT and then used the LOT EDITOR?

Sorry I'm a little confused as to your explanation on the page before

Thanks my friend

[Mystyx 0]

Awsome CJ, first time seeing it.... impresive region and nice content added.

was just this week  I was planning my new Island and was thinking to myself, I should be able to expand the land after Ive started.

you showed it is posible, but I was wondering just how big I could make it and what hardware Id need for a size like that.

 

I never noticed in here....  what kind Of PC are you running, mem, CPU, Video and have you seen much of a performance slow down as you grew larger?  if so, what size did you notice it

 

I am starting a Island that will hold all downloaded material and want to make it sorta real and leave space to expand...  just not sure what size I should try for without ruining any gameplay.

 

my thoughts are it doesnt matter how big the region.... its city size that bogs down the PC...  but you would definately know more on this subjects since youve built it.

[UrbanSprawl 5]

sorchin: Thanks. You create the signs the same way you create buildings. You design it BAT and then when you are finished you export it. When it's finished with the export model you use the SC4 Plugin Manager and drag the export model for the sign and put it under props menu. It will create another file and you use the lot editor, open up the empty green grass lot and add a prop and it should be under the prop menu. Place it on the lot and save the file and when you run the game the sign should be under the park menu.

Mystyx: Thanks. Im using AMD 2600, 1GB RAM. NVidia 5500 128MB. The larger and more developed a region and the more plugins you have the longer the game will take to load and the longer it will take to switch between cities.
There's a point to how large a region can be depending on our computer. Large city sizes run slower when they start getting more developed than medium, at least on my computer. my region is about 1,000 square miles and it's pretty slow compared to the default region size which is about 100 square miles.

New developing cities run faster than older developed ones. Thats why I perfer medium and use only a few large cities.