My First City Journal (Southchase City)

[Eriol_Mits 5]

Hello, this is my first post (I think?) here so allow me to introduce myself. I'm Eriol and like most of you am a fan of City Building games. I have deciced to run a video Let's Play of my latest city, Southchase City along with doing my first City Journal, wanted to do one of these for a while with either Sim City or Cities XL but always been to embrassed so yeah. I've currently done two episode that can be found below.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_G17bL0MpQ (Episode 1: A New Dawn)

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18LaO21uBKI (Episode 2: Expanding Infastructure)

 

If Videos aren't you thing, then heres some screen shots of the City after just under 2 hours Gameplay. I plan to have more screenshots as i develop them but for now these cover the first twp Episodes.

 

 

 

-The Local Walmart-

 

 

 

-Southchase Citys first High School with a park across the road-

 

 

-The Coal Power Stations on the edge of the Factory District -

 

 

-The Main Highstreet -

[jesper107 113]

Nice pictures! Might I suggest you lower the in game volume of your videos?

[Eriol_Mits 5]

Nice pictures! Might I suggest you lower the in game volume of your videos?

 

Thank you, sorry the game volume is a little loud, thing all the sounds in game are set to maximum, tried to lower the db. of the game sound track in Song Vegas before rending. When i record i new video i'll try and remember to turn the game sounds down before starting for part 4 as i have already recorded part 3.

[IL. 1,043]

Great start  

[Eriol_Mits 5]

Part 3:- In A Roundabout Way?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJQGYKJxmiw

 

In this part I look at making improvements to the highway interchange the service the forestry industry. We base the design of a roundabout interchange located near Brighton or more specifically Shoreham Airport.

 

 

 In real life the roundabout allows traffic to cut out from the Shoreham by-pass onto the A283 that leads into the town. The Roundabout itself is to the north of the Interchange with the town to the south. This is similar to what I wanted to create with this interchange, with the industry sector it serves being next to the roundabout but also serving as later highway access for the towns folk.

 

I think the hardest part about building this roundabout was creating the curves at the correct angels. Especially with the ramps that are towards the north of the area next to the Industrial section of the city. Finding a good curve with a decent looking ramp was difficult with the amount of space I planned on using to create this interchange.

 

 

I do think that I managed to do a good recreation for my first attempt at building this system of Roundabout Interchange. If you compare the image from google maps against the screenshot below they do resemble each other. Given more time I feel like can improve the curves over the next coming episodes. Still am happy with how this Roundabout came out looking in the end. It’s an important bit of infrastructure to have completed early on.

 

 

One thing that the roundabout does need is a good centre peace to fill in the middle section. At the moment the middle section is quite bare. I would like to find a nice park or fountain or something to stick in the middle to fill the open spaces that are left. Think maybe something along the lines of the industry statue that I have unlocked or just create some nice doctoratetive park.

 

 

Thank you for reading and watching. I hope you have enjoyed it I’ve tried to explain why I have done certain things. Now that this roundabout is in place we can focus on relaying down the industrial zones in the next episode and improve that look of that area before building a better laid out town ready for expansion. Hope to see you again next time.

[perken 1]

Great interchange! Tip: get the "no more purple industry"-mod to get rid of that hideous color under your industrial buildings in the second screen shot