Detailed & Realistic: Borger

[Nique 291]

Just to start off, it consumes time to create good looking cites. You need to learn tricks. For example, i use the dirt road a lot because it is one of the most flexible networks available. It helps laying out the shape of a new neighborhood and it also helps making good looking intersections. I feel it is like the 'street' road trick as in Simcity 4 to terraform the terrain surrounding the roads . Also, keep increments of 12 tiles, don't go over it or your roads will look bumpy. If you stay at 12 tiles per time, the terrain adjusts very good.

 

Ok, well this is what you can do with Cities Skylines! Yes, with an healthy budget!

In the beginning...
Although, in the beginning? Well, I've played C:S before, but not that much hours. I was kinda disapointing with the overal plastic feeling to it. I waited, waited.. until i saw all these mods came out. Especially Precision Enginering and some trees and flowers got me in the game. I never expected this.. It is my second city. I like to keep an eye on details. And i can get pissed off if roads look unrealistic, bumpy.

I used the map Zephyr Hills. It has broken highway connections going inland but it works fine. I will connect those later, when I'm heading for the 'next' town. Yes, thats right, I don't like to create on big mega city. I like to create smaller towns, maybe a nice 200k city further inland but this is just a simple town.

Here ya go. The City. I already planned for an expansion along the coast.


A Top view, now the coastal side is developed.


Moving North
Its time to move north. In the previous screenshot you see a bridge going diagonally over the highway. I like that because it breaks the boring grid.


The bridge to the north


You see, I connected my town to the outer world with a Train station! I had to redo the intersection area and while I was at it, I decided to also create a nice Bus terminal in front of the train station.


The trainstation


Redo the Industrial interchange
I also had to redo the nice circular interchange at the Industrial district. The problem was that I had to fit in a cargo train station for importing and exporting goods.


Look at those flowers!


From 2km height


More eye-candy

[Carnivorus 19]

That is an absolutely beautiful CJ!
Very realistic layout and decent planing! Like it a lot

Keep it coming

[Buffalonian2 6]

Yeah very cool, also I love the way  you do your farms. If you press the camera in the bottom right corner, you can get pictures without the HUD.

[TekindusT 3,809]

My eyes will turn diabethic in front of so much eye-candy! But I love it!

[BLANKBLANK 4,414]

Very good planning! I look forward to more.

[wallacet 336]

It's a very nice looking town.    However, most (all?) towns in the real world with a population of 5,000 people will not have mid-high rises like you have there. It looks to me like you used the unlock-all mod and zoned high-density residential, which is not what you would normally see in a town that small. Of course, if you had the HUD hidden I wouldn't have known the population .

 

I would like to know where you got those flowers from. They're just what I've been looking for.

[Nique 291]

It's a very nice looking town.    However, most (all?) towns in the real world with a population of 5,000 people will not have mid-high rises like you have there. It looks to me like you used the unlock-all mod and zoned high-density residential, which is not what you would normally see in a town that small. Of course, if you had the HUD hidden I wouldn't have known the population .

 

I would like to know where you got those flowers from. They're just what I've been looking for.

 

I cant really help that. I never look at the pop because it never reflect the physical size of the city. This is kinda bad game-design from CO. I believe there was some kind of mod to let more people in houses. Can't remember what though. I even forgot to rename my city nobody noticed.

[BLANKBLANK 4,414]

Try the building level up control mod- http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=410535198&searchtext=building+level.

 

You can create districts and designate the building level for each zone type, or set a building level for each individual building. It guarantees the preservation of suburbs and stops them turning into dull swathes of high tech, high wealth mansions. That's what I now do and the results are fantastic!

[Nique 291]

That mod is incompatible with 1.1

[BLANKBLANK 4,414]

That mod is incompatible with 1.1

 

No it's not. I use it and I have 1.1!