Bosmonde

[boformer 3,169]

You can host you images on Simtropolis to make sure that all people can see them. Also, imageshack removes images after some time.

[Turjan 1,048]

The problem was intermittent. Sometimes the image shows, sometimes it doesn't. It showed when I rated the image up, and it also shows at this very moment.

[dedgren 830]

[ snip ]  Also, imageshack removes images after some time.

Paid ImageShack is supposedly forever- I've had a paid account for about ten years.  The site had a huge crash in late October, though, and I probably lost about 10% of the images I had stored there.  The only way to pretty much insure you won't lose images (and even then bad things can happen) is to store copies locally, hopefully in some sort of organized manner.

Good luck.

 

David

[FullStrenght 74]

Hi everyone! For today, the images are all hosted on Simtropolis, so they should both be visible to everyone  I really like the deepness of this image. In the front, you see a small piece of the old harbour, with the university (faculty of mobility and transport on the right. Halfway trough, there's a statue for all the lost fisherman at sea, and in the back we see the highrises of the central business district.

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This is the old front of the harbour. As you can see, the docks are gone, and many of the buildings have been upgraded and redevelopped into housing and shops. The highway that used to connect the docks to the rest of the city have been downgraded to a tree-lined avenue. On the corner you can still see the church of our-lady-at-sea, which was built to protect anyone who sailed out at harbour.

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Thanks for stopping by!

[dedgren 830]

Beautiful use of light and shadows in your first image.  A keeper!

Very nice work.

 

David

[FullStrenght 74]

Some more eye-candy, in honour of the developpers who built this game and the support of the community...

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This is one of the many entertainment districts from up close. For me it looks like a redlight district  

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Enjoy!

[FullStrenght 74]

Hi everyone! For this update I prepared an aerial, top down view of the whole city of Bosmonde. As you can see, it has grown a lot. Absolutely vital for the city are it's many bridges, for cars as well for the trains to redistribute all the goods being produced in one of it's many industrial centers. If anyone's interested, I can make a second map pointing out where the previous pictures have been taken?

[dedgren 830]

Excellent!  Looks kinda like Baltimore from the air.

 

David

[nos.17 5,120]

I really love the color palette your city has...I think that is what makes it really stand out from the others. Plus, your distance effects are really well done: I appreciate the fact that the effect is carefully applied to the in the image, and not just slapped on top. Nicely done! 

[Turjan 1,048]

This city has an impressive size and layout. I guess it will take me a while to get to that stage with my current city.

[FullStrenght 74]

Hi everyone! Thanks for the kind replies so far!

On 13-12-2015 at 9:55 PM, dedgren said:

Excellent!  Looks kinda like Baltimore from the air.

I have looked up the map from Baltimore, and I must say, in landscape terms they do share some resemblance, quite remarkable!

On 14-12-2015 at 9:47 PM, nos.17 said:

I really love the color palette your city has...I think that is what makes it really stand out from the others. Plus, your distance effects are really well done: I appreciate the fact that the effect is carefully applied to the in the image, and not just slapped on top. Nicely done! 

Thanks for the compliments! It took a while to get the right colors, with some help from the kind people here. To find the right focus is still quite difficult sometimes, to really make the picture show what I want to show. I am happy you noticed the effort

On 14-12-2015 at 0:08 AM, Turjan said:

This city has an impressive size and layout. I guess it will take me a while to get to that stage with my current city.

Thank you! It is going slower and slower by the day, allthough there is still a fair demand for houses, services etc. I'll crunch some numbers later if you're interested.

For now I enhanced the previous showed map to list where all of the pictures were taken. I hope it's visible to everyone, as simtropolis automatically makes images like these smaller. Edit: allright, it's a bit small on the screen, but if correct, you should be able to enlarge it and see all the numbers. I'll add the images both to the opening post.

Edit: new map available, thanks to Cimtographer!

 

 

[dedgren 830]

It seems I missed commenting on this last update- probably because ST was going through upgrade troubles in mid-December and I was pretty frustrated as a result at the time.  Unfortunately the more recent map will not enlarge for me any more than just a little bit, so there is still more to look forward to.  Looking at it along with the previous map carefully, though, did reveal a number of points of interest that I hope will be covered in detail in future updates.  I'm looking forward to those- we'll see if you, my friend, find the same things interesting that I do.

 

David

[Turjan 1,048]

My problem with the last image is now that it is all very bright and nearly white. Not sure where that comes from, because it looked okay before.

[FullStrenght 74]

Hi everyone! Great to see some people still come by now and then to see Bosmonde. First I will respond to the comments, after that a little update, just for new year´s eve (still 5 hours away here).

The map I have posted is the same as before, but then with a little mask on it, to make the numbers a bit more visible. If you click on it, it should give an option down left, to make it full screen. It looks fine here, so I hope it works as well at yours. I am thinking about using the mod Cimtographer has made for us to make a better visible, better looking map. 

For now, I made a few nice looking images of Bosmonde, including 2 of the cities bigger monuments. The first one is an enlargement of an atom, built for the world expo to celebrate universal science, the belief in technological progress, and to show determination for a better future. I didn't make this up, the original one in Brussels was built with this idea

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The second one is a hyperbolic cosinus, built for less ideological purposes, but to attract residents to the other side of the big black lake of Bosmonde. In some way, it is a symbol for the suburbs. In origin, medieval times, the city was the safe place where one could have a job, study, where the the city was governed, etc, etc... Outside the city (walls) there was no law, there were the more simpler jobs such as farming, mining, etc. In some way, in Bosmonde, across the lake was where the poor people lived and which was an unsafe place. Since then, the role between city and countryside has changed drastically, with industrialisation and such, and by now we are as far that 'outside' the city has levelled up towards at least as promising as the city itself. I think, this cosinus symbolizes the gap that has been closed.  

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Notice how in both images the infrastructure plays an important role in the image. Both technological progress and suburbanization were fuelled by good infrastructure...

I hope you all have a splendid 2016!

[FullStrenght 74]

I hope you all liked the last update, since it will be the last. For some reason, the game crashes upon opening and I have no idea on how to fix it. I am trying other savegames at the moment, but for now it looks like all of them crash. $%&^!, I am so angry now I'd ask my money back, but I think the problem is caused by one of the mods I had added recently.

[Turjan 1,048]

Looking good, and I'm sure you will be able to fix this. Some older mods don't play well with the fully updated game. Otherwise, there's always the verification of your local files in the properties menu on Steam.

[Mr_Maison 2,426]

I really like the mix of building styles in this city. Like what we have here in NYC. I get a sense of serious cultural diversity when looking at these pics. This is another city I would love to take a first person ride through. Very nice!

[jesper107 113]

Try the mod "isolated failures" and see if that solves the crashing!

[dedgren 830]

Never say never, my friend.  Do some backtracking through your installed mods and assets.  It is almost certainly something like that.  Good luck, and we'll all have our fingers crossed for you.

 

David

[FullStrenght 74]

I am glad you're all so optimistic  It kept me trying a few more times, and I finally got it working again. It still randomly crashes at startup, even when going back to original mods used, but I did manage to get in again to try cimtographer's mapmaker. Lovely! I'll add it for your enjoyment, hope you're able to view it in full.

As you can see, I covered mosty around the old harbour, meatpackers district and forest park, along with pearl square. East of the city docks, and south from Groningen Park is still quite unknown. I hope to show you more in this brand new year.

[dedgren 830]

Excellent map!  The ability to bring the game into Open Street Maps is just incredible, and really raises the level of city builder cartography.

 

David

[FullStrenght 74]

Hello everyone! Today I have a double update. First of all, I would like to show you more about the suburban areas of Bosmonde. Like many larger cities, Bosmonde has tremendous area's filled up with patchworks of family houses, parks and recreational area's, urban services and so on. But because Bosmonde also has this ambition to grow to an even bigger city, it is intensifying within it's urban borders, before annexing neighboring smaller cities. On this particular outskirt you can see one of the tactics used. As you can see, the density for housing (and also shopping) is mixed between low and high density. The bigger roads, the avenues connecting various neighborhoods, making the long stretches troughout the city, have an higher density, while the area's behind these roads are zoned in a lower density. Parks and public functions are spread through the whole area, not creating one big neighborhood center, but various smaller ones.

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On this next image you can see how this mix between low and high density plays out. This way, the city of Bosmonde can offer various types of housing to various types of households, with various types of financial means within one neighborhood, thus trying to keep mixed neighborhoods. Because this specific area is next to interstate highway, a green buffer was created. It is mostly for walking and small games only, the parks with a 'program', such as sports or specific picknick or bbq fields can be found in the neighborhoods itself. Also notice the few pedestrian bridge on the left side of the image, creating connections between separated neighborhoods.

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Now, I would like to take you to a piece of Bosmonde's heritage, one of it's former estates, Napoleon estate. Now I can see you thinking, where is it? what is this for? Well, you are looking at the beginning of the drive towards the Napoleon estate. It is quite a long one.

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Here it is. As you can see, much of it's land has been sold off, like the Duke's estate earlier in this City Journal, but the crown jewels are still there, The land that was sold off has been developed into a well-off residential area. The drive towards the estate is still intact, and so are a few of it's gardens.

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And most importantly, the estate still has it's view over the lake, and in the far distance, the city of Bosmonde, from the left wing of the building. 

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Why was this estate called after Napoleon, a French ruler of the 18th century? Maybe you noticed the similarities of the estate with the royal palace in Amsterdam. This original building, which (in real life) wasn't an estate or a palace, but was originally built as the city hall of Amsterdam during it's golden century. At that time, it was the largest building in the world. But when France (Napoleon) invaded the Netherlands, he changed the purpose of the building into his own private palace. After the French invaders left again, the Dutch were free, but the original function of the building was never restored, as it is property of the royal family now, who uses this building nowadays to host formal events and welcome foreign guests. 

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Thanks for stopping by, and as always, comments are appreciated!

 

FYI: The map on the first page has been edited to show the position of the latest images.

[Turjan 1,048]

That's a nice attempt at a baroque grand alley structure.

[Vals Loeder 27]

This is a great update. I am a big fan of Bosmonde!