Orange Bay

[josefmayor 8]

I dunno, I'm just bored and I think this is a cool city I'm making.
Here's what's done so far...
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Orange Island
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North Orange Bay (The Suburbs)
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The Port District Next to Toll State Road 616 [The Orlando Expressway]
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Orange Bay University, What town isn't a town with out a little University Downtown.
All Along the Channel will be Riverside Parks and River Walks.
I wanted to base the city off of how my hometown is ( tampa) but I decided to go for my own look.
I will eventually however make a Tampa Bay map and make it just like the actual city.

[camros 0]

Good work on the canals. keep going.

 

[DavidBrown 0]

Where did you get that cool-looking railway station from (third picture down, on the left)?

So far, it's looking good.

[josefmayor 8]

It's Newman's Rail Station, https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/details.cfm?id=13931

[GMT 389]

nice work,
but please keep the picture limits of a miximum of 600x800

[dfnva 34]

I definitely see potential in this CJ. At least now I know that I'm not the only person who gives route numbers to most or all of my roads.   I'd be curious to see a region view so I can see where the roads go after leaving the city limits.

Some suggestions, before someone else tells you and deletes your pics, the pics need to be 800x600 (or is it 600x800) at the biggest (about the fifth camera size when you take the in-game pics is 800x600).

 

With the thought you give to numbering your roads, you should download the netword add-on Mod (NAM) from the STEX, I think you'd probably make some cool stuff with that. In your commercial areas, you might have bigger blocks. I usually make my blocks about 6x6. The road networks look griddy, but I think you're looking for a downtown feel.

 

I'm looking forward to seeing more.

 

Dan

[Mikeaut1 261]

Great work! I love the griddyness! I like your use of some bats too! Great work!

[josefmayor 8]

Thanks, I'll get on to resizing so they don't get deleted.
I love numbering the roads, makes it feel real!
And I just got N.A.M Like 1 hour after posting this.

[josefmayor 8]

I have an update on Orange Bay; due to Game problems the city had to be deleted and restarted completly which means I had to re terra form it.
I will begin reconstruction soon

[sloppet 3]

darn! thats awful news!

[Cjah 15]

That is some bad news.Atleast with the now you can work with the NAM....

Great looking old city,but lets see what you learned from it in this next city!

[jacqulina 162]

great start sorry about the bad news look forward to more

[dfnva 34]

Sorry to hear that. Make sure you share your next region!  I'm really looking forward to seeing what you do with your roads!!

Dan

[josefmayor 8]

Ok, So I've been a bit busy with High School, Wrestling, and my girlfriend so rebuilding has been slow, I just got my city to 20,000 residents.
So, here's the rebuild (I had to re teraform the entire map)
Luckily my region wasn't devoloped yet because I'm still drawing up my ideas for the other 2 larger cities (I think I'm going to make New Tampa and New Ybor off of them (those are two cities that I live near))
 A Little History of Orange Bay...

Founded by Germans in the 1800's It's original name was San Diego, which of course in German means.... Nah Just kidding
But it was founded by Germans and it's original name was Dietrichberg (After Wilfried Dietrich a German Olympian Wrestler), Dietrichberg was renamed after being annexed by America, since Orange Trees were abundant they apporiatly renamed it Orange Bay, but gave the Germans their credit by calling this new state Dietrich Staadt(Dietrich State) In Orange Bay there is Dietrich Staadt University as well as the small University of Orange Bay right near downtown.
But that's future, Before Mayor Joseph, Orange Bay was just a small farm village. After Mayor Joseph, it turned in to a Megatropolis.

A Real history, I was playing around with ideas for a city, and it occured to me it'd be awesome to have a small island bay next to a large body of land, and make it so you can walk along this channel or river or cannal and look at the skylines to both sides, so I seperated the two sides and thus created Orange Bay, as I went along making this map I decided that it needed an east side too, which made the two seperate cities of Orange Bay and Dietrich Port. Well Here's what the new city looks like...

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The University of Orange Bay [Channelside Parks Underconstruction]
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The East Side of The University
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Orange Bay Port, situated on Dietrich Blvd, I-285, and Toll S.R 589/I-26
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Boring Suburbs, Hate 'em but gotta have 'em [population booster]
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Thats I-285 and the slanted road is Bevin Blvd (U.S 241)


Now for Dietrich Port the newest part I've added
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Dietrich Channel & Dietrich Port
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Dietrich Port to the Airport

[nycsc4 5,251]

looks good so far, i really like the canals, but i would suggest a water mod.  keep up the good work though.

[josefmayor 8]

More History on Orange Bay:
In 1920 a Hurricane swept through and destroyed much of the original downtown, it wasn't rebuilt until Mayor Joseph took office.
Regrowth was slow until the major corperation Coca-Cola decided to put a new plant there. Coca-Cola made the descision after notcing Orange Bay's huge population increase in such a short time. which now charts at 27,000.
When Coca-Cola built their plant, Bellsouth saw potential too and built a sky scraper near it.

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Once so, Downtown was restored and people voted to re-zone downtown, and re-open old etertainment/civic buildings lost in the hurricane
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That's all for now. Might not be an update tomarrow, my girlfriend doesn't have soccer practice so I don't have free time. Stay Tooned though!!!!!!!!!!!

[Fabiocb 1]

nice and it has a lot of potential.

keep on the good work.

 

[Mikeaut1 261]

Still doing well! Keep it up!!

[mudspreader 0]

Sorry to hear that your first city bit the dust. I feel your pain. My first cj, Richardson County, suffered the same fate. I learned a valuable lesson then, which I will share with you now. BACK UP YOUR CITY!! When you get this up to 6 or 7 pages, or more, you will be really bummed out if you lose it. Since starting my current CJ, Landfall, I back it up every time I update. Good looking work so far. Keep it up.

[The-G 0]

Enjoying this so far. I have a quick question though..



What are the reddish walkways around the water?

[vester_DK 477]

Those are by Pegasus and is the PEG RTK3 Recreational Style .

[silvermac 0]

I'm a bit like you.

When I first started, I enjoyed naming the streets more than anything else

 

[josefmayor 8]

OK, So, now Orange Bay is doing quite well, hitting 60,000 people and sky scrapers entering the scene!
Sorry for the lack of updates around the bay, however, there really isn't much growth else where.
For the first time my city is growing with out any problems, I have yet to face a commercial defecit demand.
So now, The Bank of china see's opertunity and builds a copy of their world famous Bank of China building.
And the JT_Tower people build 2 twin residential sky scrapers
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A convention Center is suggested after the commercial boom is noted
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Then a Resourt Hotel is built for the convention center
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And now First National Plaza is built, making it the largest sky scrapper in Orange Bay.
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That's all for now, perhaps an update tomarrow?

[sloppet 3]

nice pics indeed!

[josefmayor 8]

OK, so, Orange Bay is growing expodentionaly, and companies are noting this, so now Orange Bay is getting tourists.
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Companies chartered an Arena and a stadium to be built
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Downtown just keeps growing

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Due to the tourism increase, Orange Bay City Council has agreed to rebuild Old Orange Bay
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That's it for this update, morre later.

[dfnva 34]

Nice downtown, glad you're getting things working again. I'd be interested in seeing a map or zoomed out shot showing major route numbers, since I'm curious where the routes go. Also what kind of route numbering system do you go by as far as what road gets what classification? I'm looking forward to seeing more!

Dan