Communist ideas

[Yoman3 5]

Wow i didnt realize this got started again. If any of you follow Ankara you'd know that I'm not making a commie city anymore but i might build one near the border so this is still grat nice work!

[TinySim 4]

DreTitans23: Yeah, and we all saw what happened there...

[yoder7652 21]

it'd be nice to see some more in-game pics/examples of communism at work...**enter Sepsis**

[smstevenms 7]

Great images, I'd love to know where you got all that.

[Mulefisk 15]

ExiL3: Well, wouldn't actually say people think they're trendy. They might not be as hated as they used to be, but people (the ones i know anyways) still think they're just ugly blocks of concrete.

[smstevenms 7]

No chance of telling me what the names of some the lots used (where to find), the canal walls, the bridge?

[SC4Fanatic 3]

wow, now that's some impressive city! Looks very good to me!

Looks like a nice place to visit some time.

[Suomi 1]

dont you have downloaded the kolkhoz woman and the worker memorial ? its the most splendid BAT I found here... I wish there was also the Stalingrad Memorial and the Leningrad walk ...i'm new here but if gmax isnt tough to use i'll make them someday...

[Suomi 1]

here's what need to be done...i would be ready to make one if someone can teach me how

[BurroDiablo 222]

I already did the first, without the Lenin Statue though, couldn't find/make a good enough model-

As for the Moscow Uni and [Hotel Ukrainia?], Ukrainia was being batted by SimFox but I dunno what happened with it... maybe he'd care to enlighten us

Moscow Uni however, i'm sure its doable but it would take a considerable time to get it right.

[jdwalker84 0]

I really enjoyed reading over this bc I'm addicted to reading about Russian history. Great job, guys!

[Suomi 1]

jdwaler...what books? I have read a lot too...we could share our favorites...

ElBurro can I download this ? You could take the Lenin Statue of the STex

and we could do this university at two people...never did anything though

[Tojglee (HUN) 2]

Whoa...This thread is interesting...

Well, Hungary is a former socialist country, so, I see socialist architecture every day...

Some advices:

For rural areas: Forget beautiful and natural countryside! Put ugly pre-fab flats and heavy industry in bigger towns. In the Hungarian countryside, every bigger town have large re-fab complexes and heavy industry. (These factories became bankrupt after the fall of the socialist dictatorship, because most of their products were exported to the USSR, and without USSR, no one needed large amounts of them.)

Agriculture was totally nationalized, everyone had to work in the collective farms. So, forget small farms...

Forget the beautiful suburbs of america and western europe! The socialist government built big flats in low density areas  too, to destroy the suburban areas' traditional civic (Or civil? Stupid dictionary...) milieu...

And don't forget concrete everywhere!

[frogface 352]

I tried making a socialistic city but the problem was the whole way SC4 is set up is toward a market economy so I ended up with a a load of R$ buildings while there was a large demand for R$$ and $$$, I couldn't really build many of those as it isn't very egalitarian! I had to use the demand mod to artificially modify my demand, I guess this makes it act more like a central planned economy, it was an interesting attempt at creating a different style of city in function and looks.

[smstevenms 7]

Originally posted by: Suomi here's what need to be done...i would be ready to make one if someone can teach me how

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Is this a concept, or the real thing? I'd love to see this in my city.

[ididntdidit 0]

someone should create a communist mod which would just set everything to the desired communist settings

more like buildings would need to be made and a lot more government buildings as well

[BurroDiablo 222]

Originally posted by: ididntdidit someone should create a communist mod which would just set everything to the desired communist settings

more like buildings would need to be made and a lot more government buildings as wellquote>

Maybe i'll just Zip my Plugins folder and hand it out to people

Suomi - I may revise the model since I don't like the textures or the roof that much, plus, as you rightfully said, It NEEDS that Lenin Statue... I shall fight for the people to produce one!!! (by that I mean... find somebody good enough and govel at their feet to make one for me...)

Smstevenms - Its a Concept... it was PLANNED to be built, but with World War 2 and all, the Steel they were using for it was melted down for Tanks

[smstevenms 7]

Figures. What a shame for architectural sake.

[Marcin Z 0]

If you want to make some communist cities remember these six holy laws:

1. Don't make big space between areas of living and farms

2. Don' worry about comfort of communication

3. Don't allow to live to evil imperialistic capitalist (make big taxes for $$$ and smallll taxes for our dear working class of cities and villages ($))

4. Make a lot of work places in factories ( dirty technology)

5. Don' t allow to the imperialistic companies of the depraved west live in your city ( really big taxes for $$$ offices etc.)

6. Make your city prepared to defend the beatiful communism (rockets, military bases etc.)

[BurroDiablo 222]

I'll give some tips but its up to people to make their own creations... theres no such thing as the perfect 'Communist Formula', since every state that has existed is different... USSR, China, DPRK, Cuba... all the differences are pretty obvious. You can only hope to achieve what people percieve as quintessentially 'Communist'...

I would tell people to just go onto Google Earth for Communist city layouts... Pyongyang is excellent for a basic idea of what a communist city layout should be like. After that, you can look at some places in Russia, look for Ports and large industrial complexes to give you an idea of how big those things should acctually be. Also, don't forget Pripyat and Chernobyl, excellently presevered Soviet history, a town that had only been inhabited for barely a decade. Look just above Kiev in Ukraine, you'll see it

Make use of Lot Editor... too many people forget it exists, its insanely helpful when you need that certain something that isn't on the STEX (like a downtrodden Russian Village).

[smstevenms 7]

El Burro, lot editor is nice but I'd really love to have the building architec for SC4. That was so much easier to use than GMAX.