Show us your Seaport!

[paulmc 392]

some pics of my seaport :Frechal  Seaport, hope to post more pics soon

[AnorexicPickle 13]

This reminds me, one time I built this wicked seaport and zoned tons of industrial around it, then once I turned on the simulator and checked the ICR there was zero demand for industrial... in fact it was negative.

Damn.

[quicksilver991 37]

The container terminal in Industrial Bay, which ironically no longer has any major industrial development.

[Apankou 6]

Looks great! I would never get a seaport that big running without buildings being abandoned... my rural regions just would not support it. I'll look my regions up later on to see if there's any port in there...

[cacks 41]

Right... lets test this auto resizing system:

Overview picture:

And here is a larger picture of the port:

And here is the old port Approach road... bit small - it has been superseded by the dual carriage way that goes around the town.

  Edited March 3, 2011 by cacks  

[jj88 23]

Great work everyone, particularly you Cacks

[Shortsonfire79 1]

I have always loved ships...space ships, naval military ships, large cruise liners...etc...

After playing the Sim City series for nearly 8 years ( I think?) I have never brought any of my cities to the level of skyscrapers (fail..I know). Recently, last week, I was pointed in this direction from a friend, and have since downloaded many many plugins. This thread has really inspired me to step up my game and make large seaports (and eventually get a skyscraper..) so keep the amazingness flowing, and maybe some of you could post up some plugins you use? I have a handful of PEG's and SOMY's, but my rapid downloading has given me many things that I have no idea what does what, so if you feel like being kind, I wouldn't mind at all!

First post on this forum by the way. In the most important thread of course.

[jj88 23]

Welcome to ST shortsonfire!

SC4 isn't just about skyscrapers Shorts, tbh I haven't built many cities with them in either.

SOMY and PEGs lots are good places to start seaport-wise, if you haven't done so yet in terms of custom content the most useful addition to the game is the NAM - the Network Addon Modd - search for it in the Modd section of the STEX i think.

Feel free to PM me if you have any questions!

[Shortsonfire79 1]

Thanks Jj. I know this isn't the place for introductions and whatnot..so I'll keep this short.

I've downloaded the NAM, but that was way too hardcore for me...I wasn't using many of the things, and the 'high' rails and roads and stuff were giving me a headache...so I removed it. (some of the things were nice..but it was easier to just give all of it up...)

I spent a good while working on this... I'm working on making my own region right now, and hopefully I'll have a city dedicated for a port...and a PC to run the military ships (my Mac doesn't support it. D:)

[FrankU 354]

Hi Shortsonfire,

If you want to know more about building ports and finding downloads for them you might take a look at this tutorial on another SC4 devoted site: https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/index.php?topic=749.0

On that site you will also find a list of plug in lists. If you want to find plugins sorted by theme (like harbour, police office, education, parking lots...you name it) then look here: https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/index.php?topic=6209.0

Have fun!

[nathanthemayor 1,262]

This is the Pheonix Seaport(Whoops sorry about the zot)

North Docks, Docks A-C, and Mail deleviry:

Docks D-G, Lighthouse, and container storage 1

Sorting docks, Docks H-J, and Parking

Railyard

[Sepen77 157]

NTM, Nice port. very good use of the NAM overpasses, but do you have a slope mod?

Slope mods will get rid of those really steep roads. They would make you port look even better.

Also, try using single road tiles to level the land around your port.

[jj88 23]

Good work shorts, just a piece of advice, if you make the road on the right leading down to the port less steep i think it would look better, but overall well done!

Well done Nathan as well, only comment is that it looks a bit tight for the ships to get to the dock in the middle!

[leaderfrontier 0]

Willing to visit my port,the worst port among the port in this topic?

There is a lighthouse over there,don't crash with other ship and the bridge.(Actually the port is too small until,no other ship nearby)

Although the port is small,but there wasn't any congestion nearby the port,so we serve a five star service

Haha,the above statement was just kidding only

don't blame me

Anyway,I looking forward for any advice and sorry for my poor English grammar..

Thanks for a look on my small port

[tonyr 926]

Impressive seaports guys,thanks for sharing!

[TekindusT 3,809]

Here are some shots right from my CJ plus a general view. It's my first decent seaport ever built!

[AdoxxBE 289]

Wow, those look great

I'm not the kind that's good at building such seaports but I can learn a lot from these pictures.

[tonyr 926]

Awesome seaport my friend,very realistic.Thanks for sharing!

Here are some shots right from my CJ plus a general view. It's my first decent seaport ever built!

[AdoxxBE 289]

A few of my new seaport.

[jj88 23]

Great work Adoxx, Tekindus I remember that port from your cj

Well done leaderfrontier you are nearly there, just keep experimenting until you find the look you want.

[thefunktopus 1]

I built this port, then realised that it lies on a lake, with only tiny river connections to the sea. I might have to spend some time widening them...

I don't really like building seaports; they are far too fiddly, but this was fairly painless to construct.

[RiCHBoyZ 75]

Seaport @ka water front of my Serian City. Enjoy.

Oh! B4 that the water was photochopped so don't ask me what mod i using...hahahahaaa...

  Edited May 6, 2011 by RiCHBoyZ  

[TekindusT 3,809]

Spectacular looking water, RiCHBoyZ! I guess it is photoedited, but it looks very realistic!

[RiCHBoyZ 75]

Spectacular looking water, RiCHBoyZ! I guess it is photoedited, but it looks very realistic!

Yes it was fotoedited. I am very happy with the FA and thank you if you like it.

FA = final artworks

[nathanthemayor 1,262]

A new seaport I made in a experimental region:

[Allein 329]

More coming soon in my CJ

[quicksilver991 37]

@ NTM: That seaport is a huge improvement over the latest one. However, I have 2 suggestions for you. 1, get a water mod, like PEG's Brigantine. It doesn't look good to see those dark spots under the ships. 2, eliminate those grade crossings at the rail yard. Since it is a rail yard, there would probably be trains parked there which would block road traffic. Overall, good job!

[nathanthemayor 1,262]

The Seaport of Astoria, which is the second largest by cargo shipped per year in the UC.

Full resolution

[nathanthemayor 1,262]

My old Capital District Seaport:

Ewwww!

New one:

[Yarahi 1,816]

A couple of pictures of my recently started city Port Illford, made a change between the pics were taken.. can u spot it (removal of the trees is not what i'm thinking of)??

And what looks best??

Before:

& After

  Edited June 20, 2011 by yarahi