Mountainwood
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Blunder-Thanks for the advice. I'm not much of rural player and rarely use agriculture as a result. However, I will keep that in mind should I ever find a suitable area for agriculture.
Ace-Thanks. I try to let people know what I am using when it is featured.
nedal2001-Thanks.
Benedict-Thanks. I think you'll find this similar to my work on Iris.
Mountainwood-(Click on images for full resolution)
Starting a new region is always a challenge. Figuring out where to put that first "city" can be really taxing. It gets even more challenging when using a CAM based simulator. For all it does CAM makes starting a city far more difficult. I have actually modified my version of the CAM simulator to better fit my needs so be forewarned, this type of development with CAM may not be typical.
I finally settled on tile Np as my starting point. This tile is in the southeast corner of the region and backs up to the mountains on that peninsula. I based this area off of the edge of town neighborhoods I have lived in or near. The tile itself is home to about 20,000 sims and nothing really important regionally. It's just a typical suburb in that sense.
The name Mountainwood was chosen as it seemed like a good name for the primary road through the tile. You can see this road in the region shot above. Nothing particularly spectacular, but if you lived in the area this would be one of the roads you would have to know. A couple of east-west arterials end in this district anchoring the commercial and industrial zones.
Here we have the intersection of Mountainwood Road (running right to left) and Hopkins Drive. This area has spawned a nice office park.
A little to the north we have this intersection between Mountainwood and Center Point Avenue. This could be said to be the heart of the Mountainwood tile. It features a nice mix of shopping and office space. Not surprising as Center Point Avenue is going to be a major access route to the freeway in the neighboring tile.
West of Mountainwood Road is primarily residential neighborhoods like this one. Here we can see the influence of the mountain to the west (top) of the image. Many of these areas are built in a fused grid pattern.
Living this close to the mountain can be quite costly. Many of the houses in this region go for upwards of $400,000. Of course the views from the mountain are even more spectacular.
Businesses along Mountainwood do fairly well as they provide quick access to vital goods for these residents. A few strip malls have popped up along Mountainwood as a result.
So that's it for Mountainwood. Thanks for visiting.
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