Neu Westfalen

I can easily see a quality leap between this city and the one you showed on the first entry! Zenebach really shows your SC4 evolution, great job!

Waow!! I still have a lot to learn in SC4 ! 

Because perfection doesn't exist, I put you a 9.999999/10 !! 

Very good work! May I recommend more close ups? You have a lot to show, don't be scared of using the second zoom level more often :-)

Awesome! Glad to have you back!!!

This is truly a lovely city!

Definitely agree with Kim Sunwoo- more close ups please!

WOW simply stunning how clean and perfect every thing looks real water for the canal blew me away awesome job

Nice! At once ultramodern and classically European.

great work, but I really dont like combination of more styles in one city, especialy european with US style, what I say, its really beautiful journal.

Wow. This city is so cool and has given me so much inspiration! I love the marinas, Downtown and seasonal trees just to name a few points! Keep up the good work. I can't wait to see what else you share. :)

Incredibly beautiful. I love how you've carefully placed every building. 5/5

Holy! I love how this all turned out and good you are still posting here Nat. :P

Superb stuff, some really nice buildings in there and a great job using the water and marina to make it all even more interesting. Thumbs up from me!

You sir, are the master of green space!!  Excellent job!

Amazing. I am actually lost for words. 10/10

8/10

 

I absolutely love the layout and clean look of your cities; I basically echo many other's sentiments. However, it just looks so... lifeless. I see about 6 cars on the road - and in a city as large as that, there should be a lot more. Plop down some traffic generators to add cars to the streets and some sims to your parks and sidewalks (either MMP or crowd lots), and you'll have a ten from me.

Another Photobucket Bandwidth block...

Oh blast, why have you forsaken me Photobucket! I'll really have to remember to jpg my images in the future, I normally use png's cause they're better quality. I'll try uploading them again with another hosting site. EDIT: re-uploaded to another site, will work now. :]

 

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• TekindusT - Thank you. Yes I've definitely gotten better since my last two, even though at the time I thought I had reached my pinnacle. I'm not sure I can go much better than this but I'm certainly gonna try.
• v701 - Believe me, my first cities a few years ago were absolute rubbish - Maxis stuff everywhere. Even though perfection may not exist, I will still keep reaching for it (in-vain). :P
• Kim Sunwoo & Ln X - Thanks, I could maybe use a few more. Although personally I'm not a huge fan of them since you don't get to see much.
• Schulmanator - Thanks Cat-dude :P It took me a year (on-and-off) to finish this one.
• 47pl - Glad you noticed. A lot of trial and error went into making the water areas, as I just don't think the fake water looks right for rivers.
• 1131989 - Just the look I was going for, thanks heaps. :)
• Wallibuk - I mostly kept it European. However the nation Zenebach is set in (Neu Westfalen) is a former south-Pacific colony (like New Zealand, but German), so it should have a little bit of other influences.
• michae95l - That's great to hear. Happy to inspire others with my cities. :)
• MilitantRadical - Thank you. I love doing modern cities, the hardest part is getting the waterfront looking right. Once that's done it's just a matter of keeping the building scale, style and colours correct, and of course, adding enough green space (but not too much).
• jmsepe - Thanks jm, I will of course keep posting here as long as I'm still playing the game.
• Map Guy - Thanks dude. This is easily the nicest city I've ever made, really happy with the way the waterfront turned out.
• Prophet42 - A green city is a healthy city, and a nicer place to live :P You should see the pollution-map, it barely registers.
• MrGovernor - I'm glad you managed to find some anyway, thanks for the 10 :)
• nos.17 - Yeah I tried to get cars in the shots, but couldn't seem to get a lot (I assure you it's a 'real' functioning city though). Can you recommend a specific traffic generator? I'm not too familiar with them.

Looks like a very pleasant place to live in!! Love how you've integrated the new and the old.

 

Will follow your journal :)

Awesome, dude.
As for the "traffic generator so called plan" to add more cars, maybe you should just consider installing the NAM_automata_plugin_radical24,..it adds more cars and more persistent automata to make your roads a lil bit crowded and realistic. But it will also eat your system a bit unfortunately.

Nice to see my Oktha Tower ingame :-) you made a nice park for it.

Great layout in your city! Looking forward to more

Nice city, love the style! But were did you find those beautiful water embankments? I mean those you can see at the same picture as the Germanic Bridge.

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Akerbeltz - Thanks, hopefully it won't take me a year to update this year.

Rikujo - I see, I'll look into it.

andisart - Thanks for the awesome building, it's beautiful and I've always wanted to use it in one of my cities. It was very tricky giving such a building an appropriate surrounding.

Callesson - It's the Stanley park sea wall set - Link :)