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Entry #5 - After Dark

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Fearlessmayor

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Hallo City-builders! It's been a few weeks since I've posted anything in my city journal. 

I was celebrating holidays with my family on Thursday, and then my brother got into a car accident earlier in the week, so the release of After Dark completely slipped my mind.  I logged into the Simtropolis boards on Friday morning where a banner reminded me of the "After Dark" night lights update. So  I downloaded and troubledshooted with the new update for a good 2 hours, and finally got a chance to play for another few hours.  I also spent a good deal of time Saturday playing and I wanted to do an "update" type entry for my City Journal. 

After some consideration I've decided to rebuild parts of my Sim City 4 cities in Cities: Skylines.  I considered rebuilding both regions I built in SC4, however, I think they serve their purpose where they are in SC4.  At the same time, some limitations such as inter-city road connections in and road flexibility in SC4 don't suit the types of cities I want to build right now.  I'm not playing SC4 at the moment. 

I may go back to SC4 in a few months, but for now I want to spend my city-building time on new cities on the world of Illyris in Cities: Skylines. 

The overall plan is to remake part of my original "Shining Star" region.  This region in SC4 inspired me to build story cities -- this is where it all started. 

The cities with a green check I'm keeping the same, the cities with an orange "R" I will be rebuilding. 

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The first re-build will be the Amarian Space Port region, and will much look like this:

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Here are some screenshots of what I've been working on this weekend:

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I've also had my share of mishaps.  For a day and a half my street-views were completely blurred and distorted:

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I hope you enjoyed this entry! Please let me know your thoughts on my photography as I am not the best photographer.  Feel free to "Like" my Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/fearlessmayor) as I post updates there and it's easier to post 1 screenshot of what I'm working on when I don't have a full city-journal to share with you all.  Take care and thanks for reading! Have fun with After Dark =)

 

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Lot of traffic going off at that bridge interchange, treasure island what can´t be interesting, need some rethinking, picture´s are overall Ok, somen aftherdar maybe less, well done !

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Lot of traffic going off at that bridge interchange, treasure island what can´t be interesting, need some rethinking, picture´s are overall Ok, somen aftherdar maybe less, well done !

Right.  I feel like the the right balance between efficiency and beauty needs to be struck.  when it doesn't, traffic jams and stray trees happen :(:(  thanks for your comments and compliments, K!

beautiful pictures especially the oil area

 sometimes I like to have my nice share of open fields and green areas, esp when the amount of room on the CSL maps, but I feel like for the industrial areas sometimes you just gotta line the factories up into rows -- it makes the otherwise dirty industries look a little more appealing.   thanks ulisse!

I love the idea of using a vehicle's perspective. Your city looks awesome.

the vehicle perspective is oftentimes my favorite. I feel like I'm so used to seeing it from an ariel view, when I "ride" a train or car the vehicle perspective brings the little ppl in the city to life.  thanks!!


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