76 - In Progress (Part 1 - Avalon)
Welcome back!
Lets do this.
To start of this year I'm going to show you a few works in progress. It's going to take a while to finish this stuff so I figured I'd get some feedback from you guys. In this entry I'll show you my CBD tile: Avalon
Those of you that have followed this CJ are most likely familiar with this area, but things have changed quite a bit.
This is an old gif I dug up that shows some the stages Avalon has gone through.
Unfortunately there was an economic crash and mass exodus of residents so I was forced to start over. It wasn't a 100% blank slate as I had to keep continuity with the roads connected to the surrounding tiles. In a way it was a blessing in disguise because now I get to make quite a few improvements to the layout. However, I regret starting this tile before knowing much about RHWs so it still has a Maxis highway and I'm not going to go ripping things up at this stage.
I've tried to keep many of the same elements from the original but things have shifted or expanded. I want it to be a very dense city but I still want to have more open spaces than it did before. I'm also trying to avoid repeating landmarks or skyscrapers and I'm carefully selecting where each one goes.
Here you can see the central area of the tile where everything leads to and extends from.
In the top left you can see Avalon park which is very similar to the original except now the walls are bigger and the castle is actually inside (before it was outside for some reason). I still need to do a custom lot of Riptide's Avalon Park so that it fits in better. I also need to make a Stonehenge custom lot with added trees rocks, as well as expand the width by 1 tile.
The main focus is the Burj Dubai, or as it is known in Ionica: The Ziggurat. Next to it is the Ionican Chamber of Commerce. I need to make custom lots for both these BATs but haven't gotten around to it. I want to make a hover-craft landing pad but I'm not sure how yet.
Here is a better view of the new train station. It is flanked by two museums and faces the St. Paul's cathedral (3 reddonquixotes). Below and to the right is a civics area with a hospital, fire station, police station, and schools.
This is the sports district with an Olympic grade stadium and an indoor arena surrounded by banks and hi-rise condos and hotels.
You can also see the high capacity ferry terminals in the bottom right.
At the tip of the central island, skyscrapers huddle together vie for the best view.
You can also see two ATEX Hyperloop stations that zip people from one end of the city to another.
Further south down the river, still on the main island, is the Avalonian Center for the Performing Arts. The skyscrapers around it are the headquarters of some of the biggest tech companies in Ionica.
On the second island is the Avalon Space Needle, probably the only landmark in the exact same place as the previous versions, except the area around it has now been expanded. I still need to make a new custom lot for it with seasonal trees and some props.
To the left is a war memorial park.
Further up we see skyscrapers lined up for a skyline war as well as another civic area.
This is on the 3rd island. I'm planning for this area to be industrial but I haven't made up my mind yet. I need to make it fit with the rest of the city and I'm thinking of moving any major industry out of the CBD. I also had heliports and I'm not sure if I want to put them back as I believe they cause a lot of pollution.
Comments, suggestions, and questions are always appreciated. Thanks for visiting.
Quite a few of my older CJ entries are missing their pictures right now. I'll try to address that when I have the time. I'm thinking of doing an entry where I recap some of my best work instead of restoring all of my CJ.
gviper: Amazing work! Love the use of diagonals and the various colors and effects added! A great place to spend Christmas!
Thanks for all your support in 2015. Hope you had a good one.
takemethere: You always just seem to know the exact right spot where to take a pic, or perhaps there simply are no bad spots to take a screenshot in your city. I'm banking on the latter. And seeing as how it looks like we're going to have a snow-less Christmas here in Toronto, I'll have to get my fill of it from Ionica.
Definitely not a single bad spot in my city, ever 
. Thanks
tariely: I can practically hear the sleigh bells... Bravo and thank you !
Happy New Year tariely. Thanks.
Ln X: In picture 7 what is that wide, long building at the very centre of the picture? It makes a suburb mid-rise filler. I like how this entry has more of a concrete jungle feeling to it, all in all a great entry.
It's Bixel's Primary School. Glad you enjoyed it, thanks.
raynev1: Awesome entry. Do you know why your graphics card died ? I bet it was from creating all of those amazing images , and melted the circuits . Good thing you didn't have more time to do this entry . You would probably be shopping for another graphics card . Happy Holidays to you and all of Ionica .
It was most certainly SC4 related. Thanks.
GoKingsGo: It looks like it's FREEZING there! Great night lighting, great road network, great building selection, great entry!
Thanks.
MissVanleider: I liked this already, but I'll leave a comment too, really interesting as always, you think there are buildings everywhere because everything looks so dense, and then you realise just how much space there is, and not just an overgrown mess of buildings. Some of the buildings that I don't recognise are really nice as well. Happy holidays!
Thanks for the comment. Hope you had a good holiday.
Terring: Pure, epic win!! Merry Christmas, buddy 
Thanks a lot Terring.
sejr99999: thank you I enjoyed visiting your city ditto on all the previous positive comments and also I like the use of some Asian BATs for their colorful lighting looks like parking is no problem either with all the underground parking.
Gotta have good parking. Thanks.
slickbg56: The colors and lights are really great. I bet everyone wears their sunglasses at night.
Lol I hate people who wear sunglasses at night. Thanks.
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