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Thille : Downtowns

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1. There are two downtowns in Thille, one on each bank -- a good thing too, as there are few bridges linking North and South Thille (more about that later). But the real one is on the right bank of the Sainte-Croix river, i.e. North. That's where the big skyscrapers are, harbingers of Things to Come, although they have not replaced all the middle wealth commercials that came before ; some small houses even resist obdurately, but they won't last long (you have to really look for them...)

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2. Hey, P. R. found some of her books in the bookshop when she arrived , near the airport shuttle (you can see a bit of the shuttle parking on the top...)

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5. That part of downtown is decidedly subdued, albeit prosperous

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7. But this is where it's at :

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8. In all modern cities, malls small and big are often places of entertainment, where you go shopping – which can be entertaining in itself – but also to meet friends, have a nice cup of coffee and some fun. Thille has developed the concept or commercial entertainment to its utmost :  its really big commercial centers are also cultural centers. The case in point is the Desjardine Commerce Center, known locally as "Blue" (on the left). Its architect, Paule-Marie Desjardine, was then the rather young daughter of one of Northey Lake RISFI's "hippies", but no one laughed at her when she proposed her plan for the new commercial center. It was instead officially hailed as a splendidly daring project (dissenting voices were drowned in the applauds).  Not far from it is  the Omega Municipal library (on the right , also affectionately dubbed "The Spaghetti", another Desjardine's design. It hosts workshops of all kinds, literary festivals (guess what P. R. went to Thille for ?) and the Art Department of the modular regional university.

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9. And you can buy a lot of Stuff in-between more highbrow endeavours :

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We'll visit Blue and Omega next time. P. R. is feeling sleepy...

 

 

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Yo --

The variety of custom material is absolutely amazing.  I can't believe you don't have a 10gb plugins folder !! 

I'm going to have to work harder at custom lot diversity.

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1 hour ago, Dreadnought said:

Yo --

The variety of custom material is absolutely amazing.  I can't believe you don't have a 10gb plugins folder !! 

I'm going to have to work harder at custom lot diversity.

Simcity 4 UserDir startup parameter you can have as many instalation´s as you like; no interfering with each other, drawback if one like to keep the plugin folder relatively small one has to make choices wich custom lots to put in a instalation or not, so have a folde with american lot´s, european lot´s and asian lot´s, take time to develope, drawback these lot´s are only available for there own instalation so  no japanes or europea]n bat in a american city unless you add them !                                                                                 !

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Nice downtown, what is that snake like building in picture 8, Blue Heaven on the left side a kind of sport arena ? Like most scraper aren´t that super high, there a business zone with some scraper of certain height but overal it´s medium housing; resulting in  , well done !

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It's barely 2 GB, Dreadnought. The heaviest plugins folder I've ever had, for Eden Bay, was almost 4 gb. I kept adding stuff as I went from tile to tile and didn't keep enough track of it, so I was afraid to take anything out and get prop-poxed when going back to a previous tile !:-) [I ended up being prop-poxed anyway. Which is why there was an Eden bBay region, but no Eden Bay CJ ! That tile went kabloowie !] Not the right way to do it ! Kschmidt  is right : now I try to go carefully modular and keep themes and cities clearly labelled.

1 hour ago, kschmidt said:

Nice downtown, what is that snake like building in picture 8

You mean "The Spaghetti” ? Uh...oh... er... I'd have to go diving in my stash to find its real name back. I'll keep you posted (or perhaps someone here will remember it before I do?:-)

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Nice looking Downtown you have there . A bit of a concrete jungle appearing compared to your previous entries . But still has it's green spaces . :thumb:

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Nice entry, love the parking in the last picture. In fact, that my overall favourite picture and the more I look at it the more I like it! Where did you find what I guess is a little one tile 'compass' plaza lot?

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it's a Peg lot. PEG_PlazaPack1_205a (CDK-SV). ... and kschmidt, I'm sorry, I can't find the name of the Spaghetti ! I think I saw it in another CJ not long ago... darn.

2 hours ago, raynev1 said:

Nice looking Downtown you have there . A bit of a concrete jungle appearing compared to your previous entries . But still has it's green spaces . :thumb:

Just trying not to be a one trick pony...:-)))

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