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10 - Sun Bay Cliffs

philforhockey51

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Hello Everyone! Welcome back to the Tour. Today we'll be stopping in to take a look at Sun Bay Cliffs. (please look for replies at the end)

A quick peek at the District pic

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As you can see Sun Bay Cliffs is a bit of an extension of the more densely populated area centered in Sun Bay Village. It also has a portion on the outskirts if you will that has found farms growing on the plateau. The cliff at it's highest point is "like 40million feet tall, like for sure" as one local resident informed us. A set of "steps" on the cliff has provided some space for some homes and access to a Ferry and a small bay side marina. To the north it rises to a few hilltops(in neighbor tiles)    

(new to the tour? we didn't skip Sun Bay Village it was covered in an earlier entry)

Let's start with a look at the development and full city tile view.

02 - Zones (Opening pic is 01)

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03 - Full City

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04 - Moving in closer for better look

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05 - Farm Area

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07 - Town Area (little bit of repetition but you'll notice slightly different LOTs so I left them in as a "development")

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08 - Main transit paths East

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09 - Moving East

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10 - A little farm town that existed before the main city section today.

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11 - I tried getting a pic with a train on this rail but I just couldn't seem to get the timing right

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12 - The retention pond, very "green" with a lack of movement in the water, I intentionally left out an pipe outlet into the pond because those lots are a little oversized for this pond.

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13 - Raising a Barn

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14 - The back farms

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15 - Transitioning into the town

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16 - Underpass

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17 - From the other side (do you see the Bullet Train?)

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18 - Curves by Day

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19 - Curves by Night

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20 - Where the Industry is

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21 - Where the access to the marina is

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22 - Gotta move that freight, had issue with filling in the spaces and getting road and rail access and it doesn't look great by it's ok

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23 - BTM on the Curve

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24 - Sun Bay Cliff's City Center Circle

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25 - The City Planning Board members changed so much over the years that many different building styles were approved and the town has developed a very interesting yet strange look.

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26 - Here is the circle at the end of the avenue as it heads toward the farms

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27 - Some good fishing near the cliff, the Ferry is heading over from Sun Bay Village

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28 - A better look at the Watchers on the Wall (I wonder how many of you have picked up on my Feature title references to _____ ) someone fill in the blank please.

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30 - Marina Road

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31 - Marina road continued

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32 - The full marina and the transit paths East

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Finished Strong? I hope you folks enjoyed the tour, this isn't one of the most beautiful towns in the region but it is an important part in helping the region to function. If you notice there are plenty of jobs and not many that live here, they commute. Though it may seem like it most of the plateau is flat it actually has areas at slightly varied heights, smoothed most of the roads and streets with slope mods. As always Comments and Questions are gladly taken, and I really do appreciate Likes. 

Replies:

@kschmidt Thanks, it is such a small space and the ground is not even so not much space for helicopter base, I have a Coast Guard complex with sea and air in another city tile, we will see in a future entry.

@MissVanleider Thank you, I thought you might like it when I started to put it together, I really like lighthouses too, glad to see you did

@Dreadnought Thanks Man, I just keep trying, I try to work "with" the rock mod I have, I use the smallest setting and slowly raise or flatten parts of it until it looks "different". On this big cliff it was harder to do it, it still looks a bit repetitive in some areas but I did what I could with what I wanted to make.

@takemethere Thank You for noticing the work I put into that animation, I have a couple of ideas for some more and now that I kinda know how to I hope to improve. I found some time this week to put this one together and I have a good feeling about getting some more time next week.

@wournos Thank You, Glad we got that figured out, yeah sometimes it takes a bit to load. 

@Urban Constanta Thank you

 

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Look there's cliff dwellers ! Nice entry Phil . I think I like the full city view the best , because you can see everything on the tile . Nice :thumb: 

First to view , comment and rate . 5/5 

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Terraced cities are always a royal pain.. but you managed to pull it off well! Great job!

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Good management .... I would like to visit more. I too play either your views are beautiful but every photos I tend to want me to move as in the game.

Bravo.

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Terraced indeed, vertical faces gray rocks are like a hole; nothing can survive on it; there not to many or in obvious. Infrastructure alike it gives a bti of a japanese topology; all efficiently orderered; this can be said about any organized enviroment still you got grouped city and agriculture like rice fields beside the roads and railways ! Maxis original farms for a change; lake nicely detailed, city nicely grouped around the roundabout, well done !

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The water retention pond and the area around it looks great. I completely agree about not having a pipe outlet it would of been much to large for the pond. Aside from that when ever the water levels get a little higher you most likely wouldn't be able to see the outlet anyways.

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A very nice mix here! The European style W2W development in the town center is an interesting feature and you've made it work quite well here in conjunction with the roundabout and diagonals. The marina and cliff-side development looks like a lovely place to be.

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