The Jade Bight -- For Sc4

Love the round shaped building like the Helsinki and the dome shaped Library of Assumption. Paeng border parks are nice yet a bigger shaped square park would be nice, Riptide fountain awesome, still showing some more ... Subway entrances would ber nicer if some used as on the road stops, capacity will not be that great for important station there nice Road Top 

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There other, still some thing to conside. Picture 16 Giant mayores statue bordering Club Deja Vu Showgirls !?!, well done !

 

 

Very nice landscaping/showcasing of major attractions:-) (Helsinki Bank, Assomption Library). Urbane urban center (the parks  [and thanks for the fountain !:-)] I like Center Street a lot ! The custom content is blending well with Maxis vanilla, mostly. Well dressed diagonals. And the trees variety is most satisfying to this tree lover:-). Hint for night pictures  : for less blue night your perhaps could use the Mashty Night Mod... (darn, wanted to link it but for some reason I can't find it anymore. Uh ? I have it, it does exist... Has it fallen into a hole of the SC4 space-time continuum ? ...ah, it's something Japanese... Moonlight ?) Anyhoo, all in all a very good entry ! Looking forward to the next one.

Nice entry , everything looks to be blending well . The no palm mod , cool . Have  you had any negative side effects from it's use ? I was going to give it a try but still a little edgy on messing with tree mods . I use a lot of custom content already and my game is getting a bit sluggish . Deciding on a favorite image would be difficult as they are all very nice . Fine job , keep it up . looking forward to your next entry .  

5 hours ago, kschmidt said:

Love the round shaped building like the Helsinki and the dome shaped Library of Assumption. Paeng border parks are nice yet a bigger shaped square park would be nice, Riptide fountain awesome, still showing some more ... Subway entrances would ber nicer if some used as on the road stops, capacity will not be that great for important station there nice Road Top 

There other, still some thing to conside. Picture 16 Giant mayores statue bordering Club Deja Vu Showgirls !?!, well done !

Yo, kschmidt --

Thank you much, sir -- you are too kind.  Yes -- I enjoyed working with L' Assomption and especially the Helsinki Bank building.  And I find that I really enjoy working out  original landscaping solutions to my problems.  I had largely ignored landscape until a few weeks ago -- and this is working out very well.

3 hours ago, tariely said:

Very nice landscaping/showcasing of major attractions:-) (Helsinki Bank, Assomption Library). Urbane urban center (the parks  [and thanks for the fountain !:-)] I like Center Street a lot ! The custom content is blending well with Maxis vanilla, mostly. Well dressed diagonals. And the trees variety is most satisfying to this tree lover:-). Hint for night pictures  : for less blue night your perhaps could use the Mashty Night Mod.  Anyhoo, all in all a very good entry ! Looking forward to the next one.

Yo, Tariely --

I had a feeling you would like the landscaped greenery on Center Street -- and it ties in nicely with the parks used to separate the business and residential areas.  And I'm pleased that you are pleased with the tree mix I'm using for the landscape.  It's an absolute bear to work with -- each square carefully considered -- then a lot of scrolling, plopping, and more scrolling.  As for blending Maxis -- I try to make sure there is at least one custom content lot for every business city block.  This keeps a visible variety of buildings, makes use of the qualities of the Maxis stuff, and keeps me from running out of Low and mid-rise custom lots.  I do wish the batters / lotters had made more low and mid-rise stuff instead of all those skyscrapers.

4 hours ago, raynev1 said:

Nice entry , everything looks to be blending well . The no palm mod , cool . Have  you had any negative side effects from it's use ? I was going to give it a try but still a little edgy on messing with tree mods . I use a lot of custom content already and my game is getting a bit sluggish . Deciding on a favorite image would be difficult as they are all very nice . Fine job , keep it up . looking forward to your next entry .  

No palm Mod --

I haven't really put it to the test as yet.  I'm working over in "Wilhelmshaven" (getting the Imperial Dockyards ready for the battle fleet) and I've only plopped seaport and naval stuff.  But -- on the bright side -- I haven't seen a palm tree anywhere on the map !!

My machine runs sluggish on "Nuenburg".  It's only a medium map tile -- but there is a lot of detail -- and 200k people to boot!  I've cleaned out the plugins folder thoroughly -- and my only remaining options to improve performance will involve reducing graphics game options.  The "Palm Mod" should not slow your machine at all.  The Mod simply does not render palm trees -- should reduce the work load.

1 hour ago, Dreadnought said:

  It's an absolute bear to work with -(...)  then a lot of scrolling, plopping, and more scrolling.  As for blending Maxis -- I try to make sure there is at least one custom content lot for every business city block.  This keeps a visible variety of buildings, makes use of the qualities of the Maxis stuff, and keeps me from running out of Low and mid-rise custom lots.  I do wish the batters / lotters had made more low and mid-rise stuff instead of all those skyscrapers.

You'll get used to it (the scrolling etc) ; after a while, you know the MMP menu by heart, what goes where before which, and  it goes faster Isame for the fillers in the LM menu). As for Low & Midrise bldgs, I concur. They're not as sexy as big shiny Dubaï-style grandiosities, but boy are they useful -- and more realistic for the cities we ordinary folks more or less live in ! It took me hours of diving into SC4 websites in order to get enough of them (as you know,  ask and you will receive -- having already established lists of lots can narrow down the search and gain you some more time... for scrolling and plopping !)

Nice work. I usually gripe about Maxis buildings, but it actually looks pretty nice in your city. The parks also look really nice

13 hours ago, korver said:

Nice work. I usually gripe about Maxis buildings, but it actually looks pretty nice in your city. The parks also look really nice

Thank you much, sir !!  I'm tickled that you like Nuenburg.

My work is not nearly as innovative or exotic as yours, but I try to show a small flair when possible.  It's a bit more difficult because I'm trying to make a "functioning" city constrained by the RCI and other Maxis systems -- but that's the challenge.

The Maxis content helps me keep the RCI demand in balance while generating jobs and growth -- and also creating actual traffic on the roads and rails.  (I like choo choo trains!)

I came to the conclusion that "monumental" parks are nice -- but the more natural looking parks are less grandiose while being just as pretty.  And the Paeng park pathways are brilliant for squeezing in here and there to add greenery in the downtown.  Tariely gets a lot of credit for nudging me in the right direction.

I must confess -- looking at your work depresses me!  I'll NEVER be that good !!! 

I look forward to your next excursion to the far corners of the Earth!

Great Entry, you started off really well too, I like that opening night pic.   I really like what you did with the park paths along the avenues and where you put them in for the diagonal ave. (I might steal this idea)  That tree lined road looks great! Is that tree an mmp or part of a relot? 

Yo, Phil --

Thanks very much for the kind words.  Every now and then I get lucky, I guess.

Please -- feel free to "steal" any ideas you like. 

Part of the CJ's purpose is to solicit ideas from others (suggestions) and to show them a few tricks they may not have seen or thought of.

Center Street turned out to be a spur of the moment idea that worked out surprisingly well.  Imagine what it might look like as an avenue.

That's a "JRJ" tree -- "Istrinius" -- I loaded up for my tree controller.  It also shows up in your MMP menu.  There are 5 different click-models.  Not sure which JRJ prop pack they're in -- but it shouldn't be too hard to figure out.