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Chronicle of my job as mayor of Tronton, my first city in Cities XL 2011 and surrounding area. Join me on my journey of trials and tribulations as I strive to build a massive city worthy of...

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oneupcanuck
After about a year of play time on and off I have finally completed my city. I achieved my goals of constructing the Chrysler, Empire State buildings and Football Stadium megastructures but I could not entirely fill the map due to my system bogging down under the intense strain the simulation was generating. Too bad the game only can use 1 cpu core. I never thought I would enjoy this game more than Sim City 4 but I really did have many hours of fun creating this huge metropolis. It's amazing to see the...
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Building a Highway

By oneupcanuck,

So I finally hit 500,000 pop and now I can finally build that big, huge highway through my city that I always wanted right? Wrong! Well, the game's design tools really try their best to prevent you from doing what you want with a highway. First of all, the intersections are huge unmodifiable pieces that must be placed first before building the highway or connecting roads itself. It's very difficult to make things connect properly. For instance, you must use the large luxurious avenue to connect to a...
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Traffic Woes

By oneupcanuck,

I haven't updated in a while becuase I've been frantically racing towards 500,000 pop so I can get highways! During this period of rapid development I ran into major traffic issues. The main reason for this is becuase I built most of the new heavy industry sectors far away on a small flat strip of shore between the ocean and sheer cliffs. There is only one main access corridor but it's an expressway. This expressway runs the entire lenght of the industry zone and through the rest of the city. Since...
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Birth of Tronton

By oneupcanuck,

Here we go, my first city in the revamped Cities XL 2011. I used the map "Delta River" to start my city. ( I will upload pics a bit later when I have access). I wanted to build near the edge of the map so I could benefit from a city link nearby and not have to spend a lot of money building roads. My strategy initially is to be very conservative and efficient to build up a profitiable city. The area I chose was a flat valley nestled between two mountain plateau's. I built up a large heavy industry sector...
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