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A City Journal by Dyas

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Cities at base of Mt Usher

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Dyas

New Power

By Dyas,

So the region is starting to look nice I think. The edge where the cities meat truly is almost blended end. I think I'm going to extend the farm down just to the real highway to merge them more. But here is my region so far: Link https://kblsrq.bay.livefilestore.com/y2p54DtjJZGI4sqWgNXqczS9KXYlrPrvF5LJcFDiKXBnTIsSff26jdVopK-XwX3gL8JXZX7GE3MLMZ6qAare9HLtJyNjOAfXJUyF1NJ8Qe45GSdjuX0UuV2tOhSB6W7iOzc/Terra%20Nova-1369957840.png?psid=1 Now, I started on the City Business area, and was working on that. My power...
Dyas
Ok, someone said that it didn't look right in winter. So I did a winter scene of the residential. Full image: https://kblsrq.bay.livefilestore.com/y2pE-qwFcUMcIMXYpzpiTqDBYoyt0alrMkC39wgMJ8-GJi7dakJRPtgpO8JOjhlAcp7cn5wVHUqVtEM8czC-lbZ_400bZ3j1vJoerOc3bxml9lTDT4z_7Ox4T3uQ3EVNvSw/Winter.jpg?psid=1
Dyas
So, I got Fifth Ward to be profitable. I basically zoned a lot of things that will need to be upgraded and made to look better later. I guess I'm taking great pleasure in the fact that why I'm doing this, I'm not cheating. Well one thing, sound walls. But I feel those are a regional expense, and that budget we don't see. They only apply to the highways of the region. I would have made them have no park effect, but I couldn't find ones that did that. And I haven't modded them yet. So without further ado,...
Dyas

Back to Fifth Ward

By Dyas,

With my good progress on Home Acres, I have decided to go back to fifth ward. I learned that while I did a region plan, I needed a tile plan as well. I looked at the region, and I have varied from what I originally wanted to do. That is ok, plans are just that plans. So here is my new plan.
Dyas
Ok, I wanted to get you something, and planting trees is VERY slow. Well the way I do it. Hopefully it turned out looking nice. Thumbnail: Link to full image. I didn't do the bigger zoom this time, but hopefully you like one at medium zoom for now. Other things I fixed/did. Lets see I added the school in the CBD. I updated the avenues to have a correct slope, and wall texture on side. The trees in the residential district. Oh, as for the lake and river. So, I think it should be considered that as this is a...
Dyas
Try this on for size! Full Image https://kblsrq.bay.livefilestore.com/y2pK-dnXLs2hfntnr3M5Ww13GpSBUfx40cJi8e773l_hJelMd3bNcaVl-LwFJXhdnn_IMiMCHrhquyk-l2_JpxL-dAuiBrXRX7-PTy_e9UeKMTdnc6griCPsHkRNWWzkPlY/Tile2.jpg?psid=1
Dyas
Well I have had my computer have issues, Sim City 4 Crash some, and I can't place one sound barrier by the edge? It crashes game every time. Anyway, here is the whole tile. Full Image
Dyas
Ok, so I was very aggravated last post, cause I'm not good at modding, and I thought I lost my city. I didn't, so I wanted to post a quick view of my farm land. I'm not in the black for this city, so I want to add police next to the middle of the city.
Dyas

The End

By Dyas,

Well sorry, I did some moding, and now my region cities won't load. Guess I'm going to have to try again, or maybe figure out why. If I do figure out why, I will continue. Otherwise I will start another region. I will post a link if I start another here.
Dyas
So I added an interchange. I have downloaded noise walls to add to the look of the city. I put in a lot of trees to. The slope mod I was using was way to restrictive, so I got rid of it, and now I have terrible slopes. I need to find one that is gentle, but not so harsh I tear my hair out trying to build a road.
Dyas
OK, So I am very behind Chris who is the reason I started this, but I'm continuing. I added some ponds to this one, and trees, but they don't seem to show?? I'm in acres, all though I didn't get to farms. My slope mod annoyed me so much that I removed it. Than my avenues looked terrible. I respect the slope, but when I can't see the difference on a street, I got annoyed. Anyway, I forgot how to get streets to neighborhood connect, so I used roads, but I hope you like that I tried for more real...
Dyas
Well my city doesn't look very realistic yet. But I'm going to stick with it. Here is my residential so far. I'm not doing the best, but working on it. I need to get more detail in, but I wanted to get a city that could afford itself. Maybe I could cheat for money for realism, but I want it real looking, and to make money. And here is a wide view of my industrial. I want to add the detail in later. Again I want a real looking city, but I want it to be able to afford itself. So as these residential areas...
Dyas
The NAM is hard for me to work with, so this might take a while. I am going to take my time, and if I don't have much reader because of it, so be it. I got the frst three cities done, and started on the industrial network in the bottom left. I figured start with the dirty industry. This is home acre. I plan on putting farms in this zone. Hence the name. This is fith Ward. I figured it fit a mostly industrial zone. This is Swayzee. I don't know, random name generator and this is what you get. Now all these...
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