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Moerp
Heyho guys, first at all, sorry for the lack of content the last months. Today I try to develop a city tile, inspired by a northern-german strip of land in "Schleswig-Holstein" called "Friedrichskoog". I didn't try to copy it, but I was clearly inspired by it (I wasn't ever there tho lol). So here's the area we'll build in (the dike is already there): here's the master plan: Black = Main Road White = Railway Red = settlements everything else will stay green or will be transformed to agricultural area...
Moerp

Seaside #1

By Moerp,

After a break finally the next entry. I had much fun building the watersides, but the town(s) itself wouldn't want to grow nicely, so I had to build much landmarks... You see, there isn't anything behind the W2W, I didn't know how to fill this peninsula Yeah, I hope you like it:D Have a nice day guys! Replies Benedict: I totally agree with you, this mill would look really awesome in winter Huston: Thank you for the tips, but I'm just bad in photoshop:)
Moerp

Dat comeback tho.

By Moerp,

Yeah. Hey. Well, as you noticed, I was'nt active for a long time (happy St Patrick's Day btw.). The reason behind this is simple: I have problems with mod input, a lack of creativity and way too much other nice games to play (I play the heck out of CS:GO for example :3). I'm sorry for this. But if you are still interested in my CJ, you can keep it alive with suggestions of what I could do next in upcoming entries^^. Since I saw the first gameplays of Cities: Skylines (Although I don't own it) I gained new...
Moerp
Heyho, well because I was bored I made some shots for another entry of my "how to build stuff I do all the time". At first I laid out the zones. Because it's just a small Maxis-city tile, you can do this at once, and press "Start" if you already zoned the whole area. You see, for a farming town (with SPAM, because the vanilla-farms wouldn't create enough jobs for a whole town), you primarly need residetials and, yeah, farms. A bit of commercial at the crossing of the highways creates additional jobs for...
Moerp
So I already build a grid pattern for the downtownish-district of the town I'm working on. The poblem is I have absolutely no experience with downtowns. I made a plan, how I wanna do this, first the blank pattern: And here the zoning plan: blue: Highrise commercial green: Highrise residential yellow: Mediumrise residential grey circles: forests black area: additional space when necessary, otherwise mediumrise districts What you say? I really have no experience with this. Any tips? critics? Have a nice...
Moerp

Small Town #2

By Moerp,

Because I was really motivated today (Grade A in an essay ), there's already another entry. Indeed, it is a small town too, but.....yeah who cares? It just makes fun to create these towns, you know? But the next time it's another theme. Promise (probably night shots or mmp again). So it's snowing here in the Ore Mountains already and it's very beautiful I guess, so maybe I will upload some real life photos of my hometown someday. Have a nice evening guys! Replies Huston: That's a huge compliment, but it's...
Moerp
Yeah, a small update from our new city. there are several new suburbs like that closed community here: Home of the first Rugby Team of Lopräsmut (1. RTL - I have no idea about sports and especially not about Rugby but I had these beautiful pitches, so I used them). Besides this, the tourism in the town has grown. There are several camping grounds around the city in the beautiful nature. Here are some campers near a small, fancy pond.... ....strange isn't it? Those campers reported about the same mysterious...
Moerp
So I planned to develop a small part of a town like this (I'm sorry for the interface): And I received this: Mattb325s apartment building is DOMINATING. I really need to clean my plugins folder. Also this mixture of european and american styled houses is terrible. Maybe I should even enable the Maxis RHI again. Replies Gannet: Well, I like it too, that's why I'm using it:D stockslips: Thank you, I'm kinda into this style with apartment complexes and canals in the last time Schriefer. Thanks! Huston. Thank...
Moerp

Another quick entry^^

By Moerp,

(I'm not good with GIMP, I know:D) This village was founded in the next area to a lake, which has the same strange properties like the other lakes and ponds. In fact, this town needs no additonal heating systems, the lake holds the city even in winter by ~20 degrees. This is a huge economic saving, so there's some industry in this village too. There are rumors, scientists found a strange, yellow-glowing substance in the lake, but no one has proven this... Some more impressions: The whole area around the...
Moerp
May I introduce you to the small village "Larrington" in the Lopräsmut County: It's a really small settlement with ~a dozen houses, but it has a great history as one of the 3 "granary villages" in the area. During the 18th century, there was a war between the nation Lopräsmut is placed in and another neighbouring country. Bad luck for the old town of Lopräsmut, as a city in the farmland it was forced to provide the whole national army with food. Only this 3 villages were left to supply the greater area of...
Moerp
Heyho, yeah it's another boring entry about suburbs (I really have enough of them meanwhile^^) Here you see the first plan of the first minor center of the whole town, it will be espanded with many suburbs in all directions, time to time with another centers with bigger buildings in the center, like cities grew into each other. A small pond, very interesting for science, because the water plants in the immediate area around it, like the reed, doesn't seem to react to the seasons. Also it's never frozen....
Moerp

Classic.

By Moerp,

Today without any comments :3 Btw, I forgot to turn on the shadows again -.-. Sorry for that, have a nice sunday! Replies MilitantRadical: Yeah, I just don't have so many w2w buildings in the right size:3 I mean, I have the whole "Smalltown, USA" set and some others, but they have really different sizes:( But I don't know any other way too^^ Ln X: I forgot that again, I'm so f****** sorry:3 I just noticed it while uploading and then I didn't want to take all the screenshots again. It's just a shame, as...
Moerp

Quick update

By Moerp,

Today just...yeah...a quick update^^ I worked on: improvements of the inner town core... ...added some green detail for the residents ...started to set up a canal system.... ...aaaand set the basics for an elevated rail system. the major tracks are already build, more and especially more DETAIL (such as walls, fences, etc..) to follow. There wasn't an update last week due to a heavy party night, so don't be unforgiving:3 Well, that's it, have a nice evening! PS: Today is Hexenfeuer or Walpurgisnacht in...
Moerp

Still Alive

By Moerp,

Still alive. Not much content yet. Much stuff in development still. Such unreplied comments. Many doge. Wow. Procrastination time! Comments will be answered the next time. I'm the last person on earth using doge memes. Bye^^
Moerp
Well, I'm sorry I dont get done anything this time, but I swear next Friday I will upload the next actual entry^^ Well, I suddenly had a spontaneous imagination of an old town on an island (the most overused and kitschy scenery I could imagine) and now I have a really strange motivation Here's what I got so far (actually, it's just the island that's done): Red: city core blue: small port yellow: monastery(?) green: green space/fields or "meadows" (for small animals of course) The grid is actually on...
Moerp
Hey guys, I really wanted to play sc4 again this week, but I didn't really got well with my time disposition today so, I accomplished only enough for a teaser :/ This time I'll try to construct a small US-styled city. I was a little buzzed at this time, so I didn't really made any plans about any kind of more complex traffic systems. i'll have to plan around the next time^^ Let's call it a challnge:3 Unfortunately, all this awesome swedish houses are in the US-tile sets. They look great tho, but don't...
Moerp

Visit #4: Square Lake

By Moerp,

Yeah, I developed the town further: Another small wtf moment. That building is just massively dominating. That's it, see you soon and Пока! Replies IRE505:I wouldn't say they suck too, but they're just real basic and nothing special:D I don't even know how I should do this in a actual realistic terrain with slopes and all, I should learn from the "masters" of SC4:D stockslips: Thank you for the kind words:) 47ply: To do something like this isn't hard, just if you want to put in a few slopes and realistic...
Moerp

Nailed it.

By Moerp,

Well, as a quick reminder of what it looked like at the beginning: Starting development: And the result: And now, just some impressions: (You should never try to build such a city with a demand mod activated. If you're unlucky or stupid, like in my case, you don't have enough different lots for the high wealth sims and get the same buildings everywhere. I mean, in the residential districts it looks quite good, but only the Grantosa Café along the main street looks a bit....weird) More like a high-tech...
Moerp

Filler #1

By Moerp,

Because of many Shutdowns of Simcity, just a small filler today, sorry. It's a little park in a suburban area across from the local High School. Originally I wanted to show you more views of the town, then the game crushed and I was too annoyed to restart it Sorry guys, but have a nice evening though.
Moerp

Almost Finished...

By Moerp,

Okay, everything is zoned now, just some details are missing, such as highway walls. Look: Traffic System only Zones only Everything (with stupid zots -.-) I hope you like what you see:D The final update is coming soon. Have a nice weekend! Replies Caracortada: Modern monument? A CBD or an actual monument/statue?^^ Sorry, I didn't changed the locatio of suburbs and w2w because I was too lazy, though it was originally planned like this, I just did a mistake :x What do you mean with "commercial buildings...
Moerp

Views of the town

By Moerp,

Remember the weekly updates some months ago? This time is gone^^ i didn't actually build much more, but I did some mmp work at last. A small lookout at the windcliff. It's a little nature preserve, so no cars are allowed. The "upper town", the commercial towncenter.... aaaand the "lower town", the residential part. The other part of the population lives in the suburbs in the east of the towncenter. A small entry for such a long break, but therefore I will answer the comments of the last entry:3 Is this...
Moerp
Yeah, I made a plan for a new city, I'm like semi-finished, here you are: Thats what I mean with "semi-finished". In the top "???" tile, I'm propably zoning a commercial district with some supermarkets and huge stores and that (can you suggest me some?^^) In the bottom "???"-tile, I will propably just build a park and plant some trees, what is your opinion about that? And in the mid "???"-tile I have absolutely no idea I really need your help about that. First, I planned the w2w area there, but...
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