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Highways & Interchanges, Railways & Infrastructure, Skyscrapers & Skylines, extensive mmp work and custom lots & BAT's.

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TakemeThere
The City of Cisco Bay is the largest city in the Eastern portion of the region. It's aptly named after the body of water it was built next to. It's position in the region can be seen in the map below: It was also the first city I built in the region almost 10 years ago. I recently modernized the city - replacing the maxis highways with RHW, added a fair amount of custom content and did some MMP work as well. Here's a look at the downtown area of the city and a preview of other area's around town I'll be...
TakemeThere
A little progress report on what I call the IRP - Interchange Rebuild Project. Highway system map: compared to the original pre-CJ map: Seems every week or two the map changes, there are multiple changes in this version. One section of a planned highway was rerouted and renamed 704(originally part of 705). As a result two other highways had to be renamed to maintain numbering consistency. I use a specific method when it comes to highway numbering. Highways which travel in a predominately east-west...
TakemeThere
Continuing on with infrastructure entry's, Power generation and consumption must be balanced across the entire network at all times. If a portion of the system fails, electrical current can actually re-route itself over other parts of the system which may not be capable of handling the increased power flow possibly causing additional or even larger power failures. Therefore operators must react as quickly as possible to any faults. As mention before, Hillsoboro TS is linked up to several important...
TakemeThere
Hydro corridors in general seem to be an under utilized feature of the game. In fact they're so ubiquitous and quite frankly not all that interesting to look at in real life, that few of us even notice or pay any attention to them. I get the feeling that most SC4 players, not necessarily on this site but in general, view placing power lines as little more than a nuance. However, its actually one of my favorite things to do - running numerous hydro corridors throughout the entire region. In some cases right...
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