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About this City Journal

jamestown was the name of one of the first eurpoean settlements in north america, so i decided it would be a good name for a new city and my first city journal.

this being my first time logging and sharing a city of mine as i'm still building it, i'm not really sure of the format. everyone on here seems to have their own style, but so far my favorite things are the background stories and the custom road and transit maps. i make maps like those all the time but never have for a city i made in a simulation game, so that's definitely something i'm going to try.

i will be working in cities:skylines with an atrocious amount of mods and workshop content. jamestown will be built on a modified workshop map of auckland, new zealand. i usually try to keep my cities around a max of 80-90k, since after that my computer starts to slow considerably and the simulation gets choppy.

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matthewscott6615
Another Jamestown from the dead post! Was looking through old screenshots and found a series showing the small but immensely effective service road network below downtown Royals.Looks like a simple interchange where the highway enters the area of the CBDBut wait! Underneath that intersection is another intersection! One of the portals to the lower level downtown streets. Lower level roads are highlighted in purple because tunnels don't show up in high res screenshots for some reason. Probably a good thing...
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JMetro

By matthewscott6615,

Still haven't opened my save file, but I have been working on drafting a transit map of Jamestown based on screenshots and map views I already have. This is a quick version made with the metro map creator web tool ( http://beno.org.uk/metromapcreator/# ). It's not very pretty but the tool is super quick and very free.Public transit in Jamestown is operated by Jamestown Metropolitan Transportation Authority, or JMetro. The JMetro rapid transit network includes 6 subway lines that serve the city and some...
matthewscott6615
As all of us CS players are aware, both the game's content manager and steam's workshop are both almost entirely devoid of actual features that allow you to.....manage the game's content.......which is their entire purpose......whatever.....But alas, my workshop assets have been botched again and another save game all but ruined!!! I'm so glad I dropped 50 bucks on this game!!!I haven't actually opened the savegame yet, but I'm certain that when I do I'm going to be immediately hit with half my buildings...
matthewscott6615
Now that Jamestown is growing into such a tourist and business destination, the city council has dedicated a committee to rework and redesign the city's informational databases and access thereto. This includes mapping neighborhoods and business. Using the cimtographer mod on steam, I exported OpenStreetMap data and viewed it with JOSM, a java based OSM data viewer and editor. These are the raw data, many pretty road and transit maps to come soon!Unfortunately only the standard network types are programmed...
matthewscott6615
A lot has been happening in Jamestown the past few years. Out of control expansion in the central business district lead to a regional housing boom, but still developers could not keep up. Businesses that had contracted with the city to move their offices here were left with few and in some cases, no employees to work for them. Some companies began transferring people in from other locations, and recruiters brought new people to the city every day to apply.Finally, the city stepped in and laid out plans...
matthewscott6615
Jamestown has grown from a tiny settlement near the water to a respectably sized, although by no means world class, commercial center. With a population of around 40,000 in the city, and another 25,000 in its extended suburbs, Jamestown has a host of amenities for residents, tourists, and businesses alike. JMetro operates a number of transit options for the region, including 9 Metro bus routes serving the city and another 4 connecting the outlying suburbs to the city. 4 Metro subway lines are in operation,...
matthewscott6615
Now that I've been playing long enough to have learned the idiosyncrasies of the game, I've been getting more and more detailed with each city I build. This time I am even going so far as to place individual 1x2 terraced townhouses with the building cop/paste mod into large neighborhoods and then using the building level locker mod to keep them all in place. It's been a bit tedious, but I really enjoy how real everything looks, and it's better than having enough custom assets saved to keep things populated...
matthewscott6615
This neighborhood showcase begins right where the city began. Old Jamestown (also known as Old Town) is a small peninsula that wraps around a dead volcano on the east side of the Portage County isthmus. Old Jamestown currently has a population of around 4,100 and is home to all levels of schooling with an elementary school, high school, and a community college. City Hall is on the edge of Old Town, between Dome Park and the newly completed Shoreline Trail bike and foot path. The trail circles almost the...
matthewscott6615
Just started a new city before discovering this site, so I thought I'd jump right in and start my first city journal!Here's a few quick shots to give you an idea of what I've got so far. I have most of the central area districts started, and a suburbs, but not a whole bunch very far out. Started plotting out and naming some of the outer districts and suburbs, and set up a few special industrial areas. A few bus lines are open as well, and I have plans for several metro lines when the need arises.I don't...
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