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fixed the pictures, sorry about that guys

Here is a shot of central Gunievere. City Hall and the Guinevere Stock Exchange can be seen on either side of Main street if you look close enough. Region population growth is at an all-time high, and as a result, several office buildings have sprung up. Experts believe that Guinevere office space will marginally surpass that of Miramonte in the near future:

Thanks for the suggestions man. I'm going to check out photobucket asap. I'll post a few region shots later guys.

I've fixed the top pictures. Hey, can someone explain to me why spaces are being added between my lines after I post? I don't know why, but if you look at my last post, you'll see extra spaces in there that I didn't put in there myself.

Alright, I figured out why I wasn't able to upload the pics and I've fixed it, so here goes and update. Here are the population counts so far: Miramonte-Guinevere CMSA: 838,963 -Miramonte: 549,470 -Guinevere: 169,457 -Riverside: 120,036 Here is a photo of the South Central Galleria district of Miramonte. An office park surronds one of the wealthiest city High Schools in the area: Here is a traffic map showing all of Miramonte and a little of Riverside: Here is a photo of one of 4 area airports. Only the second largest airport in the region, a real world counterpart would be La Guardia Airport in NYC: And finally, a photo of the development of Guinevere thus far: Questions, comments and suggestions are welcome!

Thanks for the comments Terse Pig and oroen. I'm glad you both liked my other CJ. I plan for this one to be even more realistic. I'm trying to get my traffic map up for viewing, but neither imageshack nor ripway is letting me upload for some reason. Does anyone know of a good image host besides these two? Thanks in advance.

Thanks for all the replies. I know some might question my knack for creating realistic looking CJ's b/c of the gridiness of Miramonte, so I decided to give you a taste of Riverside, the biggest suburb of Miramonte and Guinevere. I can give many real-world examples of metro areas where the main city has a very grid-like layout while the suburbs have the sprawling less-planned layouts. But anyways, here is a Riverside teaser: Also, I wanted to note that the reason Guinevere is included in the Metro name is because Guinevere's pop will be ~800,000, while the next closest city's (Riverside) pop. will be ~400,000. Miramonte's pop. will be ~1.3 mil. Btw, here's a link to my last CJ that used cheats: https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/view.asp?mode=viewtopic&topicID=55207&num=30&pageNo=1

looks good, can't wait to see more

this is great...I've never seen a region built this big without the use of cheats...great job

great looking CJ...most realistic I've ever seen on these boards...

Great eye-candy.

One word. Amazing.

Looks good, can't way to see some more updates.

I grew up near and in Buffalo, NY so I'll use Delaware Park as a better example. It was built on the edge of the city (at the time it was built) along a creek (already a scenic area) to help divide the city from the suburbs. (The park-like setting continues all the way along the 198 to the 190, through a college campus not marked on the map.) From maps I've seen Dallas has some parks that have a similar effect, giving a nice large open area for urban residents before you're too far away from the city. Usually when a city hits between 750,000 and 1 million people parks like that start growing up. As a plus for the San Diego region, both in SC4 and real life, becuase of the terrain there's a good number of areas where developing them just doesn't make sense. SC4 doesn't project the hillsides that well, but I usually try to preserve any slope I can't easily build on as a park. This has led in real life (and something I copy in my region) to having big golf courses that cover a series of finger canyons to cover a whole hillside with open space, as well as reduce traffic demands on an otherwise congested area. Dave I grew up in the Orlando Metro area. It's hard to relate this area to other major metro areas outside of FL as Orlando isn't in a location that it gets alot of road traffic from other states passing through (unless their visiting attractions). For this reason, we don't have the I-400 circling our city, but state toll-highways (ex: FL-408, FL-417) that were built far too late, and don't really serve anyone up to 15-20 miles at times outside the Orlando city limit. They easily serve anyone outside those respective highways. For this reason, Orlando has a very large amount of traffic on regular roads (similar to the avenues of SC4). The Orlando Metro is one of those regions that only has about 20% of the total metro population residing within the central city limits. More than 80% of the 1.8 million people in the metro area live outside of Orlando. Also, our terrain is uniquely flat. It's very hard to find even the smallest of hills in this area. Just thought I'd give a little info on my hometown, hehe.

I like how you explain your highway layouts. It seems the depths of you interest in realism and city layout compares to mine. Where did you get those authentic California state road numbers/icons? Also, will you give us an example of a beltway park?

Date: 10/22/2004 1:08:42 PM Author: davidhogan The open green spaces, as seen above, are not done only for cosmetic reasons, but also so I don't forget something is a park and zone in it. (Residents lost the old Coleman Memorial Park to industry in to one such tragic incident.) Davequote> Good Deal!

I like how you use open grass areas to add realism and then even take the time to plant the trees over the grass. Looks good man.

Looks really good. I'm a fan of developed hills/mountains. Can we see a region view?

Looks good. Region pop.?

Amazing. Truly amazing. This and frogface's San Francisco are the best looking replicas I've ever seen. Good job.

I like this CJ. Model of realism. I like how you chose to go with a very large map and have developed it realistically. Kudos on a job well done!

Wow, amazing terraforming.

Wow, I've followed this CJ since it's inception. Glad you've begun working on it again.

Great looking pictures. I especially like that grocery store or whichever building that is in the first pic on the right side. Good job

You have a great looking CJ. Yours would have to be one of my favorites.