CommishGordon

Salt water does all sorts of nasty things to boats, depending on what materials they are made of I, too, struggle to name my cities from time to time. I usually try to name my cities according to their purpose. Industrial "cities" tend to have names that fit, Dante's View for example. For cities with people, depending on its intended size the name could be small or natural sounding (Parkview) or big-city type (Garadius). I also grab a National Geographic or use Google or Wikipedia to look up city or street names when I am stuck.

I think the spider's were decorating for Halloween. Beats anything I do with the fake stuff (even with a black light).

Looking good. I've driven those freeways a lot and they look pretty realistic given the boundaries of SimCity. I also like the archive freeway photo's mixed with the Sim version. Nice touch.

A great opening weekend of the NFL. Can't wait for next week.

Medium city. You have some of the advantages of both the big city and the small town, without some of the disadvantages of each (in general at least).

Very cool. Having just flown over the area (and lived here a long time) it looks pretty dam good. I can almost see my house here in Long Beach. Any chance of a close-up view of the my area (and the LA Harbor in general)?

I like the water/moat area as part of a big-city environment. Brings a little bit of the country/wide open space to the big, skyscraper city.

Very cool CJ. And those are awesome pic's.

I plant plenty of trees in empty or unused spaces, and I also have plenty of "green" zones of parks. For a big city its pretty hard to be completely green. I try to have a "neighborhood" park (usually a medium park or playground) every couple of blocks, this does seem to help even things out. Also, use of a subway and other mass transit seems to help keep air pollution down. I rarely, if ever, have a power plant in my residential cities. Sometimes a solar plant, but normally each clean city (residential/commercial) is attached to a dirty city (industrial/power/garbage). I usually don't worry about water pollution, since my residential cities are pretty clean and my dirty cities buy water from other cities.

I usually team my residential/commercial city with an industrial city. So, I will build a power plant and some industrial zones in the "dirty" city first, then begin work on the "clean" one. Usually starting in the corner, I will build an outer avenue that (eventually) rings the city if its to be an ugly, metro type city. Then begin building streets and house, expanding slowly and adding city services as needed. Road connections to other cities are definitely important, and I will tend to build more, even if there are no building there yet, to make sure demand factors are met.