Manuel-ito

As I said in the "Show Us What You're Working On" thread, I'm opening a separate one for showing my lot projects and experiments Continuing on with the relots of Maxis' ploppables, here's the two standard medical buildings: For the clinic, I decided to replace the parking lot with a small patio, and the back of the building prompted me to add a short asphalt access. There's not many changes on the hospital besides the parking lot. Tried to simulate a front parking entrance with that storefront prop, covered some odd rendering of the main building with cp's stone wall props and added benches on the inside. Relots of the elementary schools, high schools and the municipal college: Also as per suggestion by @matias93, I'm experimenting with a terminus version of the standard passenger rail station. I still need to add a ticket office to the individual passenger stops:

Upside down? I don't know, everything looks pretty normal to me! AsimPika's Popeye giving a thumbs down, me having to stand on the ceiling to write this post... (I find it amusing that Cyclone's avatar is largely unaffected. Only the shade got swapped )

Siguiendo con creaciones en C:S, tras la nueva actualizacion gratuita que vino con Sunset Harbor decidí hacer un nuevo set de estaciones de pasajeros para reemplazar el andén que publiqué en el Workshop hace bastante: Decidí ir por un estilo "Vainilla", como el de la estación del juego base, y todas (salvo una) usan un set de redes personalizadas por BadPeanut. Todavía le falta un poco más de trabajo, como rebalanceo de costes y extensión de las vías

With the newest update facelifting vanilla train tracks, I started working on a new set of passenger stations meant to supercede a train halt I made a while ago: These are all in a Cities Railways (aka 'Vanilla') style, so they may have some warts, and all but one use BadPeanut's ground station networks. Still have a while to go before they are ready for publishing. Need to double-check some track lenghts, stop points and rebalance each against the vanilla station.

The pack is fairly basic (it was made back in 2006, when Rush Hour was still young ), so the items stay the same all year round.

A bit late to share this, but... There's an old, fan-made pack at Capital SimCity that contains various themed decorations, from transit enabled Christmas lights to plazas with decorated trees

Still working on Pepper Lake, I have more or less finalized the design of Pioneer Milling Company: It's not the only factory, tho. Several new ones have sprouted nearby: This took me longer than I'd like to admit. Lots of bulldozing until I got the growables I wanted, plus some more for level 2 buildings (and even more for those with color variations!). Also making sure they didn't dilapidate due to worker shortage. And yes, I replaced the default interchange

The perspective on the Flatiron Building caught me off guard. Are you sure that's from SimCity 4? Just kidding. Amazing work as always!

The passing of the tornado had one of the factory clusters pack up due to lack of workers, so the storage yard was relocated: The primary milling facility seems to be going strong though: Meanwhile, I'm having fun with gravel roads planning for future expansion of the town. You can also see the ground has mostly healed from the disaster: I also announced the purchase of a new plot of land east of town for further future development, not shown here. Instead, here's a bird's eye new of Pepper lake at night: At morning, everything seems to be peaceful, when suddenly the earth starts to shake... ...Or rather, sink. A sinkhole suddenly appeared and ate a section of Memorial Park. Miraculously, nobody was visiting when this happened. Repairs are in order. The hole was deemed too dangerous to rebuild on, so it's left as is: The construction of new industries has left the town in brownouts, so a new coal-driven power station is commisioned: However, this region either hates fossil power or has a cruel sense of humor, for a few minutes later... ...not again! Tornado! Tornado! Casualty report: 386 citizens. Power station destroyed, wind turbines derelict, fire and police brigade left without a home. The Plaza of the 299 narrowly survived after having one of its gates torn up (and having a car nearly land on top of the graves) After the necessary repairs, a new plaza for the fallen 386 has been constructed at the main park gate: The incident showed that emergency brigades cannot rely on a single office for a town this size, so a new set opens near the industrial area, hopefully out of tornado zone. They will definitely hate me for having to work near the landfill, though: A new schoolhouse has also been opened to promote growth and relieve pressure on Pioneer Elementary, as it was starting to get overcrowded: Pepper Lake after the second tornado: (For those curious to what triggers the disasters: the tornadoes happen twice over the span of two days, and the sinkhole occurs after you buy a second city tile) That's all for now!

To be fair, I just started the scenario, but yes, that access will definitely get overhauled (Along with the boulevard too. Not the first time I played this city, so I know that it will bring trouble once I expand enough, specially since I plan on connecting it with the other stretch of highway on the other side of the map)

Decided to start a new cities skylines scenario after a multitude of real life and gaming problems (RIP Appletown, will resurrect you some day) This time is Tornado Country, home of the town of Pepper Lake, a town with many ambitions. Still going for a 'vanilla with sprinkles' approach, this time with less of them, I mean, without mods. Scenario objectives: reach 260K population, 20k lifecycles and 1M funds (you start with 500K) You lose only at 30K in debt, that's it. Easy scenario, if it weren't for the fact that the game is notorious for melting computers at 100K+ population, among other problems... Enough ramble! here's the town as soon as you start: The town must've been settled recently, as 93% of the population is unemployed. Basic services are already built: landfill, clinic, fire and police stations and elementary school. First plan for the town is to expand it: settle factories and small shops, cut some expenses on those roads and raise tax levels to fund all of it. Thankfully, all approved by the town (althought I'm sure I saw some frowns on the roads and taxation ideas) Also not commented on: Landfill moved, Storage yard built for the industries : To appease the lack of jobs, a marketplace has been set up at the roundabout. Between Pepper Avenue and Pioneer Central Boulevard lies the Pepper Pioneer Market: The park, renamed to Pioneer Park, recieved some embellishment, and a new vocational school has been opened to educate the citizens further. A statue has also been erected to commemorate the Founder: The utilities seemed a bit unprotected, so a security fence is now in place: At dusk, the industries have arrived at town. They call themselves the 'Pioneer Milling Company' : That's all for Pepper Lake for now! hope y- Wait, what's that siren i'm hearing? Oh... Um... there's a bit of a predicament here, Mr Founder: ...Figures. I guess that's why it's called 'Tornado Country', huh? After the tornado passed and the storm subsided, a park has been commisioned to commemorate the fallen citizens. This is Pepper Lake Memorial Park: 299 casualties were caught in the path of the cyclone. A plaza was constructed for them: A general view after the tornado: That's all for now! as you can see, I'm trying a different format for this. Not sure if I'm doing an OK job at it, but time (and comments) will tell Also, you're welcome to tell me any ideas for this city!

I think we have a little predicament here, Mr. Founder... Tornado tearing trough Pepper Lake, Tornado Country scenario. 299 casualties reported: EDIT 02/26/2019: And here's the Plaza of the 299 nearly getting destroyed by a second tornado. 386 casualties reported:

Rest in peace Appletown, will resurrect that proyect someday... Starting a new scenario with the same 'vanilla with sprinkles' approach, this time without mods. This is Pepper Lake of the Tornado Country region, after the deadly passage of, well, take a guess...

No idea if there's still space, but... Name: Manuel-ito Gender: Male Zodiac: Capricorn My favorite residential building: The Maxis 2 Story House

The green diamonds represent 'effect' props. In this case, those are 'randomwalk' spawners, in other words, the ones responsible of generating those sims that randomly walk around the park in-game. As for the overlay problem, the lot may have multiple base textures stacked on top of each other. Try deleting said base texture(s) and replacing it.

So, having seen the latest dev diary of the upcoming DLC 'Industries' (#4, to be exact) I'm wondering if it will be possible to make a mod that converts some of the previous DLC's Unique Buildings into the upcoming one's Unique Factories. Specific ones in mind are most of the Hi-tech Pack's buildings (Electric Car Factory, Software Center, Semiconductor Plant, etc)

If I remember correctly, only editing the base (and overlay) textures won't cause any problems to existing ones in saved cities, other than the mismatched prop and bulding positions, that is. The actual problems may come if, for example, you change the lot size without demolishing them beforehand, as it may cause that particular lot to overlap others and potentially give you more problems (had some personal cases of 'immortal tiles' for having a modified lot be extended over growables) I would still recommend the safe route and demolish every instance before changing it, but in theory it shouldn't permanently damage a city file

The Edificio España shot reminded me of some old in-jokes about the creator of that BAT being intimidated by the sheer complexity of the building. Can't really blame him for that though, the actual building has a lot of detailing Also, that's an amazing scene of El Escorial. Debussyman's BATs really stood the test of time

I've fixed Appletown's horrendous infrastructure. Now i'm in progress of fixing its aesthetics Still going for a 'somewhat vanilla' approach.

A thunderous rumble that's not linked to weather, followed by an ominous blackout? I thought I remembered the mayor of Woodland River City talking about his power plants being at capacity... Hope the region's well prepared for that scenario. Either way, intriguing update!

As matias93 said, you are using the original NCD railyard and spurs pack wich are meant to go with Maxis' railway textures. You'll want the RRW version for it to match properly. It's been awhile since I last checked, but I think I linked both options in the file page. Also said here is that it's better to bulldoze the relevant lots before adding or removing a relot plugin, then plopping them back, otherwise you'll get mismatching props and building positions at best (I should really add a note in the files saying that, just to be safe. EDIT: added those notes in each Maxis Renewal file page)