TheBonobo4

Hey everyone! Just to let you know that I am still alive. Whilst I have made no progress on this in over a year, just dropping in to say hey, and nice to see people still making custom buildings for New York and other cities. Also, loading up SC4 recently, for some reason I have a region called New York, which is more developed than another region I have called New York City, despite the city tiles being laid out identically. Who knows why that is?

I haven't forgotten about this either, but right now I have no time and no real desire to continue NYC. Chris, can we see your London work so far? And as for your degree, what are you studying?

I've not forgotten about this, but I'm still on hold with it, and likely will be for a long time. Chris, have you any updates or news to share with us though?

We still need so many BATs! If I knew how to make them myself then I would, but even major buildings are missing. I'd love some more NYC stuff (AMNH, NYC Library, Art Museum, Lincoln Centre etc).

Sorry I haven't done this for a bit. I'm actually going to take a break from it for another 2 or 3 weeks or so. Partly because I'm stuck and need to think on what to do next, but also because (and probably because of the former reason) I ave no real desire right now to work on this. I imagine that in 3 weeks or so, I'll want to carry this on, hopefully. In the meantime, if someone could send me an accurate and useful set of maps for Manhattan's subways, that'd be great. I think I'll build those next, though I'm still unsure how to build the stations. Maxis ones can be unrealistic and also not all real life stations are above ground or visible.

Soon the road map will be too big for one screenshot, but this is everything I have so far. Again, I need a suggestion of what to build next, because I'm running low on ideas. Oh, and if you see any errors, or things that could be improved, tell me now.

Also, I'm running out of ideas as to which areas I should build next. I'm nearing the stage where I'm going to have to start building Highways, or curved roads, or diagonal roads. Unless I build the Subways (which are invisible for the most part sadly), I could build Broadway. South of 14th looks really tricky, apart from what I've done already, and East of 1st and West of 11th both look tricky, Central Park will be mostly a nightmare, and I can't go much further North due to a lot of curved and diagonal roads meaning very few reference points for building. So, any ideas? Or should I just try Broadway and/or the Subways?

There are a load of good looking NYC apartment blocks, but I'm not sure if they are growable or ploppable. By the way, what is the actual reason (besides the game being retarded) for the inability to place residential buildings like you can with commercial and industrial?

For anyone wondering, this is not the kind of thing that can be finished quickly, if at all. Once we get Manhattan done, are we finished? Or do we move onto Jersey City, Staten Island, Queens, The Bronx and Brooklyn? Where do you draw the line as to when we are "finished"? Besides, just finishing Manhattan will take a very long time, let alone anything else (and if anything, Manhattan is the easiest bit due to the grid like street pattern).

One Penn Plaza I have downloaded as a BAT, but not placed yet. Broadway I haven't yet started to build. It will be very difficult to get it right, so I'm waiting until later to build it. Kind of like an ostrich really.

Pictures! It is done. It could be better, but I think this is about as good as I can get it right now.

Hmm. Took me awhile to get right, for some reason your method didn't work. Somehow it works now though.

I used 45 degree OWR pieces, What do you mean by draggable smooth curves?