TheBonobo4

I think that Chicago is brilliant. Almost perfect if it's accurate. Though it could do with a water mod, as the water looks too tropical to be Chicago. And if a few roads weren't Maxis roads (not a problem, it still looks great), it'd be perfect. Other than that, I'm amazed how good a recreation you have. Do you have other parts to show? I noticed all those pictures were of the same city tile.

I'll download it tomorrow or Monday. No more SC4 for me today. Though do you have a link? Or is it already in the NAM?

Okay, hope you like these: An overview of what I did today, showing Upper Manhattan: The area around 106th Street on the East Side, the building is the Museum of the City of New York, about the only BAT I currently have for Upper Manhattan. An overview of the 110th to 125th Streets. I ended at 125th Street, (being a 6 lane road made a good end reference point, and I was getting tired and bored of SC4 for the day). I made 110th a 4 lane 2 tile road for Central Park North, I hope that's correct.

Hold on a second, I'll post a screen of the East Side and Upper Manhattan. Let me take one and upload it to Imgur first though.

Yes. I did all the East Side and Upper Manhattan (or Harlem). Though your NAM looks different to mine, I'm using v32 (I think, it's the latest version), what are you using? It took a long time yes, but I think the results look very good indeed, especially the Harlem Upper area. I hope you like it. Oh and I had to consider that it's not a perfect grid. As you can see, there are roads that don't pass through certain avenues (holes in the grid).

Huge update for today. I started at 58th on the East Side, and just sort of went with it. Literally I have worked all day on this, so whilst there may be errors, I'm pretty proud of this. 68 streets made (I think), plus a few Avenues, into correct OWRs. There's a few errors intentionally because I don't have reference points (Avenues that just sort of appear), but I can rework on them later (e.g. 113th and 114th don't exist in my recreation much, but that's due to lack of reference points). Hope you enjoy, pictures to follow soon. As promised:

So, minor update for today. Minor, but I'm proud of it at least. The West Side now has correct OWRs and 2 tile roads, including the little 2 tile, 4 lane road running between 8th and 9th Avenues. Tomorrow, I'll try and do the East Side from 59th to 110th, when/if I can.

So, I got the OWRs facing correct directions from 59th to 87th inclusive on the West Side. I also replaced Rockefeller, it now rests in the (hopefully) correct place. Also, I'm not sure if this is correct, but where the ANHM lies between 77th and 81st there are 18 squares. Is that correct or should it be 19? If it's 19, I've made a mistake somewhere, though not sure where. ​ Oh and I wish I could BAT, but no doubt it'd not create a good product. I would if I could but I imagine getting to a decent enough standard would take ages. Wait, do I have to start again to get these new fangled docks, or are you going to teach me how to do them? I'm not starting again again, again.

The only real difference I've noticed in the map so far has been the fact that the roads are now 2 tiles wide as they should be, which is great. Other than that I've not noticed anything, yet.

Yes, we do indeed still need a huge amount of BATs for NYC and for Manhattan. For instance, a proper Grand Central Station and MetLife building would be needed, as would the Empire State Building, AMNH, NY Public Librarey, Lincoln Centre etc etc. And there's no need to do that Chris. I'll do it myself thanks. It'll save me having to rebuild all the BATs in the correct places.

So... here it is so far. I still have a huge amount to do of course. Also, it's entirely possible Rockefeller is in the wrong place, since I don't know which building was BATted so I don't actually know where it is meant to be placed.

So recently I've been placing as many BATs as I can into the city (nearly all are in Midtown as you might expect, from 38th to 61st Street). I've now got all the 2 tile roads and Avenues changed to NAM roads, I've added in a few 1 tile wide Maxis roads, there's still the West side to add though, I'll make those Maxis roads for now. That would then mean I'd need to make a few less than 100 maxis roads into OWRs (not a fun prospect). And I also edited the lengths of certain Avenues, eg 9th now ends at 16th Street not 14th, and 10th and 15th not 14th, Lexington at 21st at Gramercy Park (I made the OWRs around Gramercy Park though). No pictures yet though, though there is not really much to see at the moment. I'm still annoyed though that the fountain BAT at Central Park near 5th does not work for me. I get a fountain on a blank lot and not on a detailed lot as it should be. Any ideas as to what might be the problem?

Vlasky, yeah we are going big. Though my original intention was just to build Manhattan, I reckon if/once that gets finished, Brooklyn or Queens will be next, and then maybe Jersey City parts of New Jersey? Who knows, it depends how much time and effort we spend. The map is huge, and so is NYC. It's a huge project that I doubt will ever be truly finished. I still yearn for the day though that a British city be recreated accurately though.

Oh and what is the actual difference between this map and the previous one? They look the same to me. You say it's stretched, but I don't see where or how? I guess the "stretch" really is unnoticeable.

Fair enough. I'm still working on placing buildings and roads from the parts of the cities you sent me. Much to do still, I'll continue tomorrow. I'm nearly finished with the Avenues and 6 lane roads, I dread the thought of 100 OWR rebuilds, I might just leave them as is and do it later. One thing I'd like to ask though. Whilst Downtown and the Financial District is not for awhile, when we get to it, I was planning on building the WTC as it would be planned for 2020 completion, and not as it is now, with it under construction. As in, I'd use the new planned "futuristic" buildings, rather than the construction site BATs I have seen around. Though what are your thoughts about this?

Maybe so. There have been NYC recreations in the past though. Personally, NYC was not my first choice (as a Brit, London or Manchester would have been first choice), but NYC is quite nice to build.

Okay so I'm back to working on recreating NYC with cmdp here. A lot of work to do before I get anything worth really posting though.

From my understanding from talking to Chris here (cmdp), yes, it is a mod that lets you choose which buildings to block, rather than all of a specific type. I too hope so, though I've not yet tried it out.

How is your new NYC coming along? Any pictures? Since you are using a new map and different config, I'd be interested to see how it looks like. Oh and starting again does not sound like fun for me at all.

I should be available to continue (or restart, depending on the situation), work on NYC from about Wednesday onwards.

I'm dreading the thought of starting over (again).

Yeah. I was basically avoiding anything that could be difficult, like Broadway, and South of 14th Street where the grid just ends.

Here's one of the city with the buildings: And here's one with the street view:

Fair enough. I was using Izidor's map, but have taken a hiatus after cmdp encountered a few problems with our recreation. I'm using Drunkapple's Cold Steel Water mod, and no terrain mods.

Looks very impressive so far. What water and terrain mods, if any, are you using?