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Originally posted by: connorc24 DAMN........................................ Wow. That's amazing. Fantastic work! Did you get all that to grow by itself?quote> I can honestly say i made many hundred of those buildings historical and spent hours demolishing and regrowing to get them just the way i wanted, not a single tile is filler.

possibly my coolest city ever

lol there aren't a lot of pubs/bars/clubs in America!! Wonder where all my money has been going then. And just about every major american city (excluding LA) has public transit including rail,bus,subway, not just the northeast. yes huge areas of the US have no rail but a very tiny proportion of the population lives there, even suburbs around chicago are served by rail into downtown which is highly used, lets not overly generalize and America bash. Back on topic, i'll vote for anyone who isn't a Republican or a Republicrat (hillary).

Originally posted by: artoxb Originally posted by: aleking Originally posted by: artoxb very great cj! just gotta love that mix of buildings *bookmark* p.s.: are the parts of the city only connected via elrail?quote> yeah it's hard to tell but the highrise and commercial along the coasts is lower than the rest, and olny accesible via rail, ridership numbers are very high, i do this in all my cities if you look back a few pages, to force sims to use transit.quote> well ok... that's not a bad idea. sorry for having overseen this.quote> lol, don't be sorry i don't think most people realize that, thanks for paying attention to the details, huge update coming this weekend.

I love that massice power plant i may have to steal some of those ideas for myself!

Originally posted by: artoxb very great cj! just gotta love that mix of buildings *bookmark* p.s.: are the parts of the city only connected via elrail?quote> yeah it's hard to tell but the highrise and commercial along the coasts is lower than the rest, and olny accesible via rail, ridership numbers are very high, i do this in all my cities if you look back a few pages, to force sims to use transit.

yeah masochist i'm definitely running out of suitable mid rise BATs to blend the skyline, especially that would fit the Euro style. As for rail its my first dive into GLR as well, which is rather hard to see, there actually might even be more rail, i'll show this better next time, i've already added a lot, what you see above is only half of the tile. Glad youn like it and you always have the best responses.

Originally posted by: SC4*****ie Hey AK I doubt you remember me, but I just randomly popped in here... I stopped playing a long while ago, but I had to check out your latest pics... It's amazing how it all looks. Great stuff.quote> i certainly do, i had some great loyal followers, lots have dropped by and i'm glad you did, i'm trying to branch my style out a bit, so i'm glad you like it.

Classic, i love this cj!

enjoy!

Originally posted by: patriots_1228 No porki? awesome city. good to see ya branching out Nice job with all those glass london skyscrapers too, they are fricking awesome. Although i don't agree with safeco in a european city. The people would just walk by, spit on it and say "im too proper and stuck up to watch this BORING american game. Im going to watch a fascinating game of cricket over a nice cup o tea". damn, you better be from chicago like i think you are, or you might be pissed quote> lol, yeah i'm from chicago, i thought about putting a nice soccer stadium there, but meh, that's just too cool of a bat, maybe i should change it to make it more realistic though. And there is porki! your just not looking hard enough, closeups to come later, thanks and glad you appreciate the change in pace.

ok just a few teasers of a city with a European meets Asian flair. this city is taking forever!

great start to this cj, i love how you're thinking about the big picture and thinking BIG! the seaport and landscape looks great, stick with it and this will turn out great, Alek.

nice western style pivot agriculture, and as usual your attention to realism is something else, keep blowing our minds~

wow great update this cj is growing on me, i love it when you look at a picture and can just tell who it is by the style, Tomdapom you are entering rare air.

i've never been a huge fan of story cj's but this is just too cool, truley an admirable work, Alek

nice to see you back crazy, i recently got back into sc4 as well, looking forward to seeing your new work

thank the lord for bixels pencil towers.

this is really a crucial cj, the custom lots, creativity, mods, all makes for something really special this is one i can't get enough of.

quite a lot of different styles and ideas going on in this thread, cool use of marrasts seawalls and impressive BAT collection, some of which i need to pick up.

Originally posted by: masochist I'm sick. No really, I am. My face is an unnatural green color...of course, that could be from jealousy.Actually, there were a couple of things that...ahh, stood out in these pictures, let's say. In the update on 1/06/08 at 2:40 p.m. (CST), you posted that picture of the Elevated Rail with the new filler scenery. I haven't exactly figured out whether I love it or not. I see it right next to the road and it looks awesome... but then I look at the north side of the picture and I see the rail next to those apartments. I don't know...I like both the apartments and the rail, but the scale of them seems a bit odd to me. The rail looks like it goes half way up that building...but maybe that's due to the angle. I don't know...and anyways, it's no fault of yours either way.quote> Yeah, one of the biggest issues i have with the new textures that go under the el-rail are that they are dependant upon what grows next to them, you can't just plop what looks best, but i must agree, the scales looks a bit off, I'm thinking for now they're best utilized in urban areas with highrise, which is why it looks better in downtown, then i had the probelm where you couldn't really see the concrete underneath the rail because the highrise would block the view, so i tried to place plazas on one side to make it visible, i'm still patiently waiting for buddybuds latest, then i can really get going thanks buddy, Alek oh and those rail textures are from japanese BATer NOB you can find the link in the japanese BAT guide thread, the best part is the mod comes with grass textures (see previous updates) and stone. His site also has the walls seen above and the sunken rail station.

my game has crashed about 4 times in 4 years fwiw.