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[Ion Cannon!]

Make sure your version of the NAM is the same driving side as your game. EG if your using right-hand drive NAM, make sure your game is also that. Oh and don't install the SPAM traffic controller, though I think thats an added extra anyway.

Edited by Ion Cannon!, 02 May 2011 - 14:48.

[Slye_Fox]

Took a couple of pics of my region in progress (only 2 cities so far);

South District


This is just a small city size (1km x 1km) with a population of 124k.


Pediadis


This city is a large area (2km x 3km) which is connected to South District with the river, the current pop is over 170k.


Add-ons used:
Low bridge mod
jeronij's Sea Walls [link]
Upgradeable Sea Port
Sea port Garbage Piers

Edited by Slye_Fox, 11 May 2011 - 11:05.

[Ion Cannon!]

Not bad Are you using Rush Hour? you could also fix the repetitiveness of the buildings by downloading loads of custom ones, but I understand if you don't want to do that. I have 3GB of custom content now.. Landmark menu takes about 10seconds to load

Heres something I did the other week - retail park with shopping centres.

This night picture is actually an older image, you may notice some of the trees and landscaping present in the above image are not there.


Oh and heres an updated region shot - linked because It's rather large -
http://img714.imageshack.us/img714/9158/cr...tropolitanr.jpg

Edited by Ion Cannon!, 12 May 2011 - 12:18.

[Slye_Fox]

Ion Cannon!, on 12 May 2011, 12:56, said:

Not bad Are you using Rush Hour? you could also fix the repetitiveness of the buildings by downloading loads of custom ones, but I understand if you don't want to do that. I have 3GB of custom content now.. Landmark menu takes about 10seconds to load

Not sure what you mean by 'repetitiveness', but yeah I am using Rush Hour.

[TheDR]

I hope you have backed up that region Ion, would be a shame to loose it D:

[Slye_Fox]

Got some more work done on my region;

North District


The North part of the District pair, population 137k.


Pediadis


The north side of the industrial island has been finished, and the north part of the mainland has bee built upon.
Due to some demolition work needed to replace the airfield; the population dropped to 152k.

[Ion Cannon!]

Repetition as in there is alot of repetition of buildings, but the only way to fix that is by downloading lots of custom content. I wasn't sure if it was RH because I can't see any RH buildings, do you have it set to build all building styles?

[Slye_Fox]

No, I don't like the 2 on the right.

[Ion Cannon!]

Fair enough, if you like the older style of building I suggest you maybe download a few of these - http://www.simtropolis.com/forum/index.php...ds&mid=8697

Some real gems in there.

[Ion Cannon!]

First off theres been some redevelopment in the suburb of Astoria, here is the before view. These houses were all bought out and land redeveloped as..

A suburban leisure/retail complex, highlights include the swim centre and aquarium. It is known locally as the Astoria Plaza.

The new "Astoria Plaza" at night


On the other side of the region the long awaited Brookside to Mesa City pass has been completed, a tunnel was deemed to expensive and the slope was to steep to support a double lane road, instead the city opted to have two one way roads to deal with the large volumes of traffic.

The "Hermit Hills" pass from the suburbs below.

Looking down to the suburbs from the top of the pass.


This rather nice looking suburb is known as Uppingham, some of the wealthiest residents of the region live here, the area also has a large amount of government and administration buildings, much of the workers either live in Uppingham itself, or in the nearby cities

[TheDR]

The diagonal suburbs looks great, must of taken a while to get right.

[Ion Cannon!]

TheDR, on 14 May 2011, 17:52, said:

The diagonal suburbs looks great, must of taken a while to get right.

I generally have an idea of how I want things to look and how to achieve it, so it doesn't take that long anymore.

[Ion Cannon!]

First up a closer shot of the administration areas of Uppingham.

Secondly we have this, a WIP of a massive powerplant complex.

[Sgt. Rho]

I've now installed the NAM with the correct drive-side, but I've got a problem: I have a completely filled city with about 20% IM, 60% ID and the rest water and 3 ports, but my R/C city is about one quarter the size of the industry city, and many in the R/C city are without jobs, despite the info saying "Communte time: Short". Any ideas? I've already got 3 Monorail tracks leading into the ID, none of which are fully used yet, and the road access is given too.

[Ion Cannon!]

Do you have lots of R$$$ sims? they won't take jobs unless they are the right type. Its also worth noting that you may need to load both cities and let them run for few years then save. This may fix your problem. I sometimes have to do that to get the right flow of traffic. However backup the region/cities beforehand, so in case it doesn't rectify itself all is not lost. You also need to check the average commute time in the graphs section. There are also times when buildings abandon for no reason. I have two small areas in two of my cities that no matter what will say they have no jobs, if I delete the buildings it just passes onto the buildings which previously had jobs. I have also found sometimes adding jobs can lead to mass abandonment. I added some CS$$ jobs to one of my dormitory towns and instead of the commute time going down, the entire city no jobbed. I deleted the C$$ and it went back to how it was before, so just be careful.

Edited by Ion Cannon!, 22 May 2011 - 21:14.

[Ion Cannon!]

More suburby goodness, particularily proud of this one.

From this..


To this.



And some closeup shots.

[Ion Cannon!]

I now have a photobucket account so the images will all be better quality hopefully.

Heres a few new ones.

From this..


to this



Who else is still playing SC4? even if only a little..

[Destiny]

Maybe you should develop the mountains

[Jinzor]

*mouth wide open*

Those areas look 50x better than anything I've ever created. My god. I've got a crap load of custom content myself, I just don't use it in a good way like you've done.

One question, what kind of water mod are you using? Yours is basically the kind of water mod I've always wanted yet I could never find.

[Ion Cannon!]

Jinzor, on 31 May 2011, 16:42, said:

*mouth wide open*

Those areas look 50x better than anything I've ever created. My god. I've got a crap load of custom content myself, I just don't use it in a good way like you've done.

One question, what kind of water mod are you using? Yours is basically the kind of water mod I've always wanted yet I could never find.

Thanks, at first it can take while to build such areas, but as you do it more and work out what fits its much quicker.

As for the water mod it comes with the JRP set, it means the JRP pieces match the normal water. You'll need to sign up to the LEX to get it, It's by Mas71. I'm not sure which actual download its in though, the JRP uses about 5 I think. http://sc4devotion.c...php?lotGET=1674

[Sgt. Rho]

After the recent HDD-crash, my previous region is essentially gone, so here's what I'm working on:

Spamming 3 ports when I don't fully need them on Ugly City was probably a mistake, because now, I have 6000 IA,ID and IM demand and can't get rid of it

Also I have an extensive monorail system, in Rio, the last monorail station before passing to Ugly City is using 8500 of 2000 capacity >.<



and a little bonus, which was actually accidental: Infinity firestation!

Edited by Sgt. Rho, 05 June 2011 - 09:58.

[Ion Cannon!]

Is the name Rio Phallus deliberate?

[Sgt. Rho]

Well yeah. It has to do with the funny shape of that bay, I may just rename it into "Rio" tho.

Edit: Rio has grown, and was renamed to just Rio. It no longer recieved power from Ugly City, but instead is now powered by 2 solar power plants, and is soon going to get a new one.

Edited by Sgt. Rho, 06 June 2011 - 01:51.

[Sgt. Rho]

A new guy in the neighbourhood.


Solar power!


And with this, Rio is essentially full.


Twins!

I only built the monorail bridge to lower the congestion of the Monorail system which on some stations is using 8000 of 2000 capacity >.<

[Ion Cannon!]

You should download some higher capacity stations from the STEX. One of my main transport hubs has a usage of about 120k, which would be impossible with maxis stuff.

New region shot, you can probably see that the outer cities are much less dense and have much more of a suburban feel. Inner core is still dense as fuck though. - http://i1218.photobucket.com/albums/dd417/...nRegion_3-1.jpg