Bay Of Islands City Building Competition 2018

I love this map to heart--with a very interesting reason. I had asked ronrn to make a map called S City (Maps - S City), but this is not the full picture of the city. The full map looks like this(white=land, black=water):
However, I have not yet decided the shape of the lake. This map however, gave me an inspiration of how the lake shall look like.

The "lake" on the map fits in very nicely.
Also, S City has a downtown core and some satellite cities. One satellite city, located in the southeast of downtown, is called Huiyuan (its litary meaning is drawpark, "绘" means draw and "园” means park). It has a population about 500,000 and is situated in the area of the map. So I will build this city for the contest. It's my first time! Woohoo!
The city of Huiyuan is very Chinese. I decided to build a Chinese style city because (above all I live in China and know the look of Chinese cities) I saw high-quality Korean and Japanese cities in the last competition, so I want to continue the "East Asian trend."
I have already had some preliminary planning of Huiyuan. The first pic is area planning and the second is transportation planning.


Please give me some advice on how to plan and build my first competition city! Thank you very much!

 

Hey mate,

one of most important things is to plan ahead. We all have like five months to finish the city, but we all do have a real life beside XL Nation. So you should not overestimate your abilities to finish complex strucutures. For example, your plan of building the airport in the middle of the map sounds good? But what if you cannot finish it in time? Then you end up with an unfinished airport in the center of attention, and that may not look convincing.

I don't say that you should not build it there, I actually don't know right now what the perfect spot for an airport is on that map I only want to have you focused on your building schedule It will be difficult to construct a big airport, and a big port, and some big industry, and still decorate it all adequately Have a look at the airports of the previous competitions, something like that may be your competition

So this is my second advice: specialize. If you have never built a big seaport, then maybe don't try it now. Focus on the things that you already know how to construct and improve yourself whilst building it^^ I don't say that in this case you should not build any seaport at all, but then maybe just something simple, nothing extraordinary.

Another point is to try to foresee how the finished product will look like: for example, if you built some skyscrapers next to the border of the map, you may not get good screenshots without the border being seen, and that may be annoying in the contest in the end.

Also, don't forget to make back-ups!!!

 

Thanks kipate for the advice!
The map (in my perspective) is a big lake, so the seaport will not be that big. A small one is much easier to construct.
Also, I have experience building medium scale airports, so it will be easier to build a larger one. It's a very good opportunity for refining the skill.
I am pretty good at RHM, so I think I may focus on it.
And the industry. I don't want the one to the east of airport now and change it for a storage area for airport. There will be less effort decorating a small storage area instead of a large industrial area.
I am a student and I have summer holiday from middle of May. So I have plenty of time for deco!
I'll follow up the progress of my city in this post. Please check my future progression!

 

Hey, @East Pavilion-er I like your ideas in general, I would love to see the outcome
Sounds good that you will have a lot of time soon

Still, don't get me wrong, but here are some examples of what you may have to compete against:
Best Airport by DrazicDesign:


Best RHM by needspeed17:


Best Industry by myself:


Don't get me wrong, I think you will do an amazing job with your city! I only want to say that even for us veterans of the game, it is almost impossible to have a landslide win when you have more than 10 competitors. Hence we all specialize

 

Well... count on me!

 

Looking forward to see your city!

 

So, guys, where are you?
Once again, let's try to call you:
@Inan, @ronrn, @ObelicS, @giorgoselsedai, @Miguel, @Ammar Shaker, @needspeed17, @Clemech4, @BahadirB, @selodinger, @Myname, @Gioroman87, @chupobumbo, @benhur1967, @Project_Oz, and all the others that I forgot to call

Also, there are some members whose cities I would love to see, too:
@lennon77, I have seen your overhaul of Antila, and it has become really a decent European town. I would love to see you participating
@ciro, the same holds for your city of Hellano, I love the road layout, you would surely do a good job

By the way, @skullz613, you're a Kiwi, and it's a Kiwi Map, so you have to take part in the challenge, otherwise you're a disgrace to all the other Kiwis

 

Also, c'mon, c'mon, c'mon y'all

New city castle built on an old citadel:
I know it's not much, I just want you all to start and not to waste time

 

I am experiencing some issues in building on the new map... it makes the game run slowly and when i try to use some plazas the game crashes...don't now why, i haven't the same problems with the other maps...

 

Maybe post a log?
So we can avoid others having the same problem

 

i am also here
Started laying things on the map

Map IS huge. . . it seems easy but it's a complex plateau with all the bays and coves

I have decided where things will be, laying highways but the whole thing is still a big messy mess hahahaha

@chupobumbo
a not so time consuming method, if this is the case. . . would be to see which mods you added last days
I have no issues with the map, everything ( cross fingers ) runs smooth, i 'll delay laying any plazas till the very end

What about other maps? Can you make a test maps and run the same plazas there? I mean, are the issues appearing only on the specific map at your side?

 

@kipate
It begins well!

@chupobumbo,
it's a shame, I hope you will solve the problem!
I invite you to follow the advice of Kipate and nicknick

In any case I would like to see you participate!
I wish you good luck,

@nicknick
Glad to see you participate again in this contest,
Without wanting to put pressure on you, I am already very impatient to see your future masterpiece!

To complete the beautiful list of Kipate,
I think also @Kitsunebi, @keshaa, @loren banovic, @Mr.X², @ovarz, @needspeed17, @Jotape, @yu450146219, @SOUL Productions, @RedZone19, @parisenforce, @Kaiman, @Wibi, @SeptianAjie, @cox_brandon, @toop,

And all the others to whom I will not have thought!

Good game everyone,
"Take pleasure and share it"

 

@Drazicdesign Thank you!

Pressure? Naaahh. . . i have put all the pressure of the world already on me

Summer is a bit slow so i 'll do my best to make the whole project get realised

I 'd really want to see these good players taking part!

Don't forget:
It's always a matter of focusing on what you want to do.
Is it great to cover the whole map? Yay, yay, it is
Is it possible when someone takes in consideration real-life commitments?

Nah, not really.

So: focus on what you want to do, start from some point of the map that triggers your interest and work things from there.
This is also what special categories are there. We have seen submissions with little map coverage taking good prizes and deserving it wholeheartedly because the delivered a stunning park or a captivating airport.

So, yes it's a city contest but above all it's about: fun. This.
Have fun, explore what you want to do. A park? a harbor, some of it? and older city? a new one.

 

I have some ideas for new city but right now my RL is too busy for building something. But i really hope that till july i will build something

 

Hope you have time soon to make us a masterpiece, you know do so well!

We can not distinguish the details of your city,
But that said, I already like all these little winding roads


Here is my participation,
Unlike the last concour, this time I have chosen to build a European city!

For my part I started with the central square of the city's historical heart,

 

Fantastic work with the highway so far, I love it
Now it just needs some exits and junctions

Also, freaking awesome details @Drazicdesign