CJ Seddly Done

Hey @SOUL Productions ,
I first have to say that I really liked some of your previous entries,
especially the Minocco Area CJ was fantastic!
I have admit, however, that this city here looks a bit inconsistent
from the building style that you chose:

1) it looks NOT like a Northern African City: Libya may be full of chaos nowadays,
but before the war, the cities there never looked similar to the images of your city!
Just google for Ras Lanouf or Benghazi, then you will see what I mean.

2) your argument may be that the game and the current mods do not opt for
African cities. Well, that is not fully true: togehter with the Jakarta Pack
and the Latin Pack, you can recreate African cities lying below the Maghreb.

I see that you used them a lot, hence I would opine that your city should resemble
rather a Sub-Saharan city. But here, you could still improve a lot.
E.g. choosing other roads, fir instance some road mods by Alex24,
especially the Transportation - Rural Road | XLNation - Cities XXL .
Also, I would avoid those truly Asian buildings with their large advertisement,
or at least try to get rid if the ads via Photoshop, GIMP, Paint.net, ...
or use billboards to hide them...
Another point was to avoid those heavy industry facilities with all the chimneys.
It is not that Africa does not have such, but they have not as many as your city.
Import that heavy industry tokens...

3) if you really want to recreate a Libyan City, then you need to place more modern houses that have a flat roof.
And then you should not use those Jakarta Pack buildings.

4) if you want to create a Northern African city that was situated e.g. in Algeria, you need to have some
Arabian elements, too, e.g. more mosques, some bazaars, and probably a whole medieval town
(Medina).

5) regarding the map itself, I would suggest the use of Over Water Roads by pharmist, in case it works with
XXL. If you want just streets without parking lots, you could instead place those over water roads,
they usually aren't giving these steep parts...

6) you have Google, you can look at the images of thise cities and then try to choose the buildings

 

I guess I have not that experience regarding XXL,
hence maybe @ronrn or @veija2 can help you with tactics regarding
roads
They are both really experienced when it comes to XXL...

 

I miss over water roads in XXL too. Lowering custom bridges to ground level works sometimes. Sometimes evening the water's edge with a small ped path or expressway (go figure) first can help. Nothing like the over water roads though.

 

Have you tried pharmist-over-water-roads. I use them a lot in XXL with no apparent issues.
Transportation - Pharmist Over-Water Roads | XLNation - Cities XXL

 

Almost forgot:
RAM (road-addon-mod) makes all roads placable over water, though placing them can be tricky at times.

I've found no apparent issues with this mod in XXL either. Just be sure to follow install instructions. And..for some reason I don't understand..it seems to work best when the patch files are placed in a sub-folder along with the RHM2 patch file.

Transportation - Road Addon Mod (RAM) | XLNation - Cities XXL