Your Cities- Post Some Photos Here!

You modified even colour and there are no electric pillars. Those railways are awesome, perfect for my freight yard Could you share the patch file?

Can you also explain what did you do to put plazas over the overpass?

 

Thank you for the patch!!!

PS: you put the stones one by one!!! You are crazy!!!

 

I'm sorry but I don't like such big airports and I didn't even look at what you built. On the other hand, I really like the train station. I like how you manage to build the curves on the roads and the railway lines. I am waiting to see how you will decorate the train station.

 

It looks very nice. I would have reversed the large building behind the stairs with the park in front of it. Now it seems strange to walk by the pier and see the roof of the building when you look down.

 

Hi! Here are some bits of a city I've been working on. I'd say it's only 20%, since there's still a lot to cover, many history bits I'd like to implement within, too little free time and... I still lack some detailing skills... which I'm still learning/adapting/implementing whenever I can.

So... here we go... this are just some bits of my city Wasgol so far. Something experimental that will have a complicated history in its making, combining old and new, rights and wrongs, probably conflicts in its politics over the years, etc.
Self-criticism in advance: Beach, costal, modern areas still on the way. Industrial, port and farmlands in the works. Main Airport still trying to figure out. Highways and general plaza/texture/planted areas need some extra care and rework.

Overview of how much has been made so far.


General view of centerpiece


Old industrial-revolution factory areas, repurposed for more housing



A bit of park, entertainment and sports


Bits of the old and sites of rediscovered history


Perspective from the needle tower


More arial perspectives






A racetrack between the mountains


The "Wall of tears" in honor and memory


A bit of communist influence


And that's about it for now. It's been so long and really wanted to make something at least as a new year's post only to evolve into a new year's resolution that maybe... just maybe... until the end of the year I might be able to complete at least 70% of this city. I love this game and the community that keeps it alive, and I won't give up on this beautiful creation process.
Really willing to get the constructive criticism I need to make it even better. Sorry for the long post and/or emotional breakdown. Thank you in advance! Happy New Year, everybody!

 

Hi and happy new year! @AngryComrade

I'm glad you're trying to build on a map with mountains. I'm also trying to build a city on uneven terain, but I've kind run out of ideas and I hope you'll post again as soon as possible so I can be inspired.

About your city, I really like the racetrack. It's one of the best I've seen (minus the entrance) and I like how you tried to follow the mountains and the way you want to build the city around them. The sunked road and train lines i like them to. They show that you are a perfectionist. The custom airport looks good, although technically I think the control tower doesn't see the runways well.
The cemetery is an interesting construction to (if it were up to me, I would plant some trees).
The highway, although it seems as if you now learn to build them if you continue to build farms on one side and the other as you have built so far, I think it will look very good.

What I don't like.
The road system makes no sense. You combine the size of the streets too much and I can't figure out which road you want to be the main road. In bottom left is the highways doubled or does the intersection stretch over half the map?!?! You have two intersections with the highway that lead almost to the same place of the port. At the moment, the highway intersections are too big, but this can become an advantage later, it depends on what you build around them.
You try to combine too many styles of buildings and you use forest plaza too much. If I understand correctly, you build the downtown with skyscrapers then you have build a forest and then have you continued with the old town?!?! I would like to see a different transition
The train station and the port are too big for my taste.

Suggestions
I would try to highlight the mountains by using small buildings and small roads. To compensate i would use more bus and subway routes. I would not use skyscrapers and i would use only one or two buildings style. Try to define your main roads and the green spaces. Create parks with alleys, statues, experiment with combinations of different plaza styles, don't build a building and put a forest plaza around it. I would dismantle the port and build pieces of it on the entire left side, and in between I would build industrial buildings.
Be careful how much trees you use. When the city grows to big, the computer will no longer show them. Try to limit their use.

 

Hi, @Project_Oz! Thank you so much for the feedback!

In regard to the building styles, my main idea would be how a city would evolve, taking into consideration its potential history and maybe political involvements along the way, having both rights and wrongs explained as if it was all because of decisions made during its history. Can't think of any particular example at the moment in real life, but one might be parts of Bucharest from where I'm at. So, for some parts, the mixed convoluted nature of it all is actually intentional, but I'll try to narrow them down a bit better whenever I can. Thou, I have yet to have parts of it that would be more clearly defined... Hopefully! Sometimes I have no idea and instantly have too many at the same time and can't be clear myself as to which one would be best to implement.

The forests... yes, I'm well aware, for the moment I did not have any ideas how to represent these areas in a more realistic matter. I'll be tryin' to experiment with parks, statues, alleyways and also will try to define the mountains a bit better as well. Seen many inspersions around the site and I've yet to implement some for my own.

Also, I'm well aware of the road system not being well defined yet. Same goes with the highways. It wasn't well defined from the beginning and at least the old part of town would be intentionally irregular, but for the newer parts at least I'll see what can be done.

I will update at some point sooner or later... depends on when I'll actually have time to do anything! Besides making/remaking and completing what I have for now, I've yet to define a better industrial area, industrial port (west), beach-resort part (north), an independently made airport (east), maybe remake/redistribute the farmlands to be more along the highway as you suggested (south) and maybe expand more of the historical area this way... idk... Whenever I'll be able to... gonna need a lot of coffee and concentration!

Sidenote: For now I don't worry about the PC's performance, but I'll take it into consideration.

Thank you again so much for the feedback!

 

It’s superb and a very original idea! I adore

 

Thanks for a nice comment
That's one of the things I like about cites xxl. is challenging the game with new creative ways to build. But it's a slow process to build in this way so we'll see if it becomes a city journals eventually.
maybe I made you start a new city like you made me start this one with the magnificent city of Kent

 

Here is even a little more progress. Here you can see a picture from the water front. took about 3 hours