Mikenstein - Niederbauen - Further Exploration

[romualdillo]

Great work! I especially like the river banks and how modern architecture blends with the older one. 

[Vizoria]

As I posted on Simtropolis- amazing pictures!

[_Michael]

Really nice city. It feels like a real spread out city with the center, the tower blocks and the houses.

Thanks for the comment art128! 

Yeah, that city is looking nice! I like how it still has freeways going through it, albeit in tunnels, but still there's freeways.

I thought the tunnel was a bit different.  Thanks for the comment!

Great work! I especially like the river banks and how modern architecture blends with the older one. 

Thanks! 

As I posted on Simtropolis- amazing pictures!

Same goes for all of your work! 

[vortext]

I really like how dense your city center is, pic #4 is my favorite in that regard! 

[Guest]

Beautiful!

[Kergelen]

Nice work! I like the combination of w2w and modern building on previous update and the transition from city center to the new neighborhoods 

[kbieniu7]

As well - nice! I like the river channel, winding quite smoothly among developement.

[_Michael]

I really like how dense your city center is, pic #4 is my favorite in that regard! 

Thanks for the comment!

Beautiful!

Nice work! I like the combination of w2w and modern building on previous update and the transition from city center to the new neighborhoods 

Thank you!

As well - nice! I like the river channel, winding quite smoothly among developement.

Thanks!

[_Michael]

Hi again,

This is a small village outside of Bassenheim. I haven't though of a name, but I'll show it to you anyway.

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Hope you enjoyed this! See you soon! 

[kbieniu7]

Whata beatiful view at an autumn forest and a stream However, the stream cause sidewalk to appear on a nearby road tiles, that looks a little bit odd. There is a mod, that removes sidewalk/dirt texture from the roads by agricultural zone (so you can zone it with holding ctrl and have a clear road), but I cannot find it now 

[Vizoria]

Those fields- dayum! The last picture is a great plethora of MMP work.

[compdude787]

I agree with Vizoria--that is sure some good MMP work! I thought I was looking at Vizoria's MD for a second there! I also like the logging operation I see going on there. Pretty unique thing to see in an MD, that's for sure. Overall, great update!!

[mgb204]

Some great rural scenes, mingled with some authentic looking small towns. You've put together a nice mix of buildings that work well together. The stream/river in the final pic is also especially worthy of note.

Whata beatiful view at an autumn forest and a stream However, the stream cause sidewalk to appear on a nearby road tiles, that looks a little bit odd. There is a mod, that removes sidewalk/dirt texture from the roads by agricultural zone (so you can zone it with holding ctrl and have a clear road), but I cannot find it now 

You need to install a mod that gets rid of the rail "undelay" or dirt. Rivit's RUM for RRW includes such a mod.

I often try to build such embankments at least one tile away from rural roads to avoid this issue too.

[Guest]

Very nice, the last picture is my favorite!

[vortext]

Great update, very nice to see you improving on all fronts!   

And in the spirit of that I hope you don't mind some critique. First of all I agree with kbieniu7 the sidewalk on the country road in pic 2 caused by Diggis' streams is unfortunate. Besides using an invisible sidewalk, I'd also suggest to try using a little more space. By which I mean: try to incorporate some FAR stretches in the mountain road, rather than a string of s-curves hugging the cliff, as that'd be visually more appealing imho. It's a little tricky getting nice results with FAR on slopes, so it may take some practice. And in general, handling slopes needs some more attention as I noticed bumps and glitches on the rails, in pic 2 & 5 respectively. Perhaps try out a different slope mod?

That being said, I really like the clever use of Diggis' stream winding through the village, very nicely done! 

[art128]

Interesting village! Generally when you hear village you think small houses and not W2W but this is really nice.

I'll have to echo the critics said from the others though. I'm sure you can use them to develop different ideas around your villages.

Also you posted the forestry picture twice.

[_Michael]

Once I posted the first instalment of Bassenheim on ST, back in March, I'd actually already finished the city, and was working on the next one. It's still nowhere near finished, but the centre is more or less complete. There will be likely lots of entries for the new city, but to start, we have the historic centre and a brief overview of the CBD. (As wells as some night-shots and some mosaics)
Hope you enjoy!

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Whata beatiful view at an autumn forest and a stream However, the stream cause sidewalk to appear on a nearby road tiles, that looks a little bit odd. There is a mod, that removes sidewalk/dirt texture from the roads by agricultural zone (so you can zone it with holding ctrl and have a clear road), but I cannot find it now 

Those fields- dayum! The last picture is a great plethora of MMP work.

I agree with Vizoria--that is sure some good MMP work! I thought I was looking at Vizoria's MD for a second there! I also like the logging operation I see going on there. Pretty unique thing to see in an MD, that's for sure. Overall, great update!!

Some great rural scenes, mingled with some authentic looking small towns. You've put together a nice mix of buildings that work well together. The stream/river in the final pic is also especially worthy of note.

Whata beatiful view at an autumn forest and a stream However, the stream cause sidewalk to appear on a nearby road tiles, that looks a little bit odd. There is a mod, that removes sidewalk/dirt texture from the roads by agricultural zone (so you can zone it with holding ctrl and have a clear road), but I cannot find it now 

You need to install a mod that gets rid of the rail "undelay" or dirt. Rivit's RUM for RRW includes such a mod.

I often try to build such embankments at least one tile away from rural roads to avoid this issue too.

Very nice, the last picture is my favorite!

Great update, very nice to see you improving on all fronts!   

And in the spirit of that I hope you don't mind some critique. First of all I agree with kbieniu7 the sidewalk on the country road in pic 2 caused by Diggis' streams is unfortunate. Besides using an invisible sidewalk, I'd also suggest to try using a little more space. By which I mean: try to incorporate some FAR stretches in the mountain road, rather than a string of s-curves hugging the cliff, as that'd be visually more appealing imho. It's a little tricky getting nice results with FAR on slopes, so it may take some practice. And in general, handling slopes needs some more attention as I noticed bumps and glitches on the rails, in pic 2 & 5 respectively. Perhaps try out a different slope mod?

That being said, I really like the clever use of Diggis' stream winding through the village, very nicely done! 

Interesting village! Generally when you hear village you think small houses and not W2W but this is really nice.

I'll have to echo the critics said from the others though. I'm sure you can use them to develop different ideas around your villages.

Also you posted the forestry picture twice.

Thank you all for the comments. I have investigated the sidewalk issue, and have mainly solved it. Thanks all for the help.

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Hope you enjoyed this first entry. Hope you look forward to the next entry of Wolfskreut! 


[compdude787]

That city is looking pretty nice so far! Great work.

[kbieniu7]

Further views are impressive! A one big and continual urban organism! With a little bit feeling of some megalomania, while looking at those giant plazas and monuments 

[Themistokles]

That's one BIG city you have there, with lots of wide boulevards! And I must say that you've found a nice solution to the problem of the non-aligning gables of the Bâtiments de la Concorde. You have also been very good at integrating diagonal quarters in your city lay-out.

Mind if I ask what the 20th-century-looking building is on the corner left (in the 4th image) of aarsgevogelte's Yellow House?