Re: Santa Barbara County - Update: The End.

[marsh]

Great update! Your roads and highway layouts look great as always. And looking at this in SC, I would even want to live there. 

,marsh

[penguin007]

Great variety in roads here I LOVE the interchange with the railway running through it

Will

[EDGE4194]

Great work (as usual) Raphael    I can't help but think that the housing project that large is unrealistic for a small coastal city, but as you say.. "alternate universe"  .... 

[nbvc]

Nice ghettos and roads.

[RickD]

Sorry, again not a big update. I am occupied with Civilization 5 at the moment and I got Red Dead Redemption for my birthday. Which doesn't help either.  But don't worry, I'll get back to SC4. In fact I started it up yesterday and finally figured out how to use the airport terminal pieces. I had them facing the wrong way the whole time. D'oh! 

Here is a current region view to keep you hooked up. It is clickable for full size. You can see that rebuilding Santa Barbara CBD is coming along but still not finished. And to the west I made good progress filling in the suburbs of Goleta. I even started work on the downtown tile. I have the main roads and rail pretty much in place and even plopped some commercial buildings. I needed them badly to get residential demand up again.

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Paul 999, Tomas Neto, Girafe, kelis, kodlovag, kwakelaar, Skimbo, canyonjumper, penguin007, nbvc:
Wow, so many comments. Thank you all.


Nexis4Jersey:

Very nice its like a Euro-American mix , reminds me of around here.

Thanks, this is what happens when a German attempts an american themed MD.

Nardo69:

I love those empty areas next to your highways etc. even though I like to fill them somehow (I just say RRP Roll Eyes ) but here they just fit in perfectly.

Thanks! Maybe when everything else is finished.

marsh:

Great update! Your roads and highway layouts look great as always. And looking at this in SC, I would even want to live there.

Glad you like it. In SC4 even the R§ houses look still too nice.

EDGE4194:

Great work (as usual) Raphael  thumbsup  I can't help but think that the housing project that large is unrealistic for a small coastal city, but as you say.. "alternate universe"  ....

My Santa Barbara isn't that small. I am aiming for about a million Sims in the region.

[kalvar]

wonderful this map, I like a lot, is that it worked

is very nice, good work .

[marsh]

Very nice. I love that region veiw. 

,marsh 

[Skimbo]

The region looks geniosús, great work so far

[Sciurus]

It's very realistic and more that unbelievable!

Guillaume

[kwakelaar]

Great overview of your region.

[Tomas Neto]

Very nice region!!!

[nedalezz]

I will concur with pretty much everyone and say that that is an AWESOME region shot!

[canyonjumper]

Awesome region shot Raphael!

                 Your friend,
                                Jordan

[RickD]

Teaser

This is the tile I will show you in the next couple of updates:

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Thank you all for your comments! 

[io_bg]

Great overview, can't wait to see close-ups from that country club and the airport!

[marsh]

Can't wait to see it!

,marsh 

[canyonjumper]

Already looks cool!

                   Your friend,
                                  Jordan

[cubby420]

Wow 

I aspire to create the natural and realistic kind of development you demonstrate in this MD. I see a lot of places I've lived in my life in your work.

[art128]

Holy smokes ! That is one very impressive region, Raphael ! It looks wonderful from both far and close ! Can't wait to see more of the airport area !

Take care,
-Arthur.

[jgehrts]

I absolutely, positively love this MD.  I stumbled across it and think the detail is excellent.  Awesome work.