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Aquatica
Population: 114 563

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^^First skyscraper in city
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^^City Gate
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^^Aquatica Trade Center
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^^Construction boom
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^^Highway
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^^Hotels
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^^Plaza
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^^Suburbs
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^^Stadium in day...
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^^...and in night
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^^City Center

Thats a great start...I love the way you've managed to blend in the new, modern buildings with the old, European style buildings. Reminds me a little of Frankfurt. Anyway, if this start is anything to go by, you're gonna have quite a success on your hands.

Nice start - I do agree.  What I would suggest is taking screenshots without the map/toolbar.  Just remember the key combination CTRL-SHIFT-S here; it allows you to take pictures without using the menus.

You do a really good job with the European style, combining the classical and contemporary styles rather seamlessly.  You might want to add some more W2W buildings to your collection besides Porkissimo's for variety.  But that's your call.

-aaron

I to would suggest ensuring that when you take pictures you remove the menu bar and making sure the game is not paused.

I like what you have done so far, this has great potential and will look forward to seeing you progress with Aquatica.  ;)

Hello S_imon, very good start!  &apls

I like general views (suburbs and stadium are very nice, my favourite picture is the city center)
I like very much your couple of trees (it is visible around the stadium).

I have 3 suggestions:

1. Screenshots without menus - you can use Ctrl - Shift - S as pickled_pig says, or download from ST a small but excellent program clip2pic made by Wouanagaine. SC4 saves your screenshots as PNG files and you must save them again as JPEG. Clip2pic saves pictures as JPEG, in addition you can set the maximum image size (800 x 600 wchich is useful when you upload them) and you can choose a destination folder as you want.

2. You can turn off icons like "no road access", "no job" and UDI missions clicking Ctrl - X and writing TastyZots in the command line. You can also install an Extra Cheats Plugin. If you will do it, after clicking Ctrl X you will see a list of commands - some of them are useful  ;D

3. Your terrain is almost flat and it would be good to make it completely flat using street tiles. Your street layout will look even better!

Great work, S_imon!  :thumbsup: Go ahead, it will be good MD!
Serdecznie witam w SC4 Devotion, życzę ci dobrej zabawy i powodzenia!
Adam

Quote from: S_imon on August 26, 2007, 12:18:06 AM
PS. Nie rozumiem ostatniego pytania - jakie dachówki?

Chodzi o to, że można wyrównać teren układając obok siebie pojedyncze fragmenty ulicy (lub drogi, lecz jest to droższe). Jest to pokazane w wielu miejscach, zobacz np. tutaj (http://sc4devotion.com/forums/index.php?topic=2146.msg63623#msg63623). Jeżeli wyrównasz teren w ten sposób, twoje drogi nie będą miały drobnych nierówności, będą łatwiejsze do budowania i będą lepiej wyglądać. Oczywiście nie musisz wyrównywać całego terenu.
Mój angielski nie jest zbyt dobry, może powinienem napisać "single street pieces". Jednak wielu ludzi pisze "tile" dla określenia pojedynczego (1x1) kawałka czegoś co buduje się z takich "płytek" - np. drogi, kanały itp.

PS. Popatrz tutaj (http://sc4devotion.com/forums/index.php?topic=436.0), ludzie wpisują tu z jakiego są kraju, regionu i miasta. Polaków wpisało się tu na razie tylko 3 (ja jestem jedyny ze Śląska), a polskich członków jest znacznie więcej  :)

Aha, to znam, ale nie lubię, bo strasznie pracochłonne.

Quote from: S_imon on August 26, 2007, 01:14:06 AM
Aha, to znam, ale nie lubię, bo strasznie pracochłonne.

Jeżeli ułożysz tylko 1 rząd płytek 1x1, to potem możesz obok niego przeciągać drogę wiele razy i bardzo szybko możesz wyrównac znaczny teren  ;D

Wonderful start! Great pictures of your city! :thumbsup:

Thank You Bat!

Welcome S_imon on SC4DEV. Great, that you have showed city here. I agree to Ennedi, You know that necessary make.

Powodzenia, Danthe.

ps. znamy się z SCPOLAND, prawda outcast?  :)

Naturalnie :)

Ennedi,
    You suggested:

Quote1. Screenshots without menus - you can use Ctrl - Shift - S as pickled_pig says, or download from ST a small but excellent program clip2pic made by Wouanagaine. SC4 saves your screenshots as PNG files and you must save them again as JPEG. Clip2pic saves pictures as JPEG, in addition you can set the maximum image size (800 x 600 wchich is useful when you upload them) and you can choose a destination folder as you want.

This is one I have never heard of.    I did several searches over at ST but could not find it.      This would be a great thing for me as well.   I don't post alot of pics because I have no way of converting them to JPEG easily.   I don't have Photoshop or any other image editing software.    Would it be possible for you to provide a link to the program?


---Gaston

Quote from: Gaston on August 26, 2007, 02:30:29 PM
Ennedi,
    You suggested:
This is one I have never heard of.    I did several searches over at ST but could not find it.      This would be a great thing for me as well.   I don't post alot of pics because I have no way of converting them to JPEG easily.   I don't have Photoshop or any other image editing software.    Would it be possible for you to provide a link to the program?


---Gaston

Clip2pic is available on ST in the Forums section - NHP Tools Suite (http://www.simtropolis.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=355&threadid=83832)
And for simple editing you can use IrfanView - it is very good, easy to use and it's a freeware. I don't have a link, but simply write IrfanView into the browser. It will be nice to see your pictures, Gaston  :thumbsup:

S_imon you do have a good start here and everyone else has given wonderful advice and i know you will have yourself a great MD'ing experiance here - pat

Thanks everyone!
Today I present You two cities near Aquatica. South Hill (in Polish: Południowa Górka, in Silesian: Połednie berg, in German: Südlich Berg, in French: Sud Montagnette) and Achose. Screenshots:
South Hill
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Old Town
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Suburbs of Aquatica
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Achose
St Jack church
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Street of Hipermarkets
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Buddism temple and King Simon I School
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East City
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West City
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Those are two great small towns; I especially like the german inspired one. Your mini downtowns are also nice; they suit the small town feel very well.

Great Md.  I just got caught up and I like it.  I really like the first picture in the last update.  If I could suggest you unpause the game to get rid of that yellow pause border.  ;)

Robin   :thumbsup:

That city is looking very great! Wonderful new pictures! :thumbsup:

This will be my first post in a city journal (or mayor diary) on sc4Devotion and I think you deserved it well :D I simply love those nice towns, keep it up the good work ;)

S_imon this is looking real good, i loved the last update  :thumbsup:

I saw your pictures on many forums. You try to build realistic city, but you must hard work to reach good effect. I'll be watching this thread. See ya

Disaster. My brother (this stupid monkey) unistall my SimCity  :'(  So, please close this topic.

What a shame. I really like your city. Love the way you put these skyscrapers in old town. Also, nice suburbs. ;)

Don't worry, S_imon, you can install SC4 again!  :thumbsup:

And if your region was deleted, don't worry too, many people lost their work. Look at TheTeaCat MD (Tales at the Tea Time) a few pages back you will find what happened to him and what he did - his MD is still an amazing place!
And I suggest you to make a backup copy from time to time, if you don't have an external hard drive, make a copy on CD  :thumbsup:

S_imon i can only echo what ennedi said its always good to back up your work and hide it only where you would know and it would be a shame to see The Kingdom of Aquatica close please reconsider thank you pat

S_imon,
    Don't let it get youdown.    Most of the really good MDs have had major set backs at one time or another.   It will let you re-evaluate what you liked and didn't like about Aquatica.    When you restart you can just leave out anything you didn't care for the first time.    ;D    We will keep checking on your progress.


---Gaston

Sorry to hear about your misfortune, my friend. I'll move this to the Completed MDs for now, but if you want to get it up and running again, just send me a PM and we'll get it back in the active MDs! Good luck!