Traff Plays Shosaloza

[Traff]

My name is Mark and I decided to join the Shosaloza Project.

Being a new lurker to ST gave me the opportunity to download a good amount of custom content.
I have never done a Journal or Diary before, so any comments, critisism and feedback are much appreciated. Apart from a throwing down a Gridopolis, I havent tried to create realistic and beautiful cities until recently.

I dont think I have enough growable IM or IHT in my plugins folder. The R is all grown so far (took about 5 game years for anything to pop up)

Population so far about 5000






I am however having a problem growing C. I know I have enough content that should be growing. There is only 2 spots in the northern valley area that have some C. I had to plop the C shown to keep the sims from shipping out.


I know there are many details missing, mainly trees and parks etc. This is my first time posting pics of any of my cities. I hope you all enjoy for now. Any tips on getting the custom C to grow will be helpful, as I'd hate to plop it all like my "I"

[bat]

Looks great, waiting for more!

[sebes]

Traff, Mark - that is a hell of a start. Your first attempt is already pleasing the eye. I like the way how you have that park on a slope in the second picture!

[mattb325]

Hi Mark and welcome to the Shosaloza challenge. Great to see more join in the fun. You are off to a great start and by the looks of it you've a lot in your plugins folder already!

[vab423]

Traff/Mark, one thing that is considerably annoying is someone who starts out with phrases like "lurker" and "never done anything like this before" and the proceeds to post some marvelous pictures.  I mean, really, it puts people like me (who have been playing FOREVER) to shame.    Seriously, this is a nice start and I'll be watching its development.  Because you are having a problem with C growing, I'm guessing you have a "block Maxis growth" type of mod that you're using?  The one I have has different files to suppress certain types of growth, so I am currently blocking R$$-$$$, CO$$-$$$, I-M and CS$$, while letting Maxis R$, I-HT and I-D grow (since I don't have very much custom content in those areas).

[jeronij]

Traff, this is an excellent first work  !!!

Very nice and original layout.

My suggestion to lay my new walls, so they conform better to slope:
Draw a street ( or even better use the ANT tool) which follows the way you want the walls to follow. This will give you a better slope. Also, dont use road or other transit networks for this, because they can "break" your terrain too much.

I hope this helps. Keep the pics coming 

[jen_p]

If you're having trouble getting commercial zones to grow you could use the Radical Ordinance Mod available in the mods section at ST. Among all of the ordinances that it adds (that are a bit like cheating) it has ordinances to increase the demand for commercial service, commercial office, industrial, and I think, agricultural.

[Alfred.Jones]

Very nice work Traff

[jacqulina]

excellent work traff

[Traff]

Thanks for all the comments
I used the Blockallmaxis mod by Dusktrooper for all the R's and C's.
As with most, when I first started DL custom content it was all about the CO$$ & CO$$$ towers  so I'm loaded with those.
I have slight demand in the pretty much all the C's, even almost half demand in the CS$
Those empty zones have been there for nearly 15 game years. Up to 9000sims

Jeronij - I love the walls. Thanks for the tip. I get fustrated with sloped terrain easily.

[Colyn]

Can you give us an idea of where on the map you are doing this ?

[pvarcoe]

Nice start Traff.
I especially like the shot of the diagonal street suburb with the soccer pitch.

[TheTeaCat]

Nice Dl's you've got in your plugins. Nice start too, looking forward to more.

[Traff]

Well I'm not sure what the problem with the commercial was, but its resolved. Slowly but they started keeping up with the growth.

I have a few more pics for now. "Muskoka" which is the central North & South Valley, has plans for the commercial area to be where they connect.

So far there is a decent mix of areas to appeal to potential residents. There is a downtown college, a University, many great parks, the local Muskoka Beavers baseball team.


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A few major development firms stepped in to town, building many condos for the booming commercial & HT Industry.


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I also plan a narrow river that will be fast moving.
Any suggestions for helping the realism with using plopable water.
Dont mind the rock overuse.

[bat]

Fantastic suburb you have made there!

[NikNik]

Aha another Lurker has come out of the closet. WELCOME!

Those Rosemount R$$ homes are great aren't they?

Looking forward to those ploppable water experiments.

Nik-Nik

[kwakelaar]

This is very well done, some great pictures from your city.

[Alfred.Jones]

  That forrest is amazing!! And I love that river/pond/lake/stream/water body of some description

[rooker1]

Excellent start........everything looks very nicely laid out.  I'll have to come back and check your progress.

[Thornton]

  Great Pics, Keep up the great work!!