Hemsbach - A European Metropolis

[Battlecat]

Fantastic start!  Your city is beautifully composed and I really love how much green space you're using!

[serebii666]

Good job with the complexity of the city!

[Getron]

I love how you made that park. And really nice city. 

[MandelSoft]

Nice MD you have here. I see you try to make a city as realistic as possible. The only thing that bothers me is the Maxis Freeway in your city. The Maxis freeway is very underscaled (the cloverleaf interchange is only 220x220m big. In RL a cloverleaf would take up more than a square kilometer). Try to use the RealHighWay Mod (RHW) instead. This also allows you to make more complex freeway structures and interchanges.

Best,
Maarten

[noahclem]

Very nice start to your MD! 

I remember popping in here right when you started and being a bit turned off by your claim that you weren't interested in well-designed transport networks or pre-planned cities (I'm sorry if I've corrupted your words). It was worthy of comment then (I assume I got distracted, my ADD often gets the best of me) but after further review I can go beyond complementing you to refuting your self-effacing claims! If your city wasn't well thought out you've fooled me and your transportation networks look great. I'd echo Maarten's suggestion about RHW but I understand it's not for everyone. I'll certainly be keeping an eye on future developments here 

[kwakelaar]

Some really nice looking images from Hemsbach, I think you are able to catch the feeling of a big European city. The combinations of different small lots to make nice squares and avenues have turned out great. Very well done.

[Schlucke]

Happy New Year to everyone!

I'm really sorry but I haven't been able to visit the forum for the last ten days because I moved to another city and started a new job here. But I'm really happy that so many of you posted a comment here...which is why I'm starting this post by answering your comments:

@Tomas Neto: Thank you very much... :-)

@io_bg: Thank you as well. But it takes much time to create a european-looking city like this. You have to tear down countless buildings - at least if you want to create w2w areas.

@art128: Thanks! There will be more flats and ghettos on the other maps of the region....I'm still working on the very first map but it's surrounded by eight large maps....you can see that there is still plenty of work to do!

@Albus of Garaway & scott1964 & Ciuu96 & Battlecat & serebii666 & Getron  & kwakelaar : Thank you! I hope that you will like the new pictures as well.

@RickD: Thank you. I do try to create a useful road and railroad-system, though. I just don't plan it ... I know that some players create maps and tables with a road system before they start building their city.

@mrtnrln: You're right. I've downloaded the RHW puzzle pieces several months ago and I've really tried to use them. But I have to admit that I don'T like them very much. They look great but I find it very hard to use them. First of all, my PC sometimes crashs when I use them. And secondly, it takes much more time to create those highways...which is why I decided to use the maxis highways although they are not as realistic as the ones designed with the RHW.

@noahclem: Thank you very much...the city itself is - of course - planned. You cannot build huge cities without having an idea how the city should look like. When I said in the first post that I'm not interested in building a city that is thoroughly planned, I wanted to say that I do not start playing a map by creating street grids, railway lines, highways and so on. I just build a main station and see how my city grows :-)

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And without any more words, there are some new random pictures!

4.1. Huge cities are incomplete without large schools and universities. Hemsbach has many of them...this pictures shows the Hemsbach University of Technology. Approximately 10,000 people study here...and they all need a place to live. For that reason I built those flats next to the school; they are supposed to be dorms.


4.2. An overview. Here you can see how the canal "tranforms" into a small river.


4.3. Living, working, and praying in Hemsbach: You can see the cathedral and the cathedral garden here.


4.4.,4.5.,4.6.,4.7.,4.8. More overview pictures that are supposed to give you a more detailed idea about how Hemsbach looks like.










4.9. Finally: Hemsbach's version of the famous Alexanderplatz in Berlin Mitte:


Same procedure as every post: I'm looking forward to your comments :-)

[silentbreaker]

Nice city with an interseting mix of W2W and modern buildings 

[kelis]

Great job my friend, Very German

[Tomas Neto]

Fantastic city, very nice update!!! 

[sumwonyuno]

I really like the urban area!  It definitely has density, and it's not overwhelmed with ultra-dense placement of buildings.  The highrises/skyscrapers are a change from many cities because they are fairly spread out and not centralized.  Great job!   

[Terring7]

Nice canals, plenty of green, great transportation system, this city is great

[Rady]

Stopped over for the first time, and I do have to congratulate. Fine city! Looks like there's a lot of planning involved in your city! Keep up the good work!

[Schlucke]

Thanks again for your kind comments! It's really great to read these reactions every time I visit the forum.

Apart from saying thank you, I also wanted to show you some new pictures...and this time, you will get to know the Dark Side of Hemsbach!
I don't use the night mode while playing but sometimes I just turn on the lights to have a look at my city from a different perspective...and here are some of the results:

5.1. The famous historical buildings at my version of Berlin's Gendarmenmarkt do even look better when they are illuminated. I have to say that I really like this plaza in the heart of Hemsbach.


5.2. It happens only very rarely that the normally crowded Alexanderplatz is almost deserted. But even the inhabitants and tourists of Hemsbach do have to sleep sometimes.


5.3. The city that never sleeps? This sentence may not be true for the whole city of Hemsbach, but it is definitely true for the centre of the town, where many people use the main station to leave or to arrive at Hemsbach.


5.4. Like a torch in the night...the statue of Jeanne D'Arc shines brightly in the middle of the night.


5.5. Again Jeanne D'Arc...but this time you can see her in an overview pic.


5.6. A lonely tram on its way to the main station.


5.7. The Hemsbach Stock Exchange attracts bankers and brokers, who scream and shout to increase their money, every day - in the middle of the night, the old building looks rather peacefully.


5.8. A small chateau, the opera, an old church and a famous historical hotel: Hemsbach's historical city centres offers lots of attractions!


5.9. A sharp contrast: Skyscrapers and office buildings at the United Nations plaza.


5.10. And finally, another skyscraper and a large shopping mall in the city centre.


I hope that you like this new perspective of Hemsbach as much as you liked the other pictures in this thread!

I had a look at your codes and they do not link to a picture.  I would suggest you upload your pics again to the provider of your chioce and post them again here. I use ImageShack or Photobucket, the later more often than not and I have had no problems. - Robin  Global Moderator

[RickD]

It might be a problem on my side but I can't see any of your pictures in the last update.  I'll come back later, hopefully it works then.

[Schlucke]

The pictures are still not visible...and I have absolutely no clue why this is the case. I uploaded them at the same page as the others...rather strange

Do you have an idea why the pictures cannot be seen?

[rooker1]

 See my post in your post.  I hope that helps.  If not contact me through PM and maybe I can walk you through.

Robin 

[saathoff]

Great updates! Look forward to more