The SFBT Advent Calendar 2010

[Sciurus]

Great, I love this school!

Guillaume

[cubby420]

The model is excellent but the lot is to die for. A top notch release   

[Andreas]

SFBT Discount Stores by royal

Today's download contains a set of German discount stores, such as ALDI, Lidl, Netto and Penny, which have been very successfull since the late 1950's/early 1960's, when Karl and Theo Albrecht opened the first ALDI ("Albrecht Discount") store in Essen, Germany. Soon, both of the brothers continued with their own store chain, ALDI Nord (north) and ALDI Süd (south), and have expanded thoughout countless European countries, the USA and even Australia and New Zealand. Their main rival today is Lidl, but Edeka, Netto and Penny have been very successful, too. Plus was bought by the Rewe Group recently, and the stores were re-branded to Netto, but for completeness, we also included a Plus store, as well as a Hofer store, which is the name of the ALDI stores in Austria. In total, this download contains nine different discount stores, and each lot also shows a special delivery truck prop that will show up either in the morning or in the afternoon. The trucks have been created by SimCityFreak.

 

And finally, here's an overview across all nine discount store lots:

[cubby420]

Wonderful upload! So bland it will fit in perfectly in a wide variety of city styles 

[Ciuu96]

Yay, Lidls! We have those in Finland too. 

[Sciurus]

Aaaah! Aldi's and Lidl's! I was waiting for these for a long time!! These are excellent, congrats

Guillaume

[art128]

Nice one, aldi and lidls were really missing.

Waiting for tomorrow's present....  (5 mins left)

[Andreas]

SFBT Nikolaikirche by peterycristi

One of Potsdam's famous landmarks is the Nikolaikirche, designed by architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel, which survived as one of the few buildings after a Royal Air Force attack in WWII. The lot is not an exact reproduction of the current situation, but a design that should fit into your city nicely - and since Christmas is approaching fast, there's also a little Christmas market in front of the church that shows up every december (in-game time).

 

Please note: Make sure to download peterycristi's prop pack as well for this and some upcoming lots. The Christmas market props are not available at the LEX at the moment, as I just found out, but you can get them at SimCityKurier.

[art128]

Woaw ! Awesome creation ! 

[cubby420]

Wonderful creation! I love it!

[Sciurus]

Wunderschöne Kirche! Wonderful, I love it, it will serve

Guillaume

[Girafe]

ahah, masterpieces of Peterycristi begin to be released, thanks for this jewel 

[kelis]

Great job peterycristi, Nikolaikirche it's Amazing !

[Andreas]

Update notice: Unfortunately, there was a slight bug in the SFBT Büdchen lot, which was able to make the lot immortal under certain circumstances. Please remove the old version and download the file that has been uploaded some hours ago. Sorry for the inconvenience.

SFBT Chertanovo Prospekt by Sam Johnson

Sam Johnson was definitely unstoppable when BATting all those Russian pre-fab buildings this year, so here's another file example of his talents. With nine floors, these are more or less midrise buildings and will grow on medium and high density residential zones. They are available in four lot sizes, two smaller 10x2 and 10x3 lots, and two large 10x6 and 10x8 mega lots with two buildings each. The overall lot design is similar to the pre-fab lots that have been released so far, so those should integrate seamlessly.

 

[Ciuu96]

Ah, beautiful! (well, in a certain way ) Really well done buildings, and really useful as I am currently building a low wealth ghetto!

[art128]

I will make good use of those babies... 

[Nardo69]

I will make good use of those babies... 

I guess there might be a reason why I don't doubt that at all ... 

[Sciurus]

Excellent blocks! I'm fan

Guillaume

[Girafe]

I agree with sciurus excellent block 

[Andreas]

SFBT Vineyards by FrankyFour, igc and Andreas

Today's upload is based on an idea by FrankyFour, who was looking for slope-friendly vineyards, but so far, the existing props were not really intended for putting on a slope, as it is a common sight in the south-western part of Germany in particular. Being from a wine region myself, I loved the first draft with some ploppable vineyard fields that were equipped with igc's vine props. Naturally, plopping extensive vineyards takes a lot of time, so I decided to make them growable as well. The task looked relatively easy, but unfortunately, there were quite a few obstacles to master.

After battling with SC4PIM, the Lot Editor and the Reader for countless hours, I was able to weed out all the bugs, hopefully, so they're finally here. Apart from the four ploppable filler lots, this set also includes a "farm lot" with a small vineyard hut, like those that you can find everywhere in this area, and a custom vineyard field lot. I suggest to use a Maxis blocker and remove all other custom farms while you're growing your vineyards; once you're done, you can revert these measures again safely. Please have a look at the LEX description or the readme file for more details about how to use this set.

 

BTW, sorry for the spelling mistake in the LEX upload, unfortuantely, you cannot edit this line anymore    Here's a pic of the vineyards in action, courtesy of FrankyFour: