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interesting, what did you use for the roof?


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Just now I realized that you put the tower, from another mod, under the pillar of the power line, great idea.

 

You did a very good job and the mine from the update is well made. What mod do you use to build buildings in ground? (@ the mine i can see only the 2 tower from that heavy industry building)

 

So, for my review:

I have to say that I absolutely admire your patience and your passion for the game! I mean, you proved your skills already with your journal of Florence, where you constructed a gorgeous old town, some realistic large-scale plazas, built major goods stations, and so on But with Kent, you have moved to another level. Mainly due to two key points: First, the level of detail not just in the downtown area, but also in the suburbs. Second, the space-consuming ideas and their realization!

There are some minor points of critique, nonetheless. But as always, it's not that important:
1) I have to say that albeit I love your airport, I think that the runways face the wrong direction. I mean, airports that size have to allow for planes coming from each direction, be it in an emergency landing approach, or just in common traffic. But the tall skyscrapers and the TV tower close by disallow for approaches from that direction. Also, I miss some taxiway connection between the two runways What do you do when one runway has to be closed?
2) Some parts of your highway and expressway system are a bit confusing to me. For example, this image:

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I mean, cars on the right expressway (at the bottom of the image) that mistakenly take the wrong exit are stuck on that lower expressway forever, not?
3) Given the video and the images you uploaded so far, I do miss some unemployed estates. I mean, in an American city, you usually find some areas with unused land, or some old factories that are not used at the moment. I recognized maybe two or three unused land areas, but that was it. Usually, you have more of these in any large modern Western city. But just a minor point. Your city is too perfect to be real

But did I already say how much I admire your city?
I love how you cared about the suburbs. You not only just squished residential buildings into grid like others do, you also added hospital, schools, kindergartens, malls, and so on, not to mention power lines and billboards! Looking at your images often felt like looking at pictures taken from a real city You did not mix any kinds of buildings, you cared about transitions between industrial and residential districts. You carefully chose the plaza mods and the building mods to create a specific North-Eastern atmosphere, and you totally nailed it in my eyes. That's what distinguishes a veteran from a beginner

I have to say that I am totally in love with your airport. I know, people already said that it's too close to the core, and that it is too large. But you know what? Cities like Boston and Phoenix also have their airports really close to the downtown area. So yeah, it may be uncommon, but not unreal! And the airport itself looks overly realistic. You placed passenger, cargo, and maintenance areas there, you did care about every single detail. And then you added this majestic monorail station. Wonderful design!

Nonetheless, maybe the most important thing about your city apart from the realism is to me the highway and expressway network! I have never seen before a vast highway network like yours that has also been so smoothly designed. You cared everywhere about ramps that are long enough, and you generally cared about all the districts having enough access points to the network. Yes, I have seen great highway networks before, but none like yours! You even created rest stops along the highways

I think one can recognize how outstanding your network is within the image that shows the highway bridge next to the airport, as well as its surroundings. One of my favourite images

Regarding what I can see from the downtown area, I think you did a terrific job with the compact center and the skyline. And that park on the island surely sees a surge in visitors everyday after work. Furthermore, I like your idea of implementing a BRT system. At first, when I saw some of your photos within the contest threads, I was not sure whether it would fit into the city. But given the better views, I can tell now that it fits, it adds some kind of urban renewal feeling to the downtown, and it is not too spacious. I hope we will see some maps of your bus system soon

There are lots of other things I like a lot, but to mention a few:
- the power station looks glorious, once again, good eye for the details! Reminds me a bit on one of my own power plants in a different contest^^
- the harbour terminals look fantastic
- I really like the district around the round sports hall, would love to take a walk there and explore said neighbourhood

Keep it up!

 

@Drazicdesign well, I am looking forward to seeing your updates
In the meantime, I sincerely hope that some of the other veteran members will find some time to leave a nice review, too

And yes, I stil play XXL. I started an American city some weeks ago, but I was not able to do more than laying out the grid and terraforming the map^^

 

Can we get more of this?

can you upload map of Kent, street grid?

 

Great!!! I think about 30 to 50 percent of my fascination with your update on Petty Island stems from the excitement about the stone dykes, you are outperforming yourself on the realism! I love the road layout once again, well done with the highway exit and the roundabouts!
Just on a side note: I think that your retaining wall is needed for the area in the fourth photo of the update

 

Hi , I have a question to you. Your highways in this city from RHM addon have a light grey asphalt. In default RHM mod the roads are dark grey. How to change it to light grey,? that looks more realistic .