The "bootleg River" City Building Contest

as soon as i am done with my city named clairiston i will start on this!

 

Thanks for the suggestion. I'll have a look on that. It's just the beginning.

 

the war has begun







Don't copy my roundabout


my UTurns are copyrighted as well hehe

 

this exactly the category im competing on

 

Your interchanges are awesome, Ammar.

 

I am sorry not to join the XL-Nation-wide delight about Ammar's
seemingly outstanding highways...
First, you don't show any exits to some possible town parts, it is all
just highways being interconnected; that may look nice for a case study
of what one can do with the mod itself, but not in a city building contest...
Second, the highways you show yet were not carefully done:

Let's take a deeper look at your roundabout: first, the part for cars within the inner lanes
of the roundabout to drop off from said lanes is rather as long as an ant,
so not really long enough. Second, on a more general stage, the roundabout
does not look as a realisitic highway roundabout at all, as it hinders cars that just
want to fly over from passing the roundabout quickly; but highways in reality
are thought to provide fast fly over possibilities at interchanges;
so to sum it up, the roundabout itself cannot really be seen as part
of a highway/motorway system, rather for some inner-city expressways...

Similar also holds for the rather spacious interchange you show:
again, cars that do want to stay on the highway need to take the exit?
That may be understandable for highway endings, but here you have
2 main lanes that are thought for flyovers...

I don't say that the interchanges you show do not look good,
they truly look awesome, but for me, the points I discussed above
do remain... and well, it may just be my opinion, you still will have
the most chances to win the "Best RHM" Contest...

 

Nice display of interchanges indeed! Congrats I really appreciate the precision of the interchanges, lining it all up can be a real b*tch

Nevertheless, I would suggest a more realistic system - there are just way too many intersections only a "few meters" from each other. I think less is often more, try cutting some of them out, leaving out one of the higways completely, using a bit more creativity And, yes, the "squareabout" is cool, but I would never want to drive through that!

 

btw, I LOVE how the people are approaching the map differently, so COOL!!

 

I am so copying those ring roads . . .

 

Hey we are still in the beginning, don't rush me

The roundabout or "squareabout" was just a concept that came into my mind and i tried to deploy it into the map to see how it may looks like. im in fact thinking to replace it with complete bridge interchange as both ideas consume the same amount of space.

i agree with you on this. i actually tried to connect them but they looked terrible. instead i'll be forcing my citizens to redirect back from the nearest exit hehe . i'll try to resolve that somehow. the fact is i don't like the amount of space it takes.

Many thanks for your notes. didn't expect that someone takes a deeper look into those

alright, are you going to write my name inside the circle ?

i think using RHM smaller roads instead of regular avenues is way much better in big cities, hence i'll be needing as many interchanges as possible. its just my opinion.

but by the way, its not few meters apart, when you zoom in you will realize that there is a penalty of space between them

that was just an idea, i think people can make it look more realistic

thanks man

This is what i mean:


man thats nasty

MOD EDIT: Merged multiple posts into one; please try to refrain from posting multiple times in a row.

 

I will be working on this challenge as well.

 

I'm in, too, but a little scared. Hope you all build ugly cities... so I'll be the winner of this awesome contest... ha, ha..

Good luck to all from a friend from South America!

 

you can compete for the second place, the first place is already reserved

 

Cities in my country really need mayors like you, man...

 

Yeah ... for ICYHOT ... king of the Northwest!!

 

@Ammar Shaker your building your highway on top of nice mountain terrain. Ahh.
What did you do just flatten the whole area, defeats the purpose of the map man

 

There is no rules against that
Also i didn't flatten the entire map, only the center. the city will be surrounded with mountains as you can see in my first screen shot

 

I'm trying to buil a city with a "historical" downtown, so it will be a city for tourism. I'm not sure about using all those amazing highways or build a city so realistic that will have a demonic traffic...