Kīrešte / Ceuerstad - Small Baltic Themed City

[rancid tulip]

@lost scroll @glossy stream :)

[lost scroll]

letsgooo

gold star project when

[rancid tulip]

ill try to keep posting my new stuff here!

[glossy stream]

Ayeeee

[glossy stream]

Real

[mint relic]

try using french low rent apartments for avarage eastern european apartments

[rancid tulip]

i actually have! Those remind me of stalin era housing. I think for the more well known soviet era khruschov apartments theres one uk medium density asset i love using

[rancid tulip]

you can see the assets in use in this screenshot

im interested in how the new eastern europe asset pack will look

though actually im suspicious it wont be that useful for me, as i don't like standout highrises much, i feel like a lot of assets impose too much on the older architecture

[mint relic]

they better add the longer versions of the soviet apartments too

not only highrises

[rancid tulip]

this was literally on my wishlist of buildings i need!!! it's just like the radisson hotel in riga!

this is what i had here before... not ideal!

[glossy stream]

yes new updates of ur city!

[mint relic]

Tbh the buildings are very good but they made only high versions, but for example in slovakia there are longer version buildings which were wide not high

The city which ill be building will need wide buildings

[south monolith]

add a 4 lane highway next to ugly 15 floor prefabricated building district

[rancid tulip]

yes, i agree. The detail is amazing, but they are simply too tall to incorporate in lots of builds, mine as well. many panel blocks don't go higher than the traditional ~5 stories, and seemingly, that has been put aside for the pack.

[rancid tulip]

i might just eat my own words... i kind of like how they look actually

[mint relic]

Same in slovakia 60% of those panel apartments are less than 6 stories, only in bigger cities like bratislava or kosice have the bigger versions

[rancid tulip]

i really would like some second opinion: would this block make sense/fit in the city? (of course considering that this is a city in the former eastern block)

[polar pumice]

Yeah definitely, I’d make some sort of border speersting the “original city” and the new post war apartments

[sturdy cloak]

Yes my city has these in between u could add parking

[lost scroll]

i have something similar in my city xd

[rancid tulip]

heres how im leaving it for this week

[rancid tulip]

not really ceuerstad, but i have a new small scale side project inspired by Fredrikstad!

[glossy stream]

looks amazing

[rancid tulip]

Evening 🙏 🙏

[glossy stream]

Cute

[rancid tulip]

the EE assets are kind of weird... unbalanced. imagine the red sticks are cims - that's how many people can live in these, which without further yapping i just find extremely unrealistic...

the german assets for example! while twice as large, house (maybe!!) half of that!

[rancid tulip]

highway plan!

[glossy stream]

wooo

[rancid tulip]

"new project" district im working on a little right now

the china pack has a lot of great modernism assets!

these condos look amazing in my opinion

[rancid tulip]

this is an insane sleeper district now by the way lol...

AND!!!! Kīrešte is now at 60k pop :DD

https://tenor.com/view/yes-yes-sir-yayy-kataman-gif-12260883688244422951

[rancid tulip]

this is all for today.

[fallen berry]

fr the 2 story low rent house at l5 has 192 households for some reason

[rancid tulip]

Apparently these household numbers are generated by the ai and it doesn't calculate it accounting for the height. These assets are designated as low rent and so it expects low rent to be as dense as a 73 story tall building in kowloon

[fallen berry]

makes no sense

[lost scroll]

for real, might be my favs from the pack

[lost scroll]

they really couldnt come up with a better household number measuring system...

up to the modders to fix it again ;-;

when will CO learn

[thin star]

don't smaller cities have those high versions as well? I remember like 13-storey ones in rużomberok

[pulsar osprey]

Great work!

[mint relic]

yeah, but that are the only tall one not wide and tall

[rancid tulip]

new block transitioning the city center to a more suburban part

also! new plan for the western part of the city! (gray = panel housing ; pink = stalin era housing ; brown = baroque housing)

although i didn't hate this old block of panel housing, i never thought of it as anything more than experimental. The layout of it is way too rigid, and so comes off as if it was forced to fit in the urban fabric. Another issue for me being that there is little to no urban transition between the old architecture and the modernist.

my vision for the western part is something closer to a revitalized "forest city" mixed with some soviet modernism.

[fringe bough]

because here in eastern europe apartments are small with a lot of people

[south monolith]

could this be built in a central european city

except the white modern buildings

[fringe bough]

yes

[rancid tulip]

what? please look again... this is quite clearly not meant to show off the "communal blues" of the stalin era. there would be a min of like... roughly guessing 5 people per room in the pictured building?! this is clearly a zoning mechanic issue where the game doesn't take into account the height of an asset.

[rancid tulip]

well arguably in a contrast a good example is poland, where modern architecture is often prevelant... i wouldn't say its that out of place...

[south monolith]

Make small compact highways with emergency stop lane NOT oversized "lethal freedom overdose transferred to eastern europe" size highways

[south monolith]

This is close to what i mean. 3 lanes in each direction except on exit or entrance and has room to stop if your car breaks down

[rancid tulip]

im actually inspired mostly by riga, where there are big highways going through certain districts that are quite devastatingly oversised...

[south monolith]

but you aren't making a 1:1 copy of it

so you can make small highways

[rancid tulip]

this is roughly about the size of my highways.

[rancid tulip]

???

thats not the point

[south monolith]

depends on when the highway was built

2000-2010 and later would be this (sunken)

and 1960-1990 would be way bigger than this

[rancid tulip]

arguably my highways are smaller than yours in some ways! mine don't really reach 3 bidirectional lanes!

i have mostly only bidirectional 2 lanes

i would say my highway sizes are pretty conservative...

if i were to go full soviet this whole waterfront would be one big highway! 😅

[glossy stream]

so good really

[fringe bough]

you know what i live in a crumped apartment 56 square meters 5 people

[rancid tulip]

uh... well i feel for you... im just saying, even your situation isn't as cramped. This is just unrealistic for an average building of that size in the given setting...

[faint thistle]

What kind of map did you build this city on?

[sullen oak]

So beautiful ❤️

[past roost]

Nice project mate

[rancid tulip]

its a blank heightmap of the Venta river 😅

i don't like ready to play maps because i like planing cities from scratch, without existing highways and nature

[rancid tulip]

New block!

and KECC office complex, which is my first real custom building!

finally fixed my ui disappearing

anticlimactically i just needed to reinstall my mods...

[fallen berry]

tu esi no rigas?

[rancid tulip]

Yeah

[rancid tulip]

First highrise commie block!

although i don't like them, they are a lot of fun to build actually

also i think it's been a while since i have show off the whole of the city in one span

[glossy stream]

really really good

love it

personally the next area u should do is this

[rancid tulip]

Ahh... Its kind of a weird one. Ive been thinking for a whille about just totally redoing it. Im just not sure how to

[glossy stream]

very understandable

[rancid tulip]

two more transition blocks before i start getting into proper panel blocks

[rancid tulip]

this one screenshot is really cool imo :) ...

oh yeah. Im an adult now.

[fallen berry]

looks just like ventspils

[rancid tulip]

The heightmap i have used is pretty much the ventspils area

Though my build is almost nothing like ventspils in many ways

[stable oyster]

As a resident of such houses, I can say that although it turned out beautiful, it is not very realistic. Usually such houses are not built with a solid wall, but with blocks with an offset (I am writing through a translator, so there may be inaccuracies in the translation)

As an example I can give the following development

[rancid tulip]

You're not exactly wrong, but it's not entirely right either. Lots of blocks are in fact built with an offset. Though for example such long blocks do exist. That's why theyre often nicknamed "the great wall of china". My hometown is such and example. You can see both offset and straight blocks in this image! :)

I might redo a couple of them with an offset to break too much monotony though

[stable oyster]

I admit I was wrong, I was focusing on panel houses from the former USSR

[rancid tulip]

Youre not wrong, just that pannel house planning has very diverse types of implementations. Many people forget that there are multiple architects working behind these districts

[rancid tulip]

@stable oyster i did a little tweaking with the offsets :)

i am still going for the wall of china look, but they did lack offset.

or maybe this is even better

[stable oyster]

Would you like to do something similar in an area with panel houses?

[stable oyster]

Looks very good

[rancid tulip]

hm... on some level maybe.

judging from the pics it looks like a district that already existed before panel housing. In my situation the blocks are completely seperately planned

im attempting something more like this

albeit with some creative liberties to fit my own scenario

[rancid tulip]

Just had my game crash when saving and am now set back like a ton 😐

some pics i could salvage of my progress :(

will try to remake it all in the next week.

at least i have a reference to work off of

any criticisms i can fix with this opportunity?

this was going to be a cool update to this thread, but i guess that minimal suspense i had was killed lol...

the park in image 3. is "atmodas parks" or "awakening park" which is inspired by uzvaras parks in Riga. Uzvaras parks was (to my knowledge?) made after Latvia gained independence, it hosted many singing festivals that play a big part in modern Latvian culture. After soviet occupation it got a different soviet meaning and kind of became a symbol of the occupation. My park is inspired mostly by the modern day form of it that is mostly still the soviet modeling of it.

I think it reflects well the panel block district next to it and the era!

this is how it looked recently! Now it is going through modernisation efforts!

I think i will add a water feature when recovering it, making it more linked to the real park.

I also made some stalin era apartments, inspired by this crossing in Teika (ģelbes iela/brīvibas gatve)

image from wikipedia

it has two bus stops and from the crossing you can see Jaunā Teika, which is a modern office/apartment development

[rancid tulip]

I think The KECC office represents Jaunā Teika somewhat, although that is on complete accident.

The district in Ceuerstad is named Siliņi, the name is partly inspired by Pļavinieki, which is famously a panel block district. (pļava - field, sils - forest, the district is well forested and has a part of the nature park that is on the coast having a lot of forestation)

Its not really a representation of Teika or Pļavinieki, or anything at all for that matter, it's just kind of an amalgamation of everything that is placed more so on the outer edges of Riga.

partly the forested single family homes in the north of the district are slightly inspired by Mežaparks, which literally means "forest park".

well uh... i will take a break now and try to get the motivation to rebuild all of that stuff sometime "soon"

this really hit me for some reason

i have had a lot of progress in this district lately!

[lost scroll]

lovely updates

[fallen berry]

i used to take my bike to the repair shop just down that street lol

[candid hemlock]

28 family

[rancid tulip]

Not that this is particularly relevant as of now, however i have a plan to rebuild the old town sometime.

it's pretty much the first thing i built on this save and it's showing it's age

Right now i am putting it off because i lack the assets (and confidence), but this is going to be eventually happening.

I think the old design is very rigid, lacks fluidity and although is close is generally just not the type of architecture i want

"fun" (fun?) fact - i used to zone everything manually WITHOUT anarchy and just used the german pack backyard asset because i was really adamant about my lack of trust in anarchy

it worked for a while, but obviously it's really constricting to only be able to use one asset for "fluid" curves

You may have noticed, i like to use mods on a very minimal level :)

that's because i am very paranoid about losing any assets and pretty much having to replace them

i generally just lack a long term trust in lots of mods

i am not sure why.

but i have recently become a lot more liberal with my use of mods

[fallen berry]

id say there is a lack of old town assets especially the ones similar to latvia

riga has really cool buildings and its sad that they arent really in cs2

[rancid tulip]

I expect more stuff fit for my project to come from community assets when the asset editor gets finished (never)

Although the Mediterranean pack was ok in adding a little variety

[rancid tulip]

Kīrešte / Ceuerstad - Baltic Themed City

I dont think "eastern european" really reflects the project too well so in changing it to baltic.

Yeah yeah you can argue that the Baltics can be sort of eastern european, but i think that i would have to include more slavic aspects then. I dont really think the baltic region can be put into "northern" or "eastern" europe. Its just sort of its own distinct thing.

[glossy stream]

its alright, tho i think its more to a germany city to any other

[lost scroll]

nice nice

[south monolith]

it can be Poland or warcriminalgradian oblast' or even the DDR (RAM for PC.)

[rancid tulip]

implementing some of the basic reworked old town fabric :)

the mediterranean assets are pretty good

am taking things slow right now

maybe i will be finished by the end of summer 😅

actually now that i think about it my builds have never been that big ever

they arent the most detailed or the largest... but i try my best so that they are as whole as they can be... :)

this might be one of the last big projects i do for a while

[rancid tulip]

This is crazy

I got like

200 national geographic releases for

20 euro

[rancid tulip]

well im finally back to where i was before i lost the save and have even made a little more progress than previously!

for some reason my mood really tanked after losing the save

in this update i did some major infills and got the western edge of the city done.

[rancid tulip]

here is Atmodas parks! In the end i actually stayed with the old version as i couldn't really figure out a nice way to implement a water feature.

The commie block district by the ring road

The infills by the city centre

(this part is inspired by VEF in Riga, which was historically an industrial part over the railroad at one point, although now it's more a part of the inner city)

[rancid tulip]

some of the stalin era architecture i mentioned here :)

and finally some more tree coverage by the coast expanded!

here's the status of the build right now: Green - relatively done ; Yellow - Planned out ; Orange - Very clear vision, doesn't require strict planning ; Red - not sure what to do with these pieces, but there is some bigger picture vision.

[rancid tulip]

Kīrešte / Ceuerstad - Small Baltic Themed City

uh... yeah... i think marking this as a small city is more accurate

hopefully ill stop editing the title of this thread

[rancid tulip]

also: i would like some opinions. What looks better? messy land grab type of blocks, or structured ones? (i did a quick mock up with two blocks on the lower-right corner of the second pic)

i might redo the central city blocks if this looks better.

@lost scroll @glossy stream please vote!!!!!!

i got inspired by @past roost 's blocks

honestly im kind of completely disconnected from the CS2 discord and rarely browse other beople builds so my techniques are sometimes very old or... stupid. 😅

[rancid tulip]

technically though, in riga blocks are like this.

[glossy stream]

on what?

[rancid tulip]

Which type of block is better

[rancid tulip]

.

[glossy stream]

left image

[fallen berry]

👍

[rancid tulip]

what do u think?

[fallen berry]

riga has both and i think they both have their own charm but if i had to pick between 1 i think it would be the stuctured ones

i dont think the assets are good enough to do the messy building type

[rancid tulip]

i might do both, transition like from the messy ones to the structured ones - from the centre to the suburbs

i think that would be a compromise

[fallen berry]

yea that makes sense

[lost scroll]

this is what i wouldve suggested. doing a mix of both

[rancid tulip]

its been a while!

admittedly i have recently been more busy with school, finding a summer job, traveling... blah blah blah...

nonetheless! Here is what i have been working on for the last month!

I recently got the time to finish this

An expansion into the suburbs and nature around Ceuerstad!

im trying out some more vertical fields and tree lines!

heres a generic suburb

a rich historical neighbourhood in the forest by the sea

and the highway going southwest!

[glossy stream]

Amazing

[rare goblet]

So good

[rare goblet]

Are the farmlands from vanilla or farm surface pack?

[rancid tulip]

its a farmland pack :)

im very happy you guys come here so fast 😅

im really motivated by you all

[glossy stream]

im using those right now as well

i still don't get it, but i think its looking good for now

[rancid tulip]

i know you can make some amazing and extremely detailed stuff with it like the trail of a combine too, but i use only the base surfaces for some fastish farmlands

[rancid tulip]

updated status of the build right now: Green - relatively done ; Yellow - Planned out ; Orange - Very clear vision, doesn't require strict planning ; Red - not sure what to do with these pieces, but there is some bigger picture vision.

The yellow spot in the south of the city is what i will be working on now

[runic trellis]

How dare you to have a life instead of playing Cities: Skylines 2 day in and day out!

Jk btw, this is all really cool. I like how you’re planning ahead for your city!

[azure spindle]

i love this

[rancid tulip]

So this is gonna be a smaller update... As you can tell i initially wanted to fill out this entire banana shape with tons of stuff, but i remembered how barren the given industrial assets are. I COULD fill it all out if i really wanted to, but it would be mostly aesthetic and wouldn't really function. Here's what i have rn:

KU (kīreštes universitāte and the parks made together with the stalin era realist buildings:

I like to imagine a hotel was added in the 2000s or late 90s

[glossy stream]

so goooooooooood

[rancid tulip]

some lighter industry

i finally finished the highway by the riverside over here

and last but DEFINETLY not least a custom bus terminal:

im really happy with how it came out

This is the part i unfortunately will be putting off. Here will be some more industry. I have however filled out the road layout

There are two roads i lifted up and converted into bridges now!

and an updated status:

[rare goblet]

I really need to get into making less dense areas with shorter buildings, looks amazing

[rancid tulip]

I have also finally gotten to making a comprehensive transportation system! These are tram lines 1, 2 and 3

These are busses: Terminal - Kociņi, 1 and 2

i will naturally be adding more lines eventually!

The trains also run, but i didn't feel the need to illustrate them here... it only really goes from the edge of the map in the south, into the central station, then to the northern edge.

[rancid tulip]

as a side note: i imagine this district has been bombed after ww2. There would have been tons of lower density wooden and georgian housing but after the war the district gets wiped and in place are made huge stalinist buildings with a park and soviet monument (now dismantled). You can see some small bits of the original urban fabric still left by the industrial buildings and the bus terminal. (on the right of it) The road layout is also very similar to the prewar state, however only the arterials and main roads are left, with the smaller backyard (or what used to be the backyards of buildings that were bombed) and utility roads dismantled. A cannal where the city walls used to be is also present.

[fallen berry]

cool

[runic trellis]

Oh, so this is set it in an area more akin to Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania? I was imagining Finland and Sweden when I saw Baltic.

[rare goblet]

Not rigid enough grids for it to be nordic

[rancid tulip]

many people mistake the baltic sea for the baltic region lol...

[rancid tulip]

Hey guys. quick test i am making:

can you tell the difference in these two patches of trees?

because i can. and its a huge matter of time consuming technique efficiency i could potentially improve

[rare goblet]

This one looks a bit more dense

[rancid tulip]

The thing is that one is completely placed by hand, the other one is made with the line tool mod. I'm not sure if i should continue placing by hand or sacrifice some quality for efficiency. It takes a long time to make these forests

[rare goblet]

You dont use the forest brush thing to get a mix?

[fallen berry]

on the right looks better

[rancid tulip]

nope... individually placed by hand. heres an example of a forest i redid some time ago. 1. is brushed, 2. is by hand.

trust me... you can hold the brush as long as you want... it will never be as dense as by hand

[inner spade]

I kinda like both
There isn't a forest that is perfectly dense, maybe you should work in some lower density areas or clearings with your manual method

[rancid tulip]

Extended the nature and suburbs over the train tracks to the river bank, also a small kinda dying industry exclave:

Status update:

bonus: the plan i used

[rancid tulip]

✨ ⭐ 💫

[lost scroll]

ur forests are the best

[rancid tulip]

Oh boy the next update will be FORESTS

[rancid tulip]

So im gonna cut this update early since i may have bitten off more than i can chew and am just taking way too long to post something.

I finally got around to making these missing suburbs between Ceuerstad and Kociņi!

A historical neighbourhood, built behind an old defensive dike and some suburbs sprawling into cut down forest areas.

This is the plan i am following. Originally i of course wanted to complete it all... but forests take a really long time to make by hand.

ill get around to doing it all eventually!

updated status:

And a transit map i made... :D

i might have accidentally encased the city in a green belt haha...

i promise lost of fields after the forests!!

[rancid tulip]

Hey! This isn't an update to the city really. But I have made a short guide on how to make the forests and fields in my style. Hope it's useful to someone! Feel free to discuss any aspects of it, maybe there are some possible improvements to the technique or how I could have formatted the guide better.

[rancid tulip]

Here's my first finished project haha... funny to think it's not Ceuerstad. Nevertheless, I think it's a step up in my detailing skill and a good build, so do check it out! It's more of a one off and finished project, so don't expect big updates or much more content, but I will be posting some complimentary graphics and details.

[rancid tulip]

remember this? :)

[mint relic]

whats the pop of that small town?

[rancid tulip]

About 6400

[mint relic]

Nice

Nice city you have there btw you gave me alot of inspirations for my new town which ill be starting in few weeks

If i may ask, whats your specs for pc

[rancid tulip]

12th gen i3 i think and a 3060 6gb

[mint relic]

YES

[rancid tulip]

Its nothing crazy, but it runs everything good

[mint relic]

Cuz ill have i5 and i will buy rtx 3060 soon

8gb i think

One of those

Imma either get the 8gb ond or 12 gb

[south monolith]

Buy 12gb

[lost scroll]

why go lower when for a few tens more you can have a majorly improved experience with 12gb compared to 8gb

[mint relic]

Ok

I planned buying it

[viral flint]

dude this map is so cool

def got the ideas flowing

thanks mate

[mint relic]

If i may ask whats the name of the map

[rancid tulip]

this

[rancid tulip]

.

[rancid tulip]

.

custom made 💪 💪 (took me about 30 mins to make)

lol

[mint relic]

oh

[mellow veldt]

@tender veldt

[tender veldt]

easily one of the best cities here

[rancid tulip]

Argh!!! Been so damn busy

Update on monday

12pm ptsd standard time or whatever

Dont expect much

[rancid tulip]

Ok nvm. Scratch that i have a dorsia reservation on tuesday, so delay that to wednesday

https://tenor.com/view/me-when-i-see-a-cat-patrick-bateman-cat-patrick-cat-cat-pet-gif-25711200

[rancid tulip]

This expansion represents the big plantation forests that are very common in Latvia. More specifically Garkalne forests and the stretch of forests between Ventspils and Ugāle in western Courland for example.

I do have to admit that in placing this huge span of trees by hand I did make the tree pattern a little lazy.

More fields!

Some of these fields are maybe more geometric than i'd like them to be, but I think it fits in nicely with the previous Kociņi expansion (a bit north) as I had to blend in with an older version of field making technique I had at the time. And as a bonus represents the privatized kolkhoz fields in eastern europe as well.

I have as well reached the boundary of the build that will still be small enough to be doable for me but also depict the surrounding countryside nicely. Here is how I have decided to define it (actually it's so big that you can't really even render it all if you want to get a full topdown view, I can assure you that it's a ring around the city 😅 😂 ) :

and the panoramas :D

oh and some cute family homesteads

I have reached 1000 hours in the game now

and about half of those are in this city

[fast herald]

Beautiful ! I've rarely seen fields so well done! What theme do you use to get this look please?

[glossy stream]

damn

[rancid tulip]

It's not exactly a theme, but i use an agriculture surface pack.

Farming Surfaces and Decals - Paradox Mods https://share.google/d38kZXORPPiveeBMR

[chrome plover]

Hey @rancid tulip how do you know so much about European road planning, I’m danish so your road layouts are so weirdly realistic to me and I love it

[rancid tulip]

genuinely dont know how to answer this lol... i guess i just spend a lot of time on google earth just exploring and coming to conclusions what feels inorganic with my layouts. not really anything i can put into words as its like handwriting.

[chrome plover]

Fair enough, I feel the same about a lot of other stuff in cs2 just not European road planning, idk why but I usually just feel like I can’t get it right especially countryside stuff.

[rancid tulip]

practice makes perfect. I was pretty bad not that long ago too.

[mint relic]

will the bere still any updates in the city?

i like this lets say series

[rancid tulip]

Yes

Soon actually

[mint relic]

nicee

[rancid tulip]

I have finally implemented this age old "new" old town plan! Quite a mouthful...

admittedly its not up to the standard of what i would design today, but its a lot better than the original old town. So dont mind some lower detail work or planning quality here... 😅

In filling out the gaps I had to keep a little faithful to what I had filled out back in spring so its somewhat cohesive haha...
my

My favourite is this department store heavily based on the Ulmanist AEV (or now Galerija Centrs). Some other Ulmanist buildings can be spotted around.

There is also a custom church, some offices, some undeveloped land lost to ww2 bombing, a square and a reference to the 'Three Brothers' buildings in riga.

The Ceuerstad Dom (cathedral) is still however something I have to make sometime later as you may notice the huge hole in the middle of the old town...

And finally some more countryside filling in the ring of nature around the city.

• a city panorama: :)

[lost scroll]

absolutely beautiful

as always

[runic trellis]

I really love this city, especially those dense forests.

[azure spindle]

Holy smokes 😮

[fallen berry]

very cool, nice references to riga

[chilly rapids]

Incredible, i especially love these forests and the countryside. 🔥🔥
How did you make them(the forests)?

[rancid tulip]

by hand lol

[rancid tulip]

you can read this:

[chilly rapids]

I didn’t see it 😅
But it must have taken forever😂
Well done for the effort🔥💪

[rancid tulip]

click/press on the quoted text, it will send you to it

[chilly rapids]

I meant Before asking you how you did the forests

I found it don’t worry

[rancid tulip]

ah lol...

[rancid tulip]

its been a week and all i have done is drawn one road

[rancid tulip]

would any1 be interested in a map purely countryside like this? i personally am really sick of plain heightmaps with some random tree spam and a complete highway.

although i am not sure if anyone would be interested in so much demolition work just to clear some countryside for a new development

i guess the map would be more for people who like to rp city development

[lost scroll]

YES

[lost scroll]

there are plenty of maps that are above average polished like that which are popular

[half forum]

speaking of maps... which map are you building Ceuerstad on? it looks stunning btw (the city i mean)

[rancid tulip]

dis

[rancid tulip]

.

maybe some of you are a bit disappointed that its such a boring answer lol...

[half forum]

oh! i was looking through the thread to see if you posted it before but must've missed it 😬

[rancid tulip]

its fine haha

[half forum]

only disappointed that I can't get the map off pdx mods and play on it myself lol

[rancid tulip]

now u can

or at least i think you should be able to. tell me if it doesnt work. it was a quick and lazy upload

[half forum]

i love you

[rancid tulip]

id: 121803

[lost scroll]

bruh the bot wont show it :,)

[half forum]

it has loaded

it seems to work fine tbh

[rancid tulip]

enjoy the pancake

[half forum]

i was abt to say she is FLAT

[rancid tulip]

i cannot handle elevation. you can feel how averse i am to it

[half forum]

but it is exactly what I've been looking for for a build inspired by my home region (Pomerania in Poland) so thank you!!!

[half forum]

i feel that honestly lmao

[rancid tulip]

me too. not enough flat maps

[rancid tulip]

tag me when you make something. i wanna see!

[half forum]

will do 🫡

[half forum]

also, THIS is extremely helpful - i always struggle with suburbs and transitioning between lower and higher density - i feel like you've explained it quite well here

[rancid tulip]

getting rid of these cloverleafs when designing this part was one of the least realistic things i probably did in this build 😭

i was embarrasingly late in getting informed on how bad diamonds are

this interchange is also pretty bad since it sits at THE main arterial gate of the city

[lost scroll]

nice, so it needs an upgrade

better propose a concept to the council

[thin star]

what's the population of your beautiful city?

[rancid tulip]

40k and declining! Just like in any western state! Great success!! 🥹 👍

[thin star]

eastern europe lore

actually this city is so spot on

[rancid tulip]

Funnily enough, the population mirrors that of riga very well in a way. It used to be by half bigger.

[thin star]

i've been to latvia once (only to riga & jurmala) and actually this looks kinda similar

[rancid tulip]

Riga is my main inspiration

At this point ive kind of realized this isnt all too much of a baltic themed build lol

Its just latvian

[mint relic]

from eastern european to baltic to latvian lol

im just making basic american US town

[rancid tulip]

@ me!

[hard rapids]

@rancid tulip what map is this?

[rancid tulip]

@hard rapids

[hard rapids]

thank you

now I need to finally learn how to start a city xD

god I am struggling so much with this

[rancid tulip]

That's pretty normal. You'll get the hang of it.

[rancid tulip]

:)

[rancid tulip]

begun reworking the "new cbd" district. really like fiddling with these custom modernist buildings. too nice to not share lol...

supposedly it should be a real functioning office complex... havent tested it though.

who reacted with the south korean flag?!??

[rancid tulip]

plan i went off from:

[lost scroll]

damn amazing

if only i planned i'd be as cool as u

but fr if only i planned ;-;

[rancid tulip]

Genuinely ran out of money lol... I had to get rid of all of my tiles and rebuy the bare minimum of them so the city can function with the last of my reserves

[lost scroll]

Hello V, as the Mayor of #1310958161980690432 and fellow KEC member, I would like to discuss the possibility of investing in Ceuerstad's tourism sector

[rancid tulip]

Although there is no international airport in ceuerstad, its definitely very possible to integrate the city further into the european rail network and promote tourism. - xoxo KING OF TREES.

[lost scroll]

My assistant will be in touch soon with more details

[hard rapids]

I really like this picture, the city looks incredible realistic

[mint relic]

you should probably add some parking cuz as i saw in your city that for that large city there are almost no parking spaces

yk what i mean if you know

like yeah

[rancid tulip]

Im actually very aware of this haha 😅. Im just slightly ideologically dogmatic against parking and its very much an afterthought in my planning process entirely accidentally on top of that. I am going to try to include it more in future cities.

Oh and the buidling you pointed out originally had parking planned, but sometimes i plan it way too tightly and it just doesnt work well in game...

[rancid tulip]

Finished the countryside in the south. Also: a solar farm.

Finally implemented the industrial quarter in the citys southwest

the main part of the city is now actually pretty much finished! :)

Panaorama, as always:

• my artistic planning transfer lol

Admittedly I think i went a little overboard with the field fragmentation on the left side 😣 , next time i will know my bounds a little better haha... 😅

[lost scroll]

stop being so impressive

[half forum]

absolutely stunning!

[coral ridge]

Very nice

[mint relic]

are you also planning to expand the current city? like yeah there are some empty streets but in the way like into the outskirts and stuff or this is going to be more of a country like build that there are going to be more smaller towns

[rancid tulip]

Not really no... Its all a bit too set in stone to change. This is not a roleplay build in the sense of progression. When i have planned something out it's probably final. Even if i did want to, it would be a lot of work probably to get rid of all the stuff i have made.

Main reason why i build countryside is cause yknow... That way its a full picture. Kinda lame when stuff abruptly ends.

[lost scroll]

wrong server?

wrong channel?

got hacked?

TLDR News EU hacked u 🫵

[rancid tulip]

Rivelle propaganda

I did not get hacked!!!

I was on tv mom

[lost scroll]

oh hey same

[rancid tulip]

lmao why is my map so high

its just a blank map

i think people might be mislead by the thumbnail...

[lost scroll]

well yk most people dont read the description ;-;

[rare goblet]

Good thumbnails goes a long way

[rancid tulip]

idk its a pretty sloppy screenshot i chose randomly actually lol

[rare goblet]

I mean yeah but I spent like 5 minutes to make a proper thumbnail and got 1.4k on a mid map. In conclusion, clickbait works

[glossy stream]

LMFAO

[lost scroll]

amazing

[rancid tulip]

*sorry for my horrible ass writing

war crimes against the geneva convention

[desert glade]

nah

i’d do worse

❤️

[rancid tulip]

wait

wait a minute

"dies by falling to death" 💀

https://tenor.com/view/gol-d-roger-meme-funny-one-piece-writing-gif-5206510315195397953

[desert glade]

i’d still do worse

[rancid tulip]

maybe it just adds to the comedy

[desert glade]

next up a war veteran blows up a pond while trying to “fish”

-# inspired from a random post of a bosnian hitting a church instead of the river with his artillery gun to “fish”

[lost scroll]

i’ll always be the worst

[runic trellis]

It looks like a news article you’d read in GTA.

[runic trellis]

You gotta have that one building of protesters who cover basically every window with a balcony.

[lost scroll]

[fallen berry]

@rancid tulip dont know if it interests you but many new latvian cities added to google earth

ventspils too

[rancid tulip]

yes i saw this! was extremely happy

[desert glade]

construction companies and Funeral services rejoice

[runic trellis]

Balcony lobby goes crazy

[lavish quartz]

Big balcony almost certainly had their meddling hands in this election, shame.

[lavish quartz]

Big balcony has rigged the election to get government contracts and sell more balconies

Outrageous

[lost scroll]

cool ad

[rancid tulip]

Today marks the one year anniversary of this build!

https://tenor.com/view/leonardo-dicaprio-cheers-the-great-gatsby-coupe-glass-toast-gif-10657915

This city is very very imperfect. However it's my first "true" build! And for that i think its pretty good. I have learned a lot.

anyway! here is an update on the new Cīrulīši district!

It is a panel block district inspired more by Lithuanian soviet blocks. (Yes! there are actually quite a few differences in Latvian and Lithuanian blocks!)

Lithuanians blocks, how i noted down, are generally lower (around 5 stories) and more straight angled in layout.

Blocks in siliņi are styled in inspiration from Riga, which had more metropolitan and monumental ideas.

Now only some north eastern areas of the city remain.

[oblique estuary]

Do you have a single basketball court in your city?

[rancid tulip]

No lol

It's been banned by a political party here

[lost scroll]

alright thats it im gonna organize a protest

[desert glade]

feel like i should invest in Funeral services and insurance stock shares

got a feeling they’ll ramp up soon enough

[rancid tulip]

🤑 🤑 🤑 🤑

[rancid tulip]

(this is an actual death wave occuring in the city lol)

[rancid tulip]

oh right i completely forgot

in the past year I have covered aproximately 20.8km2 with a speed of 0.057km2(or 240x240m)/day

that is about one tile per week

ceuerstad has taken me roughly 500-600 hours

about 1.4-1.7h a day

so my speed has been about 200x200m an hour

[desert glade]

holy fucking shit

i was actually right?

bro im RICH

[rancid tulip]

finally decided im not putting up with this no more. this diamond was the worst offender. also kinda want some more variety in the interchanges for this build tbh

the cloverleaf looks better than i expected (though it is a little sloppy lol... i just didnt have the energy to actually polish it)

traffic has now been fixed 👍 👍

[desert glade]

looks nice

-# dont ask why i reacted so fast

[rancid tulip]

lol

[desert glade]

It probably sounds corny but eitherway, since im now rich as fuck thanks to my stock investments where should i buy house in Ceuerstad?

[rancid tulip]

oligarchic ahh 💀

[desert glade]

i just got lucky with my investments dude

not my fault there was a “mysterious” death rate rise as soon as i bought actions for Ceuestad’s funeral & insurance services

[rancid tulip]

i guess this is where all the rich people would probably live

beach + very central location

i have actually kind of realized i dont have a proper 2000s mansion/private home district

[desert glade]

i mean thats why i ask those kind of questions to other people and myself

to get the gears going

[rancid tulip]

i might make a resort typa village

ive had it considered for quite a while

[lost scroll]

B&P has got a haunted mansion as park

[rancid tulip]

oh right. that was an interesting addition lol

im not buying a whole dlc for a big house tho 😂

ill buy it when ill make a port

[south monolith]

more traditional architecture should be built in the city

[rancid tulip]

man... i just realized i am REALLY missing a copy paste move it function.

these forests could go so much faster.

you could just copy a chunk, paste and rotate it a couple times, then add filler trees... done!!!?!?!!!!!!!!!!

no im seriously pretty sure ive spent like... a hundred hours on placing trees 😂

im questioning my sanity, and if it's really possible

[lost scroll]

oh oh oh villinth

[rancid tulip]

wow i think it reached its peak finally

my suspicion is that it was caused by this initial and densest central part of the city i zoned in a very tight timeframe at the beginning

[rancid tulip]

the death wave that is, if it wasnt obvious lol...

[desert glade]

IM EVEN MORE RICH

HELL YEAH

[twin sapphire]

[azure spindle]

Why did i deadass think that was an irl pic 😭

[rancid tulip]

Finale - the last fields and outskirts of the city i needed to fill in

While the build is very very flawed im pretty proud of it and i think ive learned a lot.

The Dom church has also been added to the old town. :)

After roughly a year the city is finished!

[glossy stream]

MASSIVE W!!!

[lost scroll]

WOOOOO

the best cities skyliner 2.0

[azure spindle]

CONGRATS

[thorn anvil]

what mod did you use for the farms?

[runic oracle]

what mod do you use for the graphics?

[rancid tulip]

Lumina

[rancid tulip]

"farming surfaces and decals", though they're not functional.

[rancid tulip]

theres so many reactions on this gallery 😭 😂

[lost scroll]

because its good

[thorn anvil]

I legit can't load that asset pack

Whenever I try the game blows up 💀💀

[rancid tulip]

Huh... Interesting. As far as im aware it's just some surfaces and decals

[thorn anvil]

2 gigabytes

lmao

Probably ram issue

[rancid tulip]

Ive stitched together a satelite view map of the city:

its very high quality and detailed, covering the entire model

illustrated version probably coming tomorrow

Also an updated public transportation map Coming Soon™

exporting and editing this map is a beast... its 15000x15000 in size

probably biggest scan ive put together so far

[thorn anvil]

smol :3

tbh at least finished unlike my cities

i always quit xd

[thorn anvil]

Did you take a lot of photos and arranged them?

That sounds like PITA

[rancid tulip]

Sort of. Its a little tedious and tricky sometimes, but if you do it right its actually pretty fun to make these maps

[rancid tulip]

illustrated version

[fast linden]

Great work. Really love the density transitions and the use of forest and farmland to achieve a real sense of scale!

[rancid tulip]

Infrastructurist as in the guy from yt?! 😂

Thanks man!

[fast linden]

Yes 😊

[thorn anvil]

zamn

[eager dust]

simply amazing, makes me want to play again

[mint relic]

will there be any projects sooner or later?

[rancid tulip]

Yes but not that soon cause im freeing up time for school and stuff rn. In general tbh im a little scared i wont get to do stuff like this that much anymore cause next up im gonna be in uni and yk. Also i came to the conclusion this project was actually like seriosly taking up a lot of my energy and i generally feel a bit burned out right now. In a good sense i guess. Im finished with every project. I just dont wanna start anything i cant finish right now

But i would love to make a swedish city or a shorter dutch experimental build sometime, if i do get the time thats whats next.

[rancid tulip]

ok

actually i think i have a goalpost

i will start on a new project when the copy/paste function of move it comes out

thats the biggest thing holding me back rn

[desert glade]

now bullduze it all and make a theme park

With the money from my deathcare investments i shall start an empire by crushing the poor

[fallen berry]

\

[rancid tulip]

funny note i want to make: I never actually studied riga (despite it being the focal point study for the model) as intensely as the other more minor references i have had for this project. As a result of this, for example you can see how remarkably grey roofs of riga actually are in reality, but how brick ceuerstads roofs are. lol...

this is what a year of compounding mistakes look like! stuff i would never ever do today, that is very apparent today, but was stupidly missed back then.

a reminder that doing overly ambitious projects without actual experience can turn sour