Mira's Reach Metropolis

[past pond]

absolutely scuffed highway connector that I cant see myself changing. but if you were to change it, what would you do instead?

[past pond]

night looks sick

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Where should I put a football and american football stadium?

[buoyant crag]

Right here has good highway and waterfront access. You could have a stadium complex with a little quay and storefronts surrounding it.

[buoyant yarrow]

id probably just not have a highway cutting through downtown 🤷‍♂️

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WIP:

[past pond]

You'd be suprised how common it is. Boston does it better though. basically every american city had a highway bisecting it... kinda going car-centric with my build so it makes sense to have a highway there. My issue is with how I built the connector. 8% grades far from ideal

[buoyant yarrow]

its common in the US

but not really common in other places

[past pond]

indeed. Im kinda just building for fun. Not particularly inspired to conform strictly to one countries infrastructure style. I just build what intrests me. submerged highways are cool engineering

[past pond]

anyone got suggestions for a static plopable that makes for a good roof?

also, does ctrl C work? skyve says it is broken...

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I let the sim run while i went to the movie theater and this is what I come back to

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Axium Stadium completed

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Built an construction site in its early phases. foundation work is about to start

any detailing suggestions?

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planning ahead on subway lines. pink is already established. Blue yet to be constructed

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improved my construction site with the beginnings of the foundation

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Surface Parking increased. Convention centre and Gaming arena constructed. Lots of shopping/ commercial and high rent apartment complexes surrounding the arena. In many ways, this is the heart of entertainment in Mira's Reach

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second construction site. needs more detailing, but dont have time to commit to it. will revisit later. the city is bustling!

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the edge of downtown is born:

The Midas Touch Financial District has some fantastic views of the inner city

[past pond]

NYC style

one of the intersections of all time

lets see what this looks like in a month or two

[buoyant crag]

W elevated railroad. Most of the ones in Philly are abandoned, or subway tracks.

[past pond]

I wish you could make outside connections with subway rail. I set up a commuter rail for that exact reason because I had tons of people just walkin along the highway

[past pond]

5 Way interchange built. Since one "lane" terminates in the city, and the submerged highway serves the entire downtown, there is no need to connect them. so, all but 2 directions have dedicated lanes.....
crashing my save though. will need to fix at a later date. cant dedicate much more time to CS:2 this week

the lanes in red were added after I took the screenshot

[past pond]

it seems i had to destroy this to finally get it to not crash my game...

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the highway is coming along...

Dedicated highway exit for Axium stadium

an interesting interchange

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A highway sized hole in my city

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move it shenanagains

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interchanges take up so much space

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improved this downtown interchange from a previous cloverleaf design

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messing around with the Carto mod

this is my road and transit infastructure, needs work... want to expand the subarbs so heavier public transit makes sense though

[cursive steppe]

Nice

[past pond]

decently compact triple stack interchange

[fleet crypt]

Very nice city. are you copying a real city or only inspirations? cuz it looks real wow

[past pond]

Not really. But if you want realism google maps is the place to go. I occasionally use it for inspiration

Just an American style city. Going for a somewhat historic style street grid m that has seen lots of development

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cheap land for sale!

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Imagine waking up to this view @ Neuville luxury apartments

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seems the update has caused an employee crisis lol

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Before... after to come later

[buoyant yarrow]

Did you mean to name it "fields" instead of "feilds"?

[past pond]

Yes, yes I did

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above traces out standstill traffic in the city core and greater region
morning rush hour hits wild.... imagine once the suburbs are filled in. currently 20 massive office building are unoccupied since the city just lacks population.... traffic will be wild

my pop peaked near 400,000 and it has dropped to 280,000 as of now.... using realistic workplaces/ housing... I think my settings changed

[past pond]

wow these things actually handle traffic really well

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these asset sizes are unholy in size XD

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the first supertall has replaced a bankrupt college campus

towers over the adjacent city hall

[modest yoke]

I think some custom assets can add a good look to the skyline because everything looks really cubic

[past pond]

All in good time; asset editor only just released

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some views of Terminal City

double clover leaf to control traffic to Terminal City and the Banking District

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5 "cities" in the Miras Reach Metropolis:
Mira's Reach (yellow)
Glasstown (purple)
Faraday City (red)
Terminal City (orange)
Butler City (blue)

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Updated Carto Map:

current inner city public transit

[buoyant yarrow]

are those crosswalks on your interchanges??? 😭

[buoyant crag]

Hell yeah brother 🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸

I’ve seen that and walked on that before, most harrowing experience because people don’t pay attention.

[past pond]

They walk on the highway shoulders excessively anyway... why even bother?

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iceflake hockey stadium has replaced butler park! bringing 500 jobs to Butler City

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pov the sea of single family homes has begun

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quite the view from faraday hills

views from Faraday villa. recently put up for sale for 15mil USD

[errant vapor]

Downtown is peak

Love it

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terminal city skyline has grown!

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emerson golfing established south of Faraday City

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before and after

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still needs some finishing touches but the northern end of the Historic District allowed for modern construction in place of failed industry

before and after

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thoughts on AI image enhancement? worth it or should I keep my work out of Big AI's hands?

[cursive steppe]

We lost another one boys

AI is slowly corrupting everybody's imagination 😔

[past pond]

I disagree. ive put 100s of hours into detailing this build and actually finishing the city. Its not like I am using AI reference material in my builds. Yes generally people using AI do not put in creative effort but. I dont think its fair to look at a person and say, they use AI and therefore lack the drive to be truly creative. But since this is the sentiment ive seen, I shall refrain

[cursive steppe]

Not necessarily saying it ruined yours

And I love the city itself

One of the best on the server in fact

What I meant to say is that AI is being used on this server more and more, mainly for inspiration or filters, but I worry that it'll get so used that people just start using it to make cities for them

[past pond]

I dont read all that much of the chat on the server. out of curiosity, why do you think the sentiment is against using AI enchanced images? saw a post on the gallery doing enhancement and it got multiple negative reactions

[past pond]

I see. kinda defeats the purpose of the game to me XD

I can see the image generation become trained enough to be used that way

[cursive steppe]

For me, the filter stuff is personal. I know someone, very close family but not going to specify which member, that took pictures and put ai filters on it. Now, he's using those "drawings" to make a book and profit off of it. Sure, we couldn't afford an illustrator, but it's still not cool.

[past pond]

yeah

[cursive steppe]

Because doing that stuff incentivizes the use of AI and non-human methods of art for both profit and general use and that is the complete opposite of what we need to be doing

[cursive steppe]

To be fair to the people who use AI filters though, CS2 graphics kinda suck 😅

So I get why they want different color filters and lighting and such

But to fix that, Iceflake needs to improve the graphics and maybe come out with customizable settings for vibrancy, lighting, and other things

[past pond]

indeed. exspecially with my sim being so intensive, anti analising fails function properly

[past pond]

I hope they do. I think they have a lot of debugging and optimisation to handle

[cursive steppe]

Truth

[past pond]

that is a fair criticism. I think one of the biggest issues is that LLM's and image generation were not trained legally and have abused legal loopholes in fair use laws to do so. Similar things can said about selling content generate by these "AI" comercially. It's just moved too fast for the lawmakers to keep up sadly, they are catching up though slowly

[cursive steppe]

Legality, environmental impact, societal impact, intelligence impact, and dozens of other things

[past pond]

indeed

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finished Faraday City's waterfront

[young stream]

love the rocks

[past pond]

my personal favriote addition was the boat launch ramp. certanily put the scale of the boat props into perspective

[past pond]

should anything be changed?

this interchange is causing city wide gridlock. in hopes of saving it, the west side post office and a failing real estate firm were demolished. Plans were drawn up; a post office and real estate firm were demolished. The new on/off ramps have now meen constructed. thoughts? suggestions? what whoul I put in the empty lot north of the interchange?

[buoyant yarrow]

roundabout!!!

[past pond]

murica!!

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Faraday City metro area: 50,000 pops

[soft solstice]

You should add some more greenery in that small shore park, bushes rocks, food stalls, benches or gazebos

[past pond]

hows that?

[soft solstice]

much much better, if you also add small rocks and bushes it will be perfect

[past pond]

this interchangte needs to be redone.

thoughts on this proposed solution? green would be submerged

[young stream]

looks good

[buoyant yarrow]

why is the tram going through the roundabout?

[past pond]

It was a temporary fix to try and improve traffic flow over the previous design (which was just a standard intersection). It wasn't permanent or meant to be pretty lol. It was bottlenecking massive swaths of my highways system

[past pond]

This design has since been implemented for the most part. Just never sent an update image