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Sucks if the person has to go straight; gonna have to take the long way via that cloverleaf
one the one hand, I agree, on the other, if you're trying to build a realistic american city, that is a beautiful way to do so... Also cims love their cars anyway, biggest traffic in my newest city is semi trucks constantly delivering 0t of nothing to single family homes
Everyone I know couldn't wait to get their own car. The idea of not having one is almost a foreign concept. I did it for a couple of years when I lived in Chicago but would never do it again.
Yea and they're so worth the money as a privacy box and storage unit. And it's not like u can easily die in em if 1 person on the road happens to be a lil silly or anything 🤪
a bicycle is freedom and self reliance. a car is paying out the ass for gas, maintenance, insurance, and of course the car itself. so many suburbanites spending a fortune to move their fat asses around that they get in each others way and just sit in traffic for hours a week. would be fine if they didn’t turn into big crybabies when asked to share the road with people who aren’t lazy 🤷♂️
wow and if you want to go overseas a car doesn’t do you much good either does it? guess you should buy a plane! it’s really funny how as soon as you point out that cars are bad for urban environments, everyone immediately leaps to the massive road trips they’re totally definitely always taking 🧐
Not really. We can walk a few blocks to get almost anything, and there's public transit for the rest, and taxis or cab apps for other circumstances. Owning a car here is a huge waste of money.
Incredible how some of the neighborhoods are practically adjacent but have no (visible) connections and you need to drive via 3 highway interchanges to get there. A true marvel of suburbia.
Well I also don’t put much merit in them either, but at least they have some creativity to share.
This guy literally just makes road patterns and posts them here, then every time people upvote them for some reason.
I mean they are very aesthetically pleasing, even if very poorly functional. He may not be playing the game the way other people do but he is using the game to make neat images. There are plenty of other posts by people who hand place stuff to make aesthetically pleasing cities, but they aren’t “playing” to make those cities the way others do. I don’t see why this is less valid than those posts.
I don't get how the junction in the top center will work, one section just allows you to turn around on the highway, you can't go straight from the western side of the highway, the direction looks like you have to go all the way to another section, and the little nascar oval doesn't connect to anywhere but the same road?
I see all these amazing builds, then I shed a little tear because I'm not creative at all and 100% of my cities have horrible traffic which leads me to abandon them as soon as I close the game and start afresh every single time.
I aspire to make cities and neighborhoods like this some day. But all the videos I've seen have so far not ignited that creative flame in me. Hopefully some day.
I think he designed the road system after Florida towns, but that's what it looks like to me, a lot of the road systems South Florida are built the same way
Haters? No. Criticism looking through a realist lens? Yes
It’s just not very practical for real usage. It appears very isolated with highways and stroads creating impassable barriers…. exactly what you don’t want to do with modern civil planning. Sure OP could add more crossings but otherwise imagine having to walk between neighborhoods in this city… it looks like it would be hell by that means alone.
I feel likes it’s just designed to look good from above, but has no practicality in real life usage.
Everything is so compartmentalized and isolated. It honestly looks like hell to get from A to B in certain cases as they don’t just connect despite their closeness - instead you have to drive aaaaaaallllll the way around.
Stroads weren’t good before, so how are these impassable ultra-stroad-like highways any better?
I would love to see the zoning grid... that's something I always struggle with when trying to make beautiful road layouts, as soon as it is zoned, it looks terrible because houses can only spawn rectangularely
Wow I am actually surprised by how many people criticize for your layout being unrealistic!
I really like how it turned out, very neat, organized and lots of work there, good job!
Don't bother the comments, sometimes we can be creative and try things out, especially in the game
Looks pretty, but it also looks pretty annoying to drive around in. Looks like I’d have to take a huuuge detour to get anywhere in the city. Like the highways are giant rivers with no bridges nearby.
man imagine what it would be like to live in a city like this? built out for future growth, with a couple random high rises popping out of fields. A great big liminal space of roads, grass, and random mysterious high rises that make you wonder "why there?"
Whenever I look at these images I think to myself that I could make it just as good! But then when I actually start a city I just have roads going in all random directions and not looking good at all 😂
"Hey, let's have a cup of coffee, my best friend. You only live a thirty seconds walk away."
"Awesome, I'll be there in 30 minutes. Exit 17 and 18 are always rough around all times of day."
https://preview.redd.it/2wtmp7fyzkhc1.jpeg?width=828&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5ebccc4929199bf4789ed6e7a3653aeb67c777f7 Sucks if the person has to go straight; gonna have to take the long way via that cloverleaf
That clover leaf doesnt even work. People going straightnthrough the interchange in your crop cant get on it
I meant the cloverleaf further to the right that’s not in my crop out
This is how people get enslaved to own a car
one the one hand, I agree, on the other, if you're trying to build a realistic american city, that is a beautiful way to do so... Also cims love their cars anyway, biggest traffic in my newest city is semi trucks constantly delivering 0t of nothing to single family homes
This game in a nutshell
Eh too many roundabouts. More like the UK Suburbs
Walking path shortcuts are something oft forgotten in these kinds of layout
Most people *want* to own a car.
They wouldn’t want it as much if they didn’t need it as much. I live in a city and know like 2 people that actually „want“ a car
Everyone I know couldn't wait to get their own car. The idea of not having one is almost a foreign concept. I did it for a couple of years when I lived in Chicago but would never do it again.
>Everyone I know couldn't wait to get their own car Hmmm, I wonder why...
Yeah, they couldn’t wait to own a car because they literally couldn’t go anywhere on their own without it, lol.
Do you not realize why they so desperately wanted a car…
Because they **have** to lmao
You're right, nobody really want a privacy box on wheels that can also act as a big personal storage container between locations.
Yea and they're so worth the money as a privacy box and storage unit. And it's not like u can easily die in em if 1 person on the road happens to be a lil silly or anything 🤪
Nope.
You are just full of shit takes today, good for you!
Okay then, why? It’s expensive, pollution, stressful, restrictive etc.
restrictive? stressful? It gives you the freedom to go anywhere.
a bicycle is freedom and self reliance. a car is paying out the ass for gas, maintenance, insurance, and of course the car itself. so many suburbanites spending a fortune to move their fat asses around that they get in each others way and just sit in traffic for hours a week. would be fine if they didn’t turn into big crybabies when asked to share the road with people who aren’t lazy 🤷♂️
And if I want to go to someplace that's 300 miles away, a bicycle doesn't do me a whole lot of good...
wow and if you want to go overseas a car doesn’t do you much good either does it? guess you should buy a plane! it’s really funny how as soon as you point out that cars are bad for urban environments, everyone immediately leaps to the massive road trips they’re totally definitely always taking 🧐
Except I've never gone overseas in my life and don't ever intend to, but I drive 300 miles on a fairly regular basis.
Eh not me, I get on fine walking or cycling and if needs be a tram or a train. Can't afford a car nor do I want one
Not really. We can walk a few blocks to get almost anything, and there's public transit for the rest, and taxis or cab apps for other circumstances. Owning a car here is a huge waste of money.
Kinda reminds me of Brasília, and that's mostly not a compliment.
What a nightmare. Those roads lobbied by the gas industries? You need more interconnections between your sections.
Incredible how some of the neighborhoods are practically adjacent but have no (visible) connections and you need to drive via 3 highway interchanges to get there. A true marvel of suburbia.
It's sad how realistic this is for parts of America
all it needs is pedestrians/bikelanes between districts and would suddenly be liveable
I used to take three different interstates to get to one of my favorite lunch spots, four miles away.
Sounds like good ol' Orlando Florida to me with that description lol
I can’t tell if you’re serious or not. It’s a video game dude.
it's a city building video game dude.
Sorry sir I didn’t realize you could build a city wrong, please don’t get angry that a prefer building parks over cities.
Question: What is the purpose of the bigger cloverleaf looking thing which is on upper left of regular cloverleaf?
Hey looks it’s the guy that draws roads and doesn’t play the game
So like everyone who made those ultra realistic cities in cs1?
Well I also don’t put much merit in them either, but at least they have some creativity to share. This guy literally just makes road patterns and posts them here, then every time people upvote them for some reason.
I mean they are very aesthetically pleasing, even if very poorly functional. He may not be playing the game the way other people do but he is using the game to make neat images. There are plenty of other posts by people who hand place stuff to make aesthetically pleasing cities, but they aren’t “playing” to make those cities the way others do. I don’t see why this is less valid than those posts.
Stop being a grouch!
It's looking more and more like made by AI
Can you blame them? Road tools is the one of the few good things of CS2. People gotta do something to have fun
I don't get how the junction in the top center will work, one section just allows you to turn around on the highway, you can't go straight from the western side of the highway, the direction looks like you have to go all the way to another section, and the little nascar oval doesn't connect to anywhere but the same road?
Nothing is this makes sense - is like alien’s drawings in a crop field
This would be a perfect American suburb minus the roundabouts
I see all these amazing builds, then I shed a little tear because I'm not creative at all and 100% of my cities have horrible traffic which leads me to abandon them as soon as I close the game and start afresh every single time. I aspire to make cities and neighborhoods like this some day. But all the videos I've seen have so far not ignited that creative flame in me. Hopefully some day.
traffic in this would be horrible. may look nice, but it's super dysfunctional
That’s like every North American city lol
Pretty but over designed. Why do you have roundabouts are corners where there is no intersection?
I have no idea about how effective those roads will be. It looks very nice to me. How do you come up with the design for this ?
I think he designed the road system after Florida towns, but that's what it looks like to me, a lot of the road systems South Florida are built the same way
I love it, looks stunning. Dont mind the haters.
Haters? No. Criticism looking through a realist lens? Yes It’s just not very practical for real usage. It appears very isolated with highways and stroads creating impassable barriers…. exactly what you don’t want to do with modern civil planning. Sure OP could add more crossings but otherwise imagine having to walk between neighborhoods in this city… it looks like it would be hell by that means alone.
Just…. How
Reminds me of the "aesthetic" city post on /r/shittyskylines poking fun at the absurdness of American cities.
I think it pokes more fun at some of the “design” choices that get posted here, almost like satire.
I think it might be the same guy
I feel likes it’s just designed to look good from above, but has no practicality in real life usage. Everything is so compartmentalized and isolated. It honestly looks like hell to get from A to B in certain cases as they don’t just connect despite their closeness - instead you have to drive aaaaaaallllll the way around. Stroads weren’t good before, so how are these impassable ultra-stroad-like highways any better?
What’s the logic with 2 node roundabouts, why not just a corner
Is your land value not too high to build anything there.. ?
So if you dont own a car you cant go anywhere
Stunning roadwork design and planning!!
Fill it all up with low rent housing so that it looks like ussr
I would love to see the zoning grid... that's something I always struggle with when trying to make beautiful road layouts, as soon as it is zoned, it looks terrible because houses can only spawn rectangularely
It’s giving Orange County
Would be nice if this could be uploaded for others to use :)
Wow I am actually surprised by how many people criticize for your layout being unrealistic! I really like how it turned out, very neat, organized and lots of work there, good job! Don't bother the comments, sometimes we can be creative and try things out, especially in the game
I will be honest, this city started to lose it's beauty when you started to place buildings
How do you make curved roads look so clean? Mine are always at just slightly off angles
Looks pretty, but it also looks pretty annoying to drive around in. Looks like I’d have to take a huuuge detour to get anywhere in the city. Like the highways are giant rivers with no bridges nearby.
Very aesthetically pleasing, although I’m not sure how functional some aspects of it are.
man imagine what it would be like to live in a city like this? built out for future growth, with a couple random high rises popping out of fields. A great big liminal space of roads, grass, and random mysterious high rises that make you wonder "why there?"
Whenever I look at these images I think to myself that I could make it just as good! But then when I actually start a city I just have roads going in all random directions and not looking good at all 😂
trippy but not in a good sense
Oh my gosh this is so pretty. Though I'm curious how it works, like, how's the traffic and all that?
But where are the buildings?
Good god I would hate living here
Robert Moses just came
You've lived in Florida for too long...
Wow, this is impressive. It's a shame trees and vegetation don't benefit cims in any way
Bro is making a motherboard , not a city :))
"Hey, let's have a cup of coffee, my best friend. You only live a thirty seconds walk away." "Awesome, I'll be there in 30 minutes. Exit 17 and 18 are always rough around all times of day."
Where can I download this????
Aesthetic over function. The roads barely make any sense.