Rem's SMALL CITY PROJECT - Available Again

Okay: I've been playing with this idea for sometime now and have a few clear goals for building this project. I want to share them first, as my concept is a little different to many other projects here.

1) I want to create a great city feel at eye level for my Sim
> It won't look great from map view, it'll be an effecient use of space over satalite style aesthetics, but I don't spend a whole lot of my gaming time in space looking down, so I'm not too worried about that!
> It will look great as you play your character and see what they see at street level. You won't need the fastest car to get to work as work won't ever be that far away! Cycle, walk! Give your game time to load up the lots properly as you pass by :)
> It'll have a city feel, but not the grimy Bridgeport sort. Come on, it's sims! I want colour and feel good factor in my city!!! I want oo blah deeblee doo and .... you get the idea!

2) It will run like a dream!
> Time and testing will tell... Routing becomes a major issues when things are built tightly together. But I'm on it!!!
> Meshes yes, elevators, no!!!! Even when elevators work, I just dislike them.
> No bridges. I know, this saddens me too, but ever since Pet's I've noticed stuck glitches coming from bridges, even when they show clear unbroken routing (the blue and reds) in CaW. Remember, I'm going for smooth running. Funky, sure! But nothing that may cause stamping feet on my sims.

3) Show Time!
> I'm loving this EP and so it'll mainly be geared to that. It will have as many of the combined rabits as I can fit, a few LN clubs as well.

4) Expandable for future EP's
I know! Pretty hard for a small build, but I'm including some larger lots that can be bulldosed as new EPs and content become available without harming the Showtime experience.

5) Longevity
I want to build a world for myself that I love and can run smoothly without the inevitable lag ups that the medium/larger worlds have always brough me after 20, 30+ hours of play time.

At this point, practically everything is against me! But if I can dream it, I can build it!!! :thumbup: So wish me luck and give me any of your ideas. Even if I don't use them it's always good to explore the possibilities.

I'm using all the EP's and SP's released up until Showtime.

No third party cc (nor do I want another debate on this, thanks :wink: )

Any store content will be the stuff that can be downloaded from EA for free.

Okay, it's DAY ONE of the build... don't have an aweful lot to show yet, mainly just been laying the posh end of the commercial district. As you can see, the map will be divided into 4 zones which will have different feels and a superhighway linking them all.



As my world is geared to Show Time, I really wanted to go to town on the movie theatre, I couldn't just leave it as a simple rabbit hole!



The live venue, not finished yet, but i quite liked the open green space, it'll be a luxary in this small world!



I've included both Show Time Big venues, not strictly necessary, but I'm thinking one can be deleted to reveal a nice juicy 64x64 lot for whatever you like!

It looks really good! Its so cute, can't wait to see more! :mrgreen:

@ KayPapagei and VanillaTwilight93
Thanks guys, appreciate it :D

Day TWO!!!

Got the basics of the poor end of the commercial sector down now. Taking out deco lots, I've placed about 40 commercial lots. Another 10+ of those are basically just place holders for future content ranging from 30 x 20 all the way to 64x64.

I hope having so many won't impact on game performance :? I certainly discovered that I had room for way more lots than I thought I would on a small build!!!

Here's a few flavour flicks, but please bare in mind I haven't added much detail yet.





And some street level ones. I love the advertising boards, these will really help with the city look when crowded together.





Won't be building much tomorrow, but Day Three will see the beginnings of the poorer residential area. I'm a bit commercial lotted out right now!

This reminds me of Ripley's Believe it or not :)

Hehe, thanks K!

I am quite shocked myself at just how many hours I've managed to sink into this build over the last couple of days. I've practically done nothing else :oops:

Luckily, a mate is dragging me out today, otherwise I'd end up with the stir crazy moodlet! :wink:

I have to move fast because I know full well I'll get another idea popping into my head that will endanger this one :twisted: So my plan is to get all the basics in place quickly. Then I'll actually build more of the lot details in game as I play so that I can instantly test for routing issues and make the sim families I'll Porter in once I've finalised the build.

@boggleman
Ripley's? I'm affraid the only Ripley I know is the one that keeps us safe from aliens :wink: But if Ripley's is a good thing, then thanks :thumbup:

Wow, awesome world. :D

Bookmarked.

Looks great at both street and city view. ;) Looking forward to seeing more.

Overal picture update, second post.