My Springfield - Feedback Sought

I redesigned the top of my map and made some smaller changes to the mall, residential areas, and a few other spots. What do you think? Does the 3D work?

http://i.imgur.com/fMf67rZl.jpg

Full size image link: http://i.imgur.com/fMf67rZ.jpg

Being your neighbor, I really love your town! I hope to finish mine one day... seems it's always a work in progress.

Excellent well designed town, superb use of 3d effects and the water. You should be very proud of it. You should only tweek the design when new buildings come. You don't been to change it substantially at that point.

Looks good :thumbup:

As a neighbor, I have to say that Morpurglar's SFs is one of my favorite to visit. It's one of maybe 10 that I tend to scan the whole thing, looking for new stuff and seeing what he/she is up to.

Cool to see the whole thing in one image.

I have meant to pm you to let you know how amazing your town has become. I have seen the rebuilding of it over the last couple of months, and I absolutely love it.

Looks fantastic my friend, well done :thumbup:

Mopurglar wrote:
I'm working on large chunks of my town and would like your suggestions on what to focus on next. I also want to show off my panorama some:

http://i.imgur.com/z0ptg1pl.jpg
Full-size image: http://i.imgur.com/z0ptg1p.jpg

For sure, I am going to redo all of Squidport and the Christmas area. I am probably also going to re-design the mall area, if not all of downtown.

In general, I'm trying to make everything look wide open and not cramped. I've tried to achieve this by using fewer roads and more water and 3D. I should say that a lot of it (esp the 3D effects) was inspired by some awesome designs by Mokkabee, Pharrah2003, Corkhopper, and Mitzytaz -- see petergeenen's thread to view their amazing work.

Thank you in advance for any comments / suggestions you have! Even nit-picky stuff would be helpful.

Wow! Your SF rocks.
I feel like a tool but you said to nit pick.
I would move your volcano lair over to the forest in the corner. It seems out of place where it is.
The other thing that doesn't seem right is your island with the steps. Those steps can't be there in my opinion.

I love it.

Guys, thanks so much for the kind words! I truly appreciate it.

Besides Squidport, I will try to keep the changes to a minimum until the next content update. I haven't been crazy about SP since the Mayflower came out. I think it could look more like a port for boats rather than simply a platform for shops.

johnny50373 wrote:

Wow! Your SF rocks.
I feel like a tool but you said to nit pick.
I would move your volcano lair over to the forest in the corner. It seems out of place where it is.
The other thing that doesn't seem right is your island with the steps. Those steps can't be there in my opinion.

No worries at all, I appreciate the criticism--that's how I improve things.

The island with steps was my attempt at a car tunnel that ends at the Asia de Cuba. Did anyone buy it?

Your springfield is awesome, the 3d effect alone is enough to amaze me, I won't even try that. It looks awesome. Great job. I like the layered effect.