Random&Ready

Welcome to the Random&Ready thread, where I'll be posting some images from Cattala that don't fit anywhere else, or I need opinions and assistance on. First up:

Buildings. Now I have lots of Mediterranean buildings, they really clash with my previous British, Dutch and French styles. What should I do?

I liked it. but well thats me only saying.... ))) But did you try deleting the files of mediterainan files?

Destroy those French files and some of British! Remember that Cattala is mediterranean first.

looking good, but please remove the grids, i hate seeing them in pictures

I like the streets and the architeture realism.
If I were you I would never put industries near those old-looking houses... Its not common on that region...

Remove the terrain grids, press G in game...

Its great. But please, remove the grid. I think you better to use SC4 Startup Manager.

Nice- I like the Mediterranean buildings better than the others.

I'm impartial to the Med/Brit styles. Though, I would use the Med buildings for urban environments, and the British homes (not SC4) for suburban/high wealth housing.

I agree, that the industrial lots should be moved from the proximity of housing.

Oh and another thing:

Spoiler:

The grid is only there because I was terraforming as well at the time - this isn't an official updates thread, so the images here are really informal and just print screen and show. I promise that the grid will not be there in the real updates!

So, remove the French & Dutch, just keep the Mediterranean and British?

Wait where do you get the dutch buildings?

STEX, there's a guy that does loads of Dutch buildings - Julien gave me the link.

lol Yeah Thomas I agree. I'm not a big fan of those Dutch houses myself, they're too flat-colored, as in they're too dark/light

Anyone got any ideas on what I should do with industrial developments? I can't find any downloads that will suit the Mediterranean style.

Implant all your industries near the ocean, on the Port. Like I did.

Recently I've been looking at the Corsica CJ on Simtropolis, and I'm looking for some more eye candy lots that keep the Mediterranean style, but also make Cattala look much nicer than it does now.

After seeing that Corsica CJ, I noticed that Cattala is looking (until now - on the R&R non official updates) a bit too flat. Maybe following Corsica's style (no grided streets, no dense regions, simpler seaports and narrow roads - Like in some regions of Rhodes -) would help you making it look even nicer...

Relief will certainly help, as I said in Skype, you should develop Natural+Small towns.

I'm definitely going to have some more villages and rural towns. I'm not the best at terraforming and buildings hills though...

aww who is good at terraforming?

Do like me and cover the mess you create with forest haha

I cover the mess I create with the all covering Olympic Tree Controller.

My first attempt at a mountainous village. Please be as critical as possible. :king:

Great! But in my opinion, you shouldn't have too much relief between the village and the champs.

The champs? (I think that's French Julien. )

Some of those farms have really steep slopes.

Actually that's quite common in Sicily, Tuscany and the Corsica CJ - they are quite often on steep slopes - especially olive trees and grape vines, which sadly wouldn't grow.