Hellsinki - revisited

[deadbeaver]

After a few tries that never lead anywhere and fiddling with other things is time to get back to Hellsinki.
Most likely going to be a slow build but.. ..I'm in no hurry.
Anyways, it's the same Helsinki map that I've used before but this time with more assets and mods.

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Hellsinki - Ain't a bad place to be.

 

[guillec87]

subbed!

 

[deadbeaver]

The Old Corner has been mostly untouched but slowly new buildings are arriving and mingling in
with the old buildings and the derelict palaces. Can't stop progress..

 

[deadbeaver]

The upper side of the highway is slowly filling up.

 

[guillec87]

I love the way your city seems a real one... mines never look that good

 

[deadbeaver]

Thanks.. but it's just a trick. Smoke & mirrors.. ..I mean mods & assets. Not to mention patience.. planting trees and placing buildings, one after one..

 

[deadbeaver]

The district called the Six Sisters is taking shape. It's located south of the railway station and near those skyscraper offices you can see in the upper right corner above the 6 X shaped concrete monster buildings.
The name of the district comes from those 6 buildings. To the left you can see the old theatre.
Even tho "progress" has arrived to the Six Sisters you can still find a few old buildings standing.

 

[deadbeaver]

At the moment the city has 32k of Hellsinkians(!?).

The old grand central station is now a shopping mall.

2 pics showing the size of the city. Day and night.

Looks like the crematorium turned it up too much..

 

[deadbeaver]

32k citizens and growing. The center of the city is "fully built" and is now expanding north.
I'm going to keep building Hellsinki as long as possible. I want to see how big I can build it
before it hits the limits.

Even if I use a bunch of mods and unlimited monies the city has to be functional and
keep the budget in the green. I think I'm in the green atm, 32k citizens can pay for the
infrastructure that's been built.
Education is high, Hellsinki has several schools, including two universities.
Health is good with two hospitals. Building a third hospital is in the plans.

I should build more industrial stuff because the city relies pretty much on imports.
Ferries are also on the list aswell as a monorail but that's in the far future.
Depends on how big the city grows.. we'll see..

Anyways, here's a bunch of evening pics. Feel free to comment.. ..or whatever.

 

[Czardus]

Your city is looking great!

 

[guillec87]

it is great! did you buy the last DLC?

 

[deadbeaver]

Thanks guys!

Yea, I've got the last DLC, I've got most of them except natural disasters and those music things.
I turned off all sounds almost immediately when I bought the game. Helicopters would be nice tho.
I could get to the choppa!

 

[deadbeaver]

38k citizens atm and growing.
I've got way too many assets, need to do a clean up. Around 2300 now (sighs). I've also got a bunch of mods, move it, 81 tiles and several from BloodyPenguin to mention a few. I think I'm using some realistic LUT and a realistic european map theme. Some mod I use tell me that the game uses about 19gb
memory at start up. Oh well..
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Inner yard shops and parking.

New skyscrapers. Are they giving me the finger? ..good old Hellsinki..

Old and new buildings blending.

I've always built lots of parking lots for cars. Now that I'm using Traffic manager -PE, they are forced to use them. I like.

Villa life near the city and other night time pics.

Beach Hotel Werner to the right. Seems to be a popular place with criminals since the cops visit the place qiute often.

Of course they shop at Lidl. Soon they will get an Ikea too..

Old and new blending.

Police and Train station.

Matkahuolto delivers everywhere, even here..

Progress hasn't reached this place yet.

Elementary and High school complex next to the cops and trains.

Some industry. I've been a bit lazy with industry. The city depends on imports. I checked some numbers and import was in the thousands and export was 1.

Size of the city. Good old Hellsinki. I have to add that I don't like the vanilla quays. Been on my mind to do something about it.. We'll see..
When this area is filled up I'm most likely moving north. Got some plans to also build to the east and west and connect them with a monorail (or whatever it's called) that goes around the city. It all depends on the limits the game has. My last version of Hellsinki collapsed because of it's size. It hit the limits and there started also to be issues with distances. Not to mention that my pc started to have issues with the city, it got out of hand..
..which will propably happen to this version of Hellsinki too..
And also, I am not trying to recreate Helsinki, which should be obvious to anyone who has been there
or seen pics of it. I just like Helsinki and the map of it.

City in numbers.

(Like said, the city has 38k citizens. Not 54k like it says here.. ..must mean something else..?!)

Thanks for reading and watching the pics.

 

[deadbeaver]

 

[deadbeaver]

Slowly but surely Hellsinki grows.

 

[deadbeaver]

Atm Hellsinki is up to 70k cims and I think I'm getting close to halfways with props. I'm not going ultra
detailing cause I'm going for size. As big as possible with medium detailing except for showcase areas.
I've also been deleting unused/unecesseary assets etc and I'm now down to 2k from 2.4k. Still got stuff
to delete. Trying to keep the game running as smooth as possible.. We'll see when I hit the wall.

Anyways, some "panoramaish" pics from west to east and the 2 last pics are just to show the size.

 

[deadbeaver]

Details from around the city, clockwise (kinda).

First up we got the industrial area. Some of the industrial buildings like the brown sugar cubes you can
see have been converted into apartments and offices. So far they are for the lower classes but
most likely they will go up in prices when the hipsters find them.

When the city started to grow rapidly it needed cheap housing for the working forces. Investors
have now found the area and have built up new towering buildings with the approval of the city council
and the mayor. The area is also getting a face lift cause it's the first place the tourists see when they
arrive. (the cruise lines harbour is located here)

Some people have nice houses and boats.

Some live close to ikea, if that is a good thing.

A view to the west of the tunnel.

And to the east. The castle still stands tall on the hill, relatively untouched by progress..

The old village church near the castle.

The old navy garrison has become a submarine museum.

 

[deadbeaver]

First video of Hellsinki. 4 mins of buildings after buildings.
About 75k cims on a 81 tile map. All the buildings are placed one by one.
The quality is what it is but watchable. I might do more of these clips
if anyone is interested. I hope making these clips won't melt my rig..

 

[deadbeaver]

The White Castle and the old village.
South of the white castle used to be fields and forests but progress turned
them into scyscrapers.

To the north of the white castle is the old village and the old church.

The white castle is dwarfed by the scyscrapers in the background.

The old church and the village.

The village is called Pikku Hellvetti. (Little Hell)

 

[deadbeaver]

As I've surely said before, slowly but surely the city grows. 84k inhabitants and still got room for growth even tho I'm sure this city will melt my pc.. if not, I'll build until I hit the limits. Props atm 33k.
Oh, and the city is functional, not just a pretty picture. Only game altering mods are TM;PE and I think I get a little extra monies from tourism. The rest is just visual stuff. Uhm, I do have unlimited money but I've made sure that I don't dip into the red. It's about profit, you know.. heh..
You can pretend it's goverment or corporation money or whatever that pays for the growth.

Anyways, a bunch of pics. Some of the old centrum, skyscrapers daytime & skyscrapers night time.
Also a few pics from a new area, the St. Mary's Manor and the sawmill it runs nearby.
And a night time pic for city scale.