The PSSO (With The Port of Ossic)

[Yoman]

Replies for the People

Bengt - Once again your advice and criticism is very welcomed, I just built another suburban area today and added a few playground lots I added. The glass building is actually the high school of the area, perhaps it was misplaced though.

Kevin (SIMplMn9) - If you ever need help you know where to find me

Ryan (Filasimo) - I doubt they were Soviet Mi-24 copters in those games though Thanks goes to Glenni for the Hind.

szymcar - my suburbs will take up a large portion of 3 large tiles, so you should see more, thanks

Marius (M4346) - Finally you got your act together and visited one of your socialist brothers Thanks for the nice words and I'll look forward to see your delegation and Seb's at my dacha soon Look below btw.

sEAhAwk fAn121 - Thank you, I take alot of pleasure building the cities when they come out the way I want

bat  - Thank you!

Daniel (iamgoingtoeatyou) - Thanks for your help in all the mosaics etc, couldn't have done it without you.

mjig_dudy - Not really, Ive been using the same replace the ugly maxis base textures mod you have Though I do relot a lot of larger buildings.

Seb (Xiziz) - You've been most useful in your advice on those tenements. The hind will be needed if we get our acts together also

Sebes - I deeply wish I could get rid of those cars and replace them with GAZs & Ladas, thank you for the kind words though

Dark Jedi06 - Indeed, everyone loves living here in the Workers Paradise

Rooker1 - Thank you for the kind words

I've learned how to do mosics from Iamgoingtoeatyou's tutorial here.

Also those buildings your asking about are indeed SFBT and can be found here. Very useful I must say!

This Update is Dedicated to Marius (M4346)

For being a fellow socialist ally and giving me great input on my cities.

Today I'll be going back to the area shown in the second update and be showing more of it. Ive recently begun work on a red square kindof area, and the custom lots for the docks are in the works, so there might not be an update for awhile after this, because I want to make the next two really good

Thats it for today

EDIT - Die imageshack.

[Glenni]

Nice mosaic there Owen, you really used those canals in a great way, by the way, wheres the choppie heading?

[bat]

Wonderful three new mosaics, Yoman! Great work on these!

[rooker1]

Wow....super work on those mosaics.  I have always envied the people that make mosaics as I have no idea how to make them.  Thanks for the link to Iamgoingtoeatyou's mosaic tutorial.  I'm going to give that a try tonight for sure.  And that will be my first mosaic ever, and all thanks to you and Iamgoingtoeatyou. 
I really like your choice of custom low res. lots along with the canal pieces, they all look great together.



Robin   

[mjig_dudy]

very impressive update

I'm especially like the mixing of the older wall to wall building and those concrete housing blocks. It contrasts greatly, but still fits together seamlessly.


Finally, I must warn you of the impending CJ cliché.... 'Excellent Work, keep it up'   

[Krio]

Great, great work  the German housing blocks are maybe too repeative, you could use different buildings to make blocks. 4 same building in the same block is good, but you could have different blocks. I'm also repeative when giving comments. Different blocks.

[sebes]

Wonderful again, enjoying what I see 

[Xiziz]

Nice work Owen! love those large blocks they really look sad and worn. and the tenantments fits in really nice, just like those i just blew up in WiC.

[M4346]

Ah, I've been meaning to comment here ever since the update, and that PM of yours notifying me of it.

First of all, thank you very much for the great honour. It is indeed of some, if not a lot of, importance and status (methinks) to be mentioned in your MD and, best of all, have an update dedicated to me.  Know that I aide and add willingly and with a gladdened heart to and in your MD.    [/pompous arseness]

Secondly, what a great update it is indeed!  I love the general feel and look of this area of Odeshchyna (by the way, I believe it is misspelt - at least from the original rendering and its conception way back - in the title of your MD and the subsequent posts). Now, where's my PSSO Fact Checker's Badge?!     

Anyway... it looks very Eastern European, a look that you are no doubt going for, and something that you have achieved in such a manner that it is not only consistent with and true to reality, but also in a strange manner, pleasing to the eye. 

Finally, and on a bit of a side note, I'm not lotting the Prepo Orthogonal Growable W2Ws anymore, and the test LOTs I sent you are of no use now. I do appreciate your work and effort, however, but also apologise profusely for what I would call, in a nutshell, what has been a waste of your time.

You can get the models here now -> Click! And accordingly, also, if you so wish, showcase them in your MD (using either my LOTs or your own renditions).

So, thanks for the very pleasing update, and, I do hope to see some more of PSSO soon! 

Keep up the great work! 

[TheGunkid]

Very nice, i love the City, very nice layout, and use of the Paris Lots
Красная Линия (Latin: Krasnaya Liniya) means Red line, da?

[iamgoingtoeatyou]

excellent update as always and with this comment, i'm bumping you up to ones to watch, congrats

[nedalezz]

Wow, amazing mosaics. I especially like the last picture with the brick factories; you manage to mesh it so well with the neighboring residential buildings. Such an eastern european/soviet feeling.

[Shadow Assassin]

Here's a knife so you can stab Imageshack till it bleeds.

Or change to Photobucket and save yourself some hassle.

I like how everything's been put together. The composition of the buildings are good, but how about a little more variety in the blocks of rowhomes, maybe throw in a few different styles (I know it's Socialist, but still, some variety can't hurt).

[Strechnitz]

I don't know SA, you sound dangerously familiar to propaganda uttered by enemies of the people. 
You do know what happens with those in a self respecting socialist state

A truly wonderful update. your style is pretty unique, and the way that you take care of detail like paving is really a joy to watch. And it is nice to see that you have managed the art of mosaics.

So where do the Barons of the Politburo Reside?

Strech.

[M4346]

*cough* Baron is such a bourgeois term and is not acceptable in the lingo of the Central Committee. 

We shall, instead, refer to the comrades of the Politburo, okay? 

[Strechnitz]

Oh indeed M. thank you for pointing that out to me. I am so hopelessly Bourgeois myself.
Stroponians tend to get very nervous around socialists. they fear that their carefully preserved domain of plutocratic imperialism will collaps if socialism ets too popular. however!

So where are the lavish villa's of the comrades of the Politbureau?....is that better?

Strech.

[M4346]

Bourgeois is so last season. 

We'll make a socialist revolutionary out of you yet. And they live in "humble abodes," not lavish villas.

Maybe we should compile a list of non-kosher and bourgeois terms that may not be used in the vicinity of this MD or any self-respecting socialist, for that matter. The list will include, amongst other equally distasteful terms, words such as lavish, fabulous, extravagant and the likes.

The Politburo works very hard, and they cannot and will not stand accusations of luxuriant living. 

[Shadow Assassin]

Fabulously lavish and extravagant this place is!

[kwakelaar]

You have made some really excellent updates. The way you have made the w2w buildings together with the the more modern flats and with industry and canals, it is looking great. Also all the greens between the buildings and in the streets adds a nice touch to the general atmosphere of this city.

[Amerikaner]

WOW Owen, this is truly AMAZING, something I would truly loved to of based the old Republique du Tient after...A RED SQUARE  HAHA I am SOOO PISSED OFF AT YOU NOW lol, but now seriously your mosaics are truly amazing, and although those grey brick buildings show up quite a bit (trust me I know how annoying they can be sometimes ha-ha) they actually look really good and bring out the city even more, a region view of this city would be REALLY neat