(Archive) Advertising District / Giari Palms Theme Park

Started a new LL park a few days ago... This is not the LL park I've been talking about for months, this is less serious. I wanted to attempt a ripoff park again, just like my recent Santa's Summer Residence which wasn't really my own style. It's much better than expected and therefore worthy of advertising.



Entrance area. As you can see, there's not much codex involved.

Enjoy, hate, do whatever you want!

Wow, I love it.

yeah this is great.

The monorail sticks out, and not in a good way. Other than that it's delicious.

Very nice. You make good use of classic aesthetic design principles from back in the day. Here and there I find a few inconsistencies and, indeed, randomness.

- What is the red tiled path inside the buildings for? I assume you just couldn't bare the big wooden wall.
- What is the circle of monorail around the info stalls?
- The red tiled path going inside the building next to the tables is downward sloping. If possible, I would change that.

get rid of the monorail. if you do that, it will be perfect.

nice shape, foliage is awesome too, i love that.

now i'm worried that your weakness will be your weakness. dare i say it... how are your coasters doing

I think the monorails are a good idea...maybe diff colors/diff track type?

I love it <3 Great LL

Foliage around the lake is pretty terrible. The rest really isn't my style, but it looks good.

Different coloring on the monorail and it's great! I love seeing new LL work, it's inspiring.

Thanks for the replies.

The monorail sticks out, and not in a good way. Other than that it's delicious.

It used to have other colours. I can't remember why I changed them, but I remember they were better...

Very nice. You make good use of classic aesthetic design principles from back in the day. Here and there I find a few inconsistencies and, indeed, randomness.

- What is the red tiled path inside the buildings for? I assume you just couldn't bare the big wooden wall.
- What is the circle of monorail around the info stalls?
- The red tiled path going inside the building next to the tables is downward sloping. If possible, I would change that.

- I think it makes sense to have another pathtype inside buildings... Your assumption is partially wrong. I think I'm doing a pretty good job at not placing windows on every wall, the best job I have done in LL so far. In the case of the wooden wall I felt it needed something, my first idea was of course a window. Automatically I made two windows. It's the symmetry that looks stupid, I'll delete the left window.
- I don't know, but I thought it looked cool. There are examples of random beams and awnings in the real world too...
- That was on purpose, suggesting a cellar. There is one going up, too. I'm not changing it, maybe I'll add a door/fence though.

Thanks for the feedback mate!

now i'm worried that your weakness will be your weakness. dare i say it... how are your coasters doing

I have a kiddy coaster in this area (visible on the left) which isn't very strong... but I can't recall any interesting kiddy coaster, they are pretty much always good at best. No big deal, in my opinion. There's a Floorless in another area, and I really like the layout.

I know I fucked up with Legacies, but that doesn't mean all my coasters are bad. Surfin' USA, No Quarter and Sparta, all from H2H5, are still pretty good IMO.

Foliage around the lake is pretty terrible.

Personally I like it... Why don't you like it? Convince me, maybe you are right.

I agree with Milo, very beautiful but I dislike the monorail. Noob question: how do you get those benches next to each other?

Foliage around the lake:

1. Incredibly random. There just doesn't seem to be much thought put into the placement of the types of bushes where you've placed them.
2. Something about the shape of the rounded bushes and trees... Maybe it's a preference thing. Though, I find it hard to believe the park would trim the bushes into such a defined shape in such an over grown area.
3. It blocks the view of the lake.


Sorry... Foliage is like my favourite thing in the game at this point.

Foliage around the lake:

1. Incredibly random. There just doesn't seem to be much thought put into the placement of the types of bushes where you've placed them.
2. Something about the shape of the rounded bushes and trees... Maybe it's a preference thing. Though, I find it hard to believe the park would trim the bushes into such a defined shape in such an over grown area.
3. It blocks the view of the lake.

Sorry... Foliage is like my favourite thing in the game at this point.

No need to apologize... it's your opinion.

1. Disagree. A little...
2. I agree, the bushes that look like miniature trees are out of place here. However, I like the look of it. I used to be against using such trees/bushes in non-garden foliage, but after I noticed that many LL parks have them I just had to try it too...
3. Not totally. There's a small Raindrop Riviera-like path sequence prior to this entrance square, with a bridge and some lookout spots. I added these piers for a reason too. Moreover, there are two gaps in the foliage in which the water can be seen.



Blue = sightlines
Black = water not really visible

I may tweak the foliage a little, but I'm pretty satisfied with it.

Fair enough, though I think the old school LL ways of "Tree-ing" should have been long forgotten. Oh, how I despised that about Fatha's work.

I think it looks pretty.

I think the aesthetic is very nice. Whilst it doesnt seem to be your own style, you can't deny it's beauty. Would be nice to see some of your style come through a bit more though.

I agree with Posix about the red tile paths though, I think it would look better using a different path type as the red tile clashes.

I don't really think they clash, they just don't strike me as windows at all. They never have.

I find this discussion about randomness interesting because I would say that every park has it somewhere. It's almost a given. Liam, I think if you hadn't put the word "random" in the topic title, people might not have been as strict.

I changed the windows, the foliage (a little), the monorail and I added some necessary details.

Posix, because with every minute I build on this park it gets more serious, I will think of an actual name for the park. Until then it might be wise to delete the random bullshit from the topic title...

I'm in year 5, and the first area is already 80% done. Seriously, it's so easy to build in this style!