TRUE CITY - The Great Expansion of Solitude

A COMPLETE SOLITUDE EXPANSION

There's been a number of overhauls for Solitude since, but I always thought more could be done.  Disappointed by that void, empty and liveless so-called city Bethesda dare call as the capital of Skyrim?  I didn't like it either, how much empty spaces were left everywhere in favour of oversized grasscovers and barren lands.  It didn't feel like a capital city to me. It is an utter shame for a "capital city". For a trading hub. For the most important and busiest hold city in the entire continent of Skyrim. Looking at it, seemed like the vanilla city was just screaming for an overhaul already.  This mod aims to change that for the better, with my same tactic of expanding on the actual land instead of just chucking buildings in existing spaces like everyone else does. This will be the last entry in my city expansion series, so here I've tried giving it the grandest feel of all. The mod is based on and includes the existing city overhaul mod, Complete Solitude by captainswoop, so technically, this would be, well, a further expansion of an expansion mod. The result is 2x the content, 2x more awesomeness, 2x bigger city.

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An all-new district has been added to the city, which I simply call the West District. This took me the most time to plan and build. Countless design layouts had to be made, redone, scratched and wasted just to find the best way to integrate it as seamlessly as possible with the base city. Not to mention the sloping city ground made it a pain in the ***** to manage. I nearly gave up halfway at one point due to how tedious it was. But well, eventually I got it done.

The district is made mainly as a neighbourhood of sorts, for residential houses, something the vanilla city badly lacked in. Also consists of a brewery and a secondary entrance to an imperial operations base. Over 25 new NPCs have been added in, with fully working day-to-day AI schedules and behaviour where they'll interact fully with the city. Furthermore many new houses and structures have been added. A couple of new shops added to the marketplace, including a grocery, and bakery and bookstore that's um...closed for now (bad business, y'know). A small hotel is also added, located near the city centre, meant for the travelling nobles and rich visitors that are too snobbish for the Winking Skeever.    Many major and minor changes to the city and base mod (Complete Solitude) have also be