The Commonwealth of Paradise (USNW): March 27: A (late) Most Heartfelt Thanks

[tahill79 13]

love the airport

[kj3400 178]

A lot of enthusiasm! I should bulid airports more often...

I appreciate all those who commented, and encourage you to come visit again!

Hawkeye9: Thanks! 

As my 50th poster, you will have the honor of giving the airport a name that will be used with its generic name. Congratulations! 

Starrychelx: Thank you!

Haljackey: Thanks a lot!

Dfnva: Thank you! Yes, I thought it make more sense for the most parking to be the farthest away.

Twenty20: Thank you!

Psander5: Thanks a lot! I've been doing a lot of lurking on other CJs/MDs and the "Show us your airports!" thread.

Griffen_star: Thank you.

SirUnger: Thanks. Let's just say you ain't seen nothing yet!

Tahill79: Thanks a lot!

You thought naming the first airport was nice? Just wait and see what the 100th poster gets!

In other, recent news, I've purchased Photoshop, so I might be experimenting with it and other picture-editing in future updates. Update 6 will no doubt be here before the end of the week.

Cheers!

[Follarch 327]

Ah darn it. lol When you asked what was missing from the region, I was thinking "WATER!", buuuut then you showed me there was an entire ocean, so yeah, hahaha. I guess it was the airport huh. Well disregarding that little thing, very nice region! I love your small cities, and the stores fit very nicely amongst the tree's.

I see that you're an observer nation for the Alliance. Just call me a Founding Nation. ^^

[jacqulina 162]

excellent airport my friend

[kj3400 178]

Archean: Thanks, and I appreciate you visiting! It's an honor to have a founding nation here!

It isn't exactly the ocean, though. It's actually the Lamona Sea, which connects to the Pacific. 

Jacqulina: Thanks! Always good to see you here!

Well, to business. I have no update tonight (no surprises there, right?) but you see, I'm trying to keep up with my school work, and I've been much too busy. So to make up for it, I will have updates 6 AND 7 this weekend to make up for lost time, so stay tuned!

[kj3400 178]

Wow, tough crowd. Maybe this'll get you interested. It's a pic I edited with Photoshop that will be in the next update. It's not the best, but I'm working on it. Tell me what you think!

And here's the old one for a comparison.

Cheers!

[GreekMan 246]

wow great CJ!!!

love the airport!

[Haljackey 17,437]

I see some GTR signs! Nice work!

[Schulmanator 5,815]

Lookin' good!

[dfnva 34]

Nice, I like how US-6 breaks into one-ways to go into downtown Galloway. It's realistic in many cities/towns where a main road is divided as such when going through a downtown, but something I rarely see in CJ's. I look forward to a future update where you showcase Galloway.

Don't sweat a lack of replies... you've got a good CJ.

-Dan

[kj3400 178]

Greekman: Thanks!

Haljackey: Thanks! There will be plenty more signs soon!       

Schulmanator: Thanks a lot!

Dfnva: Thanks. That's usually why I split up the main roads going into towns. That, and it doesn't make much sense to destroy buildings to squeeze an avenue in between.  

I understand about the lack of replies. Thanks for the encouragement! 

 

Update 6 has no history. Why? Well,we're visiting Galloway City!

Remember this? This was the situation when the small town realized it had too much traffic on this road (the north-south one) So they decided to expand it.

The arrangement today. As you can see USp 3 has not been widened yet, but that will change soon because of the increasing traffic in the downtown area.
Edit: at the time I posted these I didn't see the error, but USp 6 comes in from the west like USp 3, not from the south

South of downtown, the two one way roads end at a roundabout where USp 3 peels off to the east and USp 6 continues south. It retains 4 lanes for a little ways after the roundabout. USp 3 was realigned to a different line to fit the roundabout. some development had to be destroyed for all this though.

Edit: USp 6 doesn't come down here as noted in the previous pic.

The layout north of here. More signs were added as the ones shown were from when USp 6 NB was 2 way.

The two bridges for USp 6.

USp 6 narrowing down to a two lane road. Note the rail layout. This was to somewhat segregate freight rail from commuter rail. Also note how I've grayed the pic. I wanted to show the industrial area as more gritty. 

Hope you enjoyed this rather short update. The next update will be about two new towns.

 Cheers!

[Follarch 327]

I absolutely loved the intersection in your first screen. You're main street perhaps? Very nice small town feel to it, very good.

And the photoshopped screens give your town a more "real world" feel to them, for example the last one showing us a cloudy day over a rail junction. Very well done, keep this up and the reply problem will disappear. ^^

[deathtopumpkins 43]

I love the realism of the split Route 6 through downtown (I've seen that before in RL), and I really like that last pic. The grey-ness really adds to it!

[kj3400 178]

Archean: Thank you! Yes, it is Main Street. I've never done Photoshop before, so I'm glad it isn't bad.

Deathtopumpkins: Thanks a lot!

The Commonwealth of Paradise has started a page on the SC4 Wiki! Click here to visit it! It's still developing, and I'm still getting an idea of how to organize the page, but I thought you might like to see it.
Update 7 will be here tomorrow. Until then....



Cheers!
 

[kj3400 178]

Update 7 is here! I was originally going to show an additional town, but I didn't think it was ready. So it will have its own update.


Update 7:
Sumter  Creek

You may think this town of 3,728 people is just another dot on the ever growing map of Paradise, but it is very important in the farming community. You see, the president had just passed the LEX Act which put no restrictions on what type of farms could be grown in the Commonwealth, and Sumter Creek was the first town to grow these new farming "estates."'

Here farmers grow wheat, grapes, lavender, maples, eucalyptus trees, and if you strain your eyes at the bottom, bananas. The farm growing maples also harvests rainbow trout.

Cottonwoods and various vegetables grow here.

In this shot you see a better view of the bananas; also you can see peppers, more grapes, and agave, a type of plant grown in central America. This type of agave is used to make tequila. Needless to say, the workers are often drunk on the job.

The estate was so successful the town decided to start another, Here's the area before it was cleared of trees (and the edges refined by me!)

The town, isn't very important otherwise. It lies at the ends of Pd. (Paradise) Rts. 27 and 175, but that's about all. Other wise it's your typical small town, though oddly enough there is no creek (yet!). Here's some pics.

The business district.

The town's train station.

Development going on...

An overview of the town (I'm working on making route markers for my region, so no labeling).....

And an overview of the town and the present farming estate.

I hope you enjoyed this update. Comments, constructive criticism, and questions are welcome!

Cheers!

 

[dfnva 34]

Nice updates... I like how Galloway looks and the rural areas look great. Those are some nice farms that you've got, some that I've never seen before.

-Dan

[jacqulina 162]

beautifull work my friend,i love the farms,great looking transport system

[Twenty20 28]

Excellent update, and especially the farming, the fields are nicely done, your transport network is awesome, keep up the good work !

[shaylan221 0]

your agriculture and farming areas are great. I'll be looking out for this one!

[newyorkrunaway1 110]

nice update!

[SounderBruce 173]

Magnificent work, my friend.

[kj3400 178]

Dfnva: Thank you. I got them off the LEX disk I got from SC4 Devotion.

Jacqulina: Thanks!

Twenty20: Thank you! 

Shaylan221: Thank you. I'm glad you you came by.

Newyorkrunaway1: Thank you.

ComputerGuy890100: Thank you and thanks for visiting!

Happy holidays!

Christmas is coming up soon. I'm getting an update ready for it as I speak.

Update 8 will be tonight or tommorrow.  But here's something I wanted to show you.

They're coming........

[kj3400 178]

Update 8 is here.

Update 8: Campfield

I don't know if you remember those anti-industrial people from South Galloway City, but they aren't done in the story of the Commonwealth. With the decreasing space in their area, they decided to move to the mainland (making a large bypass of the industrial area on the north shore). They founded a small town north of Galloway City and east of Bayview-Burgess called Campfield. So, without further ado, I'm going to shut up and show you the pretty pictures. Note the Photoshopping on some of them. (I got bored)

I'm going to try to get you all back in the city soon, maybe for a Christmas present. Oh, here's a teaser:

And another one, just for funsies....

Cheers!

[Schulmanator 5,815]

Nice farm areas! Good update.

[dfnva 34]

Nice construction shots (Rte. 1/3 Bypass??) and nice rural areas. I like how your roads wind in and around the different farms and how you use trees as borders or shelter belts.

-Dan

[Follarch 327]

Absolutely beautiful! You're doing very well with your small rural towns. And the farms are very attractive and colorful, along with the smooth edges and the tree's as borders, your farms are very eye catching to say the least.

I keep loving your towns, they look so nice to live in. And with all this development I see in your updates, you'll be a full member state in no time.

[kj3400 178]

Time for the daily replies!

Schulmanator: Thanks a lot!

Dfnva: Thanks. (try future I-1!).....You know, I probably shouldn't have said that

Archean: Thank you. I'm looking forward to becoming a full member.

Well now that I've let everone know,I'm opening up another contest. This one should be interesting......

Name that Highway!  Contest

Basically I want you to tell me where I'm buliding that highway. It can only be in one of the towns/cities in the 7 updates we've seen so far, so it shouldn't be hard. The winner gets to name the entire highway, and tell me whether they want highways numbered American style, or British style (i.e. motorways). So the person who wins can have a significant impact on how the Commonwealth develops its infrastructure. If no one wins, then the 100th poster will get that lucky decision for them. All people who participated will get consolation prizes. So get out there and guess. You can't lose!

You want a hint? cough *check Wiki* cough cough 

Good luck!

[Tomasneto 20]

Nice CJ!! Congratulations!!

[dfnva 34]

I'll take a wild guess that they highway is a bypass of Paradise City?

[Twenty20 28]

Nice farming, beautiful colours and nice effects. It's a great work, congratulations !