Amryai (first CJ)

[lookinin 2]

Your CJ is coming along nicely - I too hope you can safely transfer your files - I'd like to see more! Good luck with your new computer!

[Amryai200 2]

PAGE 3!

 

gmac_oboe: don't worry, i probably won't shut it down lol, i'm glad you like amryai the first-person narrative thing was really inspired by turry; i thought it would make this CJ more interesting, but i might go with a more conventional approach with my next CJ.

 

oroen: thanks for telling me that. i never really noticed, but my CJ does seem to be slower than most others. my pics'll be .jpg files from now on

 

lookinin: thanks! the file transfer hopefully won't be a problem. since alot of other people have done it at least i know it can be done.

[SC4 meister 7]

Wow, it's been awhile since I last peeked in here, and I love what I see.  The first person thing was cool, can't wait to see more of the reigon!  Keep at it dude, and PM me if you need help with that transfer.

[sloppet 3]

nice updates!! gfreat work so far!!!

[andrew george 0]

This is looking better and better! The highway looks good lined with the autumn trees, and the region looks excellent.

 

Well done!

 

 

A

[Amryai200 2]

Thanks for the comments

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This is the life. Two weeks of nothing but relaxation and being waited on hand and foot...but for right now, it's time for some sightseeing.

 

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I'm driving through one of the denser areas of Longmire. It sure is densly packed, with some pretty big buildings. This is a smallish town, but city officials want Longmire to be the center of commerce for the inland areas of the region. Well, considering it's the only real inland town for a hundred miles they're doing a good job..

 

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McDonalds has an ever-growing presence in the region.

 

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Well, it's time to see what the next town has to offer.

 

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Hey, there's a town up ahead!

 

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The bustling town of Hillsboro. One of its main attractions are the new tree-lined farms, which is a beautifying program for all the farms in the region, ordered by the Government. I don't have a problem with it, I think they look wonderful.

 

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Here's downtown; not too much to see.

 

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Now for the next town!

 

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Here's Kamloops, another small, insignificant but pleasant little town...

 

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And here's the whole town in case you're interested. After Hillsboro, Kamloops is the second town to get tree-lined farms. The Government's been spending alot of money on beautification lately.

 

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Hey, what's this? Fighting? Hmph, some people can be so uncivilized...

 

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Well, on to Columbia...

 

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Here we are, Columbia.

 

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A small town of just over 5,000, Columbia is one of the tourist centers in the region. A few years back, they were having some huge financial trouble with this town, but now Columbia is back in the black.

 

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And here you can see why tourists love this place: the world-famous Columbia Llama Museum. There's the Llama Resort Hotel down the street too, which looks eerily similar to the hotel I'm staying at in Longmire...

 

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And here's a summary of everywhere we've been since I moved here.

 

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As many of you might be able to guess, the tree-lined farms idea was inspired by Digby.

 

Stay tuned!

 

[helomoto 28]

Wal*Mart

Always low prices---Always!

[Amryai200 2]

lol @ helomoto. does anyone else want to comment? it's starting to get lonely again...

[lookinin 2]

Don't worry, you're doing a great job! Your journal is loading *much* faster since you switched to jpeg images! Looks great!

[jacqulina 162]

excellent update its worth being patient isnt it

[SC4 meister 7]

Looks great, I love your way of showing us your cities.   When do we get more?

[Iknowu 0]

gtreat city love it very details on the buildings three thumbs up

[Amryai200 2]

lookinin, jacquilina & Iknowu: thanks

SC4 meister: i might update tomorrow (well, make that today; it's 12:08 AM sunday where i am), but i'm not sure; i have finals from monday to wednesday and need to get some last-minute studying in. also, star wars episode 3 comes out the day after my finals, and being the huge star wars fan that i am, there might not be another update for a week because i'll be too proccupied with all things star wars to play SC4 i did play a little today though, and i made a few changes to central amryai, so i might show a few pictures of that.

 

 

[jacqulina 162]

lookforward to the update

[SC4 meister 7]

Date: 5/15/2005 1:08:16 AM Author: Amryai200

SC4 meister: i might update tomorrow...i'll be too proccupied with all things star wars to play SC4

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I have only one thing to say!   WELL,   DUH!  MTFBWY.

 

[Amryai200 2]

lol, MTFBWY too

anyway, i did manage to work on my region a bit, although i wish i hadn't; my final grades are going to suffer some. for this update, i'm not doing first person since these arent covering any of the cities i'm in.

 

 

this is allemboisi, sort of the sister city to amryai. it's considerably smaller though, with only 39,000 inhabitants. recently allemboisi has been growing steadily; the population was at 30,000 only a few (sim) years ago, and the skyline was alot smaller a few (real) days ago than it is now. i also added some new low-rise neighboorhoods. in the southwestern side of town you can see Marks Field, which was recently built for those who didn't want to drive all the way into amryai to catch a flight. right now the airport is at about 60% capacity.

 

 

and here's plymouth, allemboisi's new western suburb. not too much to see here, although all the trees and the street layout make plymouth rather nice-looking, if i do say so myself.

 

 

this is the small farming town of lansing, population 600.

 

 

and this is lansing's twin city, lakeland. like lansing, there's nothing too special here, although the road layout is quite unique.

 

The next update will be in first person, and should be more extensive, but like i said earlier, it might not be for a while because of Star Wars

 

Anyway, stay tuned!

 

[jacqulina 162]

awesome update

[lookinin 2]

Amryai200: Great job - looking forward to your next update! I like how allemboisi gradually flattens out from the city center - gives it a nice realistic appearance

[Gryphonite 0]

This is looking nice and I like the train journey. I'm glad you changed the pictures to .JPG, I must admit I gave up with page 2 just now, but page 3 is looking good!

[SC4 meister 7]

Nice, I like what I see, worth a drop in grades for sure.  Keep it up!

[Amryai200 2]

well, my new computer came. it's a dell 8400, and it's way faster than my old 4400. SC4 isn't installed yet, but it should be tonight, along with everything i saved (with some help of course) on the CD. there should be alot more updates from now on, and i can't wait to see how fast SC4 is on my new computer

[Amryai200 2]

well, my new computer came. it's a dell 8400, and it's way faster than my old 4400. SC4 isn't installed yet, but it should be tonight, along with everything i saved (with some help of course) on the CD. there should be alot more updates from now on, and i can't wait to see how fast SC4 is on my new computer

EDIT: oops, double post. how do you delete a post?

[jacqulina 162]

lookforward to the updates

[sloppet 3]

nice updates!!! great work!

[Amryai200 2]

okay, sorry guys, another update without pictures. i got SC4 running, and was able to get all the saved stuff onto my new computer, but i ran into a few problems. i don't know why, but 3 of my towns (river heights, port townsend, and plymouth) somehow didn't transfer onto my new computer, so i started those over. it's all back to normal now though, the towns are just a little different

 

and SC4 is waaaaay faster now, it's so awesome. i'm gonna download some new BATs now, and see if they show up (maybe CD's terrain mod, and some nice commercial growables).

 

P.S. and star wars was AWESOME. blew me away. so the number of updates might not increase, since i'm on a star wars high right now.

[lookinin 2]

Thanks for letting us know - looking forward to it! Glad your new system worked out so well!

[Simworld 056132 1]

Colourful, yes, why Id love to see more pic.

[Amryai200 2]

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Well, it's back to work for me now after that nice vacation. Ugh...

 

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Well, what a nice welcome present. My apartment is condemmed. Apparently, the influx of new residents to Amryai (it's jumped to 232,000 now from the last census) are almost exclusively high-wealth, and they need more room for them. Besides, this city is the City of Opportunity. Anyone who moves here poor gets rich, or at least well-off, eventually. Except me. Well, I found a new apartment, but I prefer my old one. Had a nicer view. But I should stop complaining. I live in a good neighboorhood, near downtown, etc...

 

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And this is just a city view showing my new and old apartments.

 

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And it just keeps getting better doesn't it? Yes, as you can see from the picture above, it has to do with my job. I'll just recount what happened:

 

Okay, my suporvisor asked me to take some computer equipment to another room. Well, all was going well when I tripped and accidentally pushed the all the computer hardware (which was on one of those roller-thingys that looks like a self on wheels; the name escapes me right now) right out the window! And that's not all of it. My boss happened to be walking under that window. Don't worry, he didn't get seriously injured; a monitor just fell on his head and gave him a concussion. The meeting afterwards with my suporvisor was short and not so sweet; yep, you guessed it, I was fired. This is all eerily daja vu to me...

 

Well, it looks like I'll be looking for a new job now. Maybe a commercial job that doesn't require carrying heavy objects, since I have a spectacularly bad record with those kinds.

 

[lookinin 2]

Great job! I love those custom airports, but don't forget the 800x600 limits

Keep up the great work!

edit: they've since been fixed - sorry, I just didn't want to see your images deleted!

[Amryai200 2]

it's okay, thanks for telling me