The Headwaters of Nemonos

[Shadow Assassin 336]

Downtown is looking great! Though, I have one problem: and that's the transition from parkland to beach. If possible, hide the edges of the park tiles with trees or something. Otherwise, it's brilliant.

Keep it up. BTW, I still haven't decided what to do with the land... lol.

And welcome to page 7 of this great CJ.

[Shadow Assassin 336]

...page flip bug.

Don't we hate them?

[asturianu 4]

Oh, very nice terrain there. I like the area. Yeah, and the how much it cost? HOW MUCH? Nice...

Cristian

[DanTso 0]

uuuhhhh

niiiccceee

i think the rail is some time misplaced, i wouldnt put a rail near the coast, i dunno it doesnt fit good =D

but its still very interesting CJ

how many people you have in the whole map??

looks very big, planed out.

keep it!

Dan

[Mike the Mayor 51]

What a great CJ. It's nice to see cities grow from small low-rise towns to huge high-rise cities. Keep up the good work.

[Giligone 10]

Benedict Yep, it definately is. I'm glad you are enjoying my CJ!

Schulmanator haha, thanks! You can thank dedgren for that one. He just posted a tutorial on how to do it in his CJ and it makes it much easier... and the results are better than how I'd been doing it before.

Shadow_Assassin Hey, yes, I agree... its a bit rough in someplaces... Around the One Nemonos Place are now lots of trees so its much better... but that crescent road at the top... I'm not sure...

Shadow_Assassin haha, yes, I also find that annoying, thanks for introducing page 7!

astarianu I don't have the details just yet. I'll be in touch with the owner for you shortly and get the specs.

DanTso Hey, thanks for coming by! Yea, that rail line there is right on the water... ohh well. Its the end of the line... Its tough to get rail lines in around all the buildings. Gotta put them where you can. I put the population info at the end of update 7. I'll quote it here for you.

A few stats for those interested.

Nemonos (headwaters region) = 290 000

Nemonos (regional municipality) = 222 000

Cairn (regional municipality) = 68 000

Nemonos (proper) = 90 000

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Mike the Mayor Thanks, and thanks for coming by! Yea, I really like to watch the progression.

Ok, I'm still looking for some opinions on if installing the industry quadroupler would be a good idea. Thanks to everyone for your feedback!

[IDS2 3,429]

Hahaha can't wait till the next update. Thanks a bunch for adding a table of contents it really saves time.

[Giligone 10]

Ok, Some people asked for it so here it is. Some pics of the airport. It's nothing too spectacular as I've not yet really figured out all the features of the airport packs I have, haha.

Here's a nice overview shot.

On this pic you can see the small air force base adjacent to the civilian airport. Also the tangle of expressway interchanges and overpasses that were built to allow traffic to easily flow in and out of the airport as well as around the terminals.

The airport has a main passenger terminal with 3 concourses. There is also a sizable cargo terminal as well.

Finally (yes, I know, its a small update), is the entrance/exit of the airport area into Cairn on Highway 102.

Highway 102 is a connector expressway that runs from Highway 2 to the airport. Because Cairn was built all along Highway 2 there was no way to build an above ground expressway to the airport. A large project was funded to tunnel the highway under the city and then emerge it outside of the Cairn city limits. Although a very expensive alternative, the project went off without a hitch, largely due to the fact that there were no on/off-ramps built to the underground portion. This simplfied the design and construction process.

Ok, thats all for now. I'm going to be pretty busy for the next week or 2 so I doubt there'll be an update for a while. I'm moving and starting a new job just after the holidays too so. Stay tuned!

Merry Christmas everyone.

[asturianu 4]

OK, thanks a lot!! The airport looks very well, but why did you biult it with squares? You can do diagonal grass / tarmak(grey land) It would be better looking, but anyways the airport looks amazing! And the tunnel looks great too!

Cristian

[Benedict 3,119]

Now that's a serious amount of reclaimed land! Any chance of seeing the freeways on the latest region view?

[IDS2 3,429]

Cool that looks almost exactly like my airports except I use the ACE Modular Airport packs instead of Joerg's. Nice job!

[jacqulina 162]

excellent airport my friend very nice work and pics

[Giligone 10]

Hey guys. I'm back from a week long conference in Toronto. Tomorrow I move, then wednesday is the first day of the new job **gulp**.

astarianu Hey, details still to come.... I'm a tad busy at the moment. Stay tuned. There are diagonal grasses? News to me, I'll look into that later. Thanks for the tip.

Benedict Yea, really it is! haha. Heres the latest freeway map, sorry, no time to label them.

(click to enlarge)

IDS2 Thanks. Yea, i have copious amounts of airport things. The ACE one is much more detailed but so much more work, so..lol.

jacqulina Thank you kindly.

Happy new year everyone!! ahhh 2006 is done, 2007 has arrived... wow 2007 :-|

[jacqulina 162]

hi my friend and a happy 2007 to you too and thankyou.

excellent freeway map nice work

[IDS2 3,429]

Happy New Year! Good job! Not much to say, just keep up the good work! And good luck with the job!

[asturianu 4]

Happy 2007. Diag. grass? Yes, of course, you can find a lot of texture and LOTs packs in STEX if you search airport. You will see a lot of packs and choose some of them, later, in the game you will find diagonal tarmak and grass and many new terminals and taxiways....

But the airport looks nice, my friend.

Cristian

[Camedia 0]

Wow, never been on this CJ before. Great work so far!

And that's one huge airport, the factory looks dangerous thou at the end of your runway

[Benedict 3,119]

Thanks for that transit view - wow, you have a LOT of rail, too!

[Giligone 10]

jacqulina Thanks, haha. Its like I'm replying to your reply of my reply to your reply. ahh so many replies **tears hair out**

IDS2 Hey thanks alot. I start tomorrow, went and scoped out the office earlier today. Should be good.

asturianu haha I just realized I've been spelling your name wrong, sorry dude. I'll have to investigate this diagonal lot business ... most intruiging...

Camedia Welcome, thanks for dropping by. Yes, I do see your point. Its a bit risky... Oh well, workplace hazard I guess, haha.

Benedict Thanks. Yes, I'm a big fan of rail transit.

[jacqulina 162]

lol i didnt notice sorry my friend

[GreekMan 246]

it's exelente

[asturianu 4]

Ah, Ok, search for airports, man. You will see a lot of them. See you.

Yes, you called me astarianu or simler, but nothing happends, my friend

Cristian

[Giligone 10]

jacqulina no worries. Nothing wrong with conversation. :-)

GreekMan Hey, thanks!

asturianu Thanks again... one of these days I'll have to check that out.

Ok, hey everyone, sorry for the total lack of any updates. I started a new job as a planning intern with the City of Quinte West. Its exciting stuff but by 4:30 I'm drained and not feeling like doing much but loaf, haha. I managed to get a teaser shot to tide you over until I get into a routine (hopefully one involving more sim city!).

Ok, so Cairn has seen unprecedented growth in recent months. Numerous new high rise appartment & condo developments have gone up in the Tower Park area. Seemingly overnight the City has seen its population surge from 56 000 to 70 000! This puts the Headwaters population over 300 000! :-D This is the highest density area in the whole region! Here's the pic, enjoy!

[GreekMan 246]

nice pic. Life is a pain

[Shadow Assassin 336]

Very nice, Gilligone.

And life is always a pain... you know what they say: life is a terminal disease with a 100% mortality rate.

[asturianu 4]

Oh, very dense area, man. I like a lot it, but you know that I can live in a very dense area!

Cristian

[Giligone 10]

GreekMan Thanks, and yes, yes it is.

Shadow_Assassin Thank yee kindly. Hahaha, its so true.

asturianu I figure theres approx. 25 000 people living in that small area. You might not be able to find an appt. Vacancy rates are very low right now.

[Giligone 10]

Ok, update time!! Yes, at last. :-D Today we are going to visit the suburb of Hillsburg. As the name suggests it is a part of the 'Burgs' district to the South-East of Nemonos Proper.

Hillsburg is home to a few thousand people and a large commercial business park. The town formed around the intersections of Highways 5 (blue) and 10 (pink). (click for full list of highways)

Ok, lets drive through town.

As you can see. There is alot of large-lot tree covered homes in Hillsburg.

The main attraction is the Nemonos Metropolitan Arena which houses the regions professional hockey, basketball, lacrosse and indoor football teams. To accomodate pre-and post game traffic the arena has its own interchange and rail station.

As with all suburban sports venues there building is surrounded by a sea of surface parking. Here it is mostly empty, but on game nights it is packed to its 16, 576 people capacity.

Next stop is the business park, which really is a park. There are lots and lots of trees!

Annnnd last stop is the venerable 'mansion way'. This street has the largest homes in Hillsburg, all on sprawling lush green lots. If you look reeeally closely you can see Mr. Black (no relation to Conrad) cleaning his pool.

Yayy, I finally finished an update! I hope you enjoyed it.

[Schulmanator 5,812]

Cool little town. I was thinking that the poor arena looks like an island in a sea of asphalt. Of ocurse, that's how they really are! How's the teams doing this year? I have some money to bet, so gimme the points spread!

[GreekMan 246]

some day you could win a trixe. Only is you keep it up and don't stop. nice city. I can't wait till it's all sprawl.