The new Corsica

[Diamond 41]

In April 2009 Sim Corsica finally got its indepence back from France. The new head of state was just giving a big speech on this glorious day when a terrible error occured: "Error 890: No signs of Civilization found2. Seconds later the whole island was empty. No trees, no animals and no citizens and cities! Corsica was a complete wasteland again:

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Well, I'm going to change this in the next few weeks. The original Corsica has about 250 thousand inhabitants, I guess mine will have around 2 or 3 million once i'm done. I'm planning to build at least one big metropolis on it on the shore, create several rural areas and raise some mid-sized cities. I also want to build a big harbour like the one in Singapore and a big tourist region with lots of interesting sights.

Stuff i'm using:

skoovitz' accurate scale map of Corsica

Teirusu's desert mod

pegasus' rock mod: golden Sandstone

And lots of other custom contents i list when i'm acutally using them

[lifeless 2]

looks like it will be quite the challenge!

[collgab 10]

Nice region!, cant wait till the next update!

[Hawkeye9 0]

Nice start, Can't wait for development. Good luck on your cj,

[Diamond 41]

First Update

I started on a parcel in the east of my little island and named it "Macchia". It grew to a tiny little village with a population of 5.000, some farms and a small sight: the "Angel of Liberty".

Those roads are quite typical for Corsica: They are following the shape of the mountain. Cliffs on both sides, and beneath one cliff the sea and a wonderful view. At the moment the only one to enjoy this view is a lonely truck driver.

And the region view:

[belfastuniguy 18]

Very interesting, the region looks fantastic. Looking forward to following this one.

[Urbandogg 0]

cool.

[RushHourFreak 1]

Nice terrain modd you're using there . The region is fantastic. I will suggest you only a bit of hand terraforming to avoid the giant Maxis' stone walls when higher ground.

I will come back to see more.

RHF

[Diamond 41]

Originally posted by: RushHourFreak Nice terrain modd you're using there . The region is fantastic. I will suggest you only a bit of hand terraforming to avoid the giant Maxis' stone walls when higher ground.

I will come back to see more.

RHFquote>

I already thought about that problem and these ugly walls. I think i'll solve it by terraforming the terrain to some kind of "terraces" like in rice fields to cope with the slope, but only where i want to grow mid and high densities though it might ruin the landscape if applied too much.

Guess i'm going back to "work" now and develop my region.

[Diamond 41]

Corsica's population grew a bit and regained a bit of status.

I started repopulating another parcel and named it: "Pallagiu". It's occupied by a nice little city with around 20'000 people and developed a nice amount of farmes, especially those grewing fruits. But it still has to deal with a lot of unemployment and therefore abandoned buildings. I guess the next city i'll build will solve that problem because it's planned to become a huge industrial area with a big port and lots of jobs.

But now, some more shots:

The last shot shows quite clearly that i have to find a solution with these slopes. At the moment i think the problem might be solved by itself once these R-$ develop to R-$$ and therefore conform with the slope. The Water tower provides the entire water for this parcel and also the water for the fields . I also built a first piece of my railroad that will later ship these fruits to the neighboring parcel for export.

[Krio 624]

Background is very funny! And progress too.

[ilikehotdogsalot 308]

wow! looks very interesting! looking forward to more, good luck on your cj

[zachos-prague 0]

Good CJ!

[Diamond 41]

Well, i decided to restart this CJ and start again with the region because Corsica ist quite more green than i thought:

First i wanted to go on but when i also noticed that my plugins folder is seeming to be much to big and my SC4 started lagging i decided to make a new start with a different terrain mod, and a complete re-install of SC4, and a complete new plugin collection.

Let's see how far i will get .

[jacqulina 162]

looking forward to your new cj

[Krio 624]

That terrain color was perfect, if the civilization and people disappeared, grass could also gone with them!

[Diamond 41]

Originally posted by: Krio That terrain color was perfect, if the civilization and people disappeared, grass could also gone with them!quote>

Sure i also liked it very much, but i'm heading for at least a bit of realism . It looks too much like a real desert although it is an a quite moderate climate. But i keep that combination of water, terrain and rock mod in mind for another region with a hotter climate (cyprus for example?).