Valley of the Gods - A New Begginging - Sort of.

[MsD 0]

All right folks, although I don't get to the CJ section all that much, I have made a few p osts in some of the CJ's.  Please enjoy this and leave feedback.

Disclaimer

This CJ, although, having a religious theme, is not intended to offend anyone.  It is not my way of putting forth my beliefs, nor is it intended to cause a debate conderning any religious topic.  The story behind this CJ is strictly fictitious and is intended for entertainment only.  I realize, however, that no one can please everyone all of the time and I expect to get some criticism concerning this CJ.  Please bare in mind that, although I am open to criticism, it must be put forth in a kind and appropriatemanor.  Any mean or hateful remarks will not be tolerated and will be reported to a Moderator Immediately.

Plugins that I use -

I have and use all of the updates for the game which can be found at SimCity's website.

NetworkAddon MON (NAM)

Bridge Height MOD

Opera House Fix

Functional Landmarks Complete Set

Stupid News Ticker

Data Views: Increased Detail MOD

Underground Depth MOD

Industry Quadripler

Additional God Mode Terrain Tools

Extra Terrain Tools 2 (I don't know where I got this from, If someone knows where to find it please post)

Tunnel Slope MOD

Tunnel Slope MOD Highways

I also use just about all of PEG's creations.  I will list each on I use as I use it.  You ca find all of PEG's lots here.

Any other lots or plugins that I use will be listed as I use them.

On to the Story

At the beginning of time there was nothing, nothing but darkness.  No land and no seas. This darkness was without form or void.

A great voice shot through this darkness proclaiming "I am the I am.  I am him and he is she.  We are the alpha and omega."  This was the voice of our creator.  And the soul of our creator was upon this vast darkness.

Our Creator’s voice thundered "Let us now create light", and with that light broke through the darkness and formed into the stars, sun and moon.

The Creator’s voice thundered again "Let us now create a spring of life giving substance, and we shall call this substance "Water" " and water immediately sprang forth from among the light.

(In this Pic I am using PEG’s Hawaiian Holiday Water MOD – I am also using the above space pic which I modified to use as my background pic for my cities.  I learned about doing this in the Omnibus Section)

Again, the voice of our Creator spoke "Now let us create land that we may walk upon it" as these words were spoken, fire spilled forth from the midst of the water and started to form land.

(In this pic I am using PEG’s Rock MOD II-MossyGranite)

For the Terraforming I am using SC4 Terraformer   This is an extremely great tool!  One of the best ever made.  Thanks to wouanagaine and his team for creating this wounderful product.

Here are the pics.

After using the Terraformer, this is what it looks like in the game.

The great voice of our creator continued to speak "Let the land bring forth life" trees and grass then sprouted forth from the earth.  “And let the Earth put forth living creatures to roam upon the Earth.”

After doing some final touching up on the terraforming and seeding the trees this is what my region looks like.

Seeing all that they had created together they were joyful.  "Let us now be fruitful and bring forth children, and we shall call these children "Mayors" and unto them we shall give dominion over the land and the seas and they shall bring forth children which shall be called "Sims", to be helpmates to our Mayors and to help them care for the land and the seas."

Hence, they came together and begat -

Azna - goddess of earth

Cogln - god of food

Megalla - god of light

Fantasia - goddess of love

Sabu - god of power

Azul - god of war

Nafar - goddess of peace

Ryna - goddess of water

Isis - goddess of wealth

Jafar - god of health

Istar - god of safety

Nabru – goddess of fire

Ruto – goddess of wine

Bail – god of the underworld

Enya – goddess of music

Rantool – god of fuel

Oswego – god of knowledge

Mazar – god of death

That's what I have so far.  I hope to post the start of my firts city tomarrow.

[beebs 129]

Looks like some great terrain to work off of! Can't wait to see development going in!

BTW, did you use Word to get everything formatted? That's what screwed everthing up with the >> stuff.

[MsD 0]

Well I won't do that again beebs. LOL That was a pain in the rump trying to fix. LOL

[defcon pilot 0]

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[/littlekidhumor]

I love it.

[jacqulina 162]

hi debs my friend now this is a great start nice work with everything,terraforming is great and fantastic close up pics.very nice

[homeandaway 1]

Hiya Deb! - im loving this CJ so far!, and its really good my friend!. - very imformative and heterogenous!. The links are a cool idea and i so cant wait to see the 'city' pics!.

Hope all is well for you are hope you had a great night last night!

~Alex~

[patriots_1228 51]

hey the storys pretty cool! I can tell you put in alot of effort,everythings got links, even the water mods.The pics are fantastic I really like the region

[MsD 0]

Thanks to all who have visited and posted comments.

I am sorry that I am unable to post an update with a start to the first city. I was looking for something particular that I wanted to use at the start of the city, but I was unable to find what I was looking for. Therefor, I have been creating textures and working on a BAT all day. I should be finnished with this tonight and able to use it in the game tomarrow.

Thanks again everyone.

[Schulmanator 5,787]

Wow! What a start! Can't wait for more.

[Mikeaut1 261]

Wow, this is a great start, very interesting!! Can't wait to see some more!

[MsD 0]

Welcome my friends. Thank you to all who have posted.

My heart felt apologies to all who have been waiting for an update. I currently have quite a bit going on in real life at the moment and I haven’t had much time for playing the game.

I, also, was wanting to create some plopable gravel and brick roads for the start of my first city. However, I found that I am unable to make a lot that is transit enabled and plop them next to each other. I know that there are some lots out there that look good and the creators did an outstanding job on them but they are not transit enabled. This is what I was wanting. Trolca has created some dirt and brick street textures which look awesome yet the draw back to using these (as you will see) is that you get a strange mix of dirt, brick and concrete roads. Not to pleased with this, so I even tried to create something that would complement these textures. Again, I was unable to do so.

With all of this lot creating and testing I was doing, dummy me failed to make a backup copy of my region or make a new region for testing purposes. What an idiot I am. DUH!!!!!!!!!!!   I won’t do that again.

So, needles to say, the nice looking region I had started with ended up looking like junk and I never could get it back to its former beauty. Therefore, I created a new region. It looks somewhat similar to the original yet different. A little larger for sure.

The story line is the same as when I started, though I will have to come up with some more gods. LOL.

 

Here is the new Region.   

On to the Story.

 

Azna, the first born, being filled with joy, immediately began to cultivate the land and bringing forth children to help her care for the earth. Teaching her children well, Azna showed them how to create roads and lay out areas for homes.

   

Her children learned quickly and began to grow food and build homes and business. (As you can see, I am using Trolca’s Dirt and Brick street MOD. Located here. It is the best thing I can come up with for the country look I am wanting.)

Being loving children, they want the best for their mother, Azna, so they built her a home where she can govern and oversee all they do.

(This is just the in game Mayor’s house, however, though hard to see because of the trees, the ground textures are from the retaining wall pack that I uploaded to the STEX a while back. I have since locked that file due to some problems with the texture ID’s. I believe I have them worked out but I am still testing.)

(The pine trees that are behind the Mayors house are PEG’s Mayor mode Pine Trees. You can get them here.)

Here is a better view of the grass lot I mentioned above.

It is a 1x1 lot that forms to the terrain and it adds $25 a month in income to your budget as a business deal.

 

You can plainly see what I was talking about above concerning Trolca’s street MOD. I have brick going to dirt and back to brick with some concrete thrown in for good measure. I love the texturing of the streets, but getting them where I want them is something I am yet to figure out.


I this picture, I am using the Extra cheats .dll file which was talked about in this thread. I found the link for it towards the bottom on this page. It allows me to have snow in the mountains without setting my system date to 12/25.



That’s all for now. Not much. Very simple start.

[jacqulina 162]

wonderfull work debs my friend,lovely job on the rural,your region is wonderfull,i love the snowy mountains and the river flowing through,great work and pics

[simoplis_mayor 3]

Very nice! I'm liking this CJ ill keep and eye on it.

[fledder200 5]

cool cj!! i love the name and the region rules!!

great start!!! MsD...this rules!!

[BlondeTwiggy 43]

great start! the story is nice and I love the last pic

[granto93 4]

very nice and scenic. i really like the last pic with the high valley and the snow. beautiful!

[manman99 2]

excellent background story and pictures!!!

manman99

[Amerikaner 42]

DEBS...omg great updates, i love your new CJ, its very interesting with all the gods and such, your terraforming is very good, and the city looks to be off to a nice start...liked the mayor house...we'll call it my house LOL jk anyway aweome work

[Cjah 15]

Quite an excellent start!!!!

I really like the farms and such!

...Damn not sure I can say much else..basically I'm impressed!

[Craig-Abcvs 1,595]

Hi Deb - I have dropped in to take a peek. I could be described as "religious"... not that I like that particular title myself... and I assure you that I am not offended. In fact I really like your creation story. We can not afford to be prudish or too precious - it is just a story after all.

Just one tiny suggestion - when you add your photos change the size to 800x600 after you paste the URL - saves wear an tear on the sliders.

[homeandaway 1]

holy fart my friend! - that was a awe and stunning update! - its really informative as you have used links, i like it!, i like your BAT - can i download it?, anyways - i hope you are well, and i look forwards to seeing and hearing more about your next update, the teaser is certainly amazing!, be safe my friend, ~Alex~

[MsD 0]

Replies:

Jackie:  Thank you my friend.  Coming from a master of CJ's that means a lot.

simoplis_mayor:  Thank you for visiting.  I will do my best.  I am new to this whole CJ thing.  LOL

Fledder200:  It didn't take me long to come up with a name for the region as a whole.  However, coming up with names for the cities is being rather challenging.

Twiggs:  Thank you my dear.  I am glad you could visit.

granto93:  That cheat that I am using for the snow effect is really cool.  I just wish it would save when I saved the game.

manman99:  Thank you for your kind remarks.

Luke:  Yes, we can call this your house.  LOL  Since it is a house for a (god) it is rather mundane since god's are like a wisp of smoke LOL

Cjah:  Coming from someone who has been around as long as you have that means a lot.  I am sure you have seen your share of CJ's.  Thank you my friend.

Craig:  I love your attitude plus you always make me smile with the way you put things.  LOL  You're suggestion is duly noted and I will most definitely start doing that.  Thank you.

Alex:  No farting in here!!  LOL  J/K  Thank you for the comments.  As I stated in the update, that lot is still undergoing some testing so it is not available for downloading as of yet.

The Update:

Welcome my friends. During this past week I have spent quite a bit of time on line searching for different types of lots that I can use in my CJ. There are so many great things out there that it was difficult to choose what I wanted to use. I hope everyone will be pleased with the choices I have made. I will do my best to put in a link to all files that I am using with one exception, that being anything that I have created myself.

Region – Valley of the Gods

 

                                                R                     C                     I

 

Garden of the Gods             8,736                 2,510               4,021

 

As Azna continues to nurture and teach her children she convinces them to cross the river as they expand and grow her city. Go forth and be abundant. 

In the picture you see the first bridge developed for crossing the river. The tiles on both sides of the road are, again, from my retaining wall pack. I personally believe they give some nice color to the area as well as providing a way of preventing erosion. They provide a small park effect as well as help with cleaning the air and water. (Note: This anti-pollution effect is not that radical. It has a radious of about 3 tiles.) It also gives me $25 a month in income per tile, so with what I have used I now have $400 a month in income as a business deal.

Same area just a different angle as well as a night shot.

The ability to be abundant is based, in part, in the ability to relax. Let us now create an area of peace and relaxation.

In response to the words of their mother, Azna, the sims set forth and created a river front park.

 

In this picture I am using PEG’s RTK3 sea walls. They are located here or on the STEX search for pegasus.

I decided to use the Lot package because it came the closest in color to the retaining wall that I am using next to my bridge.

Same area, just a night view.

In response to her children following her commands, Azna, sent out her love in the form of life from the earth. This life is known as trees. Some bearing fruit and all producing the life giving air that all sims breath.

 

Again, crossing the river. In the next two pictures I am again using my retaining wall pack around the road embankment leading up to the bridge. This gives the same effects as the one above.

I would like to draw your attention to the trees surrounding the area. I am using a verity of trees here. I am using PEG’s Seasonal tree pack, I am also using Dusk Troopers tree pack, and Jeronij’s tree pack and Cycledog’s Tree MOD. All are located on the LEX.

The Farming continues to improve and grow. I have down loaded the farm packs for SimGoober, the BSC and the BLS as well as Jackie’s farm from Callagrafx. These are located here. SimGoobers farms are on the STEX. This particular farm is Grimes Dairy Farm by Jestarr also located on the LEX.

A wider view of the developed area.

Same shot just at night.

In the next two pictures I am using JBSimio’s small town USA lots located on the LEX.

Another wider view. This one is showing my air pollution. As you can see it is minimal, this is due to the trees that I have planted as well as my use of my retaining walls. Since my retaining wall are slope conforming they can also be used as small plaza parks.

This wide shot is showing my water pollution problem areas. I have never understood why the farms have such a high water pollution effect. So I am using two of the in game water treatment plants.

Stay tuned! Up next, the railroad comes to town. And quite possibly the coming of another god.

[Cleaner475 150]

I like thsi - great pics - I love the night pics (p.s I'm a great fan of the night pics in CJ's) great work here - keep it up - a good CJ

good work - keep it up

Richard

[needgames 0]

I just love religious oriented cj's. Your work looks great. If I ever am looking for something to download I'll start by checking this cj. Your problems with the roads turning from dirt to brick and back is what has prevented me from ever trying a mod again (it was the first and the last one I tried, silly me).

[srr2 1]

Cool. I like the mythical theme.

[Zelgadis 638]

Oh, this is really cool! I don't have time to read it all now, but I will make time. Promise. I read all of the first post and this looks like it's going to be lots of fun.

ISF

[ky72x 13]

Hey Debs, this is an awesome CJ you have here! Sorry it took me so long to drop by and leave a comment... I truely did not know you had a CJ until today. Excellent work, just excellent. Keep it up!

- Kyle