Sakhaliyan Peoples Republic

[Shingure 56]

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I knew it..

I knew it...

That radioactive tin can is ready to launch at any minute...

I knew it....

[DaViru- 2]

this is a creety and tense moment ;D

[bokrif 18]

You are kidding! Only one silo? What if it's part of the Russian Anti-Ballistic Missile shield?! I would go for that.

[royalben 0]

Hi dude

Ur region is aw'some !

But my question is : how u make an explosion on the battle ? what is the filters in toshop' ?

Bye!

[Mr. Monorail Man 3]

WOW! 1st post of 2008! I can't wait for the nuke to launch! Or was that the one that exploded in the Virgin Shores CJ? on page 14. And that meteor was a spaceship from the Crystal City CJ.

[underwearman2007 0]

remember comrade, if you nuke usa, usa turn sakhliya into a radioactive crater. nuke north korea.

[Explodingsims 3]

Hmmm..Somehow, As soon as you said explosion, I knew A missile was in the future!

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[BurroDiablo 222]

Sorry guys, but i'm going to have to close this CJ

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Just kidding

I decided that the map size for Sakhaliya was faaaar too small (it was something like 4x4 large city tiles) and I was genuinely running out of space and the scales were too wacky for my liking. However, after a few weeks of deliberation I came up with a few suggestions for myself... A.) Continue as usual and eventually run out of space B.) Close the CJ and start something else, probably not Sim City related (something I really didn't want to do) or C.) Start a fresh map and a Sakhaliya 2.0.

C. stuck, so I stuck with it. So far, the map i've brewed up is a little more realistic in terrain and is now officially 4 times the size of Sakhaliya 1.0 (although the scale is still waaaaaaaay off)... I was wanting to make it an unwieldy 16 times the size of Sakhaliya, but poor little Terraformer had a heat attack.

This means rebuilding alot of stuff though (not exact replica's, i'm acctually planning Sakhaliya 2.0 to a be more of a "workers utopia" rather than an opressive Soviet clone. Still overly aggressive though, I wouldn't cut that out for the world )... so as expected, this may take a while... I'm expecting well into November before you even get a sniff of an update, but i'm off work for the first week of November so that'll be some prime building time . Also... expect the same story line, people, Flag, etc... I don't want the place losing its identity!

Anyway, i'm going to go stock up on Vodka for the long haul.

[SimHoTToDDy 2,939]

BURRO!!!

Well, wasn't expecting to see this to be honest. I thought you had fallen off the face of the earth (or what ever they call "life" these days). I still look to this masterpiece of yours as inspiration for my adventures in communism, so to see that its still a priority is great news.

I just hope my little, gray, depressing CJ can compare to yours when it grows up,

-Todd

[roboo1 1]

Nice you still want to continue such great CJ! I am waitig for the second edition! You can be sure to have my interest

[panthersimcity4 162]

Yay! Sakhaliya is back! I'll bet your big new map is awesome. *waits patiently*

[bokrif 18]

Oh, sounds great! I can't wait to see Sakhaliya 2.0 and its worker utopia. I am interested what have you came up with lately.

Good to see you back, and I hope you will drop by our IPON forums too.

[BurroDiablo 222]

INTERLUDESKI ONE

Due to unforseen overseas pressure for the PRS to "Get rid of the bombs or face a slap", Sakhaliya will be bringing you an Interludeski while we try our best to divert attention from the large smouldering test craters.

As I mentioned before... Sakhaliya 1.0 was getting too small, cramped and crowded... the Premier literally didn't know where to hide all those WMD's. So the plan is to make Sakhaliya BIGGER, BETTER and SNEAKIER, with lots of WMD storage, hidden silo's, secret multi turreted heavy tanks and conspiracy theories to boggle the mind.

So far, we have thee Map. Its not to scale and its not entirely accurate. If you have a look at the ACTUAL Amur River, you'll find its winding, twisting, multi course self resembles the arteries in your limbs rather than a normal river. Plus, most geographical features are missing except MT Vadan which I decided to make the benchmark highest point -

Its a familiar smell isn't it. But, see those squares? Those, my friends, are LARGE city tiles. Compared to little old Sakhaliya 1.0, its quite a momma.

And, to just top it off, I marked down the territorial borders between Sakhaliya and its neighbours. The terraforming isn't finished either... the vastness calls for some lakes and marshes too -

These interludes I am bringing your from now on will be purely updates on how the city building is coming along... the Story is suspended for now... its acctually going to be a real city journal for once

The weekend is nigh, so expect updates!

[Godzillaman 21]

Big.

Have fun with it...

[SimHoTToDDy 2,939]

Excellent... Progress is being made so quickly, we may yet achieve our goals. Yes... Goals... *snicker*

Interludeski or not, GLORY TO THE PROLETARIAT!!!

-Todd

[Yoman3 5]

Always thought your old map was a bit small

[feliwi 4]

wow, can't wait for development! I love this CJ!

[JanYpe 17]

Yes! Glorious updates for the masses!

Liking the new map so far.

[panthersimcity4 162]

Yay! Great to see you decided to reveal your glorious plans for the new Sakhaliya. Those darn Capitalists will be sorry!

[nihonkaranws 88]

No offense, this is an amazing CJ, but your map is way the out of scale. Sakhalin is twice as long as Taiwan, which is about 400km, and your island looks like about 40km long (or less...)...

*Sorry, I read your post, but still, wouldn't the throw your perception of distance out of wack?

And what's with the "peoples" (without the apostrophe)...?

[-1348- 3]

Wow what an awesome CJ. Being a Russian (and soviet era) lover myself i really appreciate this particular CJ.

SIMFOX I THINK SOME OF YOUR POSTS/IMAGE LINKS HAVE BEEN HACKED!

WHEN I LOOKED AT PG9 OF THIS POST I SAW  2 OF THE PICS OF YOUR POST CHANGED INTO PICTURES OF "TUBGIRL!"

SOMEONE PLEASE ALERT THE MODERATORS OF THIS!

THE FOLLOWING LINKED PICS HAVE BEEN CHANGED TO THE TUBGIRL IMAGE:

Anyway best of luck with this CJ. Maybe you can show some true eastern soviet Industry.

[BurroDiablo 222]

*Sorry, I read your post, but still, wouldn't the throw your perception of distance out of wack? quote>

Not really... you just need to scale things down abit. Look at video games these days, alot of stuff isn't to scale. They didn't fit the whole of Venezuela into Mercenaries 2, or all of London into The Getaway, or all of Pripyat into Stalker... its unwieldy and time consuming. The desired effect can pretty much be acheived with scaled versions. Besides... to make the map to ACTUAL scale would have taken too long, literally the man hours of an office block and the ability to slow down time so I didn't die of old age in the process... I mean, Sakhaliya's scale right now is about 8x8 large city tiles [20x20 miles in real measurements], to call for something to scale would mean making a map roughly 550x550 miles, thats about... umm... 220x220 large city tiles... thats a spoon bending Gelleresc sum of 48400 large tiles in total. Nuh uh, no freaking way. I thought the 64 I had to forest and tidy up myself were bad... if you feel like doing that to over 48000 of the frigging things you be my guest

(correct me if i'm wrong btw since my maths is atrocious. I could barely get my head around that stupid Primary School piece of addition)

And what's with the "peoples" (without the apostrophe)...?quote>

No Spell checker in Photoshop? Plus, the font I usually use doesn't allow for it so its a force of habit to miss it out. Besides, who cares apart from English teachers?

Interludeski 2.0

I can has updates.

This update WAS going to be on a large refinery building on the Amur river... but just as I was completing the main part if of the facility, the game quit to the desktop and I had to bite my fist in fury. So, I decided to go with the classic approach... build from the inside out. That way I guess I can lay out the transport first and worry about the little bits like power, water etc later (since most of that stuff will be in the Eastern district near the Amur anyway)

A quick shot of the Governmet district of Khabarovsk. As it turns out, I've become the thing I used to hate; a Plopper. Acctually, i've come to love it more and more since I have greater control of what my city looks like.

I know it seems like i'm travelling down the worn and beaten path yet again, its quite similar to the old Khabarovsk mainly because i'm using pretty much the same buildings. Thats kind of due to the limited amount of buildings I like to use... theres very few of them I feel fit perfectly into this style of CJ, and the buildings you do see are usually repeated... ALOT. But it gives some uniformity to the grand scheme of things, makes it harder to please the eye and therefor I need to work harder to achieve that special something!

I like this however. I managed (thanks to Swat Medics Sea Level mod) to get the Maxis snow to work on all maps at all levels! It did take some time sorting out some plugins that conflicted, but now I can have my much much wanted a needed snow scenes on more than just a select few of my cities. Sakhaliya 1.0 had that problem... most of my Coastal cities couldn't have snow since their altitudes were too low, but now we have snow at all altitudes

We'll have the Premier building an Army of Snowmen in no time!

Who needs Terracotta?

- Burro

[panthersimcity4 162]

Oooh, looks great so far. I love the giant circular Communisty building.

[SimHoTToDDy 2,939]

Looking great, so airy and pleasant!...

...I would have much rather had the refinery -_-

Anyway, looking coolio. And welcome to the dark side of SC4, plopping is the way of the future!

-Todd

[feliwi 4]

wow, can't wait for more!

[Craig91 12]

Holy crap that is brilliant!!!

[bokrif 18]

Progress, revolutionary progress we can see happening.

[Yoman3 5]

Ah...snowman army