Blue Hope - The Interactive City Journal

[MPTC 0]

I might after i get points on the 31st

[Need4Camaro 50]

Benedict - Very well, I'll begin construction immediately... I'll have photo's posted after I'm done with the Parcel/Grid section of the website (College begins soon and my time online is going to be cut in half so I REALLY need to hurry up and get this done)

Yoshiisland - You're going to love what I'm about to post in that case...

willg - Very nice, I'm also going to post Parcel 21 (Where millidgeville is) on the website maybe even by tonight so you can further plan...

MPTC - Very well...

lilmanjs - I might start a few developments off of it myself when time and opportunity meet...

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Now for a small update, I'm going to start video tours UPON REQUEST ONLY. In this, you will beable to see your most up to date development in action from UDI point of view... ...Here is a sample... 

Lets take a ride on the completed new 202/A2 Tollway by Tuckaway Transportation...

View it now

[2nerdy4u 1]

Nice video. The quality isn't great. I'm not sure if that's something you can fix, but it would be nice to have sharper images. Other than that, great work. It truly looks like a highway.

Oh, and how about some music in the videos?

[Need4Camaro 50]

2nerdy4u - I can try, the thing is, the higher the quality, the larger the file size, the first version of this was over 1 Gigabyte... I wouldn't beable to host it nor would it load very quickly... This version is around 27 Megabytes... Music is possible, I didn't try it before so I don't know how it will affect the filesize... we'll see though... oh yeah, it definately reminded me of a real highway...

[patfirefghtr 160]

Hey Need4Camaro i have to say you got a good Cj going here and i do like it alot and i gotten all caught upto date here well cept the video at this time go fig photobucket is down ooooooh well... but i do hope to see more here soon - pat

[willg 0]

i've been making a mock up for the airport on sc4 and i've hit a problem so for the moment its going to have to be

terminal a

[Jazzmaster 716]

Nice vid, I'm glad to see how our tollway looks! GREAT!

-Yoshiisland

[willg 0]

a way of rasing funds for the airport you can buy slots at gates

there are 23 gates                                points        slots

1and 2 are crj 900                                    15               32

3+11 are 707                                             25                32

4,5and 20-23 are bae 146/areo rj         10                80

6 + 7 are crj 200                                        5                  32

8-10 are crj 700                                        10               48

12-14 and 19 are prop plane                 15               64

15-18 are bis jets                                       5               64

there are 16 slot per gate

just so you know ive got newark air

[MPTC 0]

planes cant travel on roads & its bland and i want gate 3 for now

[Need4Camaro 50]

MPTC - He built the roads as a place holder I'm presuming just so he could post it faster... It is also bland because complex airports are extremely expensive... Newark isn't ready for a huge complex airport yet... remember, this is geared toward realism.

willg - I have no problem with the selling of Gates but the total cost of the airport will still need to be paid for (or divided upon the gate holders, however you or anyone decides) before construction can begin. The landrights for this structure alone will cost somewhere around 2,000 - 2,500 points estimating that it will encompass 1,600 tiles... This doesn't include destruction costs for any building it might be placed over, nor does it include the actual construction of the runway, buildings... The runway will cost 50 extra points, Tarmac and Buildings will run you somewhere around another 1,600 Points meaning it will cost around 4150 Points to build a structure like that...  Give me a tile count of all the biulding / tarmac tiles, and a tile count of the exact land around the airport and I will give you the total cost to build this structure.... Remember that the land around the actual airport must remain square, as in, it has to encompass the complete perimeter of the airport and not just the tiles the airport occupies otherwise we would have developments spawning too close to airport property...

[Need4Camaro 50]

rocketoink - Your request has been fullfilled and you can now view it here

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Update: The website has been updated, new Parcels and more, have a look around and tell me what you think...

[MPTC 0]

i forgot about using those street tiles for placement... sorry

and dont forget a control tower willg

[rocketoink 3]

Ok, I think I know what I'd like. Can I see grid B5?

[willg 0]

mptc um o i fogot about the control tower

just so every oone know this will be my last post untill sunday/monday i'm going away

edit n4c what zoom level are you on

[Benedict 3,119]

Great job on getting those grids up - that seems like a lot of relatively boring work. The website is looking better and better, and is really going to enhance the Blue Hope experience!

[Need4Camaro 50]

MPTC - No problemo

rocketoink - Apparently you didn't read the instructions , thats okay because I gave you a direct link...  Scroll down on that link that I gave you and there should be a table holding all the Grids (A1 through G6 in this case)... Click on the grid that interests you and that will give you an image of it. In your case, you would click on "B5" and you will have an image of the B5 location. I will no longer be posting grids and parcel images on this message board as that was the purpose of the website, to hold them all at once, this way I would not have to be running back and forth trying to get multiple images when people only really want to use one or especially when people request the same images within two weeks of each other. Less work on my part and I can concentrate time on more areas of Newark. For future references of the grids section and the instructions of how to do it... go here... http://www.bluehopecityjournal.bravehost.com/Grid/index.html

willg - All grid images were taken from zoom level 4 (the 4th from the closest and the 2nd from the highest)

Benedict - Thank you, it's not so much as boring but it is VERY time consuming. First they have to be taken, then they all have to be converted into JPEGS and named accordingly to their grid intersect, and then they all have to be uploaded and implemented onto the website. and since this website is just a freewebsite, these images would quickly eat my file space so I have to upload them onto photobucket and provide direct links from my website to them so it's alittle tricky... but updating them won't be hard at all...

[Cleaner475 150]

woah - I haven't been here in a while sorry about that - I can't even remember the last time I commented

can't wait for an update and willg - thats a nice idea

Richard

[MPTC 0]

yah the buttons work on the website now

[Shingure 56]

A vast industrial area in which is producing more jobs. This is what I envision for this city. So that way the population can become more abundant and flexible with jobs.

[MPTC 0]

industrial vs commercial.. i would have to side with commercial

N4C what is the population of newark: residents, commercial, and industrial

[ilikehotdogsalot 311]

very interesting journal you have here, this interacting you are doing with your audience is very inspiring! the airport slots is a nice idea for fundraising, i'll see if the san senderiz government is interested in buying a slot. nice job!

[Need4Camaro 50]

cleaner475 - Might be a moment before the next update, we'll see though.

MPTC - Coming together slowly but surely!

Shingure - The primary function and objective of Newark was to mine resources to sell to the market, in turn the share holders would become rich overnight (which is why they're not so eager to sell themselves to the U.S.) thus Newark is indeed a mostly Industrial city and currently most of the businesses in Newark only revolve around the industry that propels Newark.

MPTC - It's going to be awhile before Commercial surpasses Industry in Newark for the following reasons. 

 - Newark is focused on mining raw resources which requires massive Industries...

 - Most of Newarks residents are only trained to work in factories thus most of Newark is uneducated.

 - Unless a business were coming to Newark to set up industry to mine those resources, Newark is actually not a desirable location as the island itself would stand to set up a dislocation from the rest of the business world.

- Costs to transport utilities to and from the Island would be inflated

- No desirable workers for business.

- Newark promotes no forms of Tourism.

- Political Unrests and the instability of diplomatic situations detour businesses that don't want the resources.

- No REAL demand for the business life in Newark as the Industry firm is making what small white colar crowd there is, so rich, that they don't desire any kind of change.

- There's no other reason for businesses to stive in Newark other than the Oil / Coal...(You wouldn't find a paper firm in a place that lacked tree's for example)

Thus Newark would be in need for tremendous changes before the commerce life rockets...

Here are your population lists...

Residential	153,172
Commercial	23,213
Industrial	71,332

[Need4Camaro 50]

The score as it stands!

Name	Points
2nerdy4u	42.0
abcvs	30.0
Almighty Nienaber	50.0
Amerikaner	57.0
autoVino	50.0
Benedict	92.4

[Need4Camaro 50]

Company Names	Points
Dolce Investments - Amerikaner	0.0
South Shore Independent Railway, Ltd - Benedict	0.0
Newark Water Company - CTF	17.0
Greater Newark Area Disposal - CTF	0.0
Newark Power Company - CTF	0.0
Schop Institute - iamihop11/MPTC/2nerdy4u/ObladiOblada

[Need4Camaro 50]

Update: I have a new server which will allow both, far more webspace, and the use of frames. This will help to organize the CJ Website and host far more images and longer, higher quality, video tours. I have already uploaded the website to the new server however I have a few minor issues to work out before I display the site...

Currently however I am working vigerously on..

The Grid / Parcel System (In Progress)

Tuckaway Highway (Complete)

Atlantic Drive (Complete (for now))

Benedicts Rail Request (In Progress)

[jacqulina 162]

excellent work your doing here my friend,sometimes i use the roads as placements too.great website too

[Mike the Mayor 51]

Great work! I think many people use roads for that, they're useful for laying railways and canals too. Keep up the awesome work!

[rocketoink 3]

Ok, I've hosted a plan for my square... and I changed it to D1. I hope it is an image... if it isn't it will probably be a link. If you're not allowed to place lots, please leave the grid-spaces I used for them blank... Edit; I attached another code. Hope it works this time...

[Cleaner475 150]

can't wait for an update - I have unspent points

Richard

[Need4Camaro 50]

jacqulina - Thanks

Mike the Mayor - While I use those street tiles for the same purposes... In this case, they were used as tiles to replicate road construction and asphalt laying for the new route...

rocketoink - Very well, I'll get you a points cost on that as soon as I can... Also for future reference, just copy the link from your imageshack or photobucket host (not the entire code) and use the "Insert/Edit Image" feature on the message post (it's the button to the left of the Smile.) Just know that for the moment that the majority of my time is concentrated upon getting the website together before I head back into college, so it might take me awhile before I can fully satisfy your request, but it will be done as soon as possible.

cleaner475 - Understandable, just be aware that I'm concentrating on several aspects of this project at once so it might still take awhile between updates until the website is fully functional.