Blue Hope - The Interactive City Journal

[lilmanjs 2]

sounds good.

[Haljackey 17,398]

Lookin nice guys, I like how this CJ is planned out. Plain and simple: its very unique!

Nice job with the highway layout too! If you need any more "insparation", check out a new update of mine at the "Show Us Your Interchanges!" Thread via my signature.

Looking froward to things to come,

-Haljackey

[Zarp 0]

Suggestion:

Focus on the CJ story, not on the people's construction.. =/

[Need4Camaro 50]

haljackey - It's about time you dropped by , as for the highways... there's more to come trust me...  Thanks for the recomendation and keep in touch...

Zarp - So hard to please everyone at once, I feel like a real mayor now ... ...I'll see what I can do since it HAS been a long time...

[Need4Camaro 50]

Ciber - The cost to purchase rails in that entire parcel is... 

Expenses
Cost for Tracks	64
Cost for Trains	7
Cost for Stations	0
Total Cost	71

[ciber 0]

um how mutch do i have

also what do you think the profitability of a busstop or trainstation could be for inter city transport

[Need4Camaro 50]

ciber - Right now as it stands you're negative 1.2 points... As busstops and train stations, it depends on where they're placed and how many people use them and how many you actually purchase...

[jacqulina 162]

wonderfull work you are doing my friend looking out for more

[sc4portugal 10]

Willg:I think this town is your's and I (no offence) think that something is missing and that is this:

Green: Park space.

Blue: Commercial.

[Need4Camaro 50]

jacqulina - Thank you!

sc4portugal - Are you requesting a development there?

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Okay, Update, Exams are finally here, all through this week. Just to give you the status of whats been going on...

#1 - Expect a Story Update by this weekend!... I'm trying a different approach in which I'll reveal to you upon its completion...

#2 - Lantia Parkway / East -West Connector have been upgraded to the Route Sign Standards... It will be Highway 4 and the Exit numbers will be contious... Several interchanges have been modified, or rebiult... You'll see soon...

#3 - Willg I havn't forgotten about your request...  

#4 - Downtown Newark with its abundance commerce demand has slightly expanded!...

Yoshiisland, be prepared, I'm going to be making another Highway sign request from you very soon! .. Any update on the Menu Management Lots?

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AFTER THE STORYLINE UPDATE AND WILLG'S REQUEST, I'LL BE RETURNING MY MAIN FOCUS UPON GETTING THE WEBSITE PHOTOS UP AND UPDATING THE OUT OF DATE PHOTOS

[sc4portugal 10]

n4c: Yes, in a way but only with willg's permission.

Yay! a sotryline update coming up!

[Need4Camaro 50]

sc4portugal - Well currently you can biuld there without any major restrictions... Willg has no title to that land - only the land that is currently already occupied - so with or without his permission you can biuld there... Now if he PURCHASED that land it would be a different story...

[Need4Camaro 50]

Serious Update!!!: My final exams are tomorrow and I'll be finished with college for a grande 2 weeks. However, the worse has yet to come as I'll be now taking 17 credit hours plus working (thats almost twice as much activity as I'm currently involved in) This does mean that Blue Hope will be put on the back burner and there's no relief in the near future either I'm afraid In this period of time, I'm seriously contemplating upon How Blue Hope will be run from this point forward... I have a proposal to do it one of two ways... #1, the current way and continue with slow updates (which I have no problem with) or #2... a way that will speed my updates up dramatically... however you must follow a process...

My proposal...

All of Newarks's parcels will be hosted on the Blue Hope City Journal Website. You can download them individually... The entire region will be available to download aswell as all of its plugins. (They're VERY organized, don't worry.) You will follow a process that involves basically, creating your updating your OWN development... You will then send me only the parcel you modified and only the bat's that you added (you'd better keep them organized!) and upon approval, I'll post a photo update of your development and provide your deed. ...You will be responsible for calculating your own costs however (I have a VERY easy to use calculator to perform the steps for just about anything you want to biuld and it will also be available on the website). That Parcel will then be uploaded into the website upon my approval... Here's exactly how it will work...

#1 You will petition for a Parcel, You will beable to hold the Parcel for up to three turns UNLESS someone is requesting it aswell in which you must perform your work within a one week period and return it to me...

#2 You take photos of the area you want to modify and show me your plans much like you've previously been doing, I'll give you suggestions or an approval and afterward and this is to make sure you're not putting a space port in the middle of a residential area or you're not overwriting someone elses development...

#3 You begin your development. ONLY give me a construction phase of your development (I.E. no biuldings, just zones and roads.) I will run the clock because the development needs to synchronize with the rest of the region and you may get false RCI readings in one blank parcel with nothing around it (just the Parcel alone) 

#4 - You send your development to me, personally along with ANY Bat you have included!!!. I'm working on a way to arrange that. You can either host it on a fileshare site, your own server and tell me where to download it, or just Instant Message it to me. I have every instant message program so I'm not hard to reach. I will look over it and add it to the current region... I will grow your area... Also, UNTIL I give you permission of administration (which will happen to those I feel I can keep a reasonable account with, seriously, all you have to do is follow orders and listen) You will NOT BE AUTHORIZED TO POST PHOTOS OF YOUR DEVELOPMENT - I will look over your development and make sure it is within grade of everything else... Do not take this offensively if I need to make a change. I do this to keep everything fluent and smooth. The likelyhood of my changing something in your development is incredibaly slim unless something stands out or isn't biult to correct standards (especially freeways).

#5. The now Updated Parcel is reuploaded into the website where it is someone elses turn to add to the development of Newark... There's no "limit" upon how much you can change at once besides your points though. I will post photo's of your development, and give you your deed much like

[projectadam 0]

I am for either option, slowing things down a little bit might be more life like but I think that proposal 2 might be the revolutionary idea to carry this into "08"

*chanting in background* "FOUR MORE YEARS! FOUR MORE YEARS!!!"

[Need4Camaro 50]

Four more years? till graduation?... Afraid not only two really ... Thats one vote... lets hear some more...

[MPTC 0]

^ thats not a vote its impartial as in both... u allready know my opinion i like the old system

[Need4Camaro 50]

Cool, any more oppinions?...

[lilmanjs 2]

the old system would work. but could we get a downlaod of the region as it is now so that we can play around with it just for fun.

[Jazzmaster 716]

For the new proposal...recently someone uploaded their plugins folder in parts and the creators/non-creators got really aggitated...there is a VERY strong feeling for uploading other's work without their permission so if we were to use the new system it would probably be best to provide links to BATs (I don't think I really had to say that but just in case ). Other than that, I kind of prefer the new system.

As for the new highway signs, you can drop me the designs whenever you're ready since I have the next 2 weeks--starting tomorrow--free as well. About the MMLs...I'm getting there, I did something rather *cough* stupid...

-Yoshi

[Benedict 3,119]

i run SC4 on a mac, therefore I won't be able to participate this way.

[Need4Camaro 50]

lilmanjs - That might not be so bad actually! Gave me another idea for priority updates which I'll announce later after this vote passes so I won't skew the results...

Yoshiisland - Very well, Hmm.. as for the bats, Newark is running too many to list... I can give some general credits but I will undoubtfully miss some... but perhaps I should leave a string somewere explaining if they're offended to tell me what bat they contributed and where and I'll include them in the credits...

Benedict - Drat, the SC4 files between Windows and Mac are incompatible????

Still waiting on more oppinions...

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First off! Story's been updated!

You can view it HERE

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Finally, the East/West Connector and Lantia Parkway have joined standards and are now amongst Highway 4... A designated route that allows the city to cover 1/4th of the expenses the road incurs ... To accomplish this, both coridoors had to meet standards by upgrading several interchanges and Lantia Pkwy now has center mounted streetlamps...

First being Lantia's Parkway's exit into central Lantia via Grant Drive... Along this series of interchanges, Highmast lighting was installed aswell as collector distributor lanes for the next interchange...

... Which departs for Tuckaway Highway... The ramps here have been upgraded into smoother curve transitions to maintain optimal flow of traffic... While we're here, upgrades have been performed to the remaining interchange for Tuckaway Highway so lets have a look...

Lantia Parkway Eastbound previously had no access to Tuckaway Highway Northbound and a flyover ramp has been added to accomplish that... Tuckaway Highway now is cosigned with Highway 45...

Lantia

...An overview of the modified interchanges ... there's three total...

Moving further East we come to the East/West connector...

The old Exit 3 gets a rebiuld allowing for smoother curve transitions and extra slowdown and pickup room on the freeway, railroad tracks and road now remain level to cross the highway...

Exit 4 gets a minor work on the loop around exit curve from the westbound lanes...

In downtown, Highway 35 needed a serious rework on its interchange with the East/West Connector as it allowed too much traffic to merge uncontrolably. This unfortunately had to relocate an entire biulding in Talliup corner however the overview will provide the frontage roads access into and off of Highway 4 from before and after the Oconee Railway...

[Need4Camaro 50]

Yoshiisland, Do you feel comfortable with making Diagnol Signs (some will need to be diagnol but only a few, not all of them) and also what about Signs for Sunken Highways?

[Need4Camaro 50]

Just givin this thread a bit of a BUMP

[Haljackey 17,398]

Now I do like this thread, but I don't like double and triple posting in CJs just to "give this thread a bit of a BUMP". Just have patience, it will "Bump" itself in time with replies.

[lilmanjs 2]

@N4C: if its not too much trouble could you give me a private message with your new idea? and I like the latest update. I can't wait for another video update.

[jacqulina 162]

looking great my friend good luck with exams

happy christmas

[MPTC 0]

N4C also wouldn't this "new system" have an increaced risk of viruses

[Need4Camaro 50]

haljackey - My appoligies... It was just when I last updated it was during the later hours last night and by the time most people would view it, it got taken to the third page as if my update never occured which is why I did it... Buuut okay I won't do it again...

lilmanjs - Yeah, I'll get one too you...

jacqulina - Thanks

MPTC - Highly unlikely as the virus would need to embed itself into the .sc4 file to carry itself over even if an infected computer did transfer it over. I'm not aware of any virus's that would attack a Sim City File.

[MPTC 0]

N4C u are incorrect a virus would only need to attach itself to a file which could be any type of file... also Worms, Trojans Do the same thing

[Need4Camaro 50]

MPTC - Yes and I understand what you're saying... What I am saying is, a Virus or a Trojan has to be PROGRAMMED to seek a certain file to attach to... It won't randomly select a file, it has a direct target file that it preys to attach to and I don't think anyone would program a virus to attack a file as exclusive as an .sc4 file... even if they did... the .sc4 files will come back to me before they out to anyone else and I am running aquadate virus protection software...

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Yoshiisland - Please read before beggining - Here is my sign request for the frontage roads in Downtown Newark. There's more to come, for interchanges such as the 202/A2 Tollway, Hwy 104, and Tuckaway Highway's interchange so this isn't it. If it doesn't bother you I'd like you to release these signs as a seperate pack in a Menu Management Lot of their own Labled Frontage Roads...  I'll give you the name to name each sign for organization and placement... ...Before I begin, I want to show you that the sign posts in Downtown Newark will be different from the sign posts in the rural areas and the 202/A2 Tollway, they will have more of an urban modern design...

This is the sign post for the frontage road (I'm still looking for ideas for the main carriageway as it is sunken...) 

The sign features will have a curve on the sign mount, and will be colored BLACK...  (ignore the colors of the mount on the upcoming photos)

Now lets begin...

Filename: FRJCTEB

Filename: FRJCTWB

Filename: FRHWY2EB-1

Filename: FRHWY2WB-1

Filename: FRHWY35JCT

Filename: FRHWY2EB-2

Filename: FRHWY2WB-2

Filename: FRPARKPLCEB

Filename: FRPARKPLCWB

If you have any questions,feel free to ask...