Republic of British Normandy

[2nerdy4u 1]

Great updates. Those skyscrapers look excellent. Nice maps too.

[suplado! 23]

wow, nice trans map...very well planned...hope to see it in game soon...

[ccecill 52]

Nice cj. Lovin your selection of BATs. Very distinctive city.

Oh, and I really like your video. Great music. It'll be interesting to see how March '08 bidding will shape up.

[Craig91 12]

Update 3: Mal Zeth

For my 99th post on Simtropolis (bit of a lurker, I know) I will be showcasing Mal Zeth, a city that started out trying to be Dubai-like, but didn't turn out the way I'd planned. It is, however, one of my favorite cities in Normandy and at the time I made I was really happy with myself, so I hope you enjoy

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Mal Zeth was until the 1990's a small city with few high rise buildings. In the1970's and 80's the Norman government decided to develop some more city centre areas as it was felt Staunton Island and Portlant would soon start to reach feasible capacity. Special tax incentives were offered to companies who set up in Mal Zeth and the city started to boom economically.

First up is Mal Zeth City Hall. Don't be fooled by it's classic look, it's actually fairly new, state-of-the-art facility.

Memorial Park sits opposite City Hall and is home to the National War Memorial.

Behind the park is one of the largest commercial and residential developments in Normandy's history, Pinnacle Park. The tallest of these towers is the Pinnacle which will be Normandy's, and probably the world's tallest building on completion.

Another construction project includes the Four Seasons Hotel Towers, a five star luxury hotel.

The NorCom Towers are expected to be the second tallest towers in the city upon completion and although named for one company, will be home to many. On the left side you can also see CNBC Europe's Headquarters.

Mal Zeth Town Centre is one of Normandy's largest shopping centres and most of it predates the boom (although these parts have been refurbished.

There are many other notable buildings in the city, so the next few will just have pictures.

[Craig91 12]

My 100^th POST!!

Video Update 2: Visit British Normandy

CLICK HERE

 

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Hope you enjoyed the update and tanks all for your kind comments,

Craig

P.s does anybody knowif you can embed videos from YouTube (or other sites, for that matter) onto a Simtropolis page?

[Smarty218 2]

Great job w/ the sunken highways and the airport!

All the towers look great too. This is now officially one of my favorites! 

[suplado! 23]

cool buildings and the construction make it more realistic! nice seawalls and the parks looks great!! nice video too

[bbfan02 23]

Great job and great video! Nothing is out of place. Every building looks great! Keep it up.

-bbfan02-

[2nerdy4u 1]

Great update. Love that airport and the Burj Dubai construction.

[Craig91 12]

Update 4: Election 2007

It's that time again in Normandy, the 2007 Parliamentary Elections. The public went to the polls on Thursday November 29th 2007 with an 89% turnout.

As of Saturday the two leading parties were neck and neck, but most polls believe the current Labour/Norman Republican Party government is expected to come out on top.

Things, however, didn't go as predicted and the opposition leading Green Party got the higest number of seats with 81. After week long negotiations a government was formed between the Greens, Socialist Party and Progressive Democrats, with Labour leading the opposition.

Over the following two weeks the Green Party leader Katherine McCormick was elected Prime Minister and the cabinet was formed with Socialist Party Leader William Heathton as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Health.

With this new far left, Green run coalition, what change will come to Normandy.

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Sorry for such a short update, I may have another tomorrow but I'm not sure. My monitor is broken so I can only play SC on the week end using my Dad's computer, should be getting a monitor for Christmas though.

Thanks for reading,

Craig

[Smarty218 2]

Very nice story, quite interested to see what follows.

[bbfan02 23]

Great update. Wonder who will win.

-bbfan02-

[Craig91 12]

Sorry bbfan02 should have made that clearer, I edited it though

[OffTopic 3]

Nice update and election.  (The Labour party should have won.)

[2nerdy4u 1]

Nice work. Love the diagram of the seats in the Parliament.

[suplado! 23]

cool short update! this is very interesting, wonder what will happen next!

[Mets_Fan41 0]

very nice city journal, i like placing of the region too, i also see that your a fan of Grand Theft Auto, but i also did notice a lot of abandoned buildings in the pictures.........awww well well good luck with this city journal

[Craig91 12]

Thanks to everyone's kind comments. I'm not writing replies to each comment because a lot of them are just compliments (a good thing), only ones I actually have a reply to, so please don't think I'm being rude Oh, and sorry about the one short update last weekend, I hope to be able to play SimCity a lot more this week.

OffTopic: Not a fan of the Green's? I think the world needs some Green governments.

2nerdy4u: I got it off Wikipedia. It's of the Scottish Parliament, I just doubled and flipped it to make it a full circle then changed the colours.

Mets_Fan41:

I wondered if anybody would realise the map was originally of Liberty City (thanks to the STEX uploader). I changed it quite a bit though. And as for the abandoned buildings, I think that's the high demand mod gone crazy.

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Update 5: Riva

 

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Riva is a park on a mainland peninsula, east of Staunton Island. It is home to several landmarks including the National Planetarium of Normandy and Chateau de Normandie, a former Summer residence of the British Royals. There is also one of the tallest Papal crosses in the world, directly down the road from St. Patrick's Cathedral. There is also Temple Stadium, home of the Rivan Warriors football team.

 

There is an 11th century castle in the park which was the seat of a local lord. All of the castle walls were destroyed but the main building is in excellent condition.

St. Patrick's Cathedral dates from 1423 and is one of the most architecturally stunning buildings in the world. It is also the seat of the Archbishop of Riva.

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Hope you enjoyed the update, I should have more over the weekend.

Thanks for reading,

Craig

[bbfan02 23]

Wow, great scenary! I like the buildings too. Looking forward to more.

-bbfan02-

[Smarty218 2]

Great scenery and transit networks. Very creative, not overdone.

[2nerdy4u 1]

Awesome stuff! Very beautiful, very green. The stadium building is nice too.

[Craig91 12]

Thinking of doing an update of embassies. If anybody wants an embassy in Normandy just say so. Hope to have an update later today as well (GMT).

Thanks for commenting,

Craig

[Shadow Assassin 336]

I recognise those names...

A David Eddings fan, by any chance? (...or at least someone who's read his books)

In any case, nice pics, but reduce the file size. They're causing the page to take ages to load... 2MB per pic... Perhaps you could use something like IrfanView to resize your pics and convert them to jpg? It's a good idea this was caught early, because if this CJ was like, say, 20 or 30 pages, it'd be difficult to replace the pics.

Keep up the good work.

[Craig91 12]

Shadow_Assassin: I'm reading David Eddings at the moment (the Mallorean) and liked the names. I didn't realize the size of the pics, I was wondering why the pages were loading so slowly, I'll have a look into it.