Strucoe

[Flumes 3]

A city journal by Flumes

Table of Contents

Page 1...  Updates 1-2-3-4-5

Page 2...  Updates 6-7-8

A teaser...  Night shot of downtown...

Now, obviously this is a decent sized city, with skyscrapers and such...  And yet, it has NO mass-transit.  The people of Strucoe have depended on their cars forever, but as the population continues to boom, and the echo's of sims frustrated voices growing loud in the mayors ears, the decision to build a mass-transit system was made.

From the Strucoe Journal

"Mayor Sparrow's much anticipated came today regarding the Strucoe Transit Authority's hub.  After considering a few locations, the mayor and his advisors have agreed upon placing the hub at the current site of Parkside Elementary, and South Hamilton Park..."

Parkside Elementary and South Hamilton Park...  The Hub will be placed on the south end of the lot.  The school will be re-located.

A zoomed out shot of the area...

For any with good eyes, you will notice that the spot of the new hub is a few blocks south from the teaser shot.  Can tell by a few of the larger buildings...

Thats all for now!  Enjoy!

[crazyyaya 4]

Great start but I can't see the pictures. Make sure you use a hosting site and that the pictures are JPEG format.

[Flumes 3]

They are in PNG, thanks, I will fix that...

[Flumes 3]

Should be working now.  Thank you crazyyaya.

Enjoy!

[bbfan02 23]

Looks awsome! Looking like a great start. Looking forward to more.

-bbfan02-

[crazyyaya 4]

Much better. Great brick buildings and night shot. Hope to see lots more.

[Flumes 3]

Strucoe

Getting a feel for the city.

Strucoe's roots are in the dirty and manufactoring industries.  Smokestacks have risen above the Northeast and East side of town for as long as anyone can remember.  Despite this, the town remains very "green" with tree's seen everywhere.  As of late, their has been a boom of high tech in the area.

The relatively new Hammen Power Complex.  Hammen Power is a new player in Strucoe's power market.  Hammen makes up about 15% of the town's power usage.  All of it is clean energy.  The other 85% is made up by the Truex Power Company.  Truex fits in more with the
"old" part of town and its manufactoring roots.

The solar and wind plants are seen here, along with Hammen's HQ in the bottom left and a R&D/Monitering Center in the middle of the photo



Some random industry pictures...






Now for some pictures of the residential parts of town.

This picture shows some of the most expensive residencies in town.  They line the famous Long Park, one of Strucoe's most famous places.



Random shots...








That's all for today.

Enjoy!

Replies
bbfan02-Thanks!
crazyyaya-You will see plenty of brick buildings in this thread!  Thank you again for pointing out the picture problem.

[Flumes 3]

Update 3

Here is some more of Strucoe!

The Transit Center is finished!!!

Seems busy...

The new Parkside Elementary, a few blocks East...

Levler Hospital Circle busy as always...

Hmmm, the skyline always seems to be changing...

That's all for now...

[bbfan02 23]

Great random pictures! They are colorful and bright. Looking for more.

-bbfan02-

[2nerdy4u 1]

Hmmm... why didn't I post here before. It's my job to admire good work!

Excellent stuff here. I love the greasy industry shots in update 2. Keep it up.

[suplado! 23]

awesome work!! really like the great use of those custom buildings...and i also like the road and intersection layout!

[Flumes 3]

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bbfan02-thanks

2nerdy4u-haha, thanks, living in Cleveland I am used to the dirty industry...

suplado-thank you

[Flumes 3]

Update 4

Some more random pictures.  Enjoy!

Strucoe Central Catholic High School as well as their football field.  Friday nights find everyone in town at their favorite high school's game.

South Washington High School.  A helicopter is seen hovering previewing a story to the school's currently undefeated football team.

Random shot of a middle class suburb.

Seen here is part of downtown.  Downtown can be accessed from Midtown via the downtown line (blue line) of the subway.  Downtown, along with being home to many buisnesses is home to the Strucoe Barons.  Strucoe's very own proffesional baseball team.  Also found in downtown is the convention center as well as a few large hotels.

Some random industry pictures...

Hope you enjoyed!

[bbfan02 23]

Great industrial areas! I like the highway too.

-bbfan02-

[2nerdy4u 1]

Great work. Your industrial areas are especially good. I hope to see more of it!

[suplado! 23]

cool indusrial pics...and nice downtown and houses as well!! great work here

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

Those industrial areas are really good! *ECHO echo echo...*

Haha, anyways, looks great! I love the Long Park, that's where I would like to live. Keep it coming!

[Flumes 3]

4a.

Mini Update...  Region Shots...

As I stated earlier, Strucoe is the only city in the region thus far...  So it isn't really much of a region shot...  But here it is anyway...

Hopefully you can make out Central Strucoe, Downtown, the Industrial Area, Long Park, and the beginnings of the suburbs...  If you have trouble seeing where Long Park is check out the transit map, it is dead center...  It has some taller buildings around it...

Transit...  As you can see, the highways look somewhat crazy...  They aren't as crazy as they seem.  Their are a few branches off in the north because of the railroad.  The highway is the main way to get over the railroad, since only a few major avenues cross over them otherwise.  Remove those, and it looks somewhat normal, still a lot of highways for some, but that is how it is here in the midwest!!!  Sadly you can't see the subway from this shot, I hope to post that soon!  Oh, one last thing, the airport you see is simply a tram, the airport is to come soon...

And for any worried about me being a little bit griddy.  Don't worry, the Midwest US (Great Lakes) which I am somewhat basing this off has grids.  That's just the way it is in the city.  However, once we get out of the city it will be much more free-flowing...

ENJOY!

[Cleaner475 150]

nice city- it looks good from far out and nice road layout - good planning so well done

Richard

[sims co. 0]

Sweet work there, I like the patches of greenery you have in Strucoe, a great effect. Well done!

[bbfan02 23]

Great transportation map and overall overview!

-bbfan02-

[2nerdy4u 1]

Awesome region shots. Your transportation map is excellent! Realistic.

[jayo 44]

Looking alright there Nice region shot/s

[suplado! 23]

awesome region and trans map pics!!

[KingTitan 6]

I never saw your CJ Flumes....Looks great. would love to see more custom content, but nontheless, looks fantastic...Ill be back...

[Flumes 3]

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bbfan02-thanks, some might notice I use the gradual upgrade from ground to elavated highway a lot to make it more realistic

2nerdy4u-thank you, much time their...

suplado-thanks, again a lot of time their...

NMUSpidey-haha, I guess I'm doing that right.  I too would probably live around Long Park.  I love that area.

cleaner475-Thank you, I spend quite a bit of time planning the roads out.

bbfan02-thank you again!

2nerdy4u-thanks again, that is what I am going for...

jayo-Thank You, love the avatar!

suplado-Thanks again!

KingTitan-Thanks, I am constantly adding custum content, I need to get some more of the mid-rise gerne...

[jayo 44]

Thank you flumes-Every time i see your CJ name,it reminds me of stucoe!lol..Can't wait for your next update

[Mike the Mayor 51]

Looks great. The industry looks particularly good mate!

[Flumes 3]

Update 5

Koldston

Alright everyone, time to take a look outside Strucoe for the first time.  Koldston is a large city tile just south of Strucoe.  The suburb is home to it's own small downtown, and industrial district...

However, as seen below, Koldston is still primarily a commuting suburb.

Another update coming soon!

[bbfan02 23]

Great update! I like the round-about filler. The residential area looks great too.

-bbfan02-