Hudsonburg

[Danlikebooks 6]

Hello all!  This idea has been lurking in the back of my mind for a while now (three days) and I decided to make this CJ.  So here we go:

Hudsonburg:  Part One

Hello my name is Jebidiah Hudson, and I used to live in good old Andrike Cross, where my family had lived for generations.  Then, the Andrike Nuclear containment facility blew, and wiped out the hundreds of thousands of residents there (*sniffle*).  Only me and twenty others survived the horrible tragedy, because we were in a small commuter jet that had just taken off from Andrike International Airport.  Here's a picture that I took of the scene:

Oh, sorry!  That was a picture of my house, the Sundy Building!  Here's the right picture:

And so anyway, the pilot had a massive heart attack flying us to our destination (North Dakota[ugh], and the plane crash landed in the mountains of southern Canada.  We all survived, except for the pilot of course, and we set off to try and survive from nothing.  After a day, we decided to start a new town, and I was elected the mayor of this new town, which I named Hudsonburg (yay!).

After a couple of weeks, me and the other people, most of which were farmers, had started a small farming village:

No one knew of the disaster yet to come in this quaint little hamlet...

[bbfan02 23]

I would advise you to get some custom content. I like the start.

-bbfan02-

[jrone3 2]

I feel bad for the string of bad luck....hopefully the start of Hudsonburg will be the start of great things

[rct3twins 14]

You mean Jebediah Springfield?

lol, good pics! And rofl to the first pic about how he shows the wrong pic!

[Danlikebooks 6]

Hello once more!  In reply:

bbfan02:  Thank you, and I should get some custom content.

jrone3:  Yes hopefully it will, but you never know, do ya?

rct3twins:  Yes, I did get the name from The Simpsons, and thanks!

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Hudsonburg:  part 2

Hello, this is Jebidiah Hudson of Hudsonburg here to bring you some news about our city.  The week started off well when Alex, my nephew, found a herd of cows in the mountains while exploring.

He also rescued two hikers who had fallen into a ravine and were dying.  They just happened to be American businessmen and they offered to open up a store in our town, plus a school for the six kids that we had:

Because of the new businesses, we had to build a new water tower.  As the men left, they sent me a picture of how our city looks from a mountaintop:

But not all went right, for a day later, Mount Vernain erupted:

The lava spread down the mountain, killing two people!  The fires spread quickly and started burning one of our farms and the utility buildings:

Finally, we put the fires out by forming a bucket brigade.  Five people died in the resulting fires and two more died in the lava, causing our population to fall from twenty to thirteen:

That's all for now, come again!

[Cleaner475 150]

Its time to get the good old advice notebook out again:

1. More custom content

2. Turn of the zots

3. Bigger pictures because I can't really see whats going on

I can't lie and say its a great start the story is there its just the pictures aren't that good, if you follow the advice and look at other peoples journals then this could be a great journal, bare in mind this is just my opinion ,

Richard

[jrone3 2]

The bad luck does not stop, does it? If your mayor needs a rabbit's tail, I'll give him one

[fern244 1]

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[Schulmanator 5,787]

That is some SERIOUS bad luck, isn't it!

[jacqulina 162]

great start and intro my friend

[bbfan02 23]

I like the plot and the storyline. Just make some improvements.

-bbfan02-

[crazyyaya 4]

Nice start Dan, I have a few suggestions though. When you take pictures, you should try to have them at the maxium 800x600 pixels. That way, you get more detail in your photos. To get rid of those no power icons, press Ctrl and x to open up the cheat box and type in tastyzots then enter and they will disappear. Other then that, you've got an interesting city journal, hopefully you start incorperating more custom content and more development. I hope you can continue and improve on what you have, good luck!

[OffTopic 3]

Originally posted by: Danlikebooks

He also rescued two hikers who had fallen into a ravine and were dying.  They just happened to be American businessmen and they offered to open up a store in our town, plus a school for the six kids that we had:

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A great start, but just download some more custom content, and for the stuff you do download, make sure to download all of the texxtures and dependencies. (The left houses don't have any stuff around them.  Driveways, fences, trees etc.)

[anarchy0029 2]

Hey I looked at it. you have a potential interesting CJ. I like your start dude. All you need to do is download some stuff from STEX, BSC LEX, and SimPlex. Your city will look awesome and pleasant.

[sc4portugal 10]

Very good start!

OffTopic: He/She doesn't have the details on max. It's not got to do whith dependences

[Voulpiotis 4]

Very interesting... You begin with that tiny city and then......can't wait to see what's coming up!

[edmonton_stinks 5]

Oh God! Things just keep getting worse for this poor guy, don't they?

[Danlikebooks 6]

Hello again!  In reply:

cleaner475: Thanks for the advice.

fern244: ...

Schulmanator: It is

jacqulina: Thanks

bbfan02: Like what?

crazyyaya: I did not know that, thanks!

OffTopic: What sc4portugal said

anarchy0029: Noted

sc4portugal: Thanks

Voulpiotis: very tiny

edmonton_stinks: They do!

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Hudsonburg:  part 3

Hello once more!  Where was I...  Ah yes, the fires.

We rebuilt the farms that had been destroyed in almost no time.  We had to hire some out of towners to help, or it would've taken a lot longer.  The out of towners seemed interested by the town, and sure enough most of them moved in with their families within a week!  One of them was very religious, and he asked me if he could hire some people to build a church:

That was the church with some of the new houses.  One of people who moved in opened up a snack shack:

Every morning the commute looked like this:

Then (you guessed it) bad luck struck again in the shape of a tornado:

Thankfully, no one died.  Then we had to rebuild the farms and houses.  Again...:

Finally, half a year after the town was started, it looked like this:

Also, the sea level had risen so we had to build some new sea walls to stop the water.

See you again!

[bbfan02 23]

I like the tornado effect and the rebuilding. The sea walls look good too.

-bbfan02-

[OffTopic 3]

Oh sorry bout that, I usually have my quality cranked up all the way. Great job though.

[jrone3 2]

I thought my CJ was the most negative one, but I guess Hudsonburg's bad luck beats Stephen committing suicide anyday I love the sea walls. Nice town though!!

[edmonton_stinks 5]

You certainly love playing with disasters.

[Danlikebooks 6]

Hello once more!  In reply:

bbfan02:  Thanks

OffTopic:  It's ok, I usually do to

jrone3:  Bethany is very nice too!

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A lot has happened since our last update of Hudsonburg.  Jebidiah Hudson has died of a heart attack.  In result, the community pitched in and built a memorial clinic in memory of him.  His advisor, Dr. Smith, has taken over for now.  Anyway, the town's population is growing fast and so we let some manufacturing plants into the city limits:

Because of the new industry, more people moved in, and new houses were built on the coast of the lake.  The small little snack bar has grown to be a full fledged cafe, serving coffees and baked goods:

Also, a farmer claimed to see a UFO in the night sky about a week ago and UFO hunters have been all over the town looking for any trace of them.  Nothing has been found.

But yesterday, everyone in the 1500 population town saw something:

It started to abduct the cows!:

All one hundred cows were taken.  The government paid a visit yesterday and confirmed that the UFO was mearly a new prototype for the air force.  Yeah right.  The town now looks like this:

A monumental gazebo has been built for the cows:

That's all for now!

[bbfan02 23]

The pictures dont really seem clear and I think you should put in more custom content. But, nice update!

-bbfan02-

[LarksTonguesInAspic 28]

UFO + cows = funny! Definitely more custom content and better resolution pics, there are great free image programs like picasa and GIMP to jazz up the photos. But the story has promise..*hums Cows With Guns*

[nottheboss 1]

you don't believe in good luck do you

well done!

[edmonton_stinks 5]

Yikes. That was unexpected.

Pictures do look kinda blurry, but the storyline is good. Keep it up!

[suplado! 23]

with the non-stop bad luck in the town...maybe people should start to move out in the area...hehe!! anyway -- really like whats happening here...