Urland, a (mostly) rural coastline

[feliwi 4]

absloloutly great looking rail wires, will be interesting, how they'll being built (just saw, that the wire are in other lots, e.g. the rail station) good luck with modding!

[Droftrah 2]

I think I've mentioned before about my love for Railways, me being a railway model enthusiast.

I love your work, outstanding and certainly my favorite.

[politicman 1]

I like your work and I find your city so cool !!!

[Nardo69 51]

RL - Update

Sorry, no SC4 pics today, since today is the day my wife gave birth to our first child and son Mehmet Dennis ...  exactly 16 1/2 hrs before!

Here is a picture:

Bernhard

[bbfan02 23]

Congradulations! Proud papa! I wish you the best of luck!

-bbfan02-

[Criquette 0]

Hi there Nardo! Great CJ you have here! All these closeups looks just great! The railways.. oh, beautiful! Love the details... cool!

[PhilsCafe 8]

Hey, congratulations Bernhard. He's looks so peaceful .

- Phil

[Godzillaman 21]

He looks like he's gonna be a natural blond!

[Darmok 34]

Just sent you a PM my friend, didn't see the picture before sending it. so....

God am I glad for you, he's really a beautiful baby, Nancy and I are sending our best wishes for your family.

Take care

-John

P.S. That is probably the best update ever on your CJ

[dfnva 34]

Those look like cool railroad signals. Do they change color or anything based on if a train is coming through? I also like that big long wire, kind of like a long span wire traffic signal assembly, but over the railroad tracks.

Edit: Congratulations on your son!

Dan

[830point35 8]

I had a kid almost two years ago. Still waiting to play the game again... Congrats

[Simtastico 0]

congratulations on the baby, and also for a good cj! I've been looking through it and I notice how the railroad is a common theme, I like what i see! You build around it so nicely.. keep producing (both babies and railroads)

[Almighty Nienaber 3]

Mehmet? how do you pronounce that?

[jacqulina 162]

awwwwwww congrats bernhard to you and your wife hes beautifull so cute my friend thankyou for showing him to us.

[JanYpe 17]

Awww, he came with a little hat.

Job well done Papa.

[Nardo69 51]

Hello to All!

Last update was RL update, now I am doing a SC4 update again... let's see how my pre-valentine present lets me continue here ... 

But as always before we start:

PhilsCafe: Thanks for the compliment!

  Yes, it is really fun to play with these signals, be them electric or mechanic, those pesky Maxis pseudo - signs never satisfied me... now I get the right feeling I was missing for so long!

cleaner475: Thanks for the compliment, Richard!

penguin007: That may take a while, but I am right now preparing a kind of documentary / tutorial how to use them. I can tell you so far that you will need some basic LE knowledge for them.

bbfan02: Thanks for the compliment!

feliwi: Thanks for the compliment!

The catenaries are basically overhanging props, and if you plop them carefully you can plop them "into" other lots.

Droftrah: Thanks for the compliment, and your favourite, wow, you made me blush ...

politicman: Thanks for the compliment

Nardo69: Nice little angel!

bbfan02:

PhilsCafe,

830point35, Thank you very much!

Criquette: Welcome in my humble CJ, criquette AKA marrast!

The first Betatesting ever I took part in was the Betatest of your famous walls, and I am really proud that you found your way to my CJ!

Darmok: Most probably, that last update is hard to beat ...

dfnva: Actually at the moment they are static but we hope to make them dynamic today. Should be possible - at least the way the Maxis RR crossings works but at the moment it seems that noone outside of Maxis / EA knows how to do that ...

Simtastico: Thanks for the comploment! As for the railway, there are not many maps without railway tracks in my region ...

Almighty Nienaber: Mammet (with the a spoken as in bat)

jacqulina: Thanks for the compliment!  Yes, he's my little angel! 

JanYpe: he's my little angel, and he has some more hats ...

And now, for today's regularupdate:

Update 18.1: Silberstein

Silberstein is a small jerkwater village somewhere between nowhere and Never-heard-off. The most

[PhilsCafe 8]

Hallo Bernhard!

You're doing a great job turning SC4 in your very own model railway scenery . Silberstein looks very nice my friend, the embankment lots you made add a very nice rural feel.

Keep it up!

- Phil

[KingTitan 6]

SWEET. Very impressive stuff there friend. The farming community looks like it took you a long time to lay out. Definitely love the pics, and the 4-split pic is a cool idea.. I may steal that idea. LOL Great stuff you have there friend.

[Nardo69 51]

Hello my friends!

Some of you may have heard of the prop pox. One of those who are suffering of the prop pox is me - for details please check this thread.

My infected city is Rhenbrücken. It should have been the capital of Urland and the biggest town in my region. A lot of experiences I made in Gleiwemünde before went into this map - large industrial areas, an airport (Maxis lot, what else? Remember that I don't like airports?   ) a decent railway net and my first GLR, in fact lots of GLR, I really enjoyed GLR here.

Until the prop pox haunted this map. I went back to a prop pox - free copy three times, I blasted all PEG seasonal trees and replaced them by the SFBT Filler lots as I had the suspicion of them being the reason for them, but the pox always stroke back.

I am not sure if I am ever able to finish this map. Some days ago I found some of the screen shots I did building up Rhenbrücken at the third and last trial, and I thought I should share them with you.

They make my heart bleed, and I am not sure if I am, going to begin such a large town again until the reason and / or a treatment of/for the prop pox is found. I will not comment them and present them to you in chronological order, just enjoy.

But before we start:

PhilsCafe: Thanks for the compliment my friend!I do think about releasing these embankment lots but there is quite some work left before they can be released ...

KingTitan: Thanks for the compliment! If you want to "steal" the 4 split, do it (you may point to here though ... )

Now for the update:

Pictures From The Doomed Metropolis

 

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[Almighty Nienaber 3]

this......is awesome

[KingTitan 6]

Great update of pics friend.. DOOMED??? WHA...WHA...WHAT? Bring it on!!! LOL

Look forward to it.

[granto93 4]

aw! congratulations my friend! you have a beautiful looking baby. hes lucky to be raised by a good hardy Simtropolis father

now, the update.....lets just say its almost as nice as your new child I like your building choice and your transportation network never ceses to amaze me. your railways are just spotless! looking forward to more!

[akot783 0]

Excellent updates!!!

[vivydu29 60]

Great update, It's very beautiful and congrulation for your Baby.

[Nardo69 51]

Some quick replies:

Almighty Nienaber: Thanks for the compliment!

KingTitan: Thanks for the compliment!

With doomed I mean the prop pox. Whenever I reach a certain point  there are places where all props disappear. Replopping / bulldoze and waiting for new buildings to grow doesn't help - after the next save and load all props disappear, and these areas grow bigger each time you save.

You can find more info on the prop pox thread over at SC4Devotion where we are researching that really bad bug.

I may however release some pics of Rhebrücken if I can find enough presetable old pictures - but I don't think there will be new ones

granto93: Thanks for the compliment!

Ans a big EXCUSE ME for not answering you wih the others - shame on me ...

But don't tell about the hardy Simtropolis father to my wife, she has some reasons not to like SC4 ...

About pictures of Thenbrücken see the answer to King Titan ...

kottaiajmel: Thanks for the compliment!

vivydu29: hanks for the compliment! The little angel is my greatest joy ..:!

[Shanna 1]

Ohhhh sweet!!! Congratulations Bernhard to you and your wife, your little child is so lovely!!!!

Amazing update! I like the railways through the town, wonderful! Great pics!

[PhilsCafe 8]

Hi Bernhard! It's really bad your city suffered the prop pox... because this is a very nice city. The things I like most are the wall-to-wall neighbourhoods, the trams/GLR and also the high-rise apartment buildings... and the details are once again outstanding. Btw, what is that building in book-shape, a library? It looks awesome!

[bbfan02 23]

Wow, excellent update! I know how you feel. I recently got infected with that but was able to solve the problem in about a day. Great residential and commercial areas!

-bbfan02-

[jacqulina 162]

your welcome my friend he is a little angel.

awesome work and pics as allways very realistic planning

[DougOZ 0]

congrats for the beautifull baby... and abt your cj, so realistic, my opinion, 1 of the bests Cj on Simtropolis...i'll look forward next update