Virgin Shores

[supercity124 8]

I found a perfect building for a newspaper office, since you posted two issues of the newspaper,

I will show you the building,


That new modern office building next to the embassies will be a newspaper office

[deathtopumpkins 43]

feliwi: Thanks.

crazyarchitect: OK.That hotel should be fine. Can you actually link to it though? Copying and pasting the links is messing up my clean address bar

Patricius Maximus: Then I shall use RTMT.

sedimenjerry: Well my sister was simming... And I did something to my foot too, and it's all swollen and purplish-yellow, so I've been trying to keep it elevated, which means the sofa, not the computer. I know you were just dying to hear about that.

Hampi: I need to know exactly how you want it built, i.e. Plop-A-Shop, etc.

supercity124: That building is LIH's international headquarters, as was stated in that picture's caption. You need to find a different building.

[crazyarchitect 7]

DTP: How does that work??? I run an international company and I don't know how to do that lol.

Supercity124: How much space do you need, I havent fully occupied it yet and I could use one more tenant

[supercity124 8]

I will show you another building that can be used as a newspaper office.

The building is at the bottom of the picture, it has skylights, with a parking garage at the back of the building, and is on a tree-lined street. That building there will be a newspaper office for the Virgin Shores Daily News.

[supercity124 8]

DTP, You posted the topic two times!!

[deathtopumpkins 43]

crazyarchitect: Highlight the text, and hit the globe with chain link icon, then paste the URL in the URL field.  It's really simple.

supercity124 (1): I guess that could work.

supercity124 (2): I know it was here two times. It's storming really hard here and the internet's being really slow, so I clicked it twice thinking the post hadn't gone through, and now it won't let me delete the second one...

There. Finally!

 supercity124 (3): Depends on where in the world you are. For example, here it's 00:37. Most people are probably asleep, as most people don't stay up quite this late.

And in the future, could you be so kind as to edit your posts? I believe triple=posting is frowned upon.

[marco1771 0]

city looks great!!!

[Hampi 54]

DTP: Plop a shopping center that will do fine I think!

Can't wait for the next update now^^

[jacqulina 162]

wonderfull looking city my friend

[crazyarchitect 7]

//www.simtropolis.com/stex/index.cfm?id=4112 

wow, that is really simple lol

[akhil1280 0]

very good CJ.......

[Gunnster3 0]

DTP: Could you possibly implement that mini-town concept that you referred to into VS? I'd like to see that in action (pending approval, of course) once the bus lines are up and running. I've never personally attempted that and think it could be pretty cool, especially in a more rural-style development.

As for the bus stations, RTMT is great, but I still want to see your other ones since you seem to have a knack for making things look good with custom content. A mix of both might be visually appealing in the city. While I'm primarily about efficiency, this CJ seems to seek a balance of asthetics and efficiency, rather than focusing on just one or the other. As such, I enjoy seeing all possibilities.

[sedimenjerry 1]

OH no!

I remeber when I broke my right big toe once.

I, do hereby officially annouce, that I will not be running for Head of The DOR. School started back up and I realized I would be way to busy to even play SC4 a lot.

Thats All.

[deathtopumpkins 43]

I was going to try to post the newspaper with these replies, but have not had a chance to finish it yet (almost done). Issue 4 will be up this evening.

Now for some

marco1771: Thanks.

Hampi: OK. I'll build it next time I play then.

jacqulina: Thanks.

crazyarchitect: Apparently it's not so simple after all. The link's broken!

akhil1280: Thanks.

Gunnster3: Mini-town concept? I don't recall what you mean.

I'll use a combination of RTMT and regular stops.

Wow. Glad you think about the CJ that way. That was a very philosophical post.

sedimenjerry: I'm not exactly sure what I did to it, as nothing's broken, but it's still one huge swollen bruise.

Wow. OK. I don't think school would matter though, as I have school too, so I won't be updating that often. Now I have to go change the newspaper.

[jacqulina 162]

looking forward to it my friend

[Gunnster3 0]

DTP: When I said "mini-town," I was referring to your post on page 19 where you said: "Yep, mass transit early on is always a good idea. I've established tiny isolated island towns with 800 people that have a bus service so efficient that they don't need to use cars before. It's pretty cool."

What I didn't realize was that you said that they were "island" towns, which I didn't notice the first time I read it. Even still, I wonder if somehow a similar concept could be applied going forward. It could add an interesting spin on the region where there are self-sufficient mini-economies that are self-contained, yet connected to the city/region at large via mass transit and other infrastructure (is that an oxymoron?). I guess, in a way, this tends to happen naturally, but it could be interesting to actively plan a segment of the region this way.

[Patricius Maximus 236]

It probably is one. Self-sufficient towns linked up via mass transit tend to gravitate towards becoming suburbs of the larger city.

I'll be looking for that newspaper tonight...

Patricius Maximus,
Head of the Department of Transportation

[deathtopumpkins 43]

I finished the newspaper just now:

I also messed with the saturation a little before exporting the picture. What do you guys think?

jacqulina: It's here.

Gunnster3: Oh that. Yeah those towns are completely independent. I sometimes connect them to larger cities, but people don't commute between them.

I always try to make my towns self-contained, and avoid inter-city commuting, often not even intentionally. How towns is Virgin Shores will work is most people will work in the same town they live in, and probably be employed almost exclusively by commercial (I hardly ever zone industrial, as on the rare occasions I use it I use almost all custom stuff), so for the most part they will be self-contained, in the sense that people don't need to leave the town, but yet will be interconnected. If this makes sense.

Patricius Maximus: Yes, but like I said above, most people will end up working in the same town they live in, while suburbs tend to house a lot of people who commute in to the big city. Suburbs aren't my strong point anyway. I almost always end up growing them into large cities (take for example the northern part of Queensport, along the A7. It was originally a suburb, but was overdeveloped into a skyscraper district rivaling downtown.

Newspaper's up now.

[Follarch 326]

Oh gosh, passenger ships? I'm going to have to build more housing in Virgin Harbor.

Glad I could help gas prices drop, and from what i see, considerably. Wish that was true here in Washington. Although compare Virgin Shores prices to Washington prices and your gas prices are about two bucks more expensive. Hey, its good income!

I'll be posting another Terralai update very soon. (Edit: its up, lol)

(Edit 2: I've been thinking about that vacation I mentioned earlier. How does a weekend stay for two at that hotel sound?

Archean~

Prime Minister of the NFR

[Gunnster3 0]

DTP: Yeah, that makes sense. I've never tried to make a city by using minimal industrial and maximizing commerial. Does that really work? I can see how matching the number of commercial jobs to the available labor pool could employ everyone. I always thought industrial zones were necessary. Interesting approach. I'll have to give that a whirl tonight.

Paper looks good, BTW.

[Hampi 54]

Great newspaper I must say!

Hope the elections goes well for me!

[deathtopumpkins 43]

Here's what the ballot looks like right now:
Virgin Oil Co. Rep.:
Hampi (2)
Head of DHE:
Hampi (1)
Head of DOR:
Gunnster3 (1)
Head of Utility Comission:
supercity124 (1)
Gunnster3 (2)
Head of DWR:
sim-Al2 (1)
Head of DOT:
Patricius Maximus
Head of Planning Comittee:
psander5

We need more nomintations, as right now there's only one position you actually have a choice on. Remember, you must have posted more than 2 times to be nominated.



Archean: Well, people need to be able to travel back and forth. It's not like there's a major migration. Yep. But most of that drop occured after the discovery of Oil and Virgin Oil Co.'s founding. And that price was $3.40 more than we pay here! Gas over the last month has dropped from just over $4 to around $3.60-$3.50, with the lowest price I've seen being $3.49. Supposedly the west coast has the highest prices though, with Alaska and Hawaii topping the charts at just shy of $5/gallon, and the continental west coast in the mid $4s. And Virgin Oil's a state-owned company, so all that income comes rolling right into these coffers (seriously- the refinery's a business deal, and the oil wells each have a small monthly maintenance cost)

Gunnster3: Well I usually end up with a sizable industrial population in my big cities, but hardly anyone works there. For example, in Queensport there are about 700,000 people, and >500,000 commercial jobs. Most of the rest of the people work in civic buildings, and at train stations, airports, etc. Only <20,000 are employed by industries, and probably much less than that by I-D and I-M, as most of the city's industrial jobs are I-HT. I usually try to leave out industrial as much as possible in my big cities though, as there's really no place for anything but I-HT because of the pollution.
You should try a R & C only region. It's not that hard once you get the hang of it.

Hampi: Thanks. I'm sure it will.

[Hampi 54]

DPT: Here in sweden the price is about 9$ per gallon, but half of that price is taxes on the fuel.

And they raised the gas taxes just before the summer.

I would think it would be cheap to fill my car with gas in the us

Yes I really hope it will and I think it will to!

[sedimenjerry 1]

Hampi- Yes you may find it cheaper but most likely, you'll be traveling a lot more than in sweden.

[Hampi 54]

sedimenjerry: Propably I would, in my city I almost never ride in a car, I take the bus or the train if I shall go longer distances. We have a very good bus system in my town.

Sometimes I take the bicycle it's great and almost goes faster to get to downtown than with the bus the cycle lanes are very well built in every larger city in sweden

[Mr. Monorail Man 3]

I'm sorry I have not posted in a while, this is what happened to me. (1) Recent death in the family. One of my relatives got killed in Colorado after a runaway 18-wheeler rear-ended him at a train crossing, then it [impact] pushed his car in to the passing coal train and killed him. Also (2), my computer got destroyed when my dad fell through my celing when putting something in the attic then he fell on my desk and smashed my computer. At least my hard drive survived and I still have all of my games on it ) . And (3), school starts for me this Thursday and I will only be able to get on the computer only on weekends. Also, I heard another truck went off the CBBT again like that Pepsi truck crash on it in 2006. Can you at least describe the damage to me or at least put it in your city's newspaper under the National headlines section?

[Patricius Maximus 236]

[psander5 197]

The newspaper looks great! It's proving to be a good summary of what's been happening in the previous couple of pages. It's good to read about Franklin County and New Follomer too.

ELECTIONS! Already! That came round quick. I'll have to prepare a short manifesto for my department!

Patricius Maximus: I'm glad you decided to implement the bus route.

Crazyarchitect: As DTP has already approved your building choice there's no need for me to respond to your request directly.

[un1 41]

Good luck with the polls, who knows I might join in someday...

How big is Virgin Shores in population, commercial, industrial??

-un1

[deathtopumpkins 43]

Hampi: Egad! But as you've told me before, your city has excellent public transportation, so you don't really need a car.

And it's not cheap to fill up here, considering the fact that we make the same we did 10 years ago when gas was $0.97 a gallon. Even I remember those days. OK. $7 an hour seems about average around here, and with a 20 gallon tank at $4 a gallon, that's $80 to fill up your tank, and with a 9 hour workday, you would make $63. If you used about 3 gallons of gas to get to and from work (which is average around here), you'd spend a fifth of your salary on gas. Taxes take another 40% (in my family's tax bracket they're in the 30s), so that's 60% of your salary gone right there. Then with groceries costing an average of $28 a day, that's another 44%, which puts you in debt at using 104% of your salary. Then comes rent (or mortgage if you own the house), the credit card interest because you're in debt, electricity, natural gas, water, sanitation, hospital bills (my mom late last year had major surgery which cost us about $60,000 that we can't pay), internet service (telephone and TV if you have them--we don't), cell phones ($100/month for 3 lines, almost unlimited everything), and miscellaneous things like club dues (I'm a paying member of Isle of Wight Fencing), clothes, school supplies, and this is just covering the basics, not including things we want ,like a new computer...

Enough of my economic rant. I just had to say that in repsonse to that remark.

sedimenjerry: Yep. That's the big reason.

Hampi: As I've said to you before, we, in a town of about 114,00, have NO public transportation, besides a light rail line under construction downtown, slated to open in 2011, and an inconvenient bus service that doesn't stop within a couple miles of my house and no one uses.

Matthew: Holy crap! Sorry dude. That must suck.

Really? I haven't heard about it. There's nothing on WVEC or WAVY, except for an accident back in April that closed the bridge for a little while.

Patricius Maximus: Nice campaign ad! I support Patricius Maximus, and you should too!

psander5: Yep. I had to read back through a little of all 4 CJs to get that news.

I'm sure you'll do fine in the elections too, as you've fulfilled your position excellently.

un1: Even if you don't run, please do still vote.

Well the R population is 7,854, but I'm not sure about the C & I.

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