Virgin Shores

[Patricius Maximus 236]

Thank you to all who helped me get elected and who gave me your vote. I shall not fail in my promises about the transit system. All that the ads said was true. I shall work to improve bus lines. I shall work to get mass transit operational once needed.

I will not have weaving on freeways when they come, or left exits. I say now, and pledge to all citizens, that future freeways will have no weaving, and neither will their interchanges. There shall be no at-grade intersections on freeways.

I take a hard line against congestion. I develop transit plans so well that congestion hardly has a chance. But if it happens, as soon as I know about it, I will work towards the solution of the problem to the best of my ability.

I am sure that this will be a momentous second term for me and my department. We very well could see the first freeways in this term, since inter-city traffic is near.

I pledge to serve above and beyond my call of duty as DOT head throughout my term. And I look forward to serving Virgin Shores for many terms to come.

All these promises will continue to be kept as long as I stay in office.

Well, since the Inaugural Adress is done, back to work for me .

Patricius Maximus,

Head of the Department of Transportation

[deathtopumpkins 43]

OK, for all the winners here are your customized department banners:

Hampi, Virgin Oil Company Representative:

https://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z194/deathtopumpkins/SimCity%204/STsigbannerVirginOilRep.jpg

TimeMaster, Head of the Department of Health and Education:

https://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z194/deathtopumpkins/SimCity%204/STsigbannerDHE.jpg

crazyarchitect, Head of the Department of Recreation:

https://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z194/deathtopumpkins/SimCity%204/STsigbannerDOR.jpg

Ntq$310, Head of the Utilities Commission:

https://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z194/deathtopumpkins/SimCity%204/STsigbannerUtilityComission.jpg

Everyone else already has theirs.

There's also a plain one in the photobucket as well.

When putting the image in your sig, please, link it back to here.

[GreekMan 246]

okay then thanks a lot

I will put something in my sig later

[rippedinpink 0]

I have skimmed up to page 23(then I just skipped to the last page), and I am impressed the topic creator is dedicated to his city journal. The city is looking great, I wonder what the city would look like with some skyscrapers!

congrats with Virgin Shores!

[crazyarchitect 7]

Thanks to everybody who voted for me, I will make sure this city is full of parks, beaches and many places of relaxation/recreation.

This is the new chapter of Virgin Shores history!!!!!

[psander5 198]

Congtratulations to all new council members.  Welcome.

Thankyou to all those who voted in support of my candidacy, and even though I didn't have an opponent this time round, I'm pleased that citizens still showed their confidence in my campaign.  I promise to proceed according to my manifesto.

I'm not one for long speaches, so I guess it's down to business again!

   Head of the Department of Planning

[TimeMaster 4]

You are welcome, and thanks for the warm welcome to the council! Education And Health Data Views Are What I Want.

[Ntq€310 1]

well the fun and games are over, and i think it's time we get to work.......atleast once the update comes

[TimeMaster 4]

lol, I hope its coming soon!

[deathtopumpkins 43]

[sTARTED AT 19:47 VST]

It's here. The mother-of-all-updates!

UPDATE 18!

First, I'd like to show the open-for-business Coast Line, Virgin Shores' first bus route.
A link to the route map can be found in my sig.

Here is the northern terminus of the line, at Crazyarchitect Corner:

Bus stop by Pegasus.

The line then proceeds west down the Coast Highway to Main St., where it has it's next stop, which I seem to have forgotten to take a picture of. Sorry.

The next stop, down Main St., is at Center St. just south of the roundabout, at the doorstep of the Embassies and LIH Headquarters.


Next down the route is the stop at the Coastal & Western Railway Station.


The route then proceeds across the stone arch bridge, and turns left onto New Sibelus Ln., with the next stop being up the hill in Oak Grove.


Down a little farther we find un1's resort, and the southern terminus of the route.

I'm aware of the grid. It doesn't seem to want to stay off when I exit and reload the city. I did turn it back off during this update though, so not all pictures have it.

While we're there, LIH's latest property, a Days Inn to compete with un1's resort, was just completed across the street, along with some shops proposed by un1 and Hampi.
[Picture linked to full-size version]


Now we'll head back north up to the woods west of Main St., which were just cleared by Patricius Maximus for his latest housing development.


Then we'll head down to the seaport, where Patricius has struck again along Port Blvd., with a commercial development.


A quick glance up the hill reminds us that it's been a little while since we looked at Hampus Village, so we head up there next.

It seems a lot has changed since this small town's humble beginnings, and many more affluent residents have moved in.
[Picture linked to full-size version]


Heading even farther north, we encounter another development by Patricius Maximus, some commercial along the Coast Highway.


Down a side street from that commercial, we find the new, HUGE, Virgin City Hospital.

Part of SimGoober's Health lots pack.

Back on the Coast Highway, we notice something unusual...

The road doesn't end.
We follow a few meandering curves, and several rail crossings, and come face-to-face with the edge of the world! (told you it was flat!), and this big, yellow arrow-thingy! Hmm... we decide to investigate this one another day.

STAY TUNED to find out what happens!

Hope you guys liked that story-ish POV. I could, if I felt more creative right now, have done it a little more elaborately, so expect more of those to come.
Now on to the technical side of the update: Graphs, data views, and diagrams!


Some of the new department heads have requested graphs and data views representing their duties, so I just decided to take a shot of every one that could be useful to any department.














Hope those were helpful.
Now I've got a few specific ones to talk about.


Some of you may be glad to know that the bus system was happily received by Virginites, with usage hovering at about 300/hour (RL-interpretation of game data, only an approximation) for the whole route, which is pretty good. People use every part of it except for the stretch between the Coast Hwy. & Main St. stop and the Center St. stop., which I don't know why has no usage.
Here you can see the bus usage:


I also have a data view showing the volume of usage along the line:



That about wraps it up for the in-game shots, but here are a few other things:

After the sucess of the Coast Line, I am proposing the initial stages of two other bus routes, the Green and Red lines. (The Coast Line is aka the Blue Line)
Here is a system map, that is supposed to represent one that would be posted at stops and in schedules.

Again, Patricius, what does the DOT think?


I believe that concludes this update. It took a really long time to make, but I hope I didn't leave any requests out.

[Ntq€310 1]

i cant wait.

[Follarch 327]

Congratulations on the Elections! The NFR can't wait to be a part of the Virgin Shores celebrations! Congrats to all who won.

Archean~

NFR Prime Minister

[TimeMaster 4]

Yes! Thanks to everyone who voted for anyone!

P.S. My first CJ up soon.

[Mr. Monorail Man 3]

Well I got the beginning finished of my Island City CJ. Would anyone be nice enough to be the first post on mine please?

[TimeMaster 4]

I would be nice enough to, If you can post on mine, (still stone) in return. meet you there!

[Ntq€310 1]

That is a great update, the mother lode indeed

Now looking at water, everything seems find, though that pollution is starting to near the pump station ,at this point there is still nothing to worry about. And there are some area's in the mountain area's and around the coast that dont have water, and i think we should give it to them

On power i would like to request a land grant of 20 tiles somewhere in the Tile though out of the main virgin shores development area, as much as possible atleast. This 5 x 4 area will be used to power the tile for future needes having the space for many solar plants, and eve nuclear. 

If this development happens quickly i would like to put 2 solar power plants in that area to keep virgin shores energy needes safe, if we cant agree on it, or it takes too long please build the solar plants in another area.

Now completly unrelated to my position as u.c head, i would like to create a company in virgin shores.

Basiclly I want to give the virgin shores everything it needes to be realistic, and be econmiclly booming, so what better then banking?

I would like the main building to be this

-https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=1568

might be too big for the time being but personally i think it works.

And for the actually banks i say this would be a good match

-https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/index.cfm?id=15550

And thanking of good locations for the smaller banks, Hampus Village ,Oak Grove, and frontier, with the main hq bring somewhere near the main business district of virgin shore. You can even try to use the new influx of jobs to promote bus use.

This is my proposal to the planning department and dtp to bring good banking to the area. You can change any part of it you dont like or just scrap the idea, but Thank you for your time.

-and the impossibly long reply continues

After seeing the great sucsess of the resort area ill throwe my hat in the development

Now the darker grey represents streets, the black represtents roads, the light grey represents the wall.

The dark blue area will become a high class resort

-https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/index.cfm?id=15598

The 2x3 light blue will be a resturant

-https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/index.cfm?id=10944

And the 4x4 light blue will become another resturant

-https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/index.cfm?id=3734

 I hope all this will make the area a even more attractive place for tourist and residence alike, and not to mention to boost to the econemy.

And With that i can say good day....or good night.

[ericlewis91 0]

Hey. I just went though all 29 pages and i love your small town..its amazing

I was wondering If I could propose a McDonalds Restaraunt somewhere near the center of the town and I could be the owner.

thanks

[ericlewis91 0]

Uploaded with plasq's Skitch!

[supercity124 8]

When is there a another issue of the Virgin Shores Daily News??

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And also, DTP, Can post the picture of the newspaper office building on the next update??

[jacqulina 162]

excellent update and looking fantatic great residential my friend,ecellent city

[Hampi 54]

I love how Hampus Village has turned out! looks like a nice little neighbourhood!

And I see on the busmap that you named that boulevard after my suggestion great!^^

And I really support the new busline proposal. Hope the DOT does the same thing!

[penguin007 27]

Lovely update I like your use of retainer walls and the seasonal trees

Will

[psander5 198]

Superb update, and all the better for the wait! I like your coverage of the new bus route, and i'm pleased it turned out to be popular!  The new developments have been implemented well, and Hampus Village is looking very smart indeed!

I like the new hospital, and i'm intrigued as to what we're goung to find beyond the edge of the world! (though I guess it might be a place called Arrowheas Point! lol)

The bus system map looks great.  If I might ask a question: What program did you use to make the map... I've been trying to find the most appropreate program for this kind of thing for my own purposes!

Business: Ntq$310 & ericlewis91: Your proposals are under consideration, and i'll post my decision's & recommendations in a separate post later on today (I wanted to comment on the update separately)

[Patricius Maximus 236]

The DOT is pleased with the new Blue Line, and approves both the Red and Green lines for operation.

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My developments look great. I'm glad my developments can make an economic contribution to Virgin Shores.

Coast Highway? Arrowhead? Sounds like a neighbor connection to me. It occurs to me that Coast Hy. will become a major route in the future between cities, among other roads.

Patricius Maximus,

Head of the Department of Transportation

[rct3twins 14]

Lookin' good! Well, I'm glad that the election's over, 'cause, I gotta tell ya, TimeMaster's spamming is not good.

[DoctorJ 0]

Nice update. I was wondering what's Virgin Shores' population now?

[Snoopy235 0]

Okay I just read all 29 pages in 7 hours.  I have a couple of sugisttions.  1) I think there should be a Department of Saftey handiling crime and fire protection.  2)  Can I have a hotel, house, and a couple of shops on that Island in the top right corner.  There would be a ferry that connected it to the mainland.  There could also be a beach on the island and a walking path that went around the island.  It could be called Snoopy's Village.  But only if you give me permission DTP.

The name of the hotel is Hotel SolYMar on the STEX.

[Chappington 131]

That was a pretty awesome update DTP!

[deathtopumpkins 43]

ATTENTION EVERYONE!
I accidently left out a very important picture from the last update, so please go back and look at it.



Ntq$310: Land grant approved. It'll be along the proposed highway ROW west of town.
The bank should be fine too, though that building might be a little tall (I already have it) for the city right now. I think we should start with just a couple of the smaller ones. Though I'm not particularly fond of those BATs, I can't seem to find any better ones, so I guess they'll work.
Hey, the Hotel ZaZa! LIH owns one of those in Franklin County.
The Olive Garden should be fine.
Outback should be fine too. That one looks exactly like the one near me... Probably because me & SimGoober live in the same area. It might even be based off of the one by me!
We'll have to wait and see what the Planning Committee says about all this though.

ericlewis91: Yeah, do you have a specific BAT?
The Planning Committee will look at the proposed locations when they can.

supercity124: I did mark the building as the VSDN's headquarters, I just forgot to take a picture of it. There'll be another issue when I make one.
Also, please remove the Utility Commission banner from your sig. They are reserved for Department Heads.

jacqulina: Thank you!

Hampi: Me too! I think it's one of the nicest places in town to live.
I thought it was the most interesting name...

penguin007: Thanks.

psander5: Thanks!
Yep, Arrowhead Point! That's the next city north.
To be honest, I did the map entirely in MS Paint! Well, the text is WordArt from MS Word, but I copy-pasted it into Paint. You can do amazing stuff with Paint, you just have to know what you're doing.

Patricius Maximus: Good, then I'll start on the Red and Green Lines next update.
Yep. Neighbor Connection. As stated at the top of this post, I accidently forgot to actually post the picture with the update, but it's been added now. I plan for the Coast Highway to be the main scenic road between the towns, but still build a highway when the time comes.

rct3twins: People are allowed to campaign as much as they want, sorry if you don't like it. I do hope it will be a little less next month though.

DoctorJ: Well as of Update 17, it was 7,854, but now it's probably just over 8,000.

Snoopy235: Well a Department of Safety's not needed right now, as there's no crime (OK, maybe a fight once of twice a year), and there hasn't been a single fire in the 30 years this city's been in existance.
Hmm... I don't think Dorito Island's big enough, and the gap between it and the mainland is neither big enough or deep enough for a ferry, but I might be able to put a house and some shops on it. We'll see what the Planning Department says.

[Hampi 54]

DTP: Yes I'm glad I bought that mansion right next to Hampus Village!

Haha yeah it's an interesting name if you don't understand swedish^^

Oh and I forgot to say that it was a great update!

And it's exciting that we have connected to another map! Hope their will be something built there soon!

And i*m also glad that Virgin Shores has started to build bus lines, that's a great addition to the city!