Nexis of Genesis

[mrbisonm 1,622]

Great you dropped by Schulmanator and Leech10. Sven, that Cruiseship is made by Somy, but I don't have the link, maybe someone here knows where.

Gab2k614, great to have you onboard, come again.

Here's Teaser number two of what's coming up soon. This time it is Atlas by night.

Have a nice week

mrb

[cowcorn 11]

Nice teasers!

[FlyingFreeze2 0]

WOW...... I just finish reading the whole 109 pages and i've got to say, that this is the most awe inspireing Cj i've seen yet. Your

Citys have influenced me to start making my citys better with things that make them stand out. It's sad though that your Cj is coming

to an end.

[GMT 389]

an almost only-lurker says:

this is by far the most intresting cj of all.

110... ok, pages with updates are 109, pages of interesting ideas.

graphically not the best, but first ONLY the content counts, and second, this makes it very pleasent.

waiting for more

[mrbisonm 1,622]

FlyingFreeze2, I'm glad that you found new ideas within my CJ to make more interesting cities, hope to see them sometime.....and welcome to NoG.

Always great to hear from a *Part-Time* lurker, GMT......lol....btw, I will use your grassmodd on Genesis from now on.

[MasterPlanMan 1]

This CJ is simply stunning. Its very rich in content and imagination. The latest region views are unbelievable! A CJ can't get any more awe inspiring than this one. I look forward to seeing what comes next!

[Cancerspam88 0]

Mrbisonm, I've been following you CJ for a long time and I must say it is astonishing. I was wondering if you could be so kind as to tell me where you got the buildings in the photo I'm posting?

Thank you in advance and best of wishes to you and to your great CJ!

[mrbisonm 1,622]

MasterPlanMan, thanks for appreciating the CJ.

Cancerspam88, I am not sure, but I think that is a growable Maxis bldg. If not , maybe someone here might help us to identify it. I also might go and see tonight in Tenzel Outlet and query it. Surely we will find out what it is.

[Glenni 1,447]

it's a growable BAT of  a famous hotel in Berlin, Hotel adlon.

Sheesh bison!you even commented on it yourself!

And just for the spammity heck of it,here's a real life pic from this year!

I snapped it with my phone when i was in berlin for like 3 hours,for so to get back to Hamburg

[Darmok 34]

*out of lurking mode*

Hi Fred,

Every time I look at NoG, I wonder at all the details, and I mean details by the truckload!

Nog is like an evolving jigsaw puzzle, you think you saw all there is to see, and then...

Hey! whats this! a small road branching along a cliff overlooking a gazebo on the shore of a small lake filled by a water filtering plant (I guess) discharge. Everything is interlocked!

How can one not like it!

Take care my friend, and many more pages in Nog future!

-John

*back to lurking mode*

[jacqulina 162]

awesome work you have done

[jeronij 13]

Originally posted by: mrbisonm

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Mr B, I am so glad to see you creating great custom content after so long time !!! This picture is simply spectacular   !!!!

[mrbisonm 1,622]

Thanks Glenni, for that link, much appreciated. I indeed did leave a comment on this BAT, but you know, I have over 14,000 files in my plugin folder and I hardly know where they all come from. I usually fill up my memory with more important things......lol. So sorry for not remembering who, what ,where, and why, besides that was two year ago.

Darmok, glad you enjoy the details. You make sure to be there when I update New Saphir, there will be tons of details......lol.

Thanks jacqulina for dropping in again, I'll have a surpize for you in the Ganoga Valley update........but pssssst, don't tell anyone where Jackie's Hide-out actually is situated.

jeronij, It is always a pleasure to have another CJ master come by and drop a note. My friend, it is nice to hear from you and if  YOU say this pic is nice, then it must be.....lol...Thanks, I like that place also. Make sure to see the update with more details soon.

[crazychickensc12 84]

14,000 files!! thats pretty impressive lol, i just broke 4000 files!! I lurk here quite a bit, and i must say you are doing an awesome job! love that new teaser keep up the great work!!

[Cancerspam88 0]

Thank you very much Mrbisonm and Glenni!

[Superchan 23]

cant wait for the update

[Mike the Mayor 51]

Originally posted by: Cancerspam88 Mrbisonm, I've been following you CJ for a long time and I must say it is astonishing. I was wondering if you could be so kind as to tell me where you got the buildings in the photo I'm posting?

Thank you in advance and best of wishes to you and to your great CJ!quote>

 

In answer to your question, I hope mrbisonm doesn't mind but I have those buildings on my game and when I placed the query over the it read "Adlon Kempinski". Try typing that into the exchange and it might just come up.

To mrbisonm - great city you have. Awesome skyscrapers, awesome tropical trees - awesome, awesome, awesome!!!

[mrbisonm 1,622]

crazychickensc12, thanks for leaving a note, hope to see you again.

superchad, it's coming...it's coming...it's coming...sooooon...lol

Mike the Mayor, thanks for the help, but a link was already given by Glenni.

We had a Teaser for Atlas and Three Towers, now it's Skinner county. All three townships will be in the next update, coming in the beginning of next week or before.

[Schulmanator 5,810]

I am looking forward to the update. Consider me teased! :-)

[Adley 0]

Nice... Great going...

*lurks agin*

[Menotyou 0]

Great teaser!

[Lyhoko Leaci 770]

Can't wait for more!

I wonder what it would be like to drive on the highway with all the trees...

[mrbisonm 1,622]

Originally posted by: Leech10 Can't wait for more!

I wonder what it would be like to drive on the highway with all the trees...quote>

 

You need a special Driver's License for this part of the highway.

I hate it when it does that....another thing of the game that wasn't calculated properly, when planting trees.

[Superchan 23]

i hate that, i usally just pave over the highway.

[mrbisonm 1,622]

When you destroy the highway and then plop it over again, it will delete all the trees for two tiles at least on each side, then you have to reseed the darn trees again. Badly done, maybe something forgotten by the creators or something they were too darn lazy to correct.

ok, here for the weekend is a last Teaser of the Ganoga Valley this time. In th beginning of next week we will see my biggest update yet, the Skinner, Atlas and Three Towers region. There will be some thirty (30) pictures. Also we see some new Nexis Custom lots. Have a nice weekend now.

mrbisonm

[jacqulina 162]

hi my friend,wow you sure tease a lot lol,nice one though.i wont tell a soul promise,i cant wait to see what you have been planning,i love the bridge its a wonderfull pic

[Voulpiotis 4]

I'm ready! 30 photos! That will be nice. Can't wait for more.

[mrbisonm 1,622]

I think that this must be my biggest upload to this CJ yet, 30 pictures that took me 1hr and 47 minutes to upload at my soooo sloooow connection (39,9). I thought I'd never make it....lol.

Gloryville.......................The Endpart 11
Part C..............Skinner, Atlas and Three Towers.

Now that Bolton, Axis South, Tenzel and Oxalis have been visited, we will point ourselves more to the south of Gloryville, the three smaller communities, before we end this end (11) part with the International Airport and the downtown section of Gloryville.
While Atlas had the armybase, Skinner is about the most peaceful part of Gloryville around and Three Towers have been arguing since the beginning who the river belongs to, north or south. As usual we start off with the Regional Picture of the area visited, so we all can make ourselves an idea where these counties are exactly situated. Skinner is in the west, while Atlas is directly in the south and Three Towers, divided in two, is in the east. All three counties once were independant , but have been lately attached to Gloryville's administration. Skinner was never a municipality, always having been administrated by either Red Poll or Gloryville, until the City of the Capitol expanded right into it. Atlas was completely independant since the beginning and a part of it is still under the regional law, the army base itself, only a left-over though. The other two thirds belong to either Gloryville in the north or to New Sholes, the farming Capitol, in the south. We have been there before lately, remember? Three Towers has still some problems of independency since the town always has been somewhat separated by the river. North Three Towers was founded first, while the south came after. They said the weather on the other side of the river is better suited to found a new city and the two groups that were sent to settle this township somehow got into an argument about this and they separated it into the two existing municipalities. The matter became a somewhat of a feud and still the rivalty between bith of them exists. Today the north officially belongs to Gloryville, although the south is still independant, but it is somehow grouped together with Nintendon, Fallow Canyon and Brettville since a dozen years or so.
These counties south of Gloryville have been slowly growing mostly because of the army that once blocked everything from coming to close to it. The big hill and the rough terrain right in the middle of Atlas didn't help much either. But what once was a peaceful and very far in the backlands, is today growing like crazy. Skinner is wide open for construction and an expansion of Gloryville's growing suburbs. It has an advantage, Highway 1 ain't far.

Skinner

Let's first begin with Skinner.Southwest of Gloryville, it once contained the biggest and densest forest around. Highway 1 cut the county right in half at a time, when Kevin Slayer found the possibility to make this township an excellent retreat to built his country mansion. So it was done, and on the picture below we see the beginning of it all, thanks to Mr Slayer.

It was on a nice day in May that the home was finally finished after one year and a half of planning and constructing. It was the Jim Construction Co that had the pleasure of creating the biggest mansion on Genesis at that time. Once finalized, Mr Slayer, with a slighty exagerating taste, had this opening party, that broke the record of private parties and still today remains as the biggest party ever. Over one thousand people, mostly his friends and friends of friends, participated on that weekendfestival as some had called it. Kevin bought some 2000 acres then, which he sold piece by piece in his later years. And this is why today the area is called the Richlands. Many, and only, most important people have their country resort here in the densest forests of Genesis. I don't even have to mention any names, because most of them own a small piece of land here.

Everything that is very green between the Highway 1 and the Gloryville's suburbs is called Richland and this view below gives us a good picture of it. The mountain, called the Skinner hills, are about to be logged, like most of the areas on Genesis these days, but we will get to that later in more details. Although the suburbs of Gloryville is spreading faster than one can walk, there's still some agriculture left in Skinner, and most farms are in an excellent functional state, meaning they're not about to give up their lands for the demanding residential use. Some spots are known to have sold for a real fortune per acre on this side of the Highway, and most farmers demand a price which is out of the ring of reason.

  

Although the Regional Administration Office (RAO) has came up with a specific law against clearcuts without licences from the gouvernment, logging is one buissness that is not or only little controlled and supervised, it's like the energy producing money banks, more you profit, less the environment is respected. All a matter of Greed. Therefore clearcuts and excessive logging has in fact become a serious problem in the Genesis Region. What once were rich and dense untouched forest out in the west, are today agriculture or towns and cities. Even here in Skinner, logging has arrived and some places are completely shaved, like this hillside just west of the Richlands. Now if this is for agricultural use is still a question that the counselors of this municipality ask themselves. The Gouvernor of the Gloryville region demands a closer and more controlled management of the logging industries which have become so powerful that even the RAO has some difficulties to reach the right folks to deal with and make a stop to all this.
 

It wasn't long after Kevin Slayer built his masnion, that other folks arrived in this area and it was all of sudden becoming the one only wanted area for rich folk's country homes. Here you have everything to escape the city's stress at only a step away from the big City of Gloryville. If you take the highway , it will take you about 25 minutes to get here, or you can always come the suburbs, which of course will take a little longer.
Logging never reached this part of Genesis and it shows since mature trees are all around, making Richland more beautiful. Now the forests are on private land. Some call it Richland, others have given names as *the enchanted forest* or *Greenwood* or *Skinner Paradise*, but all are the same place, now belonging to Gloryville. The Slayer family still lives on their Grandfather's soils, a lot smaller than before. Most of the surrounding land was sold piece by piece to others that wanted a place in the forest.

 

Here's a closer look at some of these mansions, which are close neighbors of the Slayers. Bern Colebrook is the PDG of the Phoenicks Industries in Hudson, near Pharaon, Matt Fyder is the CEO of the Hemlock Society in New Sholes, Howard Troiler, well, who doesn't know him(?) and Tramp Yuleman owns the Starbucks Cafes nowadays all over Genesis, just to mention a few of these folks that live here. Yuleman once said on a TV show: *Living in Skinner is heavenly wonderful* and not long after that became the slogan for this county.

  

Here is another closeup of folk's homes that we know a little better, like the Tiel family, from Tiel Oil Ltd in New Sholes and Gail Nexis, the chief Surgeon in the University Hospital in Nexis City. She is a grand-daughter of the famous Troy Nexis from Nexis Electronics (son of the famous Vallen).

  

......and finally a close up of todays Slayer mansion, which is slowly disappearing between and under the treegrowth. Flying over these mansions is seriously prohibited by law, so I hope you appreciate these pics a lot that could have cost me a fortune in fines and maybe even prison.

   

Like I said before, agriculture is still a part of Skinner and not easily pushed aside. Close to the fourth biggest City in population, the famers have a certain benefice to be here. Their lands are worth a fortune once they decide to sell to the residential community. Some of the biggest farmes, except those from the west, are here in the Skinner County and the other surrounding townships.

This below is the City's suburb's expansion into Skinner. Richland can easily be identified by the mass of trees that grow around the mansions.
 

Atlas

Now let's jump over to the east, to the former Army county. Atlas once was the center for the army which was based right here near the Nexis river. Since it isn't far from Gloryville, it was also chosen as the Main Spaceport, which it still is today. But the army moved out some 35 years ago and went to the west in a remote place called the Twinlake region, which partially belongs to the mysterious Ganoga Valley, there it was divided into three townships, the airbase, the armybase and an experimental station of which we saw some preview pictures in earlier posts. We will ghet to these parts in a much later update.

  

Today Atlas is still the number one Spaceport on Genesis. From here you can travel everywhere which is away from this planet, like taking a tour on the original planet of the Nexians on Uru or even visit the Gaburans on their home planet Mahoon. You can either travel with the J.E.T. spacevessels, by the Nexis spacebus or by using the LBST system from the underground of Atlas. This is also the place when you arrive on Genesis. Here you register and get your immigration papers.
Some parts of Atlas are still untouched, like most of the hill, some stayed agricultural for the moment and other parts became residential and now new commercial lands are sold near the farms.

Shortly after the army left, residential zoning became the new invader of the county. Again just like Skinner and Three Towers, Atlas ain't far from Gloryville and therefore highly demanded for residential zoning. A little harder to get to these parts though, because of the absense of a highway, the expansion of Gloryville's suburbs was quickly tossed over to Three Towers and Skinner, and developments stayed smaller here, leaving mostly family homes only behind.

Today Atlas' main attraction is the Interplanetary Spaceport and the LBST (Light Beam Space Traveler) that once the great grandfather Nexis invented on Uru and which was hevily used during the Opall Meteor Crisis years back. While the spaceport for the vessels is above ground, the LBST has moved to the underground, right under the landing strip. The mountain was dug out and then levelled above, which made it an ideal place for the above ground port. Here all the traveling form Uru to Genesis or vice versa, or to Mahoon are taking place. Also the merchandise shipped or coming from these planets come through here also. It is a very busy place. The landingstrip also is being used by transportation airplanes to receive stock from other places on Genesis that need to be send to other planets, mostly Uru. Exporting goods from Genesis has become a major activity.



I don't know if some of you remember, but the LBST system was shut down at one time and had some serious problems functioning properly, which was caused by the Meteor Opall which threatened to destroy the whole Solaris system. That problem was solved by bringing the LBST underground which made less luminar intererence with the system. Today it is functioning only for transporting people and merchandise from Uru to Genesis and back, also to Mahoon. Below is the entrance to the underground system.

One of Miss Evermind's invention were the Space Ears that were mounted on the first spacestation in Genesis' orbit. Here on Atlas we have another set that listen in to other spacenoice that might come from other civilizations, maybe even spying on Mahoon.....
All these three big organizations, the Space Port, the LBST and Space Ears are under the administration of the Nexis Corporation, still one of the biggest Companies on Genesis and Uru combined. The Grandfather of this organization was Vallen Nexis, followed by his grandson Jadis, then later it was Pfil Nexis and his sisters that took over and all three of them today have a lot of partners to help run the Nexis Corporation. 

Once Atlas was almost mostly only agriculture and an armybase, now these are tossing aside to make room for the demand of big commerces and shopping centers and soon, some say, the famers will be gone forever in Atlas. A reality or fiction?

Three Towers

Let's go to Three Towers now, the third and last county of this update. It started in two parts, when the first group received the permission to settle here. It was because of a simple argument between two families that the town was built on each side of the Nexis river, called Three Towers North and Three Towers South. The comuunity was called so because of the nearby mountain that has three towerlike structures on top of it easily to be seen from far away. Here is a retro-picture of that area when it all started.

Today it is changed a lot and both municipalities are completely belonging to others. The North went to Gloryville and the south to Brettville together with Nintendon and others, but still more or less independant and on its own. All that happened when industries moved into the township some 25 years ago. With it came a lot of workers and therefore a lot of residences. Gloryville  already owned the northern part, but Brettville acted at the right moment and took partial posession of the southern part of Three Towers.

Here is the same view as the one above before, but from the other side, giving us the view of the terrace homes that started building on the foothills of the mountain. I guess it is all a matter of needing space for construction.

While digging out the sides of the mountain to build a road that contours it, a watersource was cracked open, that has immense capacities of delivering fresh and cold water. In the earlier year it was mainly used to supply the town with water, but later the waterpipeline from Nexis City reached the community with a better system at a cheaper price and the spring was just left forgotten and running on its own into the Nexis River. It was only a few years ago that the Park Society of Gloryville realized that they had a jewel without even knowing it and it was transformed into a Park unique to Genesis.

When the industries came, it needed workers and a new bridge had to be built for access, and which became more active today than the older bridge further east. Still another bridge is in the planning.

Where there's industries and a concentrated mass of people, there's pollution and this can be seen here, which clearly divides the dark water from the industry side with the clean and clear springwater from the parkside. Although pollution is not exactly a problem yet on Genesis, but the Genesis Administration Office is seriously concerned in some cases in and around Gloryville,Cedar Bay and Nexis City and try not to duplicate the error they made on Uru, by not taking care of it early enough.

The Living Terraces in Three Towers North started when space for residential buildings ran out some 20 years ago. The foothills were tamed and terraformed to accept a few hundred private homes and appartments. When the Regional Administration Office realized that the mountain was about to be devored alive by homes and appartment blocks, it put a sudden stop to the construction and today the rest of the mountain is under regional laws and seriously protected.

Below is the first bridge that kept the North and South in contact, and today they have two bridges, and a third one is in the planning, since on both sides the traffic exchange is growing daily. When this and the other bridge were constructed, there was hardly any watertraffic on the Nexis river. But when Cedar Bay's industries (in Nexis City) were demanding a harbor for better transportation and exportation of their manufacturing goods, this river became busy with time. Only precise sized ships are able to fit under these bridges. The newer planned bridge will be a lot higher and wider and also made out of steel, servicing cars and trains, and maybe one day the two existing bridges will be redone.

Called the Springpark once it was built only to please the people from around this area, but soon it became a tourist attraction for the whole east. Gloryville opened the park's doors only 4 years ago and already some tens of thousands of visitors are recorded with an increasing number each year. The forest was never cut before, therefore delivering a lot of interest to those that never saw a fully grown Genesis tree before. And here it is possible without either visiting the Ganoga Valley and finding a small road to nowhere and hike for a few miles into the wilderness of the mountains to see some mature trees. As we know that spring was found when they were building the road on the mountain side and they accidently cracked open the natural valve. Now it is piped and controlled and comes out as jetstream above the road, which is then delivered through the pipes below.

Here you have a better look where the spring empties into a little stream below and into the Park. In the summer the valves are turned closer to lower the amount of water and increases with the winter and spring, when the rainy season has started.

The lower part of the falls brings a lot of humidity and it shows in the flora and vegetation, which is quite dense and green. The first part of this park is called the Pond, which becomes later the Creek and which itself empties into the Nexis River down below. The whole park is only half a kilometer long and wide, but with a diversity of flora that is rarely found anywhere else.

And here is a last picture of the tight fits of the ships that come from Nexis City and which are going east to the sea. Everytime a ship is being directed under this bridge, a bunch of citizens come to see the professional navigating.Only experienced top-class captains specially trained on Uru are able to navigate these monsterships through the Nexis River and its bridges, whether going upstream or down. It takes guts, knowledge and precision to pass through here, sometimes inch by inch. The antenna on top of the ship has to be dismounted everytime a bridge is encountered and everytime it is a overwhelming challenge to pass through. Never in its history a severe accident has been reported. The top of the ship comes so close that one can scrape of the moss that grows on the humidity on the rocks just underneath the bridgearches. Once the ships have cleared all the Nexis River bridges and reached the sea, the specialized Captains leave the command to the original captains and get back to Cedar Bay or to the rivermound, where another ship already awaits them to be guided for another journey under the Bridges of Genesis's Nexis River.

ouffffff.....what an update. Hope you liked this one, so let's hear some comments (from Lurkers also). Uploading 30 pics like this to the Imagehost with my sooooo sloooow connection (39.9) was a job of almost 2 hrs.(1hr.47min)

I will take a brief break now, maybe a week or so...(lol...burn-out....lol)... and will be back with the last part of the Gloryville Update, the International Airport and the City itself, the Downtown. Then we will head west and visit a newer City, the City of Pharaon maybe.
See ya all soon and have a nice week and weekend.

mrbisonm/Fred

[Charles Rodulfo 0]

Nice update fred! I like how both towns has grown. Sorry I cannot comment long today my friend, I'm busy with RL and trying to update my CJ. Well, I really loved the update (and I would love to comment) but Well, the park was nice, I wish I could spend time there... 'till the next update my friend, keep it up!

Take Care,

Charles

[jacqulina 162]

awesome update my friend,i love the region pic is beautifull.the mansions are excellent you have done a great job with those and the surrounding areas,i love the countryside pic with the cows and the pond thats a beuatifull shot.skinners paradise looks great,excellent farmland.wonderfull suburbs just the right amount of trees to make it look pretty.beautifull views of the city,great seawalls nice job there.the spring park is beautifull you have done a beautifull job with that area.all round beautifull update and pics