Crystal Junction

[moeatc 0]

Yeah its definately one of my favourites on the Forums. Everything about it is well thought out. I've loved watching a piece of green land turn into a ravenous desert terrain, then watch urban sprawl do its work.

Marvellous!

[+Guest]

It is looking very good even if the temperature is 140F/60C degrees.

[bartsimpson64 0]

This is really good cj you made there. I love the way it expands to a city without putting too many skyrise. I was wondering, do you put some commercial where the suburbs are or it is all in the downtown area? Could we see a map with your RCI and one with the traffic would also be nice.

I'm also subscribing to your journal since it is so nice and interesting.

[vidioman 21]

This is, without a doubt, the BEST City journal on any forum. Reading that report about the heast makes me glad I'm in Canada. I thought 30 was hot! (although, I think 20 is hot) and It's 60 there! The city looks great, I'm sure there is more greatness to come!

 

-Ice Cream must be popular there, eh?

[whiteshark365 563]

Thanks for all the comments guys. Answers to Questions.

Bartsimpson64: I have a lot of commercial zones outside of downtown, in fact nearly 2/3s of all jobs are provided by commercial strip malls located along major roads and avenues. There are also sub-downtowns located arround the city as well, which provide a centralized job relief. I'll try and post some rci pics, as well as some traffic pics soon.

[whiteshark365 563]

Thursday, December 10, 3169

Crystal Chronicles
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[bewilder2 2]

10 lane expressway? I wish SC4 had that.

[dudyconstructor 40]

Nice Region you got there
keep the good work!

[vidioman 21]

Date:7/29/2004 7:58:50 PM
Author:whiteshark365

Temps
High: 99

[+Guest]

The update looks nice and the temp has dropped from the 100's (or the above 37). It's nice to see someone use avenues as a highway (because I do).

[Casper3141 60]

looks great as usual i can barely wait for another update

[nooneatall 6]

Ahh... the temperature has finally cooled down. It is nice to know.
I think that you may have gone overboard with the weather, as the normal temperature in northern ontario is about 24 degrees celcious during the summer, but it is a story after all.
Besides that, from what I have read, I would like to state that the region is comming along nicely. Your use of storys makes this CJ more so interesting then it already was. Keep on the good work!
*goes off to read the CJ entirely, even if it takes an eternity*

[jmusshorn 7]

Crystal Chronicles...

A GameCube player, perhaps?

Love the region! Hope it stays alive for many months (or years) to come!

- James

[ChicAgo333 2]

this city journal is incredible and a lot of hard work has gone into this to make it one of the best city journals on site. cant wait to see more

 

This is my 400th post!

[Superstar 69]

this CJ is always looking great

[andrew george 0]

Still looking great whiteshark - keep it up.

 

A

[your_adress_here 11]

This is looking very nice, and I really like the new bridge!
But, I just noticed something ::: (and unless I am mistaken) you don't have rail into Sandy Ridge!!!

[whiteshark365 563]

City Update 21.2:

 

Crystal Junction is very quickly approaching major city status. The population is now just above 600,000, and the urban sprawl is increasing to the north and east. The city is starting to standardize its power and water grids, as well as the recent completion of Freeway 248 in the northwest. The city's downtown area is booming, and inner city population and commercial jobs are sky rocketing.

 

There isnt any rail running into Sandy Ridge due to the rail network only linking major metropolotin areas, as opposed to towns, like in the us and other countries. The designed of the transportation network on Frontier Point only links major cities and indusrail centers.

 

Crystal Junction Transportation Map (Hosted Offsite)

 

Images removed, because of their size, & they were messing up the forum layout.

Images are to be 800x600 <200KB, regardless of where they are hosted. Otherwise they will be removed.

 

Crystal Junction Metro Area Photo (Hosted Offsite)

 

 

Thanks for all the comments, questions, and input guys.

[vidioman 21]

It's like a desert oasis! Beautiful

[ChicAgo333 2]

wow an incredible region shot...you really have done a lot of work on this (even though i see every update im just complimenting on all the work youve done) keep up the great work!

 

also your two pictures are over 2000 pixels in width! please change them.

[mattc005 2]

THE WHOLE REGION

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*eyes twich*

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wow.......

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*is speachless*

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and... Chicago333: who care's about the size... this is a special moment *tears up over beauty*

[ChicAgo333 2]

Date:7/31/2004 4:56:40 PM
Author:mattc005

...and... Chicago333: who care's about the size... this is a special moment *tears up over beauty*

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LOL. im just saying that so he can resize before his pic gets deleted...i never said it was bad...its awesome

[DuskTrooper 314]

Whoa, pics a tad ( waay, actually ) too large there, dude.
Otherwise, very cool!

[mattc005 2]

LOL. im just saying that so he can resize before his pic gets deleted...i never said it was bad...its awesome

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I know... I'm saying who would want to delete such beautiful pictures?? If the forum (or some cold-hearted mod) deletes them though.. Yeah, they should be resized... OR just split it up into 3 or 4 different ones and put them side by side

[Member19922 0]

Amazing city whiteshark as always...  keep up the good work...

 

 

(side note - the moderators cannot delete the pic per se because the are hosted off site.)

[ChicAgo333 2]

Date:7/31/2004 9:55:29 PM
Author:Deaf2

...(side note - the moderators cannot delete the pic per se because the are hosted off site.)

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Images removed, because of their size, & they were messing up the forum layout. Images are to be 800x600 <200KB, regardless of where they are hosted. Otherwise they will be removed.

^^^does that proove you are wrong?

[Overlag 0]

why did the mods remove these? why didnt they just url them so people who live in the *modern* world can view them? Instead you've removed them totaly which is rather annoying. It is 2004 you know.

[Mexicanboy13r 12]

wow cool! region and city!! i like the color!

[whiteshark365 563]

Clearly I was unaware that this rule applied to imaged hosted offsite since i posted pics on here off site and no on ever removed them that were larger then the specified size din this fourm, not to mention the way the rules are setup in the pic hosting guidelines, kept givening me the impression that they only applied to on-site hosted pics. I'd appreciate that being listed in the guideline section with the words, Including off-site hosted pics. Other then that here are the URL links to the pics so that people can load them seperately from the site.

Sattelite Pic

Transportation Map

[ChicAgo333 2]

Date:8/1/2004 12:15:15 AM
Author:whiteshark365

Clearly I was unaware that this rule applied to imaged hosted offsite since i posted pics on here off site and no on ever removed them that were larger then the specified size din this fourm, not to mention the way the rules are setup in the pic hosting guidelines, kept givening me the impression that they only applied to on-site hosted pics. I'd appreciate that being listed in the guideline section with the words, 'Including off-site hosted pics'. Other then that here are the URL links to the pics so that people can load them seperately from the site.

Sattelite Pic

Transportation Map

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i have photoshop and if you would like me to resize those images for you so they can fit on here i can (and of course im guessing you know that photoshop can resize images without messing up the graphic quality).

so how about it?