River Basin: The region where anything could happen

[cyber_256 0]

I am impressed, very impressed.

[GaryGerbrandt 6]

OOh... pretty...

 

Can we see some night shots?

 

       ~boob

[uncrazycooper13 0]

Wow Smirkazor! This is pretty darn nice! However I think that your transportation is a little too much. Especially if you don't want it to become a skyscraper jungle. Pretty soon you should start fazing some of those higways and rails out and start getting to lower density stuff. Other then that it looks really nice! I really love how the city has surrounded those 2 mountains in Multinational place! Keep it up! Can't wait to see what you do with the next island!!!

[exgamer07 0]

smirkazor, My city is about 200,000, but I had other cities up to almost 400,000 and it still takes a while for commercial skyscrapers to plop up, they dont grow right away like in some of your commercial developements. I realize that many of your skyscrapers are plopped but i do notice many of them grow on their own in your pictures. I am just amazed that they develope right away when you zone the commercial districts.

[K_m_H 0]

this city has really got much bigger since I last looked.. Nice work Smirkazor. Cool Downtown area with alot of C skyscrapers..

happy 100't birthday Yamamoto

[DuskTrooper 314]

Cool!  The regional pic looks cool!

[GaryGerbrandt 6]

Any news?

[smirkazor 1]

Hey everyone, just to let u all know, i will not be updateing for a little while, as i am doing another project for a friend and will probably take till mid next week, so stay tight, and i will be back with more great updates.

[smirkazor 1]

hey all, i would just like to say that i am sorry for not updating as often as u would like, infact i havent updated for at least a month. but that will soon change, i decided to have a bit of time off of simcity4, to gather some more ideas and get inspiration to make my cities better, so look forward for lots of great news on the development of river basin and lots of pics

smirkazor

[smirkazor 1]

hey simtropians, well, its been a very long time since i was last around here, sure has changed quite a bit with v4.0 n all, anyway, back to why i am writing, it shouldnt be too long now till i start back on riverbasin again, been collecting some great bats u lot have been making, u sure have been busy.
well i will be back and building soon, would like to see some ideas for what i could do if it isnt too much trouble, thats the main reason why i havent played in a while, dunno what i could do, no inspiration, anywho seeyas all around.

smirkazor

[MsCharamut1969 8]

Date:5/1/2004 3:05:47 PM
Author:smirkazor

and i thought people actually liked my city journal, i guess i was wrong.

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HOW IN THE WORLD CAN YOU SAY THAT? You have a lot of fans. I'm amazed at your CJ. I think it looks awesome and it looks well put together. i love your tunnels. (That's what I need to learn is how to make tunnels) If people don't like your CJ, who cares, you like it right? That was the same boat I was in. I got a lot of comments from my last CJ that I let die and when Istarted a new one, hardly anyone visits it now, but I really don't care cause I like it and enjoy looking thru it.

You've done a wonderful job and I expect to see more updates! If you don't update I'm gonna come and well, throw sim snowballs at ya until you do update...there's how's that...LOL. Take care and keep up the good work!

MsCharamut1969

Chara

[smirkazor 1]

Hey, didnt expect to get a reply from you mscharamut1969, trixie winner 2004 eh? whats that for? I do enjoy it, but i just dont have alot of time for it anymore, college is really taking alot out of me, i dont get back home till aboot 5 pm, anyway i will hopefully be able to do some soon, after my exams which i am taking now, well, i'm in college atm and need to go so seeyas all around sometime.

thnx for the reply mschara, u got msn? mines smirkazor@hotmail.com

smirkazor

[Llama_Sim 0]

You know, just today, I was thinking to myself Whatever happened to River Basin. No lie, I was just thinking about this CJ!

[smirkazor 1]

wow, that is freaky, hmmm, must be a sign. well updates will come soon, my last exam is tomorrow so i will have time so, yay.

smirkazor

[MsCharamut1969 8]

Sorry I haven't been around Smirk, I've really just come back myself. I got the Trixie for best storyline in a CJ. You can click on the 04 and it'll tell you what it's for...I was so tickled!!! I even made the award my desktop for a while. I added you to my MSN Messanger....so shout at me sometime.

I still love your CJ and I'm gonna take into consideration the comment you left in my CJ. Take care and great job on your CJ...

 

Chara

[smirkazor 1]

well, congratulations for the award, u definately deserve it, i will see if i can beat u for the 2005 award . well just had my last exam for a while, so i will have time for sc4 again, wahey, so look forward for some great stuff, like always , well seeyas around, and when i see u on msn i will give u a call mschara.

smirkazor

[smirkazor 1]

damn, i really need to know of a good place where i can host my pictures, cos at the moment i dont really want simtrop to host, well most of u know why, so if anyone could tell me of a good place to host pictures, please let me know asap, thank you.

 

smirkazor

[frogface 354]

www.imageshack.us

[sandroalexis 2]

I just want to say that I really like your city.

[smirkazor 1]

I will begin the latest update on riverbasin will be the city of Baskingville, Baskinville was the second city to be founded in the life of riverbasin, Baskingville is the industrial capital of River Basin, and is a major manufactuar of anything industrial, and is backed by the fair trade organisation, development around Baskingville has been quite slow, and has periodically stopped. This was mainly because all the regions recourses was put to the construction of the capitals to secure a foothold in the riverbasin nation. Now that they have been completed, development has begun once again, at the moment just the basic road layouts and transportation systems have been laid for an extension to the city on the mainland.

 

This pic is of the regions largest rail station. and soon to be the main hub for rail usage once open to the public

 

Next we have other views of the transportation layout of the new development.

 

 

 

i know its not much, but wait till the building starts, more updates to come soon, so stay tuned.

 

smirkazor

[smirkazor 1]

Hey again, thought i'd might as well do another update, seeing as i like all u simtropians, these next pics are the further development of the expansion of the city of baskingville. This new expansion will be mainly be built up of residential/commercial areas, as there is a shortage.

 

This first pic shows the new built up shore line, with all commercial, which should in time be able to support the growing population.

 

New residential area/commercial.

 

 

Overview of new development.

 

 

Whole city view.

 

 

Night view.

 

 

Thats all the pics i have for today, but will have more by sunday, so untill then, pls comment when possible, i would like feedback wether or not it is good or bad opinions, any will help me to see what i am doing right and what needs work, so please comment, keep tuned in.

 

smirkazor

[K_m_H 0]

oo the transportation network looks interesting.. where doest taht rail go after it disappears below the highway I'm lost

[Djohaal 121]

Now I see where did my city buidlings skills come from, took one year to notice though.
Thanks for bringing back such a great journal, I always lurked around it to assimilate learn more techiniques on simcity urbanism

[Ryan Sanders 0]

Ok. I think you have done a good job with your region and I think you have some of the best talent wit h building cities, but you simply said on the 1st or 2nd threat that this region would be realistic. You can not tell me that when 95% of the buildings are medium/high density.. that this is realistic. You have Stage 8 skyscrapers all over the place. I mean.. YOU are the one who said that you were going to make this region realistic, SOMEWHAT atleast.

[smirkazor 1]

Im not aiming to make it realistic in like the beginnig, like most people do, atm i am doing all the built up areas, so when i start to build upstream, things will get more spaced out and lower density, i'm aiming for the end result to be realistic, not the process to get there, but thnx for the comment, now no-one else will ask it again . U can see what i mean by the lower desnity stuff witha tad of high in the pics shown, when it get nearer completion u will see.

 

New update tomorrow, gonna make it a gooden.

 

smirkazor

[K_m_H 0]

I forgot to say I still think that cat of yours is scaring ppl off your CJ.

[helomoto 28]

Wow, very great CJ......and its cool that you have that nice of a budget......awesome job

[smirkazor 1]

hello everybody on simtropolis! i know its been a while but i am back, but with some grave news, recently i have needed to reformatt my compter as i now have a brand spankin new one, but the thing is i didnt manage to save my River Basin region before my old one got reformatted so i have lost all of my most recent work on baskingville, which was the last lot of updates i did, half of yamamoto and everything except the highway layout of Rickennington.

But that will not stop me from starting over again! Riverbasin will return to its once glourious gloriousness, it will rise from the ashes and become even better!

 

So to start off i have begun a fresh on a different part of the region so i can get my mind off the stuff i have lost, this new city is called Suburbia, i will be starting off small, just to get myself back into the mood of sc4 from my long, long, long hybernation away from it all, so here is some pictures of what has gone on so far, as u can guess from the name it will be mainly suburbs, cos i know some people say, hey where are your suburbs or it would be more realistic if there were suburbs or i thought u wernt going to do another concrete jungle. so here we are.

 

http://img105.echo.cx/img105/6660/suburb8wm.jpg align=baseline>

 

sorry its greyscale, thought it might look cool, anyway those things in the boxes r the train stations, looks nice for a suburb.

 

Much more to come.

 

Smirkazor

[smirkazor 1]

Hello and welcome to a new update on my new city suburbia, i have done quite a bit from the last picture so lets get to it.

In this first picture i will show the area of land that i have built on. in the picture u can see my first bit of rail layout, i want to at first seperate the residential from the commerce for now.

 

http://img55.echo.cx/img55/9365/suburbiafirst7pr.jpg align=baseline>

 

I begun work on the far left residentail area, first off i begun the layout of my suburban area.

 

KEY

 

 http://img262.echo.cx/img262/2294/key5wt.jpg align=baseline>

 

http://img55.echo.cx/img55/3897/suburbiasecond7tq.jpg align=baseline>

 

This is what it loooks like with everything built with some extra future expansions.

 

http://img262.echo.cx/img262/3120/suburbiathird6ei.jpg align=baseline>

 

http://img262.echo.cx/img262/2659/suburbiafourth5fj.jpg align=baseline>

 

and a little look at the starting layout to the commercial area across the small river.

 

http://img262.echo.cx/img262/1699/suburbiafive6rh.jpg align=baseline>

 

Thats all for now, i may post some more pictures later today say stay tuned.

 

Suburbia

 

smirkazor.

[____----____ 37]

I really like all your mass transit