Shayden v1.0

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This is my third CJ since my old Shayden was destroyed from a computer dump.

Shayden, the timeline

1893- Shayden was discovered by John Smith from England

1916- Germans invade land take it over, but fail

1938- England decides to begin development of Shayden

1941- United Kingdom under heavy pressure from Hitler's Nazi Brigade,

development is put on hold

1946- In thanks of America's aid to England, they hand over Shayden

1961- Shayden asks for independance of America

1963- America grants Shayden thier independance

Country: Shayden

Cities: 1 (Spartanburgh)

Population: 5,000

Years in development: Half year

Current Year: 1970

Picture:

Citizen's of Spartanburgh watching the classic

"Aliens in our Hyde"

 

  Edited August 2, 2011 by Sirron Kcuhc  

[Benedict 3,119]

Don't forget to make backups this time.

[gio10469 24]

Nice timeline...can't wait to see more from the reloaded Shayden.

[joshriddle 29]

Yes, please don't forget to make a few backups.

BTW, you don't have to start a new CJ every 5 updates, or when it falls onto the second page.

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Replies:

Benedict: I'm trying to figure out how to move it to the F drive.

gio10469: Thanks, I hope this is the only reloaded one.

joshriddle: I'm not starting a new CJ because I want to. It's because the old region was gone so it's not worth keeping the old CJ.

I am not on the computer that has SimCity 4 so I won't make another entry for Shayden until I get on that computer.

http://afdes.tk/w/Shayden

Shayden is a member of the AFDES.

[joshriddle 29]

Then you may want to put the AFDES tag on the title.

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According to deathtopumpkins, Shayden is now a AFDES Observer State. Shayden personally thanks the AFDES for accepting us. And I will in my power help AFDES however I can. Again I thank AFDES. So here's Shayden's new flag!

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Ok here are the updates:

The year is 1971. The population is now 16,000. Doubled from last year. Here are some more pictures of Spartanburgh:

The peaceful and quiet neighborhood

Our Orange Field, brings in some profit

Another quiet neighborhood

Here's the sport area, a baseball park, soccor field, and parks

Recently the budget has been a trouble. Revenue is 4,500 and Expenses are 8,000. The money left in the budget is 170,000.

More pictures to come:

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It's now 1975, and 70,000 people now live in Spartanburgh. We've done alot. We have skyscrapers and everything. We also have a Minor League Soccor Team, heck we even got a Minor League Football Stadium. We've got more hospitals, police stations, water pollution is gone. We were even able to get rid of our Gas Plant and got more Wind Mills. Pollution in the industrial district is still bad, but it's been worse.

One of our plants in our large industrial district

Fort Hampton's Missle Center

Fort Hampton

Our Wind Mills that provide the whole city electricity

Our Orange Trees, so our Citizens can enjoy some good old fashion fruit!

Some of our skyscrapers, we have a problem with employment because people are moving in too fast to provide jobs for.

That's one of the first neighborhoods in Spartanburg, not

too much has changed.

A blurry view of the skyscrapers!

That's all for now, reply on how you think of Spartanburgh's advancments.

[joshriddle 29]

Looks good.

[Schulmanator 5,787]

Looks like a lot of development here. Lots of nice clean windmills.

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Happy 100,000 Shayden!!

Surprise, we now currently has 107,000 people living in Shayden! To celebrate let's go to our two cities that made it possible. First it's Travison City, currently populated 5,500!

Next  here's Spartanburgh, currently populated at 101,500. I should've added a happy 100,000 for Spartanburgh too...

I decided this time to let the buildings do the talking. So happy 100,000 for Shayden. In six years Shayden has gone up around 99,000 (107,500-8,500= 99,000) Put in a comment about what you think of Shayden.

Oh and remember the theater? It became historical and they've made a sequel to "Aliens in our Hyde", it's called "Idiots in our Hyde"... The sequel is pretty violent though. It's still filled with pollution...

[joshriddle 29]

Oh, in that picture down in the bottom left, where did you find that stadium? Anyway, looking good! Keep it up. Also, be sure to keep all that industry at a controllable growth rate otherwise it may force residents out. That is if residents are to close to it...

EDIT: you posted that new picture while I was talking.

[Petrovar Ambassador 15]

Great start Sirron!

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Replies:

Joshriddle: I don't really remember where I found it. That's the way I have it with Capitol City and Travison City.

Petrovar Ambassador: Thanks, hope to make it even better.

So here are the names of the cities and there population made in Shayden:

Spartanburgh      [121,000]

Capitol City             [10,000]

Charleston                [7,000]

Travison City             [5,000]

Here's a region view:

I forgot to take new pictures so I will later, I don't really feel like doing it now.

Tell me what you think.

[Markus J 242]

Looks like you're growing a little to fast for the size

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They must like it in Shayden, I'm not using any cheats.

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Shayden has just recieved presents from America.  Even know it's 1980 (the Cold War is over) they decided to be generous and give us some advances in technology. To welcome us as a country. They  gave us a Stock Market, a Space Station, and an Advance Research Center. That was real generous of them.  Here are some picures of the new buildings:

The bottom right picture is a view of all the buildings. We hope to do alot with all of these. So thanks America!

Here's a region view:

Population of cities:

1. Spartanburgh            126,371

2. Charleston                   21,129

3. Capitol City                   10,111

4. Travison City                   5,505

Post about America's generousity. Cheers!

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How can I make my Cj more popular?

[joshriddle 29]

Put in more pictures. Also choose better places to take your pictures. Maybe add some special effects to them as well.

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Shayden is now populated at 264,208. And it has 2 meduim sized cities and 4 small cities. Do you think that's much? Here are some pictures probably reused. I haven't made any new picures yet.

I really want to make this CJ popular but it's not working... Ahh!

[Blazerhawk 162]

One way to make a journal popular is to let people know whether or not it is "vanilla." I haven't seen much custom content so far, and that usually helps unless you are trying for vanilla.

[joshriddle 29]

Like CrushedCar said, custom content, which is plugins. Vanilla CJs like yours are still neat, however the towns look more attractive and neat looking.

Anyway, can't wait to find out about this "enemy"

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Ok. I'll take some pictures of some custom pictures I have. Thanks!

[wwetom1 831]

Looking good. And yes, I too would love to see some custom content.

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Happy 300,000 Shayden!

Shayden is now at 300,000! In 15 days Shayden's population has risen back up to the way it was before the computer crash. I got the game info on the other drive so I'm safe for now. Here's a region picture:

Now here are some pictures of our Military Bases in Shayden!

Sorry about the unrealistic airplane mission icons, I couldn't find a time they weren't there,

but this is Fort Randell's Airbase.

Here's Fort Randell, the military are here to protect us from

possible invaders.

Here's Fort Randell's Water Navy! Incase of a breach

overseas.

Now here are some city pictures!

Our seaport, yes there is a problem with it so far, I can't seem

to fix it though, so sorry.

Our Disease Research Facility, incase of a breakout! I have

a feeling we'll need it soon...

A small skyscraper, not sure if

it's a plugin or not.

Some of our residential

skyscarpers.

An apartment, looks cozy!

That's all for now! So what do you think?

[Lyhoko Leaci 770]

I think that building in the "small skyscraper" picture is a Maxis building.

Some hints:

You can turn the icons off in the u drive it menu.

Also, convert the images to .jpg in something, (NOT MS paint), irfanview would probably be the easiest way, once you have installed it, simply open the images in the problem, then save as .jpg. (Choose a save quality of 85-90 in the dialog box that pops up to have smaller image file sizes, which make them quicker to load. 100 makes it nearly as big as it was before in filesize)

Using bigger images (up to 800x600) might help popularity as well.

As was said before, more custom content.

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I wasn't quite sure if it was or not so I just added it. I used "small skyscraper" because it wasn't that tall.

Oh you can? I'll try that thanks!

I do put them in jpg and I didn't edit the size in this post, I took far away pictures because I didn't want the info of the city to be seen.

Yeah I'm having some trouble on that. I put the and plopables in the folder with the applications, should I put the building designs into the My Documents folder?

[joshriddle 29]

You put your plugins and custom content at this path

C:\Documents and Settings\User\My Documents\SimCity 4\Plugins. You stick the plugin in there, complete with it's folder.

I also like the fact that you are using some custom content. I recommend the NAM and Columbus textures to make some things better. I also recommend you download some PEG plugins. They are by far the best ones. Also I recommend some of Simgoober's stuff in the way of real-life content.

[Lyhoko Leaci 770]

In the most recent update, the region view is a .jpg, but all the other pictures are .png.

Also, if you find custom content that comes with an installer, it will place it in the correct position by itself when you run it.