Palei' lua

[OM3N 20]

I have been playing Sim City since the original and have always enjoyed it. This is my first attempt at a real CJ.

After toying with many concepts I have found one that is both intriguing and (I hope) doable. This has already taken me a long time, and I am only starting to build anything, but I am having a great time doing it!

That being said.

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Welcome to Palei' lua.

Palei' lua is an island nation centered around a large volcano. For thousands of years it remained undiscovered by humans. This was mainly due to it's vast distance from other surrounding landmasses. 

Palei' lua has a very unique climate with pristine tropical beaches at sea level, progressing quickly into alpine rainforests at higher elevations.

In the year 1922, Samoan sea voyagers were set adrift by a large storm.  After surviving 28 days at sea, they washed up upon a small deserted island. Fortunately the island had a natural spring from which they were able to gain fresh water. Over the coming years the voyagers learned to survive this harsh, yet forgiving environment and began to form a new civilization.

In the coming generations, the voyagers bore children who became even more adept at thriving in this tropical environment. 

Their homes and buildings began to grow more complex and accommodating. This led to the development of more leisure time with which the Palei' lua natives began to develop agriculture from the native plants found on the islands.

Agriculture thrived on the fresh water that was bubbling up from the small islands. The soil was fertile and life was good for the now hundred or so people that inhabited Palei' lua. The inhabitants built roads to transport their goods. 

Some of the elders began to recall the beliefs held in their homelands of mighty gods. These stories were passed down and a special building was constructed to worship these mighty deities.

They also constructed a windcatcher, the design of which was passed down by the village elder. This building was used to more efficiently pump water from the natural springs which were so common on the small islands.

This was when things began to change quickly. Not many years after the construction of their house of worship, the Palei' luans began to spot strange ships on the horizon. Some thought that these may have been sent by their deities, others had darker foretellings.

Nonetheless Palei' lua would never be the same after this day.

 

[Benedict 3,119]

Love the CJ name, love the map, love the images you've shown so far. (If you toggle the grid off before you capture screenshots the images will have that extra touch of realism).

[OM3N 20]

Thank You Benedict!

Can't believe I forgot to turn the grid off!!!!

BTW if you or anyone else knows a better site than photobucket to upload images to I would be grateful. That site is really pi*$ing me off at the moment.

[nathanthemayor 1,262]

Awesome job so far!

[3dpuzzlemaster 20]

Those are beautiful islands! You could use imageshack instead of photobucket

[jakehh 52]

This looks promising.

You could always use Tinypic, Imageshack, mypicx or Flickr.

[OM3N 20]

nathanthemayor: Thanks!

3dpuzzlemaster: Thank you. and I will start to use imageshack if I find it to be better.

jakehhh: Thanks for the kind words.

Here is one more picture of overall progress

[stocktons_pimp 10]

tropical, huh.... looking forward to seeing this one develop

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[Benedict 3,119]

Nice to see another update, and stocktons_pimp is right - tropical CJs are rare. And your byline 'clash of civilizations' has me intrigued.

[Follarch 326]

Oh wow! Those islands are just gorgeous, and the name is interesting and grabbing. And there seems to be another civilization of people with much higher technology that have stumbled upon the Samoans. I wonder how this will affect the small society.

[mightygoose 92]

nice work, feb 2003 you joined this site a looooong time ago, your islands look fantastic.

a great website for image hosting is majhost, you can have custom subfolders, no file size limit, no bandwidth limit, but you have to upload pics individually or grouped in zip files... not too sad.

[OM3N 20]

 Stockton's pimp: Yeah I haven't seen enough tropical CJs so I'm trying to do a good one.

Benedict: Glad you're interested.

Archean: I have big plans for the Samoans

mightygoose: Yeah I have been here for a long time hehe.

Unfortunately I'm going to be very busy for the next week so updates may take a while. Stay tuned though. They will come.

[stocktons_pimp 10]

i want to put up a tropical journal too... haven't had enough time on my hands though

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