Eden: The New Frontier

[Terring 6,476]

In the begining...

The Update 13 is available on SimPeg and SC4D. It was a simple boring teaser, so let's ignore it

Back to Eden

Update 14: A Planet Called "SimMars"

"O God! I could be bounded in a nutshell, and count myself king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams"

William Shakespeare

My most favorite games ever are Simcity and Spore (both by Will Wright and Maxis ). In those games you can create your own universe in a nutshell, full of imagination and as complex as you decide.

^{(Both the above pictures shows mine creations, an ecological city in Simcity 3000 World Edition and my alter-ego civilization in Spore)}

Simcity 4 is no exception, especially with all those cool custom stuff that allows you to build anything you want. From mountain rural towns to extra large metropolises. From medieval to the future, from Europe to planet Mars. This topic is mostly a showcase of some of my creations for SimMars Beta 3, as well as some interesting pictures from my colonies. Hope that you like them

The Martian surface in SimMars is barren. No stones, no rocks, no boulders. Also you can't "plant" rocks like the trees on Simcity. A bit boring, isn't?

So i made a collection of lots that covers the barren Martian surface. Now it's possible to add stones, rocks and other items to make the Martian surface more interesting.

So many rocks. Perfect place for the native animals to build their nests, especially the Martian bears

Those lots can also be very useful as fillers and for the creation of Martian parks.

No more empty industrial zones. Now it's possible to fill them, making the industrial places even more nice.

So don't surprise if you see skyscrapers next to factories

Those lots can also be useful to create visual expansions for the airspaceports runways. The airspaceports on Mars doesn't need miles of runways, but some extra expansion is still welcomed.

And to make the Martian surface a bit more interesting, how about trees in mini domes?

O.K., before keep going, please read this. Mars reject the Monetary System and established the Resource-Based Economy, where all goods and services are available without the use of money, credits, barter or any other system of debt or servitude. All resources become the common heritage of all of the inhabitants, not just a select few. Because of this, there are no rich and poor Sims. However Simcity 4 use the Monetary System, so you need rich and poor Sims. This is unacceptable. So i decide to replace the economical classes with technological classes.

$$$ Sims replaced by Cybs, SimMartian with robotics prosthetics.

$$ Sims replaced by Bals, a hybrid between Cybs and Gens with both cybernetic and genetic prosthetics.

$ Sims replaced by Gens, SimMartians with genetic prosthetics.

O.K., back to the update.

An another modification in SimMars is the addition of some extra vehicles. SimMars Beta 3 has already a small collection of medium wealth Bal cars, while more vehicles are now under creation.

However those medium wealth Bal cars are the only automata on SimMars. So i add some Terran vehicles that fits on Mars as much as possible. The Kewet Buddy fits very nicely on Mars, as the cars of low wealth Gen SimMartians.

On the other hand, Koenigsegg CCXR is a great choice for the high wealth Cyb SimMartians.

Vandy freight trucks doesn't fit perfectly on Mars, but they are the only trucks that i can use. Finally the roads of the industries are not empty anymore.

Need a bus? This double decker bus made by Oppie fits nicely.

And what about trains? There are no trains yet for SimMars, so i need some Terran trains for my railroads. This is a German freight train made by Oppie.

BR 143 is the only passenger train than can be used on SimMars. Thanks to those train, my primary railroads are not empty anymore.

Back to my loting creations. This is a small airspaceport, very useful for small remote colonies. It's not functional, but I'll try to make it.

Need a rescue team? Something goes really bad in the colony? The military and rescue base is always ready for action.

Something else that SimMars Beta 3 really needs is a set of trail paths. Paths are very common on Earth, so why not on Mars? I also made some extra Martian plazas, to bring some extra variation in the recreation facilities.

Those paths can be also very useful to built mini roads.

Evillions8 suggest me to check the B.S.C. path textures. As you can see, the result is great!

And something interesting. How about plopable buildings, that can be placed anywhere you want?

I also played with grownable buildings. Those white homes are for high wealth Cybs SimMartians. Making their lots a bit smaller, those houses can construct everywhere.

A 6x6 grownable "village" of medium wealth Bals SimMartians.

This is a low wealth Gen apartment building, the tallest building in SimMars! By making it's lot smaller, i can have this giant much more often, saving me from serious crises.

In December i released a mod that relots the Martian buildings, making them available for Earth. Martian buildings on Earth. Time for the opposite, Terran buildings on Mars. This is a low wealth Gen apartment building, originally made for SimMars.

This is a high tech factory that makes robots. The pyramidal shape is cool, but it's cyan windows are out of place. I guess we can imagine that the cyan color is by the windows themselves and not by the reflexion of the Terran atmosphere.

Same with this high wealth Cyb apartment building. We can imagine that the windows has the cyan color to symbolize Earth, the origin of SimMartian.

Notice those 2 black, arcology-like buildings? Those are high wealth Cyb apartment buildings too.

And a mini teaser, a new colony for the next update. It will takes me some extra time, but this colony will be very interesting. Please stay tuned

[Terring 6,476]

VIRUS ATTACK!

A virus stroked my computer. I saved my colonies, but there is a possibility to lose those colonies because of the virus.

Eden will be back!

[Schulmanator 5,812]

It is cool stuff, so I hope the colonies will survive.

[Terring 6,476]

Schulmanator: Thank you for the interest . The colonies are unaffected from the virus, so they'll be back soon

Update 15: The Show Must Go On!

"My soul is painted like the wings of butterflies,

Fairy tales of yesterday, will grow but never die,

I can fly, my friends!"

Queen

Some days ago, a virus stroke my computer. It forced me to reboot my computer, so I'm reinstalling Simcity. However my colonies and custom lots are safe and unaffected, so Eden will keep strong. By the way, I have a nice collection of pictures from all my colonies, taken just before of the virus attack. Hope that you like them

Hope-1

Logic-2

Faith-3

Love-4

Fun-5

Life-6

(Under construction)

[Terring 6,476]

Update 16: It's A Wonderful Life

"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

This update is mostly a mini teaser about Life-6. This colony is the most dense populated colony and the only one that contain only skyscrapers and apartment buildings. This colony made mostly for Gens, but soon Bals and Cybs moved on Life-6 as well. Life-6 is almost ready, but I need to add some details as well. Oh well, here are some pictures of Life-6...

[9988 428]

Very nice use of SimMars, very good work!.

[nathanthemayor 1,263]

Yes, very amazing cities there!

EDIT: Oh my goodness those are supertall skyscrapers!!!!

[Schulmanator 5,812]

Cool! Very awesome!

Rock on with the red planet!

[Terring 6,476]

9988: Thank you

nathanthemayor: Glad to see that you like them . As about the skyscrapers, they are not taller versions of ordinary apartment building and skyscrapers. They are arcologies, large buildings that works like mini cities. This is how their interior may look like...

Schulmanator: Thank you very much

Update 17: Night on Mars

"Kill the light!

Take them out, turn them off, break them down"

Britney Spears

Welcome to 2062 A.D. (93 A.T.)

One of the most dangerous but still most underestimated kind of pollution is light pollution, caused by the extreme use of artificial lights. Lights are needed, but overusing them brings plenty of social and environmental problems. Light pollution distorts both animals and plants in hunting, mating, growing and moving. It also increase crime, distorts stargazing and consume too much electricity.

Even in 2062 A.D. (93 A.T.) the situation on light pollution on Earth isn't so good. There are some tries to reduce this problem, but as you can see...

Mars however doesn't have any problem. The use of full cutoff lighting fixtures and better lighting sources, as well as the re-designing lighting plans, reduced to the minimum the light pollution on Mars. The result is almost dark nights.

O.K., enough talking. Time for the pictures

Gooooodnight Mars!

Goodnight everybody and thank you for visiting Eden

[Terring 6,476]

Update 18: To the Martian heavens!

"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Before the update, the useless fact of the day

Most of the fictional planetary systems in Science Fiction has a beautiful colourful background, like a galaxy or a nebula.

Sadly, our Solar System is not that interesting. So I decide to download some nebulas from Celestia Motherlode and spice up the Solar System. The Solar Nebula is totally fictional, but it will make the space pictures more interesting.

For now, all the Celestia pictures of planets and spacecrafts will contain nebulas. Here is an example

O.K., back to the update. Today I'll show you the skyscrapers of planet Mars. Building taller and taller buildings was something very common on planet Earth, from the legendary Tower of Babel...

... to the modern Burj Khalifa.

In the beginning of the 20th century, a new kind of buildings appears in the blue prints. This time we are not talking about buildings as buildings, but as little self-contained cities. Those structures named "vertical cities" or "arcologies", large buildings that works like mini cities.

The main goal of those buildings is the reducing the environmental impacts of overpopulation by reducing the size of the cities. Earth, Moon and Mars has their own strategies to solve this problem. SimTerrans preferred the colonization of the seas, buildings underwater and floating cities.

SimLunars constructed underground cities, to protect themselves from the dangers of the vacuum space.

The low gravity of Mars however encouraged the SimMartians to build really tall arcologies, as you can see in previous pictures. The beginning was made by the minorgies, minor arcologies that had all the comfort they need. A minorgy looks like a large apartment building, but it also had some civil services and mini shops. They was not exactly mini cities, but still it was a good start.

With more and more Sims settled on Mars, SimMartians need more and more room to build their cities. But if you build upward, you'll solve your problem. So they did it, building the arcoruses. An arcorus is an 1 mile (1,6 kilometers) hight tower, made by the best materials. They has magnetic elevators and mini rail roads inside them, as well as beautiful indoor gardens.

A newer version of the Martian arcologies are mushparks. A mushpark in a mushroom like building with a central park. This buildings can bring cool views of the city and even more room for the shops and homes, even if it need some less room for the base.

Of course this is only the beginning. More arcologies, bigger and cooler, are coming soon. Stay tuned

[Terring 6,476]

Update 19:

"I propose that we will turn the universe into a garden."

Anders Sandberg

Planet Earth is a blessed world. Rich with any kind of life, Mother Earth was also the cradle of the mind.

Of course nobody can eternally live in a cradle, as Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky said. Mars is not as rich as Earth. The Red Planet has only a very few number of native plants, as well as only 3 kind of animals. In generally, Mars is a dangerous world. Thin atmosphere, no ozone layer, weak magnetic field, weak gravity, too cold. No liquid water, no oxygen, no suitable ground for farms.

However, Mars is the land of the future. This is where the Resource-Based Economy take place, where everything is available for everybody, without money and other useless stuff. This is where the Cybernated Government take place, where quantum computers liberates the Sims from all kind of tyrannies.

The future belongs to Mars, but the Red Planet is still too dangerous. However an epic project is now under development. The project called "Eden Project" and it's all about terraforming, turning Mars into a new Earth. According to the calculations of the SimMartian scientists, this is how Mars may looks like into the distant future.

To terraform the planet Mars, we need plenty of water and a way to warm the Red Planet. Fortunately, we have both of them. Mars has plenty of water... frozen water, that's it. Sure Mars doesn't have as much water as Earth and Moon, but still in enough.

But unlike Moon and Earth, Mars hasn't water to waste. This is the reason of why SimMartians use mostly the nuclear fission power plants. After the nuclear catastrophes on Chernobyl (1986), Fukushima (2011) and New York (2049), nuclear fission plants banned from Earth and Moon. Mars however just can't survive yet without those plants. This picture shows the only nuclear fusion power plant on planet Mars.

The poles of Mars industrialized heavily, in order to melt and mine the water. For many years on Earth we have gold mining, silver mining, coal mining. Today we have water mining on Mars.

Thanks to nanotechnology, small melting devices warm and melt the water. Some of them turned the water into gas, in order to increase the atmospheric pressure.

In the 19th century, Gold Rush on Earth. In the 21st century, Water Rush on Mars.

Sometimes, nature helps the Eden Project. Meteorites strike the poles of Mars, crushing and melting the ice.

However water mines, nanowarmers and meteorites aren't enough. We need something bigger and faster. And here are coming the plans for the Prometheus, a space station that will heat the Martian poles by firing a powerful warming laser.

Of course with so many space stations orbiting around Mars and its moons, Prometheus will be peace of cake in construction.

And that about the native life of Mars?

All those plants and animals will die, but they'll not vanished. An new generations of those life forms in preparing in the laboratories, thanks to genetics and nanotechnology.

According to the calculations, Mars will transform into an second Earth somewhere in the late of the 22nd century. For now, Mars is a simple humble world, just like a caterpillar.

But everybody knows that caterpillars one day will transform into beautiful butterflies

[Benedict 3,119]

Stunning super-talls, and I love the arcologies.

[SimMars Team 19]

wonderful! great to see the way you use the mod

[Terring 6,476]

Benedict: Glad to see that you like it

SimMars Team: Thanks

Update 20: Oh no, new teaser!

"The still must tease with the promise of a story the viewer of it itches to be told"

Cindy Sherman

It's 2062 A.D. (93 A.T.) and some comets pay a visit to the inner Solar System.

At the same time, the robots are constructing a new colony.

My real life is a bit busy those days. Looking for a job, reading for December exams, working on a Simcity mod. Of course there will be some time for Eden, just don't hold your breath

[Terring 6,476]

PhotoBucket sucks!!! If you see many empty spaces, I'm sorry for that :( :rage:

Update 21: Life-6 is here, no teaser!

"Everything in life is somewhere else, and you get there in a car."

E. B. White

Update 16 was a teaser about Life-6. This colony is the most dense populated colony and the only one that contain only skyscrapers and apartment buildings. This colony made mostly for Gens, but soon Bals and Cybs moved on Life-6 as well. Life-6 is finally ready.

Time to explore the colony. Here we can see a farm, a bit northern from the colony.

As we are going to the colony, we'll visit the industries.

Next to them we'll find the garbage and water management facilities.

In the south, we'll find an airport. It was the first spaceport of the colony, but now it works only as a small airport.

Let's go east to see the rest colony. We'll visit a small commercial place, with shops and some skyscrapers just next to the skyscrapers .

A cool hotel very close to us.

There is also the colony graveyard close to us.

And a bit more further from us... the nuclear power plant

Let's get out of here and explore the residential part of the colony, as well as the central park.

As you can see, Life-6 is the ultimate urban jungle. There are only huge apartment buildings, as well as skyscrapers. Not a good place for "village people".

Because of this, some SimMartians prefer to live almost isolated out of the colony. They still have access to the colony, by using the MarNet and some jetpacks.

But is not that bad. There is a large central parks, with plenty of civil services for the colonists. Here we can see plenty of schools, hospitals, railroads, stadiums, museums, domed parks, cultural structures e.t.c..

Garbage people, yeah!!! I made a joke, please laugh

The very next colony will be the Update 20 teaser. This time, I'll try to hurry. Hope that you like it

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Update 22: R-Evolution

"Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole universe."

John Polkinghorne

I promised you a new colony, so here it is. This is Evolution-7, a square shaped colony next to Life-6.

Evolution-7 was supposed to be an industrial heaven, but the plans changed and now is a typical colony.

You can visit Evolution-7 by car, train or spaceplane.

This colony has an new generation of arcologies, the redmids. A redmid in a red pyramid-shaped colony, that can hold even more Sims and jobs. The biggest disadvantage however is their size. Those buildings are huge! However we'll see them in the next colonies a bit often. Some of the next colonies may have only minorgies, arcoruses, mushparks and redmids.

Between the redmids we can find the down-town of the colony. This is where we can find some of the coolest skyscrapers, the best hotels and the finest apartment buildings.

Let's get out of the down-town and explore the rest of the colony. We will see parks, factories and smaller buildings here and there.

Time to have a look at some other highlights of Evolution-7. This is a casino-like entertaining centre? Casino-like? As you may remember, planet Mars established the Resource-Based Economy. In this economical model, all goods and services are available without the use of money, credits, barter or any other system of debt or servitude. All resources become the common heritage of all of the SimMartians, not just a select few. The premise upon which this system is based is that Mars is abundant with plentiful resource, so any practice of rationing resources through monetary methods is irrelevant and counter productive to our survival. Without money, gambling should be a thing of the past... unless you're using "priceless" stuff, like peanuts and corn flakes

This is the Conversation Centre, where Sims come together and share their ideas in new products, inventions e.t.c.. Yes yes, this is a tree-like stone-made statue, made by a street artist.

SimMartians live sports, so stadiums are always welcomed.

This is the Cosmic Opera. Inside we can hear a new type of new age and ambient electronic music, that also uses sounds of the planet Mars. This kind of music called "Barsoomian Music" and becomes very popular on Mars.

This is the Temple of Righteous. Sims need to know what's all about "good", "evil" and "neutral" and if they truly exist. Those temples allows the SimMartians to use philosophy, science and other tools, in order to discover which life path is the best. There are many millions of Sims on Mars, billions on Earth and thousands on Moon. All of them agree that those worlds are round like a ball, but not all of them agree in what is "right" and what's "wrong".

This is Lucifer's Nest, one of the most famous hotels on Mars.

As you may remember, Mars established the Cybernated Government. Mars is a quantum cybernated society, where computers replaced the outmoded system of electing politicians, that in most cases represent the entrenched vested interests. The only purpose of this system is not the creation of a global dictatorship, but to elevate the spiritual and intellectual potential of all people, while at the same time providing the goods and services that will meet their individual and material needs. Here we can see the central quantum computers of Evolution-7.

Here we can see the Transhumanism Interplanetary Headquarters. Transhumanism suggests the usage of advance genetics and cybernetics, in order to evolve the SimMartians from Homo Sapiens to Homo Superior. The laboratories are in both redmids. Evolution-7 is truly the city of evolution, from Human to Superhuman... and beyond.

Time to get out of the colony. This is the graveyard of the colony.

Here we can see the meteorological and hydrological research laboratories, looking for water and examining the weather.

Just like in Life-6, some Sims prefer to live outside of the colony.

And finally, the nuclear fission power plant of Evolution-7.

And the silly picture of the day, traffic jam on Mars

Any comment and idea is welcomed. A new, cool colony is coming soon. Stay tuned

[Benedict 3,119]

I like the X pattern of the rail in the previous update, but my favorite image of the new update is the extra-colonial modular units.

[Terring 6,476]

Benedict: Glad to see that you like it

Update 23: Nature and technology

"None of these mega-projects will ever be undertaken without a comprehensive study of the positive and negative retroactions involved."

Jacque Fresco

Time for a very small teaser, a colony with a bio-dome! A what?! That's right, a bio-dome! When we're talking about extraterrestrial colonies, we have in our mind this...

So you want a bio-dome on Mars? Here it is...

Sorry for this small teaser, but I'm too busy to build this colony. Please stay tuned

[Terring 6,476]

And yes, my C.J. is finally a Best Seller in SC4D! Big thanks to everybody!! :D

And this is only the beginning

Nobody?

Update 24: EcoTechnoLogic

"We won't have a society if we destroy the environment."

Margaret Mead

The colony is almost ready. All I need is to make the barren surface more realistic and add some extra details. Maybe some workers homes or something very cool. Anyway. Welcome to Respect-8!

Respect-8 is the very first Martian colony with a biodome. This colony has a huge park with plenty of trees under the biodome, surrounded by high-tech industries.

Respect-8 symbolise the need of co-exist of nature and technology. Let's be honest, technology isn't something exotic. Technology made by Sims. Sims are humans. Humans evolved by ape-like animals and so on. Even some animals have technology, like some birds that use stones like hammers to brake eggs. Human technology can, and should, co-exist with nature.

This colony mixes 3 kinds of natures, the Terran, the Martian and the Transhuman. The biodome symbolize the Terran nature, like the trees and the birds. The barren outside of the colony symbolise the Martian nature, like the Martian bears and the Martian trees. The laboratories in the between symbolize the Transhumanistic nature.

Some of the factories here creates cybernetic and genetic prosthetics, like synthetic skin, quantum brains and extra durable bones. If we have the technology and responsibility we need, why not upgrading ourselves? This is the Transhumanistic nature, that includes advanced SimMartian and not only. There are also research laboratories that seek for ways to create new life forms. Robotic animals? Brand new species of plants? Bring them all!

Other factories creates goods like smart homes, cars, robots e.t.c.. We can also see skyscrapers of Terran and Lunar corporations and Martian services, as well as shops for the workers.

Notice those tree-like structures? Factories emits some gases, where some of them can be useful for the terraforming project. Those structures collects those gazes, in order to study them and maybe making them useful. It's a kind of "reusing".

Time to see the utilities of Respect-8. Here are the power plants, a small solar collector and some electrostatic "batteries".

This is the water department, that contain water pumps and cleaning devices.

And this is the waste management, with biomass burners and recycle centres.

And yes, it's time to visit the highlight of Respect-8, the bio-dome!!

To enter the bio-dome, all you need is to drive into 1 of the 4 airlocks. Then start walking, without spacesuit this time, or riding a horse.

Or take the subway

This is the central quantum computer of Respect-8, a new part of the Planetary Cybernated Government Network.

The bio-dome has some extra utilities, including a water pump and a geothermal power plant.

The bio-dome is a truly paradise with plenty of flowers, butterflies, trees and birds. You may also see a few bears, foxes and other animals.

Speaking for birds, here is a bird watching tower. The Terran birds adapted very quick on Mars, thanks to the low gravity. However Mars will not be forever a red, barren world. After terraforming, how the birds may evolve into the distant future? It's too soon for the answer, so stay tuned.

Watching birds is not the only thing you can do. Picnics, camping, swimming and others thing that you can also do. Of course the low gravity of Mars brings some... interesting effects

Respect-8 will not be the only colony with bio-dome. More bio-domes are coming soon. Please stay tuned

[Terring 6,476]

Best Seller and O.S.I.T.M. in SC4D. What else? :ohyes:

I should thank everybody, but I have a better idea. Let's celebrate it in Zero-G nightclub, just opened on Phobos. Cold beer, great music and all night dancing. It's party time!!! :party:

Oh well, THANK YOU VERY MUCH EVERYBODY

Update 25: The Symphony of Destruction!

"I'm keep going in creation... by destruction!"

Terror X Crew (Greek hip hop band)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU1D9_rdCWY

As you may notice, all my colonies are surrounded by custom made lots, in order to make the barren Martian surface more realistic. You know, rocks, dust, stones, dust and more stones

But... er what! What's happen here? Where are the rocks, the plopable buildings and the other lots? Oh now, my colonies ruined

Just kidding

Sometimes you need to destroy something, in order to to build something. This update is an interesting teaser, about a heavy project. Let's have a look...

Utilities will not be here and there any more. It's time to organize them.

New Bio-domes!!

Unique plopable building will be more unique (have a look at the base).

Upgrading the spaceports.

And now the highlight. SimMars doesn't has yet one ways and avenues, but is has streets, roads, subways and primary and magnetic rail roads. However it also has 2 other transportation systems that I didn't use... until now!

And there are will be even more improvements. The project is all about improving the colonies, from Hope-1 to Respect-8. Any idea is welcomed. More teasers are coming soon

[Benedict 3,119]

Another set of great updates. I like how you've demarcated the edge of the biodome.

[Terring 6,476]

Wisdom teeth sucks! Useless teeth that brings plenty of annoying pain

(sorry for that :lol: )

Benedict: Glad to see that you like it

Update 26: Born to be wild

"Get your motor running, head out on the highway

Looking for adventure and whatever comes our way."

Steppenwolf

SimMartians use a lot the railroads, but some speedways can be useful as well. This picture shows all the mayor colonies of Eden: The new frontier, plus the new speedway network.

And here we can see the map of the colonies. The cyan dots shows the places where the next pictures takes place.

Before the trip, let me warm you for something. There are no one ways, avenues, N.A.M. parts and R.H.W. for SimMars. Because of this, my intersections will be terrible and unrealistic. Because of those limitations, don't complain!! Ideas are welcomed, complains not.

The trip will begin in Hope-1, the most historical city on Mars.

Let's go south, into Faith-3. Here we can see some cars running on the speedway.

Yes I know, train overpasses are not such a good idea. If you have a better idea, let me know

We just enter Faith-3. This colony has plenty of factories, so freight drivers become very happy with the speedway.

Time for some technical informations about the Martian speedways. Artificial intelligence allows the creation of anti-collision radars on cars and makes the car to drive itself. Thanks to those techniques, the drivers can seat back and enjoy the view, without worrying about car accidents. The speedways are also mostly elevated, allowing the free migration of the Martian bears.

Here is a typical intersection. The above technologies, as well as the advance flexibility of the cars, allow the creation of smaller but safer intersections.

Keep going south and you'll end up in Faith-3 itself.

Let's go to the east.

This speedway has plenty of intersections, even for the less used roads. This allows more usage of the speedway and better flexibility in commuting.

See?

Here are the factories of Faith-3.

Let's get out of here.

We are now in Love-4.

An another intersection. Choose a way.

Select the northern way and you'll visit Love-4.

Let's go to the east. This road leads to the airport, so an intersection can be very useful.

And an another intersection for the airport.

Let's get out of here again.

Welcome to Fun-5

You have a weapon of choice, so use it. East or south?

Select east and you'll be in Fun-5.

Select south and you'll have a nice view of the spaceport.

And this is the winner of "What The Heck Is That?" award for the most useless construction in Simcity 4 community

Let's go into an another colony.

We are now in Respect-8.

This is the only intersection in Respect-8 for now, but it's still useful.

Up to the next colony.

Welcome to Evolution-7.

At last, a really cool intersection! Now choose east, north or west.

Select east or north and you'll be in Evolution-7.

Select west to go into an another colony.

Welcome to Life-6

This roads leads into some farms. An intersection could be useful here.

This small road leads to the nuclear plants of Life-6. For now. In the next update, we'll fix it.

An another mayor intersection. South or west?

If you want to visit Life-6, go south.

If you want to keep riding, go west.

Logic-2, here we are.

Less tools? More creativity

The spaceport of Logic-2 is the largest and most important on Mars, so don't surprise with so many intersections.

This is a bad road. It takes bad rates on school, so no intersection

An another one crazy intersection.

The owes of those farms are very happy with this intersection.

Let's get out of Logic-2.

Welcome back to Hope-1. Here in an another farming intersection.

Our trip ends here. You can still keep riding and explore the speedway again.

And this is only the beginning. The speedway will expand even more in the next updates. Hope that you like it

[Terring 6,476]

Nano teaser...

Replies and more pictures are coming soon...

[Terring 6,476]

From this update you will see extra creations from the SimMars Team that doesn't released yet, made by Timcravey, Evillions, Renedius and Andisart. Those extra creations will be released from SimMars Team, so be patient

By the way, Eden: The New Frontier in now 6 months old, so I decide to make a simple video...

Update 27: Back to the beginning

"The wisest men follow their own direction"

Euripides

Welcome to 2064 A.D. (95 A.T.). It's a historical year, with the beginning of the first truly interplanetary mission. 2 spacecrafts from 2 different planets will join together for the exploration of a new world. The mission called "Space Odyssey" and it's all about the exploration of Saturn by a Terran and a Martian ship.

This is the spacecraft Spirit of Earth, a nuclear spacecraft made by SimTerrans and SimLunars, just before leaving the Lunar orbit.

Spirit of Mars, an also nuclear ship, just before leaving the Martian orbit.

2 different spacecrafts from 2 different world and philosophies. SimTerrans are mostly democratics and religious, while SimMartians are mostly anarchists and atheists. But both knows that they are brothers and sisters, with the same ancestors and the same need of a better tomorrow. Spirit of Earth and Spirit of Mars will join together in orbit around Venus...

... and then they'll set their destination to planet Saturn, in 2069 A.D. (100 A.T.).

At the same time, the mayor colonies of Mars are going to improved. Let's make the beginning with Hope-1, the most historical colony on Mars. This is were all becomes...

Many people believed that Mars is nothing more that a dead piece of dust. No life, no water, no reason to colonise it. Let's sit here on Earth eternally and doing nothing interesting...

But a small scientific base evolved into the first extraterrestrial city, Hope-1. Thanks to this city, Mars evolved into the second cradle of the mind.

Most of the improvements I made in Hope-1 are out of the main colony. I made the terrain more realistic, without too much or too few stones and rocks. I also add plenty of buildings made by great B.A.T.ers, like Somy and SimMars team.

Here we can see the nuclear power plants of Hope-1. I had plenty of small power plants, so I think it's better to just have those 2 big boys. I also made them more realistic, by placing them out of the colony and adding some extra stuff, like a parking garage and some walls.

This is the hydrological facility of Hope-1. I think it's better to bring together all the water-relative facilities. What do you think?

Everybody makes garbage and nobody want them next door. Surreal, isn't? Even more surrealistic is having the recycle centre here and the incinerator 10 miles there! So I made this...

I also change the position of the meteorological laboratory. I think that out of the colony will be more effective.

I never liked having the cemeteries inside of the colony, so...

This is the Communication Laboratory, that makes research in new technologies to improve even more all kind of communications.

Something brand new, the university of Hope-1. Mostly underground, the university use advanced quantum computers to create realistic holograms and simulators. Now it's possible to live the history of humanity and see the anatomy of a dolphin from the inside!

Close to the university we'll find the Sentinel, a large sculpture made by the SimMartians. The Sentinel was inspired by Arthur Clarke's novel "The Sentinel" and it's a tribute to him. We need more people like Clarke, brilliant minds full of optimism and scientific kindness, especially in the dark times of 2011...

I also expand a bit the Interplanetary Spaceport of Hope-1, by using Somy's spaceport stuff.

Some Sims build their homes out of the colony and create mini communities.

Speaking of mini communities...

2 Hummingbirds are flying around the colony. Those flying machines are ornithopters, aircrafts that flies by flapping their wings like a hummingbird. The Hummingbirds are also V.T.O.L. (Vertical Take Over and Land) and they can stay in the air like a truly hummingbird.

Let's visit the colony itself. I made the small airport a bit more realistic by expanding the runways.

This is the Temple of Righteousness of Hope-1. This is where SimMartians join together and research about the philosophy of Good and Evil. They are also studying older ideologies, like Communism and Paganism, to improve both body and mind. Hope-1 Temple is studying the philosophy of Buddhism, while other colonies are examining another ideas.

Sims are not too fool to walking around the rail roads, but some extra protection can be very useful as well...

I also made the open spaces a bit more realistic.

This statue of a pregnant woman is the Venus of Mars. By this statue, SimMartians recognises the importance of the women and their fights to earn their right as well.

Space stations are orbiting around Mars. Some of them studies the red planet, other makes experiments and others are opening the road to the new frontier...

New improvements for the next colonies are coming soon. Please stay tuned and feel free to leave a comment. Any idea is welcomed

[vivydu29 60]

Intresting city and nice update of your CJ.

[Benedict 3,119]

Great few updates. The temple looks amazing - suitably futuristic yet pleasing to the eye. And I love the red double-decker buses - so glad to see they made it to Mars!

[Terring 6,476]

New nano teaser

Replies and pictures are coming soon

[kakado_to_save 514]

ohhhhhhhh

looks really good

[Terring 6,476]

kakado_to_save: Thank you

Update 28: Do we need faith?

"Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."

Mother Teresa

"Faith: not wanting to know what is true."

Friedrich Nietzsche

After the construction of Hope-1, SimMartians build 2 new colonies as well. The colonies are Logic-2 and Faith-3. I made some improvements in Faith-3, lust like in Hope-1. You know, better placement of power plants e.t.c.. Let's have a look at them...

Nuclear fusion power plants.

The hydrological centre.

The garbage management facilities.

The cemetery of Faith-3.

Farms were here, now replaced by homes. Can you read the letters of the paths? ;D

Most farms however are still here.

The holographic university of Faith-3.

The central quantum computers.

Expansion of the spaceport.

This was where I build the cemeteries. Now there is a monument of Don Quixote of La Mancha, the famous fictional character made by Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes.

An astronomical observatory is a dome with a telescope. Not on Mars any more . This is the Hipparchos Astronomical Station, a huge buildings that contain an epic collection of telescopes, computers e.t.c..

3 hummingbirds are flying around the colony.

A space station is orbiting around Mars.

Let's finish the update with some less interesting pictures.

And remember, you can still visit Mars by using the nuclear fusion spacecrafts of W.S.O. (World Space Organization) and the Von Braun Spacelines

[Terring 6,476]

Update 29: The Hitchhiker's Guide to planet Mars

"The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy has a few things to say on the subject of towels. A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitch hiker can have."

Douglas Adams

If Earth is the cradle of the civilization, Mars is the new cradle of it. You already know what is going on by the previous updates, but how about a "Living on Mars for Dummies" guide?

You can visit Mars by using the spacecrafts of W.S.O. (World Space Organization) and the Von Braun Spacelines. Those spaceships use nuclear fusion reactors and they are the fastest spacecrafts so now. Thanks to nanotechnology, the spacecrafts needs only some weeks for the Earth - Mars route.

If you are a tourist, you can visit one of our finest hotels.

But if you want to stay on Mars, you need a home. You may want to live in your own, personal little palace.

Or you may prefer living in an apartment, no matter if they are in tall or underground buildings.

Now that you have a home on Mars, it's time to organize your life. As you may remember from the previous updates, planet Mars evolved into a global cybernated society, in which quantum computers replaced the outmoded system of electing politicians. Planet Mars also established a Resource-Based Economy, in which all goods and services are available without the use of money, credits, barter or any other system of debt or servitude. You can finally have everything you need, without having somebody to control you. At last, you're free!

O.K., so... how about a job? Forget jobs, because they are not necessary any more. However you can still make something nice for the colony, something that you can enjoy it as well. Always want to be a painter, but your job on Earth didn't allow that? You are not on Earth any more. In your comfortable home, you can create as many paints as you want and share them with the rest of the colony. Always want to be a biologer? Link up with the biological laboratories by the Martian Internet. The possibilities are endless.

However not all activities can be made by the Internet, so you need to get out of your home. You can "work" in factories, shops and offices, anywhere you wish.

And because of the general system of the Martian way of living, no need to worry any more about anything, including the quality of food and the education system.

Always remember that you can go everywhere you want. You can take a bus or get on a train. Bigger distances? Take a plane!

By working on stuff you enjoy, you'll never bored or tired. Of course after an active day, you need to relax. You can stay on home and watch holographic television, but there are plenty of cool places to visit. Parks, operas, statues, stadiums, museums, landmarks, night clubs, bio domes, the natural wildlife of Mars and so on.

The planetary guide is over. For more informations, check the older updates and stay tuned for the new updates. Don't forget to leave a comment, in order to improve your guide. Have a nice day and remember...

Come to Mars, resistance is futile!