The Ragged Edge: A tale of four cities

[mayormommy 8]

Thanks for letting me know, kieran1408. That's a bummer that some people can see it, because I went back to edit Chapter 1 and it took me almost 20 minutes to get rid of the code. I think I'll save that task for another day and just keep pressing on with new updates for now.

[comdude21 6]

Wow, this is an impressive CJ. It combines eye-candy pictures with the story element. That terrain is awesome! The building technique, with lots of little islands and nice neighborhoods, is awe-inspiring. What makes this so great is that it is so different from other regions. Realistic, eye-candy, and interesting. Great job.

[mayormommy 8]

 Chapter 35: continued

Now we

[Ninja12 3]

ugh i hate building on small space you got alot of patience doing that... i dont

[alt+tab 2]

Wow, commute times are huge! I really want violet to win, but the commute sucks!

[jglei701 8]

Nice update!  I'll save my real comments for when I vote!!

[mayormommy 8]

Thanks for the comments, comdude21, ninja12, and jglei701! Slayer, I'm not sure what's going with on with the commute times in Oakdale and Beech Grove. I have a couple of badly overused water taxi stops - the Thirty Oaks landing and the more innocuous looking landing at the top of the Viola capitol site pic. I'm not sure how to fix that yet but I'll keep working on it. Seems like a lot of extra minutes to blame on a couple ferry routes, but they do account for tens of thousands of commuters each. If I get it fixed before the vote I'll give you an update.

[Adley 0]

Nice update.. As for my vote.

The most established city is good.

[alt+tab 2]

Yay, mayor, because I was kinda thinking, If the commute time is that bad, who will vote for them?

Of course, you could just lie about the times...

[jarcher 0]

I've been reading this CJ for a long time now, and it never ceases to entertain me.  I'm impressed with what you've done with the terrain.  Keep it up!

Looking forward to the next cities.

[mayormommy 8]

Okay, I spent two nights putzing with the over-capacity water taxi system in Oakdale and Beech Grove. In Oakdale, I added another station near the overcrowded one and the traffic compliantly divided almost perfectly in half between the two stations.

But in Beech Grove, grrrrr... All 24,000 commuters insist on going out of one station on the west side of the island at the center of the bottom edge of the pic below. If I put others nearby and tear down the orginal, the commuters en masse will shift to one of the new stations and use that exclusively instead. I blasted a channel through an uninhabited island (lower left of pic below) to try to generate some more varied ferry routes but it was no help. Finally, I downloaded some modding programs and changed the capacity of the water taxi station to 30,000. Commute time dropped from 325 to 300 minutes and has held steady there.

Therefore, I think there's a bug in my commute times. There is zero congestion and zero abandonment in Beech Grove. I have no traffic mods except for better pathfinding, so there's no way this city should be functioning with 300 minute commutes. I think the judges should disregard the commute time numbers or else I will just have to lie about them as Slayer suggested.

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[alt+tab 2]

Yesssss....... YESSSsssssssss...........

LIE....

LIE!

Muahahahaaa.....

[mayormommy 8]

Oh dear, I've just discovered some serious typos in the last update.  The commute times for Oakdale and Beech Grove are completely wrong! Thank goodness I have the edit button to go back and fix that. The final group of cities will be presented tonight and I promise to be more careful typing in those commute figures.

[PhilsCafe 8]

Date: 11/25/2004 11:53:28 AM
Author: will-o
wow amazing! its taken me 5 days to find the time to read all of this so far and i cant wait for the next update! great city and a great story!

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5 days? I'm not sure if I have that much time (So I can't judge the story).

I'm impressed what you did with this diffcult terrain.

- Phil

[mayormommy 8]

Chapter 35 continued

The Simtropolis judges were relieved when the final package of photos arrived from the The Ragged Edge. How many cities were there? Phew, there were just five more to review, and then the voting would begin.

The first three cities were Tamarisk, Mandevilla, and Mt. Olive.

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Tamarisk

The new neighborhood ostensibly built as a home for the capitol building was called Meadowvale.

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However, some Tamarisk residents noticed a certain sloppiness to the way the capitol site was prepared. It wasn

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I vote for VIOLET, No matter what happens!

[mayormommy 8]

Okay, here is a list of the cities and some thumbnails to help you out.

1. Periwinkle



2. Acerton



3. Ashwood



4. Daphne



5. Gaillardia



6. Paw Paw



7. Oakdale



8. Beech Grove



9. Tamarisk



10. Mandevilla



11. Mt. Olive



12. Viburnum



13. Goumi




EDIT: Oops, Slayer, our posts must have crossed. Okay, that's one vote for Beech Grove and one vote for Daphne from Adley a few posts ago.

[tommy_toon 0]

I vote for Mayor Rose!!!

[jglei701 8]

I'm definately voting for Oakdale... the first time I saw it, I knew that would be the city to beat.  I think it has the most potential for a large sized city.  There's a lot of space between the Downtown and Thirty Oaks, and Oakdale already has the biggest building in Ragged Edge.  It seems to be the best choice!!

[Shadow Assassin 336]

I vote for Beech Grove.

And boo to August.

[kieran1408 0]

I vote for Acerton because theres something I like about that capital district......

[mayormommy 8]

Great, thanks for the votes, tommy_toon, jglei701, Shadow_Assassin, and kieran1408!

We're now up to:

Oakdale - 2 votes
Beech Grove - 2 votes
Daphne - 1 vote (<--- at least I assume this is what Adley meant because Daphne has the highest pop.)
Acerton - 1 vote

Keep 'em coming!

[Zeddic 3]

Hmm... I'll vote for Viburnum. I just like it.

[August Owinde 0]

Greetings, respected members of Simtropolis! Allow to introduce myself: I am August Owinde, mayor of beautiful city of Paw Paw. I urge you to consider Paw Paw when you vote

[ILL Tonkso 1,239]

That is one crazy Map, love it

[chriss 28]

Beech Grove. People will get a nice view from the monorail bridge. Plus better development oppurtunities. Most of the other mayors stuck the capital region out on the edges of their city, this one is better integrated. And what is going to happen to all the areas that the losers set aside?

[miptag 0]

great map i love it so, i am voteing for Oakdale very nice

[Dannato 4]

A capital should be central, offer easy access, have enough space for further development and it shouldn't be among the smallest or peripheral cities. Sorry Mr. Owinde, sorry, Father Buckthorn.

Viburnum has I think, most of room for building a large city, its location ist okay. But I don't like Red's style, and he smells too much like oil, this can't be good.

Oakdale is at a very good position on the map, reasonable size, nicely planned and good terrain. But again, I'm not convinced of Rose's character, the way she treated Violet, and her liaison with Red.

Daphne's amount of buildable terrain isn't excessive. But its geographical position is good, fast connections, it's the largest city (right?) and the rest of the stats are all right.  Ivy seems to be the most intelligent person in The Ragged Edge. So Daphne's destined to be the capital.  So matter how conservative or unoriginal my decision, it's just gotta be:

number 4, Daphne.

[August Owinde 0]

No, no, no! This is all wrong! What you want, eh, a pretty lady, a little cash, a few WMDs? No, I do better - a private island on The Ragged Edge for all judges who vote for me, er, vote for Paw Paw. As for rest of you - when I become governor, there will be no diplomatic relations between The Ragged Edge and evil states of Hydrexis, Tonks Island, and Turry!

[alt+tab 2]

Hey, Mayor, I already voted too you know!