Heimen

[vivapanda 422]

When I started my CJ about year ago in the new city journals section I did not even know about the existence of a seconds one. When I found this part of simtropolis I really liked the interaction you have here with the commenters. As I am still learning a lot about making more realistic cities and the comments really help me doing that I finally decided today to start a topic here.

Every update here in the new cj section will be posted here too, I might do some extra thinhs here though but I'll find out how it goes. I will not post the previous updates, you can read them I you like here: link

And for those who don't want to do that a short introduction:

introduction


Heimen is a country on the planet Theria (I'll do an update on that soon)the same planet as Illium is on. I use the olympic terrain mod. Don't expext to much custom content since I don't have rush hour.

The country

Official name:

English: Constitutional Monarchy Heimen
Dutch: Constitutionele Monarchie Heimen
Haern: Könlíket Konstítutesk fra Heimen

Languages: Dutch, Haern (official) French, English (Minorities)

Population: 728,433 (in game)
Capital: Bijsterveld

The largest cities:



The region I'm working in is hand made and still expanding:



Some photos:





You're always welcome to leave a comment, it really helps a lot whether it is critiscism, a tip or a compliment.
I hope you enjoyed it and I hope I can update soon!

  Edited February 24, 2013 by vivapanda  

[vivapanda 422]

Overview of all the updates published here

Updated: September 1st 2012

Page 1

Update 21. Heurne Avenue

Update 22. Looperweg/B2

Update 23. The Planet Therum

Update 24. Winter in Heimen (The Heimen Telegraph)

Update 25. Roadtrip trough Stroomland

Update 26. Terraforming

Update 27. Loopmond Stronghold

Page 2

     27.5 Region Update

Update 28. Make Over At Outer Port Part I

     28.5  Illium Liberated (Heimen Telegraph)

Update 29. Make Over At Outer Port Part II

Update 30. A Warm Summer Evening

     30.5 Nova Application

Update 31. Alexander Park

Update 32. Bike Tour I

Update 33. Station Square

Update 34. Ture Ring Road I

Update 35. Eskintuna National Park

Update 36. Ture Rail Line

Update 37. Oortsweeghe Telescope

Update 38. Oortsweeghe

     28.5  The International Airport

Update 39. Alex II International Airport

Update 40. Illium-Calistan Peace Summit

Update 41. HKS-Railways In Heimen

Update 42. Bijsterborch Castle

     42.5  National Atlas - Malmergouw Flag Teaser

    42.75 National Atlas - Nordland Teaser + Region View

Update 43. National Atlas - The Northern Ten

  Edited September 1, 2012 by vivapanda  

[simlink 1,098]

Welcome to the old CJ section! I really like the look of what you have going here, I like that path that runs through the middle of the first picture.

Look forward to more!

[Toothless Stitch 2,901]

Love the rgion view. Use a little more Costum Content buildings.

[vivapanda 422]

Heurne Avenue

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Sim_Link said:

Welcome to the old CJ section! I really like the look of what you have going here, I like that path that runs through the middle of the first picture.

Look forward to more!

Thanks a lot! I’m really happy with that path since it is one of the few custom content that works.

Skyscraper241 said:

Love the region view. Use a little more Costum Content buildings.

Thank you, I’m working hard to make the borders between the citytiles dissapear from the region view. Unfornately I don’t have Rush Hour, so most of the downloads don’ work L

Utvaw said:

I really like that happy 2012 picture but I would cut down the number of connections crossing over the boulevard you have there.

Thanks a lot! I cut the crossings down, I have a picture of the “new” avenue posted in the old CJ section.

Today I have a short update on Heurne Avenue (Heurnerlaan) A wide avenue running through the suburbs of Bijsterveld

Farm Fun Fair, just outside of Heurne

This update was sponsored by:

Thanks a lot for reading, please leave a comment or +1 if you liked it!

  Edited January 17, 2012 by vivapanda  

[Schulmanator 5,787]

Glad to have you here!

[Toothless Stitch 2,901]

Love the park

[vivapanda 422]

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@Schulmanator: Thanks, I really like it here!

@Skyscraper241: Thank you!

@Jakis: No it actually isn't I use a free grass mod, and the cycle paths a really cheap in maintence

@TowerDude: I'm not really sure what you mean by "clam", but thanks probably!

This update is about the Looperweg (Road of the Loop)or B-route2 that goes from the city of Arden to the rural southwest and follows the river Loop

It is loosely inspired by a road close to where I live (streetviewpicture): Ganzenweg, Zeewolde

Arden is not really finished yet, so let's start just outside the city at the small suburban village Ardennerveld

As we continue southward we pass a truck stop and the old part of Ardennerveld

This landscape, in the West of the Province Stalpen, is one of the most typical in Heimen.

Until 1783 this area was one chaos of small farms. Pieter Hedde divided all the land in rectangular areas bordered by trees, this village was named after him: "Heddervelt" (Field of Hedde)

A gas station with some cabins for travelling people

Soon after we see the river Loop we enter the village Lope where the B2 goes to the West (left) and the B14 to the East (right)

I hope you liked this update, I would really enjoy it if you would leave a comment!

The next update will probably be about the planet Theria and contains a lot of Maps!

  Edited January 20, 2012 by vivapanda  

[AdoxxBE 289]

looks like a very peaceful area

[Benedict 3,119]

Great to see your work here, I really like what you're doing.

[vivapanda 422]

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@Adooxx: Thank you, it was meant to be that way

@Benedict: Thanks a lot! I hope you will like the next real update too!

The planet Therum

Heimen is located on the Planet Therum, together with The Illium Empire by daTSchikinhed

The relations between Heimen and the other countries on Therum. Illium is currently at war with the Calistan Federation, Heimen does support Illium though it does not fight in the war (yet?)

These are the major cities I have build in game

The major Highways

Heimen is divided in 23 provinces

These provinces are part of 7 regions

I hope you liked this different kind of update too, the next one will be a normal one. Please leave a comment if you have tips or anything else

  Edited January 28, 2012 by vivapanda  

[Wiecher 192]

Nice map.

Did you make it yourself?

And for some reason the part of the map named Bataria reminds me of Skyrim, but that's not really relevant...

[SAVAGExPHOENIX 955]

It looks really good! Welcome to Therum. Seems like I'll have to edit my map haha.

[Simbourgeois 139]

Wow, you're really good with maps!!!

Nice update indeed!

[AdoxxBE 289]

Great map my friend, nice update

[rewright 804]

I like this creative update which really shows a lot of thought. I like the idea of the interplay between regions and countries.

[vivapanda 422]

Winter in Heimen - The Heimen Telegraph

I had five replies on last update, thanks a lot! You brought me in the bens top ten +10, something I couldn't even have dreamt of

Replies:

@Wiecher: DaTShikinged made the world map, I edited the maps.

@DaTShikinhed: Thank you!

@Simbourgeois: Thank you, I'm a kind of a map geek

@Adooxx: Thank you! Dankjewel!

@Rewrright: Thanks! I am planning on some storyline to make those relations come of use.

Introdution:

This morning I woke op, I opened my roof window above my bed I took a look outside, but I saw nothing but snow. I went down and opened the KNMI(Dutch weather instutute) website and saw that is was -23°C. WAIT! HOLD on, what did you say? -23°C?! in The Netherlands?! As in 23 degrees below zero? They must be kidding me! But after ten times of reloading the page kept on saying -23°C. That's the coldest tempreature measured in The Netherlands during my entire life In My hometown, so with 17 centimetres of snow this will probably be the last update in a while since I have to go outside of course and enjoy winter

Inspired by the Dutch winter I present to you (thanks Nathanthemayor for your fog tutorial!) the first ever edited picture of this CJ (2nd picture)

I recently donloaded GIMP, it will take some time to understand it. With the great tutorial by Skycraper241 I managed to make this flag:

I really hope you enjoyed this update please leave a comment and a happy winter to everyone!

  Edited February 4, 2012 by vivapanda  

[Schulmanator 5,787]

-23?! That is SERIOUSLY cold!!! Brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!

The newspaper and the flag are cool too!

[YUUU 65]

haha vivapande is from The Netherlands my guess and temperature dropped last night to -22,9°C

Geat job mate!

[vivapanda 422]

Roadtrip trough Stroomland

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@Schulmanator: Yes it was, imagine biking in that cold. I had to and it is a bad as it sounds like.(there is something nice at it in some way) Next week the temperatures are going back to normal which means I can no longer ice skate L. I’m glad you liked the flag, this week I made some more pictures in gimp.

@YUUU: Thanks!

@NMUspidey: Yes it usually never happens here either, it was the coldest week since 1944 I believe, "the Winter of hunger

Today I wanted to do something different. Insired by the many roadtrips around I mad one my self in Nathanthemayor's style he showed in his Cj the United Cities. The trip will be trough th eprovince of Stroomland [str-ohm Lah-nt]which means “stream land”. We will mainly drive on the N1, wich follows the meanders of the river Tuur [Tu:r]

I am very sorry about the errors in the left of pictures, I don't know how that happened

We start just south of the village Best, which we pass.

The N1 exits from itself, the N17 replaces the N1, we are heading for Jolen

The entrance sign of Jolen. Jolen is a very stretched out village and also home to Kasteel Jolen [Kah-stayle Yo-len], the castle of Jolen. Let’s take a look at it.

The core of the town. We go to the left (north)

We take the Bergweg (north) to reach the castle

This small castle has been a very important link in the defense of both the cities Ture and Bijsterveld, which can be easily accessed by the river.

We go down again to the N1

At Karpershoek we will enter the A1, we go straight ahead (north)

An overview of the river meandering around the castle hill

And soon we enter the village Karpershoek [Kahrpers-hook] home to the Stroomdalen (Stream Valleys) National Park

In Karpershoek we drive across the Karpersbridge to cross the river.

We take the A1 in the direction to Aker

Just 3 kilometres to go until the end of our trip

Large mansions at the entrance of the NP imagine how much they’d cost!

We made it to Ooiedal [Oy-uh-dahl] our destination!

I hope you enjoyed this roadtrip, please let me know!

  Edited February 10, 2012 by vivapanda  

[Ace3 1,209]

I would recommend some taller trees and other flora to make a natural retainment wall instead of the gray stone texture, but feel free to do what you like. Keep up the good work , you have lots of potential.

[Schulmanator 5,787]

Great job on the road trip -- the signage looks very nice... :ducky:

[AdoxxBE 289]

Great update my friend

[nathanthemayor 1,261]

That's very nice; The signage almost looks like real Dutch signage!

[rewright 804]

The road signs really add a lot to the journal. Lots of farms!

[vivapanda 422]

New banners

Very nice. I like the 'random zoning' technique to make the rural towns...

@Harrythecat:Thanks a lot! I kinda developed it after making a lot of rural villages.

I would recommend some taller trees and other flora to make a natural retainment wall instead of the gray stone texture, but feel free to do what you like. Keep up the good work , you have lots of potential.

@ 10000000000000: I don’t have Rush Hour, so almost any custom content doesn’t work L Thanks for noticing and giving the compliment!

Great job on the road trip -- the signage looks very nice...

@Schulmanator: Thanks, I will make some more roadtrips soon!

Great update my friend

@Adooxx: Thanks a lot, I hope you like this update too!

That's very nice; The signage almost looks like real Dutch signage!

@Nathanthemayor: Thank you, they’re obviously greatly inspired by them

The road signs really add a lot to the journal. Lots of farms!

@Rewright:Thanks! I have been working on a lot of country side lately, so you can expect more farms to come!

Lately I have been doing a lot of terraforming around the region, which I have expanded multiple times too. When you start trying different things there you can do so many things with the terrafrom options!

The main focus was on this area. It contains a lot of islands which are not named yet (those numberd ones) , perhaps you can come up with some names?

Windermeer (Lake Winder) named after sim_links’ great CJ Windermere & Taschereau

I hope you enjoyed it. Don’t forget to hand in some names for the islands, leave some behind for others.

  Edited February 16, 2012 by vivapanda  

[Schulmanator 5,787]

I have some island names in mind. But, before I offer them, do you have any parameters or preferences for the type of name?

[SAVAGExPHOENIX 955]

It's turning out really well I like it!

[vivapanda 422]

Test:

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Edit: It works

  Edited February 18, 2012 by vivapanda  

[vivapanda 422]

I ended up at number 7 in the Bens’ top ten. I want to thank you all a lot for making this, what I never thought could happen, true.

You can still hand in your island names

I have some island names in mind. But, before I offer them, do you have any parameters or preferences for the type of name?

@Schulmanator: Actually I don't! Use you imagination!

It's turning out really well I like it!

@Datshikinhed:Thanks a lot! I hope I can develop the area soon.

Stunning update! Love the wetlands. Some great looking islands and terrains, but they would look even better if you got rid of those maxis trees and used some custom ones.

@Fox: I tried to do that one day but since I don’t have Rush Hour, they all appeared as brown boxes. I’m really glad you like the landscape, thanks fo rthe compliment!

Those look really cool, especially with the terrain mod.

Here is one of my suggestions: [rippingoffavatarthelastairbender] Ember Island [/rippingoffavatarthelastairbender]

@NMUspidey:Thanks for the name! Wich of the numbered islands did you have in mind?

Yesterday I made this stronghold, if you don’t really have an idea of what that looks like click the link for the wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stronghold#Early_modern I made it after the second picture from above.

This stronghold it located in the city of Loopmonde, or rather: most of the city is located in the stronghold. The city lies where the river Loop meets the Theria Ocean. The stronghold was builded in 1723 after tension between the countries on Therum grew. It has protected the land behind in a couple of wars.

In 1850 big parts of the stronghold were torn down to make place for the growing city. In the 80’s of the last century most of it was rebuild in its’ original state. Outside of the stronghold suburbs grew, most of the population works in tourism. The city has a perfect combination of historical landmarks, beaches and countryside. Have a look and enjoy!

I hope you liked how it turned out, pleas let me know. And don’t forget to hand in you island names!

  Edited February 18, 2012 by vivapanda