Norwich

[mattc005 2]

oh my.. I've missed so much!

beautiful map, beautiful quays, beautiful building belonging to me

And now that, I assume, almost done the RingRoad project and Metro project, what's next?

[andrew george 0]

Date:10/18/2004 3:47:02 PM
Author:mattc005

oh my.. I've missed so much!

beautiful map, beautiful quays, beautiful building belonging to me

And now that, I assume, almost done the RingRoad project and Metro project, what's next?

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Thanx Matt! Well, ring road is done and metro is far from done! I plan to build many more lines to the Metro, but I may phase this out with updates elsewhere (I don't want you all to get bored!!!) like around the edges of the metropolis; improvements to existing areas (such as the Petronas project); and maybe some new areas springing up like a phoenix from the flames.....

 

But I don't want to give too much away! Glad you like the map and I couldn't build a Metro system without giving you a station to make your daily commute to MC Highways Corp. could I?

 

Welcome to page 15 everyone - thanks for helping me get there - almost 10,000 views now....

 

A

[dudyconstructor 46]

wow nice!! looks so great and i couldn't help but notice that your downotown are so well planned i should do mines like that great job!

[utora 0]

That's really an overload of information Andrew, since the last time I've visited. Great job, this is by far the most interesting cj concerning transportation networks. I agree with MrCinatit: it's inspiring and gives me lots of new ideas.

I'm also very GLAD to see the Parkstone Rangers not losing many games. If they had Ruud Van Nistelrooij I'm sure they would turn those draw games into victories

 

EDIT: Speaking about football: I'd like to present an official invitation here from the city council of Arenburg: Dear mayor George. Currently the new sport of football is promoted with great enthusiasm in New Holland. Finally attempts seem to have been fruitful since the recent construction of the Stadler Stadium in Arenburg, and the council has planned an official opening of this modest football temple. Hereby we'd like to invite the Park Stone Rangers team to play a friendly macth against Arenburg's first professional football club AFC Arenburg. We hope the invitation will be accepted. Greetings, the arenburg City Council

Note: Although I understand the enthusiasm of the council I have to make a note here: due to obligations in real life I haven't found the time yet to update the Nh story, but as soon as I have the time, I hope I can present an interesting macth between the two teams. Cheerz Utora

[andrew george 0]

Thanks dudy!!!!!!

 

Utora.....

 

 

Date:10/19/2004 4:13:26 AM
Author:utora

That's really an overload of information Andrew, since the last time I've visited. Great job, this is by far the most interesting cj concerning transportation networks. I agree with MrCinatit: it's inspiring and gives me lots of new ideas.

I'm also very GLAD to see the Parkstone Rangers not losing many games. If they had Ruud Van Nistelrooij I'm sure they would turn those draw games into victories

 

EDIT: Speaking about football: I'd like to present an official invitation here from the city council of Arenburg: Dear mayor George. Currently the new sport of football is promoted with great enthusiasm in New Holland. Finally attempts seem to have been fruitful since the recent construction of the Stadler Stadium in Arenburg, and the council has planned an official opening of this modest football temple. Hereby we'd like to invite the Park Stone Rangers team to play a friendly macth against Arenburg's first professional football club AFC Arenburg. We hope the invitation will be accepted. Greetings, the arenburg City Council

Note: Although I understand the enthusiasm of the council I have to make a note here: due to obligations in real life I haven't found the time yet to update the Nh story, but as soon as I have the time, I hope I can present an interesting macth between the two teams. Cheerz Utora

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The Chairman
Arenburg City Council
Arenburg
New Holland

 

RE: AFC Arenburg v Parkstone Rangers FC Friendly Match

 

Dear Sir,

 

      Mayor George has forwarded me your letter outlining your proposals for a friendly match to be contested in the beautiful new Stadler Stadium between our football clubs. I am pleased to write to you with acceptance of your challenge, we very much look forward to visiting your fine city and the players have made a special request that they are taken on a tour of Arenburg as part of their visit!

 

If you could please give a date for your proposal we will be looking forward to the game.

 

May the best team win!

 

 

Yours sincerely,

 

 

 

Ronald A. Penrose
Club Chairman
Parkstone Rangers Football Club

[andrew george 0]

A Tour Of Central Norwich

Hello folks and welcome back to Norwich! Tonight, I show you the progress we have made in Central Norwich and am pleased to announce that I am happy with Central Norwich now and am  looking forward to bringing you full updates of new developments again!

First, some pictures of new additions in the city's Central borough.

In view here is a Norwich Metro station simply called Pyramid obviously due to the famous glass pyramid in the vicinity. Pyramid rests on the brand new Brunel Line. Here also is the brand new College of Social Studies, which has helped take a lot of pressure from Central Norwich's other two colleges - City College and the Royal College of Medicine - by offering not only more desks but a variance in study matter available.....

 

 

 

 

The new Van Gogh Galleries have offered an alternative to art lover's trek into Kelseyheath to visit the Constable Gallery. Within it's walls (under stringent security) have been placed a collection of the great Dutch artist's finest work, including The Potato Eaters and Cafe Terrace At Night amongst others. The gallery is situated on the north-western corner of the busy Inner Ring Road, close to Norwich Station for those who wish to visit.....

 

 

 

 

The new Royal Norwich Opera House, here in the shadow of Petronas Towers, has arrived to stage indoor performances by the Royal Norwich Symphony Orchestra, as well as hosting huge operatic events. Performing now - Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman with Time To Say Goodbye.....

 

 

 

 

 

Now I am pleased to take you on a tour of Central Norwich as it looks now - possibly it's best ever.

Norwich's CBD with the River Hex snaking around it.....

 

 

 

 

Broadwater Island, with the World Trade Centre.....

 

 

 

 

Petronas Towers and the new Royal Norwich Opera House have instigated a burst of classy residential abodes to grow in the area.....

 

 

 

 

Victory Arch, Norwich Roman Catholic Cathedral, Norwich Zoo, Brunel University and H.M.S. Victory (moored). Those darn pesky fast-food chains get everywhere.....

 

 

 

 

The area immediately east of City Of Norwich Airport. Norwich Bowl is in view here.....

 

 

 

 

The area immediately around Norwich Bank Tower is mainly made up of residential med-rise.....

 

 

 

 

Salisbury - where much of the Brunel Line's takes it's route - dominated by it's namesake Sportspark.....

 

 

 

 

Olympic Stadium and Olympic Park.....

 

 

 

 

Green Park and Norwich Station.....

 

 

 

 

Budget and population after about 67 years.....

 

 

 

 

Comments welcome!

 

 

Many thanks

 

 

A

[Mikeaut1 261]

Beautiful tour! Love the closeups and the island with the WTC on it. Also I love your variety of BATS used tooo!

[nooneatall 6]

Great update! It is nice to see a little more developpment in Central Norwich aswell.

On a side note, I am wondering where you downloaded the Oakhill houses of parliment (Not the Reichstag).

Keep up the good work!

[Alkaola 18]

wow that downtown looks absolutely stunning! especially the central park

[andrew george 0]

Regional views.....

 

 

 

 

 

 

Population league table.....

 

 

 

 

Region census data.....

 

 

[subedei 3]

Thats a big region you have. Looking forward to some updates. Keep up the good work.

 

 

Subedei

[rp2004 89]

Central Norwich is looking stunning ...

... if it wasn't for the fact that you can go back to the start of the CJ and see where it's come from and how long it's taken to get here it would be enough to make me give up on mine.

For all the fancy presentation in some other CJs, Norwich is still by far my favourite.

[mattc005 2]

Firstly, you should be very pleased to hear that I'm not going to correct you in grammar/spelling tonight as I'm too tired and lazy...

Now to bussiness...

FINALLY! Like really, it's about time you've showed us Central Norwich again, it's been ages. On that note, I can't help but thinking that... some of the buildings have seem to have shrunk in size... I'm wrong aren't I? But it's just bugging me because it looks so...

Also, you're a genious. Every time I go to lay out a city, I have a thousand intentions to lay down the rail after I lay down the road, and also have a dense rail system within the main city its self (mainly because of all the awesome stations for download). But for some reason, I always, ALWAYS froget. Anyways I congratulate you on what appears to be a very good rail system (not subway or monorail, while they're both good, I prefer train lines better..)

Another thing, you REALLY must have some awesome transport system in that city, as I have said before, holy lack of cars. You should download that traffic mod, which will make your roads packed but not have bad commute times thanks to some fancy modding.

Another thing. In the picture featuring the Petronas Towers, I can't help but notice the gigantic monopoly the Double-Tree Hotel has in Norwich! Perhaps a little downloading of SimGoober's things could help

Population : 55th spot? That's it? You'd think you'd be higher with 3,251,302... although you've almost passed Berlin, which will be quite the accomplishment!



Finally....

[dudyconstructor 46]

Woah nice city! that downtown looks so incredible!! keep working i will watch this CJ a little more impressive job

[uncrazycooper13 0]

Hurrah! Central Norwich!!!!! I've been waiting so long for this! It looks amazing! Great job on your budgets and everything in your city! I never realized how huge and sprawling Norwich was until now! This CJ is awesome! Your CBD looks really nice! Keep it up! By the way I haven't recieved any responses from my latest e-mails to you? Whats up with that! Anyways keep up the good work!
-uncrazycooper

[MayorTim 16]

Without a doubt the best skyscraper forses ever!

 

Truely amazing........

 

I can't believe how far this has come since it started!

[GingerBlokey 30]

bababab Im lovin it. Were did you get that cool rugby pitch from if you made it plz post it on the STEX
This is all insperation for my next CJ

EDIT: Didnt see the previous update the Central Line extention kind of takes the same path as Londons DLR. Im loving it all soooo much

[Dark Avatar 8]

Wow! All I can say is that Norwich's massive! It looks so nicely planned and I love Green Park. I also like the regional views; i think the regional views of this CJ is probably one of the best. Every part of the region is almost filled up and the transportation system lloks very extensive and well planned.Looks like Norwich's population will soon catch up and overtake Singapore's. keep up the good job!

[andrew george 0]

SO many replies! SO many nice comments and compliments! I'm a lucky mayor.... many thanks to all you guys!

 

Mikeaut1 - the BATs have added a huge amount to my game experience - it would be dull without them and the NAM - they are vital to the game and it's unimaginable to have SC4 without them. Poses a little problem for the makers of the next game I think.....

 

An important side note: Thanks to all the artists who devote their time to creating these fantastic things for our cities - we all owe you a lot!!!

 

nooneatall - when are you going to sort out that avatar!!!!??? Thanks - the Parliament building is the Schloss Schoenbrun of Vienna, Austria - available at the official game site from Maxis.

 

Alkaola - thanks to you too! I felt Green Park needed some improvement and I like it better now too.

 

subedei - I'm always grateful for your input - thanks.

 

rp2004 - Yes, it seemed hopeless when I started this CJ, there was no interest and I can't say I'm surprised because it was dreadful!! With some encouragement I think people can go a long way - and looking at other journals on the site gave me so much inspiration! Calderdale has made a great start - don't you dare give up I want to see it grow - that's an order! I'm glad you like it enough to call it your favourite - I'm note sure if it deserves that accolade though. Thanks so much.

 

mattc005 - First of all, thanks for sparing me that indignity - you're too kind!  I have consciously made a decision to downgrade some of the zoning of residential areas - because they get big high rises and the roads around them can't handle the traffic so they abandon - as you saw not so long ago. But the population still goes up! Weird.  Genious?! I don't know about that!!!!  The NAM makes it much easier to make it realistic - overpassses make it more realistic also - not many UK city centres have rail level crossings. I'm raking in about

[GingerBlokey 30]

WOWOWOWOWOW. I just took the time to read every page of this CJ and it is absolutly amazing. I love the way you take the time to reply to everybodies comments. It really makes you think well if hes going to reply Ill comment. I think that remaking London would be impossible think of all the alleys and windy streets and Tower Bridge would eb near impossible. And all the BATting to make a UK building set. Thanks for making such a superb Cj one of the ebst on ST

[andrew george 0]

Thanks Ginger! Just as I'm celebrating 10,000 views - a cruel ironic twist of fate on the very day! Check this out......

 

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/view.asp?topicID=56440

[pikatchoum 2]

wow,very nice city

i love the region view!!!!

[kbooms1w 1]

Well, I could reiterate everything that's been said, but what's the point, Norwich is incredible, nuff sed.

I went back to your first page, I remember this being one of the first CJs I ever looked at, just because it was in the scroll, amazing what you've done. Nice to see those budgets too, I prefer cities actually built as opposed to plopped.

I know (the real) Norwich City are still struggling, they just need a break or two.

Thanx for stopping by Farallon.

[andrew george 0]

Thanks for the comments guys.

 

Much appreciated.

 

A

[iguana_labrat 0]

Wow! I commend you for this amazing work! I never thought this CJ would have so many pages. I'd like to see a view of the entire region, if that doesn't bother you.

(If you haven't gotten Region Census , get it, it's a helpful, if slightly unused, tool.)

[Mexicanboy13r 12]

Wow Really nice region!! looks wonderful!

[andrew george 0]

Norwich Grows Northwards

 

Good evening everyone and welcome back to Norwich. Tonight we return to the north of the city to the borough of Clarendon. The focus is on the spreading of the outer boundaries of Norwich.

First here is a picture of the new more efficient junction 6 of the A406 North Circular. The M1 from the north used to end abruptly with a warning sign to take the last junction. Now the flyover in view takes traffic straight over the roundabout.....

 

 

 

 

The Victoria Line has been extended into Clarendon. This is the sight greeting travellers as they ascend out of the All Saint's Station - All Saint's Cathedral and the home of Clarendon Athletic F.C......

 

 

 

 

Clarendon Railway Station (217% usage) and the orange Metro Station with the same name (30% usage).....

 

 

 

Some really exciting businesses have opened in Clarendon with modern architectural styles. This beside the busy A1.....

 

 

 

 

Manufacturing has become an integral part of Clarendon's economy - particularly since the Petronas Towers redevelopment in Central Norwich took some manufacturing plants away.....

 

 

 

 

Hi tech industries have developed on this new estate around Clarendon Water, close to the M1 motorway.....

 

 

 

 

Kingsley Road (the A10) heading north out of Clarendon. A concentration of high rises out on a limb slightly.....

 

 

 

 

Another new suburb in the north of Clarendon.....

 

 

 

 

Plush mansion close to the previous business district - probably belonging to a Chief Executive of a Managing Director.....

 

 

 

 

More suburbia.....

 

 

 

 

Budget with a nice helicopter view of Clarendon.....

 

 

 

 

Tax policy - this is largely similar to all boroughs of Norwich, low rates.....

 

 

 

Comments most welcome!

Thank you.

A

[andrew george 0]

Regional pictures, using Region Census - as requested by iguana_labrat.....

 

 

 

 

 

 

Region Census data itself.....

 

 

[jtportland 184]

[:0] Very nice update! i love that regeion view. that's intresting how your freeway goes far around your downtown, and not though it. could we see some more pictures of your huge parks? they look really cool from the regeion view!

[mattc005 2]

You're hurting my feelings... an interchange with no sign

hmm.... I don't really know what to say about Clarendon...

Clarendon Water --> What an orriginal name

The Clarendon Suburbia scares me... I don't know why, it just does... IT'S NICE don't get me wrong... but it sorta reminds me of my grandparents neighbourhood

Those are some incredibally low taxes!! Where do you get the rest of the money from? You must have some superly-used transit system...

Region views are good, a little small, but now we can finally see all of Norwich! It looks like its time for some farms in some areas...

Population of 3 296 208? I think you've past Berlin!!

Great as always