Folland [USNW]

[Follarch 326]

Folland

The Forum version of the Folland CJ!

 

The Folland Republic is a Non-Earth nation, currently enrolled in the United Sovereign Nations of the World, a Simcity Union with it's own planet named Adonia. Folland occupies a continent similar to North America both in climate and culture, however Folland is a nation descending from a Scandinavian colony, Adonia's equivalent to Norway. In the USNW roleplay, Folland is 285 years old since Independence day in 1728.

 

Folland is essentially Follomer's baby. I truly do miss journaling Follomer and making it's story, and I regret not giving it a proper finale before jumping into a new country, but I've been having a blast with Folland and I effectively have started a new "Era" in my city journaling. Folland also exists in the City Journals section of SimTropolis and can be found right here.

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[Schulmanator 5,787]

Cool flag and map. I look forward to seeing more.

[Sciurus 323]

I wait for more!!

[§haÅ--Ñ€ §hÅŽo 370]

Looking good, can't wait for more.

[Follarch 326]

Introducing the 15th Province

Gilbertson Island

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Recently added to the roleplay but saying it's always been there just cause, Gilbertson Island is off the west coast of Folland, sitting in between the Folland mainland and the Okanamapi Islands. The entire island is it's own Province and has a thriving rural populace with large towns along the coastline. (soon to be built) The entire island is connected to the mainland by a single crossing made up of two bridges. When the populated grew too high, Ferries alone couldn't do the job, so a project to bridge the gap with Highway was done to increase transportation.

Serenity Memorial Crossing, or Serenity Memorial Bridge(s) were constructed in the late 1900s sometime after the Great Adonian War's end, and were named for the Wife of the Island's Governor, Serenity Tesh. It was originally her idea to build bridges and put it forward to the Chancellor, but died before it's completion due to an outbreak of Avian Flu. A plaque with her name and face hangs from the concrete towers of the Gilbertson Island-side bridge.

The family is currently fighting a measure being debated, whether to build tolls to help pay for the bridges or not.

[Lyhoko Leaci 770]

Lyhoko: Looks good, can't wait for more!

Lyhoko: Wait, everyone else already said that...

Lyhoko: Where is this in relation to the given map?

[Follarch 326]

Baby Steps

Built an Airport from scratch!

 

 

 

 

 

 

I hope you enjoy these meager beginnings. Some actual cities will come once I begin building them.

[Jack³ 291]

How did I not see this before?  This is great. And whoever made that map is amazing! (hehe)

[vivapanda 422]

It looks great!

[RipRap 4,400]

Dem clouds!

 

Very Nice, I like the intensity of the colours.

[kj3400 178]

This is impressive. You've been holding out on us, haven't you?

[Follarch 326]

First Looks at the town of Gene, Folland.

 

Okay then, I opened Simcity4 and did a little development and watching of the Automata as they zoom across town. Quite enjoyable. This is more of a filler, I don't have anything awe inspiring to show right now. I always end up making little towns. Well here's another.

 

 

As you can tell, there's been some effort lately. Don't kid yourself, there's a poo-ton of island left to even render, not to mention develop on once rendered.

 

 

I like to show off my trains. You just can't get these moments in-game, so editing the train onto the platform had to have been done. This is at the moment a terminus, though that may change later if I decide to have it cross the water to the mainland, but that would mean cutting through the town center.

 

Also, the train time-table is complete bull.

 

 

I just love my grocery store. It's one of my utmost favorite BATs.

 

And this wasn't originally an image I was going to showcase, but I thought, why the hell not and so it's here.

 

 

This is near the edge of the town's city tile, where my transit networks get a bit funkay. At first I had the Heavy Rail line go elevated and cross over the highway, but that just made me too cranky with the result, so I blew it up! This is the much more realistic version, where the highway passes over the now grounded train tracks. These tracks are actually a part of a gigantic three-way interchange that spans two city tiles. The spur that crosses under the highway will eventually go south, while the straight line will move north. Happy to say the rail and highway are being used. Just not in this image at the moment..

[Schulmanator 5,787]

Nifty. And I like trains too.

[Follarch 326]

Mosaic Flight,

Now Departing

 

We hope you enjoyed your time at Gilbertson Regional Airport

 

[vivapanda 422]

Detailed and thus realistic airport!

[kj3400 178]

Dat airport.

[Aaron Graham 4,417]

Great update, keep up the good work.

[SimCoug 5,972]

I wanted to say great work so far.  That image with the single prop plan flying over the freight train from a few updates ago really turned out perfect.  And the region shot is really impressive and realistic.

[TekindusT 3,809]

Cool airport, this helicopter taking off looks so real!

[Schulmanator 5,787]

SWEET!

[Lyhoko Leaci 770]

Lyhoko: Looks nice!

 

Lyhoko: ...poo ton? Lyhoko hasn't heard that one before...

 

Lyhoko: Lyhoko likes the various planes and helicopters added in as well.

[Follarch 326]

I've decided to play catch up. I've been away from ST for a while but I've still be adding images to my showcase over at the USNW forum. I might as well add them here as well for others to see since the USNW is still kind of obscure. These are in no way "perfect" or pretty or in any kind of fashionable form as other more organized CJs are. I haven't had the will or urge to create a bona fide CJ Update. So, lets look at the snippets.

 

 

This is an overview of the city tile that featured "Mosaic Flight". Here it's not as pretty, but show's most of everything on the tile.

 

 

Next, is downtown Hinali, my nation's capital city. Currently the tile has been subjected to Prop Pox and thus is no longer playable, so it remains as is until the day I decide to scrap it. It is pretty decent though. It has 107,000 sims on the tile.

 

 

A glamor shot, showing off a helicopter I modeled myself. 

 

More to come.

[Schulmanator 5,787]

That helicopter rocks!

[weixc812 509]

A good looking CBD you've got! Nice selection of buildings

[Follarch 326]

A dark day for Folland.

 

The military is set loose on it's own countrymen to curb anti-government protests and riots that turned destructive and violent. Many say the situation could have been handled better, but unfortunately a terrible leader was sitting in the big chair at the moment and refused to be reasoned with.

 

 

Military vehicles and tanks travel along an inter-province highway to their destination. It's pretty much martial law at this point.

 

 

Comin down yo' streets, snatching yo' people up. Hide yo' kids, hide yo' wife.

 

 

 

[RipRap 4,400]

Dat war.

[Follarch 326]

Hinali's on it's last legs simcity-wise. There's not much else I can do with the tile now that it has prop pox and has been saved over so many times. So here's a few pretties I took of the tile when I was on.
 

 
I wanted to make the waterfront similar to Manhattan. Gleaming towers right along the shore.
 

 
Then it gets dreary over at the Capitol building. Dunno why people are enjoying the plazas, being soaked and all. Silly simcity.
 

 
And then a night time overview of the tile. I turned up the contrast to make it truly look like night. Comparing this city to Follomer's capital, I think I prefer Follomer's more. Oh well, maybe there'll be another city in the future.

[Benedict 3,119]

Welcome back to CJing! I really like the glow effect in that last picture. Very pretty indeed.