Ainkien: The Underdiscovered Country

[sobol 1]

awesome update.

[Artur_001 4]

Wow. Great developments. I like your Simlympics billboard.

[knarfmo 0]

New billboard being shown around Newcastle and Birmingham:

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Phoenix7 and Artur: Slacker over at Simsports made the billboards and the look fantastic. I like the way that Dunlow turned out too. Dunlow is one of my more formally planned cities; most are rather "organic".

Schulmanator: What you can't see is that many people brought their cats to the torch relay. They obviously thought that humans waste a ridiculous amount of time on silly things.

Flyinbird and Sobol: Thanks for your kinds comments!

[Petrovar Ambassador 15]

awesome knarfmo! i especially like the way you present and photoshop most of your pics! keep up the good work!

[anarchy0029 2]

Hey great update. I really like the way you made out the photoshop effects.

[knarfmo 0]

Update: Stanley Metropolitan Area, Nalsa Islands

With the Nalsa Islands enjoying some success at the current Winter Simlympics Exhibition in York, Rorysville, here is an update with a tour of the Nalsa Islands' largest city.

There is an indoor ice rink in Stanley and it is possible to ski in the Nkobe Mountains during winter. This, and immigration from northern Europe, have resulted in the popularity of winter sports like ice skating and ski jumping in the Nalsa Islands.

[SounderBruce 173]

Good work on Millenuim Park!

[Schulmanator 5,812]

Glad to see you back again and updatingb with some cool stuff!

[De Ja Vu 117]

Welcome back! I haven't seen your CJ before and I must say that this is pretty amazing! Everything is so well organized. The zone date looks very good, nice to see someone who isn't plopping too much stuff and just lets everything grow

Keep up the good work!

-Dejavu

[knarfmo 0]

ComputerGuy, Schulmie and De Ja Vu: Thanks for the comments!

Now, here's a screengrab of some news out of the Nalsa Islands:

[jacqulina 162]

wonderfull work my friend,and great looking newspaper.

[knarfmo 0]

Today I would like to conclude the tour of Stanley, Nalsa Islands:

[jacqulina 162]

excellent tour i really enjoyed it,i cant wait to see more my friend

[gurrgkud 2]

Looking really awesome! That downtown Stanley is beautiful, as well as Penelope Cove. Also your billboards and websites are beautifully done. Looking forward to all the new development.

[knarfmo 0]

Thanks for the comments, guys!

Here are some highlights from two unique towns in West Nalsa County:

As you can see, I had to patch a few city squares together for that shot.

[knarfmo 0]

Here are a couple of towns from Grytviken County, the three islands to the south:

[SounderBruce 173]

The towns look great!

[jacqulina 162]

awesome presentation my friend,excellent planning and detail.

[Petrovar Ambassador 15]

indeed, knarfmo, your photoshopping skills are showing, i like the variety of planning and detail in your cities, but my favorite city so far is Dunlow

[knarfmo 0]

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Computer Guy - thanks for the comment.

Jacqulina - thank you - you always take time to look and comment.

Petrovar Ambassador - Dunlow is cool, but my favourite is coming up today.

Update

Today I'm going to begin a three-part "miniseries" on the last part of the Nalsa Islands that I haven't shown much of yet: Milton.

Milton may be my favourite SimCity creation. It's not got the natural beauty of Jaqulina's creations nor the cool architecture of the spectacular cities I see here on Simtropolis, but among all of its repetitive buildings, Milton has a very unique city structure that was a lot of fun to build and a cool place to build a city.

Milton is inspired by some of my favourite cities: it's laid out a lot like Wellington, NZ with a touch of San Francisco, CA; has the personality of Seattle, WA; and plays second fiddle to another, slightly larger, city like Melbourne, Vic.

So, without further ado, I present Milton (part 1 of 3):

[Schulmanator 5,812]

Nice town - I like the setting for it. And your maps are very good as well.

[knarfmo 0]

Schulmanator: thanks for the comment!

Here are some more pictures from Milton:

This is one of my favourite setttings for a suburban community. I hate that the town centre is ugly Maxis office buildings instead of some of the Aussie or English shops I've loaded up. I try bulldozing and redeveloping, but this is what I get. Even city planners are sometimes subject to whims of the real estate market...

[Twenty20 28]

Beautiful CJ, I really enjoy your work and especially the ports, your cities are nicely done and very pleasant, I like too the overviews, very impressive.

[Petrovar Ambassador 15]

Truly awesome! I am sooooo glad your a member of AIN lols.

[antsel 841]

Wow, the city of Milton looks great! I like how you developed up the side of those hills, it really looks good. I really like the way your CBD looks too.

[knarfmo 0]

Twenty20, Petrovar Ambassador and Selles - Thank you very much for the comments!

Today, I'm going to finish the tour of both Milton and the Nalsa Islands. We'll be heading to Milton's North Shore and to the west, and ending up out of town at the farthest point in the Nalsa Islands, The Pinnacle.

(oops, shouda turned the grid off... )

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For grins, I decided to try to fix two problems:

One, I tried again to get some shops, instead of ugly brown office towers in New Wellington. This time, it worked!

Second, I not only turned off the grid for The Pinnacle, but I added a lava rock mod.

It's better, but still no Starbucks!

It's so hard to pick out rocks...

[antsel 841]

Wow! Looking good. I really like downtown North Milton, great variety of buildings, and nothing too tall. I admire your ability to develop on hillsides, it makes the city so much more impressive.

I agree with you that it's hard to find a good rock mod. One looks good in certain landscapes, but not so good in others. I've experimented with so many, but I think I finally found one that works well with my region. I like the one you picked out for the Pinnacle - BTW, I love that name!

[SounderBruce 173]

Good work!