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[ginchael 1]

This CJ is very fantasical...which is what makes it so unique.  I like your style JO, keep it up!

[Superstar 69]

Very well done, I see the vaccum cleaner I gave you really helped  SuPeR job

[panthersimcity4 162]

 Awesome J_O_!!! I love the churches and old buildings!

[rustawilliams 0]

Nice Work, JO! I really like how it progresses and even thoughthe music is a bit 90's it adds a lot to it in some weird psychological way! The storyline is great and the whole city has a great realistic effect!

Keep it up,

rustawilliams

[DuskTrooper 314]

Interesting CJ, JO! Alot of detail, etc.

[jmdude1 20]

nice cj. its progressing nicely. i was wondering, where did you get those dirt lots? ive searched for them but found nothing. i hate putting grass around my rail. i hope someone can show me where they are. thanks a lot hehe.

edit, not the dirt roads, but the blank lots next to the rail.

[Djohaal 121]

Feedback Update:
Bourneid: LOL! I most of the time try to get rid of these rowhomes, do you want some?
Superstar:
Oh yeah, everythnig is clean and tidy, and unless golfbunny passes trough this part of his Lurk Tubes

[Djohaal 121]

[X]

BREAKING NEWS:
We just received a leter of a team of explorers that was assumed to be missing/dead!
They traveled to the Great Southern Desert in a pathfinding mission so we can estabelish a trade route with the cities in the far south (these cities never will be seen actually, in the CJ) they were crossing entering the spiderleg cliffs when a duststorm seemed to make them lose their track. Here is the letter we got!


After the duststorm we saw ourselves (Mak'nas; Osa; Kunn'la and Naggar) lost in the middle of the desert. All we could see was a very far cliff which seemed to have a crevice there. At that night we saw what seemed to be some smoke coming from it. Obviously we knew that a fire would be impossible to happen in such place, so we decided to head there to find out what was going on...

After wandernig like dumb roaches in the desert, we managed to reach the village. When we got near we saw something that was simply breathtaking for someone that was lost in the desert for several weeks! It was a whole town settled in a valley. As we got near we could understand why people lived in such a place.

The whole city was in an oasis! The valley seems to lead to an water outcropping which made that soil very fertile.
Unfotunately as soon as we neared the village; the sunstroke managed to take us down, as soon as we go to the village's entrance we fainted. We had had no water for over 5 days when we arrived, so we proibably were critically ill with sunstroke.

The villaegers were more than welcoming by rescuing us and sheltering. We stayed in that house until we healed from our sunstroke. They gave us a kind of large nut that had a sweet water inside. After making a hole; they dipped the water in a clay vase and sqeezed a sour fruit, producing a sour juice, the forthcoming fluid is a great re hydratant, we recovered of our sunstroke in no time. After we recovered, the tribe elder offered us a small house and allowed us to stay as long as we wanted to recover ourselves and study the village.

The secret on how the villagers could survive such a hot desert was that the high cliff in one of the sides of the valley produced a large shadow from noontime to night. However, in the morning things get pretty hot and most villagers stay at their sandstone homes.

In order to survive the villagers here produce several different kinds of food. They grow orchards of pomegranates; and plant a kind of grain which is tasty and can be stored in their granaries for a long time. They also plant some kind of tall plant that produces strong fibers used to make dresses (linen) and some household stuff. Their fruits are used to make a kind of sugar.
They also implemented irrigation canals which keep the soils moist during the planiting and growing season (our winter)

The grains are harvested and guraded in this large granary where the food of all the harvest is stored during the infernal summer. An inventive pulley system helps the villagers to push over 30 kilos of grain every basked up there.
The pereshibles such as fruit are made into jellies with high ammount of sugar, and these also last for a long time. In the middle of the summer, the tall palms that are all around the houses produce their fruits (not the bug nuts, these come from the palms near the oasis and water) which are some kind of small and hard nut, but very tasty.

You might tihnk how the canals are filled up when they dry? Here is the answer. During the summer, lord knows why; the oasis's water level rises and it floods all the area! The irrigation ditches are filled and the water that comes has some mud in it; what heals and recovers the soil.

All the fields already were harvested, and the hay is left to rot there to act as a natural fertilizer. The fruit tree orchards are left intact; but they seem to like the extra water.

During the summer; since most of the fields are flooded; all the villagers do is fidget around; eat some dates; swim in the larger oasis or quarry some sandstone and mud to build a new house.
This surely is a small peice of the paradise, despite the infernal weather. I couldn't come back since my wife, Osa, broke her leg and couldn't come with us.
-53/21/3567 Exploration party leader Mak'nas

This letter was brought back by Kunn'la and Naggar, the other two members of the exploration team who exited the village and headed back to civiliation.
The party was of Euskadian origin so the data first passed by the philosopher's forum before going to public.
Hope this update was nice

And now a world from our maestro (sponsor would be too cliche-ish)
Phew, at last I finished it. These mud homes were a private bat project that I made. Took so long for me to finish and were so buggy. But I'm satsfied with the final product, might even release them in the STEX later!
Also, if you think that this was amazing, hold your breath because in the future something even bigger might show up; did I say bigger, I meant HUGE
Comments are more than welcome
*Did I say huge, oops again, I meant TITANIC![:0]

[panthersimcity4 162]

Very nice!

[dev 47]

Well intersting update JO, looks pretty good, good work, and good tidings to Geb this Christmas

[alt+tab 2]

Lol, JO you made an entire village prop set for only one journal post? You realy are devoted to this journal arent you? Coolio by the way, Ill DL them!

[DuskTrooper 314]

LOL, JO, you are like UBER obsessed with this egyptian thing! Cool stuff!
IMO, you should install the grass beach thing to really simulate groth by the river or whatnot.

[hickerydickerydock 12]

Absolutely amazing. I love this whole thing so much, I'm obsessed. Are they going to connect the Great Southern Desert city with the rest of the towns? Will those towns ever have huge downtowns? I love those railroads you have, there so crazy but very interesting. It's jsut so great to be back! Keep up the good work.

[frogface 352]

wow those mudhomes really make it look different, it looks more like ag of mythology than SC4
great update

[Alkaola 18]

Great work J.O really nice , im enyoing this

hope to see 'a big ' city from you soon , i'm very curious what comes next

[Boggy1 45]

I love this CJ, J_O_, really weird as allways.

[rustawilliams 0]

Nice work JO, I really really like the new village and tile set. It looks so much more different than other cJs.

Keep up the great work,

rustawilliams

[threeswept 12]

Your CJ is really fantastic...this latest round of pics makes me wanna hire a camel and trek off to your oasis!! Really, very awesome!!

[Djohaal 121]

TERRIBLE NEWS!
[X]

I just received news that a volcano erupted in togo! According to what I managed to gather by time-shifting around a new crater formed! It formed in a secondary mountain near the lake. Boy what a eruption!
Here are more images!

First a crater formed and magma started to fill it. Tons of smoke and ashes were thrown in the air. Not to mention the lava bombs. This part lasted 1 day.

The city already was in calamity state due to the eruption but things started to get worse.
After the crater lifted itself it started to pour out magma like hell. First came a very fluid magma that burned everything in the path of the Eruption. Then an almost solid lava started to pour creating a plateau which engfuled a large part of the city. Have some more images after the eruption.

In that picture we see there is lava pouring off the volcano. It entered in an underground valley inside the plateau and presurrized the walls until they crumbled; causing terrible and violent explosive leaks.

The slow-moving lava slowsly covered the northen part of the city. It destroyed the parlament and the main rail staiton, not to mention the Fuzzy Rail

[BamaKid325 1]

Now that is one bad eruption. I hope that everyone got a chance to escape from the lava flow before it hit the city.

[hickerydickerydock 12]

Wow, you did a good job with the rock forming afterwards. I can't wait to see those rebels break free in Cerealia

[Djohaal 121]

The End of The Industrial Age

Chapter 1:
Rebellion in Cerealia.
As I said in the other post Cerealia started to have a rebellion...
Here are some images and how did the mess progress:
All started with a pacifc protest in the front of Chateau Du Don't Know What. Some rioters were from the separatist movement, and they started to round up more and more protesters. A Civil war was imminent!
In the government headquarters the rulers tried to contact the mother city to ask for military reinforcements (telegraphs existed by that age) however the eruption had destroyed the rail lines (where the telegraph cables were attached in underground tubes. Since they had just a small part of the armed forces they garrisonned the chateau with as many soldiers as possible to preotect their lifes.
Aftermath the chateau falled under seige, the rioters kept throwing stones and even flamamble materials (gunpowder bombs and etc) there. After several days of siege they managed to breach the chateau. A carnage followed and everyone in the chateau were simply slaughered.

The chateau after the invasion was in total ruins.
That triggered a civil war since a siginifcative portion of the population supported the togo government. A bloody civil war which lasted for over 3 weeks followed. Here are some images of the destruction.

Many houses were destroyed due to fires and bombs however that was just the tip of the ice(revolution)berg.

Many conflicts followed and a large part of the city was destroyed...

Not even the cathedral standed, it was destroyed by the revolutionaries in order to lower the morale of the imperialistic forces.

The city after the revolution. Pretty much destroyed. After several days the civil war ended. The Free Confederation of Cerealia was founded.
And now a word from our maestro
I know this wasn't such a GREAT update, but such a level of activity is pretty hard to do in simcity.
BamaKid: Most people managed to flee from the lava flow since it wasn't very fast, however several died due to the ash clouds and piroclastic avalanches.
Raven: Here you go=P About the rock forming, I just made that area black-and-white in photoshop
As always comments are more-than-welcome!

[frogface 352]

i just happened to be looking through and saw the update
looks like the rebellion caused a lot of damage

[xiziz 11]

It looks like somone just started a major war over there, its like total destruction... where are all those poor sims gonna live now?

Looks Great though Good Work

[Djohaal 121]

The First Flight ever marked the end of an epoch. Dumoun Sats Alkero was the first Geb-an to fly in a self-propelled-heavier-than-air-machine. The event happened in euskadi and was watched by thousands of people!
Here is the flight chart:

This is the key-chart of the flight, it started on the right side. The vertical lines show the trajectory's height in relation to the ground, while the horizontal (and diagonal) ones show the stability of the airplane during the flight. After it had a bump in the second patch of grass Alkero was forced to land his airplane, instead of making a bend and landing in the opposite direction. In the end the airplane landed, hitting a fence and a tree, however Alkreo was unharmed
Here are some photos I personally took for your delight

First photo, the airplane started to accelerate.

The airplane started to gain height. It was a quite smooth flight and it lifted immediately!

The airplane lifted smoothly and flew marvelously for some seconds...

...It had some instability...

...started to lose height...

...and slammed in the ground like a pumpkin
It hit the fence and bumped a bit, hitting a tree aftermath, I couldn't take the last photo since I was laughing my ass off at those poor creautres... Such a great event ending with such a hillarous slam!
And now a word from our maestro
Sorry if no animation was presented, but the gif for this thing was over 15 megs, and I didn't want to be such a hog in barbula's server (specially since I want to upload a HUGE thing there later, but that is just plans)
Feedback:
Frogface: By what I foresee the reconstruction will be hard and will take a long time...
xiziz*:Good question... PLOTHOLE WARNING
*yay, at last I spelled it right!
As always, comments are more-than-welcome

[dudyconstructor 40]

Looks pretty good! nice job

[bourneid 13]

Great job J.O...those adobe's came a long way from the piture you showed me before..great job. Glad you were able to figure out the ugly bar problem. Great CJ you have going here and hope to see more soon.

[Yuna 0]

Hey J.O., I've read through your whole CJ and I must say it is very impressive and fun to read as well. I love how you set up the beginning of your journal...*by the way, Gaia Marble from the core?...sounds like something from the Final Fantasy movie....* lol...great job! I also really like how you just manage to squeeze in bits of humour here and there...this is the kind of stuff that makes CJs such fun to read...And the details of descriptions that you provide are quite imaginative. I definitely liked how you integrated a civil war and revolution into your CJ....this isn't something that you can see in most CJs *as far as I know...* Well, I'll keep an eye on your CJ...Keep up the great work!!

[Mexicanboy13r 12]

Man! I love this CJ! I really like how the lava came to the city! Great work! Lets see next update!!!!!!

[Djohaal 121]

The socialist revolution in Askatasuna


Askatasuna was an island-state with over 35 thousand people... The situation in this large metropolis was becoming more and more unstable.

The situation, particullary in the poorer areas, started to become more and more uncontrollable, riots poped up everywhere...

In the poorer areas we can see how bad the situation was, in some poorer districts, trash was piling up. The city surely wasn't a nice place to live in if you weren't rich...

Here we can see an example of the bad quality of life... Sardine can apartments, this one, in my last count, housed around 1500 poor souls. This only shows how bad the situation is, people have to live crammed in huge apartmens with terrible conditions to work alld day long for miserable salaries.

The standard income/capta in askatasuna is just of 400 Nabaals/person, what is quite high though, however most of it is concentrated in the hands of a small elite.

A rebellion was imminent, with the help of wide segments of the army, which was also terribly underfounded, the people took the palace!
However, the emperor (Askeat XIX) who still had support of the navy, fled to New Askatasuna, a colony in the far west to found a new empire.
With that, the Socialist Popular Republic of Askatasuna was founded (commie)

Of course, with a new state created, all the symbols of the Old Emipre would need to be kaboom-ed, so here you go, the great palace was destroyed by the newly-created armed forces...

The palace is totally runied as you can see.. a few peices of it's modular archteture were left intact, since they will be turned into museums, but much of the plaace lies in ruins...

Although the new-founded ogvernment tried to control the anarchy that followed the fall of the old empire, attacks to the richer properties became more and more intense, and the most widely-known area of the city, the Great Exchange of Marduk (a large economic center with commerical and financial exchanges) was attacked... It was completely destroyed, sadly.
After all these intense conlficts, the state of anarchy was finally controlled when the Buta (name of the governamnetal corporation) decreeted that ALL commercial and industrial facilites would become a possesion of the government.
The city, however suffered much in this month of rebellions, here are some images of the destruction:

(Dummy line to avoid picture bug in firefox/poor-text)

This event marked the milestone of the end of the industrial ages and the dawn of the early modern ages.

And now a word from our maestro
Again sorry for the low dyanimc of the revolution, as I said simcity is quite poor in these matters. Another bad thing is that I will be gone until sunday or monday, (visiting relatives in Yokelopolis, UGH)
Feedback:
Bourneid: At last I figured it out, that was a true pain in the
Yuna: actually I think I played too much of the older RPGs in my emulator, however the stories of them both are almost the same line
Also, thanks for the extensive comment, that made my day!
Mexicanboy: Of course most of the eruption was edited in photoshop, however there is an old mod of mine somewhere in the forums that improved the volcanoes a lot too
As always, comments are more-than-welcome