My Sim Mars Journal

[Mary Maurine Mayo 984]

Beta 3 is another step towards the goal of SimMars. Most main game functions and buildings have been replaced and the mod plays fairly well now. However, it is still a beta and hence unfinished. Not everything is replaced yet or fully functional. SimMars will install and play completely separate from your SimCity 4 installation.

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SimMars Beta 3 additions since last release:
- 180 new BATs (buildings) of all types
- new highway, rail, subway, elevated rail, toll booths and spaceport.
- SimMars game launcher: Beta 3 launches individually from SimCity 4 (see installation notes below)
- new User-Interface graphics
- new disaster (Blow-Out, replaces fire)
- 5 new music tracks
- the first few automata models
- new ordinances
- transformed news items

Main goals for the next release are:
- creating and modding new automata models (vehicles)
- implementing NAM elements (Network Add-on Mod)
- replacing avenue and one way texture

this is the only info I can find... I dont see a thread over there.... 

[FoxieHikari 212]

Hmmm... that's a shame. I wanted to see some new stuff like avenues and compatibility with NAM in there.

[Mary Maurine Mayo 984]

give me some time... im trying to get more info

 

[FoxieHikari 212]

Thanks! I'd really like to make some CAMelots for SimMars as well

[Mary Maurine Mayo 984]

if they dropped the project i will pick it back up... i just have to find out what they are doing with it and if they dropped it....i want to add stuff too.

 

the last release was in 2011 from the looks of it and that was the terraformed version. which i dont care for...

[FoxieHikari 212]

I'd love to see a new version of SimMars, on my old computer it would often CTD, but i dunno if it would do that on my new $2,000 gaming pc.

[Mary Maurine Mayo 984]

CJ Reboot

 

This CJ is getting a fresh reboot in a few days. Look for updates soon.

[Mary Maurine Mayo 984]

Ahhh finally command base finally finished. 750 colonists have come to mars to start a new colony and reach out for a new world. Earth now a dying world she has an estimated 100 years before she becomes uninhabitable. There was not enough time to search for a new world beyond a few light years. Mars being reachable was the most likly planet to launch the new space craft to be built at the space station built a few years prior to the mission to colonize and launch the largest ship known. Researchers will have to search further into the known galaxy to find a suitable planet............ Power station and a habitat ring and water station will have to be constructed before landing can be done for the remainder colonists. Ground staff only at this point.

[Mary Maurine Mayo 984]

Ground staff that consists of science staff and engineering staff will start construction of the habitat ring replace the one and only wind turbine from earth with a solar power station and place the water tower.

[Mary Maurine Mayo 984]

3 years later just in time I would say. According to ships captain the ship in orbit is about out of food and life support. The Eagle has landed. Ground staff have finally gotten base camp 1 ready for the colonist to land and occupy the colony. Basic habitats enough for 750 colonist to live in. Mining  has commenced to construct more habitats as the materials that came on the cargo ships are about gone. Common ore needed to construct more homes is now being mined. Ag domes are up and running and some basic commercial buildings. The one and only wind turbine has been replaced by a solar power plant and ice drilling has begun for water.

Small beginner base.. A high way is the next road system to be constructed once enough  common ore is collected. The highway will connect the new mining  colony that will be placed away from the main base as to keep pollution to a minimum.

 

The AI Sal is now up and running.

according to reports the new leak and seal buildings are just about ready to be built. 

Goals for this stage of the game are as follows..

Evac 1000 colonist 

evac 1000 common ore

evac 1000 food stores

Build basic research facility 

Build Hospital 

Build nursery

Build univeristy

Locate evacuation site 1 build highway and rail linking the two bases together. 

 

 

 

[Mary Maurine Mayo 984]

@CorinaMarie

Full Map rerendered with the larger city blocks. 

from outpost1 

here in the center is the command base. above it is an AG dome and just below it is the shaft leading to the lower levels.

 

[CorinaMarie 29,894]

5 hours ago, Mary Maurine Mayo said:

The AI Sal is now up and running.

This is a cool report. Are you playing Outpost side by side with your Sim Mars to get this?

And thanks for the full map. I like seeing the whole thing.

[Mary Maurine Mayo 984]

 

Base 1 is getting larger and it would seem that it was not a suitable site for AG and Science teams left base one and evacuated to what is now called the Research base. However not all was lost because now base one has become the source for all the raw and smelted ore. It has essentially become the mining  base. 

The highway was built to setup site one for the mining to begin, It was decided that ore extraction would begin inside the large crater.  The small city above grows larger as more miners migrate from the main base camp to site 1. 

Large minding operations have begun. Raw and smelted ore is transported to the next base by highway.  very few miners go to the research base. it is said to be full of tall buildings and many fields of AG domes. in return for the ore the research base transports food and other goods back to the mining colony, 

 

@CorinaMarie

I'll be making a new one to follow the story, 

[Mary Maurine Mayo 984]

*****RESEARCH BASE******

 

 

15 years later after a handful of Science researchers  and Ground staff and their families left main base this city has become the center for Science and Farming. Mining operations have been outlawed here in the Research base. The idea that AG domes would be better suited in a pollution free zone. Not to say there is no pollution but it is far less than the main base. High tech industrial and education facilities allow for the research teams to educate the population and bring in new fresh ideas. Several new building blue prints are in the hands of the engineering teams and an updated AI system is in the making, The highway still being the only connection to the main base colony will soon see a train rail system. While the research base does not have mining operations it gets all the common and rare ore it needs from the Main Base. In return we send food and other goods to the main base colony. The space port has been constructed and goods are sent to the space station in orbit around Mars. Science teams and engineering teams have been sent to over see the construction of the new colony ship as well as cargo ships and the dry doc.  

 

Commander Dale head of the new space program is hopeful a new planet will be found." We still have a long way to go and as new research facilities are built we will have a better chance finding a suitable planet. Meanwhile our teams stationed at the Mars Space Station will begin construction of the dry doc.  New training facilities for the space program are in the plans to train new astronauts and research in a cryogenics for the long trip to the new planet once it is found."

 

[Mary Maurine Mayo 984]

our first factory more in the blue prints....to come..

close up of the space ship.... 

[TakemeThere 5,834]

Never knew so many BAT's were made for this project., there's some really interesting ones in there. Really like that one highrise with the globe on top and the space port is pretty cool too.

[Mary Maurine Mayo 984]

Residential 

Command Center

comercial

Farming

 

industrial

Playing around with the transportation seeing what will work and what wont. I have done pretty good at keeping the residential away from the heaving mining sector. i have placed smaller sections and waiting patiently for the sectors to fill in.. 

[matias93 7,535]

Nice!

About the transportation, I tend to feel that the RRW would look great there, even if maybe a bit lacking saturation to match the mod's pallette. Sadly, all the crossings would require reworking, because the RRW has the conventional road textures intersecting it.