Corsula

[corsulian 0]

Corsula in 1997




During my occasional free time, I'm working on remaking this city in SC4.

Uninteresting Backstory
So there I am with a nice copy of Sim City 2000 that I've been working with for some time. I want to make an ideal city. This city will be called Corsula (Cor - Sue - La) and I have a totally different uninteresting story on where that name came from. Anyway, I wasn't aware that cheat codes existed so the ideal thing to do seemed to be: make a somewhat successful random city, leave it on for a couple days making money, then bulldoze it and use that money to make my dream city.
And so it began, my random city. Long story short--it was very successful. It was a lot of fun. Over time, I bulldozed whole ridges to make way for lots of waterways. Roads went nowhere--everything was an absolute mess. The city was twice almost totally destroyed by fire and suffered no end of smaller problems. It had, however, already become my dream city.

interesting features
If you look at that picture (and sorry for the quality--but it's a screenshot from at least 7 years ago), you can see a few cool things.
Left-Center: a handful of the 'skyscrapers' that SC2000 came with (other than the gigantic arcologies).
Small central island: the only low-density zoning on the map.
Right-Center: a jumbled collection of islands with railways and parks.
If you look a little further down from that, you can see two of the ugly arcologies somehow joined together (somehow = weird bug in the game).

[corsulian 0]

The story of Corsula came after the city was built. A great help was the Sim City Urban Renewal Kit (SCURK). It helped me to transform the city into something that wasn't 50% libraries and police stations.

Corsula in 1998ish (sorry for the red lines--at some point I must have felt it necessary to draw those all over the only record of this city existing)



The storyline I eventually pieced together involved Corsula being sort of an island-nation. Definitely not part of any existing country--just sort of a tiny but prosperous nation with an exceptional economy, but somewhat strict laws. It was built on seismically-active land and felt a shudder every so often but rarely anything serious.
It had one connection to the mainland of a larger country (US, China, whatever) and that was the double re-inforced girder bridge which was basically the entrance to the city.
Wherever it was, lush tropical vegitation was everywhere and small strips of land were set up to preserve some areas.

[metasmurf 705]

Good old sc200 I remember using the Sim City Urban Renewal Kit to cheat. I simply plopped thouse astronaut (spelling?) buildings, powerplants and water and then cash started to flow in Either way, great to see some screenshots of the game and to rember old times  (Sorry if the english is confusing, i'm tired and my brain is kinda running slow right now )

[jacqulina 162]

looks excellent great pics too

[tag_one 133]

haha great to see pics from the good old days.

[corsulian 0]

Jataka



A series of powerful earthquakes occurred across South-East Asia in 2009 and further devastated many regions still recovering from disasters which had happened not even five years earlier.
Malaysia was financially ruined moreso by this and Indonesia has been mired in civil wars.
As the entire Oceanic part of the world attempts to recover, an untouched series of islands in the middle of it all began to look attractive to several firms. The islands were called Corsula. Less even than the size of Washington, DC, it had somehow remained virtually untouched by disaster or strife.
The region of Jataka, the North-Westernmost area of the islands, had been used as a US air strip for quite some time. The US had ownership of the islands, but hadn't done anything there until a small research company expressed a desire to set up shop there.
The air strip was slightly modernized (the research company was generous in offering money for improvements), a small road was built, and better power generation and communications facilities were added atop a ridge.
And so it remained for quite some time...

[Cjah 15]

Really good story.

Also pretty realistic island and those rivers are really cool!

[Yoshi25 0]

like the story keep up the good work!!!

[Micah 16]

Wow, the storyline is cool! And thanks for bringing back for great memories.

[corsulian 0]

The airstrip on Jataka had originally been built during World War II. The high ridge and constant fog kept it well hidden, but difficult to actually use unless there was an emergency.
The airstrip had been modernized, but the only thing really happening on the island was at the small research outpost. This outpost turned out to be owned by a subsidiary of Monsoon Enterprises. This was a fast-growing corporation that specialized in taking companies ruined by the physical and financial disasters of the Pacific Rim at low cost and building them into the multi-faceted industrial network it was creating.
The research was stated to the US Government as mainly environmental. It was--they were studying if it would really be so bad for the environment to set up a phosphate mine on the island. With the United States happy to to reap in a general lease settlement for much of the area, the mine was created along with processing facilities, a new power station, and a small worker village.

Monsoon Enterprises Corsulian Phosphate Mine


Monsoon Enterprises Corsulian Phosphate Mine Processing and Export Facility


The Worker Village


It didn't take long for the mine to begin carving out sections of the island and leaving them barren and worthless. The research outpost, however, had done a fine job of seeing how to prevent any erosion that would damage company land or property.
The worker village consisted of a small village, built by the workers themselves, and a much nicer series of offices and company apartments for any executives or management.