Anduin Valley Revisited

[jeronij 13]

Hi Darmok,

I have been busy those days and I didnt had a look here for a while. Well, errrr, what can I say????

 

EXCELLENT WORK !!!!. Is mentioned before but I

[dhoppeii 12]

Thanks for the info there Darmok.

 

Can't wait for the next update.

 

Do I get a special parting gift for mentioning the glowing buildings first?

 

Or at the very least for starting

 

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[Darmok 34]

Mini Mini Post  

Bobinator, TGA, Jeroni and Dhoppei

Thanks for your visit and I'll talk to you next update not much time tonight, just enough to show you the upgrade pic of the baseball park redone with Jeroni's new fences.

Thats it

going to sleep now!

goodnight and take care

Darmok

[your_adress_here 11]

The ballpark looks much better now!

[bobinator 0]

Man that ball park looks awsome with the fences! Great job!

[Darmok 34]

 

 

bobinator
Yep power lines can mess up a city, that's why very often I'll put windmills. Thanks for the comments about the baseball park, but I'm not sure that I'll leave it that way, the jury is still out on that one.
TGA
Thanks for your continuous support it is really appreciated,  and yes I'm glad that people take the time to help me with things I've overlooked, it's never too late to learn new tricks! 
As for suing, well I can say that so far no accidents happened! 
Jeroni
I perfectly understand that you don't have much time, I'm still amazed of what you can accomplish in 24 hours! Thank you for the compliment, and Eladremme is indeed a beautifull CJ.  But my favorite is Columbia River!   
Mi ciudad es su ciudad, amigo!   And you're welcome to come here as much as you like! 
dhoppeii
You're welcome,   as for the special gift, don't worry, Mayor Darmok is working on something, for the regular visitors of Minas Tirith, and in the meantime please accept my thanks, and as I say often, the support you all showing me keeps me going, without it there would not be a CJ. Thanks a million to all. 
your_adress_here
Man I just realized that you put Anduin Valley in you sig! That is a very nice gesture,   and much appreciated! As for the park I'm still juggling with other ideas! 
All right! now let's put that show on the road! 

UPDATE 16
starring pics from phase 20 and a special serie!

 

 

This phase is dedicated to a special friend of Mayor Darmok.
(Note that I didn't use at that time the abandonment mod, so some buildings shows it, that'll be repaired very soon!)

You can witness here the biggest task done by Click Plop and Son for the terraforming of Jeroni Plaza, they set a lot of explosives patches (very hightech stuff) on the ground to be leveled and then....

 

 

BOOM!

 

The Ritz Carlton, seized the first interesting lot near the future plaza.

 

 

Work is going well on the construction site!

 

 

 

 

Now a global pic of the finished (almost) plaza
(some area has been hidden for security reason.) 
Please also note that I'm trying very hard at the moment to break the McCormick Plaza building repetition, but everytime I buldoze one it is replace 4 out of 5 times by another McCormick   so it's a loooong process, as soon as it is to my liking I'll post a new global shot of the plaza.

 

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Here you see the proposed flight path of the Mayor's helicopter to show you the plaza in close-ups

 

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We begin with the backyard of the Ritz Carlton,

 

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A wealthy entrepreneur build two Walkup Towers face to face.

 

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Nearing the Opera sector! And the Mayor commemorative statue. (note the water inlet below the statue that lead to a water purifying facility hidden under it!)

 

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The Opera, Museum and train station.

 

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Another angle for the museum. old farmer McCormick who owned the land before, sure is wealthy now with all those condos bearing his name!

 

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School busses in front of the City history Museum.

 

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A rear view of the statue and parks.

 

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Back to the Ritz

 

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And we finish our flight with a close up of the Statue Park

 

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That update is to salute Jeroni, who made this CJ possible by the inspiration he's given me, and a lot of others too i'm sure! 

 

So there it is!

Update 17 will come later this week as soon as I can find some free time. I thank you all for your patience and continuous support.

Take care !
Darmok

[comdude21 6]

Great job on the update! I've been following this CJ since the beginning, and it's about time I commented. It's definately one of the best CJs out there. The amount of detail shown here inspired me to do the same in my own CJ.

BTW, I remember an old Anduin Valley region from a long time ago, probably almost two years now. So is that why this is called Anduin Valley Revisited? Thanks.

Again, great job, this is one of the best CJs.

comdude

[jeronij 13]

Hi Darmok,

 

WOW !!!

 

 This is not a park, this is THE PARK. [:0]

Man, I have no words to describe how much I like this Area. You should be named The Park Man or something like this . You are a real artist and we can see how nuch effort you put in every single tile in Minas Tirith.

As a wish/suggestion, I think it could be nice to see some pictures on the zoned land, before you start growing buildings. Your walkways system is so spectacular that I like to see it alone in all its magnificience. ( Maybe in two weeks??)

 

Keep Minas Tirith this way. I love it. ( I have been making some testing with those nice marrast

[dhoppeii 12]

As always Great Update.

 

I really like the plaza area especially the two towers facing each other.  The whole area looks very inviting.

 

Can't wait for more...

[your_adress_here 11]

Very nice man!!! I have a few things to say though.

1. To avoid the repetition, try plopping some NDEX stuff. It can really liven up your skyline!

 

2. Where did you get the paths shown in the park and everywhere else in your CJ? They look good!

 

3. Amazingly nice!

 

Keep up the good work, cause I can't wait for the next update!

[bobinator 0]

I love what you did with oppie's canal in those park pics. Very cool! Can't wait for the next update!

[Darmok 34]

Another mini post

 

Comdude
Welcome officially in Minas Tirith, thanks for your good words  and I did post a thread almost two years ago, the 15th of may 2003 to be exact, and the thread was Building Minas Tirith but it was based on the same map. Unfortunately I lost that city when my HD crashed    and I was not able to recover the saved games data or the screenshots. So it stopped there. But this time I'm making regular backups on a second HD and a DVD burner! 
Again thanks and welcome 
Jeroni
Amigo, You'll find the requested pic below, thanks for the title of Park Man, I do like them (the parks) a lot.   Open spaces brings a little bit of nature to the city.

You'll see in the pic, that I'm currently working on replacing the chain link fences lot by your new park fences, much prettier this way!
Thanks again for you visit!
dhoppeii
Hey dhoppeii, you're becoming one of the more regular poster on the CJ,   and I appreciate each comment.   The two facing towers are a bit of luck but I made them historical to be sure to keep em that way. It would be great if we could also plop fully operational residential lots. Until them we have to buldoze   and watch'em grow!
YAH (your_adress_here)
I hope you don't mind me nicknaming you? It'll be faster to prepare my future posts this way. If you mind just tell me, I wont take offense.
I have 3 things to say to you.
1. Your NDEX advice was a good one,  I've already downloaded some of their stuff, but this time I've made a search for them, and downloaded some 80mb zipped stuff. So now thanks to you my plugin directory, is over 580mb!!! 
2. The walkway paths are from marrast, they're great! and if you only use one to connect two lots or streets they're even transit enabled!
3. Thanks for the amazing comment! 
bobinator
Oppie's canal set is a GREAT piece of work,   and so flexible that you can do almost anything you wish with it. Thanks the comment, and see you in SunValley!

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//phase_jero_layout.jpg align=baseline> 

 

I take the opportunity here to say a big THANKS to Jeroni, Oppie, Marrast, PEG, Simgoober and all the modders and batters (I can't possibly name you all) for all the hard work you're doing that allow us to make better looking cities.
We tend to take all those wonderful lots for granted and forgetting the efforts you put into them.

THANK YOU ALL !! 

See you next update!

 

Take care

Darmok
 

[bobinator 0]

That's just really greatly laid out and planed! Those statues next to the footpaths give it a great feel to! One suggestion (kinda picky): I think you should change that street to a road at the bottom of your last pic so it will go with all the avenues and stuff.

[your_adress_here 11]

I don't really care about YAH, jeronij calls me that too. And thanks for directing me to the paths! They sure are nice!

I can't wait for the next update!

[jeronij 13]

Hi darmok,

 

Just a BIG thanks for a so good and so quick pic . I love it and I

[Beloved 2]

WOW Darmok. I really love this update. I like have u made the canal in the center. It really looks realistic. And the Mayor statue of yourself in the middle makes it prefect.

Can't wait to see more!

[dhoppeii 12]

Hey Darmok, you make it easy to come here and post.

 

You also make me feel like a complete loser at putting cities together.  I have been trying to get up the nerve to post my own CJ here, until of course, I visit Minas Tirith or the Columbia River.

 

 

[jimbob10 0]

Just amazing how you laid out the park! great job!

[Darmok 34]

This is really a mini mini post

Thanks again for all your nice comments, and I'll answer more to all in he next update.

dhoppeii

If I can give you just one piece of advice, give yourself some buffer period, this is a trick that several posters do. Work on your city for at least a couple of week or more, take lots of pictures. This way you'll have lots of updates material to work with and not be stressed by any timeline.
And above all do it for YOU and have fun doing it. If not, whats the point!

I can tell you that the 2 or 3 hours I work on my city every day or so, are really relaxing afer a day's work.

Whew! I should write sermons don't you tink

Anyway, have fun and if you decide to do a CJ I'll sure be following it.

Take care
Darmok

[cammo2003 20]

Looking great. The park's stunning. I've just reworked my parks (as you're well aware) in my CJ.

I'm not finished showing that yet though.

Yeah. But keep up the good work, it's certainly paying off.

dhopeii: It's like that for me. My CJ certainly isn't bad, but it definitely pales in comparison to these.

[Darmok 34]

 

bobinator
Thanks, I agree about the street, it'll be changed, too much traffic on it!
YAH
Allright then! YAH it is, and when you think of it, it's a positive name :-)

As for marrast walkways try em and tell us more about your experience with them after!
Jeroni
You're welcome, and as for keeping MT this way, you know that it is already finished, the only thing I'm doing right now between two sessions in Belfalas is replacing some chain link fences with your new park fences.  

Speaking of which, following YAH advice and plopping some NDEX lots in Jeroni Plaza, all your cement retaining walls became transparent!   

I shut down SC4, reopened it, no change, removed all NDEX from MT, no change! 

So I tried deleting the walls and replopped them, and it's working!  

So now I'll have to go all over town to do that!
And strangely enough it didn't happened in Belfalas!
Anyway! always glad to see you here.
TGA
Thanks for your appreciation, as I said before working with Oppies canal set is a breeze and you can do practicaly anything you want with them! As for the statue, i sure hope it's not me! I'm not that big!
dhoppeii
Thanks for the compliment, and as I said in the previous post, just have fun with SC4, it's not a competiion, it's a game!
jimbob
Thank you for taking the time to comment, It's really appreciated, a comment don't have to be very long to be good! Thanks again.
cammo
I've seen your reworked park,    all they needed was more random woods, they already had a good layout! And for the last part of your comment, I don't think that ANY CJ's paling in comparison with mine, what I like in Simtropolis is that we have diversity! Just to give you a simple exemple, I never tought of doing an Embassy sector in my region, now thanks to you I'll place one in one of my future cities in Anduin Valley! Yep diversity's the key! Keep at it and show us your good work! 

Whew! 7 replies... I LOVE IT! let your comments coming!
Keeps me busy!

And Now, ladies and gentleman, heeeeeeeeres...

Update 17
starring pics from phases 22, 23 and 24!

First Happy St-Patrick's day to all !

 

 

 

 

This will be a recreational, residential and commercial sector.
Here you can see the basic road layout of Rocky Point.

 

 

A marina and piers are constructed near the bridge.

 

 

 

Another global view including the bridges connecting to a new sector not yet developed.

 

 

The AVBL - Anduin Valley Baseball Leage - is proud to announce the comming of a professional baseball team! The Minas Tirith Dockers! The name of the coach should be announced shortly!

 

 

 

For the real dockers, a lighthouse is installed to help the increasing maritime traffic.

 

 

 

A closeup on the terraforming for the stadium parking

 

 

 

 

The parking is hardly completed! that the fans are already pouring in! Beer! hot dogs! Peanuts!

 

 

 

 

For the convenience of the visiting team The Pacifica Palms opened an hotel just above the stadium!

 

 

 

 

The Marriott wanting a piece of the action did the same!

 

 

 

 

 

The Pacifica do some terraforming. (note that thos chain link fences will be replaced later with Jeronis fences).

 

 

 

 

The Pacifica even pays for a walkway to the marina!

 

 

 

 

While digging for the lighthouse foundations, remnants of an old fort where found! So with a grant from the AVBL, the old fort was restored!

 

 

 

 

 

The AVBL even gave the Mayor a painting of the site.

 

 

 

 

Minas Tirith Country Club is opening it's links!

 

 

 

 

Here you can see the proposed zoning near the Country Club

 

 

 

 

As the residential is not showing much interest, the zoning is slightly changed

 

 

 

 

Now to finish this update, two global shots of the north shore sector.

 

 

 

 

 

 

We just received this info...

First,
dhoppeii, with his previous post, as attained the level of citizen and will receive his own passport.
Second
As he showed interest in having some sort of a reward for his attention to details (the fusion reactor incident!)  the city council AND the AVBL has decided to name him coach of the Minas Tirith Dockers!
So here's your passport and baseball cap COACH!

 

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//cap-and-pass.jpg align=baseline>

 

 

 

Were confident that you'll do a good job! And the newspaper are already on the story!

 

A copy of the paper should follow!

 

 

So there you have it!

Hoping you liked this one, 18 is coming next, I can hear it! just around the corner...

Thanks to all who appreciate this CJ, keep coming, we're open 24/7

Take care
Darmok

[Darmok 34]

Here's a copy of the newspaper !

 

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/files//sentinel_coach.jpg align=baseline>

 

 

 

Take care coach!

Darmok

 

[bobinator 0]

Wow! Very cool Darmok! Great newspaper too! I wish I could do something like that!

[mayormommy 8]

I think you might get some more residential development if you added some ferry or water taxi service to the rest of the city. Also, you don't really need that windmill in the lighthouse pic because Peg's random forest conducts electricity. Anyway, Rocky Point looks like it's off to a great start.

[rix10 0]

Wow! Awsome newspaper, awsome city! Great job Darmok!

[your_adress_here 11]

The stadium complex is very nice!And the hotels are aswell, especially what you did with marrast's paths in Phase_24_005! And congrats to dhoppei for making the position as coach! I'm sorta jelous though ...

Keep up the good work!

 

 

 

[juantrev 0]

Love the updates, as usual.  Couple of things, where did those stairs come from on the concrete hillside things (dunno the name)?

Love the pics of the parks.  Different idea setting it back a little with pedestrian walkways, but love it even better!

 

Love the pedestrian walkways through your latest updates.  I have been obsessing over people who show that walking is an acceptable way for sims to move.  Thanks for giving me my fix!

[dhoppeii 12]

*tap*    *tap*

Is this thing on?

 

*dhoppeii clears throat*

 

 

It is truly an honor to have been called upon to manage the Dockers.  I have been visiting Minas Tirith for some time now and have felt like this was a home away from home.  I can tell you that we are very excited about this season.  The team is really working hard here in Florida during spring training.  We have some good young talent that was added to the ball club during the off season and the money invested should pay off.

 

Before I take some questions from the press, I would like to announce that Darmok, the founder of the Anduin Valley Region and Minas Tirith will be on hand for our home opener this year to throw out the first pitch.  Without the dedication of a community leader like Darmok, our new ball park would not have been possible.

 

We'll see you all at the new ball park in April

 

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Hope you all enjoy

 

Thanks Darmok, I truly appreciate inclusion into your CJ.  I hope you don't mind that I used some of your graphics there....

 

Oh and BTW, Great Update.....

[jmdude1 20]

what a great cj. i like the team name and logo, very creative. where can i get one of those groovy hats?!?!  also....

 

Oh, put me in, Coach - I'm ready to play today;
Put me in, Coach - I'm ready to play today;
Look at me, I can be Centerfield. John Fogerty

 

keep up the good work.

[Darmok 34]

Mini Post

 

Bobinator
thanks man!
For the newspaper all it takes is the right tools, an idea and a little patience! 
mayormommy
I think you're right,   I'll probably try the water taxi, I think it's waiting for me somewhere in that warehouse of a plugin folder of mine!   As for the windmill I already thought of buldozing it, but I had the idea that:
1. I like it
2. It could be seen as a backup power source in case of an outage, more secure this way!
Thanks for your good words! 
rix10
Welcome to Minas Tirith 
And thank you for taking a minute to show your interest, it is much welcome! 
YAH
Yeah I think that it shows that I like Marrast paths a lot! (pun intended!) 
And please! don't be jealous, just look down! 'Cause while dhoppeii will have to work on the diamond, you'll be enjoying his work!
juantrev
Welcome to MT,
the stairs are marrast work, here's the link

https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/index.cfm?mode=files&filetype=Lot&Str=marrast%20walkways%20%20stairs%20set

And I like to put walkways, and nature paths. Looks relaxing!
Thank you for the comments! 
dhoppeii
Of course I don't mind you using the graphics, it's your team after all!
That press conference was a GREAT idea!   I laughed so much that it was almost painfull.     
Just a thing tough, next time before calling a press conference, take care of that five o'clock shadow man! 

But besides that, I can say that you made my day! 
jmdude1
Thanks for the appreciation, It keeps me going!
And double thanks for the John Fogerty song! Im a CCR fan! 

 

 

bobinator, just attained the citizen level, and with it naturally, comes the passport, and to sweeten the deal Mayor Darmok decided to give bobinator AND your_adress_here a pair of season tickets each! So enjoy yourself citizens!

 

 

 

Take care

And have a good weekend all! 

 

Darmok

 

 

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