Anduin Valley Revisited

[jacqulina 162]

hi my friend as allways i love looking at your updates,you allways do outstanding work and pics, yes looks like it come in very usefull especially to me i finally posted some pics in katie and jackys kabin,thanks very much i can now post more updates properly in my cj,have a great weekend

congrats to anubis89 and dedgren on there citizenship

[Fallon144 1]

this remains awesome, I love the tutorials, keep it up mate

@jacqulina

thanks for constantly stimulating people, i see you on a lot of boards, this really motivates ppl to continue their CJ, so I thank you for it mate

[justanothersim86 83]

I don't even know where to begin. I really like the apartment complexes.

Good show my man!

[godwin1020 1]

carry on, supporting u at ur back,,, Even though i can't see the photos....

[dhoppeii 12]

John my friend, sorry that I missed the big 100 page celebration...........The compilation pics were amazing. I see that I got a little too much face time in the one though.....

Your work continues to amaze as well as your commitment to the game. Everytime I take a peak, I realize how much I miss playing....and long for a time when life will slow down a bit.....which BTW, appears to be on the horizon.

I still say that you are an over achiever and a show off......

[owenluby 1]

Nice work there mate! Good job! Loe the housing estate!

[Goin2Chicago 4]

my jaw now has personal relations with the floor. they're going to have another meeting next time you update. my jaw sais he can't wait!

[Shadow Assassin 336]

Looks great, Darmok. Everything flows together wonderfully, as always. Don't worry, I'll be here for the next 100 of Anduin.

The houses in pic 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 look real cool.. don't think I ever saw them on the STEX... maybe I did... I don't know ... but I do know I have not downloaded them yet.. think I'm going to start a search! quote>

Don't bother. They're in the game already, just look in the Euro tileset.

[yaptszwai 1]

Another great update pal...

I REALLY luv your residential districts... they're really gd lookin indeed...

keep it up ^^

[Yoman3 5]

I missed an update!!!!!

Yoman3 is disgusted with himself.

Great work good use of trees as deviders.

[ThePeoplesPerson 3]

Excellent update! Love the residential complex, looks great. I still love looking at all those transit enabled lots as well.

[Nardo69 51]

Hello John!

Nice one my friend! but to get all those residentials at the same time I guess our friend Bulldoyer 07 was rather busy ... Whenever I try to get a "pure style" area my friend 07 is really busy for a lot of (ingame) years ....

Frau Schinkenwurst & Frau Kartoffelpuffer ... seems to be you have a nice book of german food ...

Have a nice weekend!

Bernhard

[anubis89 108]

wow, the residental area in this update looks very realistic and it has many details

i'm also proud to be a citizen of this great CJ

[Benedict 3,119]

Pipe smoke? You are one of the funniest people at ST. Great update, my favorite pic is the radio tower one, mainly for that piece of the railroad bridge that looks almost rusted in the close-up view. Excellent stuff.

[Ramona Brie 121]

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[cityhawk 12]

You know, Darmok, when I came to ST back in Dec. of '05, I was lucky to have read through a couple of the longest CJs here on Simtropolis back then, but unfortunately, yours wasn't one of them. Now, today, I was lured here by a post that choco made in my CJ about my building style reminding him of the style used in Anduin Valley. After that, I just had to come here and check it out, but it's over 100 pages long with many updates on each page, so I just couldn't read through your whole CJ. With that said, I'm now starting by commenting on your last update, and let me say that choco was right! You love to level terrain with street tiles and use retaining walls just as much as I do. Beside that, you have a great looking city and nice graphics! From now on, I'll continue to comment in this CJ. I hope I didn't miss something big that pertains to the being of your CJ today; if so, please fill me in on as much as possible (but don't waste too much time on me). Have a good weekend, and see you next update!

[ilikehotdogsalot 311]

-shakes bush- That's hot.

[choco1 4]

Great update my friend! Beautiful and stunning design as always, love the apartments!

Oh, and I'm glad that you liked my little show of love for this journal!

Anyway, cheers mate!

[KoolSIM 2]

Great Update Darmok!!! Love the way you have presented this journal. It only continues to impress me after each passing update!!!!

[luker91 0]

sorry i missed a couple of updates (vacation)....anyways, lol about the fortune cookies but now that i think about it, Fortune cookies probably arent made in the cleanest place in the world... and i have to agree, the NAM makes almost anything possible for a transportation network, but for some reason, diagonal elevated overpasses never seem to come out right, hummm off topic..... awesome collage/mosaic/alot of pictures from awesome cities from an awesome region..... remeinds me of all the good times from the lengthy 100+ pages....oh and by the way congrats on 100 pages!!!

Luke

[JoeMeister 1]

Hey Darmok! 

It's been a while  Had a rough weekend... Holland being kicked out of the World Championships and all ...

Anyway... about my sig.. before I edited it with your suggestions it only said "Yeppa yeppa", although I really liked Speedy Gonzalez, it wasn't refering to him... I'm guessing you'r not Dutch, so you'd probably don't know the band BZN, but Yeppa Yeppa is one of my favourite songs! Just download it, it's fun! ( BZN - Yeppa < the lyrics so you can sing along, it's french! ... 

...no actually the music is terrible but it's just a fun song when you're getting dr*nk with some friends  ...

I've said it before and I'll just say it again... great CJ! I allready commented your last update.. but one more time: it was great!

Take Care!

JoeMeister

[ThomasAH 0]

Whoooh, again a great update, I like the way how you build those apartments, looks great with the parks between them! 

BTW: congratulations with the 100th page! (I know, I'm a bit late, it's already page 103)

Thomas

[sloppet 3]

wow Page 3 already! Great worko D#1!

[owenluby 1]

Again, nice work...

oh yeah.....

250th POST!

PARTY

[Nik-nik 3]

Impressive update Darmok. Great how you made that whole are look the same. How did you do that? Did you limit the residential growth lots in your plugin folder or did you buldoze a lot and I mean a LOT I keep on buldozing when I do it that way. It is so Booooooring!! so I do not do that a lot, maybe you have a tip?

Frau Schinckenwurst LOL Hilarious
Update 11 is very nice too. The way you design your towns is just great. It is a sheer enjoyment to look at it and see ut grow. That highway overpass is just brilliant. Perfect placement of the wasteplant and the watertower.
Great that redesign of the intermodal depot. Interesting fillers you use.

Have a great week.

Nik-Nik

[Darmok 34]

Sorry folks I dont have the link for the appartment building...

They are Marrast Modest EURO Housing Lots Set 1.0, BUT it seems that they are no longer on the STEX. It seems Marrast lots have been "lost", some technical problem that could be resolved in the future, in the site upgrade. I've made LOTS of searches with GOOGLE, but found nothing so far...

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BerlinDude - The City of Lisoaca - Glory and Darkness, Divided and Reunited!

Thanks BerlinDude!

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JoeMeister

Hi Joe

The houses I've downloaded from the STEX see the link section.

They are indeed chain-smokers they are old RollingStones fans used to go to every concerts and smoke... well... let's say they smoke too much...

Take care, (and don't smoke!...)

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Szarkoz - The Free Democratic Nation of Caledonia

Thanks, well, if you look closely at pic 12, you'll notice that some of the apartment buildings have their own (albeit small) playground... they used to have bigger sand boxes but the old ladies were throwing their cigarettes butt in them! (the old harpies!)

See you !

(and watch out for smoking old ladies!)

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Micah - Kingwood

No not really, all you have to do is: go to the file menu, chose "save as" then chose "Web page complete" then browse to the folder you want, (or create a new one) then hit OK and that's about it! Your CJ page is saved.

The walkways I try to use as much as possible, very often those small lots makes all the difference!

Take care!

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Jason -(Aldara6166) - Modular Amusement park thread

Hehehe... join the club my friend, this was just supposed to be kind of a small experiment, I don't know where I lost control!

Unfortunately SCR (Sculpting Columbia River) is no longer in the CJ section, I don't remember how many pages it had I think it was around 120 or something...

Good to see you Jason

Regards

John

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Rayden - New Haven

That's very nice of you to say Sylvio!

And who knows perhaps one day our MODDERS magicians will come up with a solution for diagonal bridges...

I guess you're right about "quartier" and "quarteirão" after all both language are derived from latin!

Take care!

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Mightygoose - Vil-valad, a city and its roots

Hey John, well, I guess I'll have to plan a new embassy sector!

ah... so much work and so little time! 

Have a great week!

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Bat

Thanks BAT!

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Battlecat - Terra - An evolving region 

Hi Battlecat, about that small stretch of road on the waterfront, It took me a while to finally decide what I wanted, in the end the small warehouses idea seemed to be what was needed!

Take care

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Sagrel

Welcome to Anduin Valley Sagrel

Thanks for your kind comment, and do come back whenever you feel like it!

Take care!

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Kant01 - The Mystic County Project

Hi Kant,

Hey don't be sorry, we all have RL and there's only 24 hours in a day! I know that I would like to comment on a lot of CJ's but we just can't. So, I'm glad to read you whenever you can find the time to drop by.

The NAM is so useful for those kind of problems! And I'm sure I could use it a lot more!

Thanks for your appreciation!

Take care!

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GaBoR - Oro Bruno

Hehehe, I don't know why, but when I saw the accident picture an old mean lady (not too mean mind you, but I'm sure everyone knows one in their neighborhood!) just popped into my mind! And the rest just came easily...

We had a great time this weekend, it was "Le Grand Prix du Canada" a Formula 1 race, (I must admit that F1 is my weakness I just can't miss it!)

Have a great week amigo!

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Special Eddie - Oasis--The Wild West

Thanks Eddie!

See you in Oasis!

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Tracker - Graph X Services

Hi Tracker, well as it's a lower middle class sector it couldn't look glamourous, I hod to go for a clean but simple look for the apartment buildings and their surroundings as well.

Take care

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Jacky (jacqulina) - Paradise Falls

Hi Jacky, I'm really glad I could help you.

Have a great week my friend!

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Fallon144

Thanks Fallon!

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Justanothersim86 - Justanothersims Civic BAT Projects

Thanks J-A-S, I really like your avatars using Garry Larsen cartoons!

Take care

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Godwin

Thanks Godwin, I'm pretty sure that you're the only "reader-only" visitor in AVR!

Much appreciated, though it must be a bit "dry" not seeing the pics!

Take care

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Dan - La Plaisance County (Best little County South of Canada!)

Dan, I'm really glad to see you. Forget about the 100th page, there's more to come.

Just good too have some news, and I sure hope the horizon is not too far.

As for the last line in your comment.....

I miss you too my friend!

Regards to you and your family!

John

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Owenluby ñ Barto Lakes

Well, everybody needs a place to dwell! Not only rich folks! WINK

See you!

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Going2Chicago

hehehe, watch out! those dust ball can be murder!

Take care, and don't forget to sweep the floor!

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S_A_ (Shadow_Assassin) - The Savannah Way

How's it going my friend?

In fact those houses are not the ingame ones, look at the link section.

And I'm glad to know you'll be there for the next anniversary!

Take care mate!

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Yaptszwai

Hey Yaptszwai, just wanted some quiet "ordinary" neighborhood.

Take care!

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Yoman3 - United Republic of Ankara

Hey don't worry Yoman! I miss a lot of updates everywhere recently! RL is harder these days! can't seem to find enough free time!

Thanks for the visit!

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ThePeoplesPerson - The Tropics of Haalu

Hi People Person,

Watch the STEX in the following weeks, at some point you'll be able to download some great little lots that "fakes" transit enabling! Dan should be uploading them, but please don't put ANY pressure, just be patient, he his REALLY busy these days    .

Take care!

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Bernhard (Nardo) - Urland a (mostly) rural coastline

Hi Bernhard

No need for Dozer No7 this time! See the link section.

hehehe... I was sure you'd get it! All this began when I saw the accident pic. The old lady just popped in my mind and when I was looking for a funny name, the idea of having an old "mean" german lady came, knowing that it would be easy looking into the german dictionary and finding food names that could pass as a family name!

I know.... I know... it's weird, but I just couldn't resist! LOL

The weekend was great.

Hoping you having a good time watching the Mundial...

Take care my friend

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Anubis - anubis' cities

Hey Anubis,

Glad you appreciate the passport.

And I said before I just wanted a quiet "ordinary" neighborhood...

Take care

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Benedict - The Mayors of Ellis Valley

hehehe... I just like to imagine those two respectable ladies puffing their pipes and sending smoke signals! ;lol

As for the funny stuff, I guess you outrank me quite a bit, so I'm taking this as a great compliment comming from you!

Take care

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Tracker - Graph X Services

Well, as Anduin Valley doesn't have any spatial installations, we cannot send any direct help, but a lot of doctors, nurses, architects and one pig farmer... have volounteered to help.

Just send the coordinates of the nearest spaceport and the AV Council will send immediately a private jet to the location.

Darmok

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Cityhawk ñ Montrose

Welcome to Anduin Valley cityhawk,

It's perfectly understandable, there's so much CJ's that trying to follow them all would necessitate all our free time! So no problem there.

Very few people have gone back to read the whole thing. I guess you could look at some of the pages at random so you'd see the evolution from the beginning to what I do now. But then again I'll leave that to you.

As for levelling terrain, I try more and more to do it only when necessary and try to integrare each sectoe as best as I can in it's environment. Sometimes it works, sometimes...meeeh! The retaining walls I tend to use less now, I'm trying to use them only when it looks like the setup really demands it! If not I try to be the more nature oriented as I can.

Last, I don't feel that I EVER waste any time on anyone, it's always a pleasure to answer question about AVR or gameplay in general, it's how I've learned new tricks so far!

Looking forward to reading you again, and do not hesitate to criticize or ask any question you like!

Take care!

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Ilikehotdogs alot

Welcome to Anduin Valley ilikehotdogsalot,

Thanks for that intriguing comment!

Take care!

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Choco (Chocolatemax285) - Green Depra

Hi mate,

Those appartments are Marrast's, unfortunately they are no longer on the STEX, I'll email Marrast to see if he plan to reupload them or if we can do it for him.

Thanks, and have a great week!

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KoolSIM

Thanks Aasim!

Take care

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Luker01 - San Lucas: My first CJ

Hi Luke,

No problem, I miss some updates too when RL hit!

I must admit I made one diagonal elevated overpass, it finally turned out OK but was not so easy to do!

And I couldn't say anything about fortune cookie factories, never seen one in my entire life! LOL I should apologize to fortune cookie makers! I had a lot of fun doing the collage, had me thinking "out of the box" for a time, was a nice change from my RL work. Felt like a child doing a scrapbook!

Thanks for the congrats.

See you!

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JoeMeister

Hey Joe,

Sorry about Holland. I must admit that I didn't follow the Mundial except when listening to the news, here it's mostly hockey or baseball. (and to be honest I don't even follow that, I'm more of a F1 fan...)

No I'm not Dutch, and I don't know BZN, serves me right to comment on something I don't know hey! :;-);

About the part getting.... you know, well been there, done that! But we were not singing Yeppa, i was more the Beatles or The Rolling Stones! hehehe... But I know that the fun is always the same, whatever the song is!

Thanks for your comments Joe, it's really appreciated!

Take care

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ThomasAH - Zorturia

Hi Thomas

No problem, one is never late when writing kind words!

Tot Ziens!

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Sloppet – Anwakee – County

Hi Sloppet, great to see you my friend!

And yes page 3!

Take care

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Owenluby - Barton Region

Hi Owen

Thanks, and congrats on your 250th!

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Nik-nik

Hi Nik!

I was just about to post my update and was thinking that I was missing your witty repartee!

Opened the browser and BAM! here you are! Now the week can begin! 

I thought that you were gone on vacation or something... Anyhow good to see you!

Now on topic, It was quite easy in fact for this sector, the appartment buildings are Marrast's, please see the links section at the top for more info.

Sometimes I do buldoze, but has you say, it's quite a chore and I tend to try to find some workaround then.

hehehe.... I was just trying to find some funny "exotic" names for the old ladies when I thought that german food would probably do the trick, I know I had fun looking out to find them!

How are the kids these days, still eating your budget away???

My friend it's always a pleasure reading you, wishing you a great week!

Regards to your family!

-John

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And now dear readers, without further ado, here's....

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And here you are, another one gone by.

Now the food for thought section.... let me see!

Oh... Let's go with a light one this time....

"If God wanted us to fly, he would have given us tickets."

-Mel Brooks

That concludes it for today!

Have a great week, and see you friday!

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In the meantime

Take care and enjoy life

Darmok

[magpieshooter 1]

Nice upadate. The new sector looks excellent. Interesting way of setting up those euro buidings. And the promenade is great too.

[JoeMeister 1]

Hey! Great update! really nice night pics!

OH and a great promenade!

Good piece of work.. keep it up!

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JoeMeister

[Yoman3 5]

Great update. i like the work witht the path and suburban buildigns!

Which path did you use right along the river?

[GaBoR 7]

I couldn't go to my trip before I saw what Anduin Valley shows this Monday, so before I hit the road let me tell you: Lovely, that's how detail it's done my friends, watch and learn, your work is truly inspiring, Congratuations. Have a great weenk...