Anduin Valley Revisited

[miguelkuk 111]

Wow! I spent about a week going through the whole journal. I never thought it would be this long. But well enjoyed time though.

[pvarcoe 0]

Congrats John!

And a belated Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

[Darmok 34]

Silur

Yep sometimes we do! but we're already at 2.10 meters (that's almost 7 feet!) right now, I think that we could use a break right now, at least for a couple of weeks!

Happy new year to you!

-John

   

PhilsCafe

Bonjour Phil,

C'est vraiment bien de te lire!

Good to see you my friend!

Well RL is always first in my book too! I hope all your exams went well and that you are fine.

As for not playing in a while, look no further, after the mosaics I didn't do NOTHING, except play the guitar of course, and going to a concert on my christmas vacations in Florida far from the snow... See the pic below...

Phil je te souhaite une très bonne année 2008 et puisse tu obtenir tout le succès que tu mérite!

Take care my friend

-John

   

taka2K

Hi taka2K

I'm honored that you chose to make your first post in AVR.

And if you are interested in terraforming, you should also look for Jeroni's, David (dedgren) and Jacqulina's work, they really are great! I mention those three, but you have a lot of others who are doing a fantastic job on that topic. Just look around and you'l find!

Happy new year!

Yoman3

Hey Owen,

Thanks for the good wishes, allow me to raise a glass of Bowmore to your health for the comming year! May it be good for you!

Take care

-John

ky72x

Hi Kyle,

Thanks for your very kind words!

Hoping you had fun during the hollidays as well!

Happy new year to you!

-John

SpecialEddie

Eddie my friend I hope you had an excellent holliday period and that the upcoming year will bring you still more well deserved recognition!

Here's to your health!

Take care

-John

miguelkuk

Hi Miguelkuk

Hats off to you for reading the whole thing!

Glad you enjoyed it!

See you

pvarcoe

Hi Phil,

Thanks for your good wishes my friend.

I certainly hope that you had a great holliday period, and I wish you the very best for 2008!

Take care

-John

As you can see, I spent some time away from the snow on the hollidays, first time in my life.... and I liked it! That picture was taken in front of the House of Blues in Downtown Disney in Orlando Florida, it was 84 degree farenheit (far from the minus 18 celcius when we left...) it was simply great, exhausting.... but great.

To each and every one of you I wish the best there is for 2008!

Take care and enjoy life!

-John

[Silur 3,308]

Hi, John ...

I see - You're again in Your snow country ...

Don't worry - some spring come here soon (may be ...)...

Good Luck in this 2008 !!!

[The Big Z 103]

LOL! Great pic, John! I hope you enjoyed Florida! I spent time away from the snow, but not the cold. I went to DC, and it was a lot warmer, but not 83F!

[ky72x 13]

Hey John,

Yes, my holidays went very well this (well technically last) year. It was one of the better ones in recent memory, probably since I got to enjoy more free time than I usually do over the vacation. Nice picture too, I bet the warm weather took a while to get used to! I'm used to hot and cold temperatures, I get them both where I live. Anyway I hope you had an awesome time over in Florida, and that 2008 is a great year for you.

- Kyle

[Superchan 23]

been a long time since i posted here, good to see this cj still going.

[dedgren 830]

John, hey.

...I thought I'd wait a week or so to see if this AVR was just a passing fad or something...

* * *

Well, so here you are in 2008.  I find myself coming back every week or so, like that poor dog in Pavlov's lab, lookin' for that Friday fix of new stuff.  We are just going to have to find something for you to do.

...wonder what that might be?  Heh!

Have a great new year, my friend!

David

[sobol 1]

I am saddened by your absence.

I shall retire to my reading room and hole up in there.

[Darmok 34]

Silur

Hey Nicks,

Well... more cold than snow these days,

going from minus 15 to minus 32 almost every day.

Though we do have small snowfalls, 15 centimeters tuesday, I even damaged the auger gearbox on my snowblower, the impeller caught a small rock and send it flying onto the gearbox case, wich cracked and lost its oil... before I knew it, the bearing overheated and froze solid! SHEESH.... Another repair bill to pay!

Oh well... the florida sun is only a memory...

Take care

-John

The Big Z

Yep We really did enjoy our Florida vacations, the only drawback, is having to live with the cold weather now.... sigh...

-John

ky72x

Hi Kyle

Hehehe.... I'd have to say that the reverse is true, it took a while to get used to the cold weather when we came back... cold to hot weather is quite easy, but the reverse.... well....

Thanks for your good wishes, and I may you also have a great year!

-John

superchad

Hi Superchad,

well, technically AVR's now finished, just kept it open to answer reader's questions if any. And perhaps once in a while posting some pics of ongoing experiments...

See you

dedgren

David,

A fad... well I guess you're right, look at all the new content in Simtrop... And good one too...

Being on a slower track though have some fringe benefits! I have a more "relaxed" life right now, no "update pressure" and no "blank page" syndrome... for now...

As for Pavlov's dog, last time I've heard he was doing good, save the fact that, like old boxing champs, he's always hearing bells... go figure...

Something to do you say! Hummm....

I guess we'll see that this year, won't we....

Wishing you the best for the new year

Take care my friend.

-John

sobol

Hey Sobol,

I'll be back somewhere in the future, when? I still don't know.

But I'll be playing the game again don't worry.

I do have some ideas, I'm just not ready yet.

I do need a prolonged break from CJ'ing after those 34 months of taking care of AVR.

What I miss most is the interaction with the readers.

Have a great year 2008

Take care

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Nothing new on the SC4 front, haven't played for a while, if I do I'll post some pics...

Have a great week everyone.

---

In the meantime,

Take care and enjoy life

John - aka Darmok

[sobol 1]

Hey Darmok,

Glad to hear from you.

Funny thing I realized the other day. While following AVR, I played alot of SC4RH.... But now I am back to Playing DoW and SM's Pirates (two favorites of mine). As soon as you return and inspire us again, I am sure I will pick up SC4RH.

Until then though I will watching for my subscription update to this thread.

Sincerely,

-Sobol

[bbfan02 23]

Looking forward to some pictures!

[Benedict 3,119]

I love the mail calls, even though the updates are over. I'm still holding out for a new project from you, though. And as for your comment about Trixies... I think my CJ is more of an acquired taste.

[sobol 1]

I looked through the whole thread again since my last post... oh my god.. so good..

[Nardo69 51]

Hi John!

You know what, Friday isn't the same anymore these days, something important is missing ... 

Take care my friend!

Bernhard

[Silur 3,308]

Hi, John ...

Today is 01-02-2008 or 02-01-2008 ....

This is a time for Update or no ?

[Darmok 34]

sobol

Hi sobol,

Variety in games is a good thing, sometimes our best SC4 ideas come from other sources! I know I picked some of mine just by paying attention to my surroundings while traveling...

You went through AVR all over again! Man! You're really patient!

Take care buddy!

John

bbfan02

Hi bbfan,

Sorry to say that there's still no new pictures... though I must say that I did play for about an hour or so the other day, but nothing good came out of it, I was checking some ideas for some rural road, I guess I was not really in the mood...

See you!

Benedict

Hey Benedict, you know something, an acquired taste is very often something you'll appreciate for a very long time compared to something that is an instant success.

And in any case as far as I'm concerned, Ellis Valley is a classic amongst classics!

Take care

John 

Nardo69

Bernhard!

Glad to hear from you man!

As I said in the last mail call, what I miss more, is the weekly interaction with the readers, AVR in itself as lived it's life and I'm not sorry it's finished, I'll have to tackle something new in a near future... when those new ideas will mature... if ever... hehehe...

Hoping that all is well in your corner of the world.

Warmest regards to you and your wife.

Take care

-John

Silur

Hi Nicks

Well, no update but a simple mail call, as I said to bbfan, I did play the game for an hour or so but nothing to show for it. It really was early experimentation and not very pretty, just trying to build on rather flat land... which is not my forte.... I really was not pleased with the result so I flushed everything.

Don't worry, as soon as I've got something that I fell is OK I'll post some pictures.

Have a great week

John

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In the meantime, while I don't have SC4 pics, here's one of our small blues band, in our studio, hummm a basement really!...

remember this, perhaps one day we'll be famous! hehehe.... Yeah that'll be the day!

Don't laugh too hard!

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In the meantime,

Take care and enjoy life

John

[Voulpiotis 4]

Muhahah.... this is my 9th post according to your statistics...! It's been so long that I haven't even opened your cj: great work again and can't wait to see something new from you...!

[bobinator 0]

Wow lol, very cool this thing finally got finished. I haven't been around for awhile but the last 140 pages or so (lol) that I missed were impressive. I remember it when it started 2 or 3 years ago (I have a post on the first page lol).

Cool picture of the buried car to. We're getting pounded over in the west too. There's about 3 or 4 feet on my back porch-very good for hittin up some skiing lol.

I look forward to your next project...

-bob

[j.silva.soares 0]

Hi, I dont know how to use the diagonal filler. I put the files in the pluggins folder, and I have the fillers in the plazas and parks menu, but I cannot place them on top of the diagonal avenues. Can you please help me? Thanks,

JS

[Silur 3,308]

Hi, John ...

I think, You can show any pic and this is Great !!!

And may be some link for Your blues songs ( may be "Led Zeppelin" must rest ? ) ...

[sobol 1]

Any chance for the missing files to be shown again?

[dedgren 830]

John- Congrats on three years a few days ago (the 4th) of the best CJ ever.  I'm over here every few days continuing to strip-mine your ideas doing more research, and I'm always rewarded with some detail I didn't run off with notice before.

Who's that guy with the guitar at the end?  Didn't he teach Hendrix his licks or something?

Later, my friend.

David

[bbfan02 23]

Ha, great banner there. You guys good?

[Benedict 3,119]

A classic among classics? Wow, that's some serious praise indeed! Thanks for the vote of confidence, and your support for my CJ over the last couple of years.

[Darmok 34]

Voulpiotis

Hi Constantinos,

Thanks for stoppin' by.

Rest assured that I'll keep everyone informed as to when I'll start something new...

See you

bobinator

I just can't believe it!

Bob...

Indeed you were one of the early posters in AVR, it really is a long time since I last read you.

Hehehe... the snow is still comming down here, since friday we recieved another 40 to 50 centimeters (14 to 16 inches) more than we already had... we're on the verge to break a 25 year old record!

And yes the skiers here are in snow heaven! As for the rest of us poor slobs.... we shovel and wish for it to go away!

Good seeing you Bob, take care!

j.silva.soares

Welcome to AVR Mr Soares, that's a Portuguese name isn't it?

Well, those pieces  are not made to go "on top" of the avenue (or road for that matter) pieces, but rather, they are created to "fill in" the "sawtooth" pattern left whe we create diagonales avenues or road...

And you can also use the straight pieces to create larger walkways along the avenues...

Look at the picture below, perhaps it'll help you... if not just tell me I'll try to do a more complete tutorial about them... but they really are quite easy to work with they are very simple lots.

Here's the pic

Silur

Hi Nicks,

I've been experimenting with the new rural highway this weekend, between two snow shoveling and snow blowing sessions... hehehe... but the results are not what I expected, so no pictures yet, I still have to learn to connect in a good way with the new exit pieces, which by the way are really great looking, I just can't get a good looking transition between them ant either road and streets... oh well back to the drawing board.

As for links to our music... we are currently working on one "original", (yeah I guess that "original" is the right word), piece, and as soon as we'll record an acceptable version I'll let you know. Mostly we're trying several genre, not only blues, but rock and sometimes heavy rock... (yeah heavy it is...) hehehe...

Take care

sobol

Hi sobol,

what are those missing files you're talking about?

Are there any broken links in AVR? If so give me the page number and I'll see what I can do, I have kept all pictures.

See you

dedgren

David,

thanks for the reminder about the anniversary, it slipped my mind.

Hey, strip mine as much as you like... I know I do...where do you think I get my best ideas for terraforming rivers??? Hehehe... I know a great CJ where you can get a lot of great ideas.

The guy with the guitar is an old coot who think he can play music... yeah well... no wonder his band mates are calling him "Old venerable", I guess they want to be kind to him. As for teaching Hendrix a few tricks... Don't I wish.

Take care and regards to the family.

-John

bbfan02

Hi Kyle,

Glad you like the banner, I made it as a prototype for our future band website... (if ever).

Those pictures were really taken in a basement, which is a music real studio btw.

Are we good... some nights we are, the rest of the time... well... let's say that you never go wrong when you play "your" music... hehehe..

Thanks for asking

Take care

Benedict

Hey Ben,

You know something, when you get down to a good definition of what a City Journal is supposed to be, yours and all the story driven CJ are the best, the rest, as good as they may be, mine included, are more pictures galleries than CJ's, don't get me wrong though, I really like those as well not having the time (sadly) to read all the good story CJ's I'm mostly looking at pictures that reading, save some exceptions.

As for the support, how

[ky72x 13]

Hello John,

I like the banner of your band! Very cool. Music is a great thing to be involved it, whether it be a school band (like me) or garage/basement bands (like you). It's really tons of fun, I'm sure you'd agree!

- Kyle

[bbfan02 23]

Great job with the little tutorial. I'll be back for more....

-bbfan02-

[Nardo69 51]

I am just asking myself ...

.. is it coincidence that my friend John is posting in AVR not on a friday but a monday ...

... not on an ordinary monday but the day my wife gave birth to my son ...

Take care my friend!

[Criquette 0]

Hey there Darmok ;} Great job as allways!