Ionica - Our Destiny
A lot of pictures incoming.
I would like to start out by repeating the first thing I said when I started my CJ which was a thank you all the people and groups whose buildings and mods helped make this city possible. I've learned so much from regularly visiting this site and interacting with the people who make it so great, it has been really fun. I would also like to send out a general thank you to all the people who visit and comment regularly, you have all motivated me to create greater and grander things. All of you who regularly follow this CJ have seen most of the pics in this entry, but enjoy the recap.
Over the past year Ionica has changed quite a bit and in fact very little remains of the first Ionica, which to me was actually called Megatropolis. I changed the name when I created my CJ because Megatropolis was always kind of a geeky temp name. Ionica was named after William Johnson Cory's chief poetical work Ionica, an anthology of poems (I guess the name is still geeky).
This first picture is what Ionica looked like when I first started my CJ. It certainly was much bigger than it is now, but a lot of it was kind of just an experiment. I guess you could call this the Beta version of Ionica. I decided to get rid of a lot of it when I moved my Region on to a new set of tiles. Some was sacrificed because it wouldn't fit properly into the new space, many were sacrificed because they were downright amateurishly designed. So technically there are a few early entries about Zones that don't physically exist anymore. I really only kept my two biggest tiles which were Avalon and Veritas; I couldn't get rid of them because I spent too much time building them that it would have felt like a waste.
In my new region Avalon is now in the center of the city which was how I wanted it to be when I started but the default tile arrangement I chose prevented me from putting Avalon where I really wanted. In this picture there are still quite a few Zones surrounding Avalon are from the original version of Ionica.
This is what Ionica looks like today. It has shrunk quite a bit because I've started making more decisions about how the region should look. If you look at Avalon you'll see that a lot of it has been gutted because I'm redesigning more of the downtown area and also the industrial area on the bottom island which used to have an airport, but you can't have an airport in the middle of skyscrapers.
A part of me is thinking of redesigning Veritas, but it is such a massive undertaking and I don't know if I would want to start from square one or if I would progressively gut and rebuild it. Both would take a long time, but Veritas is kind of a mess so I'm really considering it. I also might want to move my University into Veritas because right now it is so far from the rest of the city and I would like it to be closer. Also, relocating the University would be kind of a headache because that means rebuilding the whole thing, then again, that could allow me to improve it slightly even though I'm really happy with the way it looks.
The year is 2242 C.E. and you are in the United Zones of Ionica
Acropolis - Where the old and the new world collide
Avalon - Heart of the city, center of the world.
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Hao Datong - Serenity on the doorstep of chaos.
Hegemony - The Will to Dominate the World
Hegemony and Iron Palm super mosaic. Technically this is the smaller version, the real one is too big to host for most sites. Technically neither of these zones exist anymore. I'm going to rebuild Hegemony and Iron Palm, but they don't exist for now.
Illium - Just because we have a big tower doesn't mean we're compensating
Ionican International Airport - From the unknown to back home
Liu Chuxuan - I'm on a boat.
Ma-Yu - When I'm Not Wanted Is When I'm Needed Most.
Ogma (no link because there is no entry for this zone) - Aware of what has been done, mindful of what will be.
This is a close up of the center of the University which is a lot like a Victorians style garden. The University gets more modern the further out you zoom, but I'm not ready to show that just yet.
Pater - Get your Blitz Fix
Portelance - Just find out what the blue monkeys want so we can get that unobtanium!
Prince Five Weapons - Your most powerful weapon is inside you.
Qiu Chuji - The wisest masters can make the worst mistakes.
Sagittarius - Our Destiny Written in the Stars.
Sun-Bu-er - Future Living
Tan Chudan - Living Alongside Giants.
Veritas - No Power Greater Than Truth.
Wang Chu Yi - Let Them Have Pedal Boats.
Zoolander - "A Model Idiot."
Replies:
dubaidude303: Wow! Always enjoy your updates. Great work! 
Thanks dubaidude, glad to have you here along for the journey. Hope you get to see lots more of Ionica in the year to come.
Alex_1210: wow! nice city and i couldn't even find one maxis building, that's insane. 
lol. As huston pointed out there was one, but only one. I have installed a Maxis blocker so that no Maxis buildings grow, but I still use some landmarks and rewards from time to time, especially private school even though the style of that building doesn't at all fit in with the style of my city.
ggamgus: Very nice entry, keep it going. 
Thanks ggamgus, will try to keep it going, right now my PC is down and a replacement for my GPU isn't coming as fast as I expected.
Ace❤: Holy crap. That's amazing! I can't imagine how your computer doesn't crash every time you open a city 
I imagine Ionica must give one heck of a region view impression 
Thanks Ace. My computer holds up just fine. There have been a few instances of strange saves making my city crash when I load up the region but nothing a backup save can't fix. Well now that you've seen the region view you can tell it isn't complete, but it will hopefully be an awesome spectacle once fully formed and filled.
Schulmanator: The snacks held up well. Glad to have you back. Looks awesome!
Good to hear. Thanks.
pigeonpigeon: Whoa, that's amazing. Does anyone know where the retaining walls (the vertical ones, and the diagonal with stairs) in the 3rd picture are from? I'd also love to know where to find those triangular park-like pieces and the centers of your roundabouts!
Everyone keeps asking me about those walls but I haven't found where I got them from again. The some of the triangular parks are here and here, the roundabouts are here.
kiskis88: Wow, exellent. I like.
Thanks kiskis.
Sylvio Jorge: Me neither. And I think this is amazing in such a big city.
Thanks. I just can't stand most Maxis buildings because the night lighting in the windows sucks compared to a lot of the stuff that is coming out today.
Huston: You guys aren't looking hard enough then cause I saw the default Maxis Private school in one of the pics But anyway, seriously this update is crazy big, and crazy spectacular! But no surprise considering all your updates are like that Amazing work
Huston comes in for the win, good eyes. Not hard to miss though, it was in plain view. Thanks Huston.
RepublicMaster: So many Amazing Pics! I like all the skysrcapers, lots of variety! Great to see you back!
Thanks RepublicMaster, it took a long time to build that city, I'm glad you enjoyed it.
supercitys354262: biggest city evaahhh!!!!!
Yeeeehaaaaw!
Hazani Pratama: WOW is very amazing!
Thank you Hazani.
SimCoug: Beautiful, as always. I like how you fit some of those diagonal buildings along your diagonal roads, and your waterfront parks are looking great. Happy early 1 year birthday.
Thanks SimCoug, glad you like it. Happy 1st to you to. Even though our cities are totally different you have inspired the way I play a lot.
garrulus: Simcity as it should look like.. You must have a powerfull cpu.
Thanks. The CPU on the PC that I play SC4 on was good back in '05/06, but it is nothing special now. Holy crap that PC is old.
zgrillo2004: where can I get the addon for the car ferry in the last screenshot?
That car ferry is by bripizza.
KonstantinII: This is how a good city should be done. You are better then those lazy bastards who play april fools jokes on people. This is actually the best futuristic city I ever seen and it looks better at night. By the way you should consider joining our CJ union. Serious relotting of custom lots. I wonder how it is to drive through the city. Is it fun?
Thanks for your praise KonstantinII. I don't know, some of the April fools pranks were darn good this year, the release of SC2013 made an easy target also. I'll be glad to join your union. I don't drive through my cities, lol. Sorry to say there are NO custom lots in Ionica; I've never been able to get Lot editors to work on my computer.
blunder: /sits back, grabs some popcorn, and waits for Anima to crash the game. very nice city! I love the relotted skyscrapers on the diagonals.
Thanks blunder. If they were relotted they weren't relotted by me. I'm pretty sure that is just an option bixel provided right out of the box for the buildings you are talking about.
eoin247: Just loving this city at night. My only gripe with this is the pictures are massive and some turn out funny in my browser. It might just be my browser though. 5 stars otherwise
Thanks eoin. Sucks that the pics are being funny on your computer. Like you said, it might have something to do with your connection or your browser. Hard to tell, everything seems to work ok on my end.
Thanks for visiting.
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