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Entry posted by SimCoug · December 18, 2013

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Replies to Mother of Exiles

Schulmanator, MTT9, Gugu3, pasqualegio, City_Master, runamuck, Titanicbuff, Hieronymus, spursrule14:

Thank you all for the wonderful compliments!

Urban Constanta: OMG! State of the art man, state of the art, the barges, the rail construction site...unbelievable!!!!

Thanks! Krashspeed deserves most of the credit for his brilliant models – I just plop them down in the LE. And yes, for those interested, most of what you see will be available with the forthcoming "Historic Harbor" mod.

TekindusT: I don't comment too much on this CJ, feels sorry to write on the pages of a history book.

That reminds me of grade school and doodling all over the text books. Don’t worry, I won’t lower your grade for it

Lost Realist: No other "miniature world" can ever come alive quite like yours. This is inspirational on a crazy level and you continue to improve what I thought could hardly ever get any better. I look forward to every update!

Thank you for the kind words! I definitely try to bring something new to each update, so I’m glad you think each one is an improvement

Luiz P. Romanini: Well, looks like the railroad empire will strike back. And what a horrible law this Chinese Exclusion Act. Thank God we are in different times. Excellent update, as always!! I was starting to miss New Sorgun.

Glad to see you stop by. Yes, the Chinese Exclusion Act was indeed a blemish on America’s past – thankfully we’ve become more tolerant as a society since then.

NMUSpidey: That is some breathtaking work. Just phenomenal pictures. The story is excellent as well. You have crafted a masterwork of a city journal.

James Clavell has written a bunch of books about East Asia, and the one he wrote about this time period (actually something like 1865 or so, so a bit earlier than this), called Gaijin, was set in Yokohama, Japan with characters from the British Empire, the USA, France, Japan, and China, and the interesting thing was how incredibly nationalist and racist everyone was at this point in time. Everyone looked down each others' noses at each other and thought almost the same exact thing about the barbarian, uncultured, slobby races they were dealing with. I realize, of course, that Clavell's work was fiction, but it's well-researched fiction with more than a little truth in it.

That sounds like an interesting read. Certainly there was much more intolerance and racism in those days – history paints quite an unpleasant picture in that regard. It’s easy to condemn those attitudes now, but I wonder what current societal ills we barley even notice will be denounced by future generations.

UndercoverNinja12: I love how realistic this is. You make everything historically correct and it seems like we even have a real New SorGun out there. And props for the Eiffel Tower connection.

Thank you very much – I do try to keep things progressing within the historical mold. And I’m glad you caught the Gustave Eiffle connection – although it wasn’t his famous tower that he was working on at that point, but something a little smaller and more… feminine

Rellis: Long time fan first time commenter on what is in my opinion a magnificent CJ. I love the detail that you go into in each new post and the story telling is quite simply sublime.

I would love to see a set of maps produced for the region as I feel that it could add a lot to the CJ. I know that the entire island of Ireland was comprehensively mapped in great detail between the years of 1824 and 1846 by the Ordnance Survey Ireland, and was updated and revised multiple times. I am not sure when the first maps of the US were created but it could be a new story telling technique in case you want to mix up the census approach.

Thanks, and welcome to the conversation! I actually tinkered around with the idea of creating some authentic looking contour maps using a number of programs and actual geographical data, but after working out a number of bugs, the end result wasn’t exactly what I had in mind. I suppose I could have played around a bit more, but I lost interest.

RepublicMaster: Amazing work you've done on this update! The story was interesting and engaging, and the SimCity pictures backed it up wonderfully. I also like the tie in to the real events and history of the period.

Thank you! There was so much going on in that time period, that I’m afraid that I will let many important things slip past.

Prophet42: Another amazing update. The detail in the screen shots is fantastic!! Also, upon further inspection it looks like you are using the same region map of BrisVegas that I am using for my new region. A great map for any region :-)

I am using the which may be what you are using. But yes, I really like the map – it offers plenty of geographic diversity to work with.

Paulobergonci: it was very interesting and entertaining, i LOVE the history, great work.

Thanks! I enjoy the history too – I just wish I had more time to read about it and make this CJ at the same time

Dibabasu: pls send me the link of the housing lots

I’d be happy to, but I’m using a great variety of houses, so you will have to be a bit more specific.

Scissors: I'm not that active with SC4 anymore. That also means that I don't visit simtropolis that often. But yesterday I discovered your CJ. The last two days I have spend on reading it from page 1 to page 88. It reads like a book. Or even better since I don't like reading books. But damn, I like reading your CJ.

Thank you for the very nice compliment. I hope you are able to stop by in the future, there are plenty of more stories to tell.

The fall of 1884... The mayor’s race in New SorGun is heating up. Labor rights, railroads, industrial growth, the Chinese... There are many hot topics being discussed around town. Stop by next time to see democracy in action.

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