Fresh Start
So while I've been around ST for many years, I haven't posted much in the forums in a while. I did at one point have a CJ named Dalton, so I've decided to recycle my name.
I can't promise particularly frequent updates but I'll do what I can.
This CJ will focus on a large scale project I've just embarked upon. The development of the small fictional province of Dalton within the larger country of Sim-Nation. I am working with the rather large Eaton region map with my goal being to fill the map up someday even if it's just wilderness across many of the tiles. I know this is an obnoxiously ambitious goal, but it will give me the options to build whatever situation I feel like at a given time. I always build for realism, but sometimes I prefer rural, sometimes small towns, others I prefer large scale cities. This project will allow me to do all of those.
While I am borrowing many city names from various parts of Canada simply for the fact that I hate trying to come-up with city names, these will not be recreations of their real life namesakes.
As I mentioned above, my goal is realism, so if you have any suggestions of what I should change or alter, or what mods I should look into, please let me know. I am always looking for ways to improve the realism factor.
I'll get this started with a quick overview of the region as it stands now, as well as a map of my Inter-Provincial Highway network, then I'll get down into our first tile as indicated on the map below.
The Highway network will follow these naming conventions.
- Highways belonging to the Inter-Provincial Highway network will be designed by the letter I for inter-province, followed by a number. (I-17)
- Provincial Highways will be designated by the letters DR for Dalton Route followed by a number (DR-34)
- Highways going generally N/S will be even numbered, so I-6 or DR-24
- Highways going general E/W will be odd numbered, so I-3 or DR-19
- Ringroads or Bypasses around major centers will be designated as 3 digit versions of the highway they are bypassing, for example if I-15 passes through a city, and a bypass is built around the city, the bypass will become I-115. If a second ring road is built, it would be named I-215, a third would become I-315.
So that's enough explanation for now. Lets get into this now.
Provincial Overview (we will be taking a closer look at the highlighted tile)
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Highway Network.
Lets take a closer look at Dieppe a small town along the coast in the north eastern section of the province at the mouth of the Montague River.
Dieppe is a small town/city with a population of around 15,000 people. It is mainly an rural farming community.
Here we can see the town's water reservoir.
Here we have the northern I4 & DR1 junction. I4 is the twinned highway running through, while DR1 at this point is a 2 way traffic country highway.
Here is the main street exit off of I4 heading towards downtown Dieppe
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