True Earth

I generally just enjoy your CJ posts without comment. However, this time I'm tentatively more excited that my home state of Indiana might appear in your next update.

Frickin' awesome....!  Can't wait to see more of your recreation of Chicago..... that was probably the most recreated city I'd try to attempt back in the days of SC3000 (one of which got corrupted not long after filling out )

Chicago! Another city we’ve often seen attempted (like your outstanding New York). I’m sure you’ll do it justice. Can’t wait to see. And I’m really excited about those agricultural scenes. 

Looking good so far! I really liked the picture with the section roads and irrigation circles. It looks like you have the quarter mile section roads at every 25 tiles or close to it, right on scale! (25 tiles = 400m ~= .25 mile at 1609m/mile).

(Argh, that first farms picture !...)

Don't ask me why, but I'm more interested in seeing how the farms will turn out. Maybe it's because of the lack of grid in an isometric game.

You never fail to impress! Love the farming scene in the first pic.

Is this for SimCity 4?

Would love to be able to recreate my hometown of Chicago

Whoa, you could even post several updates just showing close ups of that Chicago recreation! 

Where did you get the circular irrigation farms??

Dare I hope to see Toledo on this part of the tour?  Maybe some of Upper Michigan?

That central pivot irrigation is really well done! Love the heavy industry as well!

Looks great! I'll love to see the entire entry

@CorinaMarie Thanks for commenting, appreciate it I only have one scene planned for Indiana in the update - but a lot of the scenes in the full entry are typical of the entire Midwest could be found in just about every state

@RobertLM78 Thanks for the nice words! I don't have much experience with SC2000 unfortunately, but I played SC3000 extensively and actually built a couple Chicagos over the years so It's nice to fully bring it into SC4! Sorry to hear about the corruption issues - I've dealt with similar issues in the past and it's definitely not fun..

@bladeberkman Thanks for the nice words, glad you enjoyed the update!

@CT14 Thanks for the comment - I made sure to get those measurements correct, glad you noticed

@tariely Glad you enjoyed the farm scene!

@Androgeos Thanks for the nice words - you'll get to see a closer view in the full update so stay tuned

@mike_oxlong Thanks for the kind words!

@asr_1927 Yep it's SC4 - thanks for the comment!

@TekindusT I've thought of publishing even more closeups from some of my other city and town recreations over the years -  but considering I could literally post hundreds and hundreds of entries of just closeups, I'll need to narrow it down a bit first

@pclark06 I got them on SC4D from the "Three Rivers Region" exchange here but it looks like the link is now down for some reason unfortunately.

@NMUSpidey We'll see - there's a lot of other scenes though I need to get through first

@kingofsimcity Thank you very much, glad you enjoyed the update!

@JP Schriefer Thanks for the nice words!

4 hours ago, korver said:

I don't have much experience with SC2000 unfortunately, but I played SC3000 extensively and actually built a couple Chicagos over the years

I cut my teeth with SC2000, but by the time SC3000 rolled around it was time to try out a real city

@RobertLM78 Hehe, although I love SC4, I'll always have a special place as well for some of the other classics I grew up with. Unfortunately I never really got into SC2000, (but from what I've seen it looks pretty cool) - but SC3KU is still one of my favorites. I actually found a couple of my old cities and screen shots from back in the day.. maybe you'll see a special SC3KU update one day

2 hours ago, korver said:

@RobertLM78 Hehe, although I love SC4, I'll always have a special place as well for some of the other classics I grew up with. Unfortunately I never really got into SC2000, (but from what I've seen it looks pretty cool) - but SC3KU is still one of my favorites. I actually found a couple of my old cities and screen shots from back in the day.. maybe you'll see a special SC3KU update one day

I still have a few cities in backup.... I might do a little showcase too one day. 

Hmmmmm - yes here it is:

..../Games_and_Saves/SC_3000_Cities/Cities $ ls -1AR
.:
Big Mountain City.sc3
Caoi an bhFarraige 1950.sc3
Caoi an bhFarraige 2062.sc3
Caoi an bhFarraige 2100.sc3
Caoi an bhFarraige 2133.sc3
Caoi an bhFarraige 2178.sc3
Caoi an bhFarraige 2300.sc3
Caoi an bhFarraige 2400.sc3
Caoi an bhFarraige.sc3
Farmsville.sc3
Idram 1910.sc3
Idram 1953.sc3
Idram 2000.sc3
Idram 2028.sc3
Idram 2062.sc3
Idram BU BU.sc3
Idram BU.sc3
Idram F#$% OFF.sc3
Idram.sc3
Island City.sc3
Littleburg.sc3
Metropolis.sc3
Mount Rodentia.sc3
Old Sim Cities
Realtan 1955.sc3
Realtan 1970.sc3
Realtan 1992.sc3
Realtan 2040.sc3
Realtan 2107.sc3
Realtan 2209.sc3
Realtan AEQ.sc3
Realtan.sc3
Riverland.sc3
Riverside.sc3
Santa Andrea.sc3
Sim Isle.sc3
TUTORIAL.SC3

./Old Sim Cities:
Cobh Nua.sc3
Dun Eidinn 1.sc3
Dun Eidinn BU.sc3
Dun Eidinn.sc3
Gaoth Saile Beyond.sc3
Gaoth Saile.sc3
Lansing.sc3
Old Gaoth Saile
Riverland.sc3
Riverside BU.sc3
Riverside FBU.sc3
Riverside.sc3

./Old Sim Cities/Old Gaoth Saile:
Gaoth Saile Beyond BU.sc3
Gaoth Saile BU.sc3
Gaoth Saile EQ Clean.sc3
Gaoth Saile mid-1950s.sc3

Hehehe - I think there's even the city that just suddenly started abandoning (or sims just died off....?)... pretty annoying, hence the colorful metaphor which I redacted with some symbols

 

@RobertLM78 Wow - that's quite a list Would love to see a few of them one day possibly

I've been doing a little more looking around myself and was able to find a couple more cities on an old hard drive - but unfortunately it looks like they might be corrupted and the ones I was able to open up were extremely incomplete/missing pretty much all the custom buildings so there's not much to share yet though sadly. I'm not sure yet if they meet my quality standards I'll have to do some more looking around though and see what else I can find here soon

5 hours ago, korver said:

I'm not sure yet if they meet my quality standards

I'm not sure anything but your current work meets those standards....

Corruption of city files is a bummer..... even worse when you've just filled one out.

5 hours ago, korver said:

Would love to see a few of them one day possibly

Well, I guess I'll have to see what I can do then

 

Edit: Hmmmm... this sucks.... I *know* I installed and ran SC3000 on the XP virtualbox before, but now I'm getting the infamous ??? Unknown Exception..... ARGH......! 

@RobertLM78 Yeah, having to re-do things I've already done before is one of my biggest pet peeves.. hence why in SC4 I always have to save like every 5 minutes and make backups everyday, I *really* hate redoing things lol. Really hoping that I'll be able to find another backup somewhere with the intact files. I've been digging around a little more and found a few more buildings and other things but still probably not enough to really showcase yet.

Sorry to hear about your problems getting the game to run, hope you can get things worked out!