solarpunk Rebooting Fairview?
Wait, what? Rebooting?! After 2 years of nothing, you're talking about rebooting out of nowhere? 
Well, yes 
OK, let me explain. I've really missed playing SimCity and building my solarpunk cities, but 2 mayor things have happened since my last post 2 years ago. The first one is that I've finally gotten a job. Not something epic, but the co-workers are fun, the job itself is OK, and the salary is decent. Also, I'm not unemployed anymore! But also less free time. Thanks to my job, I can even support things that I've always wanted to do, such as going to the gym and online studying astrophysics, which however means even less free time. The second one was the CJ itself and the goals that I've had put back then. Developing Fairview was getting so big and complicated that it was beginning to be less and less fun. The main reason of that was the region itself. Fairview have a lot of small tiles and only a few medium ones, so filling the entire region with solarpunk cities villages was getting tiresome and not that fun anymore. The same thing happened 12 years ago in Eden: The New Frontier and I don't want it to happen again.
But lately I've been seriously considering the possibility of making a reboot of Welcome to Fairview. Bigger, greener, and better this time. And even more futuristic. Not only because I missed my CJ, but also because @Cyclone Boom uploaded 2 years ago a newer version of Fairview with 4 large tiles this time.
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That means 4 bigger cities instead of lots of tiny ones, with more open space to support larger projects such as universities, natural parks, and even arcologies. More open space means more freedom of construction and more efficient way to manage those cities. No more wasting resources to build and maintain tiny schools and power plants in every single corner. Now it's time for fewer but bigger and more efficient schools and power plants. Less is more. It also allows me to build in both locally and regionally scale. In my last post I asked how I should develop Fairview. City by city (one individual town per entry) or layer by layer (totally regional play-style, with a different type of infrastructure per entry)? Most people voted for a mix of both of them (sometimes regionally, sometimes locally). And by having more building space than ever, I can do both of them at the same time 
Another reason to reboot Fairview is to include new awesome stuff, such as draggable PedMalls with RCI support and draggable diagonal streets. If our cities weren't solarpunk enough, now they'll be. And this time, they'll be even more walkable than ever. We're in the future, babe. Cars are so 20th century 
Rebooting the region could also be a good opportunity for new challenges, experiments and goals. What would happen if we add more apartment buildings and less family houses? How many Sims can our region handle without ruining the environment and dropping the quality of life of our people? Is it possible to build a green, solarpunk metropolis of the future? Let's find it out.
So, welcome to Fairview. Actually, no. Welcome back to Fairview 
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