Update
First I must appologize for such a long absence. Between dealing with frequent crashes, personal projects, and taking care of my 2 kids I don't have much time as it is. Add into that I recently upgraded my Vid card and now have access to additional games... and I've purchased Star Trek Online... yea... doesn't help.
Ironically enough this journal entry was actually writen like.. 2 weeks ago. But I came down with a cold that lasted several days and manifested into a sinus infection... got my kids sick. So yea.. it's been a heck of a couple of weeks for me. Ha.
Anyways... Just an update on things in Brisbin Territory of Palu.
There is an extra town I forgot to get screens of... but it's only a minor hunting town of around 50 sims so not much to see.
First some sat images. You'll see why I've been reluctant to post these... they don't look great. lol
As you can see in the first sat image... CoveVille has been expanding. Farms have started to spill over to neighboring city tiles. The farms of course are following the highway.. not going far off from the highway as building their own roads would become too expensive.
Of course... The farmers are moving slightly outside current city limits in order to avoid the ever raising land values thats causing their monthly morgages to go up. Many farmers are setting up second farms outside the city hoping for a city land buyout on the old farm. It has worked for a couple families so far. Heres some screens of CoveVille.
In this image you can see whats left of the original wind power generators and the original construction site some 40 years ago.
About 1km outside CoveVille's city limits is the current construction site for the rail line seen in the sat images. The rail line is being constructed by the Palu National Rail service. Despite the name its a privately owned company. Instead of the territorial legislature contracting PNR to have the rail line built, Brisbin sold the land along NH - 1 to PNR to do as they will. It took a few years of reworking the rail route but PNR has managed to get the rail line half way to the lumber community of Jaged Mountain Coast in only two years time.
Here is the second largest city in the Brisbin territory, Corner Bay, As well as an image of Corner Bay's original starting location for it's section of the original highway project.
Here is Jaged Mountain Coast where the majority of Brisbin's logging has been going on. As you can see below, a large portion of the forest is being cleared. Some local protest groups have started up, however with Brisbin being only a territory... the protesters don't have the rights or law on their side. Many of them have begun to petition for Brisbin's statehood. With Brisbin having a population of roughly 40,000 sims... This may happen sooner rather than later.
I have another rather drastic entry coming up really soon (hopefully) so stay tuned. I promise I haven't given up.. just haven't had the time.
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