Tenements & Rust: Ghetto Stories

Wow great Update! Say, where did you get the power plant and power line. You've made great use with those!

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I'm running out of things to say every update brings new wonders :P

Sweet entry, but only 16 hours of electricity? What if I want to heat up a midnight snack? 

I should probably ask you, in game, how bad is the pollution?

Nice new entry... nothing more to say

That power plant looks an awful lot like the Chernobyl plant. Maybe the people have seen the error of their ways and changed it before it blows up!

Only 16 hours of electricity per day, that's too bad and indicates energetic crisis, but that's the point (or not?).
Solo 16 horas de electricidad por día, es muy malo e inidica una crisis energetica, pero ese es el punto (o no?).

Por cierto, otro genial post.

What a depressing city, and what an awesome way to show it...
Great work mate, once again!

 Tenements and Rust is one of the most successful City Journals here, and all of your updates really prove why you're consistently on top of the best CJ lists - and winning Trixies. You have a wonderful, unique City Journal here and having 56 updates is testament to your hard work and dedication to T&R. 

Keep up the superb work!

Couldn't agree more with you Thomas, this is definitely one the very best CJs. And I'd love to see a tutorial of how you photo edit to blur the background in the image so well!

awesome work, i love the power plant pic with the RHW in the background...ive tried to get that blurred effect with ifranview with little success, is that effect only possible with photoshop?

@Reikhardt, @avrelivs: I have installed both GIMP and a crappy (but efficient) program that came with my scanner, one called ArcSoft Photostudio 2000 (!). I usually work with the Photostudio as in my opinion is more agile for the kind of stuff I do to the pics; but I know how to do the effects with GIMP too. If you want, I can post a tutorial doing this, but there's already one in SC4Devotion that explains the basics, you all can find it here [link].

I'll try to do one specifically for GIMP, as the one I've linked above is for Photoshop. Both programs have more or less the same capabilities and features, but lots of buttons and functions are changed. One thing is for sure, there are a variety of programs to make this effects.

Nice power plant and coal unloading area.

..i use ifranview, is GIMP a superior program (and is it available for free)..?

@ avrelivs. Yes gimp is free. I haven't used it myself but I can tell you it's a lot better than ifranview if you want special effects (personally I just use ifranview for taking pics and cropping them :p)
@ Tek. Whoops forgot to thank you for the link! Cheers for that :)

Terrific update :) I really like the last pic - this cj is consistently awesome :D

 Last week, I spent some time reading all your journal (I read it, not just looked at the pictures) and I just loved it. Congratulations and great work.

Yet again, another brilliant entry. 15/10

 The image with the coal trucks and siding is top notch!

I like the first pic... VERY MUCH! I keep staring at it... hahaha..

I like the first pic... VERY MUCH! I keep staring at it... hahaha..

I also used the SOMY coal port with the railways, but where did you get those coal trains? And the powerlines?

Anyway, great post.

@OrdinarySim: You can get the coal trains (along with some other sidings) here [link], remember to download all the dependancies. And here are the power lines [link].

As for the tutorial some of you asked for, it is almost finished; I've had to hurry up before the exams season...