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A City Journal by MilitantRadical

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Welcome back toBlakeway: Very beautiful! Thank you.Mastof: Amazing MosaicThanks.dubaidude303: Dude, each one of your CJ's keep getting better and better Keep it up!Sweet, that's good to hear. Thanks dude.Jacob Guajardo: Wow amazing i feel like I am at some sky city.You are welcome here among the clouds. Thanks.Schulmanator: Awesome! This is sweeter than a sackful of hummingbirds! Thanks, I've never seen a hummingbird. Everyone seems to have seen one except me.ggamgus: Excellent job. I have gathered my...
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MamaLuigi945: Very lively city; I like the night shots. The second to last pic is my favorite. Nice use of plazas and a good variety of BATs. Thanks, I'm glad you enjoy it.dubaidude303: Wow! I really like this! Looks cool! Hey dude, thanks.ggamgus: Illium-inated city! I love it! Yes, very lively. I aim to please, thanks.westy177: wow i love the bright vibrant colours and epic buildings and dont worry i wont pull you up about that maxis highway you have but if maarten was here look out lol. anyway youll be...
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Welcome back,Thanks for all the feedback and encouragement.Simul8ter8 - Thanks for the tip. I didn't get a chance to implement your suggestion but I'll disable the UDI icons when I think about it. They don't bother me when I play, but it is best to turn the off for screenshots.P.S. Yes it is.Kevenbro - Thanks you very much.NurelFayed - Yeah, tram in bridge rules. I want more!gman28 - Thanks gman28. The clock tower is the Al Yaqoub Tower Duba. At first I didn't really like it, but it grew on me and I...
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Welcome back toPrince Five WeaponsThis Zone gets its name from the story of Prince Five Weapons which goes something like this:There once was a young Prince who had just finished his studies under a world renowned teacher. Having received as a symbol of his distinction the title Prince Five Weapons, he accepted the five weapons that his teacher gave him, bowed and, armed with the new weapons, set out of the road leading to the city of his father, the king. On the way he came to a certain forest.People at...
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A lot of pictures incoming.I would like to start out by repeating the first thing I said when I started my CJ which was a thank you all the people and groups whose buildings and mods helped make this city possible. I've learned so much from regularly visiting this site and interacting with the people who make it so great, it has been really fun. I would also like to send out a general thank you to all the people who visit and comment regularly, you have all motivated me to create greater and grander...
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I'm back, kind of...I originally expected to released this a couple of weeks after my last entry but I got busy with a few things and decided to take a little break. Also my PC's graphics just recently died and I still haven't received a replacement for it so I haven't been able to work on my city for the past week and a half. I probably won't be able to show anything new for a little while longer. The 1 year anniversary of my CJ is on April 13th so my next entry is probably going to be an epic recap of...
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Summer is coming to a close and that can only mean one thing in Ionica: Party Time!And where to party? In the Zone with the hottest night life in the city, Avalon.Every year at the end of August there is a long weekend and Ionicans flock to the heart of the city to celebrate the 'end of summer' and beginning of the work or school year.How does it sound if we spend the night out?Amongst the densely pack skyscrapers can be found some of the city's most popular rooftop bars, restaurants, and lounges.Mirror...
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Welcome back,Simul8ter8 - Thanks. You just can't stop progress.Kinderly & ja/att - As SimCoug pointed out it is a combination of two small tiles.dubaidude303 - Blue is glue, Red you're dead. Thanks.SimCoug - That is correct. Thank you sir.Mastof - Glad you enjoyed it.AboveTheCity - Sweet! Thanks.Gizza Dah Kidd - Hey Lloyd! I got the building on the ST/Exchange (of course). It is a Ill Tonkso corner office building.Evandad - Now you know. ;DNews from Ionica- Congress Debates Increasing Subsidies for New...
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Ionica is a waterfront city and when the weather is right you can always find many of it's citizens in, on, or by the water. August is a special in Ionica because it is the Nautical Festival month where events like rowing, sailing, paddling, and yachting take place all around the city. It is at this time of the year, when it is a bit cooler, and the breeze a bit stronger, that Ionicans like to stay out on the water late into the night and early hours of the morning.The canal that crosses through...
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The fun continues. Enjoy!Side Note: My progress just got set back by a week because I ran CHKDSK on my computer and that totally messed it up for some reason. Data gone! So weird 'cause I felt like some computer related catastrophe was going to impede my progress and in an attempt to make sure my computer was in the best condition I ran CHKDSK and that ended up killing it. Such a shame because I had designed some really amazing stuff for y'all. Remember to keep up to date backups of your region and your...
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Those of you who visited my Christmas CJ entry have already seen bits and pieces of what I am about to show you. This entry is the first of a three part series where I will show you some Marina styles I experimented with.To create these Marinas I used nbvc's Marinas, nbvc's Modular Breakwater Set, JENX Quais de Seine (revisited) which I don't like as much as the originals, paeng Castle Walk and Castle Walls, kazuki's Red Brick Walls, Walls Pack 2, and a variety of underwater mmps mainly by nbvc....
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Welcome back,dubaidude303 - Thanks, going to take a while to complete. I can't really pinpoint where I got all this stuff but I suggest you check out SimFuturist's Regional Airportand grab all the dependencies for it, that should give you quite a few things to play around with.111222333444 - Thank you OneOneOneTwoTwoTwoThreeThreeThreeFourFourFour, I hope the end result is good.Fox - Sweet! That is what these CJs are all about!westy177 - Thanks. So do I lol.SimCoug - Yeah, it is huge, especially since I...
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Welcome back toIn the MeanwhileWhile I'm currently working on a medium sized tile that seems to be taking forever to finish, I've also completed a few areas which I will share with you in the interim.Below is a neat little neighborhood that is located in Tan Chuduan, a small zone directly East of Prince Five Weapons. This neat little area was designed to give residents some breathing room in an otherwise very cramped and massive city. Each apartment has a two story single residence occupying the bottom...
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Welcome Back,Jetty Jockey: Wow, those Ionicans really know how to throw a party ! A truly overwhelming spectacle of sight and sound. Hey, mind if I use your background on Avalon for my Avalon, a real life island in southeastern New Jersey?Thanks Jetty, glad you enjoyed it. Feel free do use the historical description of Avalon, it isn't mineSimCoug: That is one amazing spectacle! I especially like the panorama. Awesome update!Hey SimCoug, thanks.Schulmanator: Wow! Great party!Thanks Schulmanator.Fox:...
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dubaidude303: Sweet! Where did you get that building in the 3rd photo, the one on the left in front of the HSBC building? I like it. Nice work!Glad you like it. Unfortunately I don't know where I got that building. I was doing some scavenging in the 'Can't find' forum post and I didn't favorite the website I got the building from but I think it is called Cocoon Tower from Japan. I'll try to trace my steps as it were to try and find it again. ggamgus: AWESOME. All I have to say.Thanks ggamus.Jimmy Buzaid:...
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Welcome back,dubaidude303 - Thanks, glad you're enjoying it.Simul8ter8 - Whoa, that is incredibly hard to answer. I've been thinking about this for a week and I can't say what my favorite building is especially now that I have so many. Sorry, I'm just not a favorites kind of person lol.zahrul3 - Thanks. I really wish there were more futuristic of fictional BATs. I'll have to make a list or a CJ called buildings I wish were BATs. For example the Tyrell Corp building from Blade Runner.corydreinhardt - Funny...
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Welcome back,Schulmanator - Super sweet! Thanksggamgus - Excellent. Hope I can hold my spot.Blakeway - lol, will do Blakeway.Simul8ter8 - Thanks.keder - Pleased to hear it, thank you.Fox - Hope the actual celebration can live up to the guide lol, I just kinda threw everything at the wall in my last entry. Thanks.westy177 - Thanks westy.TekindusT - If you're eating what they serve at El Celler de Roca at home you're lucky!gman28 - Yeah, while doing the food section I was constantly tantalized by all the...
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Ionica - Canal Fun

By MilitantRadical,

Welcome back toReplies:blunder: Hahaha! I loved the Center for kid's who can't read good, and want to learn to do other good stuff too. I notice there are no gas stations near it, thankfully. No, but you can find some orange mocha cappuccino's right down the street. ThanksAltec: Che FC, awesome x)Heh, wasn't sure if people would notice that. Thanks.Benedict: Insane update! What is the cube building with the round windows (in front of the tetris plaza building)?Thanks Ben, the sweet cube building is the...
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Welcome back toCalm before the BlitzBlitzball is one of the most popular sports and there is currently only one Zone where it can be enjoyed: Pater. However, due to a lockout, the stadium has been silent for the last four months. Fortunately the situation has been resolved and games are set to resume next week. Blitzball is a sport over 1000 years old and is held in open-air water sphere stadium, designed in a traditional amphitheater style. Once the sphere is filled, a pair of triangular goals are...
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Every once and a while I like to pull back the curtains to show you what I'm doing behind the scenes. Lately I've been alternating on working on three Zones.The first is Avalon which I've been working on repairing for months. Avalon is the only Zone that has survived the move over to my new region (Ionica) and I don't want to start from zero because I think it has some distinct features that are part of Ionica's identity.In the GIF below you see Avalon in 4 stages of development.The first one, with a lot...
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Avalon EvolutionIt's my 30th entry, yay!As ideas and technology change so does the city. The city planners of Ionica have recently taken on the daunting task of improving and repairing Avalon's roads, parks, and rails. This has caused large disruptions in traffic in some of Avalon's busiest areas. However, the renovation has been welcomed by most citizens as the effects of the changes have already had a noticeable positive effect on the lifestyle of Avalon residents.The pictures below show the changes...
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Welcome back toAutumn DankI haven't finished the tile I'm working on right now so I've just put together a few new mosaics of some old stuff. Enjoy.It's unpleasantly moist or humid; damp and, often, chilly. It's Autumn Dank. RepliesSchulmanator: Impressive! Their effort is a great success.Thanks Shulmanator, glad you enjoyed it.Jacob Guajardo: Wow I am speechless great work.Sweet, thank you.10000000000000: Simply gorgeous pictures! Great photoediting effects to accompany them Great to hear that from you,...
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Welcome back,RepliesHazani Pratama: Wow,Awesome.Thanks Hazani.10000000000000: That marina in the last picture totally got me , so amazing!Hehe, that's why I saved the pic for last. Whoever made that BAT is a frickin' genius. ggamgus: No offense, but this is LITERALLY the best update you've made. Please keep this up. This is an excellent entry. Offense taken! We shall settle this with pistols at dawn! dubaidude303: Very amazing!! Looks very very good dude! Thanks mate!vivapanda: That's a much used air...
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This video is best when viewed in 720p. Enjoy. darkaliendude: im sorry if this was already asked. how do you make those gifs? they're so cool. Photoshop + tutorial found on google. tankmank: Looking great as usual. I love the mix of buildings and the use of rl images from Hong Kong and Dubai. The night shots are so beautiful with all the different colour lights. Thanks. sri2: Needless to say, i am stunned by your cj once again. just a question, though, are there any lower-income neighborhoods in...
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Welcome back,Thanks for all the feedback so far. I've been noticing how people post replies to comments at the top of their entries and I'll start doing that next time. I've got a few things to do in Avalon before I can show it off but in the meanwhile lets have a look at a few Zones from Ionica. HUGE PICTURES INCOMING!Most of these Zones are on the outer edges of the city. I'll take better pictures of my region for more context next entry. These Zones still need a lot of work and most of them relatively...
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