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RepliesSimul8ter8: *shaking head* Ugh... this... thisss...thing.... IS SOO DANG GOOD!!!Golly, thanks Simul8ter8!dubaidude303: WOW! This looks very good! Hey dude, thank you very much, there is much more to come from Veritas, it has been build for a while, just polishing it up right now.Schulmanator: Great new stuff !This rox!Thanks Shulmanator!Hazani Pratama: Amazing Night!Glad you enjoy it, I have a few nice night pics in here as well.keenan1695: awesome! where did you find the train station in the third...
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RepliesSimul8ter8: You have done it again.... just wonderful...Really like the new banner. Hey Simul8ter8, thanks. Felt like I needed a change for the banner, glad there has been positive feedback so far. Fox: Awesome City.. really love the pictures of dusk/dawn and the night picture .. the second and third picture. Love the use of the Spinnaker Tower, it's a bat that isn't used very often.Thanks Fox. Glad you enjoyed those pics, I got so lucky on the sunset pic, it wasn't even really intentional at first....
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Repliesaparrot7: Awesome! The pictures look really good!Thanks aparrot7SimCoug:The Judges remind me of the Yankees - I think I'll root for the underdogs. Nice sports district!Yeah, underdogs all the way. I hate teams that buy victory.Schulmanator: Impressive facilities for sure!Gotta thank dmscopio for that.dubaidude303: Nice update dude! ( btw my avatar is Technosphere in Dubai, it is u/c at the moment, just a concept photo ) Really like the stadium behind that one building! Keep it up! 5/5 Hey dude,...
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Replies10000000000000: Awesome city!Extremely dense, but it doesn't lose any beauty The nightlighting is my favorite part!Thanks. For me, finding buildings with nice night lighting is key.vivapanda: You have put a lot of imagination in this: acadamic competition (absolutely awesome idea!), Stex godess, I like it! Thanks to this some sort of 'identity' is given to each building, important in such an enourmous city.Thanks vivapanda, I'm glad it has entertained you.SimCoug: Grid or not, that is one...
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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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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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Ionica - Zoolander

By MilitantRadical,

Welcome back toRepliesFox: Love the photoshopped in weather.. amazing talent.Thanks Fox, glad you think so.Mithrik: Incredible job with the rain effects, great job!Thanks Mithrik.10000000000000: I can say one thing with complete confidence here: EPIC. Love the "Better tell the people in the boats the get out of the pond..." pic Sweet, I'm glad you really liked it. ggamgus: Amazun... I shot myself to distract you... *BANG!* (*bullet hits the tree 200 ft away*) Thanks ggamgus *Bullet causes tree stump to...
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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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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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Ionica - United

By MilitantRadical,

Welcome back toUnited on ChristmasGet warm and close the ones you love. Santa is on his way, hope you've all had a good year. Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Replies: Jacob Guajardo: Wow nice job .Thanks.ggamgus: I love that park, in the second-to-last picture. Glad you enjoyed it, pretty much gotta thank paeng for most of that.dubaidude303: Look's great man! Really like the new improvements! Thanks dude, been doing this alongside expanding my city. This has been ongoing for the past few...
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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 toSun Bu'erThis small zone is located north of Tan Chuduan, the one shown in the previous entry. As we get further from the center of the city we are starting to see lower density some residential areas which are a preview to what lies beyond the dreamy spires of Ionica.The canal in this Zone is the continuation of a series that travels across seven small Zone above Avalon and it serves no real purpose other than to allow Sims to leisurely travel from one Zone to the next.Open your window and...
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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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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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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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Welcome back toWell it has been a long time but I am finally ready to start making a return. I still have a lot of things to do before I get Ionica up an running again, but in the meantime I'll share a few new pictures from around the city and from one of the new Zones I've been working on for the past couple of months.Special thanks to KonstantinII who has been custom LOTing some BATs for me and sharing them with the rest of Simtropolis.Garden of St. Michael's church in Wang Chu YiRemnant of Camelot in...
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Welcome back toLast week a showed you a park my newest zone. That is just a fraction of a much bigger park called the Sarai Ecological Community in th middle of a low density residential neighborhood. This community, like many others in Ionica is based on the principles of Ecological Urbanism which is a theory of planning and design for urbanism arguing that landscape, rather than architecture, is more capable of organizing the city and enhancing the urban experience.In the bottom half of this picture you...
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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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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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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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Thank you to all those who visited, commented, and rated my CJ in the past year. I was only able to bring you half the amount of entries as last year due to certain delays and complications (I spilled water into my computer), but I think the quality has improved a lot and I hope to continue that trend.Right now I'm just building up a lot of material so that when I do make a 'comeback' I will have lots of great stuff to show and I'll be able to do that a bit more consistently.Thanks to KonstantinII, I...
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Around 6 months ago I was working on a University which I later abandoned in favor of other projects thinking I would finish it later. As my skill progressed and I acquired new BATs I realized that my grand vision for a top class University could not be achieved with my current layout and eventually decided to scrap the project and start again.While gathering material for my next batch of CJ entries I realized it would be a shame to let all this hard work go to waste so I've decided to show you the...
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To kick off this 2014 season I give you a preview of what to expect in my CJ over the next few months. Some are projects that are nearly finished, others are plans I have for the future.AvalonThose who are familiar with my CJ will recognize the GIF below as Avalon, the heart of Ionica. I've almost finished rebuilding, all that is left to do is add a few more buildings such as The Shard London Bridge by Xyloxadoria and IFC2 v3 by paulvmonfort. It is still going to take a while for this tile to be complete....
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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,Thanks for all the feedback and encouragement.hahei - For sure the theme is cyberpunk, but there are a few Zones on the edges that are less dense and futuristic. I'm always experimenting with rural tools here and there.IL - The building the in last picture of my previous post is the by Cobb32118. I like the idea that my city sprawls as much underground as it does on the surface. Unfortunately in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0xVp3N-M84, the movie I posted a trailer for in my last entry, is a...
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