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Belfastsocrates
The Royal Victoria Hospital in Passau is located in the Illford district of the city and is close to the University of Passau’s first campus buildings. The history of the site dates back to 1801 and was originally home to the Fever Hospital and General Dispensary, the site was cleared in 1885 and a new general hospital constructed. It was afforded a Royal Charter in 1900 and was renamed the Royal Victoria Hospital in honour of the Monarch. The Victorian buildings were demolished in the late 1950’s after...
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Hey everyone. I've been so busy with work and life recently that I haven't had the time to post many updates. I have however now finished the area and will post images over the next day or two. In the meantime, personal replies below to those I didn't respond to at time of the updates and a teaser of the area I've been working on and will showcase. I've taken about 45 in-game shots of the area so I'll maybe spread them across two posts Also....I know some people hate the Maxis highways but I haven't...
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By Belfastsocrates,

So much positive feedback and comments from the last logistics update! Thank you to everyone that took the time to 'like' or comment on the update it's really appreciated.All of the images should also now be fixed following the Imageshack server issues. REPLIES@tariely - Thank you very much! I'm pleased you liked the rail junction also, I'm not a talented railway builder so I hope they look realistic within current limitations @raynev1 - Jaw dropping eh? That's the sort of impression I like to hear. Thank...
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By Belfastsocrates,

@sarthakknight - Thank you so much, I've tried to create a beautiful European city with influences from a lot of places so I appreciate your feedback.@pinkindustry - Welcome to Perseus and thank you for your feedback@jmsepe - Thank you @JP Schriefer - Nice to see you again, thank you for commenting@tankmank - Thanks Josh, always nice to see your comments.@juliok92012 - Thank you, I rather like that image as well.@Mymyjp - Thank you so much,@ Ln X - That's very nice to hear, I was hoping to achieve a good...
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By Belfastsocrates,

Apologies for my tardy appreciation of your comments. I welcome all comments and I'm so pleased people take the time to do so, it really means a lot to me an a CJ Author to have such feedback.@Kim Sunwoo - Thank you, I do try to add some info along with the images. I try to give people an idea of what's in the image and why this part of the city looks the way it does.@v701 - You're absolutely correct, perfection does not exist A city-builder's life is never done, always time to improve or change. I am...
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By Belfastsocrates,

Thank you to everyone that continues to comment and read my CJ entries, the feedback and comments are much appreciated. I've been having a complete nightmare in regard to stability recently, despite my attempts to resolve it. I've no idea what's causing it but it's making progress slow and somewhat saps my enthusiasm when I lose nearly created areas when trying to save. Any time I get a successful save, generally after only small changes to the tile, I then re-load the game and if it's corruption free I...
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By Belfastsocrates,

@slickbg56 - Thank you very much! This university has taken me so long to build up and I've still loads more to showcase. I hope you enjoy the new updates from around the campus@Ln X - Yeah I wasn't sure how the fountain would look but I think it has worked out. Thank you for your kind words@TekindusT - I know! Maxis stuff! I think some Maxis buildings have a certain appeal to them and as you say can work in certain environments. I'm very pleased you enjoyed the update@Mymyjp - You're very kind indeed,...
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By Belfastsocrates,

Thank you for all your continued support and wonderful comments. I have also went though all of the CJ updates and fixed any formatting issues due to the site update, everything should be appearing as normal now @Sexysark:P - Thank you! @Kim Sunwoo - I thought it would be a little different and interesting @gviper - That's very kind, thank you@Mymyjp - Well....you know me....I do like to have stunning public spaces @slickbg56 - Passau is a great place for a jog! We like to give us walkers, runners and...
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Perseus returns!

By Belfastsocrates,

It's been a long time but Perseus lives on! Unfortunately due to persistent game save errors and crashing I lost the will to carry on with this game for some time and that was further compounded by a generally busy work and family life. I have however decided to start creating again and I'm struggling through the continuing errors so I've had to leave some large and densely packed unfinished city tiles for the time being and instead I'm working on the Passau Island development. I almost never post work...
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I've been soooo busy with work and real life the past couple of weeks so I've not had a lot of opportunities to load the game. In the time I have had I've been lotting and creating a new railway depot incorporating a maintenance and train washing area for Perseus Rail's commuter trains. This depot will be located within a semi-industrial area which is home to some distribution centres/warehouses as well as high-tech industry and research facilities. It'll be my first foray into the creation of 'industrial...
Belfastsocrates
After a very very long period of inactivity I am pleased to say Perseus has returned! My inactivity has been primarily the result of chronic game instability and persistent save file corruptions which resulted in me losing interest and patience. I have over the past couple of weeks been able to play relatively well with the exception of one of my major city tiles which seems to corrupt once it reaches 12.5mb in size. Utterly frustrating as it's not complete but I'll just have to go in and plop small...
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Passau Island's innovative new flood defences successfully testedConor Aston, Minister for Transport and Regional Development, was joined by James Bradbury, Minster for the Environment, to witness the first full-scale in situ test of the new automated tidal and storm surge defence barriers which will protect the Passau Island development. The barriers are the first automated sea defence system of it's kind in Perseus and it's hoped they will be installed along the sea frontage and tidal river sections of...
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Passau Island officially dedicated by His Imperial Highness Prince JuliusHis Imperial Highness Prince Julius today officially dedicated what is Perseus’ largest ever land reclamation project. Major reclamation work has been completed and construction has already commenced on several sites. Today His Imperial Highness presided over an official ground-breaking ceremony and the dedication of a cornerstone for the Imperator Tower which will be the tallest building on Passau Island and compliment the already...
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----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Still a work in progress and dripping in-game when I get a spare hour or two which is rare.... Hope to showcase some more over the coming weeks and months. But the below gives an idea of what I'm working on
Belfastsocrates
I've been rather time poor lately but have been able to progress Passau Island and it's almost ready for showcasing! In the meantime.....here's some teaser shots. Passau Island has only be possible thanks to the fantastic high-quality content created by @Diego Del Llano @kellydale2003 @Reddonquixote @mattb325 @on001222 @Xyloxadoria @SimFox @Cockatoo @Huston and @JP Schriefer
Belfastsocrates
Passau Island is the largest land reclamation project ever undertaken in Perseus and at 10km2 it's also one of the largest artificial islands in the world. The location was selected due to the shallow waters and presence of an existing sandbank atop bedrock and it's proximity to Passau and the existing business district of Caledon Quay. Construction started in 2004 and was financed by primarily by the Persusian Government and Perseus Sovereign Wealth Fund. Significant investment was also leveraged from the...
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Passau City Council launch public design competition for the Perseus MallPassau City Council has launched a public design competition and is inviting ideas and concepts for the redevelopment of the Perseus Mall and surrounding public realm. The Perseus Mall was constructed in the late 1980's and incorporates a range of gardens, public squares and artwork. However Passau City Council have been concerned that the area focuses too much on hard landscaping and have discussed a reorganisation of the area...
Belfastsocrates
Passau is a large and complex city and management of the city falls under the remit of Passau City Council and the City Executive. The City Council is an elected body of 120 councillors representing 60 wards with elections occurring every six years. The City Council is headed by the Lord Mayor of Passau, which is a primarily ceremonial role and operates on a rotational basis between the political parties and independents that comprise the council. The new Lord Mayor is presented to the city every year by...
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I've been working on a new district within Passau, it's known as Elmfield and it's name is derived from woodland that once spanned most of the area. The area is overwhelmingly residential but has a dense high-rise sector along the eastern edge of the district which forms part of the wider Caledon Quay business district, a former shipyard redeveloped in the 1980's and 90's. Caledon Quay is also home to the National Stadium of Perseus and the National Tennis Centre. The area also contains some light...
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I've been finishing off a residential area close to the University of Passau and the logistics area shown previously. I've also been working on other areas but they'll be shown later in the month I haven't really shown much residential development before so I'm hoping this satisfies, I'm open to constructive comments as well. This area of the large tile will be further developed with more residential and it'll border a large regional hospital which I'm lotting various things for and a modern GLR depot,...
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I took over 40 images of this area so I'm breaking it up and will do two updates as loading 40 images is asking a bit much. I also had to drop the 6-lane NMW road and revert to standard avenue as I couldn't get automata to appear on it, which is a shame. Passau does not have dirty industry or much heavy manufacturing, most of the latter is confined to the second city of Axehaven. Passau does however have a very large clean and high-tech manufacturing and research sector as well as sizeable logistic and...
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