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About this City Journal

THIS IS AN Sc4 game journal.

This journal will show the growth and development of a region known as The Jade Bight.  It is centered roughly on the Jade Estuary on the North Sea coast of Germany.  Geographically, it will  stretch the length of the coastline from the Island of Sylt to the Ems Estuary and the city of Emden, and will include various terrain features found there.  It will also include several major cities, industrial plants, and major military installations in or around the region.

The journal is meant as an open forum for the exchange of ideas, comments, critiques, and a discussion of problems facing other members  --  as well as a showcase for the author's work.

Entries in this City Journal

Dreadnought
The Jade Bight 28 Nuenburg Industrial & Financial Districts SPOIILER ALERT !! Don’t start reading this entry unless you have some time to spare!! This week, I have decided to wrap up our tour of Nuenburg. I was planning to split the content into two more installments – but I have been overtaken by the “unforeseen consequences” – as they say in the “Weltpolitik” circles. I made the mistake of beginning another city before finishing the CJ entries on this one – and my mind has become completely immersed in...
Dreadnought
The Jade Bight 27 Nuenburg 03 Beautiful Downtown Nuenburg I WILL SAVE US ALL A LOT OF TIME -- I HAVE INSTALLED A "NO PALMS" Mod -- TO BE USED IN MY NEXT CITY !! (Nuenburg was too far advanced to go back and rebuild ALL the roads with palms stuck on them !!) This week, our tour of Nuenburg continues. We move from the Alte Bibliothek neighborhood north through the mid-rise condos, flats, and luxury apartments on the south side of the business district. It is at this point that I usually mention the...
Dreadnought
The Jade Bight 26 Nuenburg 02 The Alte Bibliothek Neighborhood Before we jump into the "good stuff" (pictures) -- THE JADE BIGHT HAS REACHED A MILESTONE THIS MORNING --- OVER 5,000 VIEWS !!! Thank you all so much for your interest, or just simple curiosity. You are ALL -- VERY, VERY -- welcome and appreciated. (Now -- if only 10% of my viewers were giving comments, I would have learned a lot more.) I WILL SAVE US ALL A LOT OF TIME -- I HAVE INSTALLED A "NO PALMS" Mod -- TO BE USED IN MY NEXT CITY !! ...
Dreadnought
The Jade Bight 25Nuenburg 01 The North Shore Not to overstate "the obvious" -- but -- I'M BACK !! My "hiatus" (about 3 weeks) turns out to have been brief. When I first started this CJ, I was able to crank out a medium-sized city tile in about a week. As I have absorbed ideas and feedback from all of you, the amount of "searching", "testing", "perfecting", and landscaping rose dramatically until it simply became impossible to create a reasonably good city in that short amount of time. Why -- just...
Dreadnought
The Jade Bight 24 Emden 08 The Commercial This week will be the 8th and final entry for the city of Emden. I know it has taken a lot longer than planned to bring it all together, but it is finally finished. I do wish the city had turned out better. It was not my best demonstration of planning and, frankly, simply ignored some of the basic rules of how to build a functioning city. Still -- it was an excellent test of the "regional" building concepts in the game. The overly enthusiastic use of...
Dreadnought
The Jade Bight 23 Emden 07 The Residential This week we will be touring the residential areas of Emden. The space covered on the map is not large (somewhat less than 1/4 of the tile), and beyond a bit of creative landscaping -- nothing fancy. And -- quite frankly -- not very much of it worked out as planned. Actually -- none of it managed to "grow into" what I had planned on. No doubt, in addition to being impatient, this was an error on my part in having unreasonable expectations. I must also add...
Dreadnought
The Jade Bight: 22 Emden 06 The Volkswagenwerk This week we have the last entry for the harbor of Emden. Hopefully, I have saved the best for last! To the west of the harbor basin lies a large expanse of land that was, for centuries, a maze of small streams, ponds, ditches, and salt marsh. Over the decades, much of it was gradually diked and drained and used for farmland. The area was surrounded by earthen seawalls, much like the levees found along the Mississippi River or in many parts of the...
Dreadnought
The Jade Bight: 21 Emden 05; The West Basin This week we have yet another -- short -- update on Emden harbor. I'm still getting bits and pieces of the city completed while tending to other, urgent tasks. A massive and ongoing reorganization of my "plugins" folder is occupying almost every free moment I have. I should be "shot at dawn" for my stupidity. If you look at almost any member city, in almost any CJ, you cannot fail to notice the "TLC" and "intensive" attention to detail that has been lavished...
Dreadnought
The Jade Bight: 20 Emden 04; The North Mole This week I bring you another update on the harbor at Emden. It is a bit shorter than most updates, but Emden is still a work in progress -- and there have been other difficulties as well. I'm hoping to be able to finish Emden -- even if it is in bits and pieces. THE NORTH MOLE: The North Mole area was one among several modernizations carried out in the harbor between the wars. Large scale dredging operations opened up the marsh area to the north of the main...
Dreadnought
The Jade Bight 19: Emden 03 Harbor East Side I offer up, this week, one more installment of the Jade Bight featuring the port city of Emden. I'm still behind in my "architectural pursuits" -- so this is just a piece of what will one day be a finished city. I'm afraid my system has started acting up a bit, and now requires a brutal purge of my "plugins" folder and a thorough reorganization. This is bad timing -- but may work out well in the end. I'm planning on beginning construction in a Large map...
Dreadnought
The Jade Bight 18: Emden 02 -- The South Mole This week we return to the port city of Emden for another installment. I would rather present the entire city as a whole, but my time has been limited of late -- so I'm afraid it's going to have to be more bits and pieces as they are completed. This time we are going to inspect the South Mole of the harbor. Emden has long been a thriving commercial port -- roughly, since the 8th Century -- but it's commercial growth began in earnest around 1870. When the...
Dreadnought
Jade Bight 17: Emden 01 -- Ems-Jade Ship Canal Entrance I bring another installment of The Jade Bight -- this time in the form of an "up-date" on the port city of Emden. It's going to be a bit of a short story, I'm afraid. I managed to get behind in my city-building, so I will be bringing you Emden in bits and pieces -- or a neighborhood at a time. All depends on what gets finished. EMS - JADE SHIP CANAL: West Entrance - 4 Views The first thing you notice about the canal's shipping channel, is that it...
Dreadnought

Jade Bight 16: Zetel

By Dreadnought,

The Jade Bight 16: Zetel Thank you for dropping in on yet another installment of The Jade Bight! I'm very happy to see we've developed a bit of a following among the members, and I'm quite pleased you seem to be enjoying it. We do get quite a few views, but I've noticed the feedback has dropped off. I had hoped we would receive more advice and possibly a few suggestions as to how to proceed with the region. I do, of course, have definite ideas for future development -- but a tad of wild inspiration...
Dreadnought
The Jade Bight 15: Nordholz Having toured the hideaway of the rich and reclusive in Greeseil for our last installment, we now travel southeast -- and once again, away from the sea. We will be spending a bit of time in the small and very prosperous village of Nordholz. The thriving hamlet is nestled in the smooth and fertile heart of the North German Plain mid-way between the bustling seaport of Emden on the west and the major maritime center of Wilhelmshaven on the east. Surrounded by all that industry...
Dreadnought
Jade Bight 14: Greeseil Welcome back to The Jade Bight !! This entry may be a bit on the short end. These small maps don't have a lot of space, nor do they hold a lot of stuff. And this one, especially, is smaller than most. This particular map was merely a small piece of dirt to fill in the normal curve of the adjacent shorelines. The regional map would have looked odd without it being filled in, and with no space to work with, I decided I would give it over to "eye-candy". Greeseil -- as it turns...
Dreadnought
Jade Bight 13: Aurich Once again, I welcome you to another edition of The Jade Bight. I know I scared all of you silly last time with all that "landlubber" stuff -- so this time we have a bit of ocean for you. Not as much as you might like -- but just enough to prevent withdrawal symptoms from setting in !! (lol) But to tell the truth, the map focus is anywhere but the ocean. Aurich is a small town just north of the major shipping port of Emden. The main purpose of the town is to provide a variety of...
Dreadnought
The Jade Bight: 12 Ostbuttel I have yet another offering for you from The Jade Bight. This time we get away from all that lovely seaside scenery and look in on a small farming village. Ostbuttel is a bit different in that it is not intended to be a small German village with those lovely European-flavored buildings all the tourists come to see. Nor is it supposed to be "small town USA" right out of the movies. There are a lot of members doing some really great work depicting small, Mid-Western farming...
Dreadnought
JADE BIGHT 11: Island Of Sylt Welcome back to The Jade Bight and the ongoing developments along the North Sea. Again, I encourage all visitors to leave a comment and offer an opinion or two as you see fit. All advice is welcome. This time we will travel to the Island of Sylt: Sylt is a large, and very prominent island lying off the northern coast of Germany, and is part of Nordfriesland district of Schleswig-Holstein. It is well known for the distinctive shape of its shoreline and is the largest of...
Dreadnought
Jade Bight 10: The Island of Juist Welcome, yet again, to a new installment of The Jade Bight. I'm happy to see the installments continue to entertain our early visitors while drawing new faces to the table. Our little region is quite hospitable and offers welcome to all, from near lands or far. I should mention -- Juist is one of the maps that had been finished PRIOR to receiving any feedback from visiting members. It is a small map, and therefore, is dedicated to either "service facilities" or simply...
Dreadnought
The Jade Bight 9 Norden: Downtown To The "Burbs" In this installment of The Jade Bight we return to the thriving port city of Norden to pick up our exposition where we left off. This time we will examine, in some detail, the downtown financial and business sectors as well as the residential areas of the city. If I might remind the visitors to the site, I decided to make a two-part presentation because of improvements made largely upon feedback in the comments sections and messages I have received. I...
Dreadnought
The Jade Bight 8 Norden: Port & Industry Welcome to The Jade Bight! In this installment you will see about half of the city of Norden. That's right -- only half. I have chosen to split this presentation into two entries for a variety of reasons. Large entries are always somewhat tedious due to the number of pictures to post and the text. And sometimes, the text can take a good deal of time. The main reason for splitting up the material is that this is the first city in which I have been able to...
Dreadnought

Jade Bight 7: Esens

By Dreadnought,

The Jade Bight 7 Esens Welcome back for a new installment of our journey through The Jade Bight!! I do apologize for my brief absence from the CJ -- at least to those of you that enjoy looking in. I'm afraid "real-welt" matters have been taking up more of my time of late. There is, of course, the preparation for the coming Holiday -- a fun thing! But there is also the ever-present need to do mundane things like renewing my driving license and the distasteful task of paying my property taxes like a...
Dreadnought
The Jade Bight 6:Wittmund Welcome back to The Jade Bight! For those of you that celebrated Thanksgiving, I do hope you had a very happy one. For those of us in "The States" -- the family holiday is over. We're either back to work, or embarked on an absolute orgy of shopping and spending. Either way -- the behavior can be considered obsessive. I'm going to try to keep the text down to a minimum. From what I can tell, most viewers are more interested in the pictures than the witty repartee' or the...
Dreadnought
The Jade Bight 5:HarlesielThank you for paying another visit to the region of The Jade Bight. I'm very happy to see that some of you are finding it of interest. I am, however, a bit surprised to find there are not more visitors to the thread. I have always believed (without any data to back it up) that there were multitudes of people all over the world visiting "Simtrop" on a daily or weekly basis. Consequently, the Law Of Averages says there should be more people visiting my thread -- by design, or by...
Dreadnought
The Jade Bight 04Schilling RoadsWelcome to another offering of the Jade Bight Saga!I know I said I was going to take a few days off -- and I did take one day off. But I told myself I'd just work on installment 4 a little at a time. You know -- an hour here, an hour there. And that theory was working well, until I realized I had taken so many pictures!!! At that point I knew it would take a couple of days just to write up the text.Plus -- over the weekend, I have been watching -- with much concern --...
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