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Welcome to Auckland & Greater Region II, all 198 massive tiles of it. My current area of development is "Clevedon Valley" a semi-rural, hilly area to the south-east of Auckland, comprising...

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Clevedon Valley - Revisited I'm back! Hey it's only been 4 years, and here is my old CJ, still here and ready for me to carry on where I left off! Clevedon Valley was one of my more important tiles, one like many of us, that I had put hours of work into, built a replica of the Raurimu Rail Spiral, and yeah - put - hours - and hours - of work into. To cut a long story short, a few years ago it got prop pox. At the time I quietly deleted the tile, and re-imported a non poxed tile from a back up. ...
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M.U.L.E. (Mountain UtiLity Extension) The MUPPET's (Mountain Utility Personnel Providers of Extended Technology) have been busy creating a new utility pack for our mountain and rural areas. They have come up with the following five utility lots:Waste to Energy Burn PileDonkey Engine Power GeneratorLongdrop Composting Power Generator (Toxic fumes)Longdrop Composting Power Generator Moonshine Still Water Pump All the lots have varying smoke and 'vapour' effects depending on what the utility is actually...
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Donkey Engine Power

By Craig-Abcvs,

Donkey Engine Power Yeah I couldn't resist having a little mess around in Lot Editor again... just a 1x1 but a pretty useful 1x1 IMHO. The boys have fired up the old donkey engine, and connected the flywheel to a generator. I am not entirely sure if the set up is completely safety approved, but it does seem to work! The boys seem to alternate between chopping wood and standing around yakking. Full M.U.L.E. (Mountain UtiLity Extension) available here.
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Wairoa Reservoir - More Development Terrain detailing... God mode pine planting... so much faster than the old MM flora way! Medical landing strip Saw Mill Railway worker cottages It may be Maxis, but I really like this bridge. Needs terrain detailing underneath. Upper dam. More terrain detailing of the lower river required! Pond Air Take off! Yep... it is getting there. More terrain detailing of the rivers required...
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Wairoa Reservoir

By Craig-Abcvs,

Wairoa Reservoir Warning: this topic has not been posted in for at least 120 days. Unless you're sure you want to reply, please consider starting a new topic. Yes, yes... I know I haven't been around for a bit. Well then, if I am actually going to do a proper CJ update I am going to have to remember a few things... Like... how to play the game. Seriously. :: rummages around for disc 2 :: Right... well since my last update, I now have a different laptop; the last one that replaced my old faithful dv5 only...
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Thieves!

By Craig-Abcvs,

Thieves! In February 2013 we were quite badly burgled, they pretty much cleaned out all our electronics including my faithful 2008 HP dv5 laptop, workhorse of all my Simcity regions, cities and and development over the last 4 years. Fortunately however, I had a back-up of my document folder on an external hard drive which was not stolen, despite being in a drawer that was tipped out all over the floor and rummaged through... also in the same drawer was my back-up copy of SC4... used only once to install...
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Ararimu - Filling in the Gaps ... but whats the empty area in first pic? No trees, no farms, nothing? Are you thinking something most excellent surprise... Well... let's see... The Poor Old Mill, is actually not doing too poorly at all. How about an open cast ore mine, and some factories? I mixed and matched the 'new' Fukitol Flour Mill and Clevedon Valley Cheese Factory using Fukuda's models, along with one of his original lots and added in a twist of SPAM produce sheds. A closer look... Road and rail...
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Ararimu - The Long and Winding Road This is the tile that I have been developing, since the extended logging stuff was released, and it has also provided a testing ground for my MTP-SPAM Residential Growables. So this is a MTP-Logging-SPAM grafted hybrid tile! Let's go zoom one for a point of reference. Small logging town in the valley flatlands, supported by a SPAM agricultural community, and a wider pine plantation, with sparse residential up the 'long and winding road' out of town. In this tile I have...
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Ararimu - Rail Construction I need to break out a new tile, for all that new logging stuff. There is a bit of a hollow basin area in the lower left corner... that is where I need to build the town, but if it is going to be a log town, then I am going to need a rail line. The road and rail neighbour connections back to Camp Greenlake are hard to see, but are on the bottom edge of the tile. The rail will eventually pass all the way though Camp Greenlake, Clevedon River and eventually to Clevedon Bay to the...
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Inner Zen

By Craig-Abcvs,

Inner Zen Now I know you all probably think I have been getting distracted by geothermal steam, and logging sets and silly word story games, and have been neglecting to do the needful back here in Bean Rock. Well yes I have been getting distracted, but yes, I have still managed to make some progress... In the last update, the pictures were taken so as to avoid the fact that there was still quite a lot of terrain detailing of the reservoir to do... which I confess I at times I do put off, or at least have...
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Cossey's Reservoir and Power House A little more progress on the Upper Mangatawhiri tile. Cossey's Power House. Young hooligans have been out with the spray cans again... This is the bridge I made for the tutorial... now detailed. I have tried something a little different with the terrain detailing this time... I think it came out OK. While I love the pines... I have been looking for a way to represent the NZ bush... Hemblem's tropical trees are pretty good for this, nice and green and lush.
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Upper Mangatawhiri Reservoir Still under construction... Got to have a railway! This is where the tile joins back to Camp Green Lake. If you are going to have a dam, it may as well earn its pixels and generate some power! I don't like STR... I LOVE STR! The railway winds its way across the tile, follows the shore of the Upper Mangatawhiri Reservoir, and then heads off the edge... (but we all know that it joins to the next tile don't we?) I came to a hard decision regarding Aspen... ...it does not really...
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Wairoa Reservoir - Upper Mangatawhiri Reservoir The Hunua Ranges provide a large water catchment and the several water reservoirs are an important part of Auckland's water supply. I have now started a couple of new tiles, to the south east of the Clevedon tiles. Early progress... laying out the base of the reservoir... This terrace, will become a dam. I am now using Epicblunder's method of using pipes to mark the continuation of the lake... to the neighbouring tile. So much better than using road neighbour...
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Kawarau Bridge

By Craig-Abcvs,

Kawarau Bridge Just out of Queenstown in the South Island of New Zealand is the Kawarau Bridge. It also happens to have a bungy platform. Now where were we again? Ah... that's right the Kawarau Bungy Bridge... and now Murimk has made a flash new one, sans bungy platform... *Going down to check out the real Kawarau Bridge, next month!
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Ski Resort Trails Quite some time ago when I first started dabbling in LE, I made myself some narrow MTP Pine Trails... They are a nice enough little set... but they have base textures... which gives that 'lined' look... Recently I have been working on a new set of mountain trails which I have decided to call "Ski Resort Trails", to differentiate between the pine trails... as the primary prop used in these new lots is the ski resort path texture... (Yeah that is my story and I am sticking to it... I...
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