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Fantastic idea. Great story! Thanks for sharing it!

Great job, crazyyaya! I don't get a chance to drop in to ST very often and so only just bounce about to random CJs to check things out when I can. I'm glad I ran across yours, Jacqulina Natl Park is lovely. Totally enjoyed that! l8r!

All regions under My control operate within a strict theocracy. I give, and I taketh away. That said, I enjoy giving My Sims what they think they want, so it isn't all volcanos and meteor-showers.

Another great looking update! I like your use of the greenery surrounded by urbanity. There are a few parks in there I wish I could visit today, bring a snack, read a book... Keep it up!

Fantastic work on that update, sloppet! Nice effects with the presentation, and lovely city to present! Great job!

Hope you're feeling better soon, sloppet. Great CJ, awesome pictures.

I had a great time reading up to here. Nice job, Nardo69!

Nice to see some of your work, sloppet, it looks great! The houses coming off the diagonal streets in suburbia have an amazing look, and I love the creek. The new development is also coming along nicely. Looking forward to more!

Excellent update, as always! Have you thought about separating your 3RR cj from your tutorials, and posting your tutorials in the "City-Building Concepts" section or such? That way both CJ and Tutorial audiences get their fix based on their particular interest without sifting or risking losing one segment of the audience, and those of us who like both can just follow both threads... you could put the link to both CJ and Tutorials in your sig for easy reference... And if you're building 3RR from what you're doing in the tutorials, so much the better, as in the tutorial you can say "check out how it turns out here" and in the CJ say "if you like this and want to see how it's done take a look here"... that sort of thing. Just a thought. I like your work as it is, of course.

I never realized Santa was such a hard-nosed despot... lmao! The "elven ghetto" was a particularly nice addition. Looking forward to more!

Cool idea, can't wait to see how it comes together. An "Inukshuk Park" would be fun to see... any igloo lots out there?!

I joined right around when ST 5 started being rolled out, so I can't comment on the ST 4 to ST 5 comparison factor, but I can say that as an individual that rarely joins (and therefore knows little of the standard conventions and features of) any web sites or forums that ST 5 is very user friendly and easy to catch on to. I use the myForums area to both follow threads of interest and use the Hot Topics tab to see what's new, and I'm learning new things almost every time I go on. Good job, Dirk!

To me it looks like a fire wasn't caught in time and ran its course. If it were crime I would think a few other buildings close by would also show some distress, but they all seem well-groomed, which is why I'm leaning toward fire. (The cute "for sale" sign on the front yard is hilarious. I think it's Remax...?) EDIT: Here's a thought: when you go to the advisor, is there a "mayor asleep at the switch" type of message, or a property damage assessment message?

I can't see how updates of this quality and thoroughness could not be of use to many that frequent Simtropolis, myself included. I always gain insight into different aspects of SimCity when I read your update, and I have to thank you for the effort and concise manner in which you present your material. My concern is that you are going to burn yourself out maintaining such a high level of perfection! That said: Can't wait to see the topics you have in mind for the future!

My brother bought an Apple II back in the day, and that hooked me on the Apple side. That christmas he bought me a Coleco ADAM, with the tape drive and the top-loading slot that would play games from the Coleco game system. (It actually came with "Dragon Slayer", with Dirk the Daring!) About two summers later I bought an Apple IIe, which I owned until about '92, when I bought my first Mac, an Apple Macintosh LC. (The LC stood for "Low-cost, Color".) The selling point for that was you could get a IIe emulator card and an external drive, so all the 5.25" floppies with all my games would still work on the LC. I think it was running System 6-something. It was a big deal when I upgraded to System 7, big changes! (I think it was the LC that I first started playing SimCity, the original. Remember when you could buy the building-packs that would make the buildings be different eras or places? I forget the details, but it was cool, for the time.) Then I bought a Mac Performa PowerPC 5200, which got me through System 7 and 8. Then I bought an iBook G3, running OS X, which is primarily now my wife's computer (or when I want to work in front of the tv) after I got the iMac G5, which right now has OS X.3.9. I don't want to upgrade to OS X.4 Tiger because I'm afraid of how it'll react to all the studio equipment I have that runs with Logic Pro. I had a hard enough time getting my MOTU 828 mkII to work again after the last "minor update".