hey zeus

Thanks mr mcbutterpants I've got a couple updates coming but I've been inundated with schoolwork so I haven't had too much time to get on sc4

Looks pretty slick! Lots going on around there. Definitely has an Asian feel to it but at the same time not...

Thanks for all your input and kind words! I set up a photobucket account so I'll start using that.

Thanks for the feedback! I'll look into getting an image host over the next day or two. Would that allow the thumbs in the body to be larger? I'm pretty new to posting stuff.

At a population of 74,159 Chehalis is the Largest city in Gray's Harbor County. Manufacturing, R&D, and white collar office jobs are mostly clustered around the downtown area. The city is made up of individual neighborhoods, each with it's own flavor and mix of small businesses. Downtown is home to several high-rise buildings clustered along the waterfront. While not as small and quaint as nearby Gray's Harbor, the city maintains a small town vibe with its compact, walkable downtown and mutual respect amongst all citizens. Salish Square is in the middle of downtown and attracts business people from nearby offices looking to get a breath of fresh air during their workday. Parks and community gardens providing free produce to neighborhood residents are common. Sense of community and a 'we're all in this together' attitude permeate throughout the city's neighborhoods. Westminster College(named for my alma mater) lies south of downtown and has far fewer students than Pacifica University. The school prides itself on small class sizes and it's use of a non-traditional grading system. Classes in the spring are commonly held outdoors and the college hosts a year-round farmer's market each weekend. Of the two main institutions of higher education in the county, Westminster is considered to be a 'Hippy School' where students can frequently be found wearing hemp clothing and birkenstocks. Gray's Harbor Regional Airport is served by Horizon Air (to Portland, Eugene, Vancouver, and San Francisco) and Air Canada (to Calgary). The airport bills itself as a convenient alternative to Sea-Tac airport in Seattle in an attempt to draw more passengers, but the airport has remained mostly small with most movements made by general aviation aircraft. Lying on a peninsula to the north of downtown, the Port of Chehalis is the industrial heart of the county. Goods from around the county are shipped by rail to either the Port of Chehalis or the Port of Gray's Harbor to the northeast. With the high demand for more dense housing and office space, the city and county have been considering razing the industrial zone and port to make way for new development. Debates have been plentiful between business leaders, citizens concerned about the city losing its small town vibe, and the city itself. Consensus building is an approach commonly used in the city government, neighborhood input will be taken into consideration, environmental impacts will be filed, and an election on the issue will take place.

Hey thanks for the tip. I hadn't thought of that. I usually keep the graphics dumbed down a bit since sc4 seems to hate windows 8(as do I!) I'll crank them up for cj pics tho. Maybe add some flare with Photoshop as well

I've been a Sim City player since 1998 and up until now Simtrop has been a great resource for downloadable content. I've considered creating a CJ before but never really quite got around to it, or the idea entered my head once a region was completely built out or I got bored with it. The region I've been working on for the last week or so is set in the Republic of Cascadia. The Cascadia Independence movement is an actual thing in Oregon, Washington, Southeast Alaska, and British Columbia; I've taken an interest in this idea recently and figured I would build a region set in this (maybe) future country. The map I chose to build on is of the Olympia, Washington area. The region is fictionally referred to as Gray's Harbor(there's a real Gray's Harbor in Washington btw). I tend to build up one or two core cities in a region(depending on size) and fill in the rest with farms, forests, and suburbs. The city of Gray's Harbor is the county's namesake and seat of government. The city is somewhat smaller with less of a business presence than the nearby city of Chehalis. Downtown is mostly made up of small businesses along a bustling waterfront. Most employment in the city is at the publicly owned Pacifica University. The school has it's main academic campus west of downtown atop Lair Hill; while the research campus is located in the city's central quadrant. Gray's Harbor is well served by a streetcar system. Transit use is high and residents enjoy short commutes. The system operates frequently during the day and late into the night. Most neighborhoods in the city were built with transit, walkability, and quality of life in mind. Pacifica University is not only the city's primary employer, it's a boon to it's economy. It's programs in science and the arts draw students from around the nation, and it's prestigious research campus provides thousands of jobs to theoretical and quantum physicists, medical researchers, and scientists from nearly every discipline. To end this first entry is an overview of the city. Next up: the city of Chehalis

Also they may sometimes 'deadhead' locos between different yards for maintenance or otherwise. There's a short line railroad up here in Oregon that has two separate lines on opposite ends of town. When moving locos between lines they'll often times be transported as 'freight' along the Union Pacific mainline. Pretty cool operation they have, very friendly to rail enthusiasts too.

I've been to: Nearly every US state BC, Ontario, Quebec Several Mexican states a number of times The UK several times to visit family France Germany Switzerland Austria Czech Republic Slovakia I'd like to go to: Iceland Canada's far north (seeing the northern lights is a bucket list item) Argentina Chile New Zealand South Africa Antarctica(Another bucket list item) And somewhere yet to be determined in Asia, Probably China

Reppin the poverty!

I had no idea what they were calling the latest sim city iteration. I don't need no new fangled internet based city 'Simulator'! Lol 64 bit sc4 with the ability to use multiple processing cores would be excellent though. Getting it to run properly on my laptop with windows 8 took some tweaking and I can only use a small fraction of my ram and processing capabilities at that. I dual boot with ubuntu (been considering switching to Debian) and have thought of running sc4 on that partition with an emulator... Moving my colossal plugin folder would be a pain

I like putting in big box and warehouse type stores near my airports I don't know exactly what you do airport wise, whether you plop a prefab one or take the time to build one from scratch using the SCAG stuff. I'm a real life pilot myself with an instrument and commercial rating so I like to spend lots of time making realistic airports with realistic runway lengths and whatnot. Anyhow, I usually will have a few different parts to airports I build depending on whether it's a small regional airport, a general aviation airport, or a sprawling commercial hub. A few CO$$ buildings near the terminal can be 'admin buildings' and the same goes for the GA side of the airport. A couple small single story CO$$ buildings can function as an FBO or an executive terminal. Warehouses near the cargo part of an airport serve a similar function The whole idea here is that you are using functional buildings that provide jobs, increase traffic and contribute to an all around realistic airport. I can think of a few buildings in particular I always use at airports from spa and Ill tonkso

I just drooled all over my shirt and soiled myself looking at your work.... Excellent!