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Crater Bay Update 08 Not much to show today as i spent yesterday trying to figure out how to manipulate the ground relief using roads,with little sucsess,game seems to do as it pleases when it pleases.The growing population has led to the expansion of the city dump this week and due to the fact that these people dont know what recycling is i expect it to expand again by the weeks end.They dont want me to dump their crap anywhere near them but continue to demand i find some where to keep dumping it.Well the beautifully scenic St. Georges hill has bore the brunt of it. The garbage inches it's way towards the summit. View from the summit. A view from atop the incendery unit. Hope to have a full update later tonight.

Patriot-Go to Documents-pictures-there should be a folder there called Monte Cristo,the pics should be there.

Nice start mntoes.Thats a bumpy terrain,are you having the same prob as me where the terrain often shows through the road when navigating hills.

Crater Bay Update 07 Well we had to put all our projects on hold due to special request from the owner of the IronTrust Steel Corp.One Mr Rusty Nail.After informing me that he and his family were moving to beautiful Crater Bay he requested that we construct a residential complex befitting a man of his status. This 8 tower complex took me hours,on closer inspection you can see why. Achieving this detail around all the roads and walkways proved to be a far challenging then expected,largely in thanks to some of the games very unpredictable behavior when using road intersections very close together.It's done by laying out the rough patern with simple roads and then running small roads in their place.not as easy as it sounds. Want to know whats on in the city tonight,visit the central information center. A view down fron tower 3 Rusty requested a penthouse with a nice view and a view of his steel works Crater Bay so far. And a quick road view.As predicted the Elite have decided to settle on the island penninsula but there wasnt much yet to show you. Replies- I'll put in a few over shots next update Stef Thanks again Larks

Lookin sharp Stef,like the QW towers,wasnt brave enough to take on a mountain map myself,trying to manipulate the ground relief on just a flat map is breaking my heart.

Crater Bay Update 06 To everyones surprise,especially the EcoFriend Corp. the locals won their case and they have been forced to move their plant further south. not the best pic i'm afraid. complete with its own offices,logistics department and warehousing and rumor has it they are going to cough out for a new state of the art residential project right outside their plant so staff have no excuse for being late. The onsite offices. In a bid to prevent our unqualified workers living right on the front door of IronTrust Corp,we've had to start stacking them on top of each other. The lights come on in the getto. Our qualified workers dont seem to mind living on top of each other as long as they have a nice view And the big corperations have started the who's got the biggist game. Just threw this one in cause i really like it. And last but not least Yes believe it or not,the residents of the Bay View executive living complex,the force behind the modern financial world,voted for a go cart track,not a fancy night club or expensive strip joint,a go cart track. Next update should see us move onto one of the local islands and i've been neglecting my cattle ranch and the wife has a big todo list there for me.Till then,take care.

Crater Bay Update 05 Not much gossip around town this week i'm afraid.Rumor has that a few locals have taken legal action against the EcoFriends Chemical Corp. in a bid to get them to move their operations away from here.They in turn have applied for planning permission to expand their operations, Something to do with their lawyers using it as a bargaining chip.With the planning permission granted this week for the first sky scrapers in Crater Bay the Irontrust Steel Corp. have seen fit to expand their plant again. didnt tell them i was getting my steel in future from one of their competitors at a lower price until i had finished building the new plant,obviously relations are a bit sour at the moment.But they need me on their side in the chemical fiasco so for once i have the upper hand with them.This week also saw the arrival of our first hightech companies and the sudden boom in population has forced me to expand JKon distibutions fascilities. Expansion of the IronTrust Steel plant The first so called hightech companies arrive.Could someone please explain to me how a bogroll factory and a light buld factory fall into the catagory of hightech. The new Harbour point complex. The continued expansion of St. Andrews Park. the park did nothing to apease the wealthies constant demand for one.We also see here our first buildings starting to reach for the sky.I'm sure with each company trying to out do their competitors they will be popping up all over the place now. And finaly,the expansion of our warhouse fascilities over at Jkon Dist. This week we will be looking to expand our appeal to big buisness and also looking into expanding out to some of the local islands. Replies- Thanks salt and vinigar Archean-To be honest,unless Monte do something about some of the very serious problems with this game and the doors are opened for some very serious modding i dont think this will be stealing me away for too long,the game has fantastic potential it just hasnt be exploited,hopefully some good modding will.I do prefere the small towns,and then just see where it goes from there.

Crater Bay Update 04 It seems IronTrust Steel Corp. have been using the readily available seawater in their cooling process leading to impurities in their steel, as a quick fix they have constructed some rust proofing plants while i go in search of a fresh water source for them.(at their expense of course) They get their water,I get paid and the town gets a cheaper water source,everybody wins.While my son Jay(my newly appointed utilities director) goes in search of water i continue work on our current projects. This week see's the early launch of The Bay View residential complex.Executive living for the Executive lifestyle. Complete with pool and retail stores and a promenade to come.Having a bit of trouble gettting retail stores in and the and the plans for tennis courts by the pool had to be scraped because someone forgot to check what size area was needed,do executives bowl?perhaps a bowling alley will suffice for now. The heliport has proved a big success with those busy little exec's. And the grand opening of St. Andrews Park Terraces was a big success,they lit the place up like a christmass tree. Inside St. Andrews Park. Mark my trade director realised i was paying far too much for our concrete supplies and saw fit to build our own cement plant. The new JKON Cement And Concrete works. my sons quest for fresh water was sucssesful. Our new pumping station in the background and the still under development St. Georges estate. And during land surveys for water my son ran across black gold,yes siree ,black gold a said. Apparently in the world of monte cristo you have to go all the ways out to the source if you want to fill your tank.I mean come on Monte,if your gonna go to the hassel of designing a gas station then atleast put it in commercial where we can use the damned thing in a realistic way. Turns out Irontrust Steel Corp. werent just pinching sea water for their cooling process,they were dumping it back in when they were finished.The Eco warriors have had a freakout.Once again my sons put their heads together and convinced Irontrust to do something green,much to our advantage. They went and installed far more wind turbines then they needed and so our town is now powered by irontrust. During the frackas with the eco warriors they said they were moving some security in down here to help guard their plants. Now theyve only gone and moved their entire security devision down here,a little extreme for a few eco warriors wouldnt you say.This property is ringed in by a road that is constantly patroled by their security cars.I suspect there is something a little more sinister at play here. Reply's- Thanks to Larks and Kevinman,its really nice to know someone else is enjoying your efforts. Jeremy-I'll get onto that today at some point.

Crater Bay Update 03 Having recently appointed my youngest son Mark as trade director,he advised me to to get into the distribution buisness and so i went about building a warehousing complex and within days,manufacturers were requesting planning permission in the area. JKon Distributions new complex provides abundant storage fascilities,on site office,big rig loading and parking bays and of coarse a diner for those hungry truckers.Also my convieniant placement of the entrance and exit means all trucks manage to avoid the state weighting station across the road,meaning my transport rates are lower then my competitors and as you can see,potential customers are flocking in already. The completed Harbour View buisness park see's the arival of our first hotel. Ovine Dales phase II nears completion and plans for multi story accomodation to deal with the influx are under way. Development of the distribution center and the BrackenHill manufacturing site in the north east have led to the need for a new road linking them with the industrial sites and new housing estates are already under way along it.

love the paint job,or lack of,on the garage door,its the small things like that that really bring a model to life,great stuff

Crater Bay Update 02 It seems IronTrust Steel Corp. have been using the readily available seawater in their cooling process leading to impurities in their steel, as a quick fix they have constructed some rust proofing plants while i go in search of a fresh water source for them.(at their expense of course) They get their water,I get paid and the town gets a cheaper water source,everybody wins.While my son Jay(my newly appointed utilities director) goes in search of water i continue work on our current projects. Continued development of the EcoFriends chemical plant and the new rustproofing plant in the back ground. Continued development of bovine fields phase II and the completion of Ovine Dales has led to a demand for health care and education. My Wife,now the director of health and education designates a zone off west street for educational fascilities.This area will provide all our students sports fascilities also.(built at my expense and dedicated to the town of course,earning me brownie points with the locals. The boom in population sees the old coast road bumper to bumper. Upgrading to large avenue has done little to solve the problem,perhaps they all just came out to test the nice new road at once,someone might be getting the sack,now which clown decided on a large avenue? Until planning permission and zoning in town(some of the old foggies dont agree with so much change)work begins on the Harbour View buisness park just west of the new Coast road. The completion of bovine fields phase II and ovine dales see's work begin on ovine dales phase II to the right and the increase in demand for retail see's work begin on the C.D Miller shoping mall just across from the newly completed school so moms have something to do while their brats are on detention.(really something for me to do while my brats are on detention).

Very nice work,can i ask how you went about constructing the round abouts?The ones on at the cloverleaf on page 1.

Thanks for all the replies guy's. BradySeitz- Wait till i worm my sons into office,then we will see strong will and know all about gettting things done. Kryptowhite- To be honest,its prettyness aside,i have to admit it has many draw backs and i wasnt very impressed with it to begin with but its growing on me fast and im very intrested to see where it goes when modding gets into gear. Rorciak- I wuldnt worry too much,You cant really screw up and youve so much money so quick you can take things down and rebuild all you want till it looks right for you. jeremy12- Do you mean at the CJ section here at simtrop or a Cj at citiesXL site? Kevinman- I suspect with property becoming sparse around town that as soon as my legal eagles have sorted through all the land rights around here we will see more sprawl into the farm lands. So far there has been no real plan involved in this town and i have only been building with a view to keeping progression as close to how i feel it may happen in real life while still meeting the ingame demands.(partly to determine how realistic the game demands are) and think i will keep at it like so.With time on my hands today,there should be a couple of updates.

Thanks cdmiller,as you are my first response I shall name something after you in your honor,perhaps a shoping mall or would you have something better in mind.

Crater Bay Update 01 It seems the IronTrust Steel Corp. overstepped their planing permission and sneaked a few production plants in behind their foundries,so I've made a deal with them,I keep my mouth shut,they give me the contract on all future constuction projects.With this i was informed that they are the parent company of one EcoFriends Chemical Corporation and that i will be developing their new site outside of town and that they will require housing for a more qualified(just better paid)class of employee. IronTrust Steel Corp. Now it seems old Misses O'Rielly,a sheep farmer south of west street,and Mr Marley had a bit of a thing going and with the demise of her secret lover, fearing she couldnt go on alone,decided to take her own life.Leaving no will and testimony,i have managed to secure her property south of west street at a reasonable price at public auction and am going about drawing up plans for our residential development for the "more qualified class of worker".We will also be developing an additional Bovine fields Phase II to accomodate employee's of the extra Steel Corp. plants. Work gets under way on Ovine Dales and bovine fields phase II Meanwhile Irontrust finish their plant and JKon Dev.goes to work on the EcoFriends Chemical site.