Mickebear

As you probably have noticed, the works are being now uploaded on daily basis. Keep tuned for more in days to come.

Thank you. Hacienda? Do you know why this looks like hacienda? In fact, the agricultural heritage in the Mediterranean area (including Spain, Portugal, southern France, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Montenegro, Albania and parts of Greece) dates from the Roman times, often farms were turned to small fortresses (Castel/Castello which was chosen as name for this reward: Castello di Chianti), when Roman empire started to collapse. This heritage has spread to Latin America with Spanish and Portuguese colonization, hence you can easily fit my work to these surroundings. Mediterranean farming which in Latin America has turned into haciendas simply is living proof of our Roman heritage dating back thousands of years.

Sorchin, thanks my friend Thoughts for farming reward

Thorin: the growable residentials and commercials are now in testing, shouldn't be too long. Testing involves a lot of things: checking correct statistics (fire/waste/water/habitants etc) are in place; that they don't crash cities; that they upgrade (there are $, $$ and $$$ lots, which MUST upgrade), how they look when dilapidating; in which circumstances these developments take place etc. As this is not a paid job for anybody, the testers take the time to do it of course. Many projects take from 3 weeks to 3 months before the tests are concluded, the modifications done, custom queries made, custom icons in place, file installers tested, read-me files done AND tested... you can understand that although I could say: let's upload tomorrow; it is not reality, because I and the rest of BSC just don't want to upload an unfinished product. The same goes for rewards (and Santa Croce is one of them in a reward chain of 3 churches): similar crash testing takes place. But when that is done - and the necessary read-me files and file installers done, then these babies can be brought to public.

Thanks guys... A big bunch is already finished, the schema that BarbyW and I were thinking is following: there will be vineyards, olive farms, wheat farms, lavender fields, some fruits and vegetables, and to top, we will introduce new crop: kiwi fruit (1-4 different farming configurations per agricultural produce). Once you have fulfilled a certain criteria obtaining these growing farms, you start to receive rewards: a ploppable mini village with semidiagonal and diagonal buildings; olive oil factory; a residence of owners of olive oil factory (based on Villa Buitoni, a real olive oil king's home mansion in Italy) etc. The chain will finish to an authentic palazzo and forteress. All in all, the whole project will include approximately 40 new BATs and lots varying from 2x2 to 8x8 in size (this can change, as 60% of the project is now completed) - and I am starting to suffer from burn-out... so more like Cammo2003 says, rather later than sooner, as I want to give as many details as possible for the game players. You can never expect a BAT from me which is poor in details.

Thorin: no, I will never do this

Guys, nice to receive requests, but they all need to wait, as I have a heavy workload for the moment. Priority is given to releasing the lots that BarbyW has worked on and which are in quality control testing. Then comes the Med farming project which was started last week and which is being worked on. Then comes anything new (will be after mid September).

Thanks a lot BB Would you like a bit of Tuscany after Venice? A Palazzo in San Giustino (request from marcoxaero88888888 in Italy) which will be a reward this you will get as a reward after a LONG series of different Mediterranean farms, from which I will show you two first ones, screenshots courtesy of BarbyW: Olive farm Vineyard:

Thanks a lot BB Would you like a bit of Tuscany after Venice? A Palazzo in San Giustino (request from marcoxaero88888888 in Italy) which will be a reward this you will get as a reward after a LONG series of different Mediterranean farms, from which I will show you two first ones, screenshots courtesy of BarbyW: Olive farm Vineyard: