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thanks its partially photoshopped to add the numbers of traffics and the barrier, other than that its made in game

So first of all, sorry that Bandan update was delayed to undecided time lol. Anyway..... This is the continuation of "annual update" I did from 2012-2019 which show holiday traffic on intercity roads around Karasem. This series wasnt continued in 2020-2021 because intercity travel was impossible due to the "human malware" situation. So yeah this is a revival of that series. 2022 Holiday Traffic Report Introduction: April 29 2022 is 3 days before Idul Fitri in Karasem, lot of people go to their hometown to celebrate ied with their family. It has been 2 years without this tradition due to the travel limitation imposed by the government but finally the limitation partially lifted with the pandemic died down in Karasem. These travelers come from the major metropolitan areas such as Meriah Metropolitan Area and Cibebek-Kota Baru Metropolitan area. Travelers went to various areas in Karasem such as Southern part of Cikulon Islands, Sumut Island, Great Natuna Islands and other places in Karasem. The tradition mostly take places on western part of Karasem as majority of population are located. Map of western Karasem This year peak of hometown bound traffic predicted to take place on Day-3 (29/4) to Day-2 (30/4) of eid. Based on the observation, the number of travelers keep increasing since this morning. Ministry of Transporation enacted several policies in order to avoid long traffic jam. These policies includes the contraflow on several expressway including Meriah-Malang Bawah expressway, Muara Karang-Krangan Expressway, Kota Baru-Bankalan Expressway and Cibebek-Cikaas Expressway. Other policy enacted include the odd-even rule of the car license number that can use the highway on selected time. However due to the network capacity limitation and the number of traveler is very high, traffic congestion hit main lines throughout the country. First report today is from area around Malang Bawah, Cikulon Utara Province. Malang Bawah-Purwasari Expressway ever since the completion on 2018 has been a major relieve on the bottleneck of route around Malang Bawah where the Meriah-Malang Bawah Expressway ends. Situation are mostly smooth despite on high traffic volume using this route to reach Purwasari and areas on Central and South Cikulon Province. Traffic on the Malang Bawah-Purwasari Expressway in km 45 of Malang Atas Regency As for the traffic going through regular non motorway main national roads monitored to be rather congested, most of these people are bound to areas in western part of Central Cikulon, mainly Sumberjati and Sukasirna areas while some other are going to South Cikulon as an alternative route of the expressway route through Purwasari Traffic in the Western Cikulon coast route of National Route 1 around Sukasari Border of North and Central Cikulon Province As for the traffic of the motorway connects Meriah and Malang Bawah, Meriah-Malang Bawah Expressway, congestion spotted on several location. Rest area alongside this motorway has been an issue of the traffic congestion due to the traveler trying to enter the already full parking on the rest area. one of the rest area with this issue is in KM 82 from Meriah on Malang Bawah Regency. Traffic queue on this rest area lined to 1 km and affecting all 3 lanes on this motorway. Some of the traveler even park on the side lane of motorway which can be dangerous. Officer advices traveller to limit the parking time up to 30 minutes to alleviate the queue and there has been several closure on the rest areas with full parking spaces alongside this route. Traffic queue to the Rest Area KM 82 Meriah-Malang Bawah Expressway. Next report is from the Meriah-Kota Baru Expressway. This motorway is the main route that connect 2 major metropolitan area of Karasem, Meriah and Cibebek-Kota Baru. Traffic are known to be congested from both direction due to the high volume. The Expressway operator PT Jalan Tol Karasem temporary disabled the Sumberrejo Toll Gate as the transaction now combined for both section of this expressway (Meriah-Kemayoran and Kemayoran-Kota Baru). The opening of Kota Baru-Meriah High Speed Rail which was constructed in cooperation with Teiko in April 23 alongside this route has helped alleviate the traffic demand on this very crowded route on this season as the ticket of trips from April 28 to May 4 has been fully booked as of today. The operational of the Kemayoran Integrated HSR Station-Bus Terminal also utilized by traveler that use this mode to travel to the eastern part of North Cikulon Province. For the conventional train route between these two city also has been fully booked up to May 5 for this holiday season. Meriah-Kota Baru Expressway on Krangan Regency also shows the newly opened High Speed Rail. Last we go to the Tanjung Pasir Regency. The recently opened part of Tanjung Pasir-Bandan Expressway first section has saved traveler times. The 29 km expressway connected the Tanjung Pasir Selatan to Semilalang in Tanjung Pasir used by those who are going from Cibebek to the eastern part of Natuna Island. As for the situation on Semilalang exit, there is minor congestion reported for 500m when it join the Karasem National Route 1. Semilalang exit of Tanjung Pasir-Semilalang Expressway Thats all for today! Happy Eid Al Fitri for those who celebrate it! And wish you all reading this all the best.

I would drop this here since I think I had a rare configuration here where I had LHD-Euro texture and have 2 different set of NAM installation, one is NAM 32 (old one ik) which used mostly for my older cities where T21 compatibility is real issue and NAM 43 for my newer cities that I made since 2019s.

nicely done simple but teasing

nice start... looking forward for the sengoku part!

So I was going to post full update but I have no energy to do it today, I hope I can do it soon All pictures are from Sungai Lesong, Bandan which where the next update will takes place

Node V (Boss #2) Group C - 1.38x Group E - 1.35x Washington, South Dakota, Northampton, Atlanta , Fletcher - 1.32x

Its Neko's rice field which can be downloaded here http://hide-inoki.com/bbs/archives/sc4_0820.html

Just some pictures from the region I've been working on, Bandan. Bandan is Karasem 5th largest city located in West Natuna Province with population of slightly above 1 million people. These two pictures are from Muara Betung, western part of Bandan. Train Scene from Tanjung Pasir-Bandan Railway nearby Sungai Lesong (Lesong River), just outside of Bandan.

Simple picture from Ciujung-Karangutara Expressway near Sukamaju Timur Exit

Today its basically 10 years after I posted my first entry on Karasem CJ. Since then its been a very long journey out. from the pure 100% eyecandy, then experimenting on makes it semi functional and improvement in its quality in general, out from multiple long inactivity and revival but I managed to stay on this theme together with my East Asian Theme in SimCity 4 until today. Infact some of the area on today's entry basically just made few hrs before I posted this. basically my first picture on this CJ about Tanjung Angin Port, taken from the post 10 years ago. Karasem was actually made by my concept on Imaginary region of Southeast Asia. From around 2005 I already created concept on imaginary region of Southeast Asia based heavily where I grew up which is Java Island, Indonesia but this concept never really come into truth other than my hand drawn map (which I lost now). I tried to put it into SC2k which what I played back in the day however its still limited due to sc2k limitation. Up to 2008, I got my hand on SimCity 4 where initially I just play it vanilla until I started to use mods later that year. in 2009, first concept of imaginary Southeast Asian region finally started to realized in SimCity 4 with me started to make East Rockcoast MD in SC4Devotion. At first the style not even close to southeast asia, but toward the end of it in April 2010 it started to shape itself into one. one of the remaining survived picture of East Rockcoast, showing westrn part of Kemayoran City. And then around mid 2010, I started to work on a fictional nation named Melaka Timur (en: East Malacca, which named after the Strait of Malacca) however due to some problem (due it being an offensive word in other language) I changed it into Karasem which I derived from Karang Asem (which was randomly came into my mind back then). then concept of Karasem basically founded in around August 2010. I started to create custom lots out of the maxis prop and some other mods (like japanese houses, colonial styled buildings, slums, favelas etc) and I honestly enjoyed it. Firstly I just make eye candy park/landmarks lot then I evolved to make myself growable lots and so on Old Picture from Karangutara, from 4th update dated November 13 2010. Probably one of the most iconic picture from Karasem, first time showcasing urban area in Developing Southeast Asian Country. represented by Pondok Daun, Cibebek Province. I didnt posted my updates in ST CJ for update 6 to 26. Finally in August 2012 I'm back posting my updates regularly in Simtropolis at 2nd Karasem CJ Started also from 2012 annually I posted "Holiday Traffic" entry timed with the Eid Holiday Season on that year to reflect the home coming traffic for people from major urban areas to their hometown. I posted it every year either as full entries or just a simple pictures except in 2020 due to lockdown First "Holiday Traffic" annual entry picture from August 2012. Latest "Holiday Traffic" annual entry picture from June 2019. In 2013 I started other SC4 project based on East Asian (mostly Japanese) country: Nakama (also Nakahara later on). and since then Karasem basically become my 2nd priority on work. Karasem get regular updates until January 2015 (Update 39) where I posted "Final Update" on Karasem thinking to actually stop doing my Southeast Asian style and focus entirely on East Asian one. Banner of Karasem "Final Update" on January 2015 However. I changed my mind 6 months later and started working on Cibebek Metropolitan Area where I focused more on the transit works and the proper concept of city. It took me 1 year before posting the first update (Update 40) announcing the return of Karasem (which is this CJ). Since then I posted several updates until 2018 where I started to focus more on Discord (including ST discord) and kinda left myself inactive on this site for that reason lol Picture from Tanah Baru, Cibebek as the returning entry of Karasem after its hiatus. Then 2 years later here we are. my last update on Karasem was about Tanjung Pasir revamp (update 48). I was going to post my update 49 which was about Holiday Traffic in 2020 however as I mentioned above, because of lockdown and I reflect that special update to what in real life it didnt happened. +-------------------------+ Anyway long story, time for the proper update I want to show. Similar like what happened to the latest update of Nakahara (Hagikaze) This update concepts basically made few weeks beforehand so I need to do it from scratch instead of continuing from my old stuffs. The general concept of the update is to present the first areas presented for Karasem which is Sukamaju and Tanjung Angin but in my latest style on Southeast Asian styled SC4. Reflected from 2010, I completely started over the area in blank new but still maintain the original idea of it. I would like to start from where it was started at the very beginning, Tanjung Angin Port: Pictures from Tanjung Angin Oil Facility. The general idea of Tanjung Angin now turned from general cargo port into mostly consist of Oil Facility, refinery and distribution center together with minor general cargo port facility nearby (not done by the making of this update). This time I tried to model it as realistic as possible (might still consindered to be fail but I digress) after several examples I took which are Balikpapan and Cilacap Oil Facility. Housing Areas east of the facility owned by the Facility Operator: PT Pertamax Oil TBK Tanjung Angin itself is a district in Sukamaju Regency, just south border of Sukamaju Town where the regency administrative center located. outside of the oil and other port facility it also consist of minor towns. Areas in east of the Oil Facility, still owned by locals, Tanjung Angin Overview of Tanjung Angin Oil Facility. Other than Tanjung Angin first entry also introduced Sukamaju Town (refer to the first update link) located just north of it. In this version of Sukamaju its now properly sized town for regency seat. kinda modeled after similar towns/small cities around Java with its features includes a station (if that town passed by a rail), Alun-Alun (town square/park), Market, and a mosque. Sukamaju City Center, includes Sukamaju Station, Alun-Alun Sukamaju, market and Masjid Raya Sukamaju Sukamaju itself located in northeastern part of Cibebek Province, about 90km Southeast its nearest major city, Pondok Daun and 130km Northeast of Cibebek-Kota Baru Metropolitan area. Sukamaju Regency has population of 306k, 82k of them resides at Sukamaju district town where the regency seat located. Jl Raya Sukamaju-Ciujung in Western Sukamaju heading to Ciujung to the west. Areas in northern Sukamaju district Sukamaju border in the east marked with Cikamulya River, flowing throughout the regency. Jl Raya Sukamaju-Karangutara crossing Cikamulya River (the smaller bridge was old one before the road enlarged) Cikamulya River in Northeastern Sukamaju. (click here for full size 5mb mosaic of Cikamulya River in Sukamaju) Jl Raya Sukamaju-Karang Utara northeast of Sukamaju Distance between Sukamaju town center and Tanjung Angin port is around 5km connected mainly by Jl Raya Tanjung Angin to the south. Jl Raya Tanjung Angin in southern Sukamaju Overview of Sukamaju center Sukamaju has 2 main access from the nearest Ciujung-Karang Utara Expressway: Sukamaju Timur exit which located east of the town and Tanjung Angin exit which located in south between it and Tanjung Angin Ciujung-Karang Utara Expressway near Sukamaju Sukamaju Timur ramp exit. Sukamaju Timur access to the Jl Raya Sukamaju-Karang Utara Overview of the area That its all for today, I really want to make something better and bigger for 10th anniversary like the flashback on each year but instead its already too late to change the idea. Lets hope if this CJ can stay for next 10 years whether it stays in SimCity 4 platform or moved it to Cities Skylines which I still personally prefer sc4 as my city building game. Thank you for visiting!

So basically its close to 10 years from the date first time I posted first post on Karasem CJ . To sorta celebrate it I plan to revisit the area I made first time on this CJ, Sukamaju-Tanjung Angin area that already remake with the current standard of my SEA city in sc4. For now, I'll just post these pictures as a teaser (some might already posted in discord):

it's uki-sim's seawall4 http://uki-sim.seesaa.net/article/245190662.html

yes it is