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Great news! Lindar has grown up really quickly, finally reaching 300,000 residents! Maybe for most of you it's nothing, but for me It is a success, as I usually give up early due to rising unemployment... Anyway, I'd like to show you how many things have changed (not in whole city of course!). I'll start from Lightwood - Lindar's district that contains High Woods and Laurence City. So let's get it started, shall we? (Lightwood's borders with tawdry signature and tram lines marked) I was going to make an entry about communication, but unfortunately it's not finished yet; I realised that I need to work on it, improve it. One of these improvements involved changing railway connections. There were two railways tracks going through High Woods, what allowed me to send my residents to Asgard where large offices are located. However, due to decreasing commercial demand, these railway connections became less profitable. I decided to delete a line and make a tram connection instead, because: a) it would be easier for second major (and me as well) to place tracks, e.g. on streets or avenues; b) creating tram routes is easier than spreading railway tracks throughout the city; c) trams are awesome. And so I made four tram lines, three of them going through Lightwood: Central Line connecting upper parts of the city with Laurence City's area, Greenhill Line enabling easy access to west parts of Lindar and another unnamed yet line linking Asgard with Lindar. In the future I will expand this by adding another line going to Silure, but for now it must be enough. There are another means of transport of course. Over ten thousand residents travel to and fro Laurence City by subway and about six thousand inhabitants take bus to get to Lightwood. No wonder this district is really congested, since the most important offices are located here, along with modern high-tech fabrics. (View of High Woods and Laurence City during the daytime) The most important buildings in Lightwood are: a) Walton Plaza - massive building with teal windows, where the most important offices are located; b) Lindar Stadium - the only stadium in whole city, where most of OC League's matches are played; c) Darklight Corporations - darkish building where many companies reside; d) Blue Sun Technology - medium-sized high-tech office centre, gathering all informations from nearby industrial cities Besides that, there are other significant constructions, e.g. hospital, elementary school or OCBS (Online City Banking Service) building, though commercial ones play the biggest part in life of this district. No wonder that major has put over two million simoleons into Laurence City's developement! (Night in Lightwood) However, living in Lightwood isn't perfect as it may seem. First of all, due to heavy traffic, roads are almost impassable. Also many people get injured in accidents that sometimes make entire street blocked for whole day! Subway and buses are overloaded as well, so it's not so easy to get to your workplace. Punctuality here is very important - time is money and nobody wants to lose profit. If you want to keep your job, you have to be five or even ten minutes before your work theoretically start. Another thing that threatens Lightwood is crime. Robbery is a common thing there, so you should better take care of your wallet or mobile phone. Assaults and battery are on a daily basis as well. Authorities are helpless, as none of actions taken improved the situation. Even the most guarded banks are being robbed or top secret plans are being stolen. Maybe in the future things will change for better, but for now it's not safe to go outside your workplace...

Hello there! I'm on Simtropolis for a long time, however I used it only for downloading things - forum was just an extension, something unnecessary. And now it's time to use it. Recently, I was looking for game similar to SimCity 2013; game that'd allow me to build cities with my friends. Instead I've found a tutorial on reddit about playing SimCity 4 online. I didn't believe it'll work, but I decided to give it a try. To my surprise it works and I can play with my friends together! There is just one problem: I don't have many friends playing SimCity 4. And so I'm writing here: is there anyone interested in making cities together? I've got much to learn about managing all this stuff, but it's playable already and with some time it will be working perfectly. There are already 3 small cities that will grow bigger with some time, however it would be nice to have more people to play If there is anybody interested, message me and I'll give you link to my steam account, so we could keep in touch.

Maybe it is nothing special, but sometimes you may run out of space (like I do very often, haha). But yes, I believe that there are groups with much more plugins, regions etc. etc.

I didn't think that somebody will reply to this thread, haha. Thank you for the "application". I hope you have at least 1GB of free hard disk space and a lot of creativity

Lindar tram communication system:

Using instagram was really nice idea - I like it! These screens are beautiful - I love old city centres and stuff like this!

I'd like to know if there is any way to make GLR Avenue connection between two cities? There is draggable GLR line, but it's not for avenues or streets so is there any way to send trams between the cities?

This. Is. Amazing. I love this water, it looks so realistic... Could you tell me which water mod is that?

So firstly I make avenue connection and then put GLR tracks? Well, it makes sense. Thank you for your reply

I have no idea why I put this bird there, haha, but I like it.

  Thank you, but it's nothing special :) There was a SC4 server about 2 years ago made by simtropolis' community, so I'm not the first one to make such thing.

Hello and welcome to "Online City - Lindar" city journal series! I've decided to make sort of documentation including improvements, changes and plans of the biggest city in Online City, so I could ask you for your opinion and suggestions (that will be really helpful!). This is my first city journal so if I'm doing something wrong or if I should add something, please tell me in comments, so I'll be able to make better journals in the future Located near south coast, Lindar started as a small town settled by group of two hundred people seeking a hermitage. This quiet, secluded place was a great choice, as it was not so far from big lakes or cold, refreshing sea. It had only two neighborhoods: Silure and Asgard that were just as small as Lindar was. However, more and more people were settling on south coast, which caused change of this beautiful and calm region into dirty, crowded place. When Lindar reached 50,000 inhabitants, the major decided to stop nature's devastation by planting trees and making parks where everybody could rest after exhausting day of work; that helped for some time, as the city was growing faster and faster with more people settling in dirty, small houses. Soon, the only uninhabited place were west parts of the city, where it was forbidden to settle due to environmental problems. And so people lived in crowded, dirty Lindar, working in northern parts of region called "Countryside", where all industry was located. Filthy factories causing massive air pollution decreased land value and effectively discouraged potential residents for long time. For many years things didn't change, until OCCS (Online City Communication Service) showed up, making a railway connection between Lindar, Silure and Asgard. In only two years Silure became manufacturing city, meanwhile Countryside turned into shiny high-tech zone. Lindar had changed as well - important companies as Technology Advances or Regional Tourism Services started making offices in east part of the city. Soon, whole Lindar divided into districts: Lightwood with High Woods connected with Silure's high-tech zone and Laurence City with small and medium offices; Relington where City Centre was located; Upvile with famous Rosaline Roundabout and smaller Fontaine's Roundabout with incredibly high street traffic volume that caused massive traffic jam; Oatfield with Lindar Central Station that connected Silure with Asgard; and finally Helston with Falcon Roundabout and Colossus business centre that was connected with Countrysides. Each district had its administrator and council which were subordinated to a city major. These rules were established by newly elected major - Robert Hargrove, who had improved quality of life in Lindar by rejuvenating police and fire stations, along with founding first high school and hospital. From that moment on, new age in history of Lindar begun... And that was my little introduction to Lindar - I hope you enjoyed this! Soon, I'll post another entry about this city, but at this time there will be more pictures. Anyway, thank you for reading and see you soon!

Crap, that place looks like a perfect place to stay. And this forest -  pure beauty! Where did you get these trees from!? They're absolutely amazing <3

Really interesting entry -  I like the idea of making such stats of the region. 

Oh my, I love these lights <3 Beautiful pic.

Oh yes, I really enjoyed this <3 I love these maps with bus lines - it all looks really professional :D

I cannot imagine Poland without such landmarks. I really love this style, simply beautiful <3 Excellent work on doing this - your city is amazing!

Really interesting entry. I like your idea, good job!

I like it for some reason.

For those who want to play:

Speaking of different textures: are there any other textures for GLR stations? Because then I make, for instance, GLR with sandstone and put on this GLR station, sandstone turns into standard texture. And when I want to put sandstone on standard texture on GLR station, game crashes. Any solution to this problem?

The only mods I know that improve graphics (in some way) are: Maxis Tree Replacement Mod, Simfox Day and Nite Mod and Uniform Street Lightning Mod.

Well, my railways aren't as good as yours, but I like them. There are a lot of trees, what reminds me of all these travels through forests in train... Here's Lindar main station with two main lines: Lindar-Asgard/Asgard-Lindar and Lindar-Silure/Silure-Lindar. These lines provide good access to workplaces in Silure (huge high-tech zone) and Asgard (where offices and skyscrapers are located). Yes, I know that I have put too many trees there, but I really like it. There are never enough trees and plants, don't you think so? And there are even more trees... At this time with a little tram passing by. I've created nice tram line going near railways and these "forests". Finally, there is a little forgrotten railway track, that in the future will make connection between Lindar and another, unbuilt yet, city. As you can see, there is also ground light rail, that goes through street and then heads into north west part of Lindar.