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No screenshots today. Here is the official announcement: "Due to server upgrades this week, Rio de America Day will be postponed until next week. Return next week for new screens and extras! On Tuesday, April 15th, our site will be going un-updated for much needed webmaster maintenance and upgrades. Please visit us again when we

I''ve been working on two more maps (both small) today, West Sound and Valiant Bay. West Sound is up to 2.000 residents while Valiant Bay has 6.500. Here is a screenshot from Valiant Bay: Not the best screenshot ever, but anyway... The region is now at approximately 1.187.500. Basically I''m now adding communities along the freeways in the southern part of the region. The freeway will run from the major cities in the southeastern part of the region over to the southwestern part and up to Gotham in the middle of the region. More to come later...

I suppose I should write something in this thread now that I've been a citizen here three weeks or so. I'm 25, male, living on the west coast of Norway. I attend college where I am doing a Bachelor in Human Resources. Previously I've attended a university and studied Intellectual History and Comparative Religion. I've also studied Sociology as a part of the Bachelor degree I'm working on. I've been heavily involved in American football here in Europe since I was a teenager, and particularily as a coach from age 20. After 5 years I've now taken a break and will focus more on my studies the coming two years. I've also run a few websites over the past 5 years (One, http://www.tnfj.com>TNFJ.com, is still barely clinging to life). As far as gaming goes, I have played A LOT of Half-Life, particularily deathmatch. I've been playing Sim City since SC2000, but not extensively. Other favorite computer games include: Pirates, Transport Tycoon Deluxe, C&C: Generals, Jones in the Fast Lane, Warcraft II, Doom, Doom II, Sierra Front Page Sports Football (particularily '96) and the Madden series (but mainly on PS2). That's about it I guess.

---------------- On 4/13/2003 7:37:27 PM CityConstruction wrote: Heh, theres an option for which side of the road to drive in Transport tycoon, which was a very old game.. ---------------- Aaaah ! Transport Tycoon Deluxe...My favorite sim game of all time. Still have it and some massive saves on the HD I actually deleted all the language folders except English and Norwegian when I got the game, but I think there was at least 10 or so languages to choose from (talking about SC4 again...).

I like grids. Usually I start out with a grid and then try to take things in stride instead of planning the whole map like a grid. That''s what I find to bring about the most realistic looking cities, IMHO. Thanks again for all the feedback. I''ve done some further updates to the site today, although they''ve been mostly cosmetic (layout, links etc.). As for your question Rouge, if I knew the answer my sims would be driving on the right hand side, which is of course the "right" side...LOL! I have the European version of the game, which offers a variety of languages. I chose english (=UK english), and that is why my cars drive on the left hand side. The only option for changing that is probably changing the language, although I have not tried so it may just be speculation on my part. I assume you ordered the game from the States or something like that ?

MAMMOTH update has been done at the http://www.tnfj.com/sc4/>Rio de America website today. I've doubled the amount of screenshots available in the screenshot gallery (there are now 118 screens available in that part of the site), and added some content in addition to just the screens. There is now more of a website in addition to the collection of images. You can find stats, some background info regarding the region, a FAQ and some useful links. There is also a LIE on the site. In the FAQ section I'm saying that it took me a few hours to make the website. It took a lot more than that, because of all the f&"

Hello navyseal2003, that IS the Korean Life Building, also known as the 63 Building. I probably downloaded it at http://w1.193.telia.com/~u19311232/home.html>Gothia, where it is available in the SC4:Landmarks section.

Just a quick note and a teazer; I will be updating the website tomorrow evening. I''ve just finished deciding which screenshots to use, and I hope everyone who might want to have a look have decent connections... Here''s one of the new screenshots: http://www.tnfj.com/SC4/St.Thomas_MoulinRougeAvenue.jpg> This is the Moulin Rouge Avenue that ran alongside the French-American Park in St.Thomas (pop. 251.000) More (and a lot of DIFFERENT stuff) to come. Oh, I must include a whale picture: http://www.tnfj.com/SC4/GlaceBay_ThereSheBlows.jpg> What the heck, here''s another one (w/two whales): http://www.tnfj.com/SC4/Creatus_Plane_vs_Whales.jpg> Whales ROCK ! And they have tasty meat too http://www.tnfj.com/Images/Smilies/biggthumpup.gif>

---------------- On 4/10/2003 1:50:20 AM Anonymous Wrote: Why do you say your airfield is an airforce base? is it really an airforce base? if so, how do you make it an airforce base? ---------------- Yes, it IS an Air Force Base. The AFB is included in the Transportation Pack which you will be able to find on Gothia and the official site. It comes as a reward and doesn''t cost anything (well, some pollution I guess).

I haven't been playing much lately, as I decided to spend some time checking out C&C: Generals which I bought at the same time as SC4. Pretty good stuff, but now I'm back to SC4. The region is now up to 1,1 million with the biggest city -Gotham- at 331.000. I haven't started any new cities, but I've been working on the 15 that are already started. I've taken a lot of screenshots, and will probably be updating this thread and the website either during the weekend or before the weekend. I'm also contemplating which city -if I was to only enter one- I'll enter in the contest at the official site (I know, only for people in the US. I'll sort that out one way or another). Hmmm...

http://www.tnfj.com/SC4/>Rio de America has been updated with new screenshots and some minor layout changes. There are now a maximum of 30 thumbnails pr. page, which should make the index-pages faster to navigate. Most of the new screenshots are on page 2. I've been playing a bit on a medium map (which are the largest there are in this region) called Montrose, bringing it from 15.000 to 30.000. Most of the new screenies are from that map, although I've also added some from Creatus (pop. 170.000) and one from The Cape (pop. 45.000) Here is a screenshot which you won't find on the website: Hope I didn't kill anyone with that 123kb image This screenshot is the Bureau of Bureaucracy seen from the Creatus airport area, with the 63 Building in the foreground. Feedback is very welcome !

UPDATE I've relocated the website to: http://www.tnfj.com/SC4/'>http://www.tnfj.com/SC4/>http://www.tnfj.com/SC4 It is still available at the previously posted URL and will be for some time, but the new URL is more likely to become the permanent site for the Rio de America pictures. I've played a bit today, and the city of Creatus is now up to 170k. New pictures will be posted soon.

---------------- On 3/26/2003 10:50:49 AM Shoe wrote: Now that I got a good look at all the screenshots close-up, how long did it take you to do that? ---------------- Thanks for the feedback people I've spent approximately three weeks on and off on this region. The city named Creatus has taken close to half that time (yet is only at 162.000), as it was my first experience with the game.

The problem has been fixed and the website should now work properly I will continue to update this thread as the region progresses, the website is updated and so forth. And some screenshots will of course be added here too ! Any and all feedback is greatly appreciated

---------------- On 3/26/2003 3:57:39 AM Anonymous Wrote: where it says in the big picture display page code img src="file://Cocuments and Settings****tbrukerMine dokumenterSimCity 4AlbumsWebsiteCreatus_bigscreen_newsbroadcast.JPG" alt="A broadcast on a big screen downtown Creatus" that needs to be: img src="Creatus_bigscreen_newsbroadcast.JPG" alt="A broadcast on a big screen downtown Creatus" ---------------- Thanks for pointing that out ! Surely explains why it loads sooo fast from my own computer The site will be fixed and things will be working within a couple of hours. I will post or edit when the changes have been made. Thanks for the feedback so far everyone !