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As promised, a tour of the White Tank Mountains of western Cosarara! We start at the Bloody Creek train station, where we get off to meet our driver and tour guide. The two introduce themselves before we enter our specially-arranged vehicle, a Majestic Motors 48 Special Series built right here in the Motherland. We come upon the Bloody Creek Mountain Tunnel, the gateway into these mountains. Once we emerge on the other side, we pass by small towns... Coal mines... Vineyards... and several tobacco fields. We also take small excursions into the mountains themselves. The town of Arrowhead Ridge (Érich) is located on one of these large hills and is mainly known for the June 15, 1998 Érich dance hall bombings, which claimed the lives of 35 people who were attending a graduation dance at the time. The president's hometown, Wolf Run (sometimes called the Boondocks): Our next stop is a fairly-sized manufacturing town just east of the district's center of governmental operations (and largest city), Cacciatora. Heading north into town... and into the town itself... Doubling back towards the ocean, we stop at the town of Mennet. Our tour guides were nice enough to arrange lunch for our party, which we'll be eating in the park. (to be continued in part 2)

Level out the avenue some...

Exactly one year ago today, Twilight Sparkle, after coming to power in a dictatorial overthrow of government, orchestrated the most destructive and deadliest terrorist attack on Cosararan soil since the Insurrection. Whilst 50,000 steelworkers were fighting for their freedoms, Tower 4 at the Cosararan Financial Center was obliterated by terrorists aligned with Twilight's regime, resulting in the deaths of 3,548 people - friends, mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, aunts, uncles. Those untimely deaths will never be forgotten, even as Twilight and her foreign and domestic collaborators continue to terrorize Equestria and its inhabitants. Our hearts also go out to all the victims of the current dictatorial regime. The site where Tower 4 once stood has since been converted into a memorial grounds to honor those who were killed. During today's memorial service, a number of Cosarara's top political leadership made speeches, both remembering the victims of the attack and committing to renewed defense of the motherland. ~~~ Now discussing serious business... I have been busy as hell for the past month and a half, mainly with school work and the Progression Project, so I haven't had a lot of time to do much with the city journal, and for that, I apologize. Expect a tour of the western mountains within the next couple of weeks (provided that nothing major happens). ~ hiddentemple ~

It was a wonderful CJ while it lasted... good luck with all your future endeavors! ~ IRC ~

As a Christmas present (and a long-awaited update), I present to you some photos of Prosperity Common in Jackson City, just north of the Financial District. Also, the reasons for my very long absence... On July 16, 2013, my motherboard died. It took almost a month to get it fixed, and then RL got in the way. At the moment, Cosarara is also in the midst of electing a new Premier (Prime Minister) to fix the problems that arose this year. Monthly updates should be starting up again in either January or February 2014...

Hello all, My copy of SimCity 4 has not been able to start for the past two and a half days. When I click on the icon, it shows the bridge, but it goes no further than that. Can someone be of assistance??

  I've updated it since then.

Replies to last entry's comments: Schulmanator: Do not worry - I have some more projects in the works that, I think, would be better than my previous cities! P.S. What's with the duck? I apologize again in advance of the directions described, as the "western" side is actually the eastern side, and vice versa. That was simply the direction in which I had taken the photos that confused me as for the direction... Today, we show off one of our more challenging towns, Timmone's Island. The western section... The central section... And the eastern section. The settlement started in the west, with development progressing to the east as time went on. The private school, where the more well-to-do kids go. This is the Memorial Escarpment. During the escape era (1978-1983) the UNSS surrounded a young maiden who escaped to Timmone's Island with her boyfriend. Her pursuers pushed her off the cliff (thus killing her) before fatally shooting the boyfriend. There is a small monument on the cliff that symbolizes the place where she was pushed off. The orange lines show where Cosararan National Energy wants to build more wind turbines. Mango Beach has seen a lot of changes since our last visit. Let us look at them now. The old elevated highway was torn down, the land on the other side of the highway was developed, and the transportation of the area changed a bit. As always, please rate, comment, like, and +1 if you liked it!

Which should I go with? I've been trying A (Peg's Broadleaf Trees everywhere), but I've also been hearing that sticking with Maxis trees and making them real thick (B) is a better fit, what with the climate...

On April 14, the Wave held a rally in Jackson City, in the parking lot of the Phoenix Building (aka the Bank of Port Ventura building) to discuss what happened recently. First, the North Venice situation has been resolved. Second, the Wave elected its first round of officers. Next, the Wave announced that the Ministry of ... is pursuing an additional $38.1 million [K533.4m] for the Shai Island project (the military base, research centers, etc.) to cap off the $61.9 million [K866.6m] that was originally granted at the Budget Sessions in March in order to have a total of $100 million [K1.4 billion - with a B] going towards an important facet of the CSP's "path of prosperity". On top of that, the Wave leader had some rather depressing news to tell. Earlier that day, the CSP had announced that $2 million [K28m] in funding for agricultural and horticultural programs had been cut under Nationalist (CNP) pressure. Perhaps the most controversial of these cuts involved a re-seeding program that was created last year, in which approximately 300 jobs were lost. Some Wave members postulated that the money was now going into the pockets of the CNP as well as the those of Nationalist sympathisers. However, some of the money is now known to be going to a composting initiative in the wake of those cuts, while the rest is unaccounted for with no future planned use. "Well that's just great! Twenty-eight million kratt for a pile of dirt! What's gotten into them?" one worker shouted to his comrades. After that had been calmed down, suggestions for keeping food on the table (so to speak) and creating agricultural/farming jobs (and making sure they stay) in Cosarara were being kicked around. On April 15, news of the bombings in Boston reached Cosarara. Fearing an attack by "twinkies", a new term coined by Socialist supporters, the Wave arranged an urgent meeting of the new Wave leadership. "We've got two explosions at the Boston Marathon. Three people are dead, and over a hundred are injured. We don't know who did it, but I'm suspecting one of them twinkies!" "I knew it! That al-Qaeda moron's snatching up recruits for her terrorist organization! She's fightin' for jihad!" "I think we need to understand that this means war against the terrorists - get that military base built!" "However, we shouldn't forget that North Korea is right behind them. In fact, they may just have the capability to mount a nuclear warhead on top of a ballistic missile and fire it our direction. We just found that out yesterday." "Wow..." The briefing continued for about 25 more minutes before adjournment.

I was doing work on a harbor in my region when all of a sudden, after a reconciliation I did (since the harbor in question spreads between two city tiles) I discovered that the result not only leveled a portion of a mountain ridge at the top of the city tile, but also left a MASSIVE trench to the north, which is not easily reversible. Any suggestions to resolve the matter? A picture:

I'll try

@CocoJones - I fully understand now! @A Nonny Moose - Yes, I was asking how I could transfer the original data from a backup to a working region.

On April 1, 2013, a prominent political figure within the Cosararan Socialist Party, in conjunction with the Party as well as a few military officers, gathered an estimated 80,000-100,000 workers, students, and Party supporters near Vega Beach's main commercial district to announce the formation of "The Wave" (please play along, don't yell at me...), a citizen-led nation-wide youth and worker program and movement. The goal of the Wave, he said, was to "combat foreign oppression in Cosarara and the sphere of influence and spread the truth to the people of this country, to get the youth involved in saving this country, to restore the Great Leader and his Party's founding principles, knowledge, and common sense, and to show the foreign aggressors that we have a voice as well." He appeared on television earlier that afternoon following news of a takeover of the Ministry of Media. At the rally, a few introductory statements about the Wave were made to the crowd. While there, he talked about the Ministry of Media takeover, the threats that Equestria and the Crystal Empire posed towards Cosarara as well as the rest of the world, the situation in the Koreas, the U.S.' "clowning around", among others. He emphasized the accomplishments of the Cosararan people since 1983, 1996 (after the damage from the Insurrection had been reversed), as well as 2013 (with the recent steelworkers' strike). It didn't take long for "courses of action" to start circulating through the crowd. Suggestions included recruiting and informing new Wave members, getting support of others, getting support from the government, the military, and other well-known people, with a few even suggesting bolstering up the military. Once the speaker had taken all of the thoughts into consideration, he roused up the crowd one last time, and in a controversial manner: the new leader of the Wave spray-painted Nazi swastikas on the flags of Equestria and the Crystal Empire before setting them alight to screams of the movement's new motto: "Strength through brotherhood! Strength through equality! Strength through community! Strength through action!" with a few saying "Strength through pride!" (strength through national pride was said to be the meaning of that last saying) Where the rally took place.

Then, after that, you mentioned that I could use a backup of the region and transfer the tile's data over earlier...

Where's the "automatic reconcile" option, first of all?

From an SC4M.

I saved the other city tile, then I went back to the one that was causing the problem and reconciled... the other side transfers over pretty well, but there's still the trench to deal with. If all goes well, I can replicate the original terraforming and this whole debacle over with. I just have one question... is it possible to transfer the terraform data from the original city tile (from an untouched backup) to my main one and it not causing any major problems? and if so, how is it done?

I tried doing the exit-without-saving-changes thing twice, but one I try to reconcile, it goes back to that trench. I am making a backup of the region right now (and how do I even make backups)... how do I revert back to an old version of the tile in the main region w/ the backup?