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Wow, just incredible!!!

Wow, these shots are beautiful. I like the map and the picture of the undeveloped field next to the soccer field is really cool.

Haha, thanks, guys. Schulmanator: With each incendiary comment, Mayor Nibbly grows more and more nervous It'd be funny if we made a few collaborative entries, showing flare-ups between our two regions. I don't think, however, that the fledgling region of Rodentia would fare very well against the might of Schulmania

Marmot Hollow Excerpt From Mayor Nibbly’s Personal Diary: October 1, 1915- Ah, life is grand in Marmot Hollow! The town population is steady at 1,226 residents and every day my power and influence grows seemingly ten-fold. I’ve added some photos to this entry, Dear Diary, so that if in many years from now Rodential posterity seeks the governing acumen of their ancestors, they will find it in both words and image. The town has carved itself far into the mountains. When we raised the final walls of the final house, hoards of mice came up from the ground, sensing it in their infinite wisdom and driven by their noble, never-ending quest for foodstuff. A few residents of Marmot Hollow have founded factories, manufacturing everything from spare Habitrail parts to Squirrel-Friendly birdfeeders. I feel great pride when I walk among the workers, a feeling I imagine a father would feel when glancing at his son earnestly perfecting a school science project. The “$0” is strange: whenever I am aboard a helicopter or jet and look down on Marmot Hollow from above I see it yet I never see it while walking around the town. Is Monique Diamond toying with me somehow? Note to self: look on Diamond’s laptop for clues. October 5, 1915- Diary, what a stressful day! It started well enough. Certain residents were irritated by the combined noises coming from nearby train tracks and Farmer PJ’s lettuce field. They were easily appeased, however, by publicly-funded picnic benches placed 50 meters from their homes. Then, however, there was a surprise visit from The Dali Degu! With such an esteemed guest visiting Marmot Hollow, I frantically dialed Neil Fairbanks for protocol/etiquette advice. He did not answer. Note to self: check Fairbanks’ computer for suspicious correspondence with MD. Of course The Dali Degu brought his kids too. I didn’t even know he was allowed to have children but I suppose you learn something new every day. -------- Credits: Mods are SimPeg (MTP, SPAM, Pond (lots and mayor-mode ploppables), Cycledogg trees, SFBT trees, NAM & SAM, Lowkee33’s Appalachian terrain, SHK HD Rock Mod. The degus were Photoshopped in but hopefully that’s not too obvious. Definitely room for improvement on that front though Thanks for looking at Marmot Hollow and the Region of Rodentia!

Really cool-- I especially like the dirt street picture and how it blends in with the surrounding homes.

Amazing! You're like my SimCity role-model, Paeng! I really like the layout also: the city seems to have spread "organically," much as you'd see in a real city.

Really, really like this, especially the gravel!

Marmot Hollow: A mere handful of years have passed since its founding and Marmot Hollow currently has around 760 residents, all of whom pledge their allegiance to the justice, prudence, and fortitude embodied by Rodentia (both Region and order). Mayor Nibbly of Marmot Hollow attributes the town’s rapid population growth to recent arrivals from Sim Nation. “They come to see the marmots and stay for the cheese,” he was quoted as saying in Tuesday’s Marmot Hollow Gazette. Seen here is Marmot Hollow Area Community College during its Phase 1 of construction. Mayor Nibbly initially presented the plans for a college while Marmot Hollow’s population was at 67 residents. Monique Diamond was not pleased. The idea of burrowing underground domiciles was tossed around at the last town meeting but was finally deemed too expensive. Mayor Nibbly’s home and gardens. The job position of chamberlain is currently vacant. Duties include supervising house staff, ordering new dinnerware as the need arises, and taking a daily census of Mayor Nibbly’s 123,602 pet mice. The Community College has helped establish a pragmatic yet thriving middle-class in Marmot Hollow: concerned with the environment yet still reverent of traditional values such as tending to dairy cattle for sacred cheese. Mayor Nibbly somewhat compulsively mentions this fact whenever Monique Diamond is in the room. Credits: Mods same as last time: (SimPeg MTP, SPAM, Pond (lots and mayor-mode ploppables), Cycledogg trees, SFBT trees, NAM & SAM, Lowkee33’s Appalachian terrain, SHK HD Rock Mod. The construction scene has Hole Digging Lots V2, for visual effects. Thanks for viewing Marmot Hollow and my City Journal of Rodentia!

Hey, thanks, guys! It took me a while to figure out how to make the lots built on hills to look right. Finally found using a mixture of laying out streets & zones, bulldozing/de-zoning, then finally putting a final zone down works really well.

Would never have thought to incorporate the idea of a daguerreotype into SimCty. The rodents are in terrified awe!

Really intriguing back-story and beautiful graphics!

Great historical angle, like if SimCity and the Civilization series combined.

Hey, thanks, guys! Once I read [url="/forums/topic/68471-plex-on-the-stex-community-support/forum/index.php?action=articles;sa=view;article=56"]this [/url]by SimPeg's Paeng, my terrain never looked the same. Fooling around with the BAT tool lately: maybe eventually I'll figure it out enough to be able to make my own mod from scratch, haha.

The Region of Rodentia In 1895, a plague of rats and mice ravaged the Sim Nation countryside. Countless stores of grain were destroyed and although no deaths resulted (due to a massive emergency distribution of the nutritional drink Simsure), rodents quickly became public enemy #1. Some Sims, however, interpreted the plague as a sign of rodents’ innate dominion over simkind and sought to elevate the standing of rodents to, if not a god-like, then at least to a mythic status. Naturally, tempers flew and the amicus rodentia soon found themselves treated as objects of both ridicule and disgust. After an unfortunate and highly-publicized incident involving a mousetrap, three blocks of brie, and the Secretary of State, the “Simdents” (as they likened to call themselves) decided to depart Sim Nation for good in search of a new, more rodent-friendly world. These brave settlers charted unfamiliar lands, fought off feral housecats and packs of Ratting Terriers, and discovered several previously unknown species of rodents (family: Sciuridae). Finally, five years to the day after the great plague (The Incisor Awakening as it is called by Simdents) they reached a region with lazy, endless rivers, pristine mountains, and err…soft, rolling hills. There, they decided to stay and name their new nation Rodentia. First city: Marmot Hollow. Rodentia’s Motto: “That one island looks like a hamster, mayor.” Marmot Hollow Year 1900. Marmot Hollow is founded. The mountainside is believed to be carved from an ancient glacier, no longer present but whose vanished streams and waterfalls sculpted the land to what it is today. Citizen Nibbly Murphy is unanimously voted in as mayor and quickly goes on an ambitious building spree. As it stands today, Marmot Hollow has a fledgling population of 156 Simdents but some 200ish marmots. The Town of Marmot Hollow. Marmots abound. Clockwise From Upper Left: a small residential area, the town center, the hamster wheel factory, and a farm. Punxsutawney Phil Elementary School educates the youth of Marmot Hollow and is located a short walk from home. The Hamster Wheel Factory is on the right. The cow farm was immediately established soon after Marmot Hollow was founded, due to a high demand for cheese that is used in both religious ceremonies and everyday consumption. Residents of Marmot Hollow have cultivated their recreational spaces to be a habitat most conducive to marmot living spaces and for marmot-watching. Credits: I use a lot of mods but the main ones featured here are from SimPeg (PPonds, SPAM, terrain detailing ploppables), NAM & SAM, SFBT trees, and Cycledog’s Trees. The terrain is Appalachian by Lowkee33 and the rock mod is SHK HD Rock Mod 1 (both are absolutely amazing). Thanks for checking out my region, more updates in the near future!