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Welcome to Ben's Top Ten for Cities: Skylines! ​For any of you unfamiliar with how this works, Ben's Top Ten will be determined approximately weekly using a scoring formula based on author update to non-author comment ratio pertaining to all the active Cities: Skylines forum CJs during the period in question, with some degree of influence from the previous 3 weeks' activity in each of those CJs. Each week the top ten CJs will be featured. There were 8 new CJs in the first week, and the first number one is Springsteen! Well done to TekindusT, his first BTT number one in a while ​Welcome to the other seven debut CJs, and no, there is not a mistake, just a tie at number 7. ​And in a first for BTT, I bring you the second week's chart. Well done to Forkton, which hops up to number one. There are five debut CJs this week - welcome to My Cities: Skylines CJ Scrapbook, Welcome to Great Bay, Jala Valley, Island City, and Fristville. Ben's +10 New Terka by Cool_Z Matar by TabascoJack Diary of a Quilombo by LovelyQuirrel Hadley's Hope by Neofita Malaya State Snapshots by Yayie Citta della Regina by Gurra09 Trastistjikistanimanidan by Gadfly Let's Play Cities: Skylines by CapTon Emptying the river by IL. New Rotterdam by Libertyville See you all next week, and happy CJing!

There are some very talented designers here at ST (just look at the UNIO designs as well as Schulmanator's coins), so hopefully this will be a place to showcase them. The 10 simolean note/bill of Ellis Valley is a mini showcase of one of my bigger cities: Port Sinclair, with its motto of 'Industry and Safe Harbor'. The front: a tall ship celebrates the merchant shipping of Port Sinclair's past, the lighthouse represents safe passage into the port, and the cogs are symbols of industry. Security features: large cogs embossed, multiple small cogs, silver thread with the word TEN printed on each exposed section, lower right 10 is a hologram. ...and the back: the main image focuses on modern industry, and the ship's wheel represents maritime activity. An easy-to-read contrasting 10 is helpful to those of poor sight. Further security features: watermark of the lighthouse image on the left side, the lower left 10 is textured, there are multiple small 10s at the bottom of the note, and the background in the oval is a different color to the rest of the note. All comments/feedback welcome, and if you have you own money to show please go ahead and post!

Earlier this year (when I was working on the Trixie Element tables) I realized that Simtropolis would be having its 10th birthday, and I wanted to do something to celebrate it. I always start a new BTT around Christmas... so here's Ben's Top Ten, Time Machine edition. I am going back through time to sift through the CJ forum. The first one fell on Christmas Day 2003. Congratulations to Toronto, the first BTT number one on record. Obviously many CJs don't have images any more, but there's always one from the top ten. This week's image is from San Francisco. [Caveat: until early in 2005, many CJs were lost in the big purge, so some that you may remember from 2004 will be missing]. Enjoy, and happy 10th anniversary, Simtropolis.

Ben's Top Ten Apologies for the long delay between updates, real life has been interfering. We're playing BTT catchup... the time machine is set for December.... and New Sorgun is a reentry making it the Christmas (in August) number one!! Vista Del Mar, The Viceroyalty of Pursues, Basin City Blues and The Region of Ocean's Edge are back, and Washington County debuts. Ben's +10 California 2 by GoKingsGo Mikenstein by michae95l Holt by simlink Anselli by TMTS The Dells by The Big Z Castiana - Sahal - Vagonbrei by ionionion Mayon Province by kschmidt Rio Grande do Sul by afagundes The Many Cities of Boomooderie by BugeyedDragon Twin Rivers Region by dedgren

Welcome to the Mayors of Ellis Valley, a vanilla cj with no mods, bats, cheats or downloads of any kind. Just straight out of the box SC4RH. Page 4 Episode 13 - Dissent in Denby Episode 14 - The Asylum Episode 15 - The informant Episode 16 - Eloff plans el Episode 17 - Double-crossing in Denby Episode 18 - Crater Lake cottage Episode 19 - Ella's Burgers Episode 20 - Dining at Depiesse's Episode 21 - Benedict bribes Brezhnev Page 5 Episode 22 - Modern art adorns mayor's mansion Episode 23 - The package Interlude - Happy New Year from Ellis Valley Episode 24 - Michael George* (*not his real name) Page 6 ?p=477883 _____________________________________________________________________________________________ Episode 1 - Edna eyes mayor's mansion The north east corner of Ellis Valley is known as the Skeleton Coast. This land was home to several notorious pirate raiders a few centuries ago, but today is much calmer and is now a haven for agriculture and quiet small town life. Despite the apparent calm and quiet, if you are patient and look closely enough you can uncover the most devious plans and cunning deceptions... Episode 1The school children of the Valley typically learn the names of the pirate towns from south to north of the Ellis River (Readmar, Anbonn, Blackbar), however our look in on the mayors of Ellis Valley is going to start in Blackbar. Jimmy Fallon is the young mayor of this remote town, and hasn't really accomplished much during his term in office. To date he is most proud of transforming this messy 5-way junction.... ...into this nifty roundabout... Mrs Edna Church, who lives in this up and coming neighborhood is less than impressed with Mayor Fallon. She has lots of ideas on how to improve Blackbar, and she plans to invite the mayor for tea very, very soon... Next: Stablehand shennanigans {4 dec 06}

Welcome to the 12th Annual Trixie Awards Ceremony! All of your 2014 Trixie nominations have been tabulated, perused, inspected and stamped with the official approval of Dirktator, so it's on with the show! If you're new to Simtropolis, Trixies are awarded in three general areas - Custom Content Creators, City Journalers, and Community. The city-building games we love to play would not have the variety of beauty, form and function if it weren't for the amazing community of creators who give their free time and effort to share their works with the entire Simtropolis community and beyond. The Trixie for Best Modding Tool (SimCity 2013) goes to... The award for Automata Aficionado goes to... The nominees for Best Behind-the-scenes BAT Support are ST BAT School Team and Toothless Stitch. And the Trixie goes to... The Trixie for Best Civic BAT goes to... The award for Best Modding Tool (SC4) goes to... The winner for Best Post-war BAT is... The nominees for Best Pre-war BAT are IDS2 and nofunk. And the winner is... The award for Best Recreation of a Modern Building goes to... The Trixie for Best Lot Designer goes to... The winner for Best Nature Creation goes to... The nominees for Best SC4 Residential BATs are Aaron Graham and andisart. And the winner is: The nominees for Best SimCity 2013 Mod are: CapTon, SUGCTeam, oxide and Yayie. And the winner is: The nominees for Highest Quality in Custom Content are Aaron Graham, darn42, Don Miguel, FrankU, Huston, Jasoncw, Magneto, mike_oxlong, paeng, Parisian and Reddonquixote. And the Trixie goes to: The nominees for Merit of Team Spirit are NAM Team, NYBT, Tarkus and tony. And the winner is: The nominees for Most Creative Map are blunder and mrwheel. The Trixie goes to... The award for Most Imaginative BATer goes to... The Trixie for the Most Important Modding Discovery goes to... The winner for Most Improved BATer is... The nominees for Most Useful Creation are: Aaron Graham, FANTA1990, Historic Harbor, Jasoncw, and rivit. And the winner is... The award for Old School BATer goes to... The Quiet Yet Productive BATer is... The Rustbelt Preservation Society award goes to: The nominees for Mod of the Year are: airman15, blunder, MasterDwaine and NAM Team. And the Trixie goes to: The Trixie for BATer of the Year goes to... And finally, the nominees for BAT of the Year are: Aaron Graham, Chris M, darn42, Huston, Jasoncw, JP Schriefer, Historic Harbor, NYBT, Reddonquixote and spa. And the winner is: The City Journal section and forums at Simtropolis allow players of the games we all love to showcase their creativity in planning sparkling cities, developing grungy industry, crafting natural habitats, and telling imaginative stories. Thank you for the City Journals that have amazed and entertained us. The award for Most Realistic SimCity 2013 City Journal goes to... The Trixie for Best SimCity 2013 City Journal is: The nominees for the Most Awe-inspiring SC4 City Journal are: Huston, InvaderNat, Kisa Atsuko, Ln X, MilitantRadical, paeng, Schulmanator, SimCoug, and Tonraq. And the award goes to... Nominees for Best Asian SC4 City Journal are: jmsepe and Tonraq. And the winner is... The nominees for Most Attention to Detail in a SC4 City Journal are: Bastet69008, gigius76 and takemethere. And the award goes to... The winner for Most Chaotic SC4 City Journal is... Nominees for Best SC4 City Recreation are elavery and kelistmac. And the Trixie goes to... The Trixie for Best Bonus Content in a SC4 City Journal goes to... The winner for Best Custom Lotting in a SC4 City Journal is... The award for Best Grimy SC4 City Journal goes to... The winner of Best Historical SC4 City Journal is... The award for Best Journaler of City Journals goes to... The winner for Best Newspaper in a SC4 City Journal goes to... The Trixie for Best Public Transit in a SC4 City Journal goes to... The award for Best Recreational Area in a SC4 City Journal goes to... The nominees for Best SC4 City Planner are:art128, bakercity, BelfastSocrates, Kim Sunwoo, Kisa Atsuko and takemethere. And the Trxie goes to... The award for Best SC4 Science Fiction City Journal goes to... The nominees for Best Story in a SC4 City Journal are: NMUSpidey, SimCoug and Tonraq. And the winner is... The award for Best Suburbs in a SC4 City Journal goes to... The nominees for Best Use of Custom Content in a SC4 City Journal are: Ln X and SimCoug. And the winner is: The nominees for Most Aesthetically Pleasing SC4 City are: BelfastSocrates, feyss, Huston, juliok92012, kelistmac, Kim Sunwoo, Ln X, MilitantRadical, Mymyjp and Tonraq. And the Trixie goes to... The nominees for Most Entertaining SC4 City Journal are: jmsepe and Schulmanator. And the winner is... The Trixie for Weirdest SC4 City Journal goes to... And for the final award in this section, the nominees for Best SC4 City Journal are: gigius76, Fox, Kim Sunwoo, Ln X, MilitantRadical, pink industry, Schulmanator, SimCoug, and Tonraq. And the Trixie goes to... This section of the Trixie ceremony recognizes the immense contribution of Simtropolis members who make this place what it is. Whether quietly acting behind the scenes to be helpful, leaving useful and friendly comments in the forums, or helping to keep the place running smoothly, the recipients are deserving of their awards. The nominees for Friendliest Chatter are: Haljackey and meister1235. And the winner is... The nominees for Friendliest Former are: _B, A Nonny Moose, Benedict, MandelSoft, Titanicbuff, and Ultimate727. The award goes to... The nominees for Most Helpful Forumer are: Hamish, rsc204, T Wrecks and Yarahi. And the Trixie goes to... The award for Funniest Member goes to... The nominees for Highest Quality Poster are: A Nonny Moose, Aaron Graham and T Wrecks. And the winner is... In Memoriam. The award for The Masters of Ceremony goes to... The Trixie for Most Engaging Off-topic thread goes to... The member Most Likely to Wield Thor's Hammer is... The award for Most Outstanding Member Who Always Finds Out if a Picture Shows a Town goes to... The nominees for the member Most Welcoming to Newcomers are: jmsepe and Tonraq. And the award goes to... The SimCity 2013 Forum Dedication award goes to... The award for the member who is the Spearhead of Change goes to... The winner of the Simtropolis Triple Crown is... The Token of Endurance is awarded to... "STEXie" Awards - for Supremely Tracking the EXchange - go to... The Staff Appreciation Awards go to... The Awesome Admin Awards go to... In a surprise vote, the winner of Best Dirktator is the one and only... And our final award for the evening is the We Miss You; Come Back category. The members we missed in 2014 were Craig-Abcs, Darknono35, Delecto, dk1, mntoes, PBGV103, Reddonquixote, SimFox, SimRico, Skimbo, spursrule14 and TPB. The one you missed the most is...

A bit late, however congratulations are in order as your CJ was number one on BTT for the week ending 31 December 2015.

Ben's Top Ten __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Hi, Mr _Maison. I think your question was answered... hope this update isn't as confusing. Hi, boformer and Horus_Kol. Thanks for helping out. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Sorry for the absence, real life got in the way for a while. We're cruising along in the time machine and heading back to the final BTT of 2015. Twin Rivers is number one again. City of Westpark is back. Bubbling under Cities Skylines Youtube Show by Elz_41

A few months late, and congratulations are in order, as New Sorgun was number one on BTT for the week ending 24 December 2015.

Thanks, Phat.

Ben's Top Ten We're playing BTT catchup... the time machine is set for December.... The Jade Bight moves up to number one. Mikenstein, Holt, Castiana-Sahal-Vagonbrei and Mayon Province are back, and Anselli is new. Ben's +10 The Many Cities of Boomooderie by BugeyedDragon Pretoria Metropolitan Area by takemethere Rio Grande do Sul by afagundes Rickport by streetsofny Art128's SC4 Projects Basin City Blues by Urban Constanta The Dells by The Big Z Skylines of Cathnoquey by Linoa06 The Waterdep Project by Urban Constanta Twin Rivers Region by dedgren

Congratulations, your CJ was number one on BTT for the week ending 17 December.

Hi, kelistmac. Playing catch up, slowly but surely. Hi, PhatHead. hopefully I'll get caught up in 2016

Ben's Top Ten We're playing BTT catchup... the time machine is set for December.... P.R. Cristina's Travels moves up to number one again. Nyhaven and California 2 are back, Rickport is new, and Rio Grande do Sul debuts. Ben's +10 Skylines of Cathnoquey by Linoa06 Anselli by TMTS Castiana - Sahal - Vagonbrei by ionionion Teddy City by Titanicbuff The Waterdep Project by Urban Constanta Vista Del Mar by gviper Arapari by Paulobergonci Europa, Anno by kschmidt Scrapped by JoshuaGellock Guademian Republic by Zerx

Ben's Top Ten __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ We're cruising along in the time machine and heading back to December... Twin Rivers is the Christmas number one. At'ysland is back, and Just a ctiy debuts. Bubbling under City of Westpark by Zentro Goodbye city of Tepula by Cool_Z CJ Scrapbook by SAVAGExPHOENIX

Congratulations, your CJ was number one on BTT on Dec 10.

Hi, PhatHead. Getting close. Hi, SimCoug. Jingle bells, jingle bells...

Ben's Top Ten We're playing BTT catchup... the time machine is set for December.... Ionica is number one again. Pretoria Metropolitan Area and Teddy City are back, The Waterdep Project and Arapari are new, and Scrapped debuts. Ben's +10 Vista Del Mar by gviper Rickport by streetsofny Schulmania by schulmanator Guademian Republic by Zerx Cyprikuyucak by goosen Castiana - Sahal - Vagonbrei by ionionion Okaiken by Tonraq Cities: Skylines by agunter999 Republic of Carolina by kendallhart808 Anselli by TMTS

Ben's Top Ten __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ We're cruising along in the time machine and heading back to December... Twin Rivers is still at number one. The City of Rockhill is back. Bubbling under At'ysland by Atys' CJ Scrapbook by SAVAGExPHOENIX

Awesome stuff. And well done, your CJ was number one on BTT for the week ending 3 December.

Ben's Top Ten __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ We're cruising along in the time machine and heading back to December... Twin Rivers is back at number one. Roadmap's City Development is back, and City of Westpark debuts. Bubbling under At'ysland by Atys' CJ Scrapbook by SAVAGExPHOENIX

Ben's Top Ten We're playing BTT catchup... the time machine is set for November.... Ionica holds on to the top spot. Vista Del Mar and Guademian Republic are back, and Republic of Carolina debuts. Ben's +10 Cities: Skylines by agunter999 Pretoria Metropolitan Area by takemethere Anselli by TMTS Okaiken by Tonraq Ocean Valley by Titanicbuff Twin Rivers Region by dedgren Rickport by streetsofny Mayon Province by kschmidt Teddy City by Titanicbuff The Waterdep Project by Urban Constanta

Hi, Phat. Happy V-day.

Ben's Top Ten We're playing BTT catchup... the time machine is set for November.... Ionica is back at number one. Schulmania, Pretoria Metropolitan Area, Okaiken and Ocean Valley are back. Ben's +10 Anselli by TMTS Schieffelin County by joe064 City Pot-Pourri by MissVanleider Mayon Province by kschmidt Teddy City by Titanicbuff The Waterdep Project by Urban Constanta Aurora by Mascalzone The Region of Ocean's Edge by JohnAJ jamestown by matthewscott6615 Islands on the way by v701

BTT Time Machine - currently patrolling 2007 Hi, Schulmanator. Old yet good, reminds me of me! Hi, Greekman. Yes it was - brings back fond memories. Hi, Hester. I wonder what those people are doing now. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Our Mini Earth was number one yet again nine years ago today. There are no images left, so enjoy a bonus scene from Ankara (Reloaded), which was in that week. Crystal City, The Democratic Kingdom of Royal Cytheria, St Marque Inlet and Laurie-Edelstein County were also in. Ben's +10 Collgab's Cinema Olympus City by Filasimo Travels Down I-85 by pickled_pig Tierra de la Oscuridad by BlondeTwiggy Recreation: Ruhrgebiet by E.J.C. The Barbary Coast by TheSixCents The Headwaters of Nemonos by Giligone Aqua Vista by seemurray2 Novaya Tulsk by SIMMANIA Republic of Shagrin by Moshi