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Introducing Touscan Valley, one of the three cities that i claimed after which the original mayor left the town. It was originally a very crowded cities with lot of tall buildings. I have redeveloped it into modern city. Giving the city some uplift. and part of it is still in progress... Bird eyes' view Early stage of modernizing... Look beyond is the International airport. Lot of workers actually commute daily to the airport to works and travel. closer look at the inner city. In the daylight... Entrance to the city from the main highway.. and yes the skybridge was later build. View from another angle. Touscan Valley could hardly be seen from Tamarind Island and in fact, it has no direct access to both the cities as well. It's hidden. Look how modernization has took over. University has to be cramped into the city. More development coming to the city... check out soon.

I wanna know that, too. I think the design needs high overproduction of water/energy am i correct? EDIT >>> That looks quite like the same style i saw in a youtube video - if every 2nd road was cut off the interjection in north/west and every 2nd road was cut off the interjection in south/east, too. Yes, you are right. I did saw that on youtube as well. In fact, the city was abandoned and i took over it and modified a bit to boost up some activities. On this server, in fact, i own Tamarin Island, Jaquar Ridge and Touscan Valley. The fact that Touscan Valley is not connected to both Tamarin and Jaquar; so it is very much dependent on neighboring cities to help boost up some works and such; anyway, i try to improve the city.

Congratulation Sim Valera! My salute to you. It was indeed nicely plan and done. Excellent.

These are my cities; Tamarin Island, Jaguar Ridge, and Touscan Valley. I'll concentrate on Tamarin Island for this journal. Tamarin Island was my first city. Space was a little limited and you have to plan really well to have it developed into a good city. It was a perfect city initially until the nuclear meltdown and i have half of the island almost cannot be used. All three zones will not work in a radioactive environment. That's when i was devastated and claimed the other two cities since it was abandoned by previous mayor (while thinking of solutions to help my tourism island) This is how bad the radioactive affecting the island. What i did was to plot as many trees as possible to help in reducing the radiation. I learned that it will takes the 20 years game times to clear each radiation zone level, so i will ended up waiting for 80 years games time to completely having the radiation removed. All commercial and residential is very badly affected. Instead i build some recycle plant, plastic processing and such to generate some income. So the island is pretty much half tourism and half industrial. Water was badly polluted as well and i have to shift the water pump to a cleaner location. The default water filter comes with a basic pump which is pumping unfiltered water to the city; anyone know how i can abolished the basic pump which keeping the filter pump still working? I have not try if i could just shut the pump without shutting the entire plant down though. Ground pollution was pretty bad too! Surprisingly i still have some green smiley faces on the island and believe me they are keen to expand as well. Weird though. I mean if in reality, the island could have been isolated. i guess they left with no choice but to stay put. I have never come across and isolated island though unless you don't plot any RCI zones. Will it works? Hmmmm.. I'll share my other two cities in my next posting. Enjoy and love to hear your comments.

Here are some latest updates on Tamarin Island. Surprisingly it's getting more beautiful after a real 1 year after i left. Managed to capture some of the nice sceneries.

Welcome to Tamarin Island neighbor, Jaguar Ridge. This city was formerly abandoned and I claimed and help to build it up and improve it. Likewise not much space available as it is a rather mountainous state. Unlike earlier version of SimCity i could at least flatten the land a little but it's not possible or maybe i have not explore enough? The long bridge connect between Tamarin Island and Jaguar Ridge View from another angle The other side of the mountain where more residential, school and some commercial too. overseeing neighboring city. If you could recognize the city behind it with two elite towers, that's Tamarin Island. Did i forget to mention oil earlier? Look at the oil pump. Statistic even show it. That's the bird eyes view of both Tamarin Island and Jaguar Ridge.

After a year in real of abandoning the city, the oil surprisingly did not dry up, and the oil digger work equally hard. Yes, i am back in the game again. just to see how Jaguar Ridge progress. The first image however seemed to be jagged. Just wondering why, but on the same computer, the second picture look perfect. Anyone have any idea?

Hello everyone. I am back again. Haven't get the chance to visit Touscan Valley as i tried to load and it got hang. After a year in real that i have left it unattended. I wonder how it progress. Wait for the update from me soon.

Oh my. It is a solid year since I last visited here and ever since SimCity introduces the offline version, I have been playing it offline. I'll try to post some picture back again when I am more free or have more time. Now work has been catching up on me. Thanks for following. Will have some good news soon.

I had a quick peep the yesterday both Jaguar Ridge and Tamarind Island seems to be prospering. Now I am working on 'modernizing' another city. Will upload images soon. Now struggling with the traffic. Lot of traffic jam in the city areas.

haha. Yeap. I like it too. Thanks Benedict.

very impressive indeed! Well done. Keep it growing!

Aha.. back in the game again.. Evening sunset scenery of Tamarin Island after deserted for a while. Not bad after all. The nuclear has got really huge smokes.. Rather hazy.. air pollution around the region! i wish SimCity could allocate me the entire island. I got a quarter of land not being possible to access. I wish i could have till the bridge. There be more to build. Yes, I did. I stayed on this scene for a while to count how long does it take for the bus to arrive and pick up the passenger and the road is pretty quiet. Probably not Sunday.

I was away on vacation for one week and have not really touch-base on the progress of the game. Will do so again this coming week.

Have been tied up with work lately. Will log in tonight to complete some of 'futuristic' town and bring back the sims.

I don't think i come across the military other than the Police and fire department in SimCity 2013 yet. Or am i the only one missing out?

Updates: After radioactivity has been cleared out slowly, I started to work on the part of the city that has been heavily polluted by the radioactive and turn them into future city. Lots of futuristic activities going on there though there are still a fair bit of radioactivity that need to be cleared off or i will never get the crowd. I have isolated the old town and i am seeing the crowd leaving the cities. I'll take some screen shots when i am back on the game.

Sending in a team to redevelop the island into tourism island again. Tourism city in the making. Coming up soon.

Thanks Benedict. I'll try to work hard on my city this week, repair the damage done by the radioactive and beef up the tourism for the island.

Thanks Peter, Selamat Datang! I am from the land of the head hunters. I will add you once I am back in the game. Was working OT and didnt get the chance to log in to my game.

I've shared my city (Tamarin Island) in city journal. I've managed to clear the radiation in my city with the help of COT (Cities of Tomorrow expansion pack). If you encountered nuclear meltdown and radioactive in your city, with COT it can resolve your issue but there are price to pay. Hi PeterK, Welcome and i noticed your location put as North Borneo. Do you happened to be from Sabah (East Malaysia)?

The situation is much improved and the radiation is almost gone. Just left with a few more sections to clear. And this give me hope and opportunity to rebuild the city as a tourism island again.

I didn't know there is a top ten listing.. Congrats to all the winners.

Thanks for the comment, Benedict. As promised, attached are the images of the solutions to radiation in the city (if you have Cities of Tomorrow expansion pack). and its extracting the radiation pretty fast without wait for long hours of games play but once it's clear off the radiation and ground pollution, the only thing suffer is the air pollution. If you have to build the ground scrubber to resolve the radiation, make sure you check your wind, and that it doesn't blow towards your residential, commercial zones, or they get sick. I'll post more after tonight play. Enjoy.

I found the cure to my radiation, that's provided that you have the Cities of Tomorrow (COT) expansion pack. All you need is to build the ground scrubber, and it will suck out the pollution within hours better than waiting for months to get it clear off. Will post the outcome from the cities after the installation of COT later tonight.