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Originally posted by: Benedict Probably not. Wikipedia has an explanation. Basically it is your color setting for your image. CMYK has spaces between the dots (i.e. white space) that your brain uses to make colors - saves on printing costs. Not sure why transit maps look better in CMYK, though. Care to enlighten us, Zombones?quote> Not really, it's a matter of how colours are formed. I hope I can make it clear, it's hard to explain it in English. (EDIT: I fixed a couple of parts, I hope I didn't make this even messier). First, a little bit of theory: we need to separete proper Colours from paints. it's all a matter of light. Our eyes are "just" photoreceptors, what they see is light. Colours are just light radiations at a determined frequency; I'll use the capital C when I'm referring to them (bad thing when one's vocabulary is not as rich as it should be). Colours is what is used in TV screens, Computer monitors, etc. If you put together all the Colours of the spectrum, you obtain white (it's logical: if you add more frequencies - that means more light - to the system, you get the brightest light). Full sunlight is always white. At dawn and sunrise it seems coloured because light beams hit the Earth at an angle and part of the radiations are deflected by the atmosphere. A paint (actually, the proper word is pigment), instead, is coloured because it absorbs from the white sunlight all the light radiations except the ones corrisponding to the colour that you see, which are reflected. All the phisical substances are paints. If you put together all the paints corrisponding to the spectrum Colours, you obtain somthing close to black, because most of the radiations are absorbed. Real, pure, black is nearly impossible to achieve with just the sum of different paints, but that would be a huge and largely useless digression from the point of the post. Without light, objects have no visible tint: in the countryside in the middle of the night, for example, you can't clearly see the colour of anything. To make it brief, Colours are nearly always brighter than paints because paints gain a tint as they absorb light. CMYK in graphic programs simulates the paints, RGB the Colours. That's why on RGB you can have brighter colours but it works properly only if you see it on a monitor (if you try to print a RGB image, you'll end with most of the colours screwed in tones and brightness because, obviously, inks and toners are paints), and on CMYK you get less bright colours but it works better when you are making a picture that is supposet to be printed. There's no actual difference on the edges, it's just an optical illusion: the brighter a colour is, the most it stands out.

davidaiow: Not really. I have tons of "New City n° x". When some good name for something comes to mind I use the chat to change the name of the city. Once I chose the name for one of the rivers and then renamed all the cities along it *rivername*-ton / -borough, etc. I didn't like it, I reverted those to "New City" shortly after. Never thought about the random name generator, I'll try it. Thanks! heitomat: Many thanks. I'm working on division lines diagrams, I'll post them in a few days.

To make comparisons, Derry is roughly four large maps with some parts of the outskirts in the neighbouring maps.

No subway, this time. It's a map of the regional commuter rail service (heavy rail in game terms) of a big and well developed region. There is a little bit of story behind, but I don't feel to make a CJ, I don't think that there is enough things to tell. The City of Derry (the lighter area roughly in the middle of the map) is composed by four boroughs that in XIX century were indipendent cities. Each city was served by its own private rail company. When the cities were united in Derry and the regional railway authority was founded, the new lines were grouped in divisions (red, East Division; blue, South Division; green, West Division; gray, Metropolitan Division) roughly based on the old companies lines, with some exceptions: the northern and western companies (I didn't make up a name, yet) were united under the West Division and the lines closer to Derry outskirt became the Metropolitan Division, with peripherical metro-like services between the suburbs an the city. I'd really like to finish it and add names to the stations (actually, the names of the towns), but I'm really a disaster when it comes to choose names for anything. Any suggestion?

img256.imageshack.us/i/greenhillmetro.jpg/ New map. Not finished, yet.

Also, some Italians get brainwashed, as you can clearly see in the previous post.

Originally posted by: Duke87 Interesting. In the US, the president has such immunity granted by the constitution. The police can't arrest the president, nor can he stand trial like any other citizen while in office. Instead, the senate has to impeach him. The logic here being that it would be a bad idea to let local authorities have the power to compromise the presidency by arresting him for jaywalking or some other silly thing because they don't like him. And arresting his underlings won't work either since he can just pardon them from whatever crimes they may be accused of. I don't know if the concept of impeachment exists in parliamentary democracy, so I don't know that this approach would work for Italy. Although I suppose even without it parliament would have the authority to call an election (a power congress here absolutely does not have), get him voted out of office, and then you could arrest him and make him stand trial. Indeed, there is something to be said for the argument that having the leader of your country be on trial severely hinders their ability to do their job of, well, leading - so immunity makes sense in that regard. quote> There is no impeachment, but the police can arrest someone in the government only if the Parliament votes to allow the arrest, even after the sentence of a court. That should be enough, IMHO. The problem is that Berlusconi is involved in tons of trials for corruption and the such, most if not all of them not related to his activity as politician (it's common opinion among his opposers that he became a politician to hide or fix his past crimes by manipulation of the law) and he doesn't want to be judged, plain and simple. He's screwing Italian justice for the past 15 years to avoid judgement: depenalization of serious financial crimes, reducements of prescription times, attempts to make some kind of proof illegal... nevertheless, he seems involved in such a huge amount of s**** that no matter what he does, there's always something he can be put under judgement for. That's why he's aiming for total immunity. Also, the main problem with this law is that Italy's Prime Minister has no limit to his terms and can be re-elected any time he wants, which basically means a potential lifetime immunity. Not a good thing. As for the elections, it's a little bit more convoluted. I hope I'll be able to explain this correctly. There are the President of the Republic (head of State with little power), the Presidents of the Chambers and the President of the Council of Ministers, which is a fancy name for the Prime Minister (head of government). In theory (later I'll explain why), the Parliament is elected by the citizens. Every seven years the Parliament in joint session elects the President of the Republic. After every national election (every five years, if the government doesn't resign before the end of the term), each Chamber elects its President and the elected majority nominates the Prime Minister (well, officially he or she is nominated by the President of the Republic with the advise of the majority, but that's just pro forma) who chooses the other members of the government. The government needs the vote of support by the Parliament at the beginning of the legislature and the Parliament or the government can call for other support votations at any time. To make it brief, the Parliament can make the government resign by calling a support votation and voting against it; then if there is still a majority a new government is formed, otherwise new elections are called. I said "in thery" because after the "mani pulite" corruption scandal (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mani_pulite) direct vote to the deputies or senators was considered too prone to the so called "voto di scambio" (exchange vote, that is "if you vote for me, I'll grant you some personal favour"), so the electoral law was changed to allow only blocked list of deputies and senators nominated by the respective party . Berlusconi kicked in this system with a colaition in 2001 and now a party born from that coalition that was ans still is an ungodly mixture of former political adversaries of the right side (liberists, right socialists, laics, catholics, nationalists, federalist, Mani Pulite leftovers, men suspected to be mafiosi, you name it) who, according to a lot of people's opinion (shared even by some Berlusconi supporters), are still together just because of Berlusconi's personal charisma (and his money, maybe ). To make it brief, the present majority has no possible candidate other than Berlusconi, most of his party's deputies are his trusted men (there are even his lawyers among them) or are kept quiet by giving them some important role in government commissions or with the promulgation of some law of their interest, so there are little possibilities that his majority falls apart and lives him and his government without the support vote.

Final version. Since I forgot to add the keys to read the map: black is regional/national rail, gray is cityrail, coloured is rapid transit (full line is elevated, dotted is underground). I don't think I'll work on this city any more. It's time to move on a new region.

Small update: a new elevated line added, rerouted the blue one and corrected some errors (some stations missing and, in the previous map, the violet line estern terminal was in the wrong place).

It's been a while since I palyed SC4. This is the map of the rapid transit of my new city: Full lines are elevated tracks, the dotted line is the only (for now) subway. EDIT: Sorry for the size, why I always find so hard to post thumbnails on SImtropolis? Every time I try i get the "broken link" pic

According to latest news, the deads are over 40. http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/regioni/abruzzo/news/2009-04-06_106337465.html (sorry, the link is only in italian) EDIT: RTE updated the news too

The first game was a Tetris clone. Then I bought the Game Gear and, few years later, the Genesis. First PC game was the glorious Monkey Island, on my old 286