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Carcer City a.k.a. My Town What're you lookin' at? Yeah, I'm on my lunch break. That's why I'm parked here. Can't you see that the off-duty light's on? Yeah. Does it look like I'm busy? Good. You're not from here? So, you wanna know about my town? Well, where do I begin? It all started in 1975, when I was born in a 2-story on Townes St in Carcer's west side. When I was 14, I guess my father went out for a pack of smokes and never came back. Then I dropped out of high school. My mother? Yeah, she never cared. She told me, "You want to stay in school? You want to drop out? Makes no difference to me. Once you're 18, you're out of this house anyway." And that's how I ended up here, giving directions to tourists out of my cab window. Where'd you want to go again? Centennial Park? That'll be $15. What were we talking about again? Oh, yeah, Carcer. Well, like most women her age, she can be real pretty and pampered, but if you start asking the wrong questions or going down the wrong streets she can turn real nasty too. She came into existence in 1820 after Carcer Island was settled by Dutch fur trappers. What's that? Why do I call Carcer a 'she'? Well, that's just the impression I get. For example, New York's a guy. L.A.'s one of those wrinkled, makeup-caked women you see at the boutiques. Miami's a guy too, a real juiced up fitness freak. But that's just my opinion. If you look out your window, you'll notice that we've driven into Uptown Carcer. Here we are, this is Centennial Park and Stanton Ave. So, how do you like it here so far? Yeah, it's something else. Maybe it's not as cosmopolitan as New York, or as glittery as California's coastal cities, but it sure is something else. It's got that down pretty good. You know what, I'm not so busy. You want to go for a cruise? Good. Let me tell you about my town. Check out the building on the right. That's the Carcer Metropolitan Museum, and a little further up you can see the Pickett building. It's the one with the red roof. This is the northern tip of Carcer Island. Right now we're on Vendrell Blvd heading north towards the statue of Carcer city's founder, Mayor Moses B. Kove. We're currently in Guntersville and about to take the Denton bridge to North Guntersville Island. Welcome to N. Guntersville Island. It's pretty exclusive up here. We're on River Ave, one of the more developed streets on the island. Great place to live, don't use the Denton Bridge during rush hour though. Alright, now we're heading off the island. We're gonna take the Lynch Blvd Bridge to North Carcer. What's that? Never been north of the river? Maybe for good reason, but I want to show you the real Carcer. The one you never hear about in the commercials and pamphlets. Let's go. Welcome to Copperton, my friend. Not what you expected? Good, I like surprises. Notice the Darcy and Garver projects right in front of us as we head off the highway. Crime has exploded in that area recently. Honestly though, the city doesn't know what to do about it and could care less about what happens here. As long as the crime doesn't travel down south it might stay this way forever. I don't remember this part being any different when I was a kid; I used to play baseball here for my school and the Copperton Middle School students would always beat us up after the games if we won, which was most of the time. This is the real jungle. Back of the Yards. After the blackout riots in '79, this place never truly recovered. There's always been attempts to "rehabilitate" the area and its residents but the politicians up here are bigger criminals than the street thugs. Relax, the doors are locked. I think the utter silence around here is the scariest. It still frightens me as much as it used to back in the '80s. Don't worry buddy, we won't be here for too long. We're gonna head back to Carcer Island down the Stivers Suspension Bridge now. This is Covington. I've always liked it here, much more relaxed than other parts of the city. I wouldn't mind picking up fares here all the time.

Chapter 3 Welcome to Copperton, my friend. Not what you expected? Good, I like surprises. Notice the Darcy and Garver projects right in front of us as we head off the highway. Crime has exploded in that area recently. Honestly though, the city doesn't know what to do about it and could care less about what happens here. As long as the crime doesn't travel down south it might stay this way forever. I don't remember this part being any different when I was a kid; I used to play baseball here for my school and the Copperton Middle School students would always beat us up after the games if we won, which was most of the time. This is the real jungle. Back of the Yards. After the blackout riots in '79, this place never truly recovered. There's always been attempts to "rehabilitate" the area and its residents but the politicians up here are bigger criminals than the street thugs. Relax, the doors are locked. I think the utter silence around here is the scariest. It still frightens me as much as it used to back in the '80s. Don't worry buddy, we won't be here for too long. We're gonna head back to Carcer Island down the Stivers Suspension Bridge now. This is Covington. I've always liked it here, much more relaxed than other parts of the city. I wouldn't mind picking up fares here all the time.

Chapter 2 Check out the building on the right. That's the Carcer Metropolitan Museum, and a little further up you can see the Pickett building. It's the one with the red roof. This is the northern tip of Carcer Island. Right now we're on Vendrell Blvd heading north towards the statue of Carcer city's founder, Mayor Moses B. Kove. We're currently in Guntersville and about to take the Denton bridge to North Guntersville Island. Welcome to N. Guntersville Island. It's pretty exclusive up here. We're on River Ave, one of the more developed streets on the island. Great place to live, don't use the Denton Bridge during rush hour though. Alright, now we're heading off the island. We're gonna take the Lynch Blvd Bridge to North Carcer. What's that? Never been north of the river? Maybe for good reason, but I want to show you the real Carcer. The one you never hear about in the commercials and pamphlets. Let's go.

Chapter 1 Yeah, I'm on my lunch break. That's why I'm parked here. Can't you see that the off-duty light's on? Yeah. Does it look like I'm busy? Good. You're not from here? So, you wanna know about my town? Well, where do I begin? It all started in 1975, when I was born in a 2-story on Townes St in Carcer's west side. When I was 14, I guess my father went out for a pack of smokes and never came back. Then I dropped out of high school. My mother? Yeah, she never cared. She told me, "You want to stay in school? You want to drop out? Makes no difference to me. Once you're 18, you're out of this house anyway." And that's how I ended up here, giving directions to tourists out of my cab window. Where'd you want to go again? Centennial Park? That'll be $15. What were we talking about again? Oh, yeah, Carcer. Well, like most women her age, she can be real pretty and pampered, but if you start asking the wrong questions or going down the wrong streets she can turn real nasty too. She came into existence in 1820 after Carcer Island was settled by Dutch fur trappers. What's that? Why do I call Carcer a 'she'? Well, that's just the impression I get. For example, New York's a guy. L.A.'s one of those wrinkled, makeup-caked women you see at the boutiques. Miami's a guy too, a real juiced up fitness freak. But that's just my opinion. If you look out your window, you'll notice that we've driven into Uptown Carcer. Here we are, this is Centennial Park and Stanton Ave. So, how do you like it here so far? Yeah, it's something else. Maybe it's not as cosmopolitan as New York, or as glittery as California's coastal cities, but it sure is something else. It's got that down pretty good. You know what, I'm not so busy. You want to go for a cruise? Good. Let me tell you about my town.

Originally posted by: dedgren It would be great under each new map posted if the author on a uniform basis would identify the software used and about how many hours (days, weeks, etc.) of work have been invested. Davidquote> That's a good idea. I used Adobe Illustrator CS3 for my map and it took me a week to complete.

Originally posted by: Zeddic Originally posted by: reQuiem4adream Well, that's how the original is! The station name is always tagged with the letter of a train which serves that station.quote> Not the overview map. Yes, the more detailed PDF version has them. But they're used for a reason in NYC – there are lots of parallel local/express/branch/whatever lines sharing the same tracks. In bomb_123's map the only stations where the letters actually provide information are Shrieve St and Peddler St where only B stops while A and X pass through. It feels kind of pointless to add redundant text to dozens of other stations only because of these two cases. I'd suggest adding a separate line with these stations on the map for B and changing A's color to something else, similar to H, U and Y on the left side of the map. (Also, Kruger St on line K has had it typoed to L, if you insist on keeping the letters.) Also, what are those river-crossing 'trams'? To me, the word tram means a street-running light rail system. Those are quite clearly something else. A very stylish map overall, nonetheless. quote> Thanks, Zeddic. I updated the map to fix that typo. While I agree that the extra text is superfluous in 90% of the cases, I think I'll still keep it up because it's a pretty handy way to identify stations by something other than the color of the line. Oh, and sorry about the tram confusion. The trams in my map are supposed to resemble http://www.wirednewyork.com/skyscrapers/731lexington/images/roosevelt_tram_bloomberg_3apr04.jpg>these. Originally posted by: Balth3465 Cute maps ;o Bomb_123's map tears me asunder, though. Is this really one of your cities? Or rather, did you really stylish the map? Because it looks truly great. Though the A/B confusion is slightly avoidable and more bemusing than anything else. quote> This map is an extremely stylish visualization of the subway system of a new city I'm creating. I haven't played SC4 or visited Simtropolis in over a year, so it'll take a while for it to be realized.