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This is definitely refreshing. It's all about being creative and having fun, with or without custom content. And it's so awesome that you're working on it work your son. I wish my parents had helped me with SimCity when I was 12! (I'm 20 now). Does anyone remember paletexan's Carthage? An inspiring city before the boom in custom content. http://485group.com/sc4/index.php

Hey, I just want to say I think your journals are awesome. This is some of the greatest SC4 work ever. There are a number of ways to solve the problem with Gold Depra that require no effort from Green Depra. Gold Depra seems to be located on low-lying artificial land around a harbor. What if an earthquake hit that caused severe destruction from soil liquefaction? Or what if a gigantic tsunami hit Gold Depra? Or maybe a sea monster born from the toxic pollutants discharged by Ibella Oil?

Thanks for the comments everyone! Anyway, what I'm most proud of in Neims is the transportation system. The city is served by an extensive bus system and a heavily used commuter rail system, the Neims Metropolitan Rail (NMR). This is the South line just after leaving West Capital station, on the way to Central Terminal. Most of the rail system is hidden from view between the large tower blocks, but I was able to catch a glimpse of the train here... Here is bustling Central Terminal, through which nearly all the commuter rail traffic passes. A map of the current NMR system. The addition of more stations is being proposed, along with a new East Line. Maybe the next time you see this map, those will be on there... Anyways, more pictures are on the way.

Beautiful region. Keep it up!

As you may have noticed from the title screenshot, Neims is rather dense. Currently the city is home to around 280,000 inhabitants. That doesn't mean there isn't space for playing fields... The fields at Launders Point sit in the shadow of large residential tower blocks. The suburbs offer a lower profile.

simmax: Yeah, you're right. I would like to develop a landscaped park on the shoreline, except that I'm not quite sure how. The park-building tools in the game aren't really satisfactory for the kind of park I'd like (lots of pathways and trees). Does anyone know of something on the STEx that would help me make a nice park here?

A basic tour of Neims at the moment. Neims is located on a large bay. Much of the CBD borders a shoreline park. Neims' CBD is still focused around the old city hall, which can be glimpsed from between two modern office towers. Nearby is the National Congress (I know, not a very creative structure, but hey, they're politicians). Neims is the capital of a small country called Nersesia. If I have time, I will talk more about Nersesia. The lights of the CBD are best seen from across the harbor. The inmates at the national prison have the great privelege of this marvelous vista. Nearby, of course, resides the mayor-dictator of Nersesia, who takes a maniacal joy in watching over both the city and the prison. More will come!

Welcome to Neims! This is the first city of considerable size that I've successfully been able to create in SC4. Be warned that I am a busy university student, and I usually don't have time for this, so who knows when I'll be able to update. But today I'm going to give it a go. There's a lot that I don't like about this city and that I plan to change in the future. But for now I'll just show you what there is (which isn't much). Feel free to leave any comments, observations, suggestions, criticisms, etc. I'd appreciate any advice on ways to improve the city. Details and screenshots are coming shortly.

Where do you get all those beautiful Edmonton photos you use to start off each page? I'm amazed at how well the city has been photographed.

Another lost landmark was San Francisco's Southern Pacific Station at Third and Townsend. Built in 1914 for the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exhibition (to celebrate the opening of the Panama Canal), it was originally supposed to be only a temporary structure, although it managed to survive and serve long-distance and commuter rail for over sixty years. It was a beautiful Mission-style building thatserved as a landmark to people entering and leaving San Francisco by train, as shown in this postcard: Here is a photo from the other side of the station: The tower in the above picture was aligned with Fourth Street, hence its name the Fourth Street Tower. Unfortunately, when Amtrak arrived it no longer ran direct service to San Francisco, and in 1973 the Southern Pacific Station was demolished and the block it occupied between Third and Fourth Street was redeveloped into an RV park. A new station, which now serves the commuter rail system CalTrain, was built on the site of the Fourth Street Tower, and is known today as the Fourth and Townsend Street Station: It's a perfectly decent commuter rail station, but compared to what was there before it's kind of pathetic.

I remember when the old runway was still there. Wouldn't be the safest place to have an airfield, however.

My aunt died in the Stony Brook University Hospital, actually. Also, the CLA building at Cal Poly Pomona was featured in the film Gattaca. If anyone recognizes it. So, here at Stanford University we have several so-called 'brutalist' buildings. About as brutalist as suburban California gets, anyway. Meyer Library (1966) arose out of concerns that Stanford undegraduates weren't avid readers. Ironically, it is now largely despised by undergraduates because it blocks the route between many residences and the academic buildings. It has a very imposing presence because it is so huge in relation to the surrounding low-rise buildings, and the split windows within each level create the impression that there are more stories than there actually are. The Graudate School of Business (1966) is one of the most technically brutalist structures on campus. Herrin Laboratories (1967) Durand Building (1969), originally the Space Engineering Center We have six residential towers (1971) that are actually adaptations of Le Corbusier's skyscrapers. Below is Blackwelder Tower. The Law School (1975) Terman Engineering Center (1977) was designed for low-tech energy efficiency, maximixing the use of skylights, cross-ventilation, and modular walls. And on a final note: In London, I can't believe that no one has mentioned the Westminster Bridge Island Block yet.

Yeah, a city of 100,000 definitely deserves an airport. And no significant city goes without a great park. City hall? Put them in a portable, they can wait.

Hey, that's the building I took a million pictures of from the John Hancock Tower...

Make a huge harbor and heavy industrial zone at the mouth of the bay. At least it's as far away from the rest of the city, and you keep all that crap out of the interior of the bay, right?