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kay. ploppable freeway service plazas. oh yah, we so totally need those. wer'e dying out here without our ploppable freeway service plazas. oh god! the humility! what will we do without ploppable freeway ser- okay, well, why don't you make one? Since i have never heard of these things. Do you mean freeway diners?

Well, heres an excuse not to post any pics of my latest CJ. It doesn't exist yet. I have decided to start from scratch a region i call Atopolis, after the game im making. (it is a kind of cool name isn't it?). Then i had the idea that i could actually show you the city AS it grows. So what i'm going to do is employ any one in the forum as members of the council and we can all have decisions on the region. I will be the mayor of course but i will pick anyone who comes to be a transportation, educational etc member. As the region grows we can see whos ideas worked.

The council can also incluide voluntary members. Anyone can comment as i post pics or suggest. I will provide detailed info, but here are the rules. I have set myself these rules. The region must eventually have at least 500,000 in pop. The environment rating for each city should eventually be at least ahlf way green. That it should be a clean green region with hi tech industry. That there will be a good transport system.

It is a common fact taht simcity's transport system works starngely. basically if you want sims to use highways rather than avenues all you can domis make more highways.

Yes your city is very interesting.

Yes. I am most amused by these wonderful grids. I am just starting a new city called Krillik in which the grids are 4 by 4. Strange, i hear you say? Well consider this. r r r r r rr r commer r r r r r r cial r r r r r r r Thus there is a nice square lot of commerce. Whereas for residential (nice euro contemporary is my fave tileset for res) i have mainly rectangular inbuilt grids.

Well i never thought i'd say this, but your current work looks bonser. I will follow the journal. I know i once wanted to do a from scratch CJ, but my computer broke down before i could.

Irony. Ah yes, my favourite of the many humorae. Well i think that's a very nice bridge. I love the way you made it start and end with a tunnel. I see you didn't use any mods for that too. Well i know iv'e earnt the reputation of Mr No Images but i will tell you about my most scenic area. In my latest region of Krillik there is a little place i likes to call East Krillik. It's a mainly agricultural and residential town with a pop of about a thousand. It is situated on a smooth but curved coastline. theres a nice scenic railway too. remember in 2000 where there was a nice city with a scenic railroad in scenarios?

very nice.

Blimey. Taht brings back memories. Of yesterday when i played the online version. But yes, classic was good. My favourite simcitys are best-simcity 4, simcity 2000,3000 unlimited worst-classic, 2000network, 3000

In my downtown areas i generally use a four by five grid. In subs i use a six by six grid. I have one by two tile houses and fill the square in the middle with parks. p=park h-house r=road r r r r r r r hhhhhr r hhphhr r hhphhr r hhhhhr r r r r r r

you can only plop in 3000, silly.

ah. i know waht your talking about. here there called highway caf'es. theres not many in australia, but when i was in Nashville there was a maccas on the highway past Marxes golf course.

uh huh. well, that was... cool.

One question, how did you get those skyscrapers when your city was so small? is there a huge residential neighbourhood hidden under the ground?

As well as education, if you want more hi tech than dirty, don't just lower taxes for ht and raise those for ditry, plant lots of trees in industrial areas. If you zone, then make a forest over the tiles, youre more likely to get hi tech. if you put trees, trees, and even more trees as vigorously as you can you will get more. This is a known fact, not a guess. But yes, education is still the main thing.

i felt it was about time to showcase soe of our best and worst, latest and smallest avatars. To start things off, my current avatar is based on my old one, nicknamed starfield ato. it was based on the last Tom Baker theme tune from the 1980-81 doctor who series. The current one is based on the Peter Davison 1982-4 tune starfield animations.

ah, i see that you all ahve some amusing avatars. my doctor who starfiedla nimation one is nearly complete. i am just adding some finishing touches to the ATOMIUS logo. in doctor who the logo shines temporarily before becoming many logos and spreading every way across and out of sight. mine will simply shine for a minute and then dissapear to save time and effort.l

Hello. Yo wassup. Bonjour. G'day. Right, to the point. You may know that i have been a bit quiet on my city building frotn lately. being tied up in studies is one thing, but also cleasning up my computer desk is another. My latest region is called Immortalia and its first city is called Oursurvey. feel free to brood over what you think my city is like. I'll come back later and laugh at your bad theories, but to the point. The city is based on a large river, has a small rigged edged boating alkea nd a high plateau to the north of the river. It has a population of about 5000 and my first medium density apartments are coming in. I am starting to add amenities. But what is the secret of the 1000+ earnings per month? Simply transport.... You see, the main problem with cities as tehy grow is that congestion stops people from getting to there jobs leading to abandonment of big buildings and the eventual fall of your empire. The trick? Simply to build all trasnportation networks BEFORE you zone and build. Its that simple. It doesnt cost that much in the long run as long as you don't put an eleveated railway through macdonalds orchard, but you egt the point. Good transport means good cities.

my dear accomplices, i shall ahve images of the city soon. i simply need to download it onto my home computer. i'm on the library one at the moment for i ahve been very busy with campaign systematics..

Since AlenVale is my biggest city yet with 4, i will do a j on it. Please be patient. I'll put some pics up tommorow if i have time, or wednesday otherwise. But first, the story.

I was merely midning my maners and being polite, you fool! Still... Well, as with Aketor pictures will be here by next month, so stop bickering. I'll give you some pictures AS THE CITY GROWS!

Little Britain is a great show. Tom baker narrates it. he's my favourite doctor.

Lou and Andy eh'? Blimey. You can put anything in those 80 by 80 pixel boxes! My animated doctor who style avatar is almost complete. It's a hundred frames long and is almost at the limit of Game makers compatiabilities!

indeed. well Oursurvey is to be my next largest city after Alenvale. old alen's getting on in years. he's fifty next year.