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Special 10th Anniversary and Sukamaju-Tanjung Angin Revisited
Forsma7 posted a City Journal entry in Karasem V 4.12 (AIN)
Today its basically 10 years after I posted my first entry on Karasem CJ. Since then its been a very long journey out. from the pure 100% eyecandy, then experimenting on makes it semi functional and improvement in its quality in general, out from multiple long inactivity and revival but I managed to stay on this theme together with my East Asian Theme in SimCity 4 until today. Infact some of the area on today's entry basically just made few hrs before I posted this. basically my first picture on this CJ about Tanjung Angin Port, taken from the post 10 years ago. Karasem was actually made by my concept on Imaginary region of Southeast Asia. From around 2005 I already created concept on imaginary region of Southeast Asia based heavily where I grew up which is Java Island, Indonesia but this concept never really come into truth other than my hand drawn map (which I lost now). I tried to put it into SC2k which what I played back in the day however its still limited due to sc2k limitation. Up to 2008, I got my hand on SimCity 4 where initially I just play it vanilla until I started to use mods later that year. in 2009, first concept of imaginary Southeast Asian region finally started to realized in SimCity 4 with me started to make East Rockcoast MD in SC4Devotion. At first the style not even close to southeast asia, but toward the end of it in April 2010 it started to shape itself into one. one of the remaining survived picture of East Rockcoast, showing westrn part of Kemayoran City. And then around mid 2010, I started to work on a fictional nation named Melaka Timur (en: East Malacca, which named after the Strait of Malacca) however due to some problem (due it being an offensive word in other language) I changed it into Karasem which I derived from Karang Asem (which was randomly came into my mind back then). then concept of Karasem basically founded in around August 2010. I started to create custom lots out of the maxis prop and some other mods (like japanese houses, colonial styled buildings, slums, favelas etc) and I honestly enjoyed it. Firstly I just make eye candy park/landmarks lot then I evolved to make myself growable lots and so on Old Picture from Karangutara, from 4th update dated November 13 2010. Probably one of the most iconic picture from Karasem, first time showcasing urban area in Developing Southeast Asian Country. represented by Pondok Daun, Cibebek Province. I didnt posted my updates in ST CJ for update 6 to 26. Finally in August 2012 I'm back posting my updates regularly in Simtropolis at 2nd Karasem CJ Started also from 2012 annually I posted "Holiday Traffic" entry timed with the Eid Holiday Season on that year to reflect the home coming traffic for people from major urban areas to their hometown. I posted it every year either as full entries or just a simple pictures except in 2020 due to lockdown First "Holiday Traffic" annual entry picture from August 2012. Latest "Holiday Traffic" annual entry picture from June 2019. In 2013 I started other SC4 project based on East Asian (mostly Japanese) country: Nakama (also Nakahara later on). and since then Karasem basically become my 2nd priority on work. Karasem get regular updates until January 2015 (Update 39) where I posted "Final Update" on Karasem thinking to actually stop doing my Southeast Asian style and focus entirely on East Asian one. Banner of Karasem "Final Update" on January 2015 However. I changed my mind 6 months later and started working on Cibebek Metropolitan Area where I focused more on the transit works and the proper concept of city. It took me 1 year before posting the first update (Update 40) announcing the return of Karasem (which is this CJ). Since then I posted several updates until 2018 where I started to focus more on Discord (including ST discord) and kinda left myself inactive on this site for that reason lol Picture from Tanah Baru, Cibebek as the returning entry of Karasem after its hiatus. Then 2 years later here we are. my last update on Karasem was about Tanjung Pasir revamp (update 48). I was going to post my update 49 which was about Holiday Traffic in 2020 however as I mentioned above, because of lockdown and I reflect that special update to what in real life it didnt happened. +-------------------------+ Anyway long story, time for the proper update I want to show. Similar like what happened to the latest update of Nakahara (Hagikaze) This update concepts basically made few weeks beforehand so I need to do it from scratch instead of continuing from my old stuffs. The general concept of the update is to present the first areas presented for Karasem which is Sukamaju and Tanjung Angin but in my latest style on Southeast Asian styled SC4. Reflected from 2010, I completely started over the area in blank new but still maintain the original idea of it. I would like to start from where it was started at the very beginning, Tanjung Angin Port: Pictures from Tanjung Angin Oil Facility. The general idea of Tanjung Angin now turned from general cargo port into mostly consist of Oil Facility, refinery and distribution center together with minor general cargo port facility nearby (not done by the making of this update). This time I tried to model it as realistic as possible (might still consindered to be fail but I digress) after several examples I took which are Balikpapan and Cilacap Oil Facility. Housing Areas east of the facility owned by the Facility Operator: PT Pertamax Oil TBK Tanjung Angin itself is a district in Sukamaju Regency, just south border of Sukamaju Town where the regency administrative center located. outside of the oil and other port facility it also consist of minor towns. Areas in east of the Oil Facility, still owned by locals, Tanjung Angin Overview of Tanjung Angin Oil Facility. Other than Tanjung Angin first entry also introduced Sukamaju Town (refer to the first update link) located just north of it. In this version of Sukamaju its now properly sized town for regency seat. kinda modeled after similar towns/small cities around Java with its features includes a station (if that town passed by a rail), Alun-Alun (town square/park), Market, and a mosque. Sukamaju City Center, includes Sukamaju Station, Alun-Alun Sukamaju, market and Masjid Raya Sukamaju Sukamaju itself located in northeastern part of Cibebek Province, about 90km Southeast its nearest major city, Pondok Daun and 130km Northeast of Cibebek-Kota Baru Metropolitan area. Sukamaju Regency has population of 306k, 82k of them resides at Sukamaju district town where the regency seat located. Jl Raya Sukamaju-Ciujung in Western Sukamaju heading to Ciujung to the west. Areas in northern Sukamaju district Sukamaju border in the east marked with Cikamulya River, flowing throughout the regency. Jl Raya Sukamaju-Karangutara crossing Cikamulya River (the smaller bridge was old one before the road enlarged) Cikamulya River in Northeastern Sukamaju. (click here for full size 5mb mosaic of Cikamulya River in Sukamaju) Jl Raya Sukamaju-Karang Utara northeast of Sukamaju Distance between Sukamaju town center and Tanjung Angin port is around 5km connected mainly by Jl Raya Tanjung Angin to the south. Jl Raya Tanjung Angin in southern Sukamaju Overview of Sukamaju center Sukamaju has 2 main access from the nearest Ciujung-Karang Utara Expressway: Sukamaju Timur exit which located east of the town and Tanjung Angin exit which located in south between it and Tanjung Angin Ciujung-Karang Utara Expressway near Sukamaju Sukamaju Timur ramp exit. Sukamaju Timur access to the Jl Raya Sukamaju-Karang Utara Overview of the area That its all for today, I really want to make something better and bigger for 10th anniversary like the flashback on each year but instead its already too late to change the idea. Lets hope if this CJ can stay for next 10 years whether it stays in SimCity 4 platform or moved it to Cities Skylines which I still personally prefer sc4 as my city building game. Thank you for visiting!- 5 Comments
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Hello Guys! Its been a while since I've been here. The last time I've been here was back in 2004 and wow how time can truly fly. I hope everyone was well some of you guys may know me from SimCity 4 the closed knit community that it was which quickly migrated to this incredible site. I actually did not join this site until about a couple of months after SimCity 4 was released way back in 2003 ten years ago. So here I am once again here to kind of do it all over again haha. I don't plan to be as active as I was back in 2003 when I was a young teen without any responsibilities haha. Now that I'm pretty much an adult I mean it was like 10 years ago haha with more responsibilties and stuff things have really changed in the last 10 years haha. Anyway many of you may remember me as "The_New_Vlad" but that was the old young name, I kept it simple and changed it back to Vlad788 which is the default handle I have everywhere. I can't believe my old city journal is still here! "Nature's Fury" haha that was the only way I was able to find my account and everything I'm glad I didn't have to re-register again haha. I noticed several familiar faces after all these years! Its unbelievable to see everyone has stuck here for this long. I still have SimCity 4 its not installed and I really don't plan on installing it anytime soon haha. Too many mods, too many new buildings to download. So I'm starting back on a clean slate with SimCity 5. I also have CitiesXL installed as well but thats something I have yet to get into. I guess its pretty tough because I have such limited time now... But for the most part things have remained the same. My writing surely was different back then and boy the maturity was simply not there 10 years ago haha based on the posts I'm looking at from the 2000s. So here we are a new decade, (Already 4 years into it!) oh and wow 700 posts haha. Great way to start my return here haha. Hope everybody is doing ok! And i'm glad to really be back! And I love the new look too! Lots of great changes here at SimTropolis I love the new forum software, new looks and everything, yet it still has the same old unique flare that it's known for. Very closed knit and very friendly! Awesome! The last post I made was back in July of 2004 haha and it was a post about the NAM thread and The Great Chozo's stack exchange. I'm sure things have changed significantly since then haha. Vlad
