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Grand Strand The shoreline along the south since of Little Princeville, the largest and capital city, is referred to as the “Grand Strand.” The road which runs along the shore is the Schulmalecón, featuring vehicular traffic as well as a maglev train line. Schulmalecón runs the entire distance of the city limits, from the western to the eastern urban growth boundaries, with the exception of the seaport at the southwestern corner of Little Princeville. The south side of Schulmalecón is lined with high-rise apartments, condos, and hotels. The sandy shore is packed with all sorts of beach attractions. Pretty much everything you could ask for, save for surf shops selling junky trinkets on every block and of course miniature golf. Let’s check it out. The giant sandcastle is the tourist trap Cap’n Kirk’s Galactic Funhouse at the Beach. It has an arcade with Space Invaders and Kal-toh and many other favorites. Got any money left over? Just head next door to get a luxury yacht day cruise from Davy Jones Tours. Davy Jones Tours has the biggest tour boats in town. And if your tour gets interrupted by krakens, you get 50% off on your next tour! Boaty McBoatface Marina is always bustling. And fun is close by. The Dizzy Turtle Carousel is next door, as is the scenic shopping at The Outlets at Brosnan Pier. Indoor shopping with a view is available at the Darth Mall. Darth Mall has three levels of shopping and restaurants and two levels for a casino. Be sure to visit Siths ‘R us on Level two near the food court! If the force wasn’t with you at the casino, be sure to head next door to see the sea lion show at Joey’s Dinner Theater. Don’t worry; they don’t serve the sea lions! Need to get back to nature, why not hike out to the lighthouse located on Ugottagood Point? Another location of Cap’n Kirk’s is found right in the middle of the beach near Hasno Pier. You can fish off the pier for 10 renards an hour or 1/2 rose for the day. The feline tourists really like this attraction. You can also climb Mount Wirdlehead and enjoy the waterfalls. Just watch your step – it’s a long way down! The east end of the Grand Strand is a little quieter. At the urban growth boundary is the floating hotel Lodges at Montevideo Place. The seaside Bandit Lincoln Theater provides a great show for a great price. Today, it’s an encore presentation of Cats. “Memmmmmmries….” One of the ancient wonders of Planet B-612 is the Great Tower of Wiley, built many centuries ago during the reign of King Wiley Coyote IV, as a part of his defenses against the piratical band of roadrunner ships raiding seaside towns for seeds. Wiley had many castles and watch towers built as part of his Kingdom of Acme, but few survive today. Night fishing off Hasno Pier is kinda fun. You aint gonna catch nothing, but it’s a great place to hang out with your friends. Sure beats hanging out with your enemies! You could of course enjoy a day of fun on the beach just hanging out on the golden sand, The humid, temperate, continental climate is comfortable most of the year. The Schulmalecón is lined with high-rise hotels and residences. They all have a great sea view and correspondingly high rents! The lighthouse on Ugottagood Point is helpful for the night hang gliding group. Not sure how they would do it without the light… they’d have to have everyone in town leave their fridges open I suppose… The distinctive DQ Twistycone Hotel has a great view of the Great Tower of Wiley. The triangular shapes of the twin condo buildings have a similarly impressive view. Can you tell which one is Buggs Tower and which is Elmer Tower? Like any Sim, residents of Little Princeville love their plumbobs. This one cats its errie, yet alluring, green glow across the Schulmalecón. The eastern end of the Schulmalecón is the urban growth boundary, where Little Princeville makes an abrupt halt. Preserving cast tracts of open space results in a shockingly high population density. If you are ready toe visit the shore, contact your local travel agent. Reserve a suite now and get a free buy one get one free coupon to Zoidberg’s Lobster Shack, located in the food court of Darth Mall. See ya there!
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Almanac Planet B-612 Facts & Figures Flag and Coat of Arms: Diameter: 1,270 km Surface: 5,065,259 km2, 64.7% of which is covered by an equatorial ocean. Most land is in the northern continent. A southern polar continent is uninhabited, primarily due to the waters in the far south being the breeding ground for krakens. Squidward the Kraken got a boat Henry the Octopus got one too. Henry is of course a kraken, but he uses a clever friendly octopus disguise to sneak up on unsuspecting boats… Atmosphere: Nitrogen, oxygen, trace elements- primarily the aroma of freshly baked chocolate chip cookies Gravity: 0.97 atmosphere, due to the high density of the planet. The core and mantle contain large amounts of beskar and vibranium, allowing B-612 to have a similar gravity to its parent planet. Natural Satellites: B-612 has a dark matter moon 1.63 km in diameter. Technically known as B-612a, it is called the “Neon Moon” because of the dark matter’s influence on solar rays at night. The Neon Moon has two scientific outposts – Brooks Station and Dunn Station. More about the Neon Moon... Natural Resources & Economic Activity: Beskar and vibranium mining, farming (foodstuffs and roses), fishing, plastics recycling, textiles, tourism. Transportation: Airports: 1 - Saint-Exupéry International Airport Spaceports: 1 – Starbase Hornet Seaports: 3 – Little Princeville, Fox Run, Novo Timor Rail: 1 line - Little Princeville to Tillyland Monetary System: 100 renards = 1 rose. B-612 is part of the Feline Monetary Union, so coins are minted to FMU specifications and are convertible 1:1 with FMU states Schulmania and Harar. Government: Representative democracy. There are six districts on the planet. Strict urban planning requires very high population density, leaving over 80% of the land as natural areas or low intensity agriculture. Region 1: Little Princeville Region 2: Bharat Valley Region 3: Big Orange Desert Region 4: Novo Timor Region 5: Fox Run Region 6: Tillyland Capital: Little Princeville Population (Nov 2020 census): 4,514,124 Military: None. The local police have been called in multiple times to handle the threat caused by Queensferry launching genetically modified baobabs at B-612 in an attempt to destroy it and create a ring around its parent planet.
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Orientation This city journal is crafted in SimCity Build It (SCBI), a sim platform which may not be familiar to many Simtropolis viewers. Before I show you B-612, I will give you a glimpse of the game and how things work. There may be some snarky commentary included as well. Gameplay is on tiny regions. The six regions combined may total one or two square kilometers. Everything is way smaller than SC4. Unless, of course, SCBI is like a Tardis and is bigger inside the game than outside. And, if this is the case, then each region is comparable to a SC4 large tile. Or a continent. You start with the Capital City region and have to reach population goals to unlock additional regions. The first few are not too hard to reach. But, to unlock the last region (in my case, the Cactus Canyon desert), you need a regional population of 10 million. This is only attainable if you have a monotonous grid of skyscrapers everywhere. I’m not even 20% of the way toward unlocking the last region. I don’t think I ever will; which is a shame, since I really wanted to pretty it up with Roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote images. I have unlocked the Limestone Cliffs, Frosty Fjords, Sunny Isles, and Green Valley. The process for expanding cities is very time consuming. You have to accumulate a mass of expansion thingies to unlock a parcel of land barely larger than a football pitch. Transportation is by car. The only options are building roads. Well, there is a streetcar you can upgrade to. And, you can use special simoleons to convert the streetcar line into a maglev line. That’s it. There is a rail line, but that runs outside the city if there is a mountain region you can build on. The rail line is outside the city, in the adjacent mountain zone. You can build mountain-exclusive things in the mountains. The mountain-exclusive stuff… There’s also beach-exclusive stuff, also just outside the city. The other transit is roads. All roads start as two lanes. You can get up to six lanes before they upgrade to avenues and boulevards. There are no highways. Traffic is very light, but they will complain about congestion. I think just so you upgrade roads. I don’t know why they complain; they don’t ever go anywhere. Residential zones are like 90% of every town. It’s pretty much all you do. They have expanded the options in the last few months to include the Old Town zone (something Schulmania would definitely appreciate) and the Latin America zone. Zones are free to build, but then you have to craft supplies to earn the upgrades. Residents have nowhere to go because there is virtually no business. There is a handful of factories and a tiny number of stores. In the six regions, the maximum of any store type is one. So, I guess everyone works from home and that’s why they don’t have anywhere to go or much to do. Personally, I think the lack of commerce and industry is due to the fact that money magically appears above residential zones every day. Bronze turtle coins, silver llama coins (shown above), and gold cheetah coins just float above people’s homes. If I had these at my house, I’d stay at home and play Xbox all day too. Trixie would be proud to see her regal image on a giant silver coin floating about homes everywhere. To keep the SCBI sims happy, they need services and such, just like in other SimCity games. The shocking part is how underpowered these services are for such a tiny area! This is the service area for a basic fire station. Seriously?! Their service radius implies they fight fires with a long garden hose attached to the front wall of the fire station. And they want 12,000 simoleons for it! The deluxe fire station has a bigger service radius, but it is still the equivalent of a bucket brigade in its reach. All for 46,000. You can trade with other places, buying and selling the stuff you need to upgrade your residential zones. This concludes our orientation of SCBI. It lives on the iPhone or the Android equivalent and is subject to the limitations of the small screen. But it is a handy quick sim game that’s easy to build with. And, they have added enough new features to let there be an element of custom look and feel to it. When you can’t park yourself in front of the PC and you need to get your SimCity on, SCBI is a good option. In the following chapters, I will show you what I have created on B-612.
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First, An explanation Where have I been? Several factors have combined to make keeping up with city journals very difficult as of late. In addition to a major increase in RL workloads, I have had difficulties getting SC4 to launch. When it does, I occasionally have limited prop poxes. And, then there’s Photobucket. I was willing to pay some (not lots) to host a lot of pictures on it back in the day. Then, they increased their annual fee sevenfold for features I don’t need. Now, many of my pictures across multiple CJs don’t show. It’s all been very frustrating. I have hundreds of in game SC4 pictures already made ready to be put into CJ updates. And when (or, if) things ever calm down, I can go and do just that. In the meantime, I have turned to SimCity Build It on the iPhone. It has size and customizing limitations we never faced with SC4, but… it works! I was hoping to create something with a feel like my original cities. But, with the lack of modifications and custom content and the tiny map size, coupled with the game’s design focusing on urbanization, I can only capture a bit of what I was hoping for. For the feline CJ fans out there, fear not – there will be interactions with the feline world B-612 orbits. And, one day, perhaps, new content in the other CJs as well. Now, An introduction B-612 is one of several moons orbiting the feline homeworld. The small terrestrial world is home to a diverse population of humanoids, anthropomorphic foxes, flowers, snakes, and all sorts of others. The terrain includes frosty mountains as well as fertile, temperate lands and tropical islands. There’s a more desolate, desert-like landmass which hasn’t been explored as of yet. It is a geological stable moon; it has several dormant volcanos. And a flower. It does have a flower.
