21-06-2005 16:09									#271
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I dunno how you can play with all those signs and U drive it things floating about, annoys the hell out of me.

	21-06-2005 18:50									#272
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Hey, guys, I've been following this game since the beginning and now got jealous enough that I couldn't keep myself from playing SC, too.

I took a small lot between Maquiladora, Lemmy and Jonny, and played it till 2030. If you guys are interested in having the lot, it can be found here:

http://www.vovan.net/sc4_game3/Vovan_Fairfield_2030.zip

I figure filling out the region further never hurts eh. So I hope you don't mind me jumping in. You all already have a lot of players though so don't wait in my updates, just keep playing as normal.

Here's some screenies. First is the region overview to show you precisely which lot I got:

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	21-06-2005 18:52									#273
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Then, here's the transport network. I mostly reused existing connections, but I did make new boulevard and rail connections to Lemmy, looking to extend his existing networks. The rail is not getting used at all, though the road is getting a nice workout.

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	21-06-2005 18:54									#274
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And here's the city itself. I looked at the surrounding areas and found them far too rich. So I jacked the taxes on high-wealth residents and high-tech industries up to 15% to deter them from coming in, and concentrated on affordable housing and dirty industries. Of course, the level of services in the city is set up accordingly. It still generates a healthy profit, however, as you can tell by my current balance. No cheats or U-Drive-Its have been used at all.

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	21-06-2005 19:00									#275
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You forgot to get El Dorado, Vovan.

	21-06-2005 19:11									#276
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quote: Originally posted by General Ludd You forgot to get El Dorado, Vovan.

Yeah... It wasn't on the last page of the thread, and I was too lazy to dig around to find it, and figured it was sufficiently far from me that it wouldn't affect my zone demands much.

Got it in my region, too, now, and also, here's the stats of my city I forgot to include:

	21-06-2005 19:49									#277
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Wow, you've got a TON of cash...

	21-06-2005 20:06									#278
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Are we importing this into ours or not?

That is a lot of cash, is that even achievable within 30 years without cheats or u-drive-it missions?

	21-06-2005 20:54									#279
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Yes (well, at least I did) and yes. It looks like he's built a true slum, with virtually 0 services, allowing for a huge cash flow...

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As for Blountberg...

The city has undergone a residential boom while the commercial boom continues. Developers went on a hi-rise binge in downtown, an event believe to have been caused by the improved subway structure and the mysterious appearance of another city to our west. Whatever the cause, Blountberg's population has increased by nearly 30,000 people.

Connections made: Rail, subway, and additional road connection made to Fairfield. Hooked into the last 2 of Smiley's road connections to me, and hooked into Smiley's subway connection.

Res: 69,005
Com: 21,899
Ind: 16,745

Download (3.00 MB, note that I'm now using .RAR)
http://home.comcast.net/~jonny11788/Blountberg30.rar

As always, pics to come soon.

	21-06-2005 20:56									#280
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Blountberg Year 30 in pictures.


Downtown at night, showing the new hi-rise residential construction.



An overview of the newly-densified city.



City zoning map.

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	21-06-2005 21:20									#281
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Three previously unknown islands have been discovered off the coast. Seeing an opportunity when it arises, General Ludd snuck into the Mergdale Treasury and made off with all the city funds in the middle of the night, headed for the new islands.


Trinity Islands '30 (I let the ticker go untill 25 without doing anything)




http://s95005245.onlinehome.us/City...y%20Islands.sc4


During the first five years, Ludd quickly established a sea and ferry port. The city has grown well, and there is already a fully staffed hostpital. There has been some problems with fires in the industrial district - four fires where started. Three of them where only minor, but the the last one nearly burned down the gas plant.

	21-06-2005 21:33									#282
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Bubble Juntion '30

R: 46611
C: 59772
I: 3433

I reconciled edges so all the new connections would show up...overall it costed me about 100k, but i could afford it...my income has never been so high, not even in Easy games.

The avenue connection from Blountberg has been connected to my main avenue system.
I also extended the elevated rail into a new subway system under and around Sacaferocious Shops. In the next 5 years it will be extended further underneath Crimigrational and also connected to my other neighbours if they want.

	21-06-2005 21:59									#283
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quote: Originally posted by Jonny It looks like he's built a true slum

I especially like how he built the coal plant on the top of the hill, so that everyone was guaranteed to be living in dense smog.



But Vovan should of built a city on one of the coastal provinces, so that I could have a direct neighbour to my island... or he could of taken over Mergdale.

	21-06-2005 22:03									#284
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quote: Originally posted by Jonny Yes (well, at least I did) and yes. It looks like he's built a true slum, with virtually 0 services, allowing for a huge cash flow...

Yep, popped it into my region now too.

Just waiting on Atragon for Y City. Will we get a Mergdale save anymore?

	21-06-2005 23:19									#285
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quote: Originally posted by Maquiladora Will we get a Mergdale save anymore?

I don't know, it's pretty much at the state I wanted it to be and the only thing left to do was to build a sub-way system.


I thought about updating it but once again my deals where cut and no neighbours had any spare power, so I didn't bother. I would of ended up spening all my money on windmills and fastforwarding another five years.

	21-06-2005 23:22									#286
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Maquiladora, sure it's possible. I've made more before in large regions. Basically, I could just zone up everything and not worry about demand ever dropping off for anything but the most wealthy residents, which I didn't care for any way. Check out my income/expense and funds graphs - no unnatural jumps.

Jonny, . I figured the region could use a poor 'hood, because you guys have waaay too many rich folks. With the poor folks from Fairview providing vital services that educated people would rather not do, you can fit more of them in.

Lemmy, . Sorry... I had hoped I wouldn't mess up the edges for anyone.

Ludd, . I'm evil, yes, though I can't claim full credit for this, as I wasn't aware elevation had any effect on the spread of pollution. Now all this dirt in the air suddenly makes sense.

	21-06-2005 23:29									#287
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quote: Originally posted by General Ludd I thought about updating it but once again my deals where cut and no neighbours had any spare power, so I didn't bother. I would of ended up spening all my money on windmills and fastforwarding another five years.

I dont know why our power deal was cut, i certainly didnt run out of power, 5 or 6k spare at that time... but now im converting to solar so i dont have any to spare.

quote: Maquiladora, sure it's possible. I've made more before in large regions. Basically, I could just zone up everything and not worry about demand ever dropping off for anything but the most wealthy residents, which I didn't care for any way. Check out my income/expense and funds graphs - no unnatural jumps.

I hadnt checked your city at the time so i was wondering WHY would anyone want to do that to a city... but it looks like it will take care of the high demand for cheap housing around me.

	22-06-2005 02:02									#288
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quote: Originally posted by vovan Lemmy, . Sorry... I had hoped I wouldn't mess up the edges for anyone.

Don't worry, I messed up his edges long before you did...

	22-06-2005 02:44									#289
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Yeah, my edges have been messed up for 2 or 3 turns now....and don't worry about it, i got $180k in '30, so it's not like i'm broke now.

	22-06-2005 02:50									#290
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Don't forget to hook your subway system up to mine next time... a lot of people are taking it from my city to yours.

	22-06-2005 02:56									#291
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Oops, thanks for reminding me, i forgot about that.

	22-06-2005 03:39									#292
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Sorry about holding you all up guys, I should be able to catch up tomorrow... working on '30 now.

	22-06-2005 07:53									#293
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That was fun... my primary webspace is down for the moment (nameserver issues) so I had to muck around and upload to the webspace I have on my school's server... 3 bluescreens later, I make this update:

http://academic.algonquincollege.co...h0056/y2030.rar

Residential: 124,385
Commercial: 37,955
Industrial: 6091

Continued massive residential and commercial growth while industrial stagnates.

City planning is considering re-zoning Manufacturing Mountain into another commercial district.

	22-06-2005 07:55									#294
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City Statistics 2030

Green=Highest in Region
Red=Lowest in Region

Epwood
EPW
Pop: 126,910
Com. Jobs: 73,264
Ind. Jobs: 12,591

El Dorado-2020
mrmitchell
Pop: 41,047
Com. Jobs: 12,426
Ind. Jobs: 8,522

Y City
Atragon
Pop: 124,385
Com. Jobs: 37,955
Ind. Jobs: 6,901

Mergdale-2025
General Ludd
Pop: 42,440
Com. Jobs: 7,689
Ind. Jobs: 520

Blountburg
Jonny
Pop: 69,005
Com. Jobs: 21,899
Ind. Jobs: 16,745

East Central
Smiley
Pop: 66,844
Com. Jobs: 15,150
Ind. Jobs: 1,782

Fray Bentos
Maquilidora
Pop: 4,295
Com. Jobs: 10,744
Ind. Jobs: 7,036

Bubble Junction
Lemmy
Pop: 46,611
Com. Jobs: 59,772
Ind. Jobs: 3,433

Fairfield
Vovan
Pop: 21,395
Com. Jobs: 2,397
Ind. Jobs: 7,771

Trinity Islands
General Ludd
Pop: 10,579
Com. Jobs: 1,639
Ind. Jobs: 3,859

	22-06-2005 08:18									#295
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My demand is all over the place. I can understand the Industrial, companies don't appreciate 20% taxes, but the commercial demand is surprising. Is anyone else experiencing this?

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	22-06-2005 09:01									#296
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Commercial was overdeveloped insanely last turn. I had it too.

I added lots of residential this turn; if you download mine before playing yours, it may help moderate your problems. (I'm uploading it in a few minutes, BTW)

	22-06-2005 09:09									#297
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Blountberg Year 35:

The subway infrastructure in downtown, River South, and the Blount Works was greatly improved, allowing for hi-density development in the River South area without much improvements needed to surface transport networks (although 1 road was widened to an avenue). Population again increased by almost 30,000 people, just as in the 5 years before these.

Many of the new residents commute to Bubble Junction to work via railroad (more than 7,000 daily commuters).

Res: 97,832
Com: 23,843
Ind: 18,864

Download 3.08 MB
http://home.comcast.net/~jonny11788/Blountberg35.rar

Pictures to come...

	22-06-2005 09:47									#298
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Blountberg Year 35 in pictures.

Just one image tonight of Downtown and River South districts, showing the new dense developement.

	22-06-2005 10:10									#299
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Okay, so I have been offered to build the Opera House. While I was looking for mods on simtropolis before we started, I ran accross a fix for the Opera House. So clearly something is wrong, is it serious? Since we are not using the fix should I not build the Opera House?

	22-06-2005 11:23									#300
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http://apolyton.net/upload/view.php...entral_2035.zip

East Central 2035

A speculative bubble burst in the regional office market, leading to a crash in demand and an emptying out of dozens of office towers throughout downtown.

This caused havoc on the current five-year-plan to transform East Central from a series of commuter towns to a real downtown. Although the very well educated and healthy population was moving rapidly into the middle class range, the lack of jobs in town meant continued long commutes, now by subway, into neighboring Blountberg and Bubble Junction.

To facilitate this (I'm not sure if this is becoming self-defeating...) transit infrastructure was upgraded. The Blountberg lines and the Bubble lines of the subway system were connected.

At the intersection of these two subways and the existing rail network, a sleepy row of shops ballooned into Hemp Junction, the latest place in town for shopping. This model will be copied in the next Five Year Plan to bring more jobs into town.

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