Tales at TeaTime

[EDGE4194]

Derry- its so good to see you back again. The first and last pics are very nice! 

[rooker1]

 Herding the cows, perfect pics my friend.  I love it.  Enter one of those in the Pic Comp. please.

Robin 

[TiFlo]

Mooh! Cute (and very well done)

[Jmouse]

"Wait 'til the cows come home!" And come home they did, in grand style ala TTC!

Even if there were no signs of life in your screen shots other than vegetation, I would still admire the lay of the land. Love the gently rolling hills. Of course, the way you use the existing environs to achieve maximum "WOW!" power makes for stunning results.

As I look closely at 4.2, the thing which catches my eye first is the brighter-green pasture - nice, but not a show-stopper by itself. Then the surrounding trees come into focus and I realize you've mixed a wide variety of colors and textures to create a perfectly harmonious scene. I know from personal experience this is easier said than done.

Pic 4.4 is another example of using the existing terrain to its best advantage, and 4.5 just leaves me with a warm feeling that all is right with the world and it's a beautiful day!

Then you go and shatter my daydream with a puzzle I can't solve! Well, one of these days maybe I'll have a chance to repay the "favor!"

Later...
Joan

[canyonjumper]

Great pics Derry! Those milking pics look great! Nice job!

             Your friend,
                            Jordan

[TheTeaCat]

Sorry for so little activity lately, real life keeps getting in the way but I do have replies on the way and

A little TEAser for you all 

TTC

[rooker1]

Nice TEAser but it's not enough for me. 
Good to see you around Derry....can't wait for more.

Robin 

[cubby420]

Beautiful teaser Derry! I can't wait to see more.

[Girafe]

Incredible TTC 

where do you find the concrete base of the bridge ?

[Yan077]

I agree. it's not enough, I want more, Derry !   

[Jmouse]

Awful thing when RL gets in the way of important stuff like TaTT updates!

Excellent  teaser, though. I really like the way you've done the creek bank. There's a pleasing variety of colors and textures which makes for a very realistic scene. The way you've widened the stream looks great, too. Most of us tend to make them narrow with little or no variation, but I shouldn't be surprised - you're known for your originality, especially in the rural sector.

Now I must agree with the others who have said give us more, more, more!

Later...
Joan

[Nardo69]

Hi Derry!

Excellent TEAser. I have to join Joan regarding anything about the creek!

I just have to criticise that now, I am hanging in the middle of a very steep cliff waiting for what's to come!

Take care my friend!

Bernhard 

[kwakelaar]

Really nice rural scenes there, and like most of your visitors I think the milking time pictures are very well done.

[TheTeaCat]

Awesome pics! Love the cows on the way for milking. Plus I kind of want the puzzle. I smell a lucrative jigsaw puzzle manufacturing contract in your future. 

And about the bugs. Short answer is 10 units. Long answer is, since each beetle is constantly chasing via the most direct path the beetle is constantly facing the beetle that begins in front of it, each traces a path towards the center that sharpens as each moves, like a rapidly decaying orbit. Since they all start an equal distance away, they will meet at the center having gone the exact distance of the squares side: 10 units. That's a good one. I'll have to share it with some friends.

Thank you cubby. Glad you liked the update , hope you'll like this one too.
And spot on with the answer too. well done and so quick too. Think that earned you a nice cuppa

Some very nice pictures there, Derry ! I love the details with the cows and the trees. Also these zig-zag road are very nice, a bit strange but nice !

Take care,
-Arthur.

Thank you Arthur. Where I come from windy roads are normal to me and people tend to follow the line of least resistance so thats howe the tracks turned into those windy roads over time.

Love the shot with the cows lined up to go for milking!  That turned out particularly nicely!  Naturally that's all relative, everything is great as usual!

Thank you BC. Glad you liked it.

The way you handle the animal props on the first two pictures is amazeing! And the landscapeing as well. just great!.

Thank you Skimbo.
It took a while to achieve the effect so so worth it in the end.
Glad you like it.

Derry- its so good to see you back again. The first and last pics are very nice! 

Thank you and good to see you hear too;)

Herding the cows, perfect pics my friend.  I love it.  Enter one of those in the Pic Comp. please.

Robin 

Cheers Robin. I did. It won.

Mooh! Cute (and very well done)

Thanks a lot TiFlo

"Wait 'til the cows come home!" And come home they did, in grand style ala TTC!

Even if there were no signs of life in your screen shots other than vegetation, I would still admire the lay of the land. Love the gently rolling hills. Of course, the way you use the existing environs to achieve maximum "WOW!" power makes for stunning results.

As I look closely at 4.2, the thing which catches my eye first is the brighter-green pasture - nice, but not a show-stopper by itself. Then the surrounding trees come into focus and I realize you've mixed a wide variety of colors and textures to create a perfectly harmonious scene. I know from personal experience this is easier said than done.

Pic 4.4 is another example of using the existing terrain to its best advantage, and 4.5 just leaves me with a warm feeling that all is right with the world and it's a beautiful day!

Then you go and shatter my daydream with a puzzle I can't solve! Well, one of these days maybe I'll have a chance to repay the "favor!"

Later...
Joan

Hi Joan,
Thank you Joan, I am so glad you appreciate my efforts. Mostly it a lot of point and clik and liberal use of the bulldozer tool.
But once I get it , ob boy was it all worth the effort. I tend to like the quiet rural scenes with the odd car or truck or better still none at all,
so that what I am for.

Not much like that in this update - oh no - summat a bit different. Dull, boring, drab even lol.
Sorry about the puzzle - but see cubby's post for the answer;)

Glad you liked the update though, lets see about this one:D

Great pics Derry! Those milking pics look great! Nice job!

             Your friend,
                            Jordan

Thanks Jordan,
Glad you like them

REPLIES TO THE TEASER

Nice TEAser but it's not enough for me. 
Good to see you around Derry....can't wait for more.

Robin 

Ok, ok, here you go then. lol.
Sorry about the delay but RL just simply got in the way.
Managed to get a bit of time to play so here we go, some pics at last.

Beautiful teaser Derry! I can't wait to see more.

Not long to go now cubby

Incredible TTC 

where do you find the concrete base of the bridge ?

Thanks Girafe.
Glad you liked what you see.
Now as for the answer to your question, that is a standard maxis ( yes you read that right, maxis) bridge.

I agree. it's not enough, I want more, Derry !   

Heehee Yann , well then here's some more for you then

Awful thing when RL gets in the way of important stuff like TaTT updates!

Excellent  teaser, though. I really like the way you've done the creek bank. There's a pleasing variety of colors and textures which makes for a very realistic scene. The way you've widened the stream looks great, too. Most of us tend to make them narrow with little or no variation, but I shouldn't be surprised - you're known for your originality, especially in the rural sector.

Now I must agree with the others who have said give us more, more, more!

Later...
Joan

Thanks a lot Joan. More from around that area later but not yet :grinno:
still there are some (as I said earlier) dull, boring, drab ones on the way.

Hi Derry!

Excellent TEAser. I have to join Joan regarding anything about the creek!

I just have to criticise that now, I am hanging in the middle of a very steep cliff waiting for what's to come!

Take care my friend!

Bernhard 

Sorry about the delay then Bernhard,
Thank you am so glad you approve of my efforts.
This is not a normal update as in the type of late but still lets see what you think. hope you like it, but its still an area in development.

Really nice rural scenes there, and like most of your visitors I think the milking time pictures are very well done.

Thank you very much. kwakelaar Glad you like what you see.

Okay then folks , roll up , roll up, make your self a cuppa, grb you seats, and be prepared to be bored. The following update has been brought to you by the Drab societie's leading member. namely Me.

I have for you some pictures that are really drab. pictures of houses and factories and stuff that we see everyday in the real world and yet you all came here today to see these ones. I could go on and on and on about it but that would be boring now, wouldn't it and I wouldn't want to do that to you.

I could go on about how boring it was doing the update, getting the links , preparing the pics, etc but I won't coz you might get bored and not look at the drab, dull ppics I made because I was so bored.

So on with the show. I was going to make the all B+W pics but even I thought that would be just a little bit too boring for my readers






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Well there you have it folks, I really hope you weren't too bored with it heehee
but I think now its time for a cuppa and lets hope normal service is resumed in the next update;D

;satisfied:
TTC.

[threestooges]

What a bunch of boring, bland, samey-sameness. It takes a lot of work to get that in the game. Well done on this Derry. A few of the pictures reminded me of areas I've seen before in real life. I have to imagine it'd get a touch confusing whose house was whose, especially after a night at the pub. I recall a few stories about that when I was in Dublin (why the doors all have different colors). Any special tricks you used to get the uniformity? How long did it take?
-Matt

[Jmouse]

Wow, this is what I call shifting gears in the middle of a relaxing Sunday drive in the country! The endless repetition makes me think of the subsidized housing we see throughout the U.S. Rent is based on the tenant's income, and the government makes up the difference. The structures are rather dismal apartments which are so tiny, you couldn't cuss a cat in the living room without getting fur in your mouth! Grim and boring, yes, but a part of life just the same. I do like the way you've created terraces to add some interest.

Nice of you to save the best for last, though!

Later...
Joan

[rooker1]

 I saw this update the day you posted, but was unsure what to say as this is one of the most boring post I have ever seen.  So I thought to myself if I post just that, that would not be too nice.  And now I am back today to tell you that this is the most boring post I have ever seen......but when you get right down you can see the brilliance of it all.  There are next to no foundations on any of those lots, that in itself is an awesome feat.  Next is the fact that you were able/patient enough to get that many houses to grow all the same.
At the end of the day Derry, this was another fantastic update!

Robin 

[Nardo69]

Oh yeah, boring ... plain dead boring (as wished  )

I don't know how often Z blew up that Hotel Majestic in 3.6.2 when I grew just likes crazy.   

I guess our friend Dozer 07 was rather busy - at least on my systems it's hard to get that much of rp200x / zero7's bungalows!

Nice Idea with that avenue triangle - however I would have used the road roundabout and two roads there. But that's my taste ...

Take care my friend!

Bernhard 

[Pat]

been looking on and pondering here about how everyone says this is sooo boring and well ive succumbed to the same thoughts here as everyone else... I was also thinking man this looks like my city of Rhinelander hmmmm....

[bat]

That are nice rows of houses. Some nice pictures of your city...
Looking forward to more.