This is my first MD on SC4 Devotion but i've done 2 CJs previously, Stone and Toso Arroyo (that one only lasted about 2-3 updates) and actually am not "starting" Waterbridge, i've been posting it on various sites for a while, a little in september and now i'm back working on it again, actually on Update 7 now.
Big one tonight to start out my 4 part series on Rockwood, which I will breakdown:
Part 1: International Park
Part 2: Downtown Rockwood and the immediate area surrounding the area covered in Part 1
Part 3: Longford and the Southeast
Part 4: The West
Now for the actual update:
International Park is an enormous Park located immediatly East of Downtown Rockwood on the northeastern coast of Waterbridge. In all it is approximatly 1000 acres (probably off), and is about 25 blocks by 4-5 blocks in size. It consists of two hospitals, Wine Street Hospital at the North End and also the Rockwood State University Medical School at the south End, 27 embassy buildings (if anyone wants one I'm leaving 8 up "for sale") including the large US and UK embassies, 1 hotel, 1 aquatic center, one 6,700 seat stadium plus alot of scenic walkways along the river.
International Park is the Mona Lisa of Waterbridge while at the same time being the savior of the economy. In 1934, the project was started by the WUWF [Waterbridge Unemployed Workers Federation, our WPA] to help provide jobs to out of work persons in the nation and it worked, with Waterbridge having one of the strongest economies of the era. Further in 1977, falling with the US's Economic woes, it was expanded, this time to include the section to the South Resevoir, and it has now been expanded further with a new lake being added in the new river section beyond the south resevoir upto Wine Street, a new "section of town," home of Wine Street Hospital, Rockwood Raceway Park and the Wine Street Tennis Park. This is still under Construction. Now we will begin from North to South with the Update, Start in downtown, work our way east then head due south :)
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We don't have Times Square, Our "Square" Only has buildings on 3 sides, "Lake Square" is at the meeting point of the two parks. We have our Ticker which will display stock prices and such from 5:45 PM until 7:15 AM the next morning.
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Next is the Rockwood Aquatics Center, an addition built in 1978, even though it was in the original park, it was felt that this would be a better place than the area they were working on. It holds 4,682 people for events. It is just to the right of the first picture.
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Down the road to the east at the intersection of the International Lake, where Lake Square and the Aquatics Center are, and the Longford River, is the International Park Fire Station and the Statue of King Andrew IV, 1921-1955, who began the park project. The 1970's expansion done by Queen Anne I and current expansion is being preformed under King Jordan I. King Jacob is the only one of the last 4 who hasn't expanded it (reigned 1982-1999).
Now into the thick of it:
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As of now there is but one hotel in International Park, an Omni (ooo, classy ;) ) There were plans to build another but... well... you'll see...
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Rockwood State University has a satallite campus at International Park which houses its law, government and medical schools.
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Now for that second hotel I mentioned earlier, Hilton had plans to put in a Hampton Inn however, funding fell through and Hilton decided against this, leaving the lot abandoned, the city and federal governments are trying to decide what to do in its place, if you have any ideas its a 6x4 lot. :) (this is me saying that I have no idea what I should put here :P)
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Right about that point is another Satallite of sorts, Go back upto Update 3: Mount Thornewell and you'll come across "Mountain Jack's Saloon," home of the 56oz Mountain Salad Steak, Well Mountain Jack whose real name is John T. Alexander, resides in Riverbourne and owns 9 different Steakhouses, Bars and Grilles across the nation including International Park's East End Grill, after Mountain Jack's Saloon, it is his #2 best resteraunt of the 9. Famous among the Diplomats but the top diplomats often make the trek to Mountain Jack's in Thornewell.
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The Park of Nations contains a large assortment of flags to represent International Peace and prosperity. If you notice the path is in the shape of Union Jack :P accidental I should add.
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There are 17 embassies in a block in the East center of the park. There are 27 in all in the park including the US and UK embassies. (the 8 I offered earlier are not these unfortunatly)
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Now is International Park Stadium, home of Rockwood Creek FC, who are in the middle of becoming Village International FC.
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The Stadium seats 7,256 people and also hosts some international affairs and hosts filming for Football Superstar: Waterbridge
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The US and UK have the 2 largest embassies in the nation, the US is on the right and the UK is on the left. They are our 2 biggest allies.
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This was a byproduct of the Recent expansion, it may be modified later but the channel goes beside a small lake for a short distance before cutting back over into the lake.
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Daniel from Elton John's performance a few weeks back:
Boys of Summer from Don Henley live March 26th
Usually these are the sorts of concerts played here :)
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Now into the current project, mostly its the bike paths, including the cross river bikeway.
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And to end the update, is Wine Street Hospital, located between Wine Street N and Wine Street S, it was built in 2008. Wine Street S and Wine Street N cross at the top of the pic (Wine S goes across) Wine Street continues going both directions just below the shot. There is is a residential street, and its only cross street is Wine Drive.
This will have to do for update 7 (think its update 7)
-Will
Welcome to the world of Mayor Diaries, where everything is possible :)
A city with plenty of green is a wonderful city. However the green zones are too empty. A good idea is to use some Pegasus stuff to make lakes, trees, trail paths e.t.c.. Looking forward for the next update :thumbsup:
Welcome indeed.
I agree with Elias, the green spaces are too empty. Your city is too parl like for my taste, but that's just me. Great start and I look forward to seeing what you have next for us.
Robin :thumbsup:
I agree with Elias also, about the green spaces, but I think that your city is very nice too!!! Good start in your MD!!!
Sorry i've been busy but I've been working on school, have an ap exam coming up soon and have regular stuff for the class to do, I also am trying to run an online racing league and third i've been working on the swscra the last few days here:
http://simsports.darkbb.com/c21-sim-world-stock-car-racing-association
I don't have a new update really because I haven't done anything to rockwood but at it's expense I atleast have replies.
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K50 did the replies banner a while back before I took my extended break from the sc4 community, its got part of the capital city as the background with the flag kinda as a foregroundish [transparent flag kinda]
Terring7: Thank you, I somewhat agree about the lakes but I have SG's canals and its not so much that it is too much green, but I just have so many pics of the one area. I wont deny that, I should add some trees but I want to download the olympia tree thing since its the terrain mod I use and I can't ever remeber to get around to it.
rooker1:parl? I assume park but you'll need to confirm that. Going off my assumptions, like I said to Terring7, I keep meaning to get the Olympia Tree Controller but can never remember and I'll want it tto go with my Terrain Mod.
Tomas Neto: Thank you, Again, keep meaning to get the Olympia Tree Mod.
Hello and welcome to a special update, why so special? you'll find out ;)
First off, the Kingdom has joined a union, the United Confederacy of Massaria,
now note, this will lead into the next many many updates, like rockwood was supposed to kinda, some stuff will sporadically be put in but for the most part, it should be followups :)
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An average lake in an average Bridgeish landscape... so???
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Kinda impressive bridge over the river on the mountain, but still... whats so special???
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Fences and three Guardhouses... this is getting intense.... but why???
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:O :O :O :O :O :O
So now it makes sense? what will happen? where will we go? what will we do? that will be answered later :)
Now what about the area around the rocket?
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Ranger Lake is located at the bottom of the Mistley Plateau, home of New Mistley and Ranger City, into it feeds the Ranger River
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The only way to go to the coast fast from Ranger City is Plateau highway, which crossses the Ranger River just before it empties into Ranger lake
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Coming into the Station of the rocket, are three checkpoints, manned by a minimum of 10 guards at all times, The first gate is the Id check, the second is an x-ray scanner, the third a full search of vehicle and members. Then you can enter the Ranger City Station.
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The station is fully self sufficient, housing a police station and elementary school.
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There is a further checkpoint onto the actual tarmac and warehouse of the Ranger City Station where GAAF's* are checked, only if your GAAF is upto date and has an emblem allowing them into the RCS [Ranger City Station]
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The Station builds and engineers their rockets in this building, the Ed White, Gus Grissom and Roger Chaffee Memorial Building, nicknamed Apollo 1 through the
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The BAR Jordan II Rocket is the second rocket engineered by the BAR or Bridgeish Rocketry association. It is named after King Jordan I, who originally began the project when he Was Prince Jordan II, in 1987 [age 23], and founded the BAR as the result of it. It launched the BAR Jordan I Rocket in 2005 and it went on 6 missons, all unmanned, and it returned to the station 5 times successfully, on June 12th,2008, returning from its 6th mission, the rocket experienced a malfunction and crashed into the north side of the Mistley Plateau over Longford, it was an uninhabited area so there were no fatalities, but cost the Bridgeish government and the BAR billions. Development of the Jordan II was already under way, a mission to create a manned rocket to explore the vast world out there. Although no longer head of the BAR, King Jordan I has openly said:
"The Rocketeers are trying to find Intellegent life outside of the planet earth"
As the mission of the Jordan II project. Development began in 2005, not long after Jordan I launched.
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And as I usually do, an overall picture with previous update cities highlighted, Rockwood is still under development as you can see ;)
More to come in update 9, what will happen? tune in to see :)
-Will
Nice update!!!
Hey, a space centre :)
I'm curious to see your space program ;D
Tomas Neto: Thanks :)
Terring7: Oh don't worry, the next 15 updates all relate to it somehow :)
Today's update flys under a new flag, the flag of Calma Domhain, what is calma domhain? That is for a different day, but with our story, this is a vital update, even if it seems like filler. This is a prerequisite to updates 10 and 11, which I Guarantee will just about will blow your mind, it might be a little longer before update 10, but you will not be dissappointed.
So that you don't get confused, I said this update would fly under the flag of Calma Domhain...
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Now its flying under a different flag :)
Lets go down the road then :)
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We start at the Showgrounds, home of the Faulkner Pass Music Festival, the closest Calma Domhain comes to woodstock. Pretty much, its a big field where people meet and enjoy music each year :)
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Next to the showgrounds is the Faulkner Forest which overlooks the Central River, in the center of Calma Domhain [we are in the center]
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Faulkner Pass is a mountainous region, home of many tight windy roads, like the road from Faulkner Village to Rivertown.
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Past Faulkner Village is Central Province Motor Speedway, a home of weekly short track racing in Faulkner Pass, also, since I have pretty much a speedway every update, i'll probably have to quit that and i'll just have a Racing update 10-20 updates down the road. I have one exception coming up in a few updates but you'll see that one then.
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Speaking of Rivertown, just East of town, is Rivertown High School. Rivertown and Faulkner Village are bitter rivals, the two play in the Domhainian High School Sports League, and the two have control over eachother's sports fields, FVHS houses the Rugby, Soccer, Field Hockey and Football Field, while the baseball and Softball fields are at RHS. The two are always corrupting eachother by not allowing the fields to them during the season, so whoever has the fields typically, 99% of the time, does better.
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Rivertown is home of the Rivertown Marina, where every citizen owns a boat that is housed in it. At the North end of the marina is the Rivertown Resort and Spa.
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Back to Faulkner Village, I present my first ever night shot of any sort, of Faulkner Village Rodeo Stadium.
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And the last shot you will ever see before everything changes...
Come back if you dare :O :P
-Will
SPACE ODDITY PART I
Play the song throughout the Update please... it works :)
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Quote from: King Jordan I of the New Mistley
Welcome to the Ranger City Station, home of the BAR Jordan II Rocket, today you are to see a sight you might not see again, you might be a part of one day, a Space Oddity, flying among the stars, viewing the extraterrestrial, things we cannot completely comprehend at this point in our existance as a spiecies. We cheer these brave souls in this craft on to discovery, for they are the modern day pioneers, the only remaining frontiersmen, going where fewer men have gone than stand before me today. A feat no man from our great kingdom has done before is about to be preformed. We have sent craft to other land forms in this galaxy, we have not sent man beyond our atmosphere, we will do so with these men, in this craft, on this mission. They are leaving our atmosphere, going leaving for places no man has ever ventured before, no american. No russian, no brit, no human.
Counter: Commencing Countdown, 10...9... 8... 7... 6.... 5.... 4.... 3... 2....1.... godspeed....
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Counter: Liftoff
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[23:22 GMT Transmission]Major Tom: Clearing atmoshpere.... Clear of atmosphere... taking pictures of the planet....
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[23:31 GMT Transmission]Major Tom: Aint She Beautiful?
Corpral Lance: Sure is Major.
Ranger City: Transferring to Houston
Houston: Major Tom, this is Houston, controls functioning normally?
Major Tom: Affirmative Houston. I would like to apoligize, I'm keeping my eyes on the mission, but at this point i'm reaching something noone else from our nation has ever achieved, I cannot help but soak it in.
Houston: Thats ok, but the mission is the priority.
[23:41 GMT Transmission]Major Tom: Corpral Lance, things good over there?
Corpral Lance: Affirmative Major.
Major Tom: Houston, heading east towards Saturn.
Houston: Affirmative, proceed.
[00:16 GMT Transmission]Houston: Major, Corpral. Everything good?
[00:18 GMT Transmission]Houston: Major. Corpral. Is everything under control in the craft?
[00:21 GMT Transmission]Major: Houston, everything is under control. Nothing new to report.
[00:45 GMT Transmission]Major: Corpral, do you see what I see?
Corpral: Yes I do major... what is it?
Houston: Major Tom, Corpral Lance. Whats happening?
[00:47 GMT Transmission]Houston: Major. Corpral. Whats happening?
[00:50 GMT Transmission]Major: Houston, Jordan II is experiencing an unknown phenonmena and due to this cannot g
[size=12]uarantee further successful transmissions.[/size][size=12]Houston: Understood Major, keep us in contact as much as you can under these circumstances.[/size][size=12][00:52 GMT Transmission[/size][size=12]][/size][size=12]Houston: Major, Corpral, do you read?[/size][size=12][00:55 GMT Transmission][/size][size=12]Houston: Major. Corpral. do you read?[/size][size=12][01:02 GMT Transmission][/size]Houston: Major! Corpral! Do you Read?
[01:12 GMT Transmission]Major: Corpral, what is that?
Corpral: I don't know major? Should we continute?
Major: Give it a try.
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Corpral: Major....
QuoteFor here.... am I sitting in my tin can.... far above the moon... planet earth is blue, and theres nothing I can Do...........
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Fantastic start there of this MD.
Also there are a lot of great picture.
The lake is nice. Great work with the canals.
Looking forward to more...
bat: Why thank you, good to see a following start to develop :)
Video should work, if not:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYbh19pHoE4
enjoy update 11 :)
Sme forums don't do videos :(
Looks interesting :thumbsup:
Terring7: Thanks :)
Major Tom Jones: Where are we?
Corpral Lance: I'm not sure
Bus Driver: Shut up back there!
[whispering]
Major Tom: I'd say we've found life....
Lance: I think so...
Bus Driver: SHUT UP!
Major Tom: Lance... lance... its a stadium...
Lance: My My tom... it is.
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Tom: Northern Federal Bank? Never heard of it... dude, were turning right...
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Tom: Lance... its a bank...
Lance: a bank? wow, must have vistited earth. And sometime in the last 50 years at that.
Tom: Not just a bank, Earth like stores...
Lance: Downright speechless.
Bus Driver: Shut UP! Were almost to the transfer point.
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Bus Driver: Two unidentified foreign beings for transfer to the high court.
Guard: Ok, open the door.
[Guard boards the bus]
Guard: Beings, do you understand me? Существа, Вы меня понимаете?
Tom: Um...Lance...
Guard: Beings, do you understand me? Существа, Вы меня понимаете?
Lance: ...Yes sir.
Guard: Good, welcome to Massaria, based off your comprehension of English, I assume you come from earth no?
Lance: ...Yes sir.
Guard: And may I ask how you found us?
Lance: We are part of a space program, and we don't really know besides we encountered a strange phenomena.
Guard: Hahahahahahahahaha.... oh... Its the 1970's all over again :P
Tom: Huh?
Guard: Let me explain... In 1971, people from the East and the West all began disappearing, mostly soviets, americans, canadians, Brits and Bridgeish peoples. May I ask your nationality?
Lance: We're Bridgeish. May I ask yours?
Guard: Not important, Anyway, the people from those nations just disappeared, the leaders thought it was due to nuclear testing, that lead to SALT I in 1972, but it kept happening, then randomly, in 1974, it stopped. Then it started again in 1979, and led to SALT II. Then it ended again in 1982. But that was as far as it lasted. We were very civil about everything, everyone found everyone else, all came on the island, and had an all island governemnt set up within months. More than that, we came across oil deposits on the Northwest coast which we quickly tapped into, and also found deposits of other metals in the ground to make alot of things we needed, and then we met others on the planet and began trading for other resources with them. For the most part, that brings us to now.
Lance: Really? Thats interesting....
Guard: Now, there's good news and bad news.
Lance: Good news first please?
Guard; Ok. Ya'll are the first foreigners on our soil since 1982 not on by passport.
Lance: Bad news?
Guard: Ya'll are going against the court because your here illegally...
Its been a while so i've got some random maps and such today:
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First off is the Calman National Highway System, pretty simple really:
Numbering Code, East to West, North to South. Calman-01 is the Beag Sea Highway, Calman-03 and Calman-07 are in Sernsen.
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Example of a highway sign, this one is for the Beag Channel Highway along the eastern coast.
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Map including major cities and towns.
Random Stats:
Longest Highway: Calman-01 at 37 Miles
Shortest Highway: Calman-03 at 6 Miles
Also, I used marshes adonian politcal map for the road and city maps, and i'm now with usnw instead of ucom.