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Introduction
The New Forest is a area in the south of England, just located west of Southampton, a major port for the UK.


The New Forest National Park covers around 570 km2 , 26 miles of it stretches along the coast which equates to 76% of Hampshire's coastline.
Despite its name, it was actually created by  William the Conqueror in  1079 as his "new forest" for deer hunting. Modern New Forest Commoners,  occupy land, owned by the Crown, with "commoning" rights to graze their  livestock in the forest. New Forest ponies are the most famous  inhabitants. Ironically, its also the location of where two of William's sons died.
The majority of the forest is conifers, due to a sudden demand of wood in the First World War, that is however being reversed in some places with more deciduous being planted in the last few years.

In this MD I will attempt to recreate a few areas of the forest and other surrounding parts which I find interesting. Anyway, without further ado let's get this show on the road. (What's with the metaphors? :P)
♦ I don't mind you saying that you don't like it, as long as you give a perfectly good reason why
♦ I will do my best but thanks to the games limitations some places will be a bit hard to do

After this not being terribly popular on Simtropolis, I've decided to move it here, and try to post all the updates that are already on ST, but I will still update the one on ST as well along with this, anyway, enjoy this as much as I did making this!

Great to see this here, Dan! Looking forward to more!  :thumbsup:

Good to see you've moved here!
Always enjoyed what you have been doing with this region, a very ambitious project!

Replies
Samerton - Well this is all stuff you've seen before anyhow... ()stsfd()

Reikhardt - Thanks, I'm hoping It'll be more popular here :)

That is truely amazing! Looks real!

How did you get your farming areas to look so good? I cant get the same look...so I don't even try!

Wow..., fantastic start!!! I liked a lot of this update!!!  &apls

Very interesting start and awesome looking rural scenes.

Robin  :thumbsup:

Fantastic work on that recration!
The highway and the river are looking beautiful.
Wonderful start on your MD. :thumbsup:

Splendid stuff! A great mix of rural and roadways!  &apls

Amazing work. Looking forward to more.  &apls

wallasey - Well It's all standard Maxis farms but I used a lot of ploppable flora  ;)

Tomas Neto - Thank you!  :)

Rooker 1 - Thanks Robin ;D

bat - I tried hard to make rural and 8 lane motorway work together  ;)

Reikhardt - Thank you for your comment :)

RickD - More on it's way!  :thumbsup:

Thats really beautiful work there. The way you photoshop your pictures make them look strangely realistic. Can't wait for more.

,marsh

Another awesome update!!! Great work!!!  :thumbsup:

marsh - Unfortunately no Photoshop here just Microsoft Paint, your pictures are an inspiration!  ;)

Tomas Neto - Thank you  :)

Splendid update! I missed the last update, that final long shot looks fantastic, almost like an OS map of the area!

Very realistic and accurate. Well done!  &apls

I am liking your work! Keep it up!

I think some Fractional Angle Rail Pieces could come in handy there. Nevertheless, fantastic job, and nice to see you here on SC4D! Keep it up :thumbsup:

Reikhardt - OS maps come in very handy at this kind of thing!  :thumbsup:

samerton - Thanks Sam  :)

wallasey - Thank you  ;D

Exla357 - Problem is is that it's elevated on a grass bank, also it's not the right angle, trust me I have tried it :)


Now last night I was casually looking up cheats on the internet, clicked on a SarcasticGamer link, and BAM!. My computer shuts down, panicking I turn it on quick but find out that some rather nasty Malware has effectively replicated worms in all my data corrupting it all and then installing a program called Malware Protector. Which looks like MS security office but it isn't. I feel that I've probably lost everything again. I can't open up anything except that program and then as soon as I do it corrupts more data, not even Safe Mode works. So while my computer is being repaired there won't be any updates for a while, if ever. So a word to the wise, don't go on websites which you haven't heard of before. Also I had my external harddrive was in at the time because I'd been backing it all up like I do every week, that too has become corrupted, so watch this space, but I doubt we'll see my region, or anything off that machine again. But still, there's always hope that the nerds at my dad's office can fix it yet. Also it's not corrupted the stuff as such, but it says that it has, it's lying. The stuff still works fine but that program won't let me open it...   >:(





So fingers crossed I can get it all up and running again, but just in case it doesn't it was fun in the short run that it had...

Stupid malware...   :angrymore:

I'm very sad to hear this and I hope that your computer can be fixed and all of your wonderful work recovered.
I wish you the best of luck,
Sam =)

I hope that your computer can be fixed very fast !!!   :thumbsup:

Your recreation of Christchurch Harbour is looking really fantastic!
Wonderful work on that place.
Looking forward to more and I also hope that you can fix your computer problems...

Good update!

There are abandonment mods out there, but it is generally not recommended to use them. I saw there were rubbish problems so maybe the abandonment will cease once your sanitary problem is resolved?

Great work, Dan! It's great to see that your problem has been fixed and that this CJ can continue!  :thumbsup: You've also inspired me to continue my North Wales project!

Some great looking updates, and luckily you did not loose anything after being infected with malware.

Quotedoes anyone know how to get rid of the visual abandonment?

I do! Just hit the windows button to return to the desktop then open your game back up again. Then no abandonment.  :) It works while rotating the camera but as soon as you zoom it is abandoned again. I noticed this one day while playing. It works good for CJers Although I am unsure if it works in windowed mode.

Awesome work again, and I'm glad to see your computer is fine again.  ;D

,marsh

I use this Modd (http://www.simtropolis.com/forum/files/file/21351-abandonment-dilapidation-modd-1-2/) to deal with abandonment. As I only build cities for the visuals rather than gameplay it works fine for me!

Your Somerford is beautiful!
Nice update 5. :thumbsup:

wallasey - Yeah, I've got one installed anyway, only lasts for 180 years though and this city is just over 2000 years old (ingame and in real life). It does come and go though so I don't mind that much.  :)

samerton - Good luck with that, can't wait to see some pics :D

kwakelaar - Thank you, it wasn't that hard to get rid of in the end.  ;D

marsh - Thanks once again marsh, that works fine on hardware mode, shame whenever I use hardware mode it gets to around 2 fps and crashes ever other minute, whereas on software mode I get about 60 fps. The abandonment isn't so much of an issue anymore, it just comes and goes until I balance all the RCI out again :)

Reikhardt - This is the one I'm now using, but thanks anyway :p

bat Thank you for your comment :D

Nice teaser!!!

Great looking teaser there! :thumbsup:

Lovely rural scene, I also liked the overview in the previous update. Nice work :)

Looks nice :)

Nice teaser and the lens flare looks impressive!  :thumbsup: