Covington - Update 61 "Chestnut Hills and South River Bend"

[art128]

First, WELCOME TO PAGE 37 !! 

Hey Jon, a long time since my last post here eh...
Anyway, great update, the towers near the river and the walkway are really nice my friend, good work with them. The park ride is a nice touch too to make that area a lot more alive ! At least, I just thought that now ( ) your way to make the farms before the city is excellent, I may have to try my hand with that, thanks..!
Take care,
-Arthur.

[danielcote]

Beautiful townhouses, water park, big box stores and highrises. Although I think you should work on the town hall and its plaza abit more.

[citymax]

Beautiful city man, congratulations 

[dragonshardz]

Looks great JB, can't wait to see what's next. The small print at the end was a nice touch.

[Jmouse]

That map (49.01) is awesome, Jon! Stand aside, Rand McNally – the SC4 MDers are getting along just fine without your help!

A "quick-scroll" first impression tells me you had a lot of fun putting this update together. There's something especially light-hearted about 49.03, and it isn't just the amusement park, although it's an unexpected pleasure to see. There's a lot of vibrant color and movement here. Good work and good shot!

In a word, 49.05 is "clever" with its mixture of styles, and happily doesn't seem to take itself too seriously! Really like your commercial areas, too, and of course the night pix are always favorites!

Congratulations to Covington for snagging the Aramark Tower – it's well placed and looks right at home. Only worries are 49.12! The empty spaces are filling up much too fast, so I hope there's a forward-thinking city council lurking about which will consider the purchase of some outlying farm land one of these days!

Later...
Joan

[Tomas Neto]

Fantastic update again!!! 

[Dreamcat]

Spectacular job!  That region shot is looking great!  Which brings me to wonder: what will you do here once Covington is done?  I look forward to the completion of this grand area!

I am just loving how skilled you are at both rural and urban!  I'm liking this diary more and more the more I read into it...It nearly boggles the mind oh how detailed everything is!  I'm loving the water park.  Believe it or not, that's the first time I've ever seen that set actually used in somebody's city.

Also really liking the Google-map style map.  That's a pretty authentic representation right there!

[Earth quake]

It's long times when I didn't post on your MD.
The Overview of the region is really very impressive and extremely realistic.

The suburbs is very well accomplished with this mixture of europpean and amercian style.
The commercial zone is also very pretty with a lot of " big stores ".
To end, the last pictures are really superb and really deal to move in your city.

Vivien

[bakerton]

JB, I really enjoyed viewing your updates and your region view picture. It looks like I am in a plane fling over the area. Looking forward to more of your great work. JKB

[threestooges]

Welcome to OSITM for the month of November!

Since this is your third time here, we have something for you fresh from the engraver's.



SC4D Staff

[Tomas Neto]

Congratulations my friend!!!
Welcome to OSITM for the month of November!!! 

[Nardo69]

Hi Jon!

First: Congrats on OSITM! 

Second: Welcome to The Club Of Three! 

Third: Shame on me for not coming here more frequently ... 

Love the last two updates. You even made garbage look good! Hopefully Covington's garbage representive isn't Homer Simpson (including the consequences for Springfield) 

I love the SG Appartment and their surrounding with the bike trails. I never was able to build them a halfway suitable environment.

BTW what's that nice highrise with the wooden floors? Just love it.

And that region view is simply breathtaking! 

Take care my friend!

Bernhard 

[ecoba]

Congrats on OSITM, my friend, hope to see some more excellent work in the coming month.

Ethan

[Battlecat]

Congratulations on you 3rd OSITM!  Looking forward to seeing what you've got coming up next!

[Earth quake]

Congralutation for your third OSTIM.

I'm impatient to see an new update.

[JBSimio]

Oops... got some catching up to do again!   

From Update 49...

Pat:  Thank you!  I think I was channeling Terry Pratchett with the footnotes there...

Battlecat:  Thanks!  I originally thought of putting a larger amusement park there, but settled for something a bit smaller.  Glad you liked the end result.

Arthur:  Thank you!  I've done a horrible job at keeping up with my favorite MD's this month, so please don't apologize.  I found that building the farms first helps with residential demand a bit.  It also helps me avoid the problem of a city tile being too urban to support farms later.

Daniel:  Thanks!

Citymax:  Thank you!

Dragonshardz:  Thanks!  I think I was just in a wierd mood that day... not that this would be anything unusual for me. 

Joan:  Thank you!  The map is still an ongoing project which is taking much longer than I had hoped.  I think it will be worth having in the end, but who knows when that might be?  I did have a lot of fun with the last two updates... I had been planning some taller condos along the river for a long time and it was nice to finally get that far and see how they fit in.  Don't let the diminishing empty spaces concern you.  There will be plenty more to do well after that time comes and I have no plans to end this any time soon.

Tomas Neto:  Thank you!

Dreamcat:  Thanks so much!  If by "done" you mean when the surrounding emptiness is filled in, then the answer is simply that I won't be done.  That will only mean that Covington has progressed into the present day.    I'm glad you liked the water park and the map.  I actually took a screenshot of a real Google map to make sure I used the right colors which seems to have paid off.

Vivien:  Thank you for all your kind words!

Jon:  (not me... the other Jon in here)  Thank you!

From today...

Matt and Staff:  Wow!  Thank you again!!!  That's a mighty pudry trophy... I'll have to find a good shelf for it! 

Tomas Neto:  Thank you!

Bernhard:  Thank you so much!  Not to worry, my friend, Homer Simpson is a regular visitor to Covington, but he definitely doesn't hold a position of any importance in the city.    The highrise you're looking for is the CAL Celestia by our good friend Lee and can be found here

Ethan:  Thank you!

Battlecat:  Thanks!

Earth quake:  Thank you!  Well wait no more...

Being my third time here, I feel like I had better make it special.  I just hope I can come up with something that will live up to the honor!  While I think and ponder about just what that something might be, I thought it was about time for a quick escape to the country:

Thanks for stopping by!!!
JB

[Dreamcat]

Congrats on the OSITM!

Wonderful mosaics there!  I'm really, really liking that first town you have there.  It captures the small town feel so well.  And amazing use of the wide radius curves, too!

[Earth quake]

Splendid mosaic.
I really like the village and his sourroundings.
Excellent job.

[TheTeaCat]

Jon

My apologies its been too long since I left a comment,but I have been following along all the time
And now its your 3rd time for OSITM 

Don't worry about trying to live up to the honour, it was given to you because your skills are so good
And you have probably the best region shots ever.  Then to start off your month you come out with 2 of the best mosaics I've seen in a long time

I'm am looking forward to what you next in store for us

regards
Derry

[dedgren]

Jon, hey!

Huge 'grats on the third time in OSITM.  Covington, in my mind, is a lock in any month, but the incredible use of the wide curves and FAR/FARR has to be seen by the committee as a "can't wait any longer" situation.  Those are beautiful rural landscapes- some of the best ever shown on this site.


David