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Principality Of Tantico Entry 36: The Rubic Incident: Nearing A Verdict!

Started by 89James89, April 10, 2013, 04:15:27 PM

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SimCity V6

Nice! This is possibly one of the best MDs ever! Keep up Tantico!  %confuso  &hlp  :angrymore:  :-\  "$Deal"$

gn_leugim


89James89

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SimCity V6: Wow thanks high praise indeed. I'm not sure its one of the best but I'll make sure to try and keep up with your expectations.

gn_leugim: Thankyou, your congratulations are well received. A cask of finest Royal Orchard cider will be sent your way as thanks.



Entry 4: Continued spread into the surrounding areas


This will just be a quick update today with not much to narrate as its just growth (OOC: still that's my favourite part watching the growth of city journals). This has mainly taken place north of the Harbour, moving further inland as the now large town (approaching 13,000 citizens at the end of this update) grows.

The first image is this one of the new Tantico Farmers Market in Tantico Harbour. A small place requested by the farming community so they could sell their produce directly to customers rather than having to sell it the shop keepers at a reduced cost and then them to the customer. The market is held every Tuesday and Saturday and then every other Thursday. It's been a great success since its inception as seen by the large amount of parking set aside for it.



The next image shows the huge growth that the residential area of Tantico Harbour has seen. As you can see the only patch of true farmland left is the Royal Orchard with all the other farms that once stood here gone or just sheds or chicken barns. You can also see that a lot of the odd pockets of land that was left after zoning for new housing has been turned into neighbourhood allotment, the farm soil perfect for the job.



The next image shows an empty space outside the city where the new expansion took place. Unlike the Harbour this area can hold a lot more people due to the reduced amount of water. The photos below that show the growth of the town here.



As you can see initially it was mainly housing spilling over from the industrial expansion. A ferry terminal helps people to reach Henrik and Tepin point without overloading the Harbour ferries. At this point Tantico Harbour still had some of its farms left (the ones now covered by housing).



Several years in and this is what the area looks like. Growth has been fast over here as industry both provides more jobs and pushes them out of the Harbour.



This is a random image of the Gregory Square. Named after Prince Gregory II, this area is another Royally Protected place (the flower garden in the centre anyway, not the commercial buildings around it) and the hub of commerce in the growing town. The Church of Saint Peter is also here and the area also has its own Elementary School (whilst plans are being drawn up for a Secondary School in the Harbour) but I didn't get a picture of that.



the other expansion that the town saw was this small area expanding east from Ketin along the shore. Mainly just agriculture but its also provided Ketin with a ferry link.



Finally another regional overview (again I'm going to leave it as a link rather than a image int he thread so sorry about that).
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/715/ud4principalityoftantic.jpg/

Till next time

Jay Goodrick





gn_leugim

given the limitations of the vanilla version, your cities look very realistic, inspiring! :)

89James89

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gn_leugim: Thanks and I'm its looking realistic despite, as you said, the limitations. Let's hope I can continue to keep it realistic and show that Maxis can be beautiful (or at least not horrible to look at lol).


Entry 5: Growing a High School

Centered around looking at some of the issues and growth in Tantico Harbour today's update begins by examining some data requested by a viewer of this blog. These are the Tantico Harbours pollution surveys. First up is air pollution. As you can see its not all that bad, just the expected concentration around the industrial band around Tensea Power Plant. Hopefully this will be reduced over the years as more and more cleaner businesses replace the old ones.



Next is water pollution and as you can see the dependency on farming in the Harbours early years has really taken a toll on the ground water. Hopefully as residential development pushes outwards, over time the pollution levels will reduce but we'll have to see.
[water pollution]

As to reducing this pollution, the Tantico Government are looking at city ordinances that could be passed that would have a impact on the levels of pollution but as of yet no decisions have been made.

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Now with that slightly depressing issue out of the way, onto better news. Firstly Tantico Harbour and surrounding areas, have now grown large enough that the Principalities government has erected a proper seat of council. Previously using a small office building, the new seat can easily accommodate  the entire government, even as it grows over the coming years. This Tantico Houses Of Government (shown below) is also another Royally Protected building, situated in Tantico Harbour just behind the Church of St Alex.



With the new Government building came the official governmental departments, of which the educational one was not happy at the continued lack of further education in Tantico. As such one of the new governments first acts was to have Tantico Harbour High School constructed. A much larger building than the Tantico Harbour Elementary, the high school also sported several sports fields , the football one surrounded by still maintained apple trees, as well as a greenhouse study area converted from one of the old farms across the road.



On another note. The cattle farm in the above picture is owned by a farmer who's determined not to move away from his land. This has led to the compromise of the land being used for cattle markets every Thursday and then hes free to farm for the rest of the week. A compromise that seems to suit both parties well enough, though how long the farmer can hold onto the real estate in the middle of a growing town who knows.

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Next we have some overhead progress iamges.

Firstly year 33. As you can see, the high school and city hall are both present and the residential growth has slowed down a bit.



This all changed in the next few years. This is the current day one in year 36. As you can see major housing developments have occurred both in the harbour and one both Tepin and Henrick points. Also of note is that Ketin has now been consumed by Tantico Harbour growth and will soon become a district of the town rather than a town itself.



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Finally with the growth of Henrick Point spreading outwards, the area below it has started to become populated. Named Henrick Bay after the large swathes of extremely shallow water present. This area is one of lovely sandy beaches and plentiful wild life.



As you can see the small town took off incredibly quickly (the image below was taken in the second year). Although the Environment Board has decreed that no large scale buildings should be built in Henrick Bay, small family homes were fine and as such, the richest families from around the Harbour flooded into the area to take advantage of the lovely beaches, seafront shopping and quieter life.  I think its safe to say that this growth is set to continue down here for a long time yet.



End of update population count: 21,890


And that's all from Tantico for now.

Till next time

Jay Goodrick




gn_leugim

as you can show us here it can look good, not ugly as many use to think ;)

great updates again :)

89James89

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gn_leugim: Well thanks. I'm glad its not looking ugly and your enjoy the updates  :)




Part 6: Ellington


Well in this update I introduce you to the new settlements of Chilton and Ellington. Firstly however with Tantico Harbour continuing to grow the Tensea Power Plant was beginning to feel the strain. As such its been doubled in size, mostly in preparation for the continued growth of the area. As such here's a image of the enlarged power plant.



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With that out of the way though its time to take a look at the two new settlements. Firstly we've got the smaller of the two. Originally built to provide a lot of non agricultural jobs for the growing town of Tnatico, the industrial estate plans also included this small village to fill some of the jobs the site would provide. Although tiny in comparison to Tantico, this small settlement will probably grow over the years but for now remains little more than a housing estate.

The village of Chilton



Chilton Industrial Estate



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Oringial site of Ellington



The other settlement of Ellington is all together a lot bigger. Originally sited to provide homes for farm workers on the farms that had spread directly north of Chilton, this settlement has grown at a huge pace, easily outpacing any other settlement in Tantico in terms of growth per year. Now the second largest continuous settlement in the Principality (the first is Tantico town including the amalgamated town of Ketin), this settlement is also set to grow in the future, though more interest has been shown in new settlements in the area of Ellington than the growth of Ellington itself.

As with most of the settlements in Tantico, its mainly focused on agriculture, though the quick influx of new residents has meant that the town commercial centre grew quickly and has continued to grow as the settlement grew around it making it one of the largest commercial centres in the region (Tantico Town Centre where the Gregory Square is still holds that title).



As you can see in the several years the town was growing before I took the following picture it's definitely the fastest growing settlement in (end of year 2 in the pciture).



Since then we've had nearly double the growth and with it came industrial factory interest. As such Ellington Industrial Estate was given the go ahead and formed outside the growing town, providing even more growth.



That's all in regards to pictures of the town. At the moment there are concerns regarding powering of the gorwing area so hopefully next time we can see how that pans out.

For now though here's a population table of the region (OOC: I've done it as tiles rather than settlements for ease) ordered by size, including the total population at the bottom. As you can see although not detailed, each settlement has grown slightly since last update leaving us with a large amount of net growth across the region.


Settlement size by population:

Tantico Harbour area (including Henrick Point, Tepin Point and West Ketin): 15,924
Tantico (including Chilton): 5,821
Ellington:4,239
Ketin (not including West Ketin): 2,621
Henrick Bay:2,048

Total Population: 30,653



Finally I've also got this image of the region as it stands, showing only the populated areas.



Anyway that's all for now. There's talk of Tantico Harbour growing upwards or something along them lines so that might be interesting but until then.

Jay Goodrick




89James89

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Part 7: Let the people drink (well some of them)


Right today's update focuses around vertical construction in Tantico Harbour. Having filled Harbour area to bursting point there was no where for construction to go but up. This required water (before now the town had been watered by a small series of neighbourhood towers but these were at breaking point). After a lengthy discussion with the Utilities officials the government decided to have the water pumped cleaned and pumped in from a inlet west of Tepin Point.

Named Clearwater due to the small traces of salt in the pooled water (interestingly enough given that its fed mostly by the sea), this small settlement was constructed around he water pump sat on the shore.



This water would then follow the roads network out of Clearwater itself and through the surrounding farmland until it reached Tantico Harbour itself.



Plans went well until we reached the river between Tepin Point and Tantico Harbour. Plans were brought forward including the building of the pipes elevated but that was quickly ignored due to the fact that ferries used the river. Eventually it was decided to just lay the reinforced pipes along the bottom of the river and keep a close eye on the maintenance of them.

Several long years later and the Tantico River pipe system was finished.



This meant that the project could continue full swing and soon most of the road network under the Tantico Harbour Industrial sector and around the initial ferry port were watered.



This led to larger factories being viable and larger residential and commercial buildings being viable, not to mention the whole increase in land value due to running water. As such construction ran rampant as large parts of the west side of the Harbour grew upwards.

Industrial construction



Residential/Commercial construction



Below is a image of a developed section of the town. As you can see increased growth has also led to the opening of the Lady Francis Hospital. Named after a citizen that had recently been made a Lady by Prince Henrick, after helping Tantico's poor and needy since the days of initial growth. Initially by feeding and clothing the poor from her own possessions and later by setting up the first charity Francis's Food Kitchen, after a vote on the name of the Hospital, a landslide vote ended up in The Lady Francis Hospital and the hospital was built, made viable by the introduction of the running water.



That's all for this update, I will leave you with a overview of Tantico Harbour as it celebrates year 45, having increased in population by about 7k or so.



As for next time, with the increased population traffic issues are becoming a real headache. With the new Tantico Transport Department headed by Kyle Longton coming into full effect next year, hopefully these traffic issues can be addressed.

Till then

Jay Goodrick

gn_leugim

some multi-stories buildings eheh :)

Ha you ever tried to make defined zones in the industrial areas? if you don't know what I am talking about, when you lay a zone with ind zone, hold down the ctrl key ;)

89James89

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gn_leugim: Yep, lots of redevelopment going on in Tantico Town. There's no highrises and I doubt there will be for a while yet but there's still some nice medium sized buildings there (as you'll see in this entry).

As for the Industrial zones no, I've never thought of using the controlled method for zoning them. Still, demolishing everything and rezoning i definitely wouldn't be a very 'natural growth' thing to do, so I'm going to have to try and get it to redevelop under its own steam. I've enacted a few ordinances already though to try and clean it up a bit. Could probably do without anymore pollution lol.



Entry 8: Paving the way


Different from usual, its Kyle Lonton here instead of Jay. Been asked to update you all on the problems that Tantico was having with congestion and traffic accident's and how we've tried our best to combat that. The entry itself will concentrate around Tantico Harbour mostly but rest assured, other network improvements have been or are being implemented in the other parts of the region.

A good place to start would be a congestion map for the worst place, Tantico Harbour and town centre.
(OOC: This is also my first attempt at a cross border image as it shows both Tantico Harbour and Tantico Town).



As you can see its pretty backed up in places around here. Unfortunately the town still relied solely on the old streets and the lack of traffic lights and the bad general condition of the more traveled streets were causing issues. Below you can see the proposed plan. 



As you can see the plan incorporates the major areas of issue as well as providing a road that will eventually stretch from the ferry terminal all the way up to the centre of Ellington (the primary road closest to the graveyard at the top of the image). The other primary roads will each lead to busy places (in this case, Tantico Town's busy commercial district and the Ketin area of Tantico Town). These will then be supported by the secondary roads, generally helping to relieve the worst traffic issues rather than leading anywhere in specific.

Fast forward a year or so, and all these plans have been approved and implemented. Here's the updated traffic map I want to show you to highlight the affect these have had on the congestion of the area. As you can see its a hell of a lot better.



After the roads were finished other area were looked at for improvement. Given the heavy increase in population over the recent years, the ferry route between Tantico Harbour and Henrick Point, popular with recreation seekers looking to spend the day at Henrick Bay's beaches, had become overloaded with pedestrians. Add to this the rising complaints for having to have to walk from the Henrick Point terminal to the beaches, a new car ferry link has been implemented alongside the passenger one. All in all the improvement was rather cost effective given the huge use its seen in the few years since its opening.

Tantico Harbour Ferry Terminal. You can also see continued redevelopment along the coastline, in this case high wealth apartments.



The Henirck Point Ferry Terminal. No apartments here but the ever growing classy shopping district, with its well kept walk ways and the Royal Mansion are also big draws for Henrick Point.



With this done that was it for the time being for improvements in Tantico Town. With the new roads though, my department has been testing some new road maps for the area. Here's one that was made for the area around the Tantico Harbour Ferry Terminal.



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Finally for this update is a look at some of Tantico Harbour, showing how wealth, building size and different zoning tupes are all thrown in together.









Anyway, join me again next time when we take a look at the road as it leaves Tantico Town and heads towards Ellington and what improvements and growth its brought with it.

Till then

Kyle Longton

89James89

Entry 9:  Road Trip


Kyle Longton back again for this entry. Today ladies and gentlemen were going ona road trip. Not a hell of a lot of talking from me this time but first a bit of background as to why your son to find a road seemingly driving into the middle.

A little while back, while we were discussing the the road from Tantico to Ellington a group of Geologists that had been surveying the areas surrounding Tantico had discovered that vast deposits of coal could be found in the hills behind the town. Seeing the potential in vast profit from mining the coal it was decided that an, initially small, operation would be set up in the hills closest to the town. As such it was quickly decided that the proposed main road through the existing regional development would terminate at the time being at the newly proposed mines. This update follows a road trip along the road through to Salen Mines.

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Well first off we start at the ferry in Tantico Harbour. On a slightly different note, the observant among you may realise that Tantico Elementary used to be where those new commercial buildings are.



Well fear not, were not neglecting our kids (unlike some of the buildings int he picture below). A new much larger St Alex's Elementary School has been built in a more central position.



Anyway back to the road trip. This is the image as we leave the harbour area and move into what could classed as the suburbs of Tantico Town.



Another picture as we leave the suburbs, as you can see the area is continously growing as expansion develops into farmland.



After driving through farmland for a little while, the road takes us through, what could be classed as the CBD of Ellington.



Next we move back into farmland as we head west from Ellington and away from what this journal has shown before. This is Heltan Village, a tiny settlement between Ellington and new town of Riverbend. Heltan itself is little more than a small farming community though it does have a small truck stop outside the village itself.



Now before Heltan VIllage developed the farmers took to building their dwellings on their land. Old Man Ken's farm is one such farm shown here as we leave Heltan.



Next up on the trip is Riverbend. A fast growing settlement built for the sole purpose of providing a small dock to transport the coal mined from the nearby hills to Tantico Harbour. Shown here is the single pier for the small ships to load up. Interestingly Riverbend is also one of three towns to have a car ferry in it.



Leaving Riverbend we find ourselves at the end of the road. Terminating at the small recently settled  village of Salen, built for the mine workers. You will also notice that as this settlement is new, not much farming has had a chance to develop along the normally farm lined roads.



Finally just a small picture of the entrances to the still small mines. Over the coming years both these mines and Riverbend are expected to see a large amount of development as the coal mining takes off.



That's all for this entry. Hope you liked the trip along Tantico's principal road.

Till next time

Kyle Longton



APSMS

I'm not a fan of the game w/o mods, but you're doing a very good job of developing your city so that the cities actually look pretty good. I'd prefer a water mod with this CJ, and probably the NAM (as a bare minimum if you want to shy away from custom content in general), but so far it looks rather nice considering the limitations.

I played the game for about 3 years before I discovered mods and the NAM, and when it solved my congestion and desirability problems I knew I could never go without at least having the NAM in my cities (I think it makes the roads & intersections look more realistic, too, but that is just my opinion.)

Not too many comments here, and I've been lurking for a while, so I thought a little encouragement would help.
Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

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89James89

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APSMS: Please don't take this as a dismissal of your comment but I'm really looking to develop this as a vanilla cj. I'm hoping this wont mean that you'll stop viewing this as I do really appreciate your input.

As for the lack of comments, its ok. I'm developing this for myself really as I enjoy the slow natural growth and documenting it. Although I enjoy and appreciate the input of others and all the views, I'm still planning on continuing it with or without them.




Entry 10: A lazy Sunday afternoon

Well Jay Goodrick back again. Just thought I'd post a small entry today. Just some random pictures of the region to break up all the development entries.

As their annotated I'll just show the pictures.















Well that's all for now. Sorry this entry doesn't have much talking in it, were pretty busy here in the office, talk about providing more water to area or the regions and increasing the size of the mines and Riverbend as well as smaller issues.

Anyway until then

Jay Goodrick


89James89

Entry 11: Is that track I see?

Jay Goodrick here with a update regarding the mines over at Salen. Recently a lot of expansion has been made by the Salen Mining Company (SMC) regarding their coal mines. This new company has recently bought out the previous owner of the mines with a big eye towards expanding them.

With the Prince's son Gregory II as a major shareholder in the company, he was able to get the government to review the companies plans. Below are a summarized copy of them.



As you can see the plan would be for several more mining shafts as well as a large coal plant to power the surrounding areas, as well as the mines themselves. Although this would have a rather large impact on the surrounding area, it was eventually agreed that the power plant would be partly state owned, and in return the plans could go ahead. This would allow the state to have access to cheap power for the surrounding areas, and the SMC to expand its operations.

Several years later this huge power plant was finished and started producing power from a portion of the mined coal, now in plentiful supply with the two new shafts.



Slowly however, it became apparent that the manual method of drawing the coal to the surface and then transporting it by truck to the power plant or Riverbend harbour, was rather less than adequate. With this in mind the company returned with another planning proposal, this time for a small railroad, which small coal trains could travel along and down into the shafts, providing a much quicker way of getting the coal around.

Seeing how this would benefit the area in the long run, the council approved the plans and soon new rails were laid around the mines in Salen.



Around the power plant itself a small dumping yard was built, where the carts could dump the coal to either be picked up by lorries and taken to Riverbend, or used by the power plant itself.



This is where were at now. The power plant is only being used to a small part of its capacity, but with plans to run power lines through to Riverbend to power the growing town there, its probably set to be used more in the future.

Also on the proposal block is a main freight line running from the power plant/coal storage area to Riverbend Harbour for faster freight transport but we'll have to see about that next time.

For now though here's a final image of Salen, with the growing worker housing estates provided by the SMC.



That's all for now though. Join me next time for more news of the growing region.

Till then

Jay Goodrick




gn_leugim


89James89

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gn_leugim: Thanks, I'm glad your enjoying the progress and hope you continue to do so.




Entry 12: SMC Expansion

This entry carries on pretty much from where we left off last time but first some very important and not so brilliant news.

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Unfortunately Prince Henrick has fallen ill. Also hampered by his old age the Prince has handed down his royal position to his son, Gregory. Now Gregory had never really been that interested in being a Head Of State, himself more interested in business and commercial enterprises (hence the fact that hes the majority shareholder of the Salen Mining Company) so has announced his abdication of the throne to his younger brother Prince Oliver Henrick Kerin.

As such, although Prince Henrick is still technically Head Of State his youngest son is acting Head Of State for him. 

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Meanwhile, moving back to the  where we left off last time, the SMC went ahead with their proposal to introduce the rail road from Salen through to the port in Riverbend. A meeting was arranged between Tantico Transportation Department (TTD) and the SMC where this proposal was shown.



After reviewing the proposal and several compromises between SMC and TTD regarding a few changes that would need to be made, the plan was approved and construction started in Riverbend to level out the land for the Harbour expansion. Around a year later this is what the site looked like, the housing previously inhabiting the space, having been relocated to the otherside of the town.



Moving on a bit and this is what came of the plans and the construction. As you can see the jetties were moved about a bit and a smaller pier was also added next to the car ferry. Other than that the plans seemed to have gone ahead as, well, planned without much of a hitch. Also, as the harbour expansion took place before the Coal Line (as the railway has been labeled) was installed the SMC took it upon themselves to pay for road paving in Riverbend and Salen, meaning that both these small settlements have the best transit network in the entire region (much to the annoyance of the TTD, though in all fairness they didn't have to pay for the roads and SMC is also responsible for the upkeep of the railway line). Below is a overview of the completed project in Riverbend.



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Now regarding the Coal Line itself, the railway has a total of foru stations on it. Salen Freight station (unchanged from the above entry as the railway joins the mine railroads just before the sidings and freight station). The Salen Passenger Station at the end of Station Street shown here.



Then moving onto Riverside, we have the Riverside Passenger Station and the Riverside Harbour Freight Station, where the track terminates at some sidings for storage and offloading.



Now as for the running of the track its a simple shuttle service with a engine at either end of the train. Also the trains are both freight and passenger ones with the last two carriages being the passenger ones meaning that there's no worries about not being able to pass a train at a station anywhere along the track.

All in all the system itself seems to be working fine and is being looked at closely by the TTD who are monitoring it as to how usable it is. Seems like they may be considering more railways in the future then.
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Unfortunately they've got bigger problems at the moment. With the increase in freight out of Riverbend and into Tantico Harbour, the harbour itself has become too crowded to function properly without a proper harbour present. As such the TTD are currently drawing up plans for a multi million simoleon project to revamp it. Still in the development stage at the moment though, it may not be long before we see something happening.

Then on top of that they have the growing traffic issues around the Ketin district of Tantico Harbour, what with its lack of roads and all. Buses have been mentioned but I think it may take a little bit more than that.

With these points in mind I think its safe to say that we'll probably be hearing from the TTD in the coming entries but for now, here's a Regional Transit Map that they've just released showing all the major roads and other transport links in the region.



Anyway until next time

Jay Goodrick





gn_leugim

I see a lot of water pollution needing to be cared off :P also, neat idea for the piers :)

89James89

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gn_leugim: Thanks though I'm sure I wasn't the first to build piers like that. As for the water pollution we are trying to think of ways to combat the pollution but with the amount of old dirty industry that we can't afford to redevelop (speaking IC, if it wasn't natural growth I would just demolish it and let it rebuild but tat doesn't seem to natural to me lol) around there its a bit hard.



Entry 13: Letting More People Drink!

Well as the title says, this update will be about the introduction of water to Tantico Town, in a effort to house all the sims coming into the region. First though we've got some more royal news. With Prince Henrick still ill and not getting any younger, he has finally passed the mantle over to his youngest son Oliver.

Oliver, at the age of 38 will be the first successor to the throne in Tantico and as his father before him, has chosen to bear the title of Prince rather than King, in keeping with the title his father retained throughout his reign. In recognition of these two events (the stepping down of Henrick and the coronation of Oliver) as well as the planned growth of Tantico Town, several buildings were constructed to mark the event's.

First we have Prince Henrick Hospital. Built in Tantico Town to provide health care to the fast growing population, this building was named after the former Prince Henrick won by a landslide in a vote as to who should give their name to the new hospital. Although this is fourth area/building  in the region to be named after him (Henrick Point, Henrick Bay, Statue of his majesty Prince Henrick and now Prince Henrick Hospital), all agree that with what hes done for the region, there isn't anyone more deserving.



With the coronation of Prince Oliver though, it was decided that the planned College would be named Prince Oliver College in commemoration of the first coronation to occur in the Principality Of Tantico. The largest educational building in the entire country, this College is sure to help get the Tanticoan's schooled in many areas and given it central location in the growing city, will probably see a lot of use.




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These two buildings opening up led to large amounts of sims wanting to move into Tantico Town, wanting to benefit from the health care and education. Unfortunately there wasn't anywhere for them to actually move into so plans were made for some large scale expansion, mainly vertically.

To allow for this though water was needed so a small pump facility was constructed at the end of the bay.



With the pump up and running the pipe system was laid under the roads to provide water to the busiest and more important parts of Tantico Town. These included the new Hosptial and College as well as the Gregory Square Commercial District. This is a image of the initially planned piping system for Tantico Town.



With the water flowing in more vertical and higher wealth sims moved out of the Harbour area and into the cleaner area in Tantico Town.  Many developments occurred around the watered areas with row houses and apartment blocks seen previously in Tantico Harbour being built around the important buildings. This led to the expansion of the pipe layout as more development spread outwards.

Below you can see one of the redeveloped areas around the upgraded car and passenger Ferry Port. This area used to be a mix of industrial and commercial with a bit of residential, but the developers and the Tantico Commerce Board worked together to create a small riverside shopping district, taking full advantage of the traffic network present (this road leading from the Ferry Port to Gregory Square is one of several new short road upgrades that the TTD has carried out recently across the city) and making this one of the most expensive commercial development areas in the region (Gregory Square just north holds that claim).



With the huge amount of growth (Tantico Towns population has doubled since the redevelopment went ahead), the existing wind farms weren't able to keep up with the demand. In stepped the same company that owned the Tensea Power Station in Tantico Harbour and a short while later, Fields Power Station was commissioned and built in between Tantico Town and Ellington, with a mind to future expansion and providing power to both settlements.

For now though the single power plant of the same design as the ones in Tantico Harbour provided the perfect place to build up a industrial estate to help with growing unemployment in Tantico. As such this is the current state of the Fields Industrial Estate and Power Plant, though growth is definitely set to happen in the near future.



With all the pieces in place the growth as mentioned above has been both fast and big, showing no signs of stopping any time soon. Below is a image of what the area currently looks like, 38 years since the its founding, around Coronation College and Prince Henrick Hospital, as apartment blocks and towers meet suburban neighbuorhood sprawl.



Finally for this growth update here's a regional overview of the area and a population and job breakdown for the region, both provided by the newly formed Tantico Census Department (TCD).




Settlement size by population:


Tantico Harbour area
(including Henrick Point, Tepin Point and West Ketin):

Pop: 32,206, Com: 4,685, Ind: 7,703

Tantico Town
(including Chilton):

Pop: 19,794, Com: 2,745, Ind: 3,456

Ellington:
Pop: 8,347, Com: 2,182, Ind: 1,622

Ketin
(not including West Ketin):

Pop: 5.504, Com: 1,253, Ind: 1,734

Riverside:

Pop: 3,036, Com: 760, Ind: 1,320

Henrick Bay:

Pop: 2,892, Com: 751, Ind:454

Salen Mines:

Pop: 2,122, Com: 234, Ind: 1,263

Clearwater:

Pop: 523, Com: 59, Ind: 216

Heltan Corridor:

Pop: 329, Com: 74, Ind: 499

Tantico City Bay:

Pop: 0, Com: 0, Ind: 291

Totals
Pop: 74,753, Com: 11,743, Ind: 18,567



As you can see from the Census, there's a large amount of growth int he population but he available jobs are lagging behind badly. Also of worry is the slow growth of the farmland as its the regions main source of food so that will have to be addressed at some point.

Anyway, we'll have to see what happens next time as I have to sit in on a TTD meeting in several hours so need to finish this entry here.

Till then

Jay Goodrick.





SimCity V6

It's been a while,  ()what() but I have lots to say, particularly a BIG suggestion for Update 14 (or 15):
How about build a village in the mountains, which is not connected to Salen Mines, and it is connected by a lone road spanning various landscapes.  "$Deal"$ &idea
It would start in Tantico, and go all the way there! A good name suggestion would be "Sentaria Village". You should even do a road trip to the mountains, just like Update 9!
Until then,
BM

89James89

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SimCity V6: Well, the whole long spanning road with no actual real reason wouldn't be very practical at the moment. They also have yet to cross any of the rivers and given how motivated the TTD seem to be, that may not happen for a while. Thanks for the suggestion though and don't worry I'll try and get some more road trips of stuff in soon.



Entry 14: Yon Wurzel Tree!

Well its Jay back again to give you an update on whats happening her in Tantico. To put it briefly a lot of things. Basically when Prince Henrick left the throne the Principality wasn't in the best of state. True he was loved by the populace (well mostly), but in the later years of his rule a number of issues had been slowly creeping up.

This entry will focus on the issue of rising unemployment as the newly crowned, Prince Oliver tries to short it out.

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First off is a bit of a fill in as to what has been  happening employment wise over the last few years. Basically, whilst the Principality was in the midst of a residential boom, with people moving in in droves (thanks mainly to the vertical growth in Tantico City), the industrial economy hadn't grown at all really. In fact that last real growth of industry in Tantico was the development of Salen MInes and Riverbend.

Due to this increase in population and stagnation of jobs, a large amount of buildings were being built and then abandoned as jobs were too hard to come buy (not that the traffic helped this but more on that later). This was also leading to population divides with the gap between the employed population and unemployed population rising constantly whilst the food production was quickly outpaced by the growth and imports were needed, causing the economy to crash slowly as more and more of the countries income was spent on food.

All in all, not a situation any monarch wanted.

As such a state of emergency was called, stopping nearly all residential growth until the economy could be sorted out. Recent population censuses showed that there was about 70% of the population at working age, and only employment for two thirds of these. Something that the Prince wanted to quickly sort out.

Offering subsidiaries for industrial growth (mainly centred around the growth of agriculture) meant that over the last few years, industrial growth has really taken off and although it still isn't fully solved the deficit has nearly been halved. More importantly though a lot less money is being spent on importing food now thanks to the huge growth in farms. This means that more money can be pumped into other areas that need it (such as transit infrastructure).

Anyway below are some photo's I've got of the newly developed areas that are growing up here in Tantico.

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Lets start off in Tantico Harbour, where all the areas of commercial that didn't have access to mains water were given the access and were quickly redeveloped into larger buildings. During this time several of the abandoned mid rise residential towers were also torn down and redeveloped as commercial buildings. Shown here is a image of some redevelopment down in the borough of Ketin, namely around Beacon Square, as larger shops move in.



Moving further out we get to the, still purely industry with a tiny amount of commercial, area east of Tantico Town. Mainly farmland this area contains a small inlet which has recently been developed into a small harbour to help provide jobs and easier transport links (what with the growing congestion into Tantico City) to Tantico Harbour.



Next two photos are from the Heltan Corridor. This strip of lightly developed land has since been expanded agriculturally with a large number of farms developing via feeder streets from the Pr1 road (the road that connects most of Tantico's settlements, Pr standing for Primary). With this growth and not to mention growth around Riverbend and (as you'll see in a minute) Salen Mines, the Truck Stop also got an expansion with several more shops and cafes added.






Finally for this part of the update I've got a photo from a industrially developing Salen Mines. Already an annoyance to the TTD due to the fact that they seem to be able to actually provide the small town with a better infrastructure (the rail and already existing road upgrades), they gone and got citizens in other parts of the Principality even more annoyed at the TTD by once again, upgrading the busy roads in town. I'm hoping that it'll finally make the TTD step it up a notch but I'm not going to hold my breath.



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As to highlight all the problems with the traffic this is a copy of a report that just hit my desk. TTD definitely have their work cut out (though quite why these motorists are choosing to go east, north then west when they could just go north I've got no idea.



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Anyway, apparently, with the economy slowly getting back on track the Prince has turned his attention towards the traffic issues, meaning we should definitely see some improvements to that soon.

Lastly though here's a updated overview of the region, showing all the agricultural growth.



Till next time.

Jay Goodrick