CSX Plays on Shosaloza

[Citynut]

I have to salute Citynut for the lovely BSC RPK pieces. 

It was a pleasure to make these for all to enjoy. very well done with your use of them. great city journal

[Alfred.Jones]

This is amazing stuff Colyn

[sam]

Colyn the waterfalls are spectacular  I'm really enjoying seeing your cities, and I'm getting lots of ideas for mine.

[vab423]

Wow, Colyn, so beautiful!  I can barely build a city of flat terrain.  Your accomplishments are stunning. 

[bat]

Great new work!

[mattb325]

Amazing stuff. You are certainly putting the game through its paces  . This has inspired me no end!

[TheTeaCat]

Bravo 

Magnificent skills!

This is art!

[hamsterTK]

Those waterfronts are really stunning

[keithsed]

I've got to visit this place more often

This is my first visit and MAN I've been missing a lot!

Great job you guys.  You so many ideas just looking.  I should keep a log and write down the
names of the lodges and houses. 

I've got to quit drooling at all the stuff on Sim City 4 Devotion, and quit coming up with all the "gotta do's".  I don't get much playing time. /sad¬¬

[Colyn]

Thanks for all the comments guys ... I love this game.

[NikNik]

Great work Colyn!
Those SF houses are great indeed!

Sheer mastery!

Nik-Nik

[Colyn]

Ok ... now I did not plan do a formal CJ with a story line etc and instead thought about doing a bunch of short stories that plays off in the region.

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Today I have a dark story for you ... on the whole our entrepid mayor ... Matt Taylor managed to secure himself the governing position region wide and he has strong support across the board. However ... he is also crazy about the environment as you all know and has warded off invasive development plans with nail and tooth.

Sadly ... unbeknown to him ... the South Western corner has been invaded by migrants from the adjoining region ... all seeking opportunities in the fairly wealthy Shozalosa. Now when Matt realised what was happening and saw the illegal squatting and land invasion he went grey ... actually more yellowish grey.

His surveyors got mugged and all their kit was stolen ... community health workers are being harrassed and some have been abducted. Crime is out of control and city funds got squandered on humongous projects like a monorail system. Nepotism and corruption rules the roost. The cities of Mansimnyama and Sabenza is infested with "clerics" and union members are running vast intimidation scams among the illiterate population.

Matt is getting nowhere with his environmental plans and poverty and AIDS are descimating the population.

As first defense he is now isolating the two cities from the neighbouring Dweba ... Dweba as you have seen is the crown jewel for Matt's environmental efforts and also the place where he spends most of his time.

To get things into perspective ... Dweba sits at B3 ... Sabenza is at B4 and Mansimnyama is at A4. The tiny community of Bosigo at A3 is being threatened by the political turmoil in Mansimnyama. Matt is calling in favours like hell to try and stem the tide. He knows that once the masses in the Soutwest hits Bosigo it is a matter of time and then they will stream into Dweba. The amount of money spent in Dweba to bring the city to number one for tourism is way too much to risk an invasion.

So ... it is turning into a case of capital against the masses and Matt Taylor is ruthless enough not to be swayed by sob stories. It was with a black frame of mind that he drove into the courtyard of the newly built Mike's Place in Bosigo. He parked his car and smiled when he looked at the other cars in the yard ...

His call for help did not fall on deaf ears. He knew that the real power behind Shosaloza sits firmly in the wallets of those that are here for this bush summit.

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So now you have some background and the news in pictures will follow soon ...   

[sebes]

VERY interesting story Colyn - I cannot wait how it will develop. It's probably not by coincidence that I believe to recognize parts of it.

[meinhosen]

This is an amazing CJ, Colyn.  Great pics, and the story you just posted sounds like a good setup for some really amazing stuff.

[Colyn]

Well as I promised ... here is the news in pictures ...

The tiny community of Bosigo is getting a foothold in the rugged mountains and first of all the farmers settled in and tamed the land.



In this lodge is where Matt and friends planned their campaign against the corrupt politicians and clerics in Mansimnyama and Sabensa. The trusty guys in blue kept an eye on their beloved mayor.



The community made a special effort to make the men in blue feel at home and comfortable ... with the constant threat of land grabbing and squatting the police force was pampepered by the Sims in Bosigo.

[Colyn]

This is what was cooking in Mansimnyama ... the Reverend Desmond Khulumasimba got grants from the city treasury and built a huge church right in the center of the development. From here his campaign against Matt was managed with cunning and devious plans. Rumours about activities in that building are rive but nobody has given any proof yet.



Here is a better view ... sadly this photographer did not make it back to Bosigo and it was pure luck that he uploaded the shot to his editor's blog ... otherwise we would not be seeing this. The general condition around the church is clear ... utter poverty and lawlesness. All efforts to try and trace the photographer has been fruitless.




Ok now right at the start Matt decided that he needed to isolate this hellhole from the rest of the region and stop the spread of the migrants. So the first tasks were ... get the garbage managed and provide a first line of defense. A Waste management plant and a small military camp was erected first.



This is the area that was earmarked for development by the "Save our Region" action campaign ... with tons of money at his disposal Matt Taylor could make anything happen.



The big boys rolled in and soon the landscape was changing fast ... being forced to work so close to the snowline meant that any cutting and terracing would be constantly under threat of marshland invasion and the PEG Engineers proposed a massive drainage control system.



One year later and millions of Simileons into the mountain ... and the "New Hope" basin was ready for occupation. Matt was very pleased. Although he had to approve some radical engineering projects the overall project was done with a sensitivity to the environment and he was pleased with the ground work.



During the project the "acting" mayor ... Vuzi Kandamasimba and his henchemen turned their intimidation campaign up to try and prevent the population from turning to Matt ... desperate poverty and disease was trashing the city and Vuzi was fighting a loosing battle. The reality of capital and good governance was creeping down the slopes and soon his nest is going to be tarred.



Many of the jobless and homeless found work on the landscaping project and here Matt provided education and training as well as medical services. Soon the community began to realise that they had to take their city back from the vagrant management core and Matt did not have any guilt over his subliminal influencing of their minds.

On Matt's suggestion ... 20,000 migrant workers, backed by some serious demolition experts and city planners ... staged a massive protest and under the cover of the chaos the engineers took the opportunity and demolished a large number of the dillapidated buildings around the church. Open areas were created and it was as if suddenly the "light" was switched on ...



Once it is safer in that part of the old city I will send another photographer in to get you some closeups. For now the situation in Mansimnyama is tense. The union leaders and clerics are fighting like hell to retain their grip on the city but the progress in the north west is slowly but surely drawing their support away. It looks as if our Mayor may yet win the day ...

[Colyn]

As can be expected in any well managed capatilistic society ... there will be very rich people and they will take the best spots ... The little seepage that comes past the canal was turned into a small marshy park and special protection is given to the bird population. Rumour has it that the rare and endangered Sobbing Troller is sighted regularly just after sundown ... bathing in the shallow water and desperately trying to get rid of the Terrycan Moochee droppings that is all over the once pristine Simtropolis Conservency. The reverand Desmond Kulumamasimba has aparently given many sermons in which he warned the congregation against the Terrycan Moochee ... it would appear that even a corrupt preacher understands and fears the notorious Terrycan Moochee.



The community of the New Hope basin is very proud of their favourite fuelstop.



The PEG Engineers purposedly designed the canal system so that they could replicate this lovely old steamer and took special care to make it a very popular nightspot. The sunset cocktails are very popular and on fullmoon evenings there is a competition to see who can shoot the most Terrycan Moochees as they slither down the slopes to the canal.

So far Pegasus is the champion with the most Terrycan Moochee heads hanging on the wall of his private cubicle ... rumour has it that Jeroni is taking lessons from Pegasus and is making sure that he will be ready when and if the Terrycan Moochee tries to invade his paridise.



Prepo was quick to build this lovely Industrial site and the Sims loves it to work here.



Cascooker had to come ... the polluted air from the valley tends to soil the Sims hair and lately severe cases of Tarred Mouthed disease was noted in the population ... so the need for proper treatment made it necessary to build the city's own Pantsdowne Plant to produce millions of litres of peroxide.

[Colyn]

Matt Taylor took his hanglider and silently soared deep into the heart of the city and took this picture of the arrival and departure point of the controversial Shozatrain project. It would appear as if Deadwoods and Simgoober has some connections because they received permission to build right on this hotspot. Could be because the two hotels are known to be of high quality and their effective anti-paparazi policies.



As the city center slowly cleared up the old haphazard industrial zone was re-zoned two more functional Industrial parks were erected.



Goober Gen donated the funds to erect this lovely museum. A very popular exhibition is the one that is staged in main foyer ... here photographs and oil paintings are rotated that reflects the works of old masters like Caliban, Rubik and Gascooker.



On the eastern side of the Great Church ... Deadwoods Engineering donated a lovely amphitheatre. The current show ... Tarpaulin Manouvres and Sand Tossing is very popular. The cast are all from Bubly Singers Congregation and the crowds pack the stands full every night.



In exchange for his generous contributions to the upliftment of the old inner city ... Deadwoods were given this prime spot and he erected this FLW Masterpiece here. From this building DDWD Industries plan to manage their campaign to spread the DWD products into the hearts and minds of the population.



Ripptide made his contribution by providing the splendid pair of fountains and for the first time the sun can now shine on the front fascade of the church.



Two more excellent Deadwoods contributions and it is rumoured that the Reverand Desmond and "mayor" Vuzi is spending long sessions in the chess park ... When asked about it by a local reporter the reverand responded ...

"We are determined to outsmart the capatalist Matt Taylor."

[Colyn]

Deadwoods are dead set on making a big impression and his demolition team went to work carefully during the now historical "Riots of Repression" and did their demolition task in such a way that the reclaimed site could be turned into a lovely living museum.



Goober Gen erected this funcional school and the science and engineering programs are specifically geared to provide well trained labour to future Goober Gen industries.



The church is now a focal point of the inner city and rumour has it that some of the more senior staff members are busy planning the demise of Desmond Kulumasimba ... he is trying to ward it off but his influence is dwindeling and his old pal Vuzi Kandamsimba has problems of his own ... so he cannot help

Desmond much.

"Time that the church does what it should do ..." is all Matt Taylor muttered when asked about it.



The new Hope Basin is developing nicely and Matt and his partners are happy ...



Industrial ...



Quite a long way from what it was ...

Hope you enjoyed this trip and I will be back ... the neighbouring city of Sabenza is in a terrible state.

[Colyn]

PRESS RELEASE ...

The Pantsdowne Corporation strongly denies the rumour that Vlakhaas has fiddled with their mixing controls and that sufferers from Tarred Mouth disease will end up eating on their gums instead of getting a glistening brilliant white smile.

Signed ... Gascooker ... CEO

When reporters asked the spokesman about the fact that Gascooker's chaufeur was toothless, he just winked and muttered ...

"That is what you get from spreading rumours ..."