The Republic of Terra Specula - Update 18: Teaser!

[Rady]

How did you make that wall in picture 2? Very nice, very nice.

That's the "Red Brick Plaza" that I found here: http://sc4ss.web.fc2.com/

There's some more fine stuff on that site ..

[rooker1]

Congratulations Rady. 
You have made it to "The Best Sellers" section and with no surprise after all the hard work you put into this great MD of yours.

Congrats from The SC4D Staff and myself.

Robin 

[Rady]

Ahh .. indeed ... yeah! yippie! 

[canyonjumper]

Great update Rady! Where did you get the walls on in the second pic near the MAVE-4 on the left-hand side?

                         -Jordan

[Rady]

Great update Rady! Where did you get the walls on in the second pic near the MAVE-4 on the left-hand side?

                         -Jordan

That's the "Red Brick Plaza" that I found here: http://sc4ss.web.fc2.com/

[canyonjumper]

Thanks Rady! Exactly what I needed!

              -Jordan

[Tomas Neto]

Another great update, Rady!!! Awesome!!! 

[rooker1]

It gives me great pleasure to move your MD to the OSITM this month.
Your MD has been great so far and I'm sure everyone looks forward to spending a special month with you.



Congrats from The SC4D Staff and myself.   


Robin 

[Rady]

Thank's, rooker, the next update is just lurking around the corner ... 

[Rady]

First of all, as you can see I have been choosen to be worthy contributing to the OSITM section of the Mayor's Diaries. I'm somewhat surprised and thought there might be better MDs out there - however I'm honoured and will try to add some extra work to my MD (at least for the time beeing in the OSITM) ...
First, as you possibly already have recognized, I changed the way of presenting my images to what I would say is a more professional way - I hope you like it.
Second, I designed a little logo that will accompany my MD as long as I'm in the OSITM section, just to pep it up a little.



@ Cyclone1001: Thanks for stopping by regularly! Hope you already found that wonderful retaining wall / plaza.

@ RickD: Yes, unfortunately politics ruled over economics (once again, I do have to say ...)

@ canyonjumper: Thanks! Looking forward to discover the Red Brick Plaza in your MD!

@ Tomas Neto: Thank you. And sorry for me beeing somewhat lazy at posting at your MD - I'll promise to improve!



As we have seen in recent updates, the colony developed a major plan for further expansion that in general constitutes of pushing the colony's border further east. So the first thing to be undertaken - beside solving more urgent, every-day-business topics as we have seen - is to build the traffic network that will be inevitable for further success in the east. Let's first have a look at what the administration named <span style="color: #0000FF">Trendale County</span>. The proposed route wil be somewhere in the northernmost parts of this region.



Despite the fact that the UAV recon mission provided some terrain information, a ground operation was neccessary to obtain detailed information of the possibilities for laying out the traffic network. So a Geological Survey Team (GST) of the Armed Forces was sent out to gather information on the ground. To cross the river that led out to <span style="color: #0000FF">Wildbank</span>, Army Engineers attached to the GST built a provisional bridge.







After some weeks of hard field work, the engineers provided a detailed plan for the future road and rail line:



The western end of the new highway would merge into a giant intersection that was planned to be one of the main hubs in that area. It would later connect <span style="color: #0000FF">Ashville</span> and <span style="color: #0000FF">Bonham Commercial Center</span> in the north with future developments in the south, as well of course with the new Interstate 65 leading to the east. We can clearly see that the avenue coming from <span style="color: #0000FF">Ashville</span> is planned to intersect the Central Eastern Railway by means of a tunnel in order to merge with the other main avenues and highways south of the rail line.



Knowing that much of a work lay ahead, the construction companies started their work ...

[ecoba]

Congragulations, my friend. And a wonderful update to start off your month.

Ethan

[Cyclone1001]

Nice, nice. I like the military's activity in the growth of the colony. Keep it up.

[RickD]

Congrats on the OSITM, Rady! The construction shots are excellent.

I am not sure about the route of Interstate 65 and the rail line, though. They appear to run very close to the border of the tile and head back into the tile they came from. From a technical point of view with the traffic simulator in mind it should be better to have them more in the middle and leading into another city tile. But maybe I am wrong because I don't see the big picture.

[Rady]

I am not sure about the route of Interstate 65 and the rail line, though. They appear to run very close to the border of the tile and head back into the tile they came from. From a technical point of view with the traffic simulator in mind it should be better to have them more in the middle and leading into another city tile. But maybe I am wrong because I don't see the big picture.

Your observation is right. The network is planned to cut through the corner of that tile (without the possibility of leaving the road / rail, since that part of the tile is the agricultural part. So basically it just crosses that tile. Do you mean that there could be a simulation problem with the traffic simulator?

[RickD]

Ah, I see. That explains it. If you had put a bigger city in the tile it would have been better to choose another route because the Sims had to drive very long on normal roads before they reach the highway. Not a problem with the traffic simulator but the benefit of the interstate and rail line for the commute time would have been low.

[Rady]

Ah, I see. That explains it. If you had put a bigger city in the tile it would have been better to choose another route because the Sims had to drive very long on normal roads before they reach the highway. Not a problem with the traffic simulator but the benefit of the interstate and rail line for the commute time would have been low.

Hi RickD, you might just have a look at this post

http://sc4devotion.com/forums/index.php?topic=9803.msg321982#msg321982

where you can see the overall situation. The "corner" we are talking about is just where the "d" from ".../Railroad" is located. You can see the agricultural area above that is intersected by the network for a few miles, and then the road / rail stretches out to the  areas to be developed in the east.

However, thanks for sharing your thoughts on that idea!! I really do appreciate that! 

[Nardo69]

Congratulation for being OSITM!

Nice map. I like the rivers joining there and that there will be a railway  . Any chance for a small railway line, too, branching off from the central eastern line for a better connection for the locals?

Take care!


Bernhard 

[Tomas Neto]

Hi my friend!!! Congratulations on OSITM!!! 


Awesome update again, great work!!! 

[Scarton]

I don't recall ever stopping in here to look at your cities.     You do a great job! Your work clearly deserves an Of Special Interest This Month. You did great with the nature in the last update. 

[Cidwm]

Nice MD 

Being a military guy i would like to know where you got the Stryker models.