SC4: Rush Hour in Alabama

[vovan]

Well, I got RH delivered today, so I am ready to play. And I thought a blank thread for this was in order.

Just as a reminder, we are populating the region of Huntsville, Alabama.


I believe Tass and MattH are now switched though

Here's what we got so far:

ADG: (download)
Residental: 10,765
Commercial: 1,678
Industry: 3,544

Osweld: (download lot)

Tassadar (download lot; download city)

Jonny (download)

Osweld: (download)
Residential: 4,984
Commercial: 850
Industrial: 1,525

I'll play my turn some time today hopefully, although I got a ton of homework and stuff...

[vovan]

Hey, I just played around with one of the regions, and I must say: WOW! The improvements in performance are amazing! The 30 minutes I had to play were SO much more enjoyable, because scrolling wasn't jerky, I didn't have to zoom way out, so I don't see the cars, in order to improve speed, and the highest speed setting, on which I have always played seemed almost... Too fast! Woah.

[General Ludd]

I've done my turn, but my city file is too big to attach to a post...

[General Ludd]

oh the humiliation of losing your webspace... the upload feature, I forgot it existed. I never thought I'd need to use it.

Ah, but it tells me that it can't upload the file, anyways. the incompetent ****.



Someone hosted an FTP to upload our cities to last time, didn't they? Can we do that again?

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Comrade Tassadar
ZIP it.

I did. How stupid do you think I am? I read the file restriction.

[vovan]

Originally posted by Comrade Tassadar
MattH
Vovan
Jonny
Osweld

Look at the first post. There's a link to Jonny's city there, isn't there? (Although, don't blame me if it's blank, I haven't had a chance to download them yet.)

Also, I will hurry up and play... As soon as I finish the two physics problems, and four economics problems I need to do by tomorrow. I'm already itching to play.

[Skanky Burns]

Originally posted by Osweld
How stupid do you think I am?

Never a good thing to ask.

[MattH]

Ok, ok... I'm done: www.communityhigh.org/sim/matthous.zip **2+mb!!**

I'm working on getting the diaries online.

[vovan]

Alrightie. I've done my homework, and downloaded everyone's cities. Looks like I'm the last one holding ya up. I'll be playing now.

[vovan]

Okay, I'm done with this one. Finally.

Vovanburg: (download)
Residential: 8 319
Commerical: 1 244
Industrial: 876

But I can't upload... And the archive is too big for an attachment... So, I used some of my own hosting for now, but bandwidth constraints there are brutal, so I don't expect this to last long. Especially since I have some other files on there that are being accessed pretty often...

[vovan]

Any way, here's some screenies.

Attached is a snap of the region from the bird's view. Looks like I'm the only one not polluting the area. Look at that black water around ADG, and that clean blue around my city. (That would be just to the south of Tass.

[vovan]

Alright, this be the view of my residential area.

I got really tired of grids, and so tried to diversify the streets a little bit. It makes for worse traffic, but actuall improves some things: most importantly, I now leave plenty of gaps, which, when I get the money, I can fill with parks and stuff for the wealthy sims to enjoy.

[vovan]

Closeup of my home.

[vovan]

Here's some industrial area.

The reason it's not polluting as badly as the other cities is because I aimed this little town for the wealthy. And they would like to work in Manufacturing industry as opposed to the Dirty industry. So, I set my dirty industry tax to 15%, and they don't even want to think of my city now. Welcome, manufacturers!

[vovan]

Woah. Just discovered the road query tool which shows you the commute routes. This will help greatly when tracking down those pesky crossed out briefcases.

Also, tried out U-Drive-It... It was fun for like a minute or two when I was driving around my commercial district on a bus. But other than short sightseeing, really doesn't appeal much to me...

Saw a labeled street in Matt's city. How do I make one?

EDIT:

Also, forgot to say something. I connected to ADG and Tass with boulevards. (Or whatever the divided road is called.) Please make sure they emerge on your side when you start your next turn. If they don't, load my city and remake the connections.

I was also checking out the ferries... We could connect navally like that, Tass. I'd be more than happy to export some of that garbage to you. Or I could buy something from you... But from the looks of your budget, you don't need any more money.