Krimean Socialist Republic

[Pat]

Xiziz i just caught what you was say SNES - super nintendo entertainment system lol  so are you gonna have a custom UI with it  ..... Can't wait to see it though - pat

btw welcome to page 3

[Xiziz]

Zdravstvujtje Comrades!

"The Manure still smells like Manure, but atleast you don't own it!" -Me, just now

The Legend of Dimitrij - Rural Showcase
First off, im sorry for not producing the update as i said, i will explain why its one week late. mightaswell do that directly, so we can move into the showing of pictures part(which is rather meager today i might add, sorry).
Last Tuesday was my first day at University. Im studying Japanese at Stockholm University, after beeing outraged of having to pay ~70E on books i found it really fun, i thought i would get the books for free as allways... Oh, and apparantly you dont get lunch at Uni for free eather *sigh*. Appart from the money im finding it really intressting and fun, although the temp is unbelivably high, so everything got rather hectic and things were happening everywhere, i did have some time to build, and i spent it in the lowerrightmost quadrant, trying out socialistic looking agriculture... well, lets say its unbelivably hard, i hardly know how a "normal" western rural area looks, making an east-europe looking one was even harder. so after zoning and ploping(and destroying two nice farms growing PALM TREES????) some basic  ameneties, schools and such, aswell as some rail and other misc buildings, driving a RHW through the area(that was fun :P, RHW is wonderful!) i atleast had a basic rural area, and it was looking good, however all the riffraff of farmestates and houses look wrong, and still does. tryed to communisize it a bit with large buildings and old cars, but the automata just destroys the little i get from props. Forgot to install the awsome busstaionlot i made too, well its more like a long distance coach-stop.

Well, hope yall forgive me for making you wait, and for showing you rural shots instead of the promised Governmetnal pictures, i kinda need to build some regional demand *sigh* Kudos to Glenni for a lot of really nice props :P






Just some random landscape from high altitude, thought i ought to show that messy roundabout and all those jagged diagonal edges XD
Here is the Large Image, and i also included an Un-Photoshopped Image(ie RAW SC4) if anyone is intrested in comparing, and to show that i aint cheating ^__^







A nice Mosaic of of some Krimean Rural Landscapes, not to much to say, il let the dung speak for itself.
Oh, i nearly forgot the Large Image.







And some random shots of one of the Minor villages, these villages dot the rural landscape and are the small farmer communities, as all agriculture in Krim is colectivized, one village like this will own all the surrounding fields. And for the most part, most farmers have been succsesfully indoctrinated into dooing their jobs, occationally Dimitrij is found with a bottle of vodka to much, but as the other farmers also tend to be in that possition occationally, no one tells the state about it.
And where yould you be without a Large Picture.[font]


Okay, replies to Pat here :P
Thanks for the comment, and if i do figure out how to make a coustum UI i probably will make one... a red one XD havnt had time to BAT anymore on it yet though.

Oh, and the rest of the replies are in a previous post at the bottom of Page Two. And also, a special thanks to everyone, it appears im dooing quite well here, atleast according to Thundercrack's MD Statistics. Awsome Gals and Guyes!

I was thinking of putting another Firefox-add here... and im going to do it just because the icon is so cute!

Nyo!

Da Svidanya Comrades!

[Yoman]

I'm glad you saved those PSed pics for me, they were a treat. I'm loving the junked up cars and the hinds, you've produced a very good feel that suits the area well, nice job, now go get the vodka

[M4346]

Yay! I love the ruralness! Looking good, and I'll be watching out for the government buildings.

[Krio]

Roads are too clean. You should alter them somehow in photoshop and that roundabout is maybe too much. But farms are colourful.

[kwakelaar]

I kinda like the roundabout, something huge and seemingly useless in this rural landscape, great planning from the central comity.

[szymcar]

Congratulations!  You made first class city. Good luck to you!

[Emperor Stormont]

Oh I loved this update, the use of colours looks fabulous and it does have a realstic rural feel. Really fantastic work with the farms.


(btw can you tell me where I can find carparks that actually connect to the road ?)

[Ennedi]

Krim Peninsula is a beautiful place (both in real world and in your region)  and your story is really great, much solid knowledge and much humour (in my opinion  )

I like your farms, and how you play with colors 
I don't know how to use russian letters, if you will tell me, I will be able to write to you best wishes from Shosaloza po russkij 

I will visit your MD again !

[Shadow Assassin]

Mmm, looks great!

The highway fits in so well there... good job!

[Pat]

Xiziz wonderful very wonderful update here and i cant wait to see the next installment!!! 

Sweet with this post Xiziz i bumped you up to being watched lol

[bat]

Fantastic pictures of that great looking rural area! Great work!

[Dark_Jedi06]

Welcome to the Ones to Watch section Xiziz!

Interesting "commie" rural area...I really have no clue how Eastern Bloc farm land looks either. It is a very colorful update, though...just what do they grow in those purple fields?

[M4346]

Lavender perhaps? Just proves that the Central Committee is planning according to what the people really need! You can never have enough lavender toilet spray, lavender tea, lavender soap and lavender scented pot pourri! lol

[thundercrack83]

Congratulations on making it to the Ones to Watch, Xiziz! Sorry I haven't posted here yet, but I've just caught with all the updates and I'll be ready to follow along!

[pipishere]

Cool farms and the village is very sweet! lol

[rooker1]

Outstanding job on those mosaics.  Your farms look fantastic and very realistic. I really like the small town feel you get from your pictures although I don't really like the avenue round about.  IMHO, it doesn't seem to fit properly.  But as I said, just my opinion.



Robin   

[iamgoingtoeatyou]

wow, i can't beleive you photoshopped the farmlands around the diagonal roads to get rid of the sawtooth effect, excellent photoshop work xiziz! you sure did spend a lot of time on this update, and it shows, the pictures are excellent and i really like your photoshop style, very simple and clean! three claps for you! 

[Shadow Assassin]

...although I don't really like the avenue round about.

You'd be surprised at how often avenue roundabouts are found in the middle of farmland in Australia. They're often connecting two or three major routes together.

[Dark_Jedi06]

Sorry to post again, but I just had a really quick question:

How did you get your fields to blend so nicely with the diagonal roads, are those overhanging props that cover up the ugly, jagged dirt?