Lars' MD - Featuring the Zollernmark - First 2009 Update

thundercrack83 · February 11, 2007, 10:36:35 PM

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@ thundercrack83
Thanks for you comment! See you next update hopefully Smiley

You can count on it, my friend!

Rayden · February 12, 2007, 05:27:17 PM

Very nice

I loved everything, special that beautiful park on pictures 7 and 8. That architecture it's not my kind of favourite, but you made it look fantastic. Keep up this great work of yours.

Cheers
Rayden

rooker1 · February 13, 2007, 10:33:29 AM

What..........those are very beautiful pictures. St. Michaelis Square is breath taking. The city looks very well laid out. Great start, I can't wait for what is to come.

jestarr · February 13, 2007, 07:00:53 PM

You've got a great city going.

The avenue - road layout, showcased in the 4th pic, is very clever, especially with the way the plaza is arranged along them.

willisj · February 13, 2007, 10:22:23 PM

Yep, have to agree with the comments so far, very nice job indeed. Your church with the park in front of it is beautifully done! Keep up the good work, I look forward to the next installment.

M4346 · February 14, 2007, 02:21:32 PM

That is sexy Praiodan!

I love the plazas, the Euro buildings, and most importantly, that beautiful Cathedral!

I see you have Maxis' Buro of Burocracy, did you get it as a reward or did you just plop it? For some reason I have never received it as a reward... I usually cheat to get it.

lol

Anyway, looking really good and looking forward to more!

Great story too!

Regards,

- Marius

Eddie · February 14, 2007, 08:41:49 PM

WOW! Very Europy (hehe)! Great use of porkie's trees, and I love the symmetry in the parks/plazas. Captivating storyline, too. I wonder what the newspaper holds...

petercintn · February 16, 2007, 11:21:58 PM

I too, await the telling of this story. As David said, a gem indeed!

sebes · February 23, 2007, 02:12:43 PM

Quote from: praiodan on February 09, 2007, 03:09:45 PM
If they just knew..., he sighed,

I can't wait to find out

Nice story - nice pictures - this could be start of a great MD-soap?

FromTheAshes · March 08, 2007, 07:51:57 AM

Geile Stadt Pra!!!

Naryanna · March 08, 2007, 08:07:57 AM

Beautiful pictures, sweet looking town and a good story. I like it very much and cant wait to see more.

BTW. What is that great looking red church? I dont remeber seeing it before.

kimcar · March 08, 2007, 09:54:24 AM

Lovely park you done and the layout of the church too is very well done. Great pics.

Heinz · March 24, 2007, 10:57:10 AM

the last post before this one says March 8. i hope you have not abandoned such a great start, story wise and city content wise. i honestly had to take a deep breath when i scrolled down to see the cathedral. wow. hope you continue the story and development

jmyers2043 · March 24, 2007, 06:53:21 PM

Hi Lars. You have done a very nice job of the plaza's. You have captured the scene and feel of a cold fall day. The pictures are very enjoyable to look at.

Emperor Stormont · April 03, 2007, 06:48:53 AM

Lars fantastic work so far, great European feel to the city, and the public spaces are stunning.

Looking forward to seeing your future updates.

praiodan · April 08, 2007, 07:31:46 AM

Thank you for all your encouragement. I finally came around to answer your comments and I wanted to let you know, that an update isn't far away. Though, I must admit, it won't continue the story (I'm sorry, but it's pretty tough to write it) but I'll give you some major information about the city, the region and country the story is set (I recognize I should have done this first probably)...

@ Antoine, Air6, thundercrack83, rooker1, willisj, petercintn, kimcar, belfastuniguy

Thanks!

@ Yoder7652
I don't want this to happen as well, though, it's really time to update here!

@ Cali
Yep. Gotta thank Shadow Assasin for the street mod and Porkissimo for the great seasonal trees.

@ Rayden
Thanks. I think I'm addicted to W2W stuff somehow. Can hardly build a city without any smaller historical blocks.

@ jestarr
Thanks... I put much time into the layout of the streets and plazas.

@ Marius
Thanks Marius. I got the BoB after playing some time as reward. It's strange that several people report they can't unlock it, it always works for me without problems... strange

@ Eddie
We'll see what it holds *tries to make it a mystery*

@ sebes
You really want to know? Sorry, you have to wait until I complete the next part of the story

@ FromTheAshes
Schankedoen

@ Naryanna
Thanks... That's St. John's Church.

@ Heinz
No, of course this isn't abandoned. Just had to take a break from playing SC and other things due to heavy RL stuff... Thanks for popping in!

@ jmyers2043
Thanks! Good to hear I kind of reached one aim with setting the mood

So... stay tuned... the next update is near... And let's hope that I don't need so much time for the update after this

Heinz · April 08, 2007, 01:23:50 PM

welcome back! hope everything else is ok with RL. VIVA LE SC4!

praiodan · April 09, 2007, 04:12:18 AM

As promised, the information update...

2. The Zollernmark

(click to enlarge)

The Zollernmark is a small independent kingdom consisting of a bunch of small islands, located in the German North Sea Bight. Of the approx. 470,000 Sims living there, 300,000 of them live in the capital which is Friedrichstadt. Other major cities are Harrisbourg, Hijchtensen and Smörretho.
Friedrich-Arnold III. is the officiating (absolutistic) King who resides in the Arnoldsburg Palace, south-east of the inner city of Friedrichstadt.

Talking of Friedrichstadt... you've already seen a few close-ups from north-western parts of the city while Mirco headed for St. Michaelis Cathedrale... here's a bit more...

Compared to other capital cities in Europe, Friedrichstadt is a pretty young one as founded in 1571. But today it is as busy as any other.
Due to heavy subventions in the last 20 years the city and the whole kingdom was seized by a big economic recovery, which caused highrises to pop up. The district Neejen Felde holds most of them.

Today the economy is a pretty healthy one which can be traced to the prospering industry around the harbour.

All that caused the suburbs to sprawl, today they cover big parts of Zollernland, the island Friedrichstadt is built on. Because of this, the municipal authorities established a toll charge for everyone who wants to enter the inner city coming from the suburbs.

But please don't think the Zollernmark is nothing else but Friedrichstadt!

Harrisbourg, with 70,000 inhabitants the second largest city, is located north of Friedrichstadt and is apart from a few smaller farms near Smörretho the only community in the Zollernmark, that still depends on agriculture...

Smörretho is the smallest of the 4 big cities of the kingdom counting 42,000 Sims. It's famous for the so called Seeschloss (Sea palace).

I'd like to show you Hijchtensen as well, but it's still undergoing major developement... so just a sneak peak

That's it for today I think...

Yoder7652 · April 09, 2007, 05:10:23 AM

wow pariodan...that looks most impressive. I particularly like pic 13 and the last one! The palace complex is huge...I like that the radcliff camera is up on the hill with the walkway going to it...very cool!

Emperor Stormont · April 09, 2007, 10:45:29 AM

That is simply fabulous, I love this style of city building and try to do things very much like what you have.

I hope you don't mind if I use one or two design ideas, stunning.