Sunday, February 11, 2007

I'm Ready For Something To Happen So I'm Going To Make It Happen By Posting This Post As Soon as I Finish Typing This Execruiatingly Long Title

Well its been about 1 post since we've seen anything about our beloved regional capital so thusly I bring you more pictures with more random made up backstories!

This is a new farm in Ostrop it was built in 1939 in response to failure of the local soy beans(they caught a nasty disease that turned them all inside out). This farm harvests lettuce heads and has contributed greatly to the local health as lettuce absorbs many nutrients found only in Path's soil. At first the local alfalfa farmer scoffed at this farmer's attempt to grow a non-familiar crop but who's laughing now? The farmer that started this now owns 45% of the farms in the area (compared with the average 8%). and over 450,000 acres in the neighboring region of Timbuktu.

Another interesting farm specimen! This is Jolly John's Chirstmas Tree farm. This is an incredibly profitable venture as no other farm does it and there is a great demand for these things. No one knows exactly when Jolly John first started; it may have been when he illegally chopped a pine tree down near his house in Erbil and passerby caught him an asked him how much or it may be when he became angry at what his family had bought him for christmas (Jesism socks and matching underwear) and sold it to a local man but noneless he is now so rich he could afford his home in Erbil and a local house here in Ostrop.

This picture was taken in 1939 when hard times hit Ostrop. These used to majestic building filled with young managers and purchasing agents but now they are filled with unemployed techies, druggies, and the ocassional chinsim. These were built in 1923 when times were good and the average income was about $70,000 a year but prices on little electronic trinkets crashed and the town hit a depression. These will bound back soon with the opening of several new job centers and accounting firm.

The dutch....the first immigrants to Balmer. After finding no relatives in the Dutch District (see below posts) they continued southward until they reached the relatively new town of Balmer. Here they built their homes in the traditional sense since they knew no other way. These people were rich enough in the Netherlands but they weren't here and held jobs at the local post office.

5 Comments:

Blogger Joe said...

Chinsims make me laugh. You should search for the Asian city-themed building set on the STEX... I would tell you exactly what it was called but it looks like Simtrop is temporarily down at the moment, and I don't have it or want it myself. Try adding forests and taking wider shots (especially some regional shots, which you can do by pressing the "PrtScn" or Print Screen button on the upper right of your keyboard while you're viewing the region, it'll just take a picture of whatever's on the screen and you can crop away the menus with photoshop).

4:25 PM  
Blogger Joe said...

Okay, STEX's back up again, search "Zhonghua Zutao China Cityblock Pack".

5:05 PM  
Blogger A Crazed Bush Hating Socialist said...

Ahem...I do know how to take screenies...i r frm teh intarwebz :P. but the region is boring (as most of it still unterraformed) bessides i have fraps and it takes SS and saves them automatically and it does do videos too.

and forests (atlesast interesting ones) cost thousands of dollars (one city cost around $200,000) and thats about all Ostrop has at the moment.

ive seen the asian stuff but most of em are huge apartments but i dont really like those until my city becomes fairly large (i.e 100,000 people)

PS i hate PS because im BS at PS.

5:06 PM  
Blogger Joe said...

Well okay, you can hate the Asian buildings, but the Chinsims I know would be much happier if you had them :) And I apologize for underestimating your mad computing skillz Steve.

Forests are free if you cheat for God mode or use ploppable trees from mayor mode. As soon as I make that DVD...

5:52 PM  
Blogger A Crazed Bush Hating Socialist said...

Ahem ploppable trees are 3$ a piece...a forest is around 2000 trees or more depending on how you do it. But still weaknesspays.

There are some nice forests now and ever since I put that olympic terrain mod in the forests come together nicely. Currently there are 2 pine forests, 1 very large oak and elm forest and 1 large maple forest. ther are small redwood groves abound though.

7:36 PM  

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