What was lost: the map of #8

[Mr. Tenk]

Last night, rabbit Vash looked under a deckplate in the Vernian tubes and found what I'd lost, a 1/100 scale model map of sim #8. I must have built over it while I was deprimming the place. Out of sight, out of mind, as the sailor says when stowing for sea. It had been there all the past week. Kaylee caught me working on it so she was not allowed to look for it. It is on display on the eastern end of the seawall in Port Babbage.

Sim #8 is a harbor.

#8 will be transitioning to a new area of town known as the Old Quarter, which will eventually see the completion of the palisade wall. The old quarrter is tightly built with narrow streets, as in the centers of old European cities. Builds in the old quarter will be a departure from what has previously been seen in New Babbage archetecture. Consider smooth european stuccos inlaid with ornate brickworks and stone, high narrow facades, overhanging top stories, archworks. Builders will find new challenges here, as freestanding buildings are not to be expected. North American may have a harder time visualizing the archecture, i would suggest googling images of the old-towns of Stockholm, Gdansk, Prague, Lisbon, Hania, and Copenhagen to get the gears going. A warning to non-builders: I have not seen any prefabs available in this style. Snow will still come, best ignore that impulse to go mediterranean.

The harbor was built after the clockwork renaissance, during the close of the great age of exploration. This was the dot-com boom of the 17th century, when speculators sent ships out in search of new land to establish profitable colonies and trading outposts. For the first time, outsiders established themselved peacefully in our city to buy metals and inventions from our famed tinker forefathers. The wealth that flooded into the city during this period became the founding money of the great industrial families of our current age.
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Now down to business.

The sim will be purchased when I am comfortable with the amount of land reserved.

Prim bonus is 2.08

Land buy-in is set at L$7 per square meter.

You may reserve land by paying the purchase price of the land, plus 2 weeks tier.

Non-landed "sea rights" may be reserved for L$1000 plus 2 weeks tier.

The 2 weeks tier will start when the land is ready to build on and i install the meters.

Notecard or IM me, Mosseveno Tenk, with your offer. Pay me after i tell you i have accepted your offer. The sim model will be notated as parcels are reserved.
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see notecard in world for parcel breakdown because i don't feel like formating an html table here.

note: sea rights may be used on land, sea, or air.
note: final numbers on prims and tier may vary by a digit or so, according to how the land chooses to calculate it.

[Breezy Carver]

Love the concepts and Name .. well done !!! How is this for an early am .. gel of sorts No no No mr Polar .. bear You can't tip over da model ... twirlsssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss ..
Then there is our Capt Red as so does like to have a seat and get a good look .. sort of like ..her signature pearl clutch for new Sim !
psss notice Miss Viv hugging that Palisade's wall .. *wink*
ahh Mr Reindeer You had two carrots already enough !!

[Capt. Red Llewellyn]

I heartily agree with Lady Skusting! ....love the idea and the name!

and the polar bear!

it was wonderful to share that moment with She that is Breezy, His Grace and the inimitable talented Miss Viv! Cheers to Babbage!
~Capt. Red

[Leonardo Serrao]

To have a plot on this new place would be great but the presale at 5pm SLT (office hours) is a terrible time for a european like me.(would be 2 AM real time here).

[Mr. Tenk]

good point. what is a good time for europeans?

[Doctor Obolensky]

I've found the best time, when trying to let everyone attend, is noon-ish on weekends.

[Mr. Tenk]

Lisbon

Stockholm

Gdansk

Hania

Prague

[Mr. Tenk]

Gdansk in Winter

[Mara Razor]

My typist's best friend in high school was from Gdansk. The family went back to Poland Junior Year. Lost track of her in college. I wonder how she is?

[Ceejay Writer]

That narrow street view of Stockholm is what I was hoping in here to try to describe (the sepia-ish pic with the bicycle). You save me the trouble. This is what I was envisioning with the crowded, crooked, hill-adapting streets. We need some crooked terrain, with as many hills as SL logistics allow. I could see this new sim being the inspiration for more tales of Babbage's past history, something I look forward to.

I'd love to see lots of little old-world touches too. Stone wall fountains for drinking, mismatched cobblestone streets that aren't necessarily (gasp) done in Standard Babbage Brown Cobbles. It's old. Let some of the former construction still be intact. What about large cornerstones for many buildings that could have the street names chiseled into them. Lines of laundry draped between windows overhead. Older style street lighting, if any. Definitely some ancient statuary devoted to Old Babbage History.

And I am very grateful to see the other end of the Palisade Wall. I love that build and it's been not-so-fulfilling to see it simply end where the Palisade sim ends. Eventual completion of this will give me bliss!

And I'm ten minutes late for a meeting now, damn you, I got daydreaming in this thread. *runs*

[Mr. Tenk]

the streets will be narrow, so i expect to see build-overs between parcels (because its all close enough to link it back to your parcel, just like i keep my crap out of your parcels). most of all i expect the middle to east side of the sim to be built tight. i've tweaked up the prim bonus to 2.08, use it!

[Tinus Koskinen]

I absolutely love Gdansk, great city and great look, perfect.

[Edward Pearse, Duke of Argylle]

Looks good. If primmage allows I'd like to see a 3D map of New Babbage in the Town Hall. No offence intended to Mr. Zanzibar's efforts.

Does this mean the proposed "Old Quarter" sim that would be in the NE corner next to Palisades (where the Babbage Academy sim once was) is no longer on the cards or will that be incorporated but with a different name?