Viceregal Kingdom of Malo

UPDATE VI: A BEND IN THE RIVER

Today we're going thousands of kilometers south of Francistown, to the northern borders of the Viceroyalty of Malo, a mostly arid nation about twice the size of Grand. The area we're visiting is not as arid, however, as it is situated in the southern portion of the fertile Zebtase Delta, one of the largest river deltas in the world, and which is mostly located in Malo's northern neighbor, Zebtesia, named after the Zebtase River.


The state-owned company, Imperial Oil, has only recently started to explore the Zebtase Delta because of political issues, but the prospects already seem promising, and ImO has just opened a miniature oil field and a refinery, and plans to create a small town here to support the infrastructure under construction.


Here is the entrance to the plant. Let's take a look inside, shall we?


Thousands upon thousands of barrels of oil are stored and processed here... and that's just one corner of the complex.


Living quarters for the most vital workers will be located inside the complex itself; however, the majority of them will be housed in a brand-new town located on the other side of the channel.


The oil produced by the Zebtase oil fields will be refined in these tall towers, few of which are being currently used due to the fact that oil production in this field isn't fully operational.


Sure wouldn't want to light a cigarette in this area...


Finally, to close this short update, we present you a novelty in Malonese waters - an oil rig. This is only the second rig built in Malo, and the only one still operational since the fire at the Ohesh Gamma rig in 1999, which set Malonese offshore oil production back about ten years.

That's all for now! Khot hap ee ko!

Very nice, where did you get all those excellent industrial lots, they are beautiful.

Sorry it took me so long, the red thing didn't pop up! This is fantastic! Very nice, I love all the industrial lots.

When you said Malo was a major player in the Oil industry, you weren't kidding. I bet I import quite a bit from Malo myself.

So, uh, with Michael necromancing this: Don't you have any new material for Malo?

Apparently Dan's computer went Kaput! so he doesn't have any new material

Better check out Mike's Malo Invasion Update

Mike has some pictures of Malo that he made himself, but since my computer's hard drive died and I'm not getting a new one until late October at the soonest, there won't be any new IFK updates anytime soon (at least, not from SC4; I might be able to scrounge something together from my City Racer game).

I hope you were/will be able to save most of your files on that harddrive. I hope your saves of the IFK weren't on it and you have them back-up somewhere?

Unfortunately, unless MVideo (the largest computer store in the region; we haven't tried that place yet) is able to extract the files from that hard drive, I'll have to start from scratch when I get my new computer - as practically nothing SC4-related was backed up off-computer (stupid idea not to, I know).

Hopefully, I'll be able to reconstruct many of the better areas of places, like most of Francistown or much of the Great Western Palace, to nearly the exact same way they were before the crash, as I took a lot of pictures of those places and saved them to Majhost and such. As for the other places, I'll either recreate them from memory, or in some cases - like with Francistown's "highway" (aka, avenue) system, which was built before I got a single piece of custom content - I'll be able to build them like how I originally envisioned them to be.

Wait a minute...does this mean that I'll get to rebuild the old, Maxis-y city of Mousford into a new, custom-content Mousford? YES.

Auch, a lot of work ahead for you then! Hopefully rebuilding what you did before doesn't sap you of inspiration and interest in building new cities for G, B and M.

I say start from scratch.. steal someones plugins folder and get playing again.

The longer you leave it the less interested you will be in playing.

Even though I've technically made the only images of Malo, They're just random regions shots with a desert terrain. But yeah I hope you get this sorted soon! Very interested to see what the IFK is like. I can email you the desert terrain mod I'm using for Malo if you want too.