I'd like to announce an exciting new initiative to bring a whole new level of "immersion" in CD. Take a look and consider thread this a teaser of what's done, what's coming, and an opportunity to pitch some ideas we might incorporate.

Public Transportation (intrasim teleport system)

The city of Hathian and it's greater area encompasses every sim in the CD estate. We've got RP scattered within the Hathian sim, as well as isolated areas in every single sim adjacent to it. To help bring more visibility to them, we're going to overhaul the bus station system so that it's functional with an easy-to-glance visual map. This map will be designed so that only major landmarks and buildings will be highlighted; I strongly believe that immersing into the city and exploring it for yourself will result in discovering some really cool places.

How will this work?

1) In-world, you will approach a designated bus stop. When you click on the bus map poster at the stop, it will popup a webpage with a large map of the entire city (all sims). Stops will be highlighted, as well as key landmarks. You can sort these landmarks by foods, recreation, entertainment, and any other genre we may add.

2) Click on bus stop symbol on the map which you want to teleport to and it will prompt you in-world to teleport there. It's really simple and will allow people to quickly move within or between sims.

** The subways and airport will also have be functional (ie. Airport may connect to Hitokai; subways would connect to certain underground areas that bus stops can not access.

Waste Management

If you didn't already know, Tuesday is official trash day in Hathian. For 24 hours, on every Tuesday of the week, you won't find the trash truck parked in front of Rader Records because it's out picking up trash! You will also notice trash bags, bins and cans scattered throughout the city.

I've dropped the necessary scripts into great freebie trash items and sent it out as a notice to our resident's so that they may participate by setting out trash that will only appear on Tuesdays.

I'm going to polish this system some more, package it, and make it more readily available for residents in Hathian.

Streets / Addresses

With all our roads mapped out, we will begin naming them as well as adding series of numbers for each block. This will allow residents to maintain a simple address they can use IC.

To further develop the "address" concept, there will be a way for residents to easily opt their residence into Hathians' public white pages and be accessible in-world and quickly traveled to via "calling a taxi cab". It would use a similar intrasim teleport system I explained in the above sections.

Teasers:

Right click and open the images of each map in a new browser window to see full size!

Basic Map w/ Major Landmarks

Food & Drinks

Outdoor Recreation