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New Protectorate - in progress

As promised, some screenshots of the in-progress build of the New Protectorate.

There's a little more above - the Archive and the Shadow Delegate rooms - but my computer was starting to cry so I left it at this. Also none of the images have been neatened so they overlap, because it took me longer than I'd like to remember how to take lol-big screenies.

But it's there! and it's big! and I made that since Feb of last year!

And it's still not finished 🙃️😆️

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80% Complete!

No, I don't know what to put in that last room, and I still have to figure out exactly how I want to do the garden dome, but gods it's so close to being done.

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New Protectorate progress update

Despite not being able to take massive screenshots anymore 😮‍💨️ I still wanted to show off my progress so far in one big image, so I've hacked together the previous massive image I took with shots of the individual rooms completed recently:

Water Treatment Plant

Memorial Hall

Teleporter room

Rendezvous cafe

Recruit Dorms (proper post later today)

Classrooms (proper post tomorrow)

The gap between the utilities and the memorial hall is going to be half storage (above the water treatment plant), but I'm not sure what to put on the other side.

The gap below the recruit dorms is going to be half training rooms and half lecturer apartments.

I still don't know how I'm going to make the central assembly hall...

The delegate rooms for Human, Hylotl, Novakid, Penguin, and Frogg are all still to-do.

There's another layer above the archive and classrooms, which I'm blanking on ideas for at the moment, and then above that is the garden dome which is still to fill with grass and trees and nature.

Also I discovered the Elithian Races mod has background doors that can be linked together, so I'm strongly considering replacing all those stairs with linked doorways to save on climbing...

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I may have gotten a little hyper-fixated on this project today. I've got a bunch of screenshots waiting in my drafts to be posted, but I felt like doing an overall completeness view as well, using my original panning pic because I think it's a bit easier to see how far I've gotten.

Then I used that to figure out I've reached a whopping

65% completion

on this project.

I started in 6 Feb 2022, so this is just over 2 years work, on and off. I might be feeling a bit pleased with myself 😊️

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Made some progress on my main build this weekend (after avoiding it for a while) and managed to finish the frame all the way up to the dome at the top... Which, now I'm looking at it, isn't even and will need to be redone *sigh*.

After some fiddling, I decided on a design for the corridors. I like that the pattern looks like little rockets, and echos the Protectorate logo at the same time.

I found that the original Pixel Printer (rather than the lag-less one) will let me print all the banners in Race Banners Redux, so I'm going to use some of those for the extra races, like fenerox, shadow, and frögg.

Mods used: Race Banners Redux, Protectorate Themed Blocks

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70% Done!!

I can't believe how close I am to finishing...

Only the Hylotl and Novakid Enclaves, the garden dome, one last Protectorate level, and something for that half level down the bottom to be done.

I think half of that top level is going to be a cafeteria, but I'm a bit stuck on what to do with the remaining half of the top level, and the remainder of lvl03.

If anyone has any ideas for something I can put there, anything you think I've missed, let me know.