2022-08-05T08:05:00Z Started savegame on Black Woods, all outside connections, suitable area for building 69%.
Goal is to reach population 100k today as quick as possible while still enjoying the game.
This savegame was started with Extended Game Options mod using the 25 grid tiles support, so now I get to create a larger terrain
2022-08-05T08:13:00Z Little Hamlet population 320.
Again these pre-written copy-paste achievement population values do not match, oh well need to change them manually.
2022-08-05T08:16:00Z Worthy Village population 650.
2022-08-05T08:21:00Z Tiny Town population 1k.
2022-08-05T08:26:00Z Boom Town population 1.8k.
2022-08-05T08:37:00Z Busy Town population 3.6k.
2022-08-05T08:53:00Z Big Town population 5.5k.
This city got into a quick start, surprisingly so, been busy all the time spamming new features.
2022-08-05T09:16:00Z Small City population 7.5k.
2022-08-05T09:34:00Z Its time for my lunch break and take a first savegame, its called Black_Woods_1 file name.
2022-08-05T09:59:00Z Feeding time over, back to black woods.
During lunch break I had a slight scare with garbage problem, landfill got emptied and I sold it, then purchased four incinerator plants which took care of the garbage problem.
First view of black woods terrain and the city currently.
2022-08-05T10:34:00Z Got little excited when building a new grid tile residential area, ran out of money, had to take a quick loan to be able turn on the light in the start
New PMC Residential 2 district.
2022-08-05T10:44:00Z Big City population 12k.
Turned on policy: small business enthusiast, big business enthusiast.
2022-08-05T10:51:00Z Grand City population 15k.
2022-08-05T11:07:00Z Capital City population 24k.
Saved game under Black_Woods_2 file name.
Cargo harbor in action
2022-08-05T11:33:00Z Colossal City population 34k.
2022-08-05T12:03:00Z Metropolis population 48k.
Saved game under Black_Woods_3 file name.
More buildings, PMC Residential 3 district created.
And PMC Industry 2 district, heh, mass placing stuff
Where is my industry, grow! grow!
2022-08-05T13:11:00Z Megalopolis population 60k.
All in-game achievements done, now I'm using the 25 tiles mod so this megalopolis gives me huge number of 2km x 2km grid tiles to buy
So great to have more room to maneuvre heh.
Second cargo train terminal setup.
Saved game under Black_Woods_4 file name, this is the four rotating savegame files now.
2022-08-05T13:49:00Z Going to take a short break to do a chore, I let city build itself in real time...
2022-08-05T14:01:00Z Back.
New ship harbor terminal
Keeping busy at PMC Industry 2 district
Goodness gracious what the hell is this mess???
Yeah me and my ever lasting battle with highway outside connection roundabouts, one of these days I will conquer this issue...
Purchased all the 25 terrain grid tiles, pretty nice. But again, wish I had the 81 tiles mod
2022-08-05T15:08:00Z Alarm went off that I've been awake 17hrs, pfft, we keep going as long as my eyes stay open
Overview image from the east side. Results of death wave.
Population was over eighty thousand at one point, but now result of the death wave its only 78.5k. I was getting pretty close to finishing this savegame today, but nah it will be tomorrow, probably going to spend days first meal in 3x time acceleration speed recovering from this death wave.
2022-08-05T16:10:00Z Hooyah! Population 100.1k
2022-08-05T16:16:00Z Saved game and shut down Cities Skyline, was good day to start and finish this terrain's savegame