Stories 2022-08-13 Desert Oasis Game-play
2022-08-13T06:08:00Z Started savegame on Desert Oasis, all but ship outside connections, suitable area for building 76%, base theme: tropical.
Goal is to reach population 100k today as quick as possible while still enjoying the game.
Addons used: CargoHoldFix, ExtendedGameOptions, Harmony, RealPopRevisited, RoundaboutBuilder, ShowIt.
Hmm desert terrain with some green on it too, hmm never seen such before, interesting change to the traditional green terrains. However this looks, well very boring, dunno why. Natural resources are there too, farmland, forest, oil, but... they look, odd, sparse hmm. Oh well, I'm going to do the systematic "math approach" for zoning where residential is in the middle, then commercial and industrial to avoid pollution. Trying to keep those areas small not to make some huge mega complexes.
Here is the starter setup before even unpausing the game, unless I forgot something now everything is in place.
2022-08-13T06:21:00Z First save game for Desert_Oasis_1 file name.
I'm using that 2x2 unit square grid setup to maximize growth in the beginning when using real population addon.
2022-08-13T06:31:00Z Little Hamlet population 500.
2022-08-13T06:37:00Z Worthy Village population 1k.
2022-08-13T06:43:00Z Tiny Town population 1.5k.
2022-08-13T06:54:00Z Boom Town population 2.8k.
Cemetery and bus depot became available in this milestone, cemetery is essential for life heh. Activated parks and recreation policy.
Desert city is progressing nicely.
Ever growing city. Not bothering with the 2x2 unit squares anymore, just doing regular zone blocks, might take a bunch of landscape before reaching the high density milestone, still two to go.
2022-08-13T07:47:00Z Busy Town population 5.5k.
Saved game for Desert_Oasis_2 file name.
Specialized industry, oil. Main building and all.
Saved game for Desert_Oasis_3 file name.
2022-08-13T09:04:00Z Playing around with oil specialized industry is, well harsh way to say it, waste of time, this savegames goal is to reach 100k population as fast as possible and oil or broad terms any other specialized industry is not going to do anything to achieve that goal.
Hmm I'm having fun lerning about oil stuff, but I bet this is the last time in the 100k population marathon that I'll be doing this, it really has no other point than to make money which I don't need and have "hobby" in the game, like the "industry stuff" dunno how to explain it. I mean simply it does nothing other than take input of your time and then output money into game, that's it 
Anyways.
2022-08-13T09:15:00Z Big Town population 8k.
High density zones, metro, incineration plant and university are now available.
Fire broke out in oil facilities, ouch.
2022-08-13T09:31:00Z Small City population 11k.
This milestone gives us cargo train station and two good policies. Activated small business enthusiast and big business benefactor policies.
2022-08-13T09:33:00Z Saved game for Desert_Oasis_4 file name which is the last of the four rotating file names.
Black gold business. OK I guess.
Gimme more oil, now!
2022-08-13T09:40:00Z Now its my lunch time, just saved game and will let it run 3x time acceleration speed while I'm eating.
2022-08-13T09:51:00Z Big City population 18k.
Crematorium, large water tower and advanced inland water treatment plant are now available.
2022-08-13T09:55:00Z Grand City population 22k.
2022-08-13T10:06:00Z Feeding time is over, back to oil, I mean building our city.
Its always the same, when I go eat away from keyboard, something always happens, milestones kick in, fire breaks out, power goes out or issues with water etc 
2022-08-13T10:16:00Z Did some basic overhaul work to improve our citys services, added crematoriums, garbage incineration plant, advanced water treatment plant, big water towers, big improvement for fire department depots including helicopter depot. City should be much better overall now.
New zones, coming up!
Makes no sense for oil power plant to run out of oil, when its smack middle in the fucking OILFIELDS! 
2022-08-13T10:56:00Z Capital City population 36k.
Cargo harbor is now available. But dunno if there are any water in this sand bowl
That oil power plant running out of fuel drove me crazy, had to ALT-TAB to google it maybe someone else has had the same issue. Well few people had the same issue, apparently its some traffic jam related thing, my traffic is very bad.
Had some electricity problems with those oil power plants, so added a few wind turbines ...
Ugh, lets get medieval with the powa
Cant wait for the next milestone when we get nuke plant and our power problems go away along with fossil fuel garbage like coal and oil.
2022-08-13T11:26:00Z Colossal City population 48k.
This milestone gives nuclear power plant and cargo hub (ship + train terminal).
Power problems went away, finally
Another expansion.
2022-08-13T12:38:00Z Metropolis population 70k.
2022-08-13T13:06:00Z Megalopolis population 90k.
Okay all milestones achieved, here is the overview terrain image.
2022-08-13T13:13:00Z Sort of tired, lack of motivation for this savegame. Now its just running and I'm hoping it by doing that would gain the remaining ten thousand for population. But dunno maybe I need to squeeze in some more residential areas.
Fire, by the nuke plant
And of course nuclear facility catches on fire, naturally!
Lucky for us fire department helicopter depot was stone throw away from the fire.
Had to create one more residential area, to push population to our goal.
2022-08-13T13:36:00Z Yeah! Population 100k, we have reached our goal, whohoo! 
As usual going to end playing here and archive this savegame until such time that I want to continue playing it. Goal was 100k population and it got done, heh.
2022-08-13T13:38:00Z Saved game and shutdown Cities Skylines, enough playing for today, cu.