Stories 2022-09-05 Icy Lands Game-play
2022-09-05T02:59:00Z Started savegame on Icy Lands, all outside connections and natural resources, suitable area for building 59%, base theme: WINTER.
Goal is to reach population 100k today as quick as possible while still enjoying the game.
Addons used: 81 tiles, camera position utility, cinematic camera extended v0.5.1, csl show more limits, enhanced outside connections view, extended game options, extra landscaping tools, first person camera, harmony v2.2, hide it, lifecycle rebalance revisited v1.6.4, optimize outside connections, precision engineering, random tree rotation, realistic population 2 v2.0.5, rebalanced industries, roundabout builder, TM:PE stable v11.6.6.3, transfermanager ce v1.8.10, transporttool v2.3.1, ultimate level of detail, unlimited oil and ore, unlimited soil. List updated: 2022-08-27T21:39:00Z
Nothing more to say about WINTER terrains that was said in two previous stories... This is crappy looking terrain with a lot of water, rivers or bodies of water. Not so much elevations on the central areas, but it doesn't mean much as there is just stupid islands because of the rivers / water. Oh well, we'll get this to 100k population no problems.
First used 81 tiles addon to open up all terrain grid tiles for use. TM:PE enabled disable de-spawning, advanced vehicle AI enabled, 50% dynamic lane selection, parking AI enabled more realistic parking. Transfer manager ce, goods delivery options warehouse first, reserve trucks for local transfers 20%, improved inter-warehouse transfers, import/export disabled allow import goods, services prefer local district services, death care/garbage improved all three, general disable dummy traffic, vehicle AI enable garbage and police.
Turned roads, electric and water budget to 50%, we need to save money.
First save game for Icy_Lands_1 file name.
2022-09-05T03:09:00Z Unpaused the game, lets start this thing.
I really hope to get this terrain savegame finished in extra quickly, I have zero interest playing in WINTER terrains, this is like pulling a teeth or working... uuh 
2022-09-05T03:16:00Z Little Hamlet population 340.
Turned on taxes to 12% for industrial, low density residential and commercial. Purchased elementary school and landfill site.
2022-09-05T03:22:00Z Worthy Village population 650.
Did not create district in this savegame like in previous three I think, read details from those. Placed fire station, police station and health clinic.
Saved game for Icy_Lands_2 file name.
2022-09-05T03:31:00Z Tiny Town population 1.1k.
Replaced placeholder dirt road arterial and collectors with proper six and four lane asphalt roads. Replaced industrial areas roads with industry road type (small for local and medium for collector). Started to use two lane asphalt roads for residential areas from now on.
Saved game for Icy_Lands_3 file name.
Now pretty much everything in this starting grid highway connection landmass has been road grid and zoned. Now we wait what happens next...
Cant wait to have these shit WINTER terrain savegames finished so I can get back to the regular terrains again.
2022-09-05T03:50:00Z Boom Town population 1.8k.
Cemetery and bus depot became available in this milestone, cemetery is essential for life heh.
2022-09-05T04:15:00Z Busy Town population 3.6k.
Fire helicopter depot became available in this milestone, this is must have to any large city, when you have traffic jams and fires, helicopters are a life savers. Two lane road with trees, this is my go-to local road, wont be using it now because shitty WINTER terrain. Oil industry specialization available.
Saved game for Icy_Lands_4 file name which is the last of the four rotating file names.
2022-09-05T04:29:00Z Restored remaining budgets to 100% which is the normal.
2022-09-05T04:38:00Z Big Town population 5.5k.
High density zones, metro, incineration plant, intercity bus, university and large warehouse are now available.
2022-09-05T04:52:00Z Small City population 7.5k.
This milestone gives us cargo train terminal, train station (passengers!) and two good policies. Activated small business enthusiast and big business benefactor policies.
Need to expand beyond the highway, so demolished old intersection and created brand new cloverleaf intersection in its place.
2022-09-05T05:10:00Z Created cargo train terminal, lets haul some cargo.
2022-09-05T05:34:00Z Big City population 13k.
Crematorium, large water tower and advanced inland water treatment plant are now available. Ran out of money heh, budget finit 
2022-09-05T05:53:00Z Created passenger train station, gotta get the newbies into the city faster without private cars.
2022-09-05T06:18:00Z Grand City population 16k.
Check out these metro lines, cool huh? 
2022-09-05T06:47:00Z Capital City population 26k.
Passenger and cargo harbor is now available, passenger is a must have for incoming citizens.
2022-09-05T06:52:00Z Alarm went off for a lunch break, uuyaah.
2022-09-05T07:20:00Z Feeding time is over, back to city building.
2022-09-05T07:28:00Z Colossal City population 34k.
This milestone gives nuclear power plant and cargo hub (ship + train terminal).
2022-09-05T08:37:00Z Metropolis population 50k. This actually triggered when I was in the head
This milestone gave us airports, hmm was considering maybe I could learn / train with airports in this crappy WINTER terrain, but nah it just burns perfectly good population growing time from me, maybe another time. Hopefully some of the normal terrains I could play properly and do airport as well.
2022-09-05T09:18:00Z Megalopolis population 65k.
Mega mega.
2022-09-05T09:34:00Z Haven't been able to track hours, but this savegame seems like its progressing slowly, its been interesting to play but feels like its taking too long. Maybe I'm just imagening it dunno.
Honestly I was bored of growing the city, waiting for it to grow, so as one of our industrial areas had fertile land on it... I decided to create "zoned industry farming" there. While I wait. No big deal.
One progress screenshot before this savegame is done.
For more boredom, decided to try this kind of looping one way road system around industrial area, in one side, out other side.
2022-09-05T10:50:00Z Aah finally done, 100k population yeah, I'm done with another WINTER crap terrain
2022-09-05T10:51:00Z And now I'm off to watch TV to relax a bit. Saved game and shutdown Cities Skylines, adios.