Stories 2022-08-27 The Eyeland Game-play
2022-08-27T21:42:00Z Started savegame on The Eyeland, all train outside connections and natural resources, suitable area for building 62%, base theme: temperate.
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
In this terrain savegame I'm going to use extra landscaping tools to create good natural resources for farming, forestry, oil and ore where I need them and create those specialized zoned industry (no DLC).
Oh shit this is horrible looking islands terrain. Oh well lets see if we can get to 100k population as fast as possible 
First used 81 tiles addon to open all terrain grid tiles to be used.
Okay here is my starter kit.
2022-08-27T21:52:00Z Unpaused the game, lets start this thing.
Turned roads, electric and water budget to 50%, we need to save money.
2022-08-27T22:00:00Z Little Hamlet population 500.
Turned on taxes to 12% for industrial, low density residential and commercial.
First save game for The_Eyeland_1 file name.
Slowly growing.
2022-08-27T22:10:00Z Worthy Village population 1k.
Created my first districts for PMC Residential 1, PMC Industrial 1 and PMC Commercial 1. Placed fire station, police station and health clinic.
Saved game for The_Eyeland_2 file name.
2022-08-27T22:20:00Z Tiny Town population 1.5k.
Replaced PMC Industrial 1 district roads with industry road type (small for local and medium for collector). Placed warehouse yard to PMC Industrial 1 district, set it to commercial goods and named it PMC Goods WH 1.
Replaced beginning part of arterial road with actual six lane asphalt road. Replaced PMC Residential 1 collector road with four lane asphalt road to the first intersection.
I am in short of money so need to reserve my budget.
2022-08-27T22:39:00Z Created PMC Forestry 1 district with forest designation, zoned industry, no industries DLC main buildings here, too complicated, did that in the previous savegame.
Started to use two lane asphalt roads for residential areas from now on.
2022-08-27T22:52:00Z Boom Town population 2.6k.
Cemetery and bus depot became available in this milestone, cemetery is essential for life heh.
Saved game for The_Eyeland_3 file name.
2022-08-27T22:56:00Z Restored budget to 100%, cant be bothered to chase my tail with it every few minutes. Well not exactly but lower budget for roads, electricity and water did its job, now its back to normal.
2022-08-27T22:58:00Z Placed first high school using "institute of creative arts" with student capacity 2349.
Generic industry and specialized industry aka zoned industry done for forestry and ore.
For some reason extra landscaping tool was UNABLE to paint fertile land properly, it did a little bit but it was "not working". Sucks. You had to first erase ore and oil, but there was nothing with forest as guess it comes from the tree objects. I tried deleting bunch of them but still a no go.
2022-08-27T23:28:00Z Busy Town population 4.6k.
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.
Saved game for The_Eyeland_4 file name which is the last of the four rotating file names.
Had to google extra landscaping tools fertile land, the tool cant suck that bad where you cannot paint farmland correctly... Found info that there is some terrain creation image with RGB color channels where you paint forest, if terrain dev is doing forest this way then fertile land painting brush is never going to work. Well that sucks. Oh well guess I'll build my proper farmland zoned industry a bit more to the north lateron.
Painted oil terrain type down and then created quick PMC Oil 1 district with specialized industry aka zoned industry.
2022-08-27T23:59:00Z Now its my lunch time, saved game and let it run 3x speed while I eat, hopefully nothing breaks.
2022-08-28T00:21:00Z Feeding time is over, back to city building.
During feeding residential remand skyrocketed, its 100% on RCI info bar now. Lets build some more houses.
2022-08-28T00:32:00Z Big Town population 7k.
High density zones, metro, incineration plant, university and large warehouse are now available.
2022-08-28T00:57:00Z PMC Oil 1 industrial district starts to come up finally.
2022-08-28T00:58:00Z Small City population 9k.
This milestone gives us cargo train station and two good policies. Activated small business enthusiast and big business benefactor policies.
2022-08-28T01:44:00Z Big City population 14k.
Crematorium, large water tower and advanced inland water treatment plant are now available.
2022-08-28T01:54:00Z Grand City population 17k.
2022-08-28T02:07:00Z Capital City population 26k.
Cargo harbor is now available.
Switched this whole long highway part into six lane arterial road so I can link up collector roads to it along the narrow "peninsula" or whatever that land mass is. Currenly population 32k and expecting it to balloon to victory numbers once high density residentials are in place.
2022-08-28T02:53:00Z PMC Residential 5 district foundations created. Here we go.
2022-08-28T02:59:00Z Colossal City population 36k.
This milestone gives nuclear power plant and cargo hub (ship + train terminal).
Look at the stream of people moving into our city 
Should probably arrange some sort of mass transit thingy, but nah, lazy.. 
2022-08-28T03:24:00Z PMC Oil 1 industrial district and others too were full of raw materials or products, they were saying "not enough buyers for products", warehouses were full, for example I have THREE large 750 ton warehouses full of shit right now. So I'm testing with PMC Oil 1 district now to set its large warehouse in transfer manager ce to allow outside connection export. Immediately semi-trucks started to deliver oil products to outside connection aka "exporting oil products".
2022-08-28T03:28:00Z Metropolis population 50k.
Managed to get all "not enough buyers for products" issues resolved, not exactly sure what did it, I only did whats said above, maybe it was an cascade effect like traffic which can cause completely unrelated issues. Like oil district has choking up because cant sell stuff and the... well dunno, fuck I don't know heheh. Anyways, oil is now exporting and some reason all industry areas are A-OK.
PMC Farming 2 zoned industry district is coming up, lets make some jobs.
2022-08-28T04:24:00Z Megalopolis population 65k.
Last milestone done, now we just go after the population goal.
Whoah, what have I done again, traffic jam, while it does flow... percentage is quite low and that red is shockingly long towards to the terrain edges 
Hmm and I thought to have kept my industry and commercial buildings in check, hmm hmm.
Found one culprit of our slow deliveries, this was a huge bottle neck as there was bad lane selections, AI got confused with them and in three lane highway only used one lane in that short segment, now they use three again and we are rolling, fast.
2022-08-28T04:58:00Z Saved game and will let things settle down a bit over time, the delivery truck traffic is pretty intense but not yet "traffic jam". I'm going to grab a bite to eat while things are running by themselves.
2022-08-28T05:26:00Z Feeding time is over, back to city things.
Well during away time things actually got worse, traffic was on one lane in the long arterial road and it was bumper to bumper, hmm.
2022-08-28T05:43:00Z Created passenger ship harbor, this is good for the people who are moving into the city.
Ahoy matey!
Was wondering why are our large warehouses full 750 tons of commercial zone goods and many of the commercial buildings are importing goods from outside connection, so I did "map wide" transfer manager ce config to disallow outside connect imports on "commercial type" buildings. Lets see if our warehouses and generic industry runs out of goods now, if it even works.
Transfer Manager CE, options for general import, disabled for goods. Now lets see if this helps our commercial buildings to only use local source for goods products.
2022-08-28T07:36:00Z Whoah was still investigating and learning about transfer manager ce outside connections import blocking, when noticed that hey 103k population already!
Yeah we are done here heh.
2022-08-28T07:37:00Z Saved game and shutdown Cities Skylines, time to relax before bed time.