Entry 23: And we thought death waves were bad!
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Ln X: Thanks and I have no idea. I just used the level tool as normal and it seemed to work for me. Not sure why it doesn't work for you? It did take quite a lot of fiddling around though.
Entry 23: And we thought death waves were bad!
Well as you can probably tell from the title this entry isn't exactly going to be a bed of roses for us. Apparently death waves have a much meaner cousin!
Read on to find out more!
Collapsing infrastructure: A happy bedtime story!
Well it all started off well enough. Our engineers had recently decided that being able to build tunnels was a useful feature and had wasted no time in improving the roads with them. Below you can see some lovely images of these new tunnels in use firstly by the new port (which allows people to leave the industrial area without having to actually go through the port.) and the second on the entrance into the centre of Gabtoria to help relieve traffic that was building up.
Anyway, this was all lovely and the Gabtorian's all rejoiced.
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Well ok, it would be safe to say that the Gabtorians that were left rejoiced.
Unfortunately, this is what the latest reports were showing us.
Well....... ummmmm. ….....Yer I don't even know......
Apparently taking a closer look at the situation reveals that the culprit is everyone suddenly realising that there land value apparently isn't high enough to actually warrant the upkeep of their homes.
Apparently this also recently become a big deal (and by recently I mean overnight) as about a third of our population has abandoned us.
Also as you can see in the above image this has led to a rather large drop in our income. As it was I'd rather luckily been a bit frugal with the treasury and we still had quite a stash of cash to fall back on as our city and economy basically collapsed in on itself.
Several months later and we were beginning to look like a certain city in the US.
Also I have no idea what happened to it but apparently at some point my house disappeared along with a lot of the parks that were outside it.
Luckily though, we still had the money to replace my house and its grounds/city park (screw the whole money loss thing, I have to live somewhere).
Anyway, safe and sound in my rebuilt palace it was time to actually try and sort this thing out. Apparently though although the mass abandonment had slowed down it had created even less desirable places to live as everywhere was abandoned.
As such we had to take drastic action and demolish every abandoned building in the city.
As you can see, we weren't kidding when we said we were gutting everything. Ln'xham (seen above) was one of the better preserved areas too. On the plus side though this has provided tonnes of reclaimable resources to continue our low cost housing projects (which amazingly enough lived perfectly happily in the city through this whole crisis. In fact there were even some new ones built, some which had some rather familiar looking red bricks used in them!)
Please note: At this point I would also like to apologise for the several hundred citizens that arrived home from work to find out that we may have accidentally signed a demolition permit on their perfectly good dwelling. My bad!
Anyway with the city gutted, our population started to head back up as cheap land became available. This apparently also encouraged companies to to move back into the area as shown by the tallest building in the city (and nation) being built in the recent boom after the collapse.
This boom came just at the right time as well as we were beginning to look a little light on cash as you can see in the next image which, also shows some obviously warranted and expensive changes to the port that were carried out in this cash tight times (why the hell do I not read planning propositions?). You can also see our attempt at drawing people back to the city in the background but more on that in the future.
Anyway with this all done and the city recovering again it was time to take a look at the cost of it all.
Taking into account the stupid amount spent on the port changes (someone's getting fired for even subjecting the planning proposal for that!) and the fixes we had to do in some places.
The total cost of the whole city wide collapse was around 3.5million.
Ouch.
Anyway with it recovering again I think I need to take another holiday to relax.
Till next time
Crown Prince James
(OOC: Ok so I have no idea what the hell happened here to be honest. Basically I updated the game with the official patch, opened up the city and the land value on most residential buildings went through the floor and took ages to recover.
I seriously did think at one point that the city was finished and we'd have to start again or something, but luckily it seems to have recovered. The only thing I could think of that might have caused it is that it seems that when the game updates, it deletes a number of custom parks that I had built around the city.
All in all though I think that it's the only issue that I'm having with the update. All of the mods seem to be working fine (including traffic++ that I know some people were having issues with) and there didn't seem to be any menu lag at all.
As such (and added to the fact that now Gabtoria is filled with low level residents again which was the idea all along), with the tunnels added it seems to have been worth the hassle to have the update features.
Anyway with you all probably knackered form having to read this text wall I'll leave you to have a look at the pictures.
Hope you all enjoyed the crisis!
Cheers
James)
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