Entry 13: Fittingly Unlucky!

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Entry posted by 89James89 · March 31, 2019

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raynev1: Thanks. I really like the map creation and terraforming part so I'm glad its coming across well!

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Entry 13: Fittingly Unlucky!

So, welcome back to Harrington where we have some interesting developments that might not have gone totally to plan. You see, last time when we were visiting Smallbay, apparently a small group of people in Harrington were discussing the idea of moving their business enterprises to another purpose built area, complete with a new port and all.

Anyuway, they had found some suitable land and all so, given that pretty much any land is up for grabs around here if you build on it they quickly did, You see as a bit of a outlay for the plan it was fairly simple. One side of the part of the bay they'd chosen was enticing for the factory owners of the group as it had a lot of flat land and was perfect for a load of factories and a decent sized port for the area. The other side of the bay however didn't have the coastline to support a port and as such would be used for farming and production to process in the factories.And both would be close neough to Harrignton to be viable as a workplace by ways of the local ferries.

Sounds likes a plan right?

Well apparently, wrong.

You see this is how the enterprise looks at the moment.

Eastbank with the port and some factories.

Westbank with the farmland.

As you can see it was a bit of a disaster. The whole thing is, at the moment surviving barely with a break even city balance. Add to that the rampant unemployment in Eastbank, with people arriving to live in the small prefabs that the companies have built, only to find the jobs taken by people from out of town and little to no interest in developing the rest of the industrial space.

Meanwhile in Westbank, there just isn't any demand for anything and a unstable power supply means that its prone to rolling blackouts every now and then.

Certainly not the roaring success they were hoping for!

Now, a luck would have it (after they finished snickering at the failure of the enterprise anyway), the Harrington Town Council had seen the benefits of having an actual port to export the surplus stuff they didn't need and, despite the constant assurances of Mr Goodship, the current owner of the port in Harrington, anyone with half a brain could see that the small port there would become overwhelmed eventually. No, better to get ahead of the game with this one and as such they came up with a plan that would hopefully help in struggling enterprise in the form of a land based road (used in the most liberal of terms as you'll soon see) connection, starting off, of course with a ferry link to the other side of the river Harring.

Moving on into the first of Harringtons satelitte settlements, Kinsen, which, although still beholden to the whims of Harrignton Town Council, has its own small council formed of a few influential and slightly questionable people. As such, you'll be able to see below that providing you have the right amount of money, you can build whatever you want pretty much anywhere you want. At least the journey to work is pretty short for the most part!

Unfortunately, pretty mych everything else is short as well, including healthcare and education which, is probably not the best thing given that somebody had the brainwave of providing a place for everyone to dispose of their rubbish (for a price of course).

Don't you just love the smell of burning plastic in the morning!

Other than that there's not that much in Kinsen, with a few farms, giving the still growing and questionable Kinsen a very wide berth, as the planned road winds its way towards The Banks (as we'll refer to East and West bank) having completely lost its credibility as an actual road, shortly after leaving Kinsen.

Then going on to completely disappear as it enters the area known as Needle Point where, some bright spark decided that the construction of a lighthouse on the outcrop here was a better use of the towns money and time.

Needless to say, promises were made to The Banks that this would only be a small delay and necessary for the safe functioning of the upcoming port.

That however was several years ago now and since then, the tiny village of Needle Point, numbering just over 100 people making it significantly smaller than both The Banks and Smallbay, has received more funding than the road link has.

Still, there's hope yet, apparently someone has recently found the agreement documents which were being used to prop up a dodgy table leg so we'll have to see what comes of that!

Up until that point however, I guess we'll just plod on as usual, much like these fishermen in Smallbay are.

Also here's a updated regional view so you can see where the new developments are (and because frankly, I love regional views).

Till next time!

(OOC: So this was a bit of a weird one, I started Eastbank with the full expectation of a normal town growing up as usual but it didn't happen. Basically all the demand is completely messed up. No idea why as the other tiles are fine but I have a couple of ideas to try and solve it so we'll have to see.

At least it makes for a interesting and unexpected twist to the narrative I thought we were going to go with.)