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Cityville is the largest city in Morcup County.

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A small new town was founded one rainy summer between Lakeland and the edge of the world. There's not much to it, and nobody really wants to build their house there. Another small town was made outside Lakeland. Here is the back side of Morcup County. This is a large park that will not be developed, but it did get a rail line and single lane highway built through it recently. A school of engineering was founded. Another milestone in office buildings. When many of Cityville's neighborhoods were first laid...
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400,000 People

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Welcome back to Cityville. Let's start out with some more recent transit maps. Here is Lakeland. And Cityville. The transit system is adequate, but could be better. There is talk of adding some subway lines underneath the busier roads. On a good day, trips by transit come near trips by private car. That's a lot of money. Better demolish some buildings to make way for a graduate school. Oh look, 400k people. The official photographer was on vacation when the milestone was crossed, so this was the...
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Continued Growth

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An update came out to NewCity. Among other things, trees can be planted, and there are different types of trees now. New neighborhoods are springing up all around the former forests of Lakeland. Looking across downtown from Cityhill Timber Bay was developing some traffic issues. They were solved by adding another set of ramps from the highway. I messed with the FOV slider for this shot. Mostly I have been playing at 20 degrees FOV, but this shot was taken at 5 degrees. Evening train. A convention center...
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Here is the growing area around Railroad Lake. Crime is a major problem, so the government focused on adding more clinics. Traffic can get heavy at times during the morning commute. Some fancy new apartments recently opened near downtown. Some money was saved up and a new school was added to Lakeland University. Some of the last flat lands near downtown were recently opened up for residential development. After a construction boom came a hiring boom. Unemployment has dropped as a result. Things are...
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A new neighborhood was laid out between the community college, highway, and a train station. Students frequently complain about the distance between the train stop and their classes. No solution has been proposed yet. Over 40% of people in Morcup County have a high school diploma. That means more factories. Pollution is starting to get bad in the new industrial areas. The Windmill of Knowledge is still Lakeland's tallest structure. Cityville is on the left, Timber Bay on the right. There is still...
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Big Spending

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The medical school still didn't have enough professors to open a proper Phd program 2 years after opening. A town meeting was called about the problem. After much debate, it was decided to allow a Windmill of Knowledge to be built. It's not accredited with any higher education agency, but it does churn out Phds without requiring any prefessors. It's not really a windmill, it's more of a diploma mill. Ok, so I went into the building editor and made a cheap solution to my lack of doctorate degrees. Next...
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200,000 People

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Lakeland University got a dorm tower. To help with the crime situation, the school of medicine was chosen to be the founding program. Unfortunately, the few doctors in the region are already in higher paying positions, so the school has yet to hold any classes. The view is pleasant though. Here is a neighborhood in Cityville. Morning above the Clipper Lake bridges. Here is the traffic heatmap. Travel times are long in the region due to distance, not congestion. The transit system continues to expand...
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A New Tax

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People began complaining about the lack of mass transit in and around Cityville. This is what they got (also higher taxes to pay for it). The first apartments are built. Lack of education is still still present in the region, but things are improving. The university has still not been built. Here is a map view of much of the region With the new bus lines, mass transit usage has gone up. The beautiful Pine Peninsula was sold to a developer and they wasted no time in building a new subdivision. This...
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Sprawl

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Development continues in Cityville. Winter was particularly strong this year. The region of Morcup has no police stations. There is some crime though, so a jail was built outside of Timber Bay. Bus loops were added around CiytHill Boulevard. A look toward the future college town that will be founded when the budget allows for it. After 10 long years of existence, Morcup built a museum to preserve its history. A rainy summer evening And that's it for this entry.
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100,000 People

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As the region approached 100,000 people, it became time to focus a little less on agriculture, and invest in some schools, libraries, and a technical college. A university was even offered to the region. It will come in to play later on. McLovin finally got train service. Taxes are still low, but so are services. It's time to develop this area to reach 100k people. Here's the view from the new area of Rascal Flats. A snapshot of the region at 100k people.
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Welcome back to the region of Morcup. Better name still pending. There is still over a billion dollars left in the budget and it's 1952, so we might as well spend the money before inflation makes it worth less. Here is the proposed bridge across a narrow portion of Clipper Lake. Finally a supermarket in the area. There is still only one school in all of the region. Most people work in agriculture. The layout of the region is starting to take shape.
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At 50,000 people, a mansion was built for the mayor. It has plenty of open space around it... for now. A new train line opened, but with service once an hour, it is not expected to be of use to many people at this time. Around this time, it was decided that McLovin should receive the region's second school. Unfortunately, the years of neglecting education meant that there were no teachers to work at the school. A technical college was built, but it is unstaffed as well.
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Here is what has happened today... I mean, in 1952. The Bread Lake area has developed some. The town of Timber Bay was founded nearby the Old Trussty railroad bridge. I ran out of demand for agriculture, so I developed the transportation networks enough to build a neighborhood near the future downtown area. Here's a map view of this ridiculous interchange. The railroad and highway over Dandle Pass was recently completed. Space for suburbs and satellite towns. A suburb is born
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A New Region

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I learned a lot from Cityville. So much so that I wanted to start a new city/region. Cityville was 100x100 chunks, this new region is 125x125. I don't have a name for the region yet, so I'm just calling it Morcup. I'm planning on having several cities spread across the map. I changed the starting funds to $2 billion and used accelerated start (all road and rail types unlocked from the start). This is the first area I developed- called Buttercup Junction. It is a farming town on the edge of the map. ...
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Summer of 77- The Stadium

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At 500,000 people, it was decided that a stadium should be built. A little bit of eminent domain was required. The location couldn't get much better. The stadium brought crime. Moving on, more roads were built through the plains outside the city. Further development is stalled until the area is named. The Blue Train Line was extended to the edge of the world recently, but the trains still run mostly empty. What a view. Sprawl Farmville is one of the region's two farming centers. It has not expanded in...
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