So lets go. Dedicated to all the lurkers.
Once upon a time...
...after many years spending all his hardly stolen money in some unknown but beachy fiscal paradise Thorgalaeg returned to old Fort Consternation looking for more, and according to bad tongues, because some homesickness feelings too.
However after a first look at the city it was obvious that there was not much to steal there, with all those skanky empty buildings and a lot less
servants population around, the city looked abandoned and poor, not pretty girls in bikini skating at his beloved beachfront anymore, only poor and ugly low-class workers.
Impressed by the situation he first thought of a nuclear war or a comet, but after reading some old newspapers found in the bin, he learnt it all was product of his illustrious predecessor´s administration, mayor Peck aka "The Hellish Plumber" and his cataclismic hellish plumbing works.
"The way to hell is paved with good intentions, like mommy always said" Thorgalaeg though. So, since fixing things was not in his nature, much on the contrary, he decided to leave FC and find another place in better shape and with more money.
Just some kilometers southward the found this little town called "New Eden". At first he felt attracted by such name but after some inspection it was obvious the place was only some small houses populated by a bunch of rednecks plus some potatoes fields. And the worst part was THERE WERE NOT BEACHES THERE!!!
Obviosuly the place didnt deserve its name, so Thorgalaeg decided to turn it into what really was: "New Hellhole".
Some dirty industries would do the work. So remembering his old alias "mountain remover" earned when the was mayor at FC, some mountains were removed.
And all the place filled up with roads, the biggest and more expensive, the better. Not a single coin would remain in the city pockets when he retired. Of course he highways were properly connected to FC, so he could escape quickly from the angry mob if needed, and after being inspired by some mystic dreams produced by some mushrooms found on the potato fields, Thorgalaeg decided to interconnect it all using one-way roads. mostly to see what would happen.
Next the gaps were filled with industrial zones.
The messed up and leading nowhere roads built by New Eden founder mythmonster aka Lord of the Chaos were also somewhat unmessed. To feed the growing industries a large water pump and a new power station were built, and the older water pump, which was not in the best place, demolished.
The train network was also expanded and adapted to the big highways, which was not a easy thing to do BTW.
Curiously and unexpectly the humungus industrial zone was growing quickly, packed with new industries and generating lots of jobs. However not a single new residential zone was built in New Eden. Only the same few thousand rednecks who already were working at the potato fields where still living there... In fact it was the poor and desperated people of FC who came to New Eden to work at the new industries!
All those industries generated lots of junk, which were piled on the hill remaining in the middle of the industrial zone. A firefighter landfield was built in the top as the cherry on the cake. From that point the cliff was imaginatively called by the astonished rednecks "the big garbage mountain with an airport on the top"
New Eden finances were not very clean either. While the industries paid good money enough to keep all the expensive infrastructures up and working, the workers didnt reside there, so the town got half the money it would have gain in a normal situation. The previsible outcome was that, while not bankrupted yet, New Eden pockets were becoming almost empty.
So, after five years, New Eden turned from a idyllic rural town rounded by nice natural fresh hills where some rich farmers lived, into an industrial hellole full of noisy foreign urbanites plus some impoverished natives.
Obviously Thorgalaeg's administration was unfairly blamed by the situation and finally the typical mob of furious rednecks armed with pitchforks and scythes assaulted Thorgalaeg office. Of course a hyperfast and hypershiny red Ferrari bought with public funds was ready at the back street and Thorgalaeg managed to escape northwards back to Fort Consternation easily. The new superhighways are awesome!
New Eden:
Cash:
$496 (-$256,853)
Population:
3487 (-82)
Surplus/month: $759
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Meamwhile at Fort Consternation population was growing quickly thanks to the new jobs created in the 'auxiliar city'
New Eden New Hellhole.
However when mayor Thorgalaeg arrived from New Eden, there were still some room for "improvement". There were lots of big ugly blackish and empty buildings everywhere which made the views really distasteful.
So he decided his whole administration would be expended in demolishing all the empty buildings, be it comercial or residential.
In fact all the money the city was producing thanks to mayor calad's draconian budgetary measures was going to be used to destroy whole neighbourhoods.
Demolition of some huge concrete monsters were really costly but needed since Mayor Thorgalaeg believed the people of Fort Consternation required some lessons on being humble, so all those shiny cristal titans would be leveled.
All demolitions generated loads of polution, and people apparently didnt like to see his city destroyed, but while surveys showed people opinion was going down, population was going up, and quickly.
The five years passed in an eyeblink among explosions and dust clouds, a lot of money was spent and a lot of building went down. But the skyline is much less blackish now and there is plenty room for new buildings.
Less empty buildings means also more money so secondary services like roads, transsit, utilities education and healthcare can be properly funded again.
Meamwhile Thorgalaeg, fomerly known as 'mayor beachboy' or 'the mountain remover' is now known as 'Demolition Man' (or as he likes to call himself 'The Great Destroyer').
(ejem, if you look carefully, pics are not correlative in time, it is not that important however since all i have done the whole term is to demolish empty buildings)
So,finally the City is reaching pre-plumbing population levels. New Eden is doing a good service to FC. It would be nice to have both cities since now one would not work without the other. So i will post the link to the whole region:
Fort Consternation:
Cash:
$7547 (+$1133)
Population:
457,354 (+32%)
Surplus/month:
$6070 (-$983)
LINK to region file.