Port de Pérouse

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Author: JR

Last revision: 21 Nov, 2021 at 03:57 UTC

File size: 8.4 MB

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Link to a one click collection of mods and assets: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2762172938

This is my entry to the City Planner Plays One Tile Contest. It is a city on an island chain off the north west of New Caledonia and was inspired by that and my home nation of New Zealand. I also wanted to mimic reality as much as possible especially with regards to topography and rail grades. The name of the city is derived from the french explorer Jean-François de La Pérouse whom discovered the island.

– Rico has been used to redistribute my population, and I have taken care to match my new pop to the old one as much as possible (to within 1,000-2,000 cims)
– I asked a moderator about adding extra islands and they said it was fine how I have them.

About me:
This is the first time I have used any mods and most of my previously owned dlc, so thank you for helping me learn and for the challenge!

Backstory:

The island chain was dubbed Nouvelles îles d’Albi early in 1787 after Jean-François’s birthplace of Albi, France and the largest island in the chain was settled as an important stopping over port for French Merchants in a sea of British and Dutch hegemony. During the Fourth War of the Coalition against France, 400 British troops arrived from New South Wales and took the island from a minimal French resistance. The British fortified the island to deny France further access to her Pacific trade routes. After the Battle of Waterloo, the two came to blows over the island with a military confrontation avoided as Britain turned her interests elsewhere (cough cough, India). Look for the commemorative guns around the island.
The island’s main local income was fishing (along the Three Waters) and later farming, the products of which were sold to passing ships. In 1901, the island’s long dormant volcano violently erupted, destroying much of the land to the islands West and killing the volcano. In the aftermath the French considered abandoning the islands of New Albi in favour of the up and coming New Caledonia.
Port de Pérouse was thus relegated to being a testing station for new french inventions like tidal-powered electrical generation, eco-water treatment plants and ocean-rubbish filtering.
During the first half of the 21st century, world famous and bestselling author Arthur Châtaigne wrote a series of alternate history novels based on a global financial crash and how it affected the world, especially his beloved homelands. (Inspired by me losing 8 hours of building progress and a subsequent budget blowout to a crash). In recognition of his achievements a suburb and prominent new park was named after him.
In 2097, a surveyor found her way onto the island and discovered that the island held sway over a large area of ocean full of oil at considerable depth. The French government raced in and funded a complete rebuild of the islands infrastructure, despite no one knowing quite how deep the oil reserves are.

Edit:
Due to running out of time, there are some minor tweaks you might want to make.
– The budget is running at a slight deficit. This is because it is set to my afk budget before I worked on the map for 12 hours. To make a profit, just knock the medical and fire budgets down slightly (10% or so should work). Power and water are also safe bets.
– The night time budget is not set, whoops. Mirroring daytime budget is fine.
– I was not sure if Unlimited Oil and Ore was allowed so i played with it off. If you are planning on running this for a while you might want to turn it on or periodically and artificially replace the oil. Story wise it would make sense for it to run out though so its not a big deal.