Northstar, 7 October: a larger bus depot, free feeder and a new hearse dispatch

On 7 October Northstar received several small, confirmed changes to transport and services: a bus depot was extended, an existing rail feeder bus became free, a cycling policy was activated in four districts, and a crematorium was given an additional service area. The readbacks show that the measures were carried out. They do not show a city that is permanently free of queues, two million residents held, or a proven CPU improvement.

The report day runs from 22:00 UTC on 6 October to 22:00 UTC on 7 October, which is 7 October in Europe/Berlin. All times below are UTC.

Population and economy: fluctuation, not a held milestone

Population at the first and last stored reading of the day was about 1.79 million; the exact values are in the table. Two million was not reached in this series. The difference between the endpoints is neither a midnight balance nor a migration balance, and it is no proof that any measure caused it.

The working target is a population band around two million, with a tolerance of 15 percent. The original milestone asks for a population above that mark at under 30 percent CPU; being inside the band does not complete it. A population decline does not count as optimisation even if it lowers the computing load.

Utilities

The last utility reading, at 21:59, reports electricity generation at about twice consumption. Water and sewage consumption each stand below the reported capacity. The exact values are in the table. They are documented game values, not converted watt or litre figures, and generation and capacity are different quantities. The citywide totals do not show trouble-free supply to every single building; regional service reports have to be checked separately.

Western bus capacity: a depot extension

Bus 7 was first raised by two vehicles. The newly assigned buses were still driving to the depot, while Bus 1 reported one vehicle fewer than before and a vehicle shortage. No causing allocation rule is proven. The observation was a reason to set Bus 7 back to seven vehicles and to check the depot reserve instead of requesting more buses.

An additional garage was then built at the existing depot. The readback in the early evening confirmed it as active, with nominal capacity rising by ten places. The local check found the existing buildings and complete network geometries preserved. Shortly afterwards neither Bus 1 nor Bus 7 reported a vehicle shortage.

The higher nominal capacity does not mean that every added place is filled with an available bus. After the extension, several parked, unassigned buses were observed temporarily, later fewer, and in the last depot sample none. A lasting reserve is therefore still open, and the extension does not show that queues eased.

Eastern station: the feeder becomes free

Bus 8 already connected the surroundings of metro line 1 with the eastern station. Its fare was set to zero in the afternoon. The readback at 17:31 confirmed free operation, the same stops and an unchanged line length. No new line, road or stop was built. The aim was to remove the remaining fare barrier at this existing transfer. Fewer cars or more riders on the full rail-bus-metro chain are not yet shown.

Four districts promote cycling

In the evening the Urban Cycling Initiative policy was activated in West Abholkorridor, Kaiser Nord Abholung, West Mitte Abholung and West Ostflanke Abholung, where it had been inactive before. A late check at 20:45 confirmed it in all four. No roads or stops were changed. Existing footpaths alone do not prove usable cycle routes, and the stored modifiers change selection probabilities; they are not measured shares of avoided car trips.

Four small, fully paired street windows gave this comparison:

"Congested" here means only streets with a native flow index below 0.5. The indices are dimensionless and historically mixed; they measure neither current travel times nor vehicles per hour. Roughly eleven to twelve minutes separated the first and last sample in each area.

The result is mixed: the mean index rose slightly in some windows and fell in others. No clear relief is shown, and the table is not a controlled test. A small gain would not prove success, nor a small loss prove that the policy has no effect.

Kaiser Nord: fees, recycling and a new dispatch

At 21:39 a street parking fee of one game currency unit, the smallest permitted value, and the recycling policy were confirmed in Kaiser Nord Abholung. The stored recycling modifier of minus ten percent waste production is a game setting, not a measured drop in waste trips or completed pickups.

The Westfeld crematorium also received Kaiser Nord as an additional service area, keeping Mess Westfeld and Westbogen and the citywide fallback. A nearby other facility already had more waiting deceased than buffer places and was assigned to other areas, while Westfeld had free buffer and parked hearses. Proximity alone had not ensured regional pickup.

The follow-up sample at 21:57 showed a new hearse job from Westfeld to a building in Kaiser Nord that belonged to the previously recorded regional warning group. The same hearse had been parked and without a destination. That confirms a locally fitting dispatch. Arrival, an actual pickup, return and completed processing were not yet shown by that sample, and the last fleet sample with no parked hearses does not support a claim of a lasting free reserve.

Road plans: calculated benefits remain unbuilt

A limited model of an additional northern link gave, for its simplified stop anchors, roughly 23 percent less distance. A second modelled link did not automatically resolve the shared downstream bottleneck. These calculations refer to limited, frozen graphs; they are not observed bus routes or measured travel-time gains.

The northern road link was not built: both examined drafts would have removed residential buildings directly, while wider consequences for the surroundings were only partly listed. A proposed double public-transport lane also stayed unchanged because the extensive changes and property consequences were not fully available. This is a protective decision, not evidence that added drainage routes are useless.

CPU

The separately delivered performance file holds more than 2,700 original watchdog readings and one stated gap. The stored points carry a process identifier, a world identifier, the selected speed level and no readings marked as paused, though unnoticed changes between readings remain possible. CPU and frame differences across speed, pause, process, world or gap boundaries are not used as comparable windows.

No isolated controlled evidence of lower CPU time per unit of simulation work exists for the individual measures, so the CPU target is not accepted as sustainably reached. Selected speed is a setting; effective speed is only a diagnostic. The last stored reading with effective speed reports 0.88 at selected level 1, at 21:59. It is a diagnostic point, not a held speed.

Where things stand

Open are real arrivals and runs of the additional buses, completed regional pickups, and a fully checked alternative road route. A CPU improvement needs comparable windows with real simulation progress. The latest dispatch described is from 21:57; later developments belong to the next report. The daily file holds 69 discrete population points and one stated grid gap; labour-market fields are jointly present at only some of them, and missing fields stay unknown.