Northstar on 14 October: fewer burial alerts, fewer residents

On 14 October Northstar lost most of its visible burial alerts while its population kept falling. The stored problem overview showed far fewer hearse icons in the evening than in the morning, and the population fell between the two city overviews. The observations do not show how much each measure contributed, nor the full cause of the decline. All times below are UTC and refer to the Berlin calendar day.

Population and jobs moved apart

The two overviews are timed samples within the day, not a midnight balance.

Nearly one million citizens listed as moving in are not additional actual residents and not a guaranteed future population. The lower unemployment rate is a positive reading, but it does not show that everyone affected found work or that new offices slowed the decline. An early housing sample read new houses as healthy, with positive road, power, water and sewage connections and residents assigned. That is local progress, not a net gain for the whole city.

Zoning: homes first, then offices

The building agent took over operations in the morning. At first it repainted nearly 4,000 cells to low-density North American housing. The job summaries show observed execution, full read-back of the cells and no buildings reported condemned afterwards. Painted cells are not guaranteed free building plots, so the figure is neither a house count nor a capacity.

Later the work shifted to offices: in two rounds, roughly 4,000 cells were repainted to high-density offices. The higher job count later in the day shows the labour market changed; it cannot be assigned entirely to these areas. The stored logs cap some group outputs, so a falling remainder of parcels does not yield an exact count of new buildings.

Cemeteries, garages and crematoria

A stored inventory covered the cemeteries of the main type, nearly all of them over capacity. Read one after another, the occupied places clearly exceeded the capacity places, and only a handful of the nominal fleet places were reported in use. These sums are not an atomic snapshot.

The building agent replaced most of these cemeteries and, late in the evening, a further group of full ones. These were replacements in two rounds, not additional sites, and the base cost in the table below is not the total of the day's spending. Demolishing a full cemetery is not a documented regular processing of its occupants, so the earlier occupancy must not be presented as cases handled that day. Existing extra grave fields were not automatically carried over either, so a fresh empty buffer is not lasting capacity.

The building agent also added many hearse garages. Two complete building lists show about 180 and later about 230 garage objects of that type. These are counts at different times, not a measurement of each addition, and extra parking places are not vehicles that are out and serving.

Six new crematoria were built; their base construction cost excludes furnaces, cold rooms and garages. They targeted pickup and processing hotspots in the west and the area called the northwest cluster. The work removed residential buildings to which earlier samples had assigned residents; occupied offices and commercial buildings were also replaced. That resident figure is an earlier occupancy, not a count of people who became homeless or left. The correction to also remove obstructing buildings is documented as released by a human. Added service buildings and given-up homes and workplaces belong in the same balance.

Fewer icons, access problems remain

The morning scan ran over five game frames and marks its merged coverage as not exact; the evening sample at 21:00 was read in one frame with exact coverage. From the two readings no exact number of resolved cases follows. Separate controlled evidence for cemetery replacement, garages, new processing, restored buildings and other simulation activity is missing. Lower demand from a shrinking population can also reduce visible alerts without every house being served.

Traffic bottlenecks stood at 24 and 31 in the two overviews. Restoration orders for burned buildings are documented as executed, among them a metro station. Completion alone does not show added ridership or complete restoration of all access paths.

Tax tests and the cash balance

The residential tax was tested several times; the last change is documented at 14:46. Office tax and commercial tax were cut to zero, and several industrial goods rates were lowered. The building logs treat the limited housing-search budget as an explanatory approach. In an early aligned window the read inflows, outflows, births and deaths explained only a small part of the population difference; the large residual is not a separate emigration figure. With several tax changes and parallel construction, no isolated effect can be shown.

Late in the evening the cash balance read 2.0 billion, which the building protocol calls the game cap. The goal of using the cash sensibly around one billion was not reached. The documented base costs are small against that balance.

Status

The verified performance file has its last qualified reading in the early morning, followed by a stated gap of unknown cause that runs to the end of the day. For nearly 15 hours there is no basis for a CPU or throughput assessment. Northstar ends the day with fewer reported burial problems and lower unemployment, but far fewer residents and continuing access problems. Lasting intake and processing capacity, reachable services and a closed population balance remain open. More on the project: CS2.