Northstar, 23 October: supply repaired, population falling in the evening

Northstar ended 23 October with about 2.5 million residents. Several supply areas that had been separate were connected, a polluted-water pump was switched off and track gaps were closed. The city is still far from stable operation: in the evening the population fell by about 18,000, and the causes of this net loss and the gross migration flows are not clarified. Throughout the day, installed capacity and effective supply turned out to be different things.

Rezoning and the evening pause

Early in the construction phase, further undeveloped cells in the south-east were rezoned. A fully read-back batch covered more than 1,400 cells actually painted, for low-density housing and for productive industry (exact split in the second table). These are zoning cells, not finished houses or newly arrived households.

Further land growth was put on hold in the evening: the closing sample showed more than 700 open pathfinding requests. The current rule requires a fresh value below a set limit before a new zoning batch and caps each tranche (limits in the second table).

Polluted water and missing road connections

A groundwater pump delivered polluted water although a filter extension was in place. It was switched off deliberately, and the plant readback then showed production and efficiency at zero. The plant itself remains. Citywide reports about polluted water fell within five minutes in the afternoon and were absent from the full active catalogue at the two checks that followed (exact values in the first table). This is an observed short-term drop, not a multi-day improvement in health.

The remaining water and sewage problems did not automatically lose the same cause with that. A road link in the north-west connected a separate group of buildings; at the same test building, positive electricity, water and sewage flows were then read back. A further link in the east followed. Two unchanged control buildings, a house and a school, went from zero flow to positive flow in all three supply types, and in the matching full warning captures the electricity, water and sewage warnings each fell. After more residential road connections the catalogue showed zero for these three warning types in a later capture. That describes the warning state of this capture, not proof against the failure of individual plants or links.

A new feed for the south-west

The south-western residential area lacked effective power despite a citywide generation surplus. The building agent built a small substation and three sections of underground high-voltage line; length and observed construction costs are in the second table. For the substation, three individually checked houses with seven residents in total were replaced. That intervention belongs in the account of the repair.

At three other test consumers left unchanged, the electricity flow had been zero before the connection and was positive after it and in a later follow-up check. The native flow units were not converted to megawatts.

Simulation and other work ran concurrently, so the large drop does not imply an isolated effect on population.

Pickup and road traffic remain the main problems

Pickup was worked on at specific return paths, junctions and responsibilities. A one-way link on the same road curve was opened for both directions. An additional cross connection shortened the modelled junction path; offices designated in advance were replaced for it. Shorter paths in the road graph are not yet measured shorter travel times. At Waldstraße the heavily loaded western approach received a third lane. The required reversal was made through the native controls and read back afterwards; it was not issued as an executed MCPMCP Model Context Protocol, an open protocol through which an AI model calls tools and reads data from other software. direction order. Some traffic indices at the approach improved while a northern arm stayed narrow, so citywide congestion relief is not shown.

A limited fleet check followed five identical hearses. They went from the dispatched state to the return trip with the same corpse identifier, and some later received new orders. That documents concrete transport and follow-up dispatch steps; an exact unloading event or a causal road effect cannot be derived from it.

The late capture at 21:53 still held nearly 2,000 hearse reports and about 600 garbage reports. It covers distinct symbols from one stored capture state, almost all of them notifications; the rest are tool-error symbols. Those are not additional sick buildings, and the notifications are not a count of distinct affected houses or completed service orders.

Track gaps closed, a bus bypass built

Two track gaps were closed with observed construction orders, and the connection warnings in the processed sequence decreased (exact values in the second table). An actual train passage, or relief of the network caused by it, was not shown.

For bus traffic a directed bypass with public-transport priority was built. The separate line display for bus line 2 reported nobody waiting (further readings in the second table). This single display shows neither lasting relief nor actual use of the new bypass. Routing the line over the new path was still open at the end of the day.

The construction had further consequences: besides planned industrial buildings, further industrial plots were lost. In the limited comparison, all five lost identities belonged to industrial buildings, none to houses. This is a local finding on protecting existing buildings, not a statement about the whole city.

Office tax and budget forecast

The office tax was set once from zero to one percent. The service budget percentages stayed unchanged. Later budget samples showed positive monthly forecasts again; the closing sample stood at plus about 17.9 million per game month. The cash value comes from a later city sample (exact values in the second table). A positive forecast is not yet a fully settled tax cycle, and the whole change in cash cannot be assigned to a single tax intervention.

Open points

The active tool version at the end remained 0.7.46; a newer package was statically checked but not accepted as the running version, and the building concept for planning, grid connections and service responsibilities was passed to development and read back, with implementation and local acceptance pending. The closing sample ran unpaused, and its effective speed at that single point is in the second table; neither a reliable improvement in CPU time per unit of simulation work nor a sufficient render frame rate is shown, and the regular qualified performance series still has a measurement gap. The next phase must address the evening population loss and the actual chain of arrivals and services together, with the bus bypass use and a stably financed operation still open. The goal of ten million actually simulated residents remains open.