Northstar on 28 October: new feeder lines and schools, population down

On 28 October Northstar gained three feeder bus lines, five high schools and additional depot capacity, all confirmed by original read-backs. Population in the last available, fully matching city and simulation reading was about 104,000 below the first qualified snapshot. An improvement in simulation speed is not demonstrated.

Population: a drop between two readings

Both readings come from the same game world, at speed 1x and not paused. The decline between the two points in time is documented; its composition is not. The difference alone does not yield a number of people who left, nor a split into births, deaths and other movements. Nor can the loss be attributed to the afternoon traffic measures, because separate effect windows are missing.

The final reading shows a cash balance of about 1.25 billion, satisfaction of 67 and health of 62. A cash balance is no substitute for a monthly balance sheet.

Three feeder lines built and connected

Line 28 was observed being laid out in the afternoon, the two western lines followed about an hour later. The read-backs confirm connected stops, a complete route and a finished path check with no failed segment. An earlier provisional connection is not counted as a fourth line.

This documents the built route only. How many buses actually run, how long passengers wait and whether workers reach jobs more often are not measured. The build log records vehicle shortages and shifts between lines later on, so a requested vehicle count is not the same as a fleet ready for service.

Depot extensions: more nominal capacity

At an existing metro depot, two track extensions were observed. An existing bus depot received an additional garage. Nominal capacity rose with each extension; the table gives the documented pairs. No figure for additional running buses can be derived from them.

All three extensions show as active, but the effect on service had not been observed. For the two track extensions the full maintenance check was not complete.

Five new high schools

Five high schools were placed in the evening. Each then passed a check of the four basic connections: road, power, water and sewage. The directly attributed build costs total about 1.5 million.

Most sites lie in northern service areas, one in the south. The building agent started at local school routes and strained catchment areas, which a city-wide total of free school places would not show.

The expansion had a price in the existing stock: the local maintenance read-backs afterwards lack eleven office buildings and a commercial building previously present. This matches the documented interventions at those sites. How many jobs are replaced in the long run and which commuting routes arise is not fully accounted for. Shorter school trips or better pupil distribution are not yet measured.

Burial: held citizens versus households

An additional survey in the morning ran in three parts on the same simulation frame until full coverage was reported. The first partial answers reached their scan deadline; only the cumulative chain covers all recorded data blocks.

In the category of deceased citizens already collected, about 71,000 citizens were recorded, of which about 63,000 were held in hospital custody. This category is neither the living population nor directly the number of waiting pickup orders, and it may not be converted across the board into a corresponding number of free or blocked homes. A citizen flagged as belonging to a household made up only of deceased people is not a separately counted household, so no household figure is published. The survey documents a held stock; it does not document a completed pickup or cleanup.

Industrial conversion and speed

In the late evening, the first documented batches of the programme to rezone persistently problematic industrial sites toward offices produced eight successful zoning orders for high office density, with full read-backs. Eight orders do not mean eight finished office buildings or eight additional businesses. A further batch began after midnight and is not included.

In the closing sample, 1x was selected and the reported effective speed value was 0.55. This is a single diagnostic reading, not a daily mean, and it does not show a lower CPU cost per unit of simulation work. A comparison at a smaller population could not readily show an optimisation either, since fewer citizens change the work to be done.

Status and open points

The new infrastructure is verifiable. Open are actual reachability, vehicle provision, school use and the population trend under comparable operating conditions. There is no gapless measurement series, and the regular performance file still lacks qualified measurements.