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Tampere (Version 2, deprecated)

This version of the save game no longer works, here's the new version: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2424767504

20/01/2018 Updated version: I accidentally forgot one critical electric wire from the previous version, leading the entire city to eventually be without water and electricty! I fixed it and also did some more minor tweaks. The previous version still works, just as long you do the electricity work yourself. Edit: I also realised the top left corner of the map is without electricity because a fire destroyed one pylon. You should fix that first thing!

Required assets: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1104253168
Recommended mods: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1262389515

This is my smaller, mod-light build of Tampere - a real city in Finland, the second biggest metropolitan area in the country. It's also home to Colossal Order, the company that developed this game.

I plan to make a bigger, 81 tile version of the city (although the map doesn't have the full 81), which will use more mods to make the city look more realistic. I will also redo several districts that aren't very accurate at the moment.

The city was created with all the major DLCs. However, most of the time I used them only very lightly, so you can try to run the city regardless. For example, I think I used only one asset from the Natural Disasters DLC (Firewatch tower as Haulitorni). Mass Transit was also used very sparingly, mainly to manage traffic flow on some problematic roads. No mods are required, although some are recommended.

The map is Tampere by Vesak. It's probably not the best (i.e. most playable or most accurate) Tampere map in the workshop anymore, but when I started the project, it was the one with most buildable area. As such, the scale is way off in many places. Especially the height differences in the map are on a completely different scale than anything in the game, so from street level it often looks awful and unrealistic. The city reminds Tampere most when looked from straight above.

In addition to scale issues, many other compromises had to be made regarding how realistic I could make this representation of Tampere. Especially the west edge of the map (Lielahti, Epilä, Pirkkala) is made up of industrial zones that don't exist, but the game mechanics needed them for the central city to grow. The city tends to be more realistic closer to the center and less so near the edges.

As there is only one railway connection (to the south), I have added a fictional local train connection in the west-east direction to make the rails alive. Obviously there are no metro lines in Tampere either, but I had to use some underground public transport as a replacement for busy bus lines so that the traffic wouldn't get completely gridlocked.

But then again, this is really the Tampere of tomorrow. The in-game year is 2110 and the map features many developments that haven't been finished yet in 2018, like tram lines, Ranta-Tampella, etc. There is also a fusion plant, space elevator (as Näsinneula) and other scifi concepts. In addition, the population is much bigger (300 k) than it is right now in real life (230 k), even though many important suburbs were left outside the map (most notably the biggest one, Hervanta).