Technical issues plague our working session with Discord and Windows crashing out together.

Due to increasing traffic congestion on the city's sole highway access point, Stephen begins work on a new interchange and roundabout on the east side.

Aaron names a new neighbourhood after a cactus. After banning high-rises throughout our new districts, we also install the city's inaugural block of high-density commercial zone in the old city center area.

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After deciding to forgo extracting oil from one of the richest deposits in our region, we begin to have second thoughts as we weigh the economic vs. sustainability benefits for the community.

Onyx struggles to build a curved road through the city's newest park. We also reminisce over some classic Mr. Burns insidiousness and bad jokes by Carlos from the Magic School Bus.

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A hazy cloud is choking out our fledgling desert town, and it remains to be seen whether its just some fog or something a bit more sinister (aka industrial pollution). As such, we begin preparations to clear Manchester and relocate the industry elsewhere.

After some persuasion, Stephen buys two new tiles for city expansion, though Onyx-DOS suffers a fatal error trying to process that info.

We begin planning for a mid-city park around the oasis and build some roads to encircle the boundary.

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In a bid to embrace absolute realism, Stephen replaces most of the city's roads with "US-accurate" ones that completely lack grass and trees.

A handful of new mods also rename every street with generic American-style names and gives every building a unique address.

We determine the urban containment boundary at the base of the nearby sand dune and unintentionally bash the American education system.

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In a reminder to us that we're back to a town's very early days once again, we start to encounter cashflow problems resulting from our late-stage habit from Azur Bay of spending too much, too quickly.

Stephen shares a story from cartography class about one of our worst TAs from our university days.

We argue over whether it's too early to be adding more schools to our town.

Onyx gets everyone to agree to allow him to build a library but overspends and tries to sneak in a second one.

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If one thing is abundantly clear from our Azur Bay series, it's that none of us knows nearly enough Spanish to name things in a competent manner, and Aaron requests we stick to English names this time. He suggests we name our town after the quaint town from Cars, but we shoot that down.

Onyx builds a rural roadside motel which at the moment caters to exactly nobody. The town also gains a town hall which we all know is very important for everyone.

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Fleeing the ruins of our California-clone city, we land in a vast expanse of desert to a challenging situation: build a city in an unfamiliar environment that none of us have experienced before.

It's been a long time since we've had to rely on dirt roads and shoestring budgets, and we must now also contend with a region that lacks water.

Let's get to work. Welcome to Sierra County.

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