Fueling the Fire - Story Driven City Journal

[BurnedBacon]

--- Chapter 10, Beginnings of a Railroad ---

With security majorly built up, it was time to get back to fulfilling the primary reason for this city being here. Joffrey has handed down orders for us to build two cargo railway stations and passenger station over the next year and a half. The first cargo station in the main industrial sector and the other in the oil fields. The problem is we also need to expand the city to over 8000 people and improve the services once again. Healthcare on the peninsula is basically non-existent. Trash has started to pile up noticeably as the dumps are all near capacity. So I have decided to tackle things in this order. We cannot have resources for a train station without people, but those people will not move in with everyone dying and tripping into piles of trash. So services and some population as we go along first, then get to work on trains.

We appealed to the Colonial Authority to allow us to being incinerating garbage for power. They agreed and so we have built two incineration plants. This required us to yet again take out both available loans but this should give us enough money to get the new areas built up and the rest of the needed services put in. The first of the incineration plants was placed next to the two main garbage dumps in the industrial sector. This should, hopefully, allow it to not pollute the clean… relatively clean air in the residential and commercial areas. The next one was placed on the peninsula next to the oil fields to provide better garbage collection services there.

Continuing off the new interchange we put on the south side of town, a new avenue was paved that will run parallel to the highway. It should be a nice spot to put up new houses and shops, and maybe even an office zone. Joffrey continues to protest saying all our efforts should go into manufacturing or oil extraction and refining, however, I believe having local offices will significantly boost industrial efficiency. But that is a battle for another time. We soon extended the avenue and added yet more roads, houses, and shops.

(Why is it these buildings always start popping up in the most difficult area to give power to?)

Some residents have been angered by our continued expansion into new areas while the main road is absolutely clogged with vehicles. We expected the increasing garbage and industrial base there would cause some traffic issues, but what we didn’t expect was how much freight and oil was going to be moved in and out of the industrial zones. This has caused vehicles to start having to stop on the highway entering the oil field, and additional oil trucks having to stop again heading into the main industrial sector. Finally, the main road is at constant state of crawl with everything being produced having to cram down a single avenue. With the trains still months away, this gridlock will have to be addressed one way or another. Besides just future proofing, in the short term we have to get this city in working order again.

After taking care of the peninsula’s healthcare and deathcare problem, we managed to scrap together the funds to address the traffic problem. A new interchange was put in on the main highway to allow trucks and commercial vehicles to enter and exit the area directly from the main highway and avoid the traffic currently present on the main avenue in town. There is reason for concern as the ramps between the interchanges are rather close together. This will probably end up causing a few traffic issues in the future but for the time being this should decently improve traffic flow.

It was some time before any additional projects were undertaken, but as June began the first of our three rail stations was ready to start hauling freight. Located just west of the main garbage dumps, we have put it on an isolated one way road to maximize the traffic that can run in and out of the station. Though we don’t really need it up now, it’s a good idea to get the railways put in so later down the line we don’t have the ‘where is the space for it’ problem. Another line is going to run parallel to it to make sure there is no interruptions in the flow of freight. Unfortunately, I doubt the Colonial Authority will be expanding the main line that connects the city to everywhere that the freight needs to get to.

(Keep in mind, this set up is temporary, the actual main line will bypass the station. NEVER have stations interrupt the main lines.)

Due to the placement of the existing network of rail lines and the new interchange, we had to work some magic in cramming in the way for the trains to actually enter the city. Once the main line gets put in, we will be able to run trains to and from both stations allowing easy rail access to both within the city and to the neighboring areas. The last of the railroad spikes was pounded in on the last day of June. This means the first station was able to be put in with only six months done. The passenger station also won’t be too much of a hassle. The issue is, the rail line to get to the oil fields is going to need its own bridge. And that is going to be extremely expensive and hard to find space for. Some daring engineers have suggested instead, we use a tunnel.

Note to self: Get a committee together to start naming these main avenues and areas of town. One that won’t take every bribe that floats their way like the last one did.

 

[BurnedBacon]

--- Chapter 11, All Aboard ---

The city is slowly settling back to normal after the oil field disaster. What were once angry rants at the bar have subsided to the occasional comment. People no longer seem to be looking over their shoulder or turning over stones looking for spies and saboteurs. There also seemed to be a feeling of general optimism during the opening ceremony for the freight station. We won’t be going full banners and speech for the upcoming ones but the first just seemed like we needed to for the morale of everyone. But enough with the good feelings, it’s time to get back to work.

The freight station has been a massive boom to our economy. With easy access to any resources on the trans-continental railroad, our industrial potential has greatly expanded. No longer are we limited to the highway’s capacity, besides our roads were starting to get really clogged. There was a slight issue with the plan to make a one way road be the entrance into the station as the construction crews seem to have painted the arrows the wrong way leading to significant slowdowns. While the exports and imports are now much more easily handled, we still have a lot of interior traffic to deal with.

Our space still limited and there is a pressing need to make more room for new workers in the space we already have. Thus Joffrey has made a reasonable demand for once: zone some of the residential areas for apartments. This will not only allow the city to decrease its spending on infrastructure but also decrease the massive amount of spending it would take to cover new areas with police, fire, and medical services. We should have not only started this sooner but made plans in advance for it. The people living in those houses raised hell about being forced to move out but their protest was short lived with the keys to the best apartments being put in. The construction of these apartments is likely to compound our traffic issues though.

One plan to reduce traffic was suggested by a civil engineer was to synch up the traffic lights on our two main interchanges to improve the flow of traffic. This way, the traffic will be able to drive straight through both intersections without having to stop in the middle. If everything works properly, the main road and the service roads will take turns instead of going at the same time. I expect there to be a lot of tweaking as time goes on but I’m happy with what it is at for now.

(I completely forgot this awesome little tool from Traffic Manager. I immediately saw a drastic improvement in both the interchange here and the one on the south side of the town. Will have to use it more in the future.)

By October, we managed to scrape together the cash to build a bridge over the railway and construct the passenger station. As previously mentioned we didn’t go have some big ceremony on it like we did the freight station. Some citizens where curious as to why we decided to build on the opposite side of the tracks than we initially planned, and the answer is quite simply some regulations changed. Got to hand it to the bureaucrats, they certainly know how to get paid for wasting time. On the plus side, we have had a lot of new workers enter the city easily through the rail station. Our recently constructed apartments are filling up quickly and we are planning to build yet more. Some have suggested eventually building up to an internal passenger rail system but we have other plans in mind.

By December, it was becoming abundantly clear that using the strip of highway that passes through our town as our main route of transportation was a terrible mistake. It constantly threatens to jam up and cause significant slowdowns. And slowdowns on a primary route of transport for freight in the region would cause some people a lot worse to deal with than Joffrey to come knocking at my door. So we extended a few avenues and made a bypass to the highway that links the new residential development directly to the industry. This will also allow the commercial traffic to use the avenue instead of the one going into the heart of the city or the highway.

Not previously mentioned but we had to increase the number of water and sewage pumps for the city. Luckily that wasn’t too much of an expense. However, we didn’t have as many funds as we had hoped by the end of the year so the next six months will be a bit of a panic to get the freight station and bridge in. I’ve asked Joffrey for an extension so we can get an extra six months but he called it ‘a disgrace’ to fail such a ‘simple’ objective. I guess I had better burn some midnight oil and come up with some money out of thin air.

(I was worried this post would end up being me waiting around a whole lot until we had the money to build the station so decided to get some of the little things I needed to fix out of the way. Crashes and save issues have reappeared but are manageable. I’ve had to decrease the graphics because my PC is starting to show its age but again not really an issue most of the time.)

 

[BurnedBacon]

--- Chapter 12, Almost a Bridge Too Far ---

(I suffered a rather weird bug where the freight trucks were missing the truck leaving the trailer to drive across the city. I don’t know what caused this and it mainly occurred on oil ones. The modded truck skins I have appear to be working just fine but the vanilla ones were not present a lot of the time. The problem began to clear up as I played and trucks despawned. I’ll look into it and see if it’s just a onetime error or if it’s going to be a frequent problem headed down the road.)

Because of our blind focus on building the rail network and getting it running before the deadline, we’ve had to continually to push back some much needed city improvements. Our fire trucks often arrive too late to save houses and businesses, our police network is beginning to be spread woefully thin even after all the improvements, the garbage dumps are constantly threatening to fill up again, and our hospitals are understaffed. But Joffrey has demands, so those demands must be filled. We can’t fail. The only thing we were able to squeeze out of the budget for some minor improvements but not the improvements we desperately need.

There has been so much to do in the main part of the city these past few years. Ever since we got the oil pumping out of the ground, the city council has mostly ignored the peninsula. But just as we got the final plans for the bridge and station on to service the oil field, we got the word. Our oil fields were mostly dry and many of our industry has begun to convert itself from drilling to refining. This has resulted in serious backlogs of trucks trying to import oil. We knew there wasn’t much oil here but not so little. This not only has resulted in a significant drop-off in our oil production and income from it, but also means we need to push even harder to get the railroad built.

We spent what spare money we got on giving some more room to breathe for our city. Some new residential, commercial, and industrial areas were put in at very low cost. They won’t be up long enough for us to profit off of it before the deadline but we seriously need to keep expanding. There is no telling what the next set of goals for our city will be and we need as many workers and factories as we can possibly get. The more income we got pumping in, the better we will be prepared for the future. Sadly, this does mean yet more stress on our already lacking infrastructure. These new workers probably won’t get the best first impression of the city but for now it’s the best we can do. Fingers crossed we get time to add more services before the next big project.

By April we managed to squeeze in the freight station between the avenue and the existing industry. It was a tight fit but we managed it. The avenue is soon to be torn up and a bridge added in to allow the freight line to eventually be able to continue on without having to stop road traffic. There will be a lot of space to expand the oil industry soon as well as continue to develop the peninsula. We have learned from the mistake of the other freight station and this time the one way road arrows have been painted on in the correct direction. Funny how a small mistake can cause so much headache.

Due to some continuing problems with the recently completed Franco-Anglo Channel Tunnel, we have decided to go with the tried and true bridge just to be sure. This plan will also be much cheaper to build and maintain. Though if we start having to get big ships under that bridge, we might start to have some problems. But hopefully by then we will have much more cash than we do now and will have a lot more time to plan it out.

Some of the workers were quite mad about us plowing over their jobsite to build some rail tracks. Despite the city council deciding it was the best option, they are complaining that we didn’t go with the tunnel which would have preserved their places of work. We tried to explain that this is for the betterment of their jobs and they will be first in line to get jobs in the new facilities that are going to be popping up soon. Most simply nodded or sighed and walked away, knowing that any kind of move would bring down the hammer. But a few appeared to be ready to do something, what they want to do I don’t know. Regardless of this, the bridge was put up and just in time. The finally piece of wire was put in about mid-June and the bridge was officially opened soon after.

In the last days of June, many more oil drills and refineries were being put up. Most of the dissenting voices were quieted fast but I’ve had to make a note of it to Joffrey. He insists keeping a close eye on the area for the time being. Joffrey eluded that this isn’t an isolated problem but wouldn’t give me any specifics. I guess it’s time for a yet larger police force just in case something goes wrong. We have to keep everything in working order and keep efficiency as high as we can. The more goods we produce and smoother things run, the less eyes that will be on this city. Joffrey is more than enough to keep my nerves frayed.

 

[BurnedBacon]

No post this week. After attempting to clear out a minor infestation of gremlins, they called in reinforcements. Backed up the saves and did a complete uninstallation and one by one reinstalled of all my mods. I got rid of some not working ones, replaced others, and added a few new ones to make things easier. Next week things should be back on schedule.

 

[BurnedBacon]

--- Chapter 13, Beginnings of Urbanization ---

Mods Removed:
Mod Achievement Enabler (appears not functional)
No Pillars (replaced)
Toggle Traffic Light (integrated into other mod)
Traffic Manager Plus (replaced)
+Clean-up of unused or old vehicle skins and buildings

Mods Added:
Network Extensions Project by [Multiple]
No Pillars v1.1 Compatable by Bloody Pengiun
Traffic Manager: President Edition by LinuxFan



There is a slight reprieve from additional demands as Joffrey has been called away to Europe, and apparently so has almost all of the overseers. A grand meeting like this hasn’t been conducted since the times of the German Unification Wars. As such, the rumor mill once again has spiraled out of control with some saying war is inevitable. However, what few sources I have say this isn’t the case, but it has to be something potentially devastating for such a meeting. No point in panicking about it, I have work to do and a lot of city improvements to make.

I’ve decided to take some initiative in improving traffic by providing small alternative route to get around. Traffic has somewhat improved in general over the past few weeks but our interchanges with the highway continue to be clogged. So the city council has decided to put in a pedestrian bridge over the highway to both divert traffic away from the main avenue and decrease total cars on the road. There has always been a strong biking and walking presence in the city and the council agrees we need to promote that further as both the size and density of the city continues to increase. Bike lanes along some of the major roads are in consideration as well as additional overpasses, both road and pedestrian, to decrease strain on the main roads. Hopefully Joffrey goes along with the plan.

Trash collection and disposal has been a continual problem in the city. So we have put in our fourth incineration plant today. But still this isn’t nearly enough. We would need to invest in yet another in order to do anything more than break even. The new residential areas still lack pretty much all services but garbage is by far the worst offender. I’ve proposed further expansion of our garbage infrastructure in the future and there has been talk of trying some recycling initiatives. Others have proposed we begin issuing special policies to help solve some of our service shortcomings. I’ll be giving them a good look over when I have the time.

It wasn’t long after that Joffrey returned to from his emergency meeting. He said Frankish weather satellites have been monitoring a consistent drop in temperatures worldwide. Climate scientists claim we have been in a state of unusually warm weather starting all the way back in the 1800s. However, whatever was causing this mass warming has stopped and we have to expect not only much cooler winters, but shorter growing seasons for crops. The winters won’t be much of an issue this far south but anything north of us will suffer brutal winters. The central government has been drawing up plans to compensate for this, and they will be distributed to various ‘critical areas’ at the start of the year.

To correct an issue of lack of workers and lack of services, the city council has gone with a plan of building up rather than out. Thus, an urbanization and development project was started in early October including a complete reworking of the road layout in the area. Two new roads were added in order to improve both efficient land use and percent future traffic blockages. The first one runs along the side of the park and continuing to almost touch the avenue. The other, not show in this glamor shot, is between the leftmost road and the main avenue. Once again the residents were quite unhappy about their homes being plowed over and replaced with apartments. And once again they were quickly pacified with both strong police presence and offerings of compensation for over the home’s value. I am hoping this tactic continues to work.

It wasn’t long before the area was filled with residential high rises and it wasn’t much longer before virtually all of the rooms were claimed. Thanks to the wealth of job opportunities, many seem perfectly happy to ignore the lack of services. I guess having a steady paycheck balances out the frequency of being mugged, trash not being taken, and buildings burning down. They should quickly trickle in over the coming months though some older residents are complaining of imminent influx of the young adult population into the city.

Near the end of the month we managed to put down a new police department in the little residential area across the highway. The crime rate in the area has remained somewhat low but has been steadily creeping upwards. We figured while we still had some cash in the bank, better put in the new station before the New Year’s demands hit. Some have proposed retooling the entire area into an entertainment district but these proposals have been universally shot down.

Due to some ongoing electricity shortages, a coal burning power plant and a new wind turbine were put up. It should keep us going well in the short term but I do wonder how long until we outgrow them as well. We are in serious need of a more powerful form of electricity generation. And as far as I can tell, if it’s going to be colder, electricity usage is going to skyrocket. There have been some plans for city wide heating systems but according to Joffrey it won’t get that bad this far south. But the Frankish mainland is going to have problems.

Over the New Year, the city will be divided into districts for both naming and policy enactment reasons. This should allow us on the city council to section off resources easier and make things a little bit more manageable in the meetings. The political dance has already begun and I fear the districts will be divided on stupid reasons or voting block creation rather than logical placement. Though if it’s too crazy I’m sure Joffrey will step in and fix it. After all, both our careers are riding on the success or failure of this city and district border gore is a surefire way to destroy what we’ve built.

(Over the next week I’ll slowly post the backlog of posts on Simtropolis as suggested. I’ll definitely continue posting it here as well.)

 

[BurnedBacon]

Still working out some compatibility issues though it has been quite a nightmare so far. I have decided against posting the AAR on simtropilis for the time being as I was worried the save will not survive the transition. So that's why that hasn't happened yet.

Current issues mainly center around Traffic++ V2 including chronic routing issues but also with some of my older mods not playing nice with the new versions or replacements of After Dark mods. So right now the plan is give it another week and see what happens. Saturday if things aren't sorted I'll upload a post using a pre-snowfall gaming session that I wanted to go back and redo but didn't manage it in time.

EDIT: New hotfix on Traffic++ V2 right at the same time I posted appears to have fixed the problems related to the mod. Huzzah!

EDIT: Final bugs ironed out. Though there were some missteps along the way.

 

[BurnedBacon]

--- Chapter 14, Riots and Refugees ---

Mods Removed/Replaced:
Extended Public Transit UI
Traffic++ (replaced)
Tree Brush
Unlock All Roads (broken)

Mods Added:
Traffic++ V2


On January 10th, 2021, the Parliament of the Republic of Frankland passed an emergency powers act which allowed them to drastically retool both its core territory in Europe and its vast colonial empire to deal with this sudden global cooling event. It allowed for unprecedented levels of control by the central government and colonial governments to move both populations and resources. Acadia and Newfoundland colonies are being mostly evacuated. Luckily the area was never industrialized so not too much has been lost. However, this means that more southern colonies such as here in the Louisiana colony need to take on a considerable wave of refugees.

Our city has been instructed to clear out the suburbs in the center of the city and replace them with apartments for the Acadians and Newfoundlanders that have been assigned to move to the city. This has caused some rather… aggressive backlash. The problem is anyone who settled here when the town was first founded is going to have their home plowed over for a bunch of apartments for other people to live in. In the short term we were able to keep everything calmed down, and the new roads were installed almost without incident.

However, in the rush to make spaces for the refugees, the Colonial Authority ordered the suburbs to be demolished in one massive sweep and the slabs for the apartments poured as soon as the land was cleared. Many were shocked at how fast such a significant part of the city was displaced without any apparent consideration for those already living here. Strikes soon ensued saying they were not being treated fairly and that their civil rights had been violated by these actions, and I understand why. When police moved in to crack down it escalated completely out of control.

Several buildings were set ablaze even as the crowd dispersed. A small riot broke out near the apartments but it only succeeded in smashing a few windows and burning a house down. Joffrey was absolutely livid blaming everything but the sun and himself for why this happened. I’m pretty sure I’m going to be held responsible for this but maybe I’ll come out safe. The police and fire department managed to save the most important facilities and honestly it’s a victory I can take. The police only managed to arrest a handful of people, nobody important though. Just a bunch of angry teenagers. Most of them we had to let off with fines.

Once everything settled down again, it was time to deal with the increasing strain on the roads. As the northern refugees pour into the city and fill up the apartments, the road quality continues to decrease due to the sheer strain of so many vehicles. A road maintenance facility was put up in the center of town to help mitigate this issue and eventually repair the damage. There is also the fact the concrete used to make the roads and highways were never meant to deal with the colder temperatures we have been experiencing. Luckily a few Acadian engineers shared a few tricks of theirs which will prevent any disastrous damage according as a result of the changing weather.

The new city center was quite a sight to behold. Numerous apartment buildings stood tall over the rest of the city. As the days turned into weeks, people began to feel used to this massive change in the make-up of the city. No more riots came, no more questionable fires, only the ever strained sense of normal. I managed to convince Joffrey that any further drastic changes to the population centers would results in a far worse flair up of violence so he has decided to instead have us focus on community betterment projects, possibly some mass transit. The roads, even with the maintenance facility are just too crowded in certain areas to deal with the volume of traffic going through them. Though it is mostly the fault of poor foreplaning and budgeting.

The main industrial sector may have recovered from the riots, but its traffic issues continued. Traffic attempting to get on the highway and cross the bridge should have been taken care of with the railroad but for some reason it’s still quite significant. Traffic reports say it’s mostly service vehicles, namely the garbage truck, causing a lot of this. With space limited and another ramp being difficult to fit in, our engineers decided a tunnel was the best solution. This should allow for the underpass to flow slightly better with less traffic having to turn left.

By summer, the final district map was completed. Somehow Joffrey’s whipping and the general state of crisis in the empire has allowed for things to go efficiently instead of the sheer stupidity often found when these sort of things are attempted. Though of course for his ‘valiant’ effort to keep the district map sane, he demanded one of the districts be named after himself. There was also minor improvements such as the interchange between Luckas Suburbs and the core of the city was upgraded. For a little while we thought things were going well, that was until we turned on the news the next morning.

(Yes peninsula is misspelled on the district map. I didn’t notice until I was doing final editing pass for posting. It will be fixed in the next gameplay session.)

 

[BurnedBacon]

--- Chapter 15, Buses, Bikes, and Walkways ---

As summer ticks on and we move toward autumn, the true effects of the colder world temperature has begun to make itself known. While the Frankish economy has taken a significant hit due to relocation of peoples and industry, and our crop yields are going to be notably down, it looks like we will get out of this mostly intact. However, a notable amount of Modva’s vast farmland is showing signs of a poor harvest. According to our spies, many farmers have reported their crops are much weaker than in previous years. This, understandably, has their government worried. Hunger tends to get even the laziest people active against their government. Before the inevitable crop failures has even actually happened, the Modvan government has stepped up the propaganda. What their next move will be is currently unknown.

This in turn has worried many of our government officials, including myself. To help facilitate yet another mass effort to increase industrial output, Joffrey has ordered us to get a mass transit system started before our expanding city is crippled by traffic problems. There is already a growing struggle to get through the avenue between the City Centre and the Veron Suburbs during rush hour. If we manage to get as many people on buses as possible, or other forms of transportation like bicycles or walking, we may be able to fix the traffic problems in the short term while we wait for the funds to upgrade the main roads.

The bus terminal was finished by February and strategically placed on the outside of town. By strategically placed, I mean it was crammed somewhere out of the way where new buses won’t clog up traffic in the short term. Unsure how effective the buses would be, we started with only two bus lines to minimize the disruption to traffic flow. Since the city is going to use only two lines, the city planners had to spread out their reach a bit more than I would have liked. After six months we will see where what people are using them for and rearrange it to be more effective as well as expand the lines. Though it is expected they will be heavily used for daily work commutes rather than shopping.

The initial response to the bus routes was slow but it quickly picked up. Citizens of the city began to flow between the apartments, parks, shopping centers, and industry. As we expected, many used the bus for their daily commute. But what we didn’t expect was the few shopping stops and single park stop were also quite popular. To prevent traffic issues, we converted one of the roads at the park to a bus road. This also eliminated a route many cars used which clogged up traffic in the City Centre. We did manage to lobby for top of the line buses which are small yet carry a significant number of passengers. We are slated for more once we expand the number of bus routes; but buses aren’t the only car alternative we are funding.

Many have used bicycles in the city, especially after the walkway over the highway was installed. However, many pedestrians have been complaining of fast moving bicycles becoming a nuisance in certain parts of the city. Several have suffered minor injuries from collisions with bikes or from bikes having to swerve to dodge pedestrians. To prevent any more serious events from occurring, a dedicated bicycle lane on the road between the City Centre and the Primrose Suburbs. Though buses have had an effect on the number of cyclists, their numbers are likely to remain quite high.

Since the first walkway was such a success, a second one was constructed between the Luckas Suburbs and the main industrial area. It soon became a popular route to work and relieved yet another clogged major avenue. Honestly we never expected the response it got, but it was a welcome sight. Walkways are quickly proving to be a cheap but effective way to reduce traffic issues. The city council will certainly be using them more in the future.

Since we have been pretty much ignoring the Bolivar Peninsula since we set up the railroad bridge, the city council decided the next expansion phase would be centered on developing it. The terrain made putting in the avenue a bit difficult and what we came up with resulted in a… slight cliff. But the end result is quite a sight to behold. As long as nobody goes tumbling off of it, the avenue might end up to being prime real-estate for higher end shops. But that is a consideration for the future once the city is on a firmer footing.

The oil fields were expanded again along the railroad tracks. Though it will at first be dedicated to pulling out what little remaining oil is in the ground, it should soon be converted into more refineries. The Frankish government has been stockpiling both gasoline and diesel for the past several months. Though I have a pretty good indicated what this means, I prefer not to think about it. What’s important now though is generating lots of tax money to both finally build up an emergency fund and pay off the loans we seem to always be taking out.

There are plans to eventually get a university going so we can get some office industry put up. But doing so would sacrifice resources that could be going to maxing out our industrial capacity. We could upgrade the road networks but that would take away money from a possible mass transit effort. And either would take away much needed funds from trash, police, fire, and educational services. If we want the aforementioned offices, we will need a university which will cost a lot of cash to build and even more in the long run to maintain. However, Joffrey has his own plans, and those plans apparently include lots of farmland.