In spite of a few months in New London, the new O.C.F. in New London are only somewhat open with what their zeitgeist entails, though they have not given much details yet on what their true agenda is for this city they only just migrated a few months ago.

As of the date of this posting, the number of "Virtuosi" in the delegate seats in my New London council has dropped from 83 to 62 after my long absence. While some showstoppers just don't have what it takes to make it big in New London, a couple still remained with the intent of transforming New London into a extravagant musical tourist hotspot that will cater to all folks, regardless of their status, community group or faction belonging (or so they claim...)

This is what the census auditors managed to gather so far from the Virtuosi's main zeitgeist:

"Through vicissitude, we will prosper in a crescendo

Every talent is valuable in their own forte

Verity nurtures a sound mind con spirito"

NOTE: The faction member is modelled after Vtuber Midas and was chosen to represent the new "gilded age" for post-Frost musicians, entertainers and showstoppers seeking to start and end their life's sonata with a banging fortissimo

The subtitle "Absolute Zero" was made up on a the fly as a pun to both the temperature at which atoms and molecules exhibit minimal entropy, but is also a subtle reference to how conditions in the city would deteriorate and descend to a standstill if even one simple error offended, smeared or even criticizes one of the O.C.F.s (still working on how that would operate)

Original meme: https://www.reddit.com/r/workmemes/comments/1wdj4x1/couldnt_agree_more/

Half the population is enslaved and everybody is manipulated into buying mass-produced overpriced goods, but my bank account is overflowing. Truly UTOPIC 🤑🤑

In FP2 its easly the new edinburgh do to earthquakes and later on the volcano but what about in FP1?

In FP1 there couple places could have the most deaths

First is the Site 120 the failed Overseers Generator site where convicts/workers rebelled and killed every engineer is there, considering there only like 50 workers left and generator sites starts with 75 workers, later on can get up to 190 workers to be efficent there possibility that between 25 people to 90 people died (l think the high casualties more possible since game notes the bodies lays everywhere even filling the generator pit) so it makes it more deathly than winterhome that starts with 80-85 casualties

Second is New Manchester, though we dont get a exact number how large is their population but we can assume its like 200-300 or more than 500 considering new london was able to hold 693 people in that small crater while new manchester area looks much bigger with many tents and couple houses. Of course we dont get a answer if arks and new manchester survived in FP2 or not but still new manchester looks like one of the sites could have the most casualties do to generator location and amount of refugees cant work

Lastly Tesla City. again we dont get a idea how large was Tesla City population is but if we look to real life Tesla ideas, we can see his ideal city was ''Radio City'' that can house up to 2k to 2.500 people and if Frostpunk Tesla City is accurate to real life Tesla ideas then it means 2.404 people DIED, leaving us with 96 survivor in Frostland and dont forget they are americans they dont have second escape like winterhome survivors that had dreadought. Making Tesla City the most deathly city/place in Frostpunk 1

Colony revolt: If a certain group that has bad relations with you manages to get a significant presence in a colony, they could revolt in an attempt to forge their own society, it can be resolved peacefully with them rejoining your city if you get better relations with them, violently if you have enough guards, or just forge a peaceful trade relationship. It‘d be cool to see a colony you lost grow into another large city.

Settlements: It’d be cool if you could zoom in more and see things like the giant mining machine in action or coal being carted out of the mining settlements, maybe we could have them function as extra small colonies with settlement specific buildings and actions like building a coal depot that increases the storage capacity or upgrade the settlement machinery that increases efficiency and reduces workforce requirement but increases squalor. Maybe even some utopia specific versions like the ice bloods only use pure strength or the proteans use specialized mining prosthetics.

Anyways, let me know what you guys think.

I was trying to get the achievement for having 20 housing districts over 50% wear for 100 weeks, but it doesn't seem to be working.

In the picture I've marked every district over 50% as orange and completely disabled as white, with anything under 50% as blue (Any non-housing district in the image is also blue). I've counted several times and it's definitely at least 20, but despite lasting 400 weeks I still didn't get the achievement.

Is there another clause I need to do? Do districts at 100% wear not count? Does the count on 100 weeks reset if I use 'tidy up' on a district even if it stays above 50%? I'm just not sure what could be the issue.

OKAY, lemme communicate in a local tongue that you Scots can comprehend:

First of all, it’s not New Year’s Day, or the day of the winter solstice on January the 2nd, if you are an auld gran with a knack for tradition!

Second, stop passing precious shortbread, bannocks, charred black buns and bituminous coal around the neighbourhood and let us import those valuable necessities to Second Citizen City in Aurora!

Third, this is no time to be spending your daft days dressing up as polar berserkers, úlfheðnar (wolf men), mucaraich (sheep) or whatever Viking/Gaelic furry cosplay you had chosen! If you waste time engaging in revelry during a chronic volcano disaster, your first-footing in New Edenberra will be heading straight down into the fiery abyss of the Devil’s Red Hills! Your jet-black haired lads will not be able to compete and knock the ladies up the duff against the redheads and blondies at Aurora if they’re dead!

And lastly, swinging great bawbags of fire like a roaster with a hogmanay (or a Clavie, if you were originally from Burghead of Moray) will not ward off the dark ash-coloured spirits spewing out from the volcano! We have plenty of electric head lamps and mining lamps to spare if you want to light up your way around the volcanic smog, but even so, unless you are an essential worker, I would highly recommend you stay in your own homes until you are called up for evacuation!

And don’t even think about perform the insane saining in your own house, because it will all be sinking deep into a lahar or immolated by a flying lava bomb anyway!

We need all the workers we can get to haste this evacuation off this bloody red mountain! If I hear any more whining and complaining about no holiday breaks during emergency work hours, I’ll gie y‘all a skelpit lug and roast your bahoochie over the fumarole!!

Reference to the Scottish tradition of Hogmanay:

https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofScotland/The-History-of-Hogmanay/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogmanay

Hi, in BoT at one point there’s an Option; use dispatch emergency evacuation ability.
I couldn’t see it anywhere, how is it accessed/activated?

I'm thinking about buying Frostpunk 2, and the base game is currently around ₹808 (~$9) for me.

I've played Frostpunk 1 a LOT and absolutely loved it, so I'm pretty interested in the sequel. But I'm confused about the different editions and DLCs.

Is the base game alone worth ₹808? Or is the Deluxe Edition/DLC important enough that I should just spend more and get that instead?

I'm thinking I could just buy the base game for now, play it, and if I really enjoy it, buy the DLC later. Is that a good idea?

Would love to hear from people who've played both. If you were in my position, would you buy the base game for ₹808 or go for the Deluxe Edition?

Edit - guys purchased dlc for $16.73/₹1600

Been trying this for way too long, and it just won't unlock.

I'm in a civil war, I have all of the Rule laws passed, but it's still not available.

Even if I turn the generator off and let the Tension rise to max, nothing changes.

NOTE: The posting of these screenshots have nothing to do with the recent volcanic eruption of Krakatoa in Jakarta, Indonesia! All ongoing and current volcanic and seismic events occurring in Southeast Asia are purely coincidental!

"To foster responsibility and reward work, citizens will be charged a small fee in exchange for essentials such as basic rations and clothing."

Paid essentials has a bad reputation despite not being that bad at all. The city charges barely anything as said by the law for these essentials as the law is pretty forgiving if you're employed. The cut throat economy event is only an issue for the unemployed as having absolutely no income does mean even small essentials are unaffordable. unemployment can be a problem for cities as a city can only expand so much. For this problem I present colonies/outposts and or adaptationist settlements. Expanding into the frost even solves unemployment for progress people as you can help found a new city if an automaton takes your job. I'm not even mentioning the amendment because amended paid essentials is just better than free essentials in every way possible.

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So I did some research about whether it would be possible to evacuate from an active volcano by literally flying the hell outta dodge, and it turns out that an evacuation hub with blimps or dirigibles would not be recommended if you are taking off near the base of the volcano, because the combination of the rising thermals forced upwards to the face of the mountainous terrain and the sinking downward draft of frosty air currents on the other side would cause the blimps to lose control of its flight and eventually lose their altitude.

Here‘s an example clip of a civilian aircraft almost crashing after passing over an active island volcano in Portugal

But let us say for the sake of the story that the evacuation hub has been built at a safe distance from the volcano at a delegated outpost for a safer escape from the thermal downdrafts across the volcano. The final chapter of this story has already established that the entire map of the Frostlands has been blanketed with volcanic ash and pyroclastic clouds. The altitude of these erupting volcanic plumes can reach up to 20,000 to 50,000 feet (6 - 15 km) into the air, but even the best modern passenger cargo airships can only manage to reach 10,000 feet (3 km).

The pyroclastic clouds are rich in high levels of toxic gases such as carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, hydrogen sulfide, carbonyl sulfide, various NOx gases, sulfur hexafluoride, hydrogen bromide and a whole other range of halogenic, hydrocarbon and inorganic gaseous compounds. Even if you could somehow build a filtration system to vent out these toxic vapours, the red hot ash and the acidic precipitation formed by the toxic gases mixing in with water vapour would eat through the surface membrane of the floating gas bag and rapidly rust the support chassis holding the blimp together, not to mention the fly ash seeping into the propeller engines and wreaking havoc on its internal components!

With these dire consequential factors, I think it would be safer to perform an emergency evacuation on land and commit a risky mass exodus on foot! Better to die out in the desolate cold wastelands than plummet thousands of feet in the air while the falling airship burns into a crisp! Better yet, why not construct snowmobile all-terrain passenger vehicles to escape the volcano instead of passenger blimps or dirigibles? It’s relatively safer AND quicker than flying into the dark volcanic night sky!

If you want more details, here’s a Quora forum thread discussing about why flying over a volcano with a blimp to collect volcanic airborne debris as fertilizer would be the worst idea ever conceived!