u/Pingusrage

Everything is set to Hard settings except for disasters like earthquakes, which are turned off and the starting money are set to Easy at 10 million so I don't have to start with a gulag build.

Also, here's the link to Twitch, I've started streaming this playthrough, which is very rare since I've never done it before in this game.

You can check it out, I didn't upload it to YouTube. The 15 hours are from a 5 hour stream, and the linked here is over 10 hours long.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2847351085

After years, I finally launched the game again with the updates (not the beta version), and this is what i build.

I usually try to build things in a realistic and logical way.

I've added explanations below each image.

I'm playing against the Yellow AI Lord outside the map and an AI on the map.

Citizen satisfaction is set to Demanding, and there are frequent bandit attacks just to keep things interesting.

I've left the spoilage rate for food and other items set to Normal. I set the AI aggression to normal so I could get back into the game. But every few years, both AIs attack and sometimes the bandits join in, too.

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For context: After the first explanation, I gave an example involving a lumberjack. The prudent lumberjack cuts down only a few trees, making less profit but working for a lifetime. The greedy lumberjack cuts down the entire forest, making a massive profit in the short term and then nothing at all.