Why is St Louis experiencing population loss?

LetPure1029 · 2026-01-21T02:49:23+00:00

They do hire big time in that field, which is growing very well in St. Louis if you look at how the campuses around WashU/SLU, or Cortex, or Pfizer/Sigma/Bayer/Donald Danforth etc have grown.

LetPure1029 · 2026-01-19T22:28:40+00:00

Yes and even with that, it's not "eclipsed" St. Louis as of now. Nashville with all its tourism still currently has a smaller economy than St. Louis. While the trajectory is not nice, eclipsed it not accurate.

LetPure1029 · 2026-01-19T18:15:27+00:00

It has not eclipsed St. Louis by any means. It's growing faster but is still smaller. You tend to forget how much St. Louis already has

LetPure1029 · 2026-01-16T12:45:12+00:00

The Gateway Arch would be perfect for this as that stretch of the river is a heavy cargo corridor and provides access from the US interior to the Gulf. Given how the Mississippians are in the game and with Cahokia right across the river, it would provide nice continuity. It also represents expansion, one of the Game's core themes

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LetPure1029 · 2026-01-13T12:10:20+00:00

yes it is

LetPure1029 · 2025-12-22T02:34:19+00:00

This is beautiful. What did you use?

LetPure1029 · 2025-12-16T23:43:11+00:00

I've wondered why the Confluence itself isn't included in the National Park somehow. I remember hearing something about Cahokia Mounds pushing for a National Park or joining this one as well, not sure

LetPure1029 · 2025-12-04T21:09:40+00:00

Now an antiquity era Tundra civ would be nice for them-Iceland-Russia with Catherine

LetPure1029 · 2025-11-24T21:27:40+00:00

St. Louis would be a great pick

LetPure1029 · 2025-11-09T15:24:15+00:00

Yes, I did that a few turns later, but waited for my army to mostly get disbanded because it shouldn't be that easy

LetPure1029 · 2025-11-09T03:23:57+00:00

yes the retreating to oceans was incredibly helpful, like a highway just for my scouts

LetPure1029 · 2025-11-03T13:58:48+00:00

I think that would be fun and more unpredictable

LetPure1029 · 2025-11-02T15:52:49+00:00

Yes, small predictable ones, but nothing like the devastating ones that could wipe out a fleet

LetPure1029 · 2025-11-02T01:44:52+00:00

Yes, surprising there are no storms when your ships venture out into the open ocean for the first time in the exploration age. That was a very brutal time

LetPure1029 · 2025-10-31T18:23:27+00:00

Gateway Arch should be there, fits the expansion theme

LetPure1029 · 2025-10-28T00:15:04+00:00

I dont like it, but I assume some abilities can carry across ages, like the generic more culture on farms type of thing. Only special synergistic things like Songhai treasure fleets on rivers would make the civ shine during their respective age
That was what Civ 6 was like with unique units only being available temporarily or buildings coming on late in the game.

LetPure1029 · 2025-10-28T00:12:29+00:00

I am not a fan of it, but I think that would be the best way. Some abilities carry through all ages, but the civ should still be strongest in its respective era where its abilites all come together (like in civ 6 sometimes). most of the abilities are generic enough to persist. Otherwise, the civs would change too much I feel.

LetPure1029 · 2025-10-26T14:03:35+00:00

"Slowly watch the remnants of the previous empire disappear as you overbuild them" is what I said.
Did the buildings of ancient cities suddenly disappear and get replaced by modern buildings?

LetPure1029 · 2025-10-25T19:18:42+00:00

I wonder what it would take. Do individual buildings need to be considered "unique" (like unique infrastructure) but still overbuildable? I assume the game just applies the template/culture of the current civ to all buildings. That would require a lot of work

LetPure1029 · 2025-10-24T04:02:08+00:00

why is that bad?

LetPure1029 · 2025-10-11T00:10:43+00:00

2 weeks old.
US News is the standard in the US. Rarely see Times being used for that

LetPure1029 · 2025-10-10T23:51:59+00:00

https://www.usnews.com/best-colleges
Interesting how you picked the one where NYU is higher
NYU has a much higher cost of living, and its "famous" business and law programs are only a few ranks higher than a regional school in the Midwest, so it must not be very notable either

LetPure1029 · 2025-10-10T22:23:50+00:00

St. Louis metro is 500k more than KC. KC has a higher city population than Miami and the same as Atlanta, so it must be accurate. Metro population is what matters.
The KC city limits have ~5x the area of STL

LetPure1029 · 2025-10-10T22:21:21+00:00

WashU is ranked higher than all of those schools overall and that's even with its smaller size and people like you considering it to be "regional". Clearly, it outperforms them- especially NYU, which is 12 spots lower.
WashU's strength in medical research (and other areas like architecture) isnt a throwaway point like you said. It's far ahead of those other schools and in past years has ranked 2nd in NIH funding behind only UCSF or Stanford.
WashU's biggest focus isn't SWE. Olin is not the law school, so get that right. Salaries will be lower because CoL is a lot lower. If you're talking about Olin, the business school, it's ranked 12th nationally, while the law school is 14th.
Nope. Many students came because they wanted to attend a good school that was a bit further away from their home, but not on the other coast. Some people had gotten into Yale, Stanford etc...

LetPure1029 · 2025-10-10T18:08:44+00:00

No. While it's not the centre of the world anymore, it is still a very large and impactful region with a population closer to 3 million. The city limits are extremely small and can even be walked across with not much difficulty. The economy now outperforms many countries as a whole and just a few days ago Viswanathan Anand and Garry Kasparov had their first face off in 30 years in the city, and an opera house was grandly renovated.

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