i love to start over. i usually play a new town up to population 800-1200 then get bored and start over.
i love the forest of a new map, waiting to be developed, filling with homes and crops, becoming productive. i love designing neighborhoods and planning layouts for efficient production. i love it when growth is steady and food/fuel are plentiful and stable, and the town reaches that "runs itself" point.
it means i have balanced and managed nicely and i can move on to the next one. adding a theme or challenge is a great idea. i once went through as many maps as i could, starting with 1. (i think i got to 600+ before that got old.) then i went through a phase of trying to create only water worlds. (that one didn't last long i admit) now i'm going for a "district" idea, pockets of specialized neighborhoods: heavy industry (mining), art (sculpture), agriculture, etc. and trying to decorate carefully to match my ideas.
that's the thing about banished and colonial charter, it can be about as endless as your own imagination. i take breaks too, and go off to sims3 or some cities skylines, but since it was released, i have always come back to banished - over and over.<a class="ipsAttachLink ipsAttachLink_image" href="<fileStore.core_Attachment>/monthly_2018_01/5a554a23ce463_Application-steam-x642017-12-0902-37-24-932.jpg.e90de37f808622d99624f0ecdd683f6b.jpg" data-fileid="2851">[img]<fileStore.core_Attachment>/monthly_2018_01/5a554a2458686_Application-steam-x642017-12-0902-37-24-932.thumb.jpg.101aab0c328edca8b0d125d7db4bf519.jpg[/img]</a><a class="ipsAttachLink ipsAttachLink_image" href="<fileStore.core_Attachment>/monthly_2018_01/5a554a18933ce_Application-steam-x642018-01-0400-36-01-562.jpg.b375bad8d6aca84acd3065d8893dc069.jpg" data-fileid="2850">[img]<fileStore.core_Attachment>/monthly_2018_01/5a554a1f0ce40_Application-steam-x642018-01-0400-36-01-562.thumb.jpg.534f6cd2e18dd6da6f6a616049c57018.jpg[/img]</a>
Love your screenshots. I love the idea too of how the town is going to develop and what am I going to focus on trading. I think for the next town I am going to for some districts like that idea and some more old english looking vibe. Same I always come back to it. I don't think I would have though if <abbr title="Colonial Charter">CC</abbr> and the modding community didn't exist. The vanilla version got old real quick for me.
I'll confess to being a Serial Restarter too... My towns almost never go over 500 citizens... Oops!
it does make it more interesting. it slows down the game a lot. i also try to throw out some tid bit info now and then to help new players.and give more looks to various mods for ideas too. i really wanted to finish the TOWNS map where i built every mod.computer kept fatal errorring out on me.