Cities: Skylines II

In Cities: Skylines II, the "Everything the Light Touches" achievements require you to reach certain milestones in your city's development then expand your city by buying 50 map tiles.

You can get this achievement as your 3rd in less than 10 minutes. This guide will also help you get the following achievements :



Note that you can immediatly unlock this achievement by starting a new game with "Unlock All" activated. It may get patched because this option is supposed to lock achievements.

Don't worry, this solution will also help you to do it legit ;).

Obviously, you will unlock this naturally but you can speed up this achievement :

How do you unlock new map tiles and milestone?

• Gain XP: In Cities: Skylines II, you gain expansion points (XP) by building roads, placing amenities, generating energy, and connecting grids. You can also gain passive XP points from Population and Happiness metrics every 1.5 in-game hours.
• Unlock Milestones: As you gain XP, you'll reach milestones in your city's development. There are 20 milestones in total, broken up into 5 larger milestones: Grand Village, Big Town, Large City, Thriving Metropolis, and Megalopolis.
• Unlock map tiles: Each milestone you reach will unlock expansion permits, but you will also get a lot of money (600K,700K,…), increase loan limit and new city services.
• To achieve the "Everything the Light Touches", you need to reach milestones 14 : Grand city to unlock 150 expansion permits.
• Purchase map tiles: Click on the bottom left button and select the map tiles you want to buy. If you don't have enough money, you can take a loan in the economy panel.

Here's a step-by-step guide to help you purchase 150 map tiles :

1. You can start a new game and build many “small coal power plant” (300 xp for $880K), you can reach milestone 3 before getting out of money.
2. Once done, just bulldoze all of them to get a $1.5M refund, go to the development panel by clicking on the bottom left “3 Large Village”, then select garbage management (5th icon) and unlock the “recycling center”.
3. Build the recycling center “recycling center” (2,000 XP for $880K) and bulldoze it each time you get out of money until you are totally broke (arround milestone 11).
4. Go to the loan tab in the economy panel to borrow the maximum loan. This borrowing limit will increase with every milestone (play at the minimum speed to avoid paying interest).
5. Do this until you reach level 14 then borrow the maximum loan in the economy tab and purchase 150 map tiles.