So, I promised New Londoners a new Blasting Coal Mine. Cold was coming, so I was to build one anyway. Plopped it down and it worked fine and dandy until the coal vein was depleted, actually not that much later because I did not pay attention to the remaining amount of resources. So, I did not need the district anymore, and I needed the prefabs to build a new district, so decided to demolish the area. Now, according to the tooltips, immediately dozering the district would not recover the costs of the blasting mine (it should imo), so I brought that down first, then the district.

Some time later, actually right after I constructed a new one in the newly constructed district on a fresh vein, New Londoners appeared on my doorstep with forks and torches ("Relations greatly worsens"), because with the demolition of the mine I made mockery of their good faith. The vein it worked on ceased to exist, ffs.

I realize this mechanic is there to stop players fulfilling promises then immediately reverse them, but since 1. the mine was empty thus just eating up resources, 2. I just built a new one, I don't think it was fair.

One solution could be if the game flagged buildings that fulfill promises, and warn me that demolishing it would upset certain people. Also, I really hope I don't have to keep ALL promised, but eventually becoming useless buildings until the end of the chapter...

That is funny. I understand why they did it that way, as often in Frostpunk 1 these protests were easily cheesed. Still, it doesn't seem right that they would object to the demolition over a depleted vein.

I wonder if I had demolished the district right away, without dozering the mine beforehand (thus probably losing the resources invested in it), would they have still got into a lynching mood.