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> Magnasanti’s water and power needs are supplied by neighboring cities, eliminating the need for much of the related infrastructure. I call cheating.
by nearmuse 8y ago
> Magnasanti’s water and power needs are supplied by neighboring cities, eliminating the need for much of the related infrastructure.
I call cheating.
- disconnected 8y agoIt is not cheating, since no rules were broken. That said, that power and water isn't free. The city must be paying through the nose for all that power and water. It has been a while since I played SimCity 3000, but IIRC those deals become extortionate after you hit a certain scale.
- nearmuse 8y agoWell, mixing functional and OO programming is practical, but for some esoteric problems where you want to go purely functional you might say it is cheating, this is what I meant. I guess anyone would think it would be cooler if it was self-contained.
- keketi 8y agoOne man's cheating is another man's clever use of game mechanics.
- lou1306 8y agoYeah, I see no cheating here. IIRC, as soon as you brought a water pipe to the border, you were offered a deal from your neighbors to buy/sell water. Same for electricity, roads... The guy just exploited something that was already there.
- so33 8y agoBecause pollution doesn't travel across city borders (In SimCity 4 at least), you can build a bunch of coal plants in your neighboring city, set up a neighbor deal for power in your "real" city... boom, clean air. For your citizens, at least.
- nearmuse 8y agoThis is the kind of stuff I mean. I don't know if it would work but neighbors could strike all those controversial deals with gambling and toxic waste plants etc. You could also export trash as far as I remember.
- quickthrower2 8y agoSounds like real life. Trains of poo leaving daily from new york, for example.