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It's a spectrum. My goal is to "teach the right things" that you would need in a realistic setting and have the simulation try it's honest best to simulate ever

It's a spectrum. My goal is to "teach the right things" that you would need in a realistic setting and have the simulation try it's honest best to simulate everything in realistic scope, detail and behaviour, but I might cut some corners with bureaucracy that is involved in real-world city planning to not compromise on fun.

Pxtl 8y ago
Now I'm fantasizing about players levying a carbon-tax to collect revenue and force modal shift to transit/cycling.
- theanzelm 8y ago
  I would love and very much want such things to be possible - and to still make it an obvious reaction to your player decision.
- tropo 8y ago
  It would force a revolt, after the economy collapses and unemployment shoots up over 90%.
  - Dowwie 8y ago
    I would play this game
  - jeltz 8y ago
    Oh, yeah, the great British carbon revolt of 1993.
- vxNsr 8y ago
  this is possible in base game of cities skylines.
tropo 8y ago
One of the truly awful things about SimCity was that transit was unrealistically beneficial. It was some sort of awful joke, the sort you might roll your eyes at and say "oh brother, this is idiotic". It felt like somebody was pushing a transit agenda hard. Similarly, pollution was unreasonable. Coal power may be dirty, but SimCity made it absurd. There was also the nuclear plant explosions that pretty much never happen in the real world. Both the failure rate and the failure consequences were way above normal.
- magissima 8y ago
  Here's transit planner Jarrett Walker making the exact opposite argument: https://humantransit.org/2019/03/notes-on-simcity-at-30.html https://humantransit.org/2019/03/notes-on-simcity-at-30.html
  - kortilla 8y ago
    Not sure you know what “exact opposite” means, but I read that link expecting to see an argument that nuclear power plants blow up much more frequently in real life.
    - magissima 8y ago
      I thought "transit planner" would be a hint that I was referring to the first part of the parent's comment, that "somebody was pushing a transit agenda hard".

Pxtl 8y ago

Now I'm fantasizing about players levying a carbon-tax to collect revenue and force modal shift to transit/cycling.

theanzelm 8y ago
I would love and very much want such things to be possible - and to still make it an obvious reaction to your player decision.
tropo 8y ago
It would force a revolt, after the economy collapses and unemployment shoots up over 90%.
- Dowwie 8y ago
  I would play this game
- jeltz 8y ago
  Oh, yeah, the great British carbon revolt of 1993.
vxNsr 8y ago
this is possible in base game of cities skylines.

tropo 8y ago

One of the truly awful things about SimCity was that transit was unrealistically beneficial. It was some sort of awful joke, the sort you might roll your eyes at and say "oh brother, this is idiotic". It felt like somebody was pushing a transit agenda hard. Similarly, pollution was unreasonable. Coal power may be dirty, but SimCity made it absurd. There was also the nuclear plant explosions that pretty much never happen in the real world. Both the failure rate and the failure consequences were way above normal.

magissima 8y ago
Here's transit planner Jarrett Walker making the exact opposite argument: https://humantransit.org/2019/03/notes-on-simcity-at-30.html https://humantransit.org/2019/03/notes-on-simcity-at-30.html
- kortilla 8y ago
  Not sure you know what “exact opposite” means, but I read that link expecting to see an argument that nuclear power plants blow up much more frequently in real life.
  - magissima 8y ago
    I thought "transit planner" would be a hint that I was referring to the first part of the parent's comment, that "somebody was pushing a transit agenda hard".