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One thing makes me wonder: supposedly the fancy simulation models are supposed to make the game feel more realistic - but then the player still seems to have an
by t_mann 4y ago
One thing makes me wonder: supposedly the fancy simulation models are supposed to make the game feel more realistic - but then the player still seems to have an extent of control that no mayor or other single individual would have (in democratic societies at least)?
- pornel 4y agoThere's a lot of fiction in these games in order to make them fun. If you had to deal with committees, contractors, NIMBYs, and real human cost of bulldozing houses for highways, it would have been a completely different game, likely a sad and frustrating one. City builders also start from an empty free land, even though true greenfield development is very rare. SimCity has famously ignored the problem of parking, because it made cities look depressingly ugly. Even in Cities Skylines people pull cars out of their pockets.
- imtringued 4y agoWhat is depressing is that city simulation games subsidize car dependency by eliminating the need to park.