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I always played it as a meta-game: you can control transportation, but my real goal was to increase city population and ultimately build a single large metrople

I always played it as a meta-game: you can control transportation, but my real goal was to increase city population and ultimately build a single large metroplex.

disconcision 3y ago
ya exactly. i liked to treat this whole genre as gardening. simcity is more constrained gardening; you dig your plots and watch stuff grow. transport tycoon is more like guerilla gardening; fundamentally you're in the wilderness, but with the right interventions - irrigation here, a latticework there - you in time dramatically transform the landscape