Simcity

[The Mad Monk]

You could always get medieval on their little asses.

[self biased]

what is this? i don't even

[Wiglaf]

Turns out the all-residential cities exploited this system. Being fixed in a patch. It was never a design issue, just an exploit.

[–]JackDT 6 points 3 hours ago
Systems like fire, abandonment, garbage, etc... don't turn on until you've made a certain amount of $$$ (from taxes & now gifts)
Ahh. So as long as you didn't make money (taxes 0%) you would never pass the threshold and the rest of the game systems never turned on. Thus super large residential cities with no income.
With respect to RCI balance, if happiness leads to density, and the only way to get happiness high enough is by supplying jobs to make money, and stores to spend it, it can still be an interesting dynamic balance between RCI.
What I'm really worried about is that spamming Nissan charging stations everywhere can make people so happy they don't care about having jobs.

[onodera]

I've done some calculations and it makes sense that the cities are so small now. If you had bigger cities, the game would have to look like a timelapse video to let sims get anywhere in a reasonable amount of time. No way to notice little mise en scenes like two hobos playing a harmonica.

[The Mad Monk]

I'd prefer the huge cities. I can always go to youtube if I want to see hobos playing the harmonica.

[Sava]

Turns out the all-residential cities exploited this system. Being fixed in a patch. It was never a design issue, just an exploit.

more like a design flaw

[Captain ******* Kirk]

Cannot name any city "Towelheadville," "Gookville" or any racial slur + ville.

Did you try "Redskinville"? MAXIS, PLEASE TELL US IF WE SHOULD BE OUTRAGED BY THE WASHINGTON NFL TEAM!!!!!!

[Sava]

[Dinner]

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/10/ea-proposes-restrictions-on-simcity-mods-that-affect-the-simulation/

EA wants to restrict mods to Simcity.

[Guynemer]

Welcome to five months ago.

[Sava]

It's just so disappointing... to think what this game could have been

[Colon™]

If anyone could get into the city building arena, it's them.

Oh please no, they'd probably require you to manually approve every building permit and probably only the RCI balance right after 2 expansions.

[regexcellent]

I regret not trying to get the refund for this game. The more we learn about the internals, the more it's obvious how ****ing amateur everything is.

[Sava]

I regret not trying to get the refund for this game. The more we learn about the internals, the more it's obvious how ****ing amateur everything is.

Agree.

[Wiglaf]

It's actually pretty cool now. The "internals" are far more advanced than they were at launch.