![]() ![]() So much that a lot of the game is about traffic planning. I recommend it to everyone, but especially people who ever enjoyed a game of SimCity, or has enjoyed any city builder of any stripe, or who think that games are only for children.Ĭities: Skylines is great, but I do feel it leans a bit too strongly on the agent simulation. It is everything that SimCity 2013 should have been. That said, I think Cities: Skylines is the best SimCity we’ve ever had. Another mod that I really like allows you to select a stop on a mass–transit vehicle route (a bus stop or a metro station or a ferry station or whatever) and see where everyone who is currently waiting at that stop is going. ![]() I use one that shows what each service vehicle is doing, for example. In principle, mods can fix some of these oversights. It still just shows the routes that end at the building though, so you end up seeing just those service vehicles that are going home and people who are going to work at the service building. The exception is service buildings like fire or police each one supplies a fixed number of vehicles, and in theory the tool could show what all of those vehicles are doing. Thus, when you click on a building to show the associated traffic routes it can only show routes with that building as a destination. Agents know their destination and chosen route, but they don’t remember where they are coming from. The built–in tools are also somewhat hit and miss, and that is partly driven by what information the game holds on to and what it throws away for increased efficiency. Mods can increase this somewhat, which is usually safe because our computers have gotten faster. These numbers were chosen so that the minimum spec computer at time of the initial release would get 60fps. Most of the agents in a building are not actually doing anything most of the time the game has a strict limit of 16,383 moving and 32,767 parked vehicles. You had to build your transport system to fit the simulation method, if you wanted a viable city. In other words, the transport simulation is too different to real life to be playable. Traffic would go into this, and never emerge. You could show this issue clearly by building a square block of road tiles - each tile then having four junctions. So if you build, say, a round-about, or a subway system which is a loop with branches, it's death and ruin trips have no idea where they should get off (this branch leads to industry, for example), and some trips just keep going round and round until they reach their max travel distance and fail. However, at each junction, the trip randomly selection one of the routes. The game simulates "trips" emerging from each zone type, and a sufficient number of those trips need to reach particular other types of zone, for the origination zone to be successful. I came to the conclusion the game was fundamentally flawed, due to limitations in the transport simulation. They deserve it.I spent a lot of time investigating SC2K. ![]() ![]() But thats all okay because people that play alone are lonely and stupid so they probably didn't understand they could play online when they saw the multiplayer options under the Single player one. OH and lets not forget now its cool just to harass players in game to buy DLC while they're playing the game and "Reminding" them that they can connect to multiplayer to play with their friends. You buy a game today and you only get half the product you bought and get sold the rest again with DLC and thats assuming you can even play the game with all its rushed development bugs and server crashes for always on DRM that boots you from single player games. Games that got the formula right but didn't have the graphics to deliver everything it wanted to deliver in one neat package. I feel more indignation when they try to bribe me with games that only remind me how shitty they've become as a publisher. Its not "sad times" its exactly what they deserve. This time around though, unlike its prior promotions, EA hasn't specifically stated when the free period on SimCity 2000 will end, so act fast! It's the special edition of the game which means it comes with a few more bells and whistles than its original release, and has been updated to work on modern hardware. You'll then be prompted to log in to your Origin account, after which, the game will be added to your account for free, where it will stay forever. For free.Īll you need to do is head over to the game's Origin page and click the "Get it now" button. Grab one of the greatest city management simulators of all time for absolutely nothing. ![]()
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