Using SimCity to diagnose my home town's traffic problem
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Re: Using SimCity to diagnose my home town's traffic problem
#2He should have built the town in mirror image so as to account for driving on the right. It may be that the interaction of various turns across the road have an impact.
Re: Using SimCity to diagnose my home town's traffic problem
#3I haven't been this excited for a game to come out in probably more than a decade.
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#4FTA: "...including the fact that once I'd built East Didsbury, the strip of shops in Northenden stopped making as much money as they once were, and some were even beginning to close down as my time ran out. Walk along Northenden high street, and you'll know that feeling."
This is interesting. Urban planners out there, do these types of simulations occur before an area is zoned?
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#5Here is the first of 3 videos explaining the simulation engine:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS0qURl_JJY
Re: Using SimCity to diagnose my home town's traffic problem
#6FTA: "...including the fact that once I'd built East Didsbury, the strip of shops in Northenden stopped making as much money as they once were, and some were even beginning to close down as my time ran out. Walk along Northenden high street, and you'll know that feeling." This is interesting. Urban planners out there, do these types of simulations occur before an area is zoned?
The problem with a lot of small to medium sized towns is that the people in charge of making zoning decisions are just local good ol' boys (or girls) who got voted in office because people knew who they were. They are in no way qualified to make these kinds of decisions.
And so you get what you get.
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#7I haven't been this excited for a game to come out in probably more than a decade.
Me too. I had the chance to play the beta last weekend and even with reduced functionality the game was quite a lot of fun.
I rarely if ever play games and I'm certain this will be a terrible time suck.
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#8Anyone have info about the beta program? Simcity 2000 was my favorite game on my 486. 3000 and classic were flops... this looks really really good.
As for the article, really interesting. Sounds like proof of the power of SimCity's engine. Would be more interesting to see him fix his issue.
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#9Anyone have info about the beta program? Simcity 2000 was my favorite game on my 486. 3000 and classic were flops... this looks really really good. As for the article, really interesting. Sounds like proof of the power of SimCity's engine. Would be more interesting to see him fix his issue.
The beta testing is all done. The game comes out in two weeks.
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#10I had the opportunity to play through both betas, and I'm fairly certain we haven't even scratched the surface of the interesting "experiments" we can do with it.
I'm still purchasing this game, but I do wish EA would consider not forcing you to connect to their servers at all times.