Posted: 3/12/2013 2:47:06 PM EDT
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I've never played a single sim city game.
So it's a sim from what I understand. You build cities and shit. Does it simulate real world events like white flight and urban decay? Does it simulate politics such as bottom dwellers voting for higher taxes to pay for their free phones and housing? Does it simulate nanny state laws that force people to move because they voted their city into a useless shithole? I need to know these things before I buy the game, or before I would consider it a sim. |
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Quoted: I've never played a single sim city game. So it's a sim from what I understand. You build cities and shit. Does it simulate real world events like white flight and urban decay? Does it simulate politics such as bottom dwellers voting for higher taxes to pay for their free phones and housing? Does it simulate nanny state laws that force people to move because they voted their city into a useless shithole? I need to know these things before I buy the game, or before I would consider it a sim. You have to balance the budget, alter tax rates, and issue bonds for fundraising or else you get riots and fires  (I only played the old SimCity games). Speed |
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Quoted: Sim City is bunk. It teaches you how to be a statist. If Sim City was realistic and based on free markets, it probably wouldn't be a fun game since your controls would be very limited and all you could do is watch the city build itself.  Keep a deficit budget for too many years, then jack up the tax rates to 20% and see what happens. Enact too many ordinances and commercialization stops. Zone heavy industry next to Residential Zones. It's not a half-bad petri dish. |
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There's no voting in Sim City. You run the city and you don't give a hot shit what any of the sims living in it think about it-- except that the Sims are perfectly willing to vote with their feet and their Simoleons if you don't build or manage the city to your liking.
I loved SC2k to death. I could never get the hang of SC3k and I never played 4. The more I hear about the new one, the less I care to play it, all the multiplayer stuff seems boring and shitty and stupid. |
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I played the very first one, the original on DOS. I seem to remember a feature where you could cause natural disasters. I remember crashing planes over and over again pretending I was bombing a city. Special ops on the ground preemptively took out fire and police stations before the air strikes.
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I played the very first one, the original on DOS. I seem to remember a feature where you could cause natural disasters. I remember crashing planes over and over again pretending I was bombing a city. Special ops on the ground preemptively took out fire and police stations before the air strikes. I'm a masochist, I would build up a beautiful/successful city and then do the same thing
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I may get the new one next year. By then the price should have dropped and the bugs should be worked out.
I'm curious about the multiplayer option. Can I go to war with neighbors online? For years I've been itching to use the tanks and missiles against somebody else. |
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Sim City is bunk. It teaches you how to be a statist. If Sim City was realistic and based on free markets, it probably wouldn't be a fun game since your controls would be very limited and all you could do is watch the city build itself.
Keep a deficit budget for too many years, then jack up the tax rates to 20% and see what happens. Enact too many ordinances and commercialization stops. Zone heavy industry next to Residential Zones. It's not a half-bad petri dish. Maybe I'm thinking of civilization. |
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I think the original would have an attack from a giant lizard/king kupa like monster., The worst Sim game I've played was SimAnt. That was so dumb. Haha yes! That was Godzilla from the Tokyo scenario. Is there any way to play the original Sim City? Red Baron would also be sweet. |