Posted: Mar 10, 2013 7:01 pm
Scot Dutchy wrote:SafeAsMilk wrote:Scot Dutchy wrote:"SafeAsMilk wrote:Yes, because only America builds roads in cities. When I was in Amsterdam, there were no roads anywhere, at all.
Streets, squares and pedestrian only areas. Very limited vehicle access.
Quite different to what you build in Sim City.
What would happen if you made a traffic free city or a very limited access city?
Just try it. Your city dies. The conception of a traffic free anything is not in the logic of the game.
If you'd actually played it instead of just complaining about it, you'd know that your city could do quite well with public transportation. There are no requirements for the size of your city. But being aware of that would require actually learning something about the game, and would make it difficult to do the "I hate it because it's American" broken record refrain that we all love so much.
I have not played with the latest version but the prior versions could not handle the situation. Public transport is also the American version. Americans have a completely different view of how a city is and operates. I am not saying I hate it because it is American. I am saying I dont enjoy it because the logic is American which when coming to Traffic Engineering and City Planning I dont like.
I was in Traffic Engineering for over twenty year. We worked with real simulation programmes.
So it's not that you don't like it because it's American, you don't like it because it's designed with American influences? This isn't meant to be a real simulation program, is meant to be a game, and is designed by an American team, the influences are kind of unavoidable.
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