Posted: Mar 11, 2013 3:29 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.
Right from the very first game, you could successfully use trains/trolleys instead of roads. I often built my cities with them because, even though they were much more expensive, they were cleaner and solved traffic problems. By Simcity 2000 you had bus stations among other methods of public transportation, and that game came out in 1993. Clearly, the game has been able to handle public transportation for a very long time. And obviously, the planning of how the transportation is laid out is up to the player.
So, what is different about the American view of public transportation that is represented in Simcity?