Doh004 posted:

The game's poo poo, but changing a line of code that changes the behavior of a program isn't anything revolutionary. There are plenty of other ways to talk about the poor design of the game (underlying game logic and business rules).

Croccers posted:

Wasn't SimCity 4's traffic shitted up the wazoo until that NAT mod came out? And 3k had the doesn't matter where you plonk down school buildings, it's magic?
How did 3 and 4 handle Residences and Jobs anyway?

WeaponBoy posted:

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You mean almost exactly what is also in the Steam license agreement?


It's one thing to poo poo on SimCity or Origin, but don't act like this is unique.

less than three posted:

Yeah, that game is coded so well. My Pentium 75 with 7MB usable RAM played it fine.

That engine had an interesting life. It started out simulating trains and stuff for Transport Tycoon and did it well, later adapted to become RCT. That went fine too. He then tried to adapt it back to do trains again and it failed miserably.

Unfortunately it seems he's going to try the trains using RCT engine idea again. I am not optimistic about it.

edit: It looks like it's out already: http://www.transporttycoon.com/

"the definitive version of the simulation classic" is kind of a lie, as it uses the later years RCT/Locomotion engine that everyone said was fine for rollercoasters but terrible for trains, not the original TT engine that was fantastic for trains.

steinrokkan posted:

Not so much when this is the entire region:

ExtraNoise posted:

Since they are dead-set on keeping cities tiny, why didn't they just mimic SimCity 4's region/city handling?

The region view is basically as it is now, where you can see a map divided into little squares. You can't zoom too close, but that's okay, because you're not managing a city out here.

Click on a square to zoom into that city, exactly as it is in the game now. Except when you get there, it's just the patch of land you selected. Not your city with a bunch of dumb cityislands in the distance and crappy-looking mountains. Just a square plot of land and an abrupt edge. They did it with the region view and no one freaked out. Why couldn't the cities be the same way?

This would allow you to have small cities directly adjacent to each other. In a lot of ways, you'd be creating a metro region where each "city" is really a neighborhood or district of a greater city. Together, even with small city plots, you could create large cities.

But, nope. They got all frustrated when they couldn't problem solve how to do transit connections between players in real time (because it just had to be multiplayer) and said "gently caress it" and released a crappy broken game.

oswald ownenstein posted:

-The game is graphically gorgeous and even the most fervent SC haters usually don't dispute this (except here it seems).

oswald ownenstein posted:

oswald ownenstein posted:

Also SC4 was broken as poo poo until Rush Hour, and even then traffic pathing was horrendous and you had to force people to take highways by preventing access through lesser roads.