Your job as mayor is to decide who you agree with and how to act on the advice they give you. As you play, the game gives you conflicting reads on the data it presents. One of your citizens might love the tiny stretch of road he lives on, and your traffic guru will point out that the intersection needs to be totally overhauled. Your environmentalist is going to tell you that your water pump is too polluted to use, and your utilities guy will tell you that shutting it down means undercutting the whole town. They give a more personalised critiques, telling you about the traffic jam on their street as opposed to a bird’s eye view on your entire street network.Īll these sims are going to tell you different things. You can also select individual sims to serve a similar role as citizens, who will tell you what’s wrong in their neighbourhood.
SimCity 4 reminds you of this via sim advisors who constantly tell you which areas of your city need work.
Cities are full of people - even if you’re building a polluted shithole on purpose, you may start to wonder what it’s like to walk those dirty streets. But if you get a kick out of organising your book shelves you’re probably already salivating (guilty as charged).Ĭity building games ask you not only to manage data about buildings, but to build something that people live in. When games like this go awry it’s either because the numbers feel too random or too much like doing maths homework. SimCity 4 and games like it are full of graphs and data overlays to help you keep track of traffic, water flow, population and more. City building games can sometimes feel like playing a spreadsheet.
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