If you build in a square adjacent to an existing city, you can strike up trade deals with your neighbor where you can import and/or export power, trash and water. Each of the regions in the game - which include Berlin, the San Francisco Bay area, New York, London and a few others - are comprised of a few dozen squares where you can build the metropolis of your dreams. Of all the games in the SimCity franchise, this one comes the closest to modeling real city morphology dynamics, and is a true evolutionary step to the series as it adds entirely new elements and simulates urban planning on a grand scale never before seen in a SimCity title.īreaking away from the single-city model, SimCity 4 focuses on planning at the regional level. So what in the hell does all of this have to do with SimCity 4?" Well, while that grand vision that Will Wright and the boys had for SimCity 3000 never saw the light of day, it has been rekindled in a sense with SimCity 4. It was a colossal project, and unfortunately, SimCity 3000 was delayed for years because of it, and it never really emerged as the robust and personal-level city simulation the development team had originally set out to build. This is the stuff Urban Planning thesis papers are made of. You see, in the early days of development, Maxis was looking to get down to the individual level with SimCity 3000, so you could actually roam the streets and poll your individual citizenry to see what they liked and didn't like about urban life. I even pursued a Geography Masters at the University of Georgia after that, and planned on writing my thesis on how SimCity 3000 portrayed real-life Urban Planning issues and theories. I learned about all manner of things, from journey-to-work models to NIMBY to concentric ring theory. The next day I signed up to be a future urban planner, following in the steps of such world-renowned names as Bob Smith, Bobby Smith and Robert Smith (no, not the lead singer of The Cure), all because I had an extreme fascination with a videogame and I liked to sleep in. And what's this? No classes before 11am and I can work my schedule so I only have to take Tuesday and Thursday classes?!? This is the dream major! Urban Planning to be specific.none of that state capitals crap for me. So there I was, thumbing through the class booklet, when I came across a major that sounded kind of interesting: Geography. A note to all of you students out there, whatever you pick in college is what you're forced to do for the rest of your life, so choose wisely because you're stuck with it there is no getting out, even for those of you who thought Human Sexuality would be a great way to meet girls. It just so happens that I was going through a big SimCity 2000 phase when I was locked into making this heavy life decision. I was too busy staying up late playing Civilization, Master of Magic and SimCity 2000 to bother with anything earlier. Being your average slacker, I learned early on to never schedule a class before 11am.
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