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[Dariush]

Three reviews and they chose to pick a line referencing SimCity from every single one, not to mention the complete lack of any even remotely interesting features beyond 'yay, build a city!'. Great, yet another wannabe project.

[forsaken1111]

They're just using the wake of the simcity launch to get people fired up about their dream project. I'd be wary of this.

[Silent_Thunder]

As much as I truely want this project to succeede, it's setting off too many alarm bells for me to feel comfortable putting my money in. The fact that we don't actually know WHO the devs themselves are, and the fact that the games they quote as them having worked on are entirely diffrent beasts to a management simulation, which although fine from a programming standpoint, is a bit more worrying from a dev team standpoint. That and I've seen too many other projects that were "We're gonna be SimCity, but diffrent" that wound up in the sea of mediocrity. Take the cities XL series for instance. Sorta the same that that happened with the old X-com games and series like UFO After X and others.

[MrWiggles]

Cities XL is a great example! It just feel dead and uninteresting.

[forsaken1111]

Cities XL is a great example! It just feel dead and uninteresting.

So true. It had everything you could want. Large scale, pretty visuals, deep simulation... but it just felt like building a model city in your basement. Nothing interesting happened.

[PTTG??]

I think the problem was it still revolved around plopping lots instead of designating zones. In simcity, you directed a city like a living thing. In Cities XL, you were building a city out of blocks.

I would like to see cities that are less directly controlled by the zones and other elements. Slums in particular would be interesting to see where unzoned areas might collect garbage and rubble, or have unlicensed shops open in residential places...

[MrWiggles]

I think the problem was it still revolved around plopping lots instead of designating zones. In simcity, you directed a city like a living thing. In Cities XL, you were building a city out of blocks.

I would like to see cities that are less directly controlled by the zones and other elements. Slums in particular would be interesting to see where unzoned areas might collect garbage and rubble, or have unlicensed shops open in residential places...

Slums from undisengated zones... thats an interesting concept. But who doesnt zone everything everywhere nearly instantly?

[forsaken1111]

One thing I liked about Cities XL and dislike about simcity: The parks. CitiesXL had a flood fill park system, you just designate an area and it is made into a park with the associated benefits. Why do parks need road access? I could understand that for the fields with parking but a fountain plaza? I have a fountain plaza IRL near my house and its in the middle of a bunch of shopping areas, no road access.

[BigD145]

One thing I liked about Cities XL and dislike about simcity: The parks. CitiesXL had a flood fill park system, you just designate an area and it is made into a park with the associated benefits. Why do parks need road access? I could understand that for the fields with parking but a fountain plaza? I have a fountain plaza IRL near my house and its in the middle of a bunch of shopping areas, no road access.

That has to do with SimCity 5's "roads are all utilities" 'feature'. Need electricity? Build a road. Need water? Build a road.

[forsaken1111]

One thing I liked about Cities XL and dislike about simcity: The parks. CitiesXL had a flood fill park system, you just designate an area and it is made into a park with the associated benefits. Why do parks need road access? I could understand that for the fields with parking but a fountain plaza? I have a fountain plaza IRL near my house and its in the middle of a bunch of shopping areas, no road access.

That has to do with SimCity 5's "roads are all utilities" 'feature'. Need electricity? Build a road. Need water? Build a road.

I... don't see how. Parks and plazas don't require any utilities. And tbh I like that feature.

[MrWiggles]

One thing I liked about Cities XL and dislike about simcity: The parks. CitiesXL had a flood fill park system, you just designate an area and it is made into a park with the associated benefits. Why do parks need road access? I could understand that for the fields with parking but a fountain plaza? I have a fountain plaza IRL near my house and its in the middle of a bunch of shopping areas, no road access.

That has to do with SimCity 5's "roads are all utilities" 'feature'. Need electricity? Build a road. Need water? Build a road.

Well, its also intimately tied to path finding. But I really like the condensation of roads and utility needs. Often times in RL, roads and utility needs are one and the same. Power Lines, phone lines, sewage and water all flow with the roads.

[BigD145]

One thing I liked about Cities XL and dislike about simcity: The parks. CitiesXL had a flood fill park system, you just designate an area and it is made into a park with the associated benefits. Why do parks need road access? I could understand that for the fields with parking but a fountain plaza? I have a fountain plaza IRL near my house and its in the middle of a bunch of shopping areas, no road access.

That has to do with SimCity 5's "roads are all utilities" 'feature'. Need electricity? Build a road. Need water? Build a road.

Well, its also intimately tied to path finding. But I really like the condensation of roads and utility needs. Often times in RL, roads and utility needs are one and the same. Power Lines, phone lines, sewage and water all flow with the roads.

In a BIG DENSE city with tons of sub-basements, sure. In what way is 5 big and dense?

I... don't see how. Parks and plazas don't require any utilities. And tbh I like that feature.

A fountain plaza uses multiple utilities.... but not roads.

[forsaken1111]

Suppose a fountain might but in the game it doesn't require water. It still needs road access though.

Meh

[lordcooper]

They really need to show some actual gameplay.  I want to a decent citybuilder, but this is setting off alarm bells I didn't even know I had.

[Yoink]

...this is setting off alarm bells I didn't even know I had.

Goodness, I might have to sig this.