Spare change?
Except for our annual holiday charity fund drive, we don't ask readers for donations to this blog. But we are tempted to take up a collection to buy Mayor Creepy and Fireman Randy each a subscription to this. As a reader explained, "Let Sam and his cronies play with a city here instead. They can do all the crazy crap they want."
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Comments (4)
Speaking as an active city-sim-type myself, I'd say get them SimCity 4 instead. I tried the demo for Cities XL, and to be blunt, thought it was horrible and glitchy. Wouldn't even wish it on Mayor Creepy, it's that bad.
You can pick up a copy of SimCity 4 for $15-20 at Fred Meyer or Target, and while it may be almost 7 years old, there's no better city sim on the market, especially with all the free, high-quality custom content and mods out there (including Portland buildings).
I think this mod would be right up Sam and Randy's alley, too. There's no Aerial Tram (*Rimshot*) Addon Mod developed yet, though.
Posted by Alex | September 15, 2009 5:07 PM
Darn, link fail.
The aforementioned mod:
http://sc4devotion.com/forums/index.php?topic=6361.0
Posted by Alex | September 15, 2009 5:09 PM
Where in SimCity 4 a player decides basic zoning and lets the market take care of the rest, Cities XL (developed in France) goes a step further and dictates where various social classes live and work.
Im willing to bet Sam and Randy already have lifetime subscriptions.
Posted by Anthony | September 15, 2009 5:33 PM
Wouldn't it be interesting if we used something like this as a test prior to an election. You know, make all candidates run a fictional city for 6 months prior to the election so that we can see just how bad they are going to screw things up BEFORE we vote for them.
Posted by mp97303 | September 16, 2009 9:53 AM