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From: brighid@ying.epps.kodak.com (In the B zone...)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.games
Subject: Re: Best Amiga Game (Sim City)
Message-ID: <20@ying.epps.kodak.com>
Date: 9 Oct 90 16:11:20 GMT
References: <1488@metaphor.Metaphor.COM>
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In article <1488@metaphor.Metaphor.COM>, djh@neuromancer.metaphor.com (Dallas J. Hodgson) writes:
> 
> May be it's a little too cerebral for high-speed game players, but I found
> Maxis' SimCity to be the highest quality, most original game on the Amiga
> to date. It has depth, a brilliant UI, and tremendous play value. All Amiga
> software should play this well!

Big problem with it: If you were truely the all-powerful City Commissioner
or Mighty-Muckety-Muck that the player emulates, then you would also have
more control over the local economy. Setting the tax rate is a good first
step, but the economist in me wants to see interest rates and money supply
figures.  It's a world with no inflation or deflation!

Modifying mortgage rates for apartment buildings would solve a lot of that
hollering about overcrowding.  (I just use the zone residential in the 'burbs,
then bulldoze the inner city method.  Works real well, too!)

brighid@hern.stonemarche.org			Brighid

Disclaimer: Not my fault! Not their fault!