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My main gripe with city builders like C:S is that you start off in the modern age. Bam. Highways, utilities, concrete. I'd like to go from dirt tracks and out

My main gripe with city builders like C:S is that you start off in the modern age. Bam. Highways, utilities, concrete. I'd like to go from dirt tracks and outhouses to fully automated luxury gay space communism.

zokier 3y ago
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic has afaik some degree of time progression and development. Overall its a game with surprisingly deep mechanics underlying a zany surface layer.
potmat 3y ago
For anyone who read that last sentence and thought "What?": https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cultures/fully-automated-luxury-gay-space-communism https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cultures/fully-automated-luxu...
leononame 3y ago
I would loooove for a C:S like city builder where you start in something like a medieval age and then you progress through time. It would be amazing to have nice historical city centers like in Italy or Spain, and this could be heavily changed for different regions (make DLCs for different country styles, like Japan or even USA where you would get to build wild west cities before going into themodern age). Then your city would really feel as if it grew more organically. One can dream...
myself248 3y ago
You might want to check out the mods that this youtuber uses for his history-of-the-east-coast series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwkSQD3vqK1Q4BP-itzN6gMpJBTsfPucy https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwkSQD3vqK1Q4BP-itzN6... It starts with the indigenous Americans in wigwams, and goes from there. Pretty cool. (Watch at 1.25x.)
- 0x138d5 3y ago
  Yeah I know the Franklin series, but that will just turn it into a diorama simulator. I want the pressure of socioeconomic change to guide me, forcing the city to adapt to previous choices.
  - db48x 3y ago
    SimCity and Railroad Tycoon have technological change over time, but it's just keyed to the date. It sounds like you want a game that nobody has invented yet; perhaps you should be the one who invents it.
    - 0x138d5 3y ago
      Oh, I've definitely toyed with the idea of getting into game dev. After I finish all the other 17 half-baked side projects.
- andbberger 3y ago
  rip franklin
kjkjadksj 3y ago
To be fair you cant build a highway until your city is a certain size. You are free to build “rurally” with railroads and dirt roads too.
sergiomattei 3y ago
SimCity Creator DS was this exactly! You’d even progress from pre-historic times to the post-global warming era. Highly suggest playing the game on an emulator sometime. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=41itb8Sg_IE&pp=ygUSU2luY2l0eSBjcmVzdG9yIGRz https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=41itb8Sg_IE&pp=ygUSU2luY2l0eSB...

zokier 3y ago

Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic has afaik some degree of time progression and development. Overall its a game with surprisingly deep mechanics underlying a zany surface layer.

potmat 3y ago

For anyone who read that last sentence and thought "What?": https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cultures/fully-automated-luxury-gay-space-communism https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cultures/fully-automated-luxu...

leononame 3y ago

I would loooove for a C:S like city builder where you start in something like a medieval age and then you progress through time. It would be amazing to have nice historical city centers like in Italy or Spain, and this could be heavily changed for different regions (make DLCs for different country styles, like Japan or even USA where you would get to build wild west cities before going into themodern age). Then your city would really feel as if it grew more organically. One can dream...

myself248 3y ago

You might want to check out the mods that this youtuber uses for his history-of-the-east-coast series: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwkSQD3vqK1Q4BP-itzN6gMpJBTsfPucy https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwkSQD3vqK1Q4BP-itzN6... It starts with the indigenous Americans in wigwams, and goes from there. Pretty cool. (Watch at 1.25x.)

0x138d5 3y ago
Yeah I know the Franklin series, but that will just turn it into a diorama simulator. I want the pressure of socioeconomic change to guide me, forcing the city to adapt to previous choices.
- db48x 3y ago
  SimCity and Railroad Tycoon have technological change over time, but it's just keyed to the date. It sounds like you want a game that nobody has invented yet; perhaps you should be the one who invents it.
  - 0x138d5 3y ago
    Oh, I've definitely toyed with the idea of getting into game dev. After I finish all the other 17 half-baked side projects.
andbberger 3y ago
rip franklin

kjkjadksj 3y ago

To be fair you cant build a highway until your city is a certain size. You are free to build “rurally” with railroads and dirt roads too.

sergiomattei 3y ago

SimCity Creator DS was this exactly! You’d even progress from pre-historic times to the post-global warming era. Highly suggest playing the game on an emulator sometime. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=41itb8Sg_IE&pp=ygUSU2luY2l0eSBjcmVzdG9yIGRz https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=41itb8Sg_IE&pp=ygUSU2luY2l0eSB...