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Re:The SimCity Planning Commission Handbook by Tiktaalik on Thursday September 03, 2015 @08:50PM (#10168294)
It would be great if future versions of SimCity and Cities:Skylines would embed more direct urban planning lessons in their games. This way players would learn what makes a city work properly.

A problem is that most peoples' only knowledge of urban planning comes from looking around at their own town, and unfortunately most towns in North America are incredibly poorly designed. A SimCity player that bases their city on a typical North American one will often wind up with a dysfunctional and gridlocked town, just like real life.

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Re:The SimCity Planning Commission Handbook by DiabloD3 on Friday September 04, 2015 @01:54AM (#10168997)
Cities: Skylines is an absolutely amazing game, but yeah, I wish there was more lessons. I keep discovering new things that I can do with it that, honestly, should have been taught to me early on.
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