We built the city of Colombo in Cities:Skylines

Re:We built the city of Colombo in Cities:Skylines by calvinmorrison on Tuesday September 03, 2024 @11:59PM (#41441762)

the question is, are the precepts baked into the equations around traffic flow, urban design, etc, truly a reflection of reality. In SC3K, my low density residential housing was never as happy as high density, is that based on reality? My enactment of endless (in sc3k, check all boxes) series of ordinances produced the best result. Was the neighborhood around the casino really crime ridden or was that a trope?

Are the models based on real life or are we using a game to pretend real life - like making a game about the wonders of say, collectivization, rather than maybe creating a simulator for how market trade reaallly works.

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Re:We built the city of Colombo in Cities:Skylines by icaruswept on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @12:06AM (#41441798)

Methodology here: https://github.com/team-watchdog/colombo-skylines/wiki/Intro...

We've also tweaked many of the assumptions (traffic flow, citizen lifecycles etc) https://github.com/team-watchdog/colombo-skylines/wiki/mod-c... to get "somewhere in the vicinity" of how people actually behave - nursery school at 6 years old, high school after, then a job, maybe college, then employment and retirement at 65. Not quite accurate, of course.

In some of the work that I was involved in years back we were using CDR (call detail records) to estimate human mobility. See: https://medium.com/@yudhanjaya/how-people-come-to-nallur-7d3...

We're certainly not that accurate, as the broader you go with simulation, the less deep you can get to.

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Re:We built the city of Colombo in Cities:Skylines by CSMastermind on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @12:59AM (#41442060)

I wouldn't make any serious policy decisions based on City Skylines, it's a resource management game not a serious simulation if that's what you're asking.

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Re:We built the city of Colombo in Cities:Skylines by jaza on Wednesday September 04, 2024 @02:20AM (#41442456)

In the case of Australia (my home), the casino itself is crime ridden (mainly the corporation behind the casino, and its behind-closed-doors relationships with organised crime and with government - but money laundering and other crimes also occur on the casino floor), while the neighbourhood around the casino is quite safe, peaceful, and upmarket.

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