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city, state, or national leadership should be required to play city skylines. (mander.xyz)
submitted 6 days ago by RocksArentMinerals@mander.xyz to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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NOT POLITICAL NOT TARGETED AT ANY GROUP JUST A FUNNY, THOUGHT

I had this shower thought the other day. As the advancement of modern games and the complexities they have, we should require anyone in charge of leadership of a city, state, national level to play a game like City Skylines.

This is due to the amount of complexity and foresight one must have to navigate, build, and develop their cities people, infrastructure, etc...

This can help show if someone can even get their population happy, and above 100k, or if they put their sewer system upstream and pollute all of their people. If they do great then awesome, but if they don't .....well.... then they probably aren't the best fit.

What other games would be a good test or a fun test to see how they do?

Again.... funny random thought... not politically targeted...

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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 38 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Cities: Skylines is not in any way realistic.

[–] vsg@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

Also, could stimulate car-centric urbanism.

[–] Emotional_Engi@lemmy.zip 11 points 6 days ago

Can confirm, most people just accept high taxes and live on IRL.

[–] Demdaru@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If it was realistic it would require actual urban planning and other engineering skills. As-is is great enough as a test of simple logic ^^

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Watch literally any RT Game Cities: Skylines video

[–] Demdaru@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

Step ahead you buddy! Great content. But other than that, it proves that RT, while brilliant...should not lead. xD

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 25 points 6 days ago (2 children)

There is a youtuber who specifically makes challenges in how he can make the most fucked up city.

In one episode he created a city which had one man made lake. That became the exclusive drinking water. It also becsme the exclusive drinking water. Then he build a dam right through the middle. Then he moved the drinking water, and the waste to one side and clean water on the other side. He wanted human waste to power the dam, which creates electricity to power the town.

Are you SURE you want these people in charge in real life???

[–] LeapSecond@lemmy.zip 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Link?

[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

The poop volcano?

If you’re expecting civilised mature city building with sensible decisions, you’re going to be disappointed.

[–] faercol@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Oh that poop volcano!

I thought you were thinking of this poop volcano

It does not provide electricity though, so it's not as good a poop volcano as the other

[–] LeapSecond@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago

I don't know if it's what the parent comment was referencing but that's hilarious. I might watch the whole series now.

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I mean have you seen the current political leaders?

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago

City leadership be like: Write that down! Write that down!

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 23 points 6 days ago (1 children)

So that they too can deal with drivers who refuse to use anything but the rightmost or leftmost lanes.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 4 points 6 days ago

The rightmost lane is on the inside of the curve which makes it 0.05% shorter.

[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 11 points 5 days ago

No. You haven't seen how much i can fuck up a city that is a nightmare to live in but still somehow works. That'll give them juat ideas. Leadership should be required to live in the worst part of the city they are responsible for.

[–] django@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 6 days ago

Building car free cities is unnecessary hard in this game though.

[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Hmm… maybe. On the other hand, you can do totally messed up stuff because you’re the absolute dictator of the city.

See that suburb there? Yeah, we’re changing it to a highway intersection, so everyone living there will just have to relocate. I don’t care where. It’s their problem. I’m just designing a highway system here, and couldn’t care less what happens to the people who happen to live in the wrong place. It’s their fault they decided to live there.

See this hospital here? Yeah, we’re relocating the whole thing somewhere, because it’s in the way of my new monorail system. We need to put the station right here. Oh, and that residential block needs to go too. There should be shops right next to the station. Not my problem if you liked to live here before.

Another day in a growing city, and this was just the tip of the iceberg. It can get so much worse.

[–] GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I think if it was going to be more realistic the game should only allow you to do such things if it's a poor minority neighborhood, and you can't add or change zoning on wealthy areas due to rich NIMBY-ites .

[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago

Ouch! That would be a very cyberpunk move.

See this rich part of town here? Yeah, we’ll leave it alone, and ensure they will always have power even when there’s a blackout in the rest of the city. Oh, and they get their own clean water system with top tier filtration system.

The rest of the city though… I guess we’ll use the cheapest filters. Only a single water pump should do it. Who needs water pressure in the shower, amarite. If there’s a blackout, we’ll just cut power from the poor neighborhood first, to make sure the wealthy supporters of the mayor stay happy.

Oh, and the new wind farm? Didn’t really find enough empty space for that one, so I guess we’ll just scatter the eye sores all over the poor town. Who knows, maybe they will help with the smoke coming from the 13 trash incinerators.

[–] DisasterTransport@startrek.website 2 points 5 days ago

Every capital improvement project is subject to environmental review and street works have a 95% chance to go over time and over budget. Then the population blames you personally and it's game over.

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

BRT is significantly more efficient than LRT in this game, which doesn't reflect the real life counterpart much. Also roundabout doesn't work, and since driver doesn't speed or break the traffic rule in this game then there no need for it, which is what city planner in reality always think driver will do, so road is wide and straight, full of cross road and traffic light, and no roundabout or traffic calming measure.

[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Block Register Territory, British Rail Telecommunications, Brooklyn Rapid Transit company? The list goes on… I’m not even going to try to decipher that other one. Why do people expect everyone to magically know every niche acronym.

[–] ChapulinColorado@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

It's a comment section about a popular city sim that uses those approaches for public transit...

BRT=Bus Rapid Transit

LRT=Light Rail Transit

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

I am vaguely familiar with Cities Skylines and many other city sims, and I've never heard those acronyms. This isn't a Cities Skylines-specific community, so it's more than fair to ask for an explanation of them.

[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Ok thanks. Calling those two just “bus” and “rail” would have been sufficient. Those acronyms don’t really give me much extra information, quite the opposite really. What’s wrong with using normal words…

[–] FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

I would settle for any territory based real time strategy game just to show they understand how simple econonic models work.

[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 days ago

Um... forgive me if I'm missing something blatantly obvious, but you're talking about "anyone in charge of leadership of a city, state, national level"... in what way is that anything other than political? Maybe it's not partisan, but it's absolutely political.