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...
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.
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 .
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.
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.