Best products from r/SimCity
We found 33 comments on r/SimCity discussing the most recommended products. We ran sentiment analysis on each of these comments to determine how redditors feel about different products. We found 33 products and ranked them based on the amount of positive reactions they received. Here are the top 20.
1. SimCity - Standard Edition [Download]
- Vampire Diaries- Tv Soundtrack
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2. SimCity: Limited Edition
Constructible Worlds - Creative and customizable world that offers unique gameplay benefits, all with a fun tactile interfaceSims Matter - The Sims in your city speak to you directly and it's up to you to respond to their needs. Will you listen and be the toast of the town? Or abuse your power for f...
3. The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape
- Free Press
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4. The High Cost of Free Parking, Updated Edition
- Used Book in Good Condition
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9. Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
- North Point Press
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10. Makeshift Metropolis: Ideas About Cities
- Used Book in Good Condition
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11. Cities XL 2011 [Online Game Code]
- You can download your game or software order an unlimited number of times for personal use.
- Please check the system requirements to verify this game works with your computer and/or operating system before purchase.
- You can also shop for digital games on your mobile device.
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12. One Simple Idea: Turn Your Dreams into a Licensing Goldmine While Letting Others Do the Work
13. Sim City Classic: The Original!
- 8 Pre-defined scenarios e.g San Francisco, Tokyo, Rio de Janeiro
- You are free to plan your own city.
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14. The Great Inversion and the Future of the American City
- Alfred A Knopf Books for Young Readers
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15. SimCity (UK)
Constructible Worlds - Creative and customisable world that offers unique gameplay benefits, all with a fun tactile interface.Sims Matter - The Sims in your city speak to you directly and its up to you to respond to their needs. Will you listen and be the toast of the town? Or abuse your power for f...
16. SimCity Cities of Tomorrow [Online Game Code]
- Brand New in box. The product ships with all relevant accessories
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18. SimCity 2000: Power, Politics, and Planning: Revised Edition (Secrets of the Games)
19. The Option of Urbanism: Investing in a New American Dream
- Attaches to your frame with a 3-point mounting system.
- Long straps attach to largest of frames. *Cut straps to desired length.
- One zippered compartment. Reflective trim increases visibility.
- Dimensions: 11" long x 7" tall x 2.5" wide.
- Constructed with durable 600 denier polyester rip-stop material.
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20. Suburban Nation: The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
- Attaches to your frame with a 3-point mounting system.
- Long straps attach to largest of frames. *Cut straps to desired length.
- One zippered compartment. Reflective trim increases visibility.
- Dimensions: 11" long x 7" tall x 2.5" wide.
- Constructed with durable 600 denier polyester rip-stop material.
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I totally love the Christopher Alexander books. Definitely check out his The Timeless Way of Building which is a great companion piece to A Pattern Language. You should know that his works, while great in my opinion, are sort of considered idiosyncratic and not really in the mainstream of architecture/urban design.
Here's a short reading list you should look at:
The Smart Growth Manual and Suburban Nation by Andres Duany & Jeff Speck. Another set of sort-of-companion works, the Manual has a concrete set of recommendations inspired by the critique of modern town planning in Suburban Nation and might be more useful for your purposes.
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs is probably the most famous and influential book on city planning ever and contains a lot of really original and thoughtful insights on cities. Despite being over half-a-century old it feels very contemporary and relevant.
The Geography of Nowhere by James Howard Kunstler is similarly mostly a critique of modernist planning principles but is both short and very well written so I'd definitely recommend checking it out.
Makeshift Metropolis by Witold Rybczynski: I can't recommend this entire book, but it does contain (in my opinion) the best summary of the history of American urban planning. Really useful for a historical perspective on different schools of thought in city design over the years.
The High Cost of Free Parking by Donald Shoup is the book on parking policy. It's huge (700+ pages) and very thorough and academic, so it might be harder to get through than the other, more popular-audience-oriented titles on the list, but if you want to include parking as a gameplay element, I really can't recommend it highly enough. It's a problem that's thorny enough most city games just ignore it entirely: Simcity2013's developers say they abandoned it after realizing it would mean most of their players' cities would be covered in parking lots, ignoring that most actual American cities are indeed covered in parking lots.
Finally there's a bunch of great blogs/websites out there you should check out: Streetsblog is definitely a giant in transportation/design blogging and has a really capable team of journalists and a staggering amount of content. Chuck Marohn's Strong Towns blog and Podcast are a great source for thinking about these issues more in terms of smaller towns and municipalities (in contrast to Streetsblog's focus on major metropolitan areas). The Sightline Daily's blog does amazing planning/transpo coverage of the Pacific Northwest. Finally [The Atlantic Cities] (http://www.theatlanticcities.com/) blog has incredible coverage on city-issues around the world.
I hope this was helpful and not overwhelming. It's a pretty big (and in my opinion, interesting) topic, so there's a lot of ground to cover even in an introductory sense.
Worth noting, Cities XL 2011 (Steam key) is also on sale on Amazon until the end of the month for $5. Then, after the Midweek Madness deal ends on Steam, you can upgrade to Platinum for $4.50 if you feel it's worth it. I've spent a few hours on it so far, and the complaints are valid, it's a bit sluggish even on a modern laptop (i7-3610QM, GT 650M, 16GB DDR3), but hey, it's still pretty fun being able to make a city-sized city.
The UI is a bit glitchy for me, too, but I think there's some UI mods out there to overhaul it, which might fix the issues I've had. (Some things are sluggish and I've had satisfaction display the wrong color/percentage until I click on it.)
For $5, I'm pretty happy with it. And I might even upgrade to Platinum soon, but I don't have to rush into it, the $4.50 deal for owners of 2011/2012 on Steam is there to stay.
It was interesting how the satisfaction was handled differently between the games. Really, I think they're both interesting systems. I liked the zoning and resource systems in SimCity better though. In CitiesXL, there are too many options, and you choose what social class moves in, rather than having it be affected by the surroundings. I liked being able to manage the logistics of the processor/computer/TV factories in SimCity and I felt the data views and presentation of the statistics was done better in SimCity, too. However, the variety of roads I could create and the large city sizes in CitiesXL are what truly made this game enjoyable for me. It was no fun trying to cram everything into a tiny little area called a "city" in SimCity.
This book lends some insight into how to go about doing it: http://www.amazon.com/One-Simple-Idea-Licensing-Goldmine/dp/0071756159/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1344806368&sr=8-1&keywords=one+simple+idea
I'm sure it'd be interesting to be involved in a project like this. I'm not sure I'm the man for the job, but I definitely am interested in the final product if someone did manage to put something like this together.
If you get rich off it, just circle back around for me if you would... it'd be appreciated, lol.
Appreciate the reply. I saw it for sale on the EA website: https://www.ea.com/games/simcity/simcity
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I found the limited edition here (I figured it was worse than the complete edition, but I very well could be wrong):
https://www.amazon.com/SimCity-Limited-windows/dp/B007FTE2VW?th=1
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Perhaps a better follow up question is should I be buying him SimCity 2013 or should I get him a different Sim game. This will be the first he plays of this genre, and I think he will love any version of the game as he likes legos, robotics, blocks and is fascinated with construction of any type.
> so the offline mode is similar or exactly like simcity 4?
I have not played simcity 4 in probably 10 years, but I think you are right.
> i have been looking for simcity 2013 on amazon. I am so confused with the copies they have. City of tomorrow?? French?? limited edition??
You want to buy the standard edition...
http://www.amazon.com/Electronic-Arts-71481-SimCity-Standard/dp/B007VTVRFA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1397447577&sr=8-1&keywords=simcity+2013
"Cities of tomorrow" is an expansion to the original game and adds some futuristic stuff. It changes your gameplay strategy a lot. You don't need it for at least a month or two, until you get the hang of the original game. After you have built 5-10 full cities of your own and rolling in millions of dollars in your cities and getting a bit bored, then you should get the expansion.
The French, British and German things are also expansions - they are just minor updates changing the look and feel of buildings in the game. They do not add significantly to the gameplay strategy, but add nicely to the aesthetics. Get it if you are bored at looking at the same buildings in the original game and want something different.
> I am sorry if i sound noobish. I'll check out your video.
There is nothing wrong with sounding noobish - we are all noobs - only some noobs have been around longer. Also, they are not my videos... they are from a British sounding guy who calls himself Skye. He, his voice and his videos are awesome.
I feel the absolute best idea is to play through all of them. They all have a lot to offer, I've gone back and played through some of my old copies and forgot how much fun even the older, simpler ones are. Unfortunately, some of the older copies are harder to come by. Although, you can still find SimCity Classic and SimCity 3000 on Amazon. SimCity 2000 can be found on GoG for pretty cheap and SimCity 4 can be found on Steam.
plugs The Great Inversion as well
It's smart about not just despairing, and instead focuses on America's urban success stories, and how we can apply things we learn from them to core-less cities and suburbs.
When SimCity was released, I think it was either ranked at the #1 or #2 highest selling game. Less than a few months out, it's already slipping into the triple digits -
Do major franchise games usually jump down in sales so quickly? (All the fans pre-purchase or purchase on release) or is this abnormal? (In contrast, Hitman released three-four months before SimCity, is still at #1)
(Interesting to see that so far, 6,501 people have taken the time to write review on Amazon)
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I'd buy it from Amazon. The price is good, they have good customer service and can be trusted.
Amazon
Also, SimCity Cities of Tomorrow for $15... I can't believe I'm actually considering paying for SimCity DLC, but it seems like a good addition and I'm tempted to play again now that the Offline Mode has been released.
http://www.amazon.com/SimCity-Cities-Tomorrow-Online-Game/dp/B00FQPQM42/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1395253253&sr=8-1&keywords=cities+of+tomorrow
who do you think you speaking for?
Sim city was obviously poorly received. the reviews unanimously say the game is bad. Thinking a patch will change enough to reverse the failures is quite optimistic.
[The game is 1.5 stars out of 5 on amazon.] (http://www.amazon.com/Electronic-Arts-71481-SimCity-Standard/product-reviews/B007VTVRFA/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1)
2.1 out of 10 on metacritic
most avid simcity fans like myself dont enjoy the game. stick with a older tried and true version of simcity and save a buck.
a least wait a month after the release and see if anything significant changes in the new reviews.
Hopefully its not too late! Simcity itself is currently $20 on Amazon, but you can actually get the Simcity + Cities of Tomorrow pack for $30.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00GHTP4ZY/ref=s9_simh_gw_p367_d0_i1?pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_s=center-2&pf_rd_r=06ZJQHXZSFC3J7PEVY7G&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=1688200382&pf_rd_i=507846
Hopefully you didn't buy anything yet.
There are some very specific thresholds...I think a population of 60,000 is one of them, and 90,000 or 100,000 is another.
If you're interested in all the ins and outs of SimCity 2000, you can buy this strategy guide dirt cheap ($4 incl. shipping) on Amazon. This one is good too. There are many more specifics and detail in those books about the kinds of things I've been mentioning here.
Just FYI you can get it on Amazon for $18: http://www.amazon.com/SimCity-Limited-Edition-Pc/dp/B007FTE2VW
Yes. here is the normal link http://www.amazon.com/SimCity-Limited-Edition-Pc/dp/B007FTE2VW
If you don't have Simcity ($20) and you want the DLC as well ($15) then you can buy them both at once for $30, at least for now.
http://www.amazon.com/SimCity-Cities-Tomorrow-Plus-Online/dp/B00GHTP4ZY/
Yeah, because obviously no one else noticed that it sucks ass other than reddit. I see people fawning over how good it is everywhere else, right?
Wrong.
Here's a link to the Mac public beta:
http://www.amazon.com/Electronic-Arts-41018ted-Edition2-SimCity/dp/B007VTVRFA/ref=sr_1_1?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1368550668&sr=1-1&keywords=simcity
I still have this book on my shelf at home. I'd take a picture but I'm at work.
Amazon has it for $35 for PC, $40 for Mac. There's also some people selling it for as low as $20 on Amazon.