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• JumpCrisscross
  My suspicion is San Francisco would love a Beijing-style hukou system. That lets it lock housing (and thus the built character of the city) and control immigration which in turn should result in stable housing prices provided units don't go out of use or residents don't have too many children.
• peri-cl
  Reminds me of that Factorio joke mod which adds bureaucracy-processing as a recipe tree. Assemblers start to shut down if you don't process paperwork fast enough. IIRC, it had biters following the player around in queues to give them complaint forms.
• mrhyyyyde
  Whoever made this, I love you and we should be friends.
• minimaxa
  Love the idea!I started something similar as a meme game, but I'm just too busy to keep working on it: Data centre slumlord - https://binary-mirror.itch.io/data-centre-slumlord
• treebeard901
  It does have the blue angels flying over the city at one point
• nico
  Took me back to sim farm. The aesthetics are awesome
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  TeMPOraL
  The Nuclear option is an interesting choice the game has locked up.
• doginasuit
  I'm a unclear on what high "The Neighborhood" scores mean in the right panel before approving the project, is it good or bad?
• thekuanysh
  what a throwback feel, nicely done
• deadbabe
  I imagined something more like a sim city clone where every time you try to put down a building or zone, it’s refused with a pop up message saying why. Let me prompt that out brb
• artemonster
  how do you complete a tutorial when you cant mute this fucking music
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  thrance
  Line at the end of the in-game "rulebook":> Every rule, vote count and case in this game is drawn from the public record. Sources are in docs/research/ in the project folder. Neighborhood politics scores and the economics are simplified for play.Nice, I'm happy to hear that, Claude. This kind of silly game is supposed to help you understand a complex issue in a fun way. But this is missing the plot entirely. Why is this so overwhelmingly complex? Why would I spend time learning this ugly, convoluted and verbose UI? Who is this for??EDIT: I'll link to an example of what I think this game should have been: https://research.wmz.ninja/projects/phd/index.htmlA game made with intent, that is easy to pick up, respects its player's time, and makes its point effectively.
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  SubiculumCode
  Davis, CA. lol
• anon
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  netsharc
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  sixothree
  I play games like Civilization and we get these tech trees and policy trees and such. And I can never help but wonder what it would be like to play these when the people of the territory act like Americans. You try to incentivize future technology and they push back. You try and prioritize education and they push back. There is always division and infighting.Regardless, I don't think it would actually make the game more fun.
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  hyperhello
  You know, if an old city with a natural boundary doesn’t think you should build a bunch of profitable crap in it, maybe you could take the hint and stop acting like you’re bringing Jesus to them. San Francisco’s seen the conquistadors. In fact, many of the streets in the Sunset are named after them.