Why though? I never understood that mechanic in 1, it made sandbox completely pointless to me if I can't use every tile the map loads with then why have it there. What was the point of limiting it in the first place? Processing power? Pajeet code? Wanting to sell it off as DLC? To me it was just dumb to do it like that, what's the point in getting successful to being able to buy extra tiles if you can only have certain amount of them?
If I had to guess, it's probably some sort of drip-feeding that makes people think they've unlocked something. I may have mentioned NewCity (stillborn city sim on Steam that had some great ideas but never made it past early access) on this thread before—had the whole expansive land to develop but also made the mistake of drip-feeding things like schools and police stations. I liked what SimCity 2000 did, have all of that unlocked, but you still get little rewards every now and then, and of course, the coolest buildings come with time and development.
The bane of these simulator games has always been trying to gamify the damn thing, and they usually do it by artificially restricting you (which can be a fuck if you're trying to design certain things, like a massive spread out rural community that never gets much population).
Paradox games are good at doing that.
Some people just can't help the 'tism alure of another block building game.
It was only a matter of time before Johan trooned out.
>eventually
