Why are you willfully playing something you know you'll hate? It's your life; I just don't get it.
Programming is a dead art.
Unironically true. The elves have left middle earth, the sodas are no longer free. The boom period pioneers of programming are wizened greybeards nobody listens to nowadays at best, and for the most part they've cashed out and said 'fuck this' to continuing to work in the industry. This is intensely, especially the case for video game programmers over the many other programming fields. The days of Sid Meier hand crafting traffic routing algorithms by hand in ASM are decades gone now, and the best Cities Skylines is gonna muster is a team of 200 jeets delivering the needful project specifications of 'just make it load and not crash on maybe 60% of people's computers' please and thank you for the low-low cost of $several millions.
This game was made in India, right? Not outsourced to India, like, everything was done there.
Jesus Christ. They hired the same Pajeets Bethesda did.
Once the game starts its pre-caching some texture related stuff that uses a lot of system performance. Works way faster if you let the main menu sit for a while.
They won't as long as niggercattle keep buying their goyslop.
And that's the saddest part. We can't expect some new city-sim to emerge from the woodwork that happens to be halfway competent, what will likely happen is Cities: Skylines remains constant, some patches are eventually rolled out to fix the biggest problem but not all of them, and then the DLC gravy train leaves the station.
city/colony-sim is one of the most common genres during next fest. of course the scope is smaller since it's mostly indie devs, but there's nothing that would prevent some autist go all out. dorf fort was done by 1-2 people for example. banished was one dude.
Holly shit yeah I'm waiting 6 months for CS:2 to not suck
The real poison right now is wasting time is a focus on resources and materials, which are the some of the worst things that have been integrated into city sims. (Minecraft may be to blame). There's so many things that I'd like to see--and at least one stillborn city sim did try it, that I'd like to see integrated into city simulations but none of them really do. Worst, half of them are from other games that essentially do the same thing but much better.
I've had the idea before of a city-builder game that has the gimmick of having urban politics and being based around revitalizing/gentrifying cities. So you start with a horrific shithole, like a vast abandoned Detroit or a bloodbath Memphis or a socially explosive San Francisco, and you have to resolve it. Historic preservation was my specific interest there, as I'd been reading Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Tradeoffs of whether or not to protect specific buildings and districts, or how you can integrate them into a new tourism-based economy, that building something like a Charleston would be a win state. But preservation could be just one part of it among a lot of other issue, gentrification one of them.
