Show of the Week: Cities Skylines and 5 City Planning Nightmares You Must Avoid
6,305Cities Skylines, the city sim that's not Sim City, has finally arrived on Xbox One, and we are raring to build our dream city. But we're not going in blind - we've learned lots about how not to do town planning from games, as we discover later in the show. Subscribe for this show every Friday! http://www.tinyurl.com/SubToOxbox
The first thing that's definitely on the no-no list is creating a vast, semi-sentient computer system to run the city for us, as in Watch Dogs' Chicago. Sure, it would be useful to take the more menial tasks of public transport, crime prevention and making bollards go up and down off our hands as mayor, but the problem is these systems are extremely hackable.
I'm no InfoSec expert, but if your multi-billion dollar computer system can be hacked by a guy who is also riding a motorbike at the same time, you've made it too easy to hack.
We also won't be constructing our city on a series of constantly shifting plates, like Anachronox in 2001's Anachronox. This dystopian cyberpunk world slash giant Rubik's cube was actually constructed by an ancient alien race. An ancient alien race of idiots.
If you miss one of the plates shifting when you need to get somewhere, you will have to either wait for it to come back around or find a longer, more convoluted route. And in Anachronox's case, when you get there, it's probably a total dump anyway. No thanks.
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