{"id":28574,"date":"2018-05-11T10:10:38","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T08:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=28574"},"modified":"2018-05-11T10:10:38","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T08:10:38","slug":"magnasanti-the-largest-and-most-terrifying-simcity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2018\/05\/11\/magnasanti-the-largest-and-most-terrifying-simcity\/","title":{"rendered":"Magnasanti: The Largest and Most Terrifying SimCity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Here is an interesting story<\/a> for all the fans of SimCity and similar games, as well as for anyone who still thinks that computer games are a useless time waste.\u00a0 I’d like to see you try doing something even remotely close to this:<\/p>\n

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This story reminds me of all the time I spent playing Transport Tycoon Deluxe<\/a> and OpenTTD<\/a>.\u00a0 The game is fun and I learned a lot about transportation.\u00a0 But no matter how hard I tried, I never came close to the real pros (there are many actual professionals from the transportation industry playing the game and trying things out).\u00a0 Have a look at this monster train station, for example (found in this forum thread<\/a>):<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Just stop and think for a moment.\u00a0 How much do you really know about transportation? Trucks, buses, trains, ships, airplanes and helicopters?\u00a0 Roads, maintenance, history and technology change?\u00a0 Road planning, bridges, tunnels, semaphores, roundabouts, ports, loading stations, warehouse? I can go on …<\/p>\n

These games teach you a great deal about the complex world around you.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Here is an interesting story for all the fans of SimCity and similar games, as well as for anyone who still thinks that computer games are a useless time waste.\u00a0 I’d like to see you try doing something even remotely close to this: This story reminds me of all the time I spent playing Transport … Continue reading Magnasanti: The Largest and Most Terrifying SimCity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Magnasanti: The Largest and Most Terrifying SimCity #games #world #culture #transportation","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,11,62],"tags":[429,694,1116,334],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-28574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-games","category-technology","tag-culture","tag-openttd","tag-transportation","tag-world"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t