Submitted by cyberfyter on May 01, 2012
United States
Summary: 
Insider's Look at the new GlassBox engine powering the next SimCity game. SimCity Gameplay Lead Dan Moskowitz describes the creation and spread of fire in the game.
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SimCity Classic
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQSvyQXoriE&list=PLEDD3C42245757E03&index=3&feature=plpp_video
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What go's up must come down in a big ball of fire hehehe

simcity 3000 was the worst

Some men just want to watch the world burn.

Like the two comments above me XD

Does this mean when fire happens, the alarm agents take over the dispatch tool, so it automatically puts out fires? (Without player interaction?)

I also would like to know if its automatic and if so can you turn it off.

Isn't that a rather odd way to simulate fire? I mean, wouldn't a sim living in one of those houses call the fire department rather than get in a car and drive around trying to find a fire department?

He does say in the earlier videos the agents aren't sims. The agents are like signals that would activate the nearest fire station to put out the fires and that the agents are invisible to the player but are visible atm to show what they do. The agents are exactly the same as the agents that deliver water and find people for jobs.

It depents what the "agent" is for. An agent will transport goods so sometimes that would be a truck on a road, an agent can also go to work which would be a sim in a car. An agent can also transport water which would be a pipeline. Its just their way of getting away from generalizing the actions by way of stats, now agents control actions and what you see happen on an individual need basis, which makes it more accurate and realistic.

do they plan to support the mac plattform

do they plan to support the mac plattform

yes they do

couple questions here...
Does ground water run out?
Are there ways to reuse the water like a sewage treatment plant?
Do houses, cars, etc. also contribute to polution?
Do pipelies get ruined because of trees (like near my house XD)

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