So many people requesting HOTELS for a 2024 thing and I keep thinking about how TOURISM works in SIMCITY.
If you don't have a natural VACATION region like the ones in The SIMS you have to add features & attractions that lure in SIMS from other regions and the world at large. There are basic Road-Side attractions, Small time Gambling lots and Casinos, famous landmarks, Cultural lots, stadiums...
You can spend City Funding on Tourism Promotion, funding more parks and beautification...
Having a local bus SHUTTLE service helps. Parking lots...
Which brings me back to adding in a SIMCITY ECONOMY system and the want for the SIMCITY screens where you can manage things like the above from A CITY HALL WORLD.
For interesting game-play, populating the CITY HALL World with great political SIMS, Business Sims, City Planners, etc. could open more and more options in the management screens.
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Aside. I created some great political sims but they are basically worthless to the world and worlds overall. They don't have any function and don't open more game-play options when reaching the top.
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In SIMCITY 2012 you also needed a specific LOT for the Transportation and TOURISM Departments.
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To try and wrap it up:
HOTELS, famous landmarks, road-side attractions, gambling, parks, cultural lots..., ... could ALL be bundled together to create small, larger and grand tourism worlds/cities. That it would be nice to have functions for political career SIMS who can operate in a City Hall/Government World with SIMCITY screens to manage budgets and allocate connections and infrastructure.
This is all just scratching at the surface of ideas that could be some seriously deep game-play and give sims meaning.
- Cheers & Best
