Why is it so hard to get a modern city sim that actually puts some effort into simulating growth over time instead of letting you paint whatever wholesome 100 city you want or having stupid level-up gimmicks? Total Cities: Skylines death.
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Cities skylinesis a logistical sandbox for turbo-autists 
who want to build the "perfect city" (read communist utopia where everyone is a drone). Laughably easy to keep your people happy, no soul, no personality, just "make money to unlock more stuff to make more money". Does it even have scenarios? All DLC is "place building to make blue circle to satisfy new need." or "resource turn to different resource cha ching". "sims" are bots who dgaf how their city is run as long as taxes arent too high. Game is done once you make enough money to just rebuild after "disasters". FRICKING CHIRPY HOLY FRICK SHUT UUUUUP 
Compare to:
Caesar: Many mechanics running behind the scenes, housing requires special resources, ALL BUILDINGS physically have a worker traveling to and from their workplace servicing needs, using resources. Military actions need to be taken. Caesar MUST be appeased
, or you can build a force so strong you can effectively seceed.
Tropico: Various factions all with competing goals
,logistics required to feed the populace and export goods. foreign relations and private industry, immigration controls, multiple work-modes for each building. Colourful characters and all citizens have individual alignments and skills. ELECTIONS. Murder your opposition 
Want a theocracy? 
You can do that! Want a military dictatorship? You can do that! DLC added tons of content. Edicts that durastcally changed your popularity or demographics.
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For me, its Knights and Merchants
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I want to upvote you because I like Knights & Merchants but I am obligated to downvote you because you're D*tch so have a side-vote.
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Its a good game
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The dictatorial aspect of Tropico is a gimmick because you have to try very hard to lose an election. It's also prone to DLC with "content" slurry instead of better game mechanics. But yes it's still got more going for it than Cities: Skylines.
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In the original Tropico on max difficulty level you do have to worry about politics. Having a population that expects to be lifted out of poverty fast really lights a fire under your butt.
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The game is fairly easy once youve figured out your "opening moves" (though it really does like to mess with you in the campaigns which I enjoy), but it's nice to at least be able to roleplay.
Come to think of it I think I only got close to losing one election and I rigged it. lol. I wonder if I coud tweak the difficulty in the gamefiles.
Either way modern times added random events and cool new buildings and edicts (like importing 100 chinks!) and frankly, grug down with that
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Not true communism sweaty
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/aug/06/guardian-cities-skylines-challenge-build-anti-capitalist-post-growth-city
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Tropico 4 and 6 are both excellent city builders. Caesar is great with Augustus (praise roadblocks) and worth playing for anyone that has only played base game Caesar 3.
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I don't know what you said, because I've seen another human naked.
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Chirper is the most realistic part of the game because it makes me want to type slurs and tell people to kill themselves. It's just like the real thing, frfr.
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