zoning

[WilliamMGary]

In our current plan, only the player can be the mayor in the government mode. In other words, you don't have to worry about an incompetent AI running the city with all the new power and options given to the mayor.

What about requiring the player corporation to generate X amount of taxable income then they get the ability to zone. The Capitalism Lab tends to give you all the tools upfront and then there's nothing to aspire or work towards.

[tonnyz]

In our current plan, only the player can be the mayor in the government mode. In other words, you don't have to worry about an incompetent AI running the city with all the new power and options given to the mayor.

I think i'm second to william's suggestion that the zoning tools should not be something that'll be effortlessly relinquished to players, with a little additional points though.

>> Not having political influence in the early gameplay is not meaning that we'll get a bad zoning from the ai. Let the ai to set this in an acceptable way, I meant like let the suburb for farm, outskirt for industry, downtown for commercial

>> you did differ the market price of different zone didn't you. As it'll give a nice additional depth to the game, imo.

>> player will get access to the zoning tool once elected but still have their zoning decision assessed by citizens. One could probably abused his zoning right for his advantage but will have his party's mayor a smaller chance for being elected in the next term or in an extreme condition be 'dethroned' by the city council (is there any?).

>> Some example for the abuse of power:
*****purchasing a large plot of land in the industrial zone then intentionally rezone them to a commercial zone which'll result in a skyrocketing of the price of owned plot.
*****rezoning 'not for sale' zone for building own /subsidiary properties, this would be similar to arbitrarily converting green zone in real life.

>> Do you think commercial should be differed to offices and stores ? AFAIK, Simcity didn't adopt this but many real world countries do differ them.

>> that's being said, player with no political influence should be allowed to 'negotiate' with current governing party / mayor in charge for abuse of rezoning , but with a high price and with a chance for being sued for making collution which will plummet his stock price.

how do u think about it?