SimCity 2013 Is A Perfectly Balanced Game With No Exploits - The Worst Profitable City Is Broken

Welcome to SimCity 2013 the latest release in the sim city franchise that kick started the city building games that we now play like cities skylines. Today however we are playing the Sim City 2013 game that is now 8 years old and upon release was widely regarded to be the worst city builder and management game in the series. Today we will be making the worst city in sim city by not supplying residents with access to jobs, utilities like power and water heck not even access to food or fire services. This means the entire city will be a terrible place to live with bodies piling up on the streets. However thanks to some incredible video game design and balancing from EA simcity is broken and will still allow the worst city in the game to make great profit! We will be playing with all of the dlcs including the cities of tomorrow expansion that added perfectly balanced mega towers.
So is sim city 2013 a perfectly balanced game with no exploits or if creating the worst city to live in is actually a profitable way of playing this city builder game! My goodness this really is broken!
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Title: SimCity 2013 Is A Perfectly Balanced Game With No Exploits - The Worst Profitable City Is Broken
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[@SolEiji]

"Nissan Leaf charging stations" has stopped sounding like words to me.

[@albertdeluxe8966]

Happiness is directly correlated to the amount of nearby Nissan Leaf charge stations. Facts.

[@crusadr_4966]

I'm depressed because I don't have any nearby Nissan Leaf© Charging Stations nearby

[@MrSqurk]

@@crusadr_4966 I can see a Nissan marketer screenshoting this comment and using it in a presentation.

[@kurooda9070]

I just imagined them charging their car batteries at the station, and use their cars to fuel their home with electricity...

[@rancorjoy5412]

Wait, the Nissan Leaf stations have no power… thermodynamics go brrrrr

[@helstromh]

@@rancorjoy5412 He did say the mechanics of the game make the Nissan Leaf station self-sufficient. It must have its own power source...

[@MrMega200]

@@rancorjoy5412 I mean there is solar panels on top of the stations?

[@animeloveer97]

@@MrMega200 why can the car just have solar panels lol

[@sayLeotardbutsayitChinese]

Guys its simple. The people get their power from of course the lovely Nissan™ charging station. The Nissan™ charging stations get their power from the sun and wind, and the sun and wind, where do they get their power from? That' right, the Earth. And we all know where Earth gets its power. The Nissan™ charging station. Understand? It's all a part of the circle of Nissan.

[@firstreality3867]

Seeing this insult of a Simcity game fall so hard and Cities Skylines immediately swooping in to save the day was the most satisfying story arc of the game industry

[@abadenoughdude300]

@Dawson Davis Almost as if giving your players the tools to get creative with your game does wonders for it's popularity and longevity or something.

[@sharkpyro93]

they are not really comparable as game mechanics are concerned

[@Ozzianman]

Cities Skylines is meh, rather stick to SimCity 4.

[@joeclooney1997]

@@Ozzianman same but I'm having major head aches getting it to run without graphical glitches everywhere, really cba playing CS for a while, sadge

[@arosisgod365]

And then Cities made quintillions off of DLC that should be in the base game lol.

[@ShadowAkatora]

"But they all pay taxes, and that's all that matters" Spoken like a true politician.

[@manboy4720]

truly fan-tax-stic

[@HashknightGaming]

Lol the difference between this and American tax money is that Spiff isn't using any to maintain anything lol folks acting like tax money doesn't maintain the infrastructure we all enjoy in the states. 🤣🖖

[@manboy4720]

@@HashknightGaming good thing i don't pay taxes. oh shit... i wasn't supposed to say that... you don't work with the irs, right?

[@sarowie]

@@HashknightGaming the streets are well maintained

[@dungeonmaster201]

@@manboy4720 don’t worry, IRS tax ninjas have been deployed to your location...

[@alender6200]

this was the last game i bought from ea. mistakes were made and lessons were learned.

[@vwv343]

I was honestly so infuriated when I saw one of my most favorite series ruined in this way. Never trusted EA ever again after that.

[@nikolailucyk]

I was so hyped for this game. I played it for months in the hope it wasn't the game and it was me that was broken. Turns out it was the game.

[@DJAvren]

@@thespiffingbrit Oh man, I forgot about XXL. At least I had fun with friends in the SimCity 2013 multiplayer once it finally worked. XXL was just... nope.

[@TH3mrBROWN]

Same, after this I was so happy that Cities Skylines came out and love that game.

[@PullTL]

@@vwv343 EA did the same with Command And Conquer. Last good one was Red Alert 2, and that was made ~20 years ago

[@periloushydrous6606]

“We are in a dire need of electricity, water, sewage, jobs, shops, and services” *Nissan Leaf Charging Station*

[@link_team3855]

Nissan Leaf Charge Station. ... Do you enter a line and nissan leaf charges you with a random crime? Or do the electrocute you...? Hmmmmm. Or does nissan offer leaf charging services to those whom just REFUSE to wipe? Leaves are the best tp after all :P\ Just dont use the dry crinkly stuff. Cant tell if its used or not. or if it will just crumble and ruin EVERYONES day lol

[@Reilers]

"Honey why did we move here? We don't have water or power, we will literally die of thrist." "But we have the new Nissan Leaf© charging station."

[@AaronShenghao]

Tea = fried leaves

[@gildedbear5355]

@@AaronShenghao fried?!

[@arduous222]

@@gildedbear5355 infuse the tea into cooking oil

[@gildedbear5355]

@@arduous222 I dig it.

[@bobtillich8306]

®

[@chrisppx]

Becoming a tyrannical Oligarch to please the fans... oh Spiff what won't you do for us!

[@usedcolouringbook8798]

He wouldn't stop drinking Yorkshire Tea, that's one thing he won't do for us.

[@trygveplaustrum4634]

@@usedcolouringbook8798 And he won't drink coffee!

[@mahimahi339]

@@trygveplaustrum4634 damn beat me to saying it lol

[@Hadmin]

He's a brit, AND a teadrinker. Tyrannical oligarchies are what they do!

[@shrimpisdelicious]

Give us water & electricity.

[@backlog2389]

I love how simcity, the game that comes out 15 years after simcity 4, seemed to be a downgrade in terms of complexity

[@redwitch95]

not to mention it lacks a very basic feature of simcity wii - the ability to make curved or freestyle roads. yep, a wii simcity game had a better road-building system than the 2013 pc version.

[@Unethical.Dodgson]

@@redwitch95 It has that feature. You can literally see it in this video. Spiff just doesn't use it. I'm not saying this game is good by any metric but you're still wrong.

[@justanotheryoutubechannel]

@@redwitch95 There are freestyle roads for sure although Spiff doesn’t use it, they might not be exactly how it works in the Wii games and it’s different to how it works in Skylines but they are there. Unfortunately, much like the curved roads, you rarely see them in game due to the game’s focus on grids and minimal map sizes.

[@warren286]

"Why are you demolishing our homes?!" Spiff: Bc your neighbor's house was on fire...

[@lukasprazak7362]

What I know, this was actually done in the past. When the fire couldn't be extinguished, buildings around were demolished to prevent fire from spreading.

[@casekocsk]

Yes, that's what Japan do long time ago... Their houses are tightly packed and all of them made of wood... obviously that is a disaster recipe in case of fire... So if there IS a fire, they just tear down the entire neighborhood to keep it from spreading...

[@lukasprazak7362]

@@casekocsk It was also done during the Great Fire of London.

[@ahmataevo]

Spiffing Brit is Inquisitor Kryptman's alter ego.

[@keving2726]

"I'm sorry but if you have creativity and vision, then you should have probably picked up Cities Skylines instead." Damn right.

[@VezWay007]

"It will be one giant humans right violations, but my goodness, it's going to be perfect." spoken like a true brit lol

[@SulistaComunista]

-Queen Victoria on the Opium Wars and British Colonization

[@BusterBeachside]

Mom: "Buster, sweetie, why are you still living in that horrible New Starbucks? I hear they don't even have electricity or running water!" Me: "Not true, we have like 5 Nissan Leaf charging stations! Does YOUR city have even ONE of those?" Mom: "But honey, the news said the mortality rate there is the highest in the country! Please just come home, your old room is just the way you left it!" Me: "I'm not leaving until I get the overpriced coffee they promised me when I moved in 15 years ago. Besides, I got this apartment for free! They say the last guy who lived here got killed in a freak meteor accident." Mom: "We'll let you live here rent-free!" Me: "Tax is only 2% here. It's practically free already. Goodbye, mother." Mom: "You're hanging up?" Me: "No, I just saw a giant anime mech heading towards my house. I knew this would happen eventually. Shame I never got that overpriced coffee..."

[@leifabianhidajat4872]

This is fuckin hilarious, for some reason.

[@mrlingshaun6269]

The end😭😭😭😭😭

[@alexandrecharest4853]

How can he talk on the phone with no electricity? And that assuming they got phone line or satelite coverage. They dont have running water or a sewage systeme....

[@Puchuchi747]

@@alexandrecharest4853 lol, shhhhhh, just go with it

[@kipandren]

@@alexandrecharest4853 It's surprisingly simple! He charged his electric car at the Nissan Leaf charging station, then charged his phone using a phone dock in his car. Regrettably, the car was destroyed by a freak tornado, but at least he still had his phone!

[@PJ_TheAverageGamer]

"We'll call it Australia and dump all the coffee drinkers in this little area" So it's Melbourne.

[@joeyfathom]

So many coffee shops here

[@ravenharvey7422]

Queensland salutes the Queen by call themselves for the Queen. Spif we are the Best Australians and the great tea drinkers live here

[@Pizzacheese10]

but we hate Starbucks tho

[@Nex47128]

Lol, seems accurate enough

[@passive975]

Only logical explanation

[@stillgray]

Polygon gave this game a 9 out of 10 and the writer got super upset at people who slapped his review.

[@Splinter-ge9pf]

To be fair, at launch cities skylines didn't exist yet, so they didn't have anything to compare it to (except old games)

[@Unethical.Dodgson]

@@Splinter-ge9pf Yeah. To be fair. Every gamer was doing that, too. This game was worse than Cities XL.

[@user-lv6rn9cf8m]

@@Splinter-ge9pf *except older games which were far superior and should have made it obvious to them that if they can't improve upon those, leave it alone. Like what do you mean didn't have anything to compare it too - they had Sim City 4 for crying out loud. People were still playing it. People continued playing it and ignored this game. People are still playing it. They could just have re-made the graphics or something and it would have been a home run for EA, but no...

[@Splinter-ge9pf]

@@user-lv6rn9cf8m ye but simcity 4 is also not that big of a game, it doesn't have that many features over 5. Maybe terraforming is cool, but in terms of building, you can find all the dlc for sc5 for like 10$, and it has so many more stuff than sc4

[@justanotheryoutubechannel]

I’ll be honest I can entirely see why it got that score, back in the day I would’ve given this a 9/10 too, the music and art style are beautiful and stuff like curved roads were brand new and makes city building way more interesting. The multiplayer region aspect is a really cool idea that should be returned to as real city planning involves a lot of collaboration with neighbours, and managing pollution spreading over your borders. The worst issues were the buggy agent system, tiny map sizes, and online restrictions. (which was bad but I see why they wanted to force people to try the multiplayer.) But at the time, I can still see why people would find this to be the best city builder yet. Cities Skylines definitely beats this game completely and the way the developers *actually supported the game* really made it incredible, but I would love to see a sequel to that return to the collaborative aspects of SimCity 2013, and I hope another game lets you upgrade buildings in the same way this game does, building 3 identical coal power plants in Skylines has always been disappointing to me, when in this game you could upgrade facilities with extra features that could influence the way they worked, e.g. cleaner coal burners, or burners that made more power per unit.

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

The lack of roundabouts just makes me cry... but getting rid of all coffee drinkers certainly makes up for it 👍😁

[@BiffaPlaysCitiesSkylines]

@@thespiffingbrit that's true, carry on!

[@firescorched954]

@@thespiffingbrit like the north of England

[@GrassXMagnum]

No need for roundabouts if nobody have cars except the occasional Nissan Leaf driver ;)

[@tatelyon3954]

You should try playing this miserable game

[@zleake000]

@@thespiffingbrit sounds like the USA. I've seen maybe 10 since I've lived here my entire life

[@heygek2769]

"Can we get Cities Skylines, mommy?" "We have Cities Skylines at home" Cities Skylines at home:

[@chuckbuck5002]

TFW you can’t fix the traffic because the roads are basically autogenerated loo

[@VTXHobbies]

It's uncanny how close this simcity looks like cities skylines. The UI is nearly identical.

[@hunacean]

@@VTXHobbies i mean skylines did release later

[@KAPTAINmORGANnWo4eva]

What a sorry state of affairs that SimCity is the "we have it at home" version. EA has murdered so many treasured IPs I'm actually annoyed people still give them money. I haven't given them a dime since Mass Effect 3 and never will again.

[@GHOST5800000]

ay simcity has multiplayer so i like it more, cant play skylines with da homies

[@mrziiz6893]

The megatower ominously looming over the burnt out husk of a town is honestly quite dystopian

[@m4shermanfan225]

Nice comment👍

[@jalontf2]

Spiffing Brit: "I love tax" Americans: "Another box of tea in the harbor"

[@RAFMnBgaming]

:(

[@DaysofKnight]

We need a "Box of tea" in the water right now in America anyway. Fuckin' hate this place with its corrupt politicians.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

Wrong colony. He made the one with the hot weather and animals that try to kill you. And no, it's not Florida

[@Osariik]

@@DaysofKnight There's corrupt politicians everywhere, love

[@Plys3n]

@@Osariik Then lets throw starbucks into space

[@RIlianP]

"If you want creativity and style, you should play Cities Skylines instead" - that is a burn right there

[@sperzieb00n]

even better; creativity and vision!

[@MrT3a]

Yep, it's burnt ^^

[@rikoiSi]

oof

[@girlsdrinkfeck]

@@sperzieb00n cities is more broken dare I say. The rate people die and need bodies collecting is very unrealistic and annoying

[@amir_shaban_80]

I remember playing this game as a kid When my standards were low

[@RunningFire]

As an Australian, I sip my overpriced coffee and approve of the commentary in this video. It's all true. Every word.

[@josephhsu5045]

i thought we have a ton fk of ores oil and coals

[@RunningFire]

@@josephhsu5045 Well, yes. We also have kangaroos, koalas, a pretty less than average prime minister and Sydney Opera House. But that's not what I was commenting on ✌

[@smiffweez4842]

Must live in sydney then

[@RunningFire]

@@smiffweez4842 Nope. Melbourne.

[@juliamavroidi8601]

didn't starbucks actually fail in Australia?

[@k.o.145]

Spiff: "Welcome to hell, but there are Nisan leaf power stations and overpriced coffee" People: "sign me the fuck up"

[@xaiano794]

A nissan leaf charging station in a city with no electricity...

[@AlifLamMiim]

@@xaiano794 It just works

[@rhysjonsmusic]

Middle class white liberals: SIGN ME THE FUCK UP

[@luansagara]

@@xaiano794 it costs money/hour, so i guess they have a generator burning cash to make electricity for the chargers

[@kondzio586]

I hated this game, in my village I didnt have good internet. I was waiting years to play :( And I paid for this about 120 polish zloty, which was enormaus for 12yr kid

[@Wockes]

@@thespiffingbrit And the pirated version even worked better

[@derekenmachine]

@@thespiffingbrit bruh

[@GdotWdot]

@@Wockes The DRM at the time was such a massive problem, on 4chan they called people who paid for single player games buyf*gs.

[@Erakius323]

Fun drinking game: every-time he says Nissan Leaf Charging Station, take a shot. If you survive, congratulations. 🎉

[@dankcatsmemes9219]

But Alcohol poisoning is fun too.

[@Tzilandi]

No electricity, no water, no jobs, no anything - yet everyone is happy. Does the Nissan Leaf@ charging station just pump aerosolized drugs into the air?

[@HeavyMetalAlicorn]

CEO of Nissan: "Shit, we've been busted!"

[@RAFMnBgaming]

I mean, what did you think the "Leaf" was?

[@synthoelectro]

sounds like the Great Reset - oh fun.

[@tvctaswegia497]

Probably runs on powdered iocaine.

[@iamagreatape9576]

it does, i've been wearing this tinfoil hat to keep me save from the hypnotizing rays of nissan leaf! i've been drinking coffee all night trying to put the pieces together and rise up against nissan leaf! you gotta believe me!

[@seamonkeys12y]

"like Australia, has no natural resources" Me: *eyes generic rock that's probably packed with uranium*

[@dustyfox6511]

and iron. So much iron.

[@jediknight1294]

Remember though the US bought most of the uranium in the 60's and China the rest in the 2000's so Au has no uranium despite the mines.

[@Graknorke]

Isn't Australia one of the world's biggest coal exporters?

[@duwal8165]

God damnit Australia, even the common rocks will, aparently, kill you too.

[@seamonkeys12y]

@@jediknight1294 Still have 1/3rd of the worlds resources, so we still have uranium everywhere. It's still worth $1b a year, but definitely not as big as coal which is the largest by far at $41b

[@199022009]

"It's gonna be one giant human rights violation." **laughs in Filipino**

[@Noah-gv6zj]

Oh that’s cold

[@199022009]

​@@Noah-gv6zj By this point, it's just very dark humor to us Filipinos.

[@linktheheroofhyrule2498]

You could probably say that about like half the countries in the world lol

[@199022009]

@@linktheheroofhyrule2498 Sadly yeah, but I can't speak for other countries XD

[@mkvector9539]

China takes the human rights violation cake.

[@user-ch3ei9dx2v]

If only my town have a Nissan charging station near my home, I won’t have a bad depression

[@natbacli14]

"50000 people used to live here, now it's a ghost town." Indeed, MacMillan.

[@Mygg_Jeager]

I caught that too lol

[@nyyfandan]

You could probably just send this to the creators of Ctities Skylines and they'll sponsor it.

[@MrDanaje9]

Imagine you got a nice beachfront house with a beautiful view and then the city builds a fucking MEGATOWER

[@seto635]

"What do you do for work?" "Can't work, my town has no jobs." "What do you do for fun?" "Can't do anything, my town doesn't have any stores or electricity." "Why do you live there again?" "They have 5 Nissan Charging Stations." *"Shut up and take my money!"*

[@dfunited1]

^^^ The whole San Francisco Bay Area

[@Graknorke]

They have parks for fun.

[@CourageousRetreat]

Spiff is like an american democrat xD

[@bradbauman]

Low taxes, no services, sprawl as far as the eye can see and churches everywhere? You built Oklahoma.

[@bobmcob1132]

"we've kind of created a haven for people who want to avoid tax, the only downside is you avoid all infrastructure" That sounds like a libertarian's wet dream

[@GreedyBastardPL]

More like AnCaps

[@rsync9490]

Sounds like an expat area in a developing nation.

[@jacobfaro9571]

Gray still plays did that and it actually became very successful.

[@InvestmentBankr]

I heard that line and immediately came to the comments to post exactly this..... good show.

[@pubcle]

Not really, as any libertarian will tell you, and repeat forever, a lot of the roads in the United States were built by private industry. I'm not as extreme as a libertarian but I do lean that way. Now if you were talking about true AnCap, then you'd be correct.

[@JayeEntityConcord]

Spiff: "If you've ever seen RT Game play Cities: Skylines" Me: "Yes I have, and I completely agree"

[@NickCev]

I will say that he did make a thriving city with one road.

[@JayeEntityConcord]

@@NickCev That is true. I haven't really seen anybody else accomplish such a feat.

[@bitchaos4591]

I wish he'd do more of it. It was honestly amazing.

[@NickCev]

@@JayeEntityConcord if only he didn’t over do it with the Zepplin‘s he could have made it work.

[@JayeEntityConcord]

@@bitchaos4591 He said he wasn't going to continuously play the game so that it wouldn't start to feel like a chore to play. He may go back to it every now and then, similar to the Fable playthrough from CallMeKevin

[@berta_mx2177]

Pov: your watching the reason every British colony fought for their independence

[@nagoranerides3150]

Yeah. Well, no. Every British colony fought for independence because local politicians wanted to collect the tax themselves. The American colonies were pretty well-off compared to England in terms of tax. And almost no one in England had "representation" either back then. Both sides were lead to war by dickheads.

[@redstonecat1232]

@@nagoranerides3150 This dude is definitely a brit.

[@manologamerss5801]

The reason was because instead of installing useless stuff like "water" and "an economy" they should´ve installed Nissan Leaf charging stations, since they dont need electricity, they could have used those.

[@AdminAbuse]

You're*

[@FH-cn3mg]

@@redstonecat1232 Found the King's man you have.

[@MadGermanX_X]

The moment when you used to play the game as a kid...

[@kingayvaz]

RIP Maxis studios. Feels like yesterday.

[@Born_Stellar]

@@thespiffingbrit cities skylines replaced sim city in 2015. last I played was sim city societies, it was garbage.

[@bionicbirb9104]

@@thespiffingbrit I can still hear the exasperated sighs... Ah, memories

[@lucin8tor459]

I remember begging my father to buy it for me when i was 11 only to find out our laptop only was able to run it on 0.5 fps

[@blunderingfool]

@@lucin8tor459 I tried running it on a low-profile half height Nvidia card that was, well, rubbish. A cpu that only had two cores didn't help. When I upgraded to my sapphire half-height low profile HD7750 it was night and day. (Worst to best LPHH GPU, at the time.)

[@playerunknown9448]

Spiff seems to have a fetish of not developing or evolving.

[@Magine_]

@@thespiffingbrit I respect it

[@dankcatsmemes9219]

@@Magine_ yes

[@_Dotiko_]

Take a drink every time he says Nissan Leaf Charging Station

[@G31M1]

Nah fam, ain’t nobody wanna drink no water!

[@_Dotiko_]

@@G31M1 take a bite then

[@dankcatsmemes9219]

@@_Dotiko_ I Have just boxes should I eat Them?

[@_Dotiko_]

@@dankcatsmemes9219 Grind them in a blender and then chug.

[@dankcatsmemes9219]

@@_Dotiko_ Finally drank the boxes.

[@trygveplaustrum4634]

EA: We have a practical monopoly on city building games, so we can make them as cheap and as low-quality as we want! Paradox: *Allow us to introduce ourselves.*

[@supermaster2012]

Paradox only publishes it...

[@rodsk8dude731]

All we need now is for someone to make a life sim and a football game (which probably wouldn't have real teams, but which could be solved by being very mod-friendly) and they would start having to worry.

[@nemangame]

@@rodsk8dude731 Pro Evolution Soccer exists

[@rodsk8dude731]

@@nemangame My brother likes football games and he says it feels diferent, I don't know if it was more "arcade-ish" or what. I guess we would need a new one that feels more like FIFA

[@everythingfeline7367]

This game was awesome when it was new. Was what prompted me to buy my first computer. Kinda glad I didn't get the dlc.....

[@talusmeep3817]

“No one wants water” *looks at all the residence happily dying of thirst.*

[@wyrowood3490]

He says in new australia, known for its excessive droughts

[@alexandredornellas2319]

"Avoid tax also avoids infrastructure" Seems fair. Damn, i cant stop laughing

[@heyafehya]

“People are dying but happiness is on the rise” I’m getting we happy few vibes

[@dankcatsmemes9219]

That’s the literally plot of we happy few

[@alephkasai9384]

That game could have been really good. I understand that it was always meant to be a randomly generated world but it still feels like a missed opportunity.

[@alephkasai9384]

But really, that beginning really sparked my mind on what it could have been. A sort of dishonored style semi open world with a main objective and multiple secondary objectives. Even as a randomly generated game it could have been better.

[@marys.8456]

“It’ll be one giant human rights violation but my goodness it’ll be perfect.” China: “write that down,write that down!”

[@tommerker8063]

america:"stop copying my homework!"

[@Tanner_Goodale]

My thoughts exactly. Lol

[@JohnSmith-kb4re]

not sure projection propaganda or misspelling you ARE 'murican so they're equally likely

[@siegfried2k4]

Your social points have been reduced to 20

[@ghost_ship_supreme]

I really thought this game was fun when it first released! I especially liked the ability to upgrade buildings rather than having to build more! Thankfully the backlash back then got them to remove the online requirement for SP. Though I never even bothered to look at the Nissan DLC. The futuristic stuff was very great too. Even cities skylines doesn’t have much futuristic stuff, let alone make and customize mega towers and build fusion power plants the way sim cities did! …at least not that I know of?

[@NobleWolf33]

Same too, it was my first city simulator game. Up until I found out about CitySkylines

[@VROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM]

I had a lot of fun too playing it. Once they fixed the server problems and people could actually play their game. But the maps were still too small and I filled it up fast. And there was balance issues. It didn't take long before I'm just frustrated and there was nothing more to do anyway except sit and watch the city. I built more cities but that wasn't really satisfying enough. I played at launch, so I don't know the state of the game now though. But I never felt like I wanted to go back to it. I started playing a game called Parkitect that I really love. Like rollercoaster tycoon but better.

[@xeanderman6688]

What a twist. I played this game today And dare I say, my Human Recyclement = HR, is doing amazingly well

[@austriker1016]

"we are actually still able to force society to develop, and the way we can do this is by artificially inflating land prices" Ahhh I see you're creating Sydney!! Classic

[@Pihsrosnec]

What do you mean? One million dollars for a suburban apartment is definitely reasonable and affordable and fine

[@austriker1016]

@@Pihsrosnec I for one paid 800k for a horse stable near the airport and I couldn't be happier

[@pokemonjunky55]

I bought it back then on release. I swear, ive never had soo much frustration with a game like this one. It was worse than the GTA Online release. EA even made up for it and gave every customer who bought the game within the first week or so after the release the chance to pick 1 game from their store for free. Sadly i missed this.

[@mr.xearro]

Plot twist: everyone who moved here was promised a Starbucks that would serve tea instead of coffee

[@traviskrebs7551]

If someone is dumb enough to believe that, they deserve a town made by the Spiffing Brit

[@mikuenjoyerXD]

Starbucks does serve tea already though...

[@mr.xearro]

Candle Lynx shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, that's the lie

[@grandmaashley]

grandma approved

[@A-slime]

Good to know

[@Pyxlean]

GRANDMA IS HEEEEEEERE

[@Pyxlean]

@@thespiffingbrit Try to attract more old people you need people like Grandma Ashely in your fanbase

[@grandmaashley]

@@thespiffingbrit lol, have a cookie 🍪 :)

[@EvadeDragon]

I thought you died when you fell down the stairs

[@OldUKAds]

I love how Nissan Leaf doesn't want you to connect its charging stations to coal power plants because you MIGHT just put 2+2 together in terms of electrification right now.

[@thetimelapseguy8]

Yes you are better off buying a small efficient car than buying a big EV

[@holyravioli5795]

Every city in simcity: Everything's a square. Spiffingbrit: It's a hellish nightmare. Me an engineer: Perfection.

[@seblorkhan2618]

Or me who always builds citys in grids even cityskylines

[@cartersanderson7329]

@@seblorkhan2618 i always start with the city looking nice and different and end with the city looking like a giant grid

[@Traveller31006]

"Dad why is our house burning? Why do we have to starve? Why did a giant lizard eat Mom?" "Shh Kevin look! It's the NISSAN CHARGING STATION!!!!"

[@LordDaret]

“At least we’re don’t live with RTGame as our mayor.”

[@st4rsh1pz]

@@LordDaret wise words

[@GoodnessandTruth]

Son, if you lived anywhere else in the world, there would be two certainties in life. death and taxes. But in New Starbucks, there is only one. Death.

[@primaris_astartes]

I felt really shitty today, but Spiff said "if you're feeling absolutly fantastic, you can give this video a like"; I immidiately felt fantastic, so I gave my most hearty like to this video. Thank you Spiff, I wish you drink the most majestic tea possible!

[@ParadoxNerdHLM]

"If there's a fire, I could burn down the entire city" Australia, last year: Write that down, right that down

[@captainfactoid3867]

People love to complain, back in the 1500s no one had running water, sewage, or electricity

[@joejoeson6731]

People love to complain, back in 9,000 BCE we didn't have houses or welfare.

[@yaziyo]

Or Nissan Leaf Charging stations, for that matter.

[@siegfried2k4]

@@joejoeson6731 People love to complain, back in 200,000 BCE they didn’t have any society yet

[@FutureChaosTV]

After having played Cities: Skylines for a while - when my flatmate bought two cheap copies of Sim City 2013 and we played a little bit of multiplayer (curse you Origin downloader!) - I almost got a claustrophobic feeling. It feels so limiting and crammed (and yet at the same time sooo empty) and boring and shit. Not even worth it at a considerable discount. I wouldn't even play it, if it was offered to me for free. The ONLY upside was to be able to zoom in more and the more details at that zoom level. The downside: You can't really zoom out. Which is for the better because there are only 50 houses or so in the whole city grid. Oh, AND DON'T START ME UP on the hilariously bad and depressing region concept...

[@SaadForGaming7]

SimCity built (mobile version of SimCity 5) : allow me to introduce myself *Seriously idk what's worse lol* I now play cities skylines (without an dlc yet) and enjoy it non stop lol

[@SirRoderickThunderbottom]

"all the DLC post launch" like most DLC? ...... oh right EA. Duh!

[@mrsentrybuster]

Imagine taking a single sip of coffee and spiff yeeting a meteor at your house to delete you from existance.

[@VexxedSR]

Nah he gets Reanu to do it for him while spiff edits vids.

[@TheRealHorstKevin]

The Real Miracle here is that the Server for this "Game" are still on

[@phillipstearns7258]

This guy thinks he's hacking the game, but real city builders around the world do crazy stuff like this in real life. We call them dictators.

[@twilightgryphon]

Spif: "Oh well I tried to make people happy, it turns out I just can't." Spif, you could. You just don't want to. You're not fooling anybody. :P

[@morganseppy5180]

Quite! He makes me very happy to watch his exploits.

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

As someone who enjoys both, soaked bean water and soaked leaf water, this was a great experience. Truly a city to live in.

[@davidh8271]

This game quite nearly killed the citybuilding genre. Good thing Skylines was so damn good.

[@willianbueno7611]

The online mode is fun to play with friends, but... When you try to play with strangers it just doesn't work because if someone stop playing their city will be abandoned and the region will be full of ghost cities. It would be cool if this was just a different mode but it's literally the entire game : /

[@davidh8271]

@Fondil Mahbols Yeah, it's definitely true that quite a lot has been added to Skylines by now, both by DLC and by mods. Some of the problems with Simcity got reversed too, like the speed throttling online, the overcrowded servers, the forced multiplayer, etc. I still prefer the tone of Skylines, managing a broad, sprawling city instead of a smaller, more compact set of a couple neighborhoods, but I suppose that's a matter of preference rather than good or bad.

[@TheTeku45]

@@willianbueno7611 well you could claim ghost cities no proplem but the classic move was to let a nuclear reaktor explode so its contaminated land and could not build on that land

[@johanwittens7712]

@@davidh8271 You can't really call a city builder a city builder when the city size is barely the size of a neighbourhood. Really, my local city neighbourhood is bigger than an entire city in sim city 2013. The original sim city had larger city sizes than sim city 2013. And then beyond that, Sim city 2013 did so much more wrong than right, it really is one of the worst i've ever played. And i've been playing city builders since the very first sim city... I hated the stupid expansions on public buildings that made it impossible to plan around these buildings, and made the buildings consume even more precious space because all the etensions left lots of open space between and around them. The insanely limited building sizes (basically one size per wealth level, especially in plot length) immensely limited your building choices or forced you to again waste precious space. The insane agents than run to the other side of the city to collect trash because they couldn't u-turn when there was trash right across the street. Buildings that pop up leaving little slivers of useless land next to them. The useless trade system that only has one price for each resource and is almost completely useless in single player mode. Terrain editing was impossible, which is just insane in a city builder. And so on, and so on. While cities skylines was maybe a bit bare bones at launch, at least it allowed you to build a proper city. Public services functioned well, even the death care system. And i found noise pollution to be a great realistic addition to the genre. No one wants to live next to noisy buildings or streets, so why not sim it too? The terrain editor and the water system alone were fantastic in skylines with actual flowing rivers and fluctuating water levels. Heck it allows for water on different levels/elevations which is exceedingly rare in any builder game... I've spent more time in skylines' terrain editor/creator than i have in the entire sim city 2013 game. And lets not forget that skylines barely cost 35 Euro at launch, which was insanely good value for what you got at the time. Especially considering sim city cost almost twice as much for what was basically a badly made and even worse thought out small village manager, skylines was really good value for money. So it wasn't as much preference. It's that sim city was barely worth the title city builder really, no matter what your preference might be. If you like sim city 2013 as a city builder, i'm sorry to say you either don't really like city builders, or have no idea what a city builder is/should be in my humble opinion. A city builder is about building and managing a city, not about building and managing the same grid patterned small village over and over again.

[@iratepirate3896]

@@johanwittens7712 Damn.

[@jaymiddleton772]

As an Australian, I can confirm that you have done a better job of running a city than the vast majority of our elected government.

[@braxlucky5718]

Can confirm Melbourne’s a prison without the free medical and dental and I have to pay to live here

[@dankcatsmemes9219]

The whole of Australia is a Prison itself

[@christopherprigmore9560]

As a die hard coffee fan, Spiffing Britt is still one of my favorite KZbin channels.

[@helstromh]

Must be glad he created a city just for you, with a few Nissan Leaf Charging Facilities...

[@kevinhenrique4256]

One Day We Will show Spiff the Greatness of coffee,TEA WILL FALL GLORY TO COFFEEEEEEE

[@MostBlunted]

EA while watching this: "See, it works! This guy has said the Nissan Leaf charging station" a hundred times for free! ;)

[@dieselmech7340]

“I will be calling this Australia” *Rimmy disliked that*

[@OzyWazza]

Nah, he'd just have a good chuckle... and then wait for Spiffing to be on the same ARMA server as a pilot and promptly shoot him down with his sidearm :)

[@crazygrainger2006]

Rimmy and Spiff colab in Cities Skylines. Would totally watch that if it hasn't been done yet.

[@Govrin.]

Who

[@OzyWazza]

@@Govrin. check out Rimmy - Downunder Gaming

[@jasonwithers5504]

Australian here “i love this video, a perfect explanation of my country. Also amazing coffee ideas! I am definitely implementing this in my nearby city! If you could contact Nissan and temple makers to sponsor my new city, in Australia it would be very helpful! Long live Australia 🇦🇺” A perfectly balanced review all Australia’s will agree with. :)! Yay mates!

[@jean-lucfacade6219]

I don't. You're not going to lure any Australians with starbucks. Warm milk is for cats.

[@daneshipway581]

I hate to be the Debbie downer but aus does not have no resources

[@kalajel]

"The secret to happiness is a Nissan Leaf charging station." -some Tibetan monk.

[@PyroMancer2k]

"If you have creativity and vision you should have picked up Cities: Skylines instead" LOL Great plug for a much better game.

[@HippasosofMetapontum]

still sucks, iam so unhappy so far with the city simulations

[@SpencerLemay]

@@HippasosofMetapontum I like that city skylines has more variety and creativity but the simulation part is still extremely underwhelming, making a functional city is braindead easy with no challenges. The only thing that is worth doing is traffic management. Sim City 4 is still the best city sim of all time.

[@grassnake7able]

@@SpencerLemay Someone who recognises SC4 as best. Man of culture.

[@ImperialEarthEmpire]

I actually enjoy playing this game, i just hope they continue fixed and support this game... too bad EA just pulled the plug...

[@jimtalbott9535]

"The whole city could burn down....AND THAT'S FINE!" - Spiff 2021.

[@philipsheridan2952]

Last time I was this early, keanu reeves was taking over in Cyberpunk 77

[@rabbiddoggoo6610]

Ahh exactly but miss spelled you meant Reanu Keeves I’m guessing 😏

[@philipsheridan2952]

@@rabbiddoggoo6610 honestly yes 🤣

[@winterbeat13]

This game bombed so hard when it came out, EA gave away a free game to anyone that had bought SimCity as an apology. And that my fellow tea drinkers is how I got a Dead Space game free.

[@polyphonydigital]

Alternatively you can pirate it

[@murrmakesstuff9269]

@@polyphonydigital alternatively alternatively you can pirate sim city 4

[@benjaminsousa7657]

"You might be wondering why I am slamming children with meteorites, why it's because they are the crispiest and tastiest to eat!" The Spiffing Brit -2021

[@Alirian2]

Me: *hits like button before video loads* Spiff: Hello there ladies and gentlemen. Me: I chose correctly again!

[@jimenatierna3408]

Spiff: “We’re getting rid of all the coffee drinkers!” Me, a coffee drinker: *sips coffee discreetly and is scared for my life.*

[@quickclaw240]

As long as he thinks Starbucks is selling coffee, well be safe. Fake coffee drinkers will go first, so we will have a warning.

[@ragzaugustus]

I love how today the game can be played offline, because there was NO cloud anything, nothing, it was a handful of Java script lines and a broken multiplayer system.

[@amycupcake6832]

Brit: "australia has no natural resources" Australia with it's massive mining based economy: "you what mate"

[@Charlotte-111]

We also have much more food production than most other countries

[@xXCREEKSTARXx]

If we just imported some heat from australia, we could cut down on heating costs so much :OOOO

[@arkravengullmead6029]

are you saying rocks are natural?

[@amycupcake6832]

@@arkravengullmead6029 yes, very much so, naturally occurring resources such as rocks is what is meant by natural resources, and as mentioned above, it's irrelevant as they also export more food than they eat

[@Andytlp]

@@Charlotte-111 countries? Isnt australia a continent lol. Huge land mass but population is relatively sparse. Living standards would be sky high if the land was more fertile but its a hot hell hole right?

[@TANK1677]

Spiffy, you and I almost think alike. I gave this game a go a few months back and did okay but constantly struggling with crimes and fires......In frustration, I made a new city where there were no police, firefighters, no mega buildings, just industrial places, some shops and houses, almost nothing else and for some reason, almost no one complained, there were hardly any crime or fires, money was rolling in and I could both purchase trade from other cities as well as loan money to those cities because nothing ever went wrong. That was until I started trying to be fancy with a mega-tower, then things went wrong FAST, so naturally, I blew it up and vowed never to construct something that only coffee drinkers would ever made XD But seriously, we had a very similar game here and it's a funny coincidence, or maybe the game is broken and we should be happy about it lol

[@abrahamcazares4400]

He's building the city that biff created in back to the future where he got rich from the almanac

[@Chasmodius]

This isn't Australia: not enough spiders.

[@trinitytest5986]

Or drop bears..

[@user-st7rq3sn7v]

But hey! Nissan Leaf™ Charging Stations!........ Lots of those!

[@SWISS-1337]

Happy voice: They're all coffee drinkers and consequently.. Evil Brit: Don't deserve water. As a Brit this is both hilarious and true, coffee is OK, but Tea is the superior drink for taste, for caffeine boosts and also for bestowing invulnerability.

[@reisenImperishableNight]

i prefer coffee for taste for myself

[@Pyronar]

I like how the giant death robot from space made a beeline for getting the hell out of Spiff's city. Even it wants no part of it.

[@Cruentar]

I came here for NISSAN Leaf charging station, it makes me happy!

[@TrueEnspyre57]

I wasn't feeling too great today when my dog shat on himself, but after seeing a NISSAN Leaf charging station magically dropped on me I'm bleeding with joy!!!!!!!

[@luizarthurbrito]

This game gives me PTSD. What a bag of manure.

[@Kemot300]

Spiff: (summons Giant Robot) Now the issue is i don't think this disaster can ever leave... Giant Robot: (Looks around, leaves)

[@urmom5835]

"lets create the worst city imaginable" *accidentally makes an accurate prediction of humanities future*

[@F-bot]

electricity costs 2x in Europe now

[@skyr4tMusic]

A Nissan Leaf charging station?

[@lookatel3658]

@@skyr4tMusic Nissan Leaf Charging Station is indeed our future

[@skyr4tMusic]

@@lookatel3658 we shall no longer live in the past where we consumed food for nourishment instead all we need is Nissan Leaf Charging stations arround every street corner

[@AretaicGames]

. . . or an accurate representation of the recent past and present of Detroit.

[@RG-zt4ox]

French people: we’ve been tricked we’ve been backstabbed we’ve been quite possibly bamboozled

[@RyanFitz612]

“Minecraft" "asmr" "pewdiepie" "music" "fortnite" "markiplier" “KZbin is a perfectly balanced game with no exploits.” "Runescape" "World of Warcraft" "Shadowlands" "Dream" "MrBeast" "Warzone" "FaZe Clan" "100 Thieves" "Call of Duty" "Pokemon" "Pokemon cards" "card unboxing" "charizard" "they don't want you to know" "Flat earth" "round earth" "triangle earth" "earth is not earth" "what even is earth if not earth omg government is lying to you" "minecraft" "asmr" "pewdiepie" "music" "fortnite" "markiplier" “KZbin is a perfectly balanced game with no exploits.” "Runescape" "World of Warcraft" "Shadowlands" "Dream" "MrBeast" "Warzone" "FaZe Clan" "100 Thieves" "Call of Duty" "Pokemon" "Halo" "Devil may cry" “KZbin is a perfectly balanced game with no exploits.” “Cocomelon” “t series” “Minecraft" "asmr" "pewdiepie" "music" "fortnite" "markiplier" “KZbin is a perfectly balanced game with no exploits.” "Runescape" "World of Warcraft" "Shadowlands" "Dream" "MrBeast" "Warzone" "FaZe Clan" "100 Thieves" "Call of Duty" "Pokemon" "Pokemon cards" "card unboxing" "charizard" "they don't want you to know" "Flat earth" "round earth" "triangle earth" "earth is not earth" "what even is earth if not earth omg government is lying to you" "minecraft" "asmr" "pewdiepie" "music" "fortnite" "markiplier" “KZbin is a perfectly balanced game with no exploits.” "Runescape" "World of Warcraft" "Shadowlands" "Dream" "MrBeast" "Warzone" "FaZe Clan" "100 Thieves" "Call of Duty" "Pokemon" "Halo" "Devil may cry" “KZbin is a perfectly balanced game with no exploits.” “Cocomelon” “t series”

[@InquisitorBot]

"compared to rtgame im kind of a humanitarion" after rewatching his vids on city skylines i can say that is true

[@SteelGnat]

When that meteor hit RTGame Felt something was wrong like someone was taking his meme

[@ginomctony6773]

nissan paid enough that the sims from nearby towns drive over to de-charge just so the locals can charge!

[@krankarvolund7771]

"The town has no power, no electricity and no jobs, but we will build churches and that makes the peoples happy" That sounds like a joke about rural america :p

[@joejoeson6731]

Sounds like a typical game of stronghold crusader

[@krankarvolund7771]

@@joejoeson6731 Peoples were less complaining in the time of the crusades XD

[@Nixolas_Zinn]

*slow clap*

[@thomfunnekotter9002]

The easiest way to make people happy is, of course, by giving them Yorkshire Tea

[@jasperrau6795]

Imagine not commenting: ""“Minecraft" "ASMR" "pewdiepie" "music" "Fortnite" "markiplier" “KZbin is a perfectly balanced game with no exploits.” "Runescape" "World of Warcraft" "Shadowlands" "Dream" "MrBeast" "Warzone" "FaZe Clan" "100 Thieves" "Call of Duty" "Pokemon" "Pokemon cards" "card unboxing" "Charizard" "they don't want you to know" "Flat earth" "round earth" "triangle earth" "the earth is not earth" "what even is earth if not earth omg government is lying to you" "Minecraft" "ASMR" "pewdiepie" "music" "Fortnite" "markiplier" “KZbin is a perfectly balanced game with no exploits.” "Runescape" "World of Warcraft" "Shadowlands" "Dream" "MrBeast" "Warzone" "FaZe Clan" "100 Thieves" "Call of Duty" "Pokemon" "Halo" "Devil may cry" “KZbin is a perfectly balanced game with no exploits.” “Cocomelon” “t series” “Minecraft" "ASMR" "pewdiepie" "music" "Fortnite" "markiplier" “KZbin is a perfectly balanced game with no exploits.” "Reply 4578 if you see this" "Runescape" "World of Warcraft" "Shadowlands" "Dream" "MrBeast" "Warzone" "FaZe Clan" "100 Thieves" "Call of Duty" "Pokemon" "Pokemon cards" "card unboxing" "Charizard" "they don't want you to know" "Flat earth" "round earth" "triangle earth" "the earth is not earth" "what even is earth if not earth omg government is lying to you" "Minecraft" "ASMR" "pewdiepie" "music" "Fortnite" "markiplier" “KZbin is a perfectly balanced game with no exploits.” "Runescape" "World of Warcraft" "Shadowlands" "Dream" "MrBeast" "Warzone" "FaZe Clan" "100 Thieves" "Call of Duty" "Pokemon" "Halo" "Devil may cry" “KZbin is a perfectly balanced game with no exploits.” “Cocomelon” “t series

[@speedy8260]

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[@coolkirk1701]

The award for “Most Gratuitous Use of the Phrase “Nissan Leaf” goes to...this video!

[@truewalter4193]

Spiff:"If you have creativity in mind, you should play City Skylines" Me *still playing Sim City 4*:"Whats City Skylines?"

[@ericbambach3222]

In case of seriousness, it is basically the game we were led to believe SimCity (2013) would be, a lovely game that would build on the fantastic precedent set by SimCity 4.

[@everynametaken]

@@ericbambach3222 To be fair, Simcity was going to have many of those features... but of course, EA screwed the developers over and rushed it out.

[@truewalter4193]

@@ericbambach3222Theres a pinch of humor in my comment, because i know Cities Skylines and even played it 😉 But i only played it for like 4-5 hours and never played it again. With "Cities Skylines" i feel like i play a traffic simulator instead of a city building simulator... I know: Traffic is a vital part of a city, but to me the one in "Cities Skylines" feels off. I dont know if its the amount the game generates or how it manages the traffic flow. Everything else is fine, but the traffic system drow me nuts...Or maybe its just because i am too stupid to get the hang of it, which is often the case 😁

[@ericbambach3222]

@@truewalter4193 Fair enough, there is a lot of traffic flow to manage! My favorite way to make the problem away is to let the water flow! (The game does a nice job with bodies of water.) There are mods to make the traffic more reasonable, but yeah...