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I remember doing this in SimCity 4 a few years ago for a real small town of ~7000 and it actually worked remarkably well out of the box. Residential/Commercial/Industrial came out fairly balanced. The only thing I had to mod to make it really work were the catchment areas for schools etc, which are very small by default. I found a mod that made them 2-3 times bigger radius (but actual capacity stayed the same, and worked well enough).

There's something especially fun and interesting about replicating real places you know in games. That's something I don't think the people who freaked out about kids making their house or school in Doom or Quake ever really understood.

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> That's something I don't think the people who freaked out about kids making their house or school in Doom or Quake ever really understood.

We made maps of our school(s) to play in Counter Strike, I understand people freak out if they don't really understand what video games are. Especially when it was around the time when people were starting to freak out about if video games make people violent or not, because some school shooters in the US had some violent games they presumable played before their attack.

Same - I wanted to recreate my school for Counterstrike because I knew the building so well and if I played it with schoolmates we'd all know it like the back of our hands and associate different areas with different memories etc. leading to a more unique (and probably funny) experience. It had nothing to do with violence in reality.

I always found the argument that shooters played violent video games extremely weak. Of course they play video games, like most people their age.

Video games and guns themselves being the cause of shootings are just typical unhealthy excuse making in order to avoid having to actually address the real issues that would require consequences or accountability for and by people who very much do not want any consequences or accountability to affect them in any way, whether that is individuals or groups.

Unreal Tournament level editor was the easiest for a noob like me. We created our dorm rooms, campuses, our houses back home. That being said, this was 25 years ago (in the US), not before school shootings but certainly not like they are today.

For sure. I used to try making the layouts of our old cities (Anuradhapura etc) in games like Pharaoh and Ceasar 3.

If you’re into doom modding - have you seen myhouse.wad? Worth looking up on YouTube. Phenomenal achievement imo

I recall making a map of my high school in Duke Nukem 3D well before Columbine. I think the only reason was it was the closest floorplan I had readily available at the time and I had no Internet access. I was more interested in playing with the Build engine/map editor than actually shooting things.

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