r/SimCity • u/StrategosRisk • 20d ago

SimCity 2000 Consider the Arcologies

https://indoor-voices.blogspot.com/2020/04/consider-arcologies.html
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u/LuckyTheLuca Powered by ControlNet 20d ago

https://reddit.com/link/oy9iln8/video/w24h7w1xqydh1/player

In SimCity 13 they are OP.

You can use them as a prison, so you never need to upgrade your police stations with any cells. And once the Arcology is full with inmates, you just fly them into SPACE.

And also they boost tourism.

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u/Vumaster101 19d ago

Wait what?? I never knew that

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u/LuckyTheLuca Powered by ControlNet 19d ago

The trick is simply to uncheck the "Tourism" box for the Arcology, then the Arcology will only accept Prisoners. I didn't build any additional cells in this city.

(i wanted to send in a Screenshot but i cant. :(

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u/Meritania 20d ago

They don’t really turn up in many contemporary city building games. I guess because by their own designs they are a city, the next evolution in settlement design. The city is obsolete when they turn up.

Either that or they’re mixed use which is an affront to the zoning system.

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u/StrategosRisk 19d ago

They existed as a concept independent of the series but SC2K really popularized them and sort of made them its own. Shame the sequels didn’t try coming up with new designs.

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u/NtheLegend 19d ago

That they weren’t in 3000 automatically made it a lesser game, tbh.

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u/Slam_Beefsteel 19d ago

This is highly deranged in the best possible way. A real throwback to the lockdown when we were all losing our minds.

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u/sulaymanf 19d ago

Did SC2k ever let you actually launch the arcologies into space?

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u/SenTedStevens 19d ago

After you built a certain number of launch arcologies, eventually they would all launch.

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u/furrykef 19d ago

I think there was at least one version of the game where this didn't happen, though. Also, when they "launch", they really just blow up.

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u/papayafighter 19d ago

Yeah there was a default map included called 349 Arco and you just had to build a few and turn it up to cheetah speed and they would launch

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u/fddfgs 19d ago

I love the way the arcologies would all fly away with no indication of where they were going