As far as the housing goes, take into consideration families. You wouldn’t have children working -- at least not in a city modelled after the 21st century western world. And then there’s retirees.

Which reminds me of another deficiency -- schools, besides the university. Possibly a pack that comes up next fall will see a grade school and a high school mixed in?

In some of these cases, I have to admit that you are experiencing bugs, but I am glad you are having fun with it anyway. Bug fixes and a stream of new content will continue to flow in.

Don’t trust the corporations. They’re evil. Sure, there’s a few bad people in the city and farms but most are just people trying to get along in life.

I have a clean and dirty city, the latter with factories and coal plants with an oil well thrown in for good measure. But I’ll be darned if I’ll put a nuclear power source in my clean city.

The farms are what I enjoy the most. I have been debating whether to build a city with almost farms only but we’ll see. I have quite a few farms as it is.

Someone one of my cities so I returned the visit and was astounded at what I saw!!! Half the city was nothing but parks… and I loved it. It was kind of like walking through a forest. I don’t remember their name but I think it began with “n”.
We need forest areas I have decided and a place for hunting and fishing or just for going for a walk in the park depending of course on the season.

I took my outfit with the skateboard into my city and while most interactive items do not work, the skateboard outfit did. So there I was skateboarding through my city. It’s hard going up the ramps let me tell you.
Which brings up the question Why don’t we have bicycles in addition to cars. And motorcycles too.

I do believe they have a lot of things planned for us in the future.
I’ve gone too long. Sorry.

One thing that keeps surprising me is that housing is impossibly high-density, while workplaces are low-density. If you look at an aerial view of a real city, it’s mostly residential, with a relatively small business section. In Home Tycoon, you can jam 7,100 people into the largest apartment complex, but the largest office tower, which appears even taller, employs, what — 520 workers? (I’m not home with my PS3, so I can’t check those figures, but it’s something like that.) To balance residents and employment, you need lots more offices than apartments. It’s an interesting decision on someone’s part.

This was an observation my four (almost five)-year-old son made when I let him play in my Home Tycoon city. It needs stoplights. And you know what? He’s right.

It’s such a little detail, but it’s so integral to our immersion in the virtual experience.

Is it just me, or are real cities starting to look more like Home Tycoon?

I’ve also started a third city, which I’ve dubbed “Farmageddon”, full of (you guessed it) farms! A farm does not need to be adjacent to a road to be “on the grid”, so you can make a quilt of them as far as the eye can see. It’s quite pleasant, really.

I’m having ENTIRELY too much fun with this game.

But seriously, Tycoon still has room to grow as a game in different ways. The leaderboards will be something I’ll never bother with, since ( as mentioned) the only way onto them is slapping down the biggest scrapers till there’s no more space left. I’d rather acctually grow my city, give it a more natural look as far as cities go. After visiting a few cities with zoos I became enamoured with the idea of having one, and thanks to the rare %off briefcases, I got a zoo and some coppers to catch the GTA frenzied, hat wearing, talking bears. Last time I tried to apprehend one he told me his name was Jo-jo and was just trying to get back to his circus -- as if I’d fall for that old line twice. Besides,he was wearing a top-hat, so he OBVIOUSLY worked in a Trans-Utopia office somewhere.

And now my citizens are moaning about Bear-Tax, sheeesh!