Been using searx a bit recently and it often is the 1 thing I’m looking for as the top result.

what’s a deckard?

Stick around here and you’ll just be a dogmatic arch evangelist around that age!

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Nerd!

Terra Nil was way to straight forward for my taste, super clear path what you should do and no way to deviate. It felt like a glorified educational powerpoint. I pictured the idea more as a mixture of OTTD (for trains & trainmanagement), cities & skylines (lots of variety in what could be built and how urbanism evolves and develops when needs are met), SimCity3000 (sudden disaster mode) and this game for real implications of chosing car mobillity that are often ignored in games. And the look&feel also being like this game (which is very much resembling OTTD). Now if only I would have the progamming skills to build it 😅

Kudos to the developer, it does look very nice and I like the retro feel. I’ld give it a go.

That said: I would much rather see a city development game where you start off with existing shitty cities full of car dependency and people complaining about everything (including lack of parking spots ;) but also noise and traffic congestion and loud neighbours etc), and the goal would be to try to make it into nice walkable cities while still getting everyone where they need to be (to jobs, to leisure, shops etc), making it more climate proof and creating more living space for growing population. Converting a Houston style existing city to an Amsterdam/Netherlands style city basically. That would be original… All city builders ignore parking (that’s being adressed here I guess), but they all usually also ignore the fact that you start off with existing city and you can’t just bulldoze entire neighbourhoods for prestigeprojects or trainlines/highways.

Yeah i would call anything actually working in GIS beyond reading what’s there or adding dots or lines to it an IT job.

There’s indeed a chance I’ll get myself hurt while forcing cars to stop at zebra crossings and giving drivers my middle finger when they’re blocking crossings while they’re in a traffic jam. German and Dutch drivers are really friendly by comparison.

No it’s just always a battle for space. The linear settlements the old roads run through are wide enough for 1 lane in each direction, 2 narrow sidewalks and perhaps a narrow cycle path. Enter tram: it’s either stuck in traffic with the cars or they have to decide to ban cars and no longer serve the hundreds of driveways on a route, politicians don’t have the balls for that, not even the green ones. I wish they would.

The microlino is litterally modelled after this classic!

Here among other reasons it’s a historic consequence of few building regulations for 150 years combined with a dominant Christian party 150y actively trying to keep as many people as possible sprawled out in villages around cities because they thought masses moving to the cities would turn them into revolutionary heretic communists.

a lot of it unfortunately is too sprawled for tramlines to make sense.

You can see the border between belgium and the netherlands on this pop density map: https://www.luminocity3d.org/WorldPopDen/#9/51.2885/4.5607

Netherlands: “clustered towns with a center”. Flanders: “wtf just happened?” We have approximately 13.000 km of “linear settlement”

ah the classic #always-ready-to-drive-3-fridges-to-the-south-of-spain-brain.

welcome to the arms race.

Metro unfortunately isn’t a solution in urban sprawled, urban planning disaster Flanders. It’s dense yet too spread out. Metro is good for very dense urban cores like Brussels. But it’s not the one big end all problems solution. Metro is part of what cities need, but not the only thing.

Electric cargo bikes are about the same price almost. Good electric cargo bikes are expensive too, and they don’t shield you from the weather and most models take up more space than the microcar. They do offer way more versatile ways of carrying stuff, yes. I’ld also love to see more electric Piaggio style tiny pick-up vehicles. Those are really rare here tho.

Edit: urban arrow for example is like 6.000 € new.

Taxation is a complicated thing, many different subsidies etc exist. I think here in general people are taxed higher % when getting a microcar than a big one. For sure if it’s the employer leasing a car for the employee which is a very common thing here.

That doesn’t make it a less good vehicle for how most people use their vehicle every day.

True. On the other hand if it’s in a situation where water can be scared, it might cause a bit more water evapiration to send it down a waterfall instead of a pipe