Here's the mod https://mods.factorio.com/mod/administratorio

Very nearly half of HS2 - 64 miles - is in tunnels. This happened because the Conservative government was terrified of upsetting the Conservative voters along the route. The bat tunnel was nuts, but it's not that significant overall.

> a bat tunnel or a newt ramp or a fox power plant

Source? (To be clear, not doubting you.)

This was a good reality check about the bat tunnel controversy: https://www.bats.org.uk/news/2025/04/hs2-bat-tunnel-dangerou...

Dunno, if you are dumb enough to try to build a high speed line through an area where endangered species are protected then yeah you’re going to have to avoid killing them.

What's your "build order"? I can usually get permits for something, but struggle getting the 40 units started by the second one (if I do get permits, it doesn't pencil).

Beijing has a substantially worse median price to income ratio, though

That system leads to an oversupply of single men in rural areas and single women in big cities.

Agreed.

Open immigration for rest of the country from around the world but closed for their city from rest of the country is what these “progressives” seem to want by their actions.

Needs more strawberries and oranges.

The only winning move is not to play.

what's the nuclear option?

So, "If only you could talk to the monsters" but at the level of this genre?

I mean that's kinda how Civ works already. Some civs get bonuses for education & research, others in combat, etc, and focusing on the things incompatible with your civ will "punish" you.

It sounds like you just don't agree with how they've implemented America lol.

What would prioritizing education mean in Civilization? The game's model is fairly simple:

1. There are three resources: food, industrial production, and commercial activity;

2. As the player, you can divide commercial activity between three categories: research, state revenue, and local "luxuries", which in this context just means tax relief;

3. Scientific progress occurs when you've produced enough research to learn a new technology;

4. The only appearance of "education" anywhere in the game is that there is an expensive building called a "university" that increases local production of research. (The predecessor building with the same effect at a lower cost is the "library".)

On the other hand, "there is always division and infighting" is one of the most important and fundamental mechanics in the game; if your city grows beyond a quite small population cap, new citizens are automatically unhappy and will shut down the whole city unless pacified somehow.

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Gah! Thanks for that, I didn't know there was music.

There is a button on the top right to turn off the music.

Some context, because it is definitely an insider joke.

Davis had a long and contentious civic debate on whether or not Target should be allowed to build a store in Davis, eventually Davis held a city wide vote on the matter, which did pass [1].

Davis voters reject Measure V, spiking plans to build Village Farms housing [2].

Just a couple of examples where growth that most cities would approve without thought became a city wide civic issue that the community actually voted on.

[1] https://localwiki.org/davis/Target/History [2] https://www.abridged.org/news/davis-measure-v-election-updat...

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Regarding the comments about the jargon file...

Something definitely changed around the dot com crash. The channels I slummed around in of EFNet went from excited hacker archetypes to the same people doing jobs I was am in retrospect surprised about [0]

[0] - Im general, emulator devs working for bigger corporations. But most specifically one that wound up doing stuff around customs intrediction tech, major shift from their pre emulation work.

Money destroys everything it touches eventually.

This runs into the reality that the game maker knows who his target audience is, but you don't. If he wants to make a spreadsheet simulator or something targeted at people who like complex interfaces he can do that. I point at ASCII-UI Dwarf Fortress, one of the great games of this century, as evidence that a game does not need to be accessible to be true art.

It is frustrating to be excluded when a game developer builds a game that looks interesting but targets a niche you don't fit in.

Also those https://research.wmz.ninja/projects/phd/index.html style games are a bit vapid. At any moment a person has more than a handful of choices and the simplification abstracts away the important ones, like ranking what ideas are important or changing strategies for idea generation in this one.

> Why is this so overwhelmingly complex? Why would I spend time learning this ugly, convoluted and verbose UI?

My guess is that's the point - now you understand how San Francisco property developers feel.

> Who is this for??

Like most vibe coded projects, it is for the person who created it. And usually only them.

It's a throwaway joke about NIMBYism, not a triple-A blockbuster production.

I think that may be exactly the point.

Eh, your example is a different kind of game. Not into linear choose-your-own-adventure games myself. I think the UI of this one accurately models the many moving parts and forces in the process it's simulating, and I didn't have a problem picking it up though I skipped the tutorial. It has a sense of humor (read the speaker comments at meetings, and the news articles), and hits you with the real world outcome each development is based on. Made an impact on me.

"I didn't understand this, so I had an AI make this so that you couldn't understand it too"

> Why would I spend time learning this ugly, convoluted and verbose UI? Who is this for??

Tell me you never played the old TUI dwarf fortress without telling me.

> maybe you could take the hint

Locked supply. Affordable housing. Growing standards of living (or population). Pick two.

If you lock supply and want taxes and wages to grow, you're choosing unaffordable housing. That's San Francisco's current policy choice. Over decades, it filters the poor to San Francisco's "outer boroughs" or onto its streets.

For what it's worth, my friends who lived in San Francisco "took the hint" and moved out when they chose to have kids. They didn't sell their place, however, since the above policy mix together with California's property-tax system strongly disincentivizes that.

Ah, blue city progressivism: "Welcome to my country! Now get the fuck out of my city."

Also, note that these cities always happily welcome more offices and businesses. They just don't want to build the housing for those workers to actually live in.

That's of course an option too.

I haven't played OP's game but hopefully it accurately models the plummetting quality of life and rampant homelessness created by doing what you describe in the real world.

Or you could look at the massive number of homeless people and take the hint yourself

Reminds me of this: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1259638112688304129

Yeah, how DARE people under 40 want somewhere to live!

let me guess, homeowner in SF?

I mean, stopping housing construction hasn’t stopped the new money from pushing out the old soul. Given the US enshrines the free movement of people in the Constitution, it’s make room or have someone outbid you for yours.