These are your citizens and you’re supposed to care for them, and right away Chirper makes you wish you had the Sim City disaster tool at your disposal You can get your revenge if you put the sewer outflow upstream from your water supply and murder the whole place with cholera. That’s realistic, but I don’t want to play the videogame version of that. I mean, if we’re looking for realism then I’ll point out how realistic it is to have to fight with the city council for six months and get three dozen permits just to form a committee so you can launch a study to investigate getting a quote from a contractor so you can propose a change in the budget to re-configure a dangerous intersection. But I don’t think we’re here for that kind of realism.
I’m sure that if you’re in government your citizens frequently come off as arrogant, ignorant, and entitled. If you do something they dislike, they’re sanctimonious. If you do something they like, they’re smug. The point is, the hashtag-using Chirpers come off as the worst sort of cause-boosting, preachy, condescending little bumper-sticker activists ever devised. Most of us hate animal cruelty, but when PETA does something stupid and pointlessly controversial you find otherwise reasonable people saying, “THIS MAKES ME WANT TO EAT A PUPPY.” There are reasons why this happens, but that’s not the point. Those people that take a good cause that we all agree with and make it into something tedious, patronizing, unpalatable, or irritating. And if you have a problem with that, then WHY DID YOU MOVE TO A TOWN BUILT ON LOGGING? #MoveAwayAlready #DipshitĪs in: Jackasss activists.
Hey Lorax, we’re chopping down and re-planting a couple of acres of trees in the middle of this vast forest. But that only makes it more mystifying how there are so many problems with something so small… It has numerous problems that all combine and feed into each other to form a massive feedback loop of suck. The design is so bad that it’s hard to nail down where it all went wrong. This is a bad and terrible feature, which seems to serve no other purpose than to reduce your enjoyment of the game. The cool thing is that it’s part joke, part world-building, part branding The devs refer to players as “Chirpies”., and partly an effort to show that unlike Sim City, this game is set more or less in the present. Through it, you can see what your citizens are saying and worrying about. Chirpy is the fictional Twitter in the Skylines world.
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