Simcity with Property Investment module

Hey hwd007,

I’ve spent countless hours building cities with this game and you’re right – it is cool. As technology has improved it has more realistically represented urban development as it is in reality. There are lessons for property investors in terms of the ‘what constitutes a good area’ question. A good area in Simcity, for example would:

-have good transport links, but not too close to highways/heavy rail lines (eg it might have a subway or bus station)

-be close to commercial areas

-be a moderate distance from polluting industrial areas

-have good school coverage, including primary, secondary and tertiary (also areas with private schools always managed to achieve better living standards…funny that)

-have good hospital coverage, including small medical centres as well as access to hospitals and research facilities

-have its fair share of recreation facilities such as parks, basketball courts, etc

So while its only a game – so is monopoly and cashflow so I definitely think it’s worth a look at for anyone interested!!

-Nick

“Be courageous enough to act immediately” – Mark Fisher

I also found Monopoly Tycoon quite fun from the aspect of developing property. []

Keep smiling
Felicity

Reminds me of the “Rich Dad Poor Dad” story of the story about how Kiyosaki’s Rich Dad learnt wealth creation lessons from Monopoly about buying houses and hotels. Perhaps there are real lessons to be learnt in current games like SimCity which start to include such a huge amount of managable details to property. (Perhaps not as many valid lessons in Doom3 tho…heh)

Regards,
Brett []

“Even if you’re on the right track you’ll get run over if you just sit there.”