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very excited, many more improvements than i had expected.
however, there is one big glaring flaw:
prisons have a 100% rehabilitation rate. they "produce goods" (slavery). police patrols reduce crime rates along their route.
cities skylines 1's model of crime and policing was not great but i did feel like i could kinda ignore it, but i am deeply, deeply uncomfortable with prisons producing goods. i can't ignore that. its really gross.
i wonder if a mod that changed how that worked would be welcomed by the community or not. Not saying that "just mod it out of the game if it makes you uncomfortable" is a solution of course (because yeah it is indeed gross that its there to begin with).
laying water pipes everywhere isn't a fun nor realistic mechanic, so they mostly removed it. now pipes run under roads.
"policing" isn't a fun mechanic, so they made it mandatory to interact with :)
the sequel has heavily pivoted away from the cartoonier, goofy, simcity-esque elements of the first game and into the market the game found itself in. skylines has always operated in a sort of idealized construction of american life. if you do the Right things, then it all works. patrol routes reducing crime and prisons having 100% rehabilitation rates are part of that idealized construction, elements of that fiction told to us by the police. everything in cities skylines does what it says on the tin, and that's not an unreasonable design choice. but with policing in particular they've ended up in a situation where the very fundamentals of the practice do not do what they say on the tin. firefighters, generally speaking, do actually do what they say they do. police do not, and so they have to make a choice between engaging in that discrepancy and thus breaking the idealized construction, or ignoring it and treating police the same as firefighters, and they've opted for the latter. which would be okay if they didn't, for whatever stupid reason, loop prisons into the new economic model.
