Auriga_Ando

I really like the Idea behind that glasbox engine. Especially we will now have a real rush hour in SimCity. In Simcity4 or CitiesXL you turned on the graphs and see a red road between your residential and industrial areas. That indicates you have a high traffic load there, but that high load is 24/7 all around the clock and the traffic jam in the morning just an animation. In SimCity5, after the things I have read so fare, we will see something like this: In the night roads are empty and in the morning people start driving to work. Now you will get a high traffic load on the road between your residential and industrial area and a real traffic jam not just a animation. After a wile people will be arrived and everything is fine on the streets again, now factories starting to manufacture stuff and trucks will transport goods between your factories in your city. That will cause some traffic load again and in the evening we will have rush hour again. This level of realism is awesome and in my opinion this will give us some interesting options to handle traffic in our cities. For example avoiding crossroads when constructing a central traffic axis in a city will have a real positive impact on how fast people can get from one side to the other side of the City. Sunken roads, elevated roads all that will have more sense with that kind of simulation.