alt Hacker NewsI've been wanting to build a city builder using urban planning libraries like this
Imaging the simulation being running headless, decoupled from the GUI client
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klaussilveira • 07/31/2025
You can use it headless, apparently: https://github.com/eclipse-sumo/sumo/blob/53cdfa4b595500047e...
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winternewt • 07/31/2025
You read my mind. City builder games are unrealistic in a bad way that defies intuition and prevents you from modeling a real city. This has been my huge frustration with Cities Skylines, which looks great but where ambulances take three months to reach patients.
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Slightly tangential, but there's this game: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1134710/NIMBY_Rails/