Please please please pay attention to the biases in this game if it inspired you.
I grew up on Simcity 2000 and it heavily depended on creating suburban and exurb development to achieve real tax base gains.
It also rewarded taxpayer funded private facilities like stadiums while casting things like parks as a drag on tax revenues.
It’s a great fun game, but it (was) based on a planning model that has wreaked havoc on the US social and economic structure, of which we are just starting to make meaningful change to stop the proliferation of.
Edit: thank you to the person that informed me that Simcity 3000 addressed some of these issues.
