First let me say I'm looking foreward to the release of this game. One of the first games I played was Simcity 2000 at the age of 6. English is not my native language, so at the time I didn't understand what I was actually doing. But somehow I managed to create a map-filling city, with a lot of tall buildings so I thought I was a super awesome mayor. 10 years later, I booted up my old pc and found my old city back. Now I could speak English and actually read, thus understand, what was happening. Crime everywhere, pollution everywhere, traffic jams everywhere, poor health, poor education, no bublic transport, etc. etc. I actually build my main airport in the middle of my city, so planes where all the time crashing into buildings (I was wondering about all the explosions at the time). But I love that city more than any other city I builded.
So I wish (for this is a wishlist) that I can be a sadistic bastard in this game too (but this time knowingly). A huge city with traffic jams, crime, poverty etc. But without the ridiculous idea that citizens would actually move away to give me zero population. Maybe it wouldn't be as populated as a thriving city, but some people would still live in it.
Ok, I admit it, I just want to build Detroit.
Newspapers is also a thing i liked from Simcity 2000, I wish to read what is going on in my city, in accordance with statistics. You see on a chart that crime is bad in a certain neighbourhood, you read about a murder in that area in the newspaper. A disaster strikes the city, you can read how many where killed or injured in the papers. Business is booming, you find an article about a newly opened store downtown.
Ability to fire advisors. I don't know if there will be any in this game, but if so, they will annoy me at a certain point. And when he/she is fired, I wish to see him walking out of the city counsel building with a box in his hand, getting in his car and getting stuck in the traffic jam he was complaining all the time about, so I can laugh.
But on a more serious note: a gamemaker/braker for me is a traffic AI. If I look at a review of the final game and I notice that it has trouble with the pathfinding AI of cars, busses etc, it's a no buy for me (I don't intend to sound rude here). Cars only using one lane on a multi-lane road, blocked intersections, cars using the shortest route at all times, even if it is clogged with traffic, that is the stuff I don't want to see (maybe someone should make a unofficial non-wish thread). So I what I most truly wish is a great, smart, traffic behaviour. If that is the case, it might be an instant buy.
