CityNews featured some young teen from Vancouver who has been creating a replica of both Vancouver itself and its SkyTrain system in Roblox which is really cool idea. Someone should start working on a virtual Waterloo Region and build a huge hypothetical light rail, heavy rail, bus and train network haha. I don't know anything about Roblox or I'd give it a shot.
It reminds me of doing this in SimCity 2000 and 3000 a long time ago, as well as more recently in City SkyLines. I did a pretty good replica of Waterloo Region in that game but complete with proper metro systems, train connections, better trails and a lot of other fun stuff. But the funny thing is...it ends up getting pretty hard to have the game city be a success due to the horrible road system we have IRL being unable to translate into the game adequately when you try to do as close to a 1:1 replica of the roads as you can. Maybe with more patience it can work, but eventually the traffic just causes problems that compound in other ways.
(I know this is a the general road thread, but I think rail stuff not directly related to the LRT fits as well).
It reminds me of doing this in SimCity 2000 and 3000 a long time ago, as well as more recently in City SkyLines. I did a pretty good replica of Waterloo Region in that game but complete with proper metro systems, train connections, better trails and a lot of other fun stuff. But the funny thing is...it ends up getting pretty hard to have the game city be a success due to the horrible road system we have IRL being unable to translate into the game adequately when you try to do as close to a 1:1 replica of the roads as you can. Maybe with more patience it can work, but eventually the traffic just causes problems that compound in other ways.
(I know this is a the general road thread, but I think rail stuff not directly related to the LRT fits as well).