RCI Zones - non-player-games/SimpleCity GitHub Wiki
Context
In this article, I grab some of the description from the https://community.simtropolis.com/forums/topic/55208-how-rci-works/ to summarize how RCI zones interacts with each other.
What is RCI?
RCI Zones are the fundamental of SimCity, they describe Residential, Commercial and Industrial Zones that SimCity mayor can plan for.
These three different types of zones creates the population and a need of everything else (education, police, water, electrics … etc.). Furthermore, these three zones creates a need of each other too.
Therefore, it is important for us to keep how zones interacts with each other logically here.
Agents
In each zones, there will be agents living in the zones. These agents in the zone will be manipulating at smaller scale and create big impact based on its simple logic.
Workers
Workers need to be able to move from Residential to Industrial.
Shoppers
Shoppers need to be able to move from Residential to Commercial.
Students
Students need to be able to move from Residential to schools.
Buildings
Buildings carry goods and allow agent to come in to generate profits 💰
Industrial Buildings
They convert work into money.
Commercial Buildings
Convert money into happiness. And happiness pushes residential buildings into higher density.