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.