Micropolis

This  is a SimCity clone which directly inherits Maxis SimCity code (1989).

What's new

Improved Traffic

- RCI need actual traffic connections (road, rail). real path finding going on, road balancing in case of traffic jams.
- Additionally, for highest levels of RCI, they need actual traffic connection
  R -> Stadion
  C -> Airport
  I -> Seaport
- traffic density is more fine grained. the original had a traffic accuracy of 2x2 tiles. now each tile has its own traffic property, which allows more accurate traffic density calculation.
- seaport required water connection to the edge of the map. build canals and bridges if required (shift-bulldoze)
- improved ship movement
- road over water and rail under water must be straight

Improved Maps

- improved procedural map generator with various map types (land, swamp, archipels)
- most of the original cities are there (badnews, wetcity, ...)
- fixed many broken tiles (rail, road, power)
- one more map zoom level (mouse wheel), scroll map with middle mouse button

Improved tools

- weekly taxes. (was yearly before, so you didn't have any income for a year)
- live tool cost preview
- drag & drop on most tools (building, bulldozing, ...)
- intelligent bulldozer. in case of road/rail/power crossing, you can specifically remove only a certain type, this prevent accidentally disconnecting traffic or power
- shift-bulldoze on land: create water channel
- shift-bulldoze on water: create island. very expensive.
- more game messages
- better query tool, also shows what is limiting the growth of a queried building
- german and french translations
- key shortcuts for most tools

Besides that, countless fixes, performance improvements and gameplay tweaking.

Credits

The game code inherits much of the original SimCity game published in 1989 and written in C.

Inheritance:

SimCity -> Micropolis (C) -> Micropolis Java -> Jason's Fork

I also took over some resources from Divercity.

To run the Game:

Download, extract the .zip and run the game with java version 8 or higher.

Either double click the .jar file or run this in your terminal:

java -jar micropolis.jar