Chapter 65: Participation

While SimCity 2000 has been simplified, the Department of Urban Planning is not a Muggle.

Although the professor is not very good at playing with computers by himself, there are still capable people among the students below.

In addition, "SimCity 2000" deliberately left the interface for making mods, so the professor only needs to put forward the requirements, and the students below will meet his needs and make "SimCity 2000" what he wants.

The whole game is changing rapidly, and after about a month and a half, this game has been changed to a different look by the Professor.

Before a class ended one day, he suddenly took out a whole set of modules and asked the students to participate in the competition.

Although a small number of students were happy because they enjoyed playing SimCity 2000 themselves, joining the Department of Urban Planning was a good match for their interests.

But more students are depressed, because they know that in the next few months, they are afraid that they will not have spare time to do other things.

Don't look at the professor who is always confused, in fact, he is very strict.

If you don't complete the homework he assigned, just wait for the credits to be insufficient to repeat the grade.

The scary thing is that even if they repeat a grade, in the next year's course, the professor will continue to teach the repeating students and new students.

As long as you don't transfer out of the Department of Urban Planning, you can't escape the clutches of the professor.

Even, some students think that professors should not come to universities to be professors, but should go to Wanhu to be a promoter of "SimCity 2000", or not to be a person responsible for getting people to quit the game.

Rogge wasn't a student of urban planning, but he learned about the SimCity 2000 competition.

You know, SimCity 2000 is a game that is different from other games. In terms of game genre, it is unlikely that it will host tournaments as often as StarCraft.

Therefore, compared with those players who play the game until they are soft, Rogge, a hungry man, is naturally more excited.

He asked for all the mods the professor had requested, then installed them on his computer and began the process of building the city.

"SimCity 2000" is a game that has fantasy and reality, and has added many games with exclusive mods for professors, and the gameplay has actually become a little weaker, but the authenticity has also been greatly enhanced.

For example, crossroads, the average player who plays SimCity 2000 either thinks that the more intersections the better, or that the number of intersections has no effect on the game.

But this is not the case, and the number of intersections has a very large impact on the traffic in the game.

You know, if a road doesn't intersect with other roads, it can do without a traffic light.

Without traffic lights, it naturally doesn't look congested.

However, once it intersects with other roads and there is an intersection, it is necessary to set up traffic lights in order to maintain order.

Once the traffic lights are set, there will be a waiting process. It may not matter if you wait for one location, but when you look at it from the perspective of the whole city, it will cause a huge waste of time.

Therefore, the fewer intersections, the fewer the fewer.

However, with fewer intersections, another problem arises. The distance from a point in the city to a point can be much longer as a result.

And this will not only cause a waste of time, but also a waste of gasoline resources.

Therefore, how to design a suitable highway traffic line has become a problem.

Of course, there's more to traffic than just city roads. There is also rail transit on the ground, and subway traffic underground.

Although the cost of above-ground rail transit is relatively low, it has a problem, that is, it will encroach on a large number of above-ground locations and will be blocked by buildings.

Underground transportation, although it will save space on the ground, is very expensive.

The combination of aboveground and underground will form a cost-effective urban rail transit network.

This network is a complement to road traffic and can make people's travel more convenient.

However, in the early stage of urban construction, there will be no option for rail transit construction, so at the beginning of the game, it is necessary to leave enough space for future rail transit construction.

In addition to attending classes, Rogge devoted the rest of his time to the construction of the city.

In fact, one of the fun aspects of the SimCity series lies in this. Players who play more games in this series will always feel that the game has become simpler, so in order to increase the difficulty, they will add drama to themselves.

Among them, the big ones are those who play "other people's games".

These people can play a bland game for the average player, and play it cool.

And Rogge is running wildly on the road to "someone else's player".

And the professor's students, maybe they have Stockholm syndrome, although they say that they hate "SimCity 2000" the most, but they really don't play "SimCity 2000" for a day, they are still uncomfortable, and they always feel that there are shortcomings.

The tournament runs for six weeks, and after six weeks, the save files are stored on a floppy disk and given to the professor.

At the end of the twentieth century, the storage medium of personal computers was relatively chaotic, although the optical disc has appeared on the stage of history, but the floppy disk has not been eliminated.

Because although the CD has a large capacity and low cost, it is not convenient for the user to write data, and most of the time it can only read the data.

Therefore, there is still some room for survival when using a more flexible floppy disk.

Of course, at this time, there is also a new type of storage disk called U disk, which uses the latest USB port.

However, although this thing is much more difficult to use than a floppy disk, it is also more than an order of magnitude smaller in size.

But the problem is that it is very expensive, and secondly, not every computer has a USB port.

In these chaotic times, various storage mediums are playing their role.

However, with the cooperation of the USB Standards Committee with Intel and AMD, the USB interface will be mandatory on the new motherboards.

Rogge also wanted to see what level his archive was, so he got rid of his classmates and handed in his archive.

Although the professor looks like a demon in the mouth of his students, he is actually a serious and responsible person.

There are more than 400 students in the whole department, and he will check these more than 400 games one by one and evaluate the indicators in these archives.

There are not many people in the Department of Urban Planning, but they are all going to become experts in urban design in the United States and even the world.

If he is merciful and lets them graduate, it is better to say that he has delayed the construction of the world city by smashing the sign of the Department of Urban Planning, and that is a big problem!