The best part of the vid is from 5:35 onward, where it shows pretty decent detail of the city.
It's interesting to see the way "perfectionist" players approach their games. The details of the optimization are often surprising. Even the specific choice of factors to optimize for are interesting. In SimCity, one player shoots for maximum population; another might go for the quickest time to reach a particular population level; yet another might seek to maximize industrial production. I like seeing how they work within the rules to reach those different goals.
Yes. SimCity is not really a `game', but more of a sandbox, where you set your own goals. Of course you can set your own goals in more traditional games as well, but they tend to come with a pre-defined one.
It's interesting to see the way "perfectionist" players approach their games. The details of the optimization are often surprising. Even the specific choice of factors to optimize for are interesting. In SimCity, one player shoots for maximum population; another might go for the quickest time to reach a particular population level; yet another might seek to maximize industrial production. I like seeing how they work within the rules to reach those different goals.