With this educational specialisation, connected wirelessly to ControlNet (its resource) you can research new technologies and unlock new buildings for the entire region. Every area has a little boost of future content but the real meat of the expansion is in the new systems it creates – not all of which were available to me in Tomorrowland, but I was able to adapt some of my other cities with elements of the new expansion in order to see how it all ties together.Įducation hasn’t been left behind in the past, as Cities of Tomorrow allows the construction of The Academy. The new additions go beyond simple elements in the existing SimCity systems, although there are a handful of new parks and other bits and pieces for some of your existing building types. There’s a depth to this expansion that seems to justify its label (and pricing). I got a fancy hydro pumping station instead of a normal water tower and I spotted a sewage sanitiser that required an Academy (more on that later) but sounded like just the ticket for keeping unpleasant odours to a minimum, later in the city’s life. During this stage of development, I also discovered and began using a couple of the new futuristic buildings available. I could jump straight ahead to vertical wind turbines when my population needed more power, for example. Then I crank up the speed, get my bulldozer tool ready to keep on top of abandoned buildings and rubble and wait for some profits to tumble in.īuilding in a region with some existing cities gives me a bit of a head-start on options for power stations and other useful buildings too. Throw up some basic amenities – water and power to begin with. So Tomorrowland needed to start in the same mundane way I start all my cities: drag a main road off the highway, build a large grid of dirt road zoned for residential, zone a small grid for industrial and zone a bit of commercial in between. I’d start a new city, with the future in mind right from the start. I’d call it Tomorrowland and I’d pack it with the wonders of the age. It’s called Gaugin Valley but we can soon change that. Happily, there was still an empty city that’s looking for a mayor and it’s just down the highway from New Blueville. So, New Blueville must be left unmolested by these unwieldy new buildings. Now, I’m not generally too fussy about these things but the idea that I might disrupt the elegant pattern of my burgeoning utopian metropolis (my circular experiment is an assured success) was horrific to me. These particular modules unlock for anyone in the same region, even if they don’t have Cities of Tomorrow expansion pack.Megatowers, it turns out, need a much greater footprint than regular placements. Complete the Solar/Wind Power Amplifier research for example, and anyone in the region can double the power output of their Solar or Wind Power Plants. The Academy not only researches new buildings and their modules, it also researches new modules for some of your existing buildings. Part of the challenge of building a future city is balancing the wants and needs of The Academy works against the wants and needs of your MegaTowers. You can build a MegaTower near your Academy to bring in those high wealth Sims fast, though. Providing more high wealth workers to The Academy will help you complete research faster, but they’re a notoriously picky bunch, so keeping them happy will be a challenge. The Academy also raises the land value around it, so you’ll have to decide whether to position it near industry or residential. One of the best effects of The Academy is that all of the high-tech research being conducted at The Academy raises the tech level of nearby industry.
But if your city can support it, building The Academy will not only support your current city, but also the neighboring cities in you region as well, as everyone can take advantage of all the beneficial research it provides. Keep in mind, however, that researching these upgrades will require a lot of upkeep, so it’s best to ensure your city is making a steady profit before you invest in these clean technologies. Another module leads to the Garbage Atomizer that slowly atomizes garbage to reduce pollution. With each upgrade, you can add a new annex module to The Academy, unlocking additional research projects.Īnnexes to your Academy will allow you to research awesome new buildings like the Fusion Power Plant, which provides large amounts of clean power at a huge cost (perfect for cities that want to stay nice and clean). After you complete at least one research project, you can research a level upgrade for The Academy. You’ll immediately have multiple research projects to choose from, including the Maglev, a hyper-fast elevated train, which we’ll be talking more about in the coming weeks. Once The Academy employs enough workers to open, you can start researching high-tech buildings.
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