At this point, they will usually alert through a pop-up dialog, to make sure that the player know what the problem is immediately. If their background color is red, it usually means that it is a problem that need attention. If their background color is grey/light blue, it means that they either do not have anything out of ordinary to report to the player at the moment, or they need to advise the player on things that they should change in their city. If the background color is green, it means that particular department is doing well in the city, and the advisor is praising for the work. Scenarios tend to use advisor text boxes to communicate with the player.Īdvisors in SimCity 4 have different background colors, which mean different things, and generally reflect the advisor's mood towards a certain event that occurred, or is occurring in the player's city.
Advisors may also pop up when placing some infrastructure, such as engineer's reports when building bridges. Depending on the situation, their portrait can depict them as either haggard and stressed, to neutral, to happy. Advice comes in the form of items in the news ticker as well as in explanations of some game concepts when a specific advisor's portrait is clicked. SimCity (2013) also features the largest number of advisors.Īdvisors in SimCity 3000 are depicted in a cartoon manner. SimCity (2013)'s advisors are similar to SimCity 2000's advisors, as they give brief information on city problems. SimCity 4 features similar advisors to those from SimCity 3000, but the briefings were removed. SimCity 3000's advisors were much more developed from their SimCity 2000 counterparts, as they were given full names and would offer detailed information regarding city's problems and have briefings on problems the mayor needs to address. SimCity 2000 was the first game in the main series to feature advisors, although they were poorly received by players as they only pop-up to give brief advice and complain. SimCity Enhanced CD-ROM was the first game to feature an entire range of advisors, each focused on particular departments. Wright and is a reference to SimCity series creator, Will Wright. The first advisor appeared in the SNES port of the original SimCity game.
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