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Steam News25 May 20261mo ago

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Three changes that should make cities have crime rates and rents more closer to real-world dynamics.

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fixedFixed yet another problem with criminality rate, this time the correction was a mis-interpretation of the literature. This change should now reduce the criminality rate to a real-world statistic. (8x reduction)
addedChanged the dynamics on how rent is considered vacant, now landlords will reduce price more aggressively according to new research on pricing we incorporated that's more robust.
changedRewrote the gate that citizens need to pass when renting a unit: at most, 2/3 of income must be the rent price or they should have 12 months of rents in savings. This is closer to a real situation in a crowded city but we aim for it to be the edge case and a well managed city should reach equilibrium of renters spending 1/3 of their income.

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fixedFixed yet another problem with criminality rate, this time the correction was a mis-interpretation of the literature. This change should now reduce the criminality rate to a real-world statistic. (8x reduction)
addedChanged the dynamics on how rent is considered vacant, now landlords will reduce price more aggressively according to new research on pricing we incorporated that's more robust.
changedRewrote the gate that citizens need to pass when renting a unit: at most, 2/3 of income must be the rent price or they should have 12 months of rents in savings. This is closer to a real situation in a crowded city but we aim for it to be the edge case and a well managed city should reach equilibrium of renters spending 1/3 of their income.

Three changes that should make cities have crime rates and rents more closer to real-world dynamics. In previous versions we observed crinimality could be 8x our real world references and landlords placing rent praces way above what renters could pay for.

  • Fixed yet another problem with criminality rate, this time the correction was a mis-interpretation of the literature. This change should now reduce the criminality rate to a real-world statistic. (8x reduction)

  • Changed the dynamics on how rent is considered vacant, now landlords will reduce price more aggressively according to new research on pricing we incorporated that's more robust.

  • Rewrote the gate that citizens need to pass when renting a unit: at most, 2/3 of income must be the rent price or they should have 12 months of rents in savings. This is closer to a real situation in a crowded city but we aim for it to be the edge case and a well managed city should reach equilibrium of renters spending 1/3 of their income.

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Steam News / 25 May 2026

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