The time they’ve taken to make the expansion and patch so different to how the usual game works has gone a long way to making the transition easier.
The original simulation concepts and implementation was already fantastic, and considering they weren’t sure how well it would connect with fans (perhaps due to the SimCity debacle before it), coding in a night cycle that would behave differently was always going to be tough. The game sucked me in so much that I didn’t even think that it was something I needed. A day/night cycle is a feature that I didn’t realise wasn’t in the base game until quite a few hours in. From the offset – the main change is obvious.
