Score: 8
"Good, but needs more features..."
date: November 15, 2007
1. Add "Save" feature so you can come back to check-points. Rather annoying to click once too often and have to start the game entirely over because you went bankrupt.
2. Add a "Quit" feature so you can go back to the main menu if you want.
3. Change the right-click. What's wrong with just left mouse-clicking on a lot?
4. Allow scrolling to be controlled by arrow keys rather than dragging off the edge of the page. I had to do a lot of work in other windows, and moving my mouse off of the window meant that it started "drifting" towards where I moved my mouse.Just. Stay. Right. There... Please!
5. Add a music-off/on toggle.
6. Allow a "zoom out" to see the whole neighborhood at a glance, then allow you to double-click to "zoom" to a lot. Scrolling is annoying.
It took me a while to realize the reason my houses were not being occupied was because their luxury rate, which you show as "Fee" was less than 100%. It seems like you might want to settle on terms. To have a "stable" income requires you to upgrade the luxuries in a place to get that fee rate to 100%+. I found it was a lot less annoying to just get a house, slowly pump its luxuries up until it was 113%-130%, and then upgrade to the next higher building type, then decrease the service costs. That way, the building pops in to the next level at over 100%, and you never have a vacant lot.
It's a nice game! I just wish it had a save feature.