Never evict during winter – the “Homelessness Penalty” to External Reputation is crippling. Instead, use the new “Mediation” option (unlocked after 5 successful repairs) to convert a problem tenant into a neutral one. Only evict if the tenant triggers the “Structural Damage” event (e.g., filling walls with concrete).
To understand the current version, we must examine the repository history. The concept of "stacking" humanity is ancient. The Insulae of Rome were the crude, often dangerous precursors—brick tenements that collapsed or burned, housing the plebs in squalor. Version 0.1 was volatile. Apartment Building -v0.21-
The code remained buggy for centuries until the industrial revolution necessitated a patch. The advent of steel-frame construction and the elevator (Elisha Otis’s safety brake, specifically) rewrote the physics of human habitation. We moved from the horizontal sprawl of the village to the vertical density of the metropolis. Never evict during winter – the “Homelessness Penalty”
Le Corbusier, the high priest of modernism, envisioned the Unité d'Habitation as the ultimate operating system—a "machine for living in." His vision was a self-contained vertical city, a rigid grid of efficiency. However, the post-war implementation of this logic—particularly in the Brutalist towers of the 1960s and 70s—often resulted in alienation. The architecture prioritized the abstract concept of "Man" over the messy reality of humans. This was the era of Apartment Building v0.15: efficient, brutal, and prone to social runtime errors. To understand the current version, we must examine
Three new residents have moved into 221B Baker Street-inspired units: