(also, I think I might be quite interested in your work. I had not know of it until your comment…I will have a proper read, once I’ve gotten my current (trifle of a) project out of the way)

(thanks for flagging it, though)

It is intentional, to the extent that I wanted to create a situation that would force the player to choose (potentially) unpleasant measures to sustain itself. (at the same time, I don’t really aim to make any historical statements, or claim any accuracy in my model).

Originally I wanted to have something that would give the player longer to assess choices before finding themselves in the situation of having to do whatever. I didn’t want to spend too much time fiddling with the dynamics of the city, so once I had something that more or less behaved as I wished it to, I was happy to call it done.