Hello Developers,
I am creating a brand new game, City Arena. The game will allow players to create their own city and go against war with each other. It is up to the players on where they want to shoot missiles.
However, the city would include, hospitals, schools, banks, residential areas and government sectors. It is unknown whether the player would purposely use their missiles and hit those areas.
May I seek your help and advise?
Maybe you could just make the hospitals, schools, etc. unavailable areas, then they would have to chose somewhere else to shoot.
Maybe add a āsafezoneā to the city where the missiles are unable to hit.
And add these into the safezone. Just an idea.
Being able to even target civilians with missiles will likely be considered depicting a real-life tragedy. Do those buildings play a big enough roll in a war game that they need explicit references?
Schools are an absolute 110% no-no for any game with a gun in it. No way around that. Even with a safezone like @Dev_Lightz mentioned, they can still lets say direct fire at the school even if it does not have an effect, it still shows implication.
Hospitals - Probably okay but if you must then donāt make them look like civilian hospitals, make them look like military hospitals, that is the best you could do. However, you could also just make them seem unpopulated if you want civilian.
Banks - Should be fine. Look at jail break, liberty county, any other robbery game out there. All have banks which you can attack.
Residential areas - Should be fine, but if you are really worried just make them seem unpopulated like no NPCs or anything.
Government sectors - i recommend not including flags of any kind. A building that looks like a courthouse is fine, if you include a flag it can be seen as controversial if that building is destroyed.
And absolutely donāt base them off of a real building somewhere. Of course you need to base it off of a generic building of that kind, just not credible similarity to a real building.
Hi there, we have no NPCs that people are walking around at anywhere. Government sectors do not have any flags and the building name would just be āGovernment Officeā or āMain Officeā.
I will try removing schools from the whole game as this may implicate it. Since if players sends missiles, nearby buildings may also get hit, all buildings which are hit will definitely look destroyed? or will require some kinds of repair.
Hospitals will most likely be civilian hospitals, with unpopulated people.
Is that better?
Yeah this sounds good 
Maybe instead of schools try a library? Or museum?