toddgak

This needs to be answered. I pray for a game like SimCity 4. I love the complicated mechanics, the very difficult to manage budget, traffic problems because of poor design. I want a simulation. SimCity 4 had an impressive amount of behind the scene metrics it use to calculate land value, traffic volume etc... I know there are these young kids who think building a big city with cookie cutter tools and no consequences is some how a fun game, but there are already a ton of these awful dumbed-down games.

I crave the complexity of SimCity 3/4 not because it is difficult, but because I'm in awe of the simulation. I love knowing that every citizen needs to find their way to work and back. How roads have realistic volume limits and how bottlenecks have serious consequences. How every piece of infrastructure will require maintenance, how pollution affects land values. How it is more about zoning and allowing the city to grow organically. I mean that is in essence what made SimCity incredible right? Watching how citizens reacted to your choices and having to work through those obstacles. And please please don't split up housing zones into lower class and upper class bullshit. This is a perfect example of something that was handled by the simulation and replaced with nonsense. You don't need to tell rich people where to live. In the real world they are perfectly able to find the most valuable land and live there. In SimCity 1-4 they could do that too!

I think it already has... try to find one top comment that isn't about dumbing down the game, DLC, Origin, DRM or how EA sucks balls.

SimCity 4 is damn good simulation, perhaps that's why it likes to randomly crash every couple hours.... no autosave.

Bitcoin is programmable money and will evolve over time in a way that has very few similarities to the current financial system. Multi-signature transaction is just one of many features that will change the semantics of how money is moved and transacted.

Government is not nimble enough to keep up with the pace of this innovation without stifling it. Government needs to figure out a way to work within a financial system that has public international access instead of trying to only allow access to sanctioned participants.

Our current financial system is based on denying access, bitcoin is based on allowing access to all.

Exactly. Centralized mining comes at an enormous risk. We are about to see the flip side of that equation as tons of mining operations get wiped out because of the price.

Maybe somebody releases a more powerful efficient ASIC that works on USB? I see the centralization of mining fluctuating with the price.