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In article <s09fj81ebc5mjhf46bfivpms4c5hjb7a4q@4ax.com>, 
Mike_S@nowhere.com says...
> 
> On Wed, 06 Mar 2013 10:24:24 -0600, Zaghadka <zaghadka@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> >In other news, SimCity 5 is taking a beating in the press for it's DRM,
> >*ahem*, I mean it's online component requirements.
> 
> <<insert my complaints about always online DRM for single player games
> here>>
> 
> >(Why OT? Well,it's not really an action game, but csipg.strat is pretty
> >dead, and I've never really felt this sort of game exactly fit strat
> >either. How is it that there is no "simulation" subgroup?)
> 
> Honestly, when I think 'sim' I think controlling a vehicle. Flight
> sims, tank sims, etc. When I think SimCity, I think strategy game. Ok,
> that probably isn't correct but there you have it.
> 
> Personally, at this point, I would be ok with merging all PC gaming
> groups into just one.

I haven't gone near SimCity for over a decade (since SimCity 2000) so I 
have no idea what the latest iterations have added or changed, but I've 
always thought of it as an economic and political simulator - in other 
words not THAT different in many aspects from what we do in the better 
4x games, really, only more topical and limited in scope but more in-
depth for that. 

When I see the botch up job many of our local politicians make of 
community management I sometimes think they might have done well getting 
a bit of advance training on their computer .....

{sarcastic smile}   -P.