Jumorgan

Unfortunately no, there won't be agriculture in this release. Perhaps it'll be included as an add-on in the future though. Or depending on how the modding tools end up I could see an agriculture industry being made sometime. I hope that agriculture is an add-on or included somehow. No farms, no food. No food, no cities! Oil and other minerals are a resource, but not food?!? Couldn't it be done like the oil field or the mine, where a barn is built (on land that is prime for farming), and fields added around it, to "extract" the resource? Maybe the logistics of what to do with a "food" resource is the problem. Would it go to an industrial zone to be processed into goods? Or would it go to a neighbor city to increase its population growth? Not to mention would GlassBox be able to handle ensuring every Sim got his or her byte of food every day?

Well, quite a interesting conversation! Thanks for sharing all your viewpoints. I guess I'll offer my two-cents as I said I would earlier. I think that the personal lives of public officials should stay personal, as long as their actions don't directly affect their leadership ability or taxpayer funds. However, it may not have been the best idea to mention she was a mayor on the mySpace page, or pose on a community-owned fire truck; I don't know all the details. I do think the media scrutinizes the private lives of mayors, governors, professors and similar folks (except for most journalists and reporters of course) too much, as they believe it is newsworthy if people in such professions are not perfect role models all the time. I think it's become even easier now for the news to do that because of social networking sites, cameras documenting all sorts of things that normally would be missed, and the like, and will only continue as people share more of their lives outside of work online--and as long as the media believes that all personal decisions affect work performance in these venerable careers! If she was a cashier at, I don't know, Wally K's Bullseye (I love that building by SimGoober ), no one would think that her online pictures would affect her work. Competence at work and competence outside of it aren't necessarily the same, even with more prestigious, more involved careers. Concerning knowing more details, if you are fortunate (or unfortunate b/c of the writer's strike ) enough to get American broadcast television, Mayor Kontur-Gronquist will be on 20-20 tonight at 10pm EST to share her side of the story.