HoldYourColour

Sydney please refer your views to the Urbs Urbis forums: http://dev.simcities.com

With regards to tax, and financial models and what not, it would be interesting to see in the coming years if a 'real' model can be implemented into the game. i.e. How will cuts in income tax affect the willingness of 'people' to work? However, I will persist on with my belief that such thoughts will only be beneficial when the infrastructure for the planning of the game is up.

Hi, have just spent the better part of an hour reading through most of this thread, however please forgive me if I'm reiterating points made: A website needs to be set up with a Wiki and own independent forum. The Wiki should provide the basis for the design document, including both short term and long term goals for the project. Someone, or a group of people need to sit down and actually make a decision with evidence/justification presented to them. One of the biggest problems with open source is that too many people pull the project too many ways, resulting in nothing being done as people squabble over details. An 'inner circle' is needed to make this function. Obviously this can't be done in the very immediate future, we need to attain our immediate and most important goal: How do we approach this? 1. Approach Maxis/EA? Heavy financial burden, and a million to one shot - why would EA support a rival product? 2. Attempt to reverse engineer SC4? Haven't OpenTTD run into some trouble about the legality of doing so? 3. Clean slate and start from a scratch (a personal preference)? Long and tedious and no road to follow to speak. I'd like to see this project go open source (something else that needs to be clarified), however a core is needed, producers so to speak. Having the whole community to formulate ideas is great, yet that core needs to set out in stone 'what is to be done'. A forum as said is also needed - separate ideas, design, programming, graphics etc. etc. Right now, in this thread there are so many views and opinions some may be missed. I'd preferably like to help out on the economics side of things - by the time this rolls out I will have graduated with an Economics BSc, I also have limited programming skills, which will be completely redundant compared to those who program, but may be helpful. However, not to barge in and say 'this is what must happen' - but, the foundations for the planning need to be laid out - without them we will be simply be the People's Front of Judea. I'm by no means an community veteran, but this is my