I like the idea of picking where the buses go. I never played societies i never bothered, but it seems to me that that they were trying to make it too easy and the player didn't have enough control. I always wanted more control than sc4 gave me even. thats the point of the game right? I think that even having some sort of sim tower in each building in the city would be fun i could control each tower or maybe a couple. Maybe just make one big tower like an arcology from simcity 2000.