Here's an idea guys. One of the greatest tools is money ...so would everyone be willing to pay 40$ for a game that does the things WE want it to do? There is 250,000 registered users on simtropolis alone. That is HUGE buying power. I also like what what rodent1989 said about promotional companies and plug-ins. This is the new generation of things to come, the advertising industry is trying to figure out how to keep the product in front of us, this makes it an extremely large market for us to sell product placement to. Everything in simcity develops so there is HUGE posibilities for product placement from every type of industry from manufacturing, farming, retail, real estate even travel. How many of you have a McDonald's or Crispy Cream in your city, a Best Buy, a Dell manufacturing company. So Let's say we can pre-sell games to maybe 10% of the users here thats not taking in to consideration the users of other sites. I know that is a large amount of people but that is 1,000,000 dollars.... thats real money. and lets say we can sell another million in Promotional product placement. We have developed planes, trains and automobiles that represent almost every type of vehicle manufacurer out there, and we are already promoting all of these companies let make them pay for it, because they will. We build these highly accurate maps of cities and destinations so lets take advantage of that. States and Cities pay huge bucks to promote vacationing and travel. This is simply a start but I don't think it would be hard to find a gaming company that we couldn't hire to produce a game like we want. Sure top notch games cost 10 to 15 million to produce but the majority of that is in research and development not the actual creation of the games. Most of our research and development is already done, we have people on here who have produced great technical programs for designing and tweeking lots and buildings. We have great artists that have spent hours producing buildings and landmarks. Most of it is done. We need a company that can make the simulator. 2,3 or 4 million is a pretty good start to building just a simulator. I know that makes it sound simple but it is not to far off of reality. Product placement could lead us to eventually produce a game that is open source and just as expandable or even more expandable than simcity4 ever was. An open source game that you can plug a product into ... pretty amazing I think. So what do we want to do? Make it happen.... or sit and spin our wheels...?
