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Re:SimCity 4, the greatest citybuilder of all time, was rele... by bruce511 on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @01:57AM (#36040420)
Take that one step further. Start with a virgin earth. With sufficient, but finite, number of players, and a modelled global population, you build cities that effectively compete with each other for population.

In other words an alternate history of population and human development.

A multi-player Sim Earth.

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Re:SimCity 4, the greatest citybuilder of all time, was rele... by jcpham2 on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @03:43AM (#36041190)
This sounds danger close to metaverse speak
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Re:SimCity 4, the greatest citybuilder of all time, was rele... by WJW on Tuesday May 23, 2023 @04:09AM (#36041379)
Isn't that just (multiplayer) Civ 4/5/6 on a Earth-shaped map?
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