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Re:The Real Mayors of 'SimCity' by martindale on Saturday May 09, 2015 @12:07AM (#9515454)
This is absolutely correct, but the underlying assumption is that the player can play the game perfectly.

This just isn't possible in a world of infinite variability. Human-controlled centralized management cannot outperform a decentralized, non-planned, ad-hoc market in these cases.

Re:The Real Mayors of 'SimCity' by XorNot on Saturday May 09, 2015 @03:43AM (#9515813)
Except in civic planning this is patently false. We don't zone cities on a freemarket model in the first place.