Yes... well, I used to have a pilot's license.

I think the idea of having a game based on reality is compelling right off the bat because everyone has some experience with the subject of the game.

The console games, as they come out with this new generation, will have a temporary advantage in price performance, but there are still many things you can do on a PC, more conveniently than you can do on a console machine.

Players like to know that they've discovered things that even the designers didn't know were in the game.

It used to be that you knew your neighbors and maybe your coworkers - the people in your physical vicinity.

I'm not saying we purposely introduced bugs or anything, but this is kind of a natural result of any complexities of software... that you can't fully test it.

A lot of the interesting issues and dynamics within a city occur over things such as socio-economic issues or ethnic issues. But they require a much more elaborate model of human behavior.