Drowning simmies to get their property. Is this 'Sims the Uday Hussein Edition?' The basics are probably there. We have CAD programs, terrain generation programs, Poser, jillions of models already created. It would all need to be radically simplified though with prefab building parts and an easy way to combine them, perhaps something like the old Canoma application that could generate a 3D model of a building from photographs. Maybe the ability to choose an architectural style and have it generate one or several different buildings in that style, who knows. The same thing with the figures. You don't need all the dozens of dials Poser figures have, but enough in combination to create a lot of unique people. You'd probably need some kind of dynamic object technology that could switch from simple texture mapped objects for distance viewing and add all the 3D detail if you say walked into a building. And, of course, everything has to be "intelligent." After all, why waste cpu cycles on collision detection to keep characters from walking through walls if they know not to walk into them to begin with. Well, maybe the pieces are there but I'm not sure anyone but Microsoft could afford to create it and God knows how much they'd have to sell it for or how many people would buy it. You'd probably need a whole lot more than 10 million units just to break even.

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