I'm sure I will get flamed with my comments, but I'll take the chance.

1st, I have to get this out of the way: I waited so long for Spore, and now that it has been here, I'm not impressed with the game play. The Creative aspects, YES!! I love the new technology, but the game becomes so repetitive and the other Galactic Denizens annoying and whiny. In Galactic Adventures, Point & Click was the best you could come up with for challenges?

Anyway, I have reverted to SimCity 4 & The Sims 3. I am marveling at how the technologies each of these franchises have influenced each other as they have evolved and bore the Greatest Artistic wholly Player created game Spore. That said, I hope to inspire the Maxis Team to revisit the game that started it all....no, not Sim Tower, but SimCity!

Here's where I get flamed, if I haven't already. Maxis, have you seen CitiesXL? They are taking YOUR franchise to the next level! They have larger and more graphically complex terrains. In fact, they have created Sim Planets. But YOU, with Spore technology, could be allowing players to create buildings they could play inside and share, where Sims could visit and go interplanetary like Spore. I suggest creating Regions in the City: Parks, Theater Districts, shopping malls & mega malls, Carnivals, Uptowns and Downtowns, suburbs and Deciding where buildings will grow tall, and what kinds of Industries there will be. There will be resources traded between cities by geography or interplanetary. Where warfare can take place or diplomacy where cities and worlds can compete for resources. I could ship my waste to the moon and risk attack from martians. My Cities could be built under the sea or under the ground after a nuclear strike. I could create buildings and dwellings from different time periods or I could make something futuristic. I could create cities where the citizens live at one with nature, harness the sun and grow gardens atop buildings. Or, connect buildings with walkways between them (like Minneapolis) and my railways and pedestrian trams could be built OVER farms or industrial zones and trough buildings (if I wish).

In sum, I see HUGE excitement for what could be the best SimCity EVER!

As for where Spore should go? I just love creating things and wish I could play my creature, with weapons I built, like other adventure games.

How would you get flamed for this? I think thats a great idea But im going to need a good computer to play civ stage