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Originally Posted by Tseng
First off, i really hope that the economy is (finally) colapsing. Many may ask themselves now: Why? A modern economy can't grow indefinitly, so in order for the economy to stay at a healty level (or grow) it's necessary that it collapes completly (or almost completly). That's how it worked in real. Every few decades or century, a countries economy went so bad that it goes so far that at one point the people barely earn enough to survive.
Basicly every strong economy we have nowadays (or in the past 15 years) was in countries who had their economy completly destroyed (through riots, civil wars or even from world war). When an economy is completly destroyed, it's usually built up with newest technologies and thus after a decade or two of built up brings it to one of the worlds leading ones. So was germany, japan, usa and many other countries (which already passed their peaks and grow smaller). So i don't think a collapse of EU's economy would be a bad thing. At it's lowest point, basicly everything should be devauled and the economy cylce can begin again :P
Second point: I really don't know what's the matter with the lag issue. I have no lag at all and i'm (for our present time) on a quite low connection (2MBit downstream is considerer low imho, when 6-16 Mbits became so common that most in bigger cities have it). And if i enter a large shop with many items it takes no 2 sec until all of them are displayed. Or someone else here using ISDN with EU? :P
Only other thing could be old/slow hardware, but this is actually not really a lag, but just bad performance (sometimes also called hardware lag). Lag as stand-alone term is always refering to the delay in a (network)connection aka Latency. |
It is hypothetically possible that a country's economy could never collapse. This one is not. Could it correct itself? Sure. For example, let's say that instead of having big swings, the economy was managed (or growing with few enough distortions wrought by society) that it only required mild corrections. In that way, it could dip to, say, .25% growth and never actually collapse, but instead slow down enough so that the businesses must correct their inefficient practices and such. It's presently a near impossibility that such a thing could happen as an absolute no-recession economy, but it IS possible.
Go to PA during peak hours. I've run the game on two different, rather slick machines, and it still OCCASSIONALLY can have issues. I merely pointed out, though, that if people are experiencing lag, that's an issue that could impact the performance of business, however I guess if it's hardware lag it's less
MA (the "government's") fault, and more the user (and his "car")'s fault.