All-out NPC wars from time to time: have you thought about that? One NPC faction doesn't like another, all of a sudden you've got a big war, and players can interact with the NPCs in that war.

Absolutely. That's all just going to be a byproduct of the whole economic simulator and what it's running under the hood. Occasionally, the economics do need to be upset. Some things in economics in a variety of games get out of kilter, and every once in a while it's good to upset the economics of the game. And wars do that.

I think Tony was saying that that's part of what the economic simulator does, not that it's based on economics. The meta AI that Tony and I are talking about comes from the economic simulation, right?