OT: Will anyone ever create a game...

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I have an MMORPG addict co-worker who spends hours just forging things and mining for resources and so on in Horizons. Apparently it has major non-combat elements, including building cities, digging massive tunnels or building huge bridges, etc.

But ya, there are many non-combat strategy games and RPG's. The whole Sim series (Earth, Ant, etc). The Wolf and Lion games (Win 3.1 era, IIRC) were interesting. The whole Caesar/Pharoah/Zeus series. The recent space station community sim (forget name). Tropico. The Theme Park games. Spiderweb Software have a neat RPG (Geneforge?) about making crossbreeds.

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