[Bill_B]

The principal value of the game hints for the GDC appears to be to generate a flurry of FRC -based discussion about what could be possible in a future game. I'm only sure you are wrong if you think that any idea(s) posted here will be completely ignored in the creation of some future game. Relation or validity with respect to the upcoming game need only be tangential with some nebulous tie-in to be useful as idea bait for us. So look at all the neat stuff people have proposed. What you might do is look at game hint discussions that preceded games by two or three years to see if any ideas from them were incorporated in some way.