

Academic discussions of this nature happen all the time and I imagine you can keep on happily finding people willing to debate the concept, but you are just derailing your own thread further and further from the point. None of it has anything to do with whether or not it would make the game better or worse. You are the one that started the chain of discussion on "how could this work in the real world." The rest of us discussing it are just playing along. Yes, I argued your made up reasons why the airplane couldn't work with my own made up reasons of why it could (because debating ideas and finding solutions for how they could work is fun). To claim that something shouldn't be in the game because it doesn't work in the real world is to claim that every part of the game must be deleted because none of it works.

It doesn't work based on real world physics. New cities don't look at the currently modern world around them and say I'm going to revert to the stone age and start from scratch with the goal of hopefully one day learning as much as is already known by all the people around me. In the real world every day doesn't see the creation of multiple new civilizations. It cracks me up that you continue to argue whether or not these game pieces make sense or would work in the real world.
