Holographic or with one of those reality goggle things ... ! Imagine if The Sims went on one of those. Eghad!
@Rob1992 Are you talking about Sim City 5 with the building upgrades? I didn't get to play that one, it got cancelled by the time I heard of it, coming out of my internet-blackout/ration years. Those were the days ... when it wasn't absolutely necessary and you could do without it, to cut down on expenses, or just because.
As I said up there ^ though, some kind of macro-management, not just of the physical infrastructure but also of the systems, the economy and such. I think that would be cool. Imagine having a blackout or water restrictions. Or times when sims have a limited job market, or school, and times when its prosperous. I remember playing Sims 2 in a new household where they couldn't afford a computer yet, so the newspaper was the only way they could get a job, and those jobs were not all of the jobs every day, so if you wanted a particular career for your sim you had to wait for the day the newspaper had that one, and in the meantime either suffered financially without a job or took the available job.
And so then what if in The Sims, one household might have a political career sim, who gets to the top of that as Mayor or whatever, and a mini-interface comes along for them that has an effect on the Sim City game, next time you go to play that, and/or has some effect on their neighbourhood/world, affecting other households, and can be exacerbated/improved by whatever goes on in the Sim City game. What if some of those actions and decisions affect the supply chain, so then when you go into build/buy mode, some of the catalogue is unavailable, limited stock, or more, or less expensive. Maybe the zoning affects the traffic and a sim needs to allow more or less time to get to work, subsequent air quality affecting health and then a sim with a medical profession has their workload affected ...
Probably better as an XP.