SIM Canberra Challenge - need your help

i’m more interested to see what’d happen if zombies attacked!! that’d be cool. I’d pay for that.

Its a pity Jon Stanhope’s more interested in playing Populous than Sim City.

Hmmmm, maybe you could get a psychologist or someone with a town planning or disaster management qualification to comment on their performance as well? While I agree with some that this is a waste of time in terms of what their hands-on day to day roles would be if elected, it is always interesting to see what kind of decisions someone makes in a pressure situation or in response to a crisis. It might actually tell us a lot about what they are really like.

fnaah said :

sexynotsmart, any politician who can actually do well in a game like SimCity probably deserves your vote – the ability to effectively manage competing demands in order to achieve outcomes such as prosperity and efficiency (albeit simulated and simplified) is a quality we rarely see in politicians today.

Exactly Fnnah, that was our thoughts too.

Skidbladnir said :

But, I still like the email interviews also. (besides, its really easy to work out who has pulled their answers from the back of the party fridge magnet, or gotten an underling to do it)

And I want to see what the Mulcahy response is.

We will still be doing the email interviews amongst a few other things.

S4anta said :

Sure beats piffing out a couple questions on an email that may be mangled by an advisor or party machine.

But, I still like the email interviews also. (besides, its really easy to work out who has pulled their answers from the back of the party fridge magnet, or gotten an underling to do it)

And I want to see what the Mulcahy response is.

sexynotsmart, any politician who can actually do well in a game like SimCity probably deserves your vote – the ability to effectively manage competing demands in order to achieve outcomes such as prosperity and efficiency (albeit simulated and simplified) is a quality we rarely see in politicians today.

Perhaps doing well doesn’t mean much, but I think someone doing spectacularly poorly would be interesting to see.

I reckon its an innovative and interesting way to engage the pollies in a discussion in regards to their policies, views and general ambitions and goals if they get the nod from the electorate.

Sure beats piffing out a couple questions on an email that may be mangled by an advisor or party machine.

lol@Jazz. Exactly how pissed were you when this seemed like a good idea?

How well a candidate does on SIMcity has as much bearing on my vote as their performance on Guitar Hero, Dance Dance Revolution or SingStar. And IMHO a contest on those three titles would be far more entertaining.

didn’t they do this for the fires, already (we all learned from that one, didn’t we?)

welcome to politics woody.

Do MLAs actually do any of this sort of thing, or is it all up to public servants? Not snarking – I’m just not sure how it works in the ACT and its psuedo- local council arrangement.

Frankly, I’d be terrified if members of the legislature were telling technical experts (eg traffic planners, engineers, emergency services officers) how they should do their jobs, especially in a crisis.