The Economist mentions "Liberal Europe", but our problem is certainly not liberalism. Europe suffers from an excess of statism, crushed by post-ww2 welfare policies that are untenable with current demographics, but remain as is because they're considered "social acquisitions".

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You know how in Fallout 3, trains were implemented as a "hat" on an invisible moving character? That's the kind of necessary hack we gamedevs had to do when strained by time, money & talents. Last weekend I implemented a fully featured monorail, completely revamping our existing prototype. It follows splines. Multiple wagons follow each other correctly. Enterable + playable. Crowded. It properly accelerates / slow down using physics, ensuring it stops exactly where I need to train stations. 6 audio layers depending on acceleration / speed. Rail is an extruded 3D shape following the spline. Structures & lights are spawned along the spline at regular interval. I have tunnels. I have sparks when it brakes, rain splashes, when it's outside, etc. I have a cameraman system to follow the monorail going across the city, with best candidate-rating, cooldown, area-specific cameras (inside tunnels), event-specific cameras (first time to sync with birds flying for example), etc. It has visual LODs, but also simulation LODs, keeping a low frequency simplified simulation for trains far from camera. All of this, setup in engine, no external tools, in a few days. Of course it's only possible at this level because we built an insane architecture & powerful procedural tools for years prior to this. It's just wonderful.