Spec Ops: The Line is my nomination for most overrated game of all time.

This is just Elysium on the ground. If we get more South African mercs with near-future tech, I guess it'd be cool.

... also has the bonus, if you're rich, of keeping the peasants 100+km away from you.

Do you think that fancy end-to-end, zero-carbon transit system requires biometric ID to function?

One that'll go all social credit on your arse if you start getting uppity?

"I'm sorry, valued customer, you've expressed a desire for a meaningful say in the The Line is run. You now need to walk to your cleaning job 20km away, and if you're not back in your pod by sundown you'll get prosecuted for vagrancy. Have a nice day!"

No way that turns out bad.

No way at all.

This would be sorta cool, if I'd never seen a single bit of sci-fi, and/or didn't know how fucking terrible people can be. If people were perfect, they could make almost any system work. If they're not, any system with a big point of failure, or point for potential tyrannical control or massive inequality is a system that's going to fucking suck. This looks like slavery, starvation, and destitution waiting to happen. I mean, if it weren't complete fiction to begin with, of course.

Decentralization will almost always beat centralization.

Also, end-to-end in twenty minutes? So you're packing the world's third fastest trains into the most densely populated...well, anything, in human history, or something? You'd have to do a bunch of them, too, if you expect anything but massive waiting lines to even start a journey.

No, if this were real, you'd either have people confined to their own "unique communities," likely suffering greatly, or you'd have the occasional and probably extremely deadly high speed train/whatever derailment.

This whole thing is absolutely fucking retarded.

Journey to The Line