You know, people have been complaining about various deficiencies in this game, and have been asking mods to innovate it.  Case in point, even up fam sizes.  It is ludicrous for one fam to have 10 players when they start out and another fam have only 2 or 3.  Innovating the game to remedy this situation is as simple as deleting the delete function, so as to stop people from randoming, deleting, randoming, deleting, which is the reason why fam sizes get so out of whack.

But is anyone going to innovate IC to solve this problem?

Nope.

Why?  Because of copyright laws providing for an uncompetitive, un-innovative business environment. 

The reason they hardly ever innovate or improve this website is the same reason our civilization hardly ever really innovates or improves itself.  Sure, there are new gizmos and gadgets used in civilization, but never a significant innovation of the system of civilization itself, never any truly better way of living.

Imagine if there were no copyright laws preventing any one of us from ripping the IC code and innovating it as necessary to make IC a good, popular, money-making game.  There could be a thousand versions of IC out there to choose from, and, of course, the best one would be the biggest money-maker.

If there were no copyright laws preventing anyone from ripping IC code, innovating it and launching their own better version of it, "Stephan" if he even really exists, would have had this website innovated properly a long time ago.  In other words, without copyright laws, there'd be COMPETITIVE forces at work which would spur innovation.

As innovating the way humans live in the world becomes increasingly necessary to the future survival of our species; when it is becomes clear that NOW is the time to innovate our civilization or face its destruction; will we still obey copyright laws, even at the expense of our destruction?

Let's be clear: the larger the corporation, the more powerful they are to manipulate governments; the larger the corporation, more disincentive there is for that corporation to innovate: why, therefore, wouldn't a large corporation manipulate governments into creating economic disincentives for innovation?

Think about it.

They use these laws to propagate a uncompetitive, un-innovative marketplace where they can dump their shoddy, cheap, boring products and services   without ever having to REALLY innovate anything at all.  Corporations, if left to their own devices, would do such until the planet's resources were used up completely.

Copyright laws prevent the sort of competitive environment in which a free market economy can thrive, and, over the long term, they prevent the innovation necessary for human civilization to survive. 

One day, perhaps soon, or perhaps even already, it will be clear that our civilization needs to experience transformative innovation so as to avert its collapse. 

I wonder, which corporation will hold the patent to our survival?