New Simcity Game Concerns

Seeing the news of a new SimCity game seems like generally excellent news.  The items demoed in the video at the link seem like excellent additions.  My real concern with the agent problem comes down to scale.  Like I imagine a lot of Simcity players, I like make big freakin’ honking cities with 1 million+ residents.  Will the agents be able to scale that large without grinding my i7 to a halt or will it be limited to 10K agents or something and you will get truly strange results by grouping agents into 100 people (nobody lives in 24 houses, and 100 people live in one)?  I’m all for software pushing hardware for a change, but I just hope this is handled correctly.