I have a challenge for you: next V3 game you play, try using your standard of living as your score. The game becomes DRASTICALLY different once you do that. Do you stick to laissez-faire, which is generating stupid numbers of free buildings while leaving everyone but the capitalists in the dirt, or do you rip the scaffolding off and see if your economy has grown enough to support everyone?
Playing this way is less a line-goes-up simulator, and becomes more of a game about timing and plate-balancing.
Wait, this community is for tabletop RPGs as well? Interesting. Was considering writing up a Shadowrun AAR post on !RPG@lemmy.ml (did I do that link right?), might post it here too if people are interested.