Congrats -- well deserved! Please don't change a thing; love the service.

Fascinating post and really good for stretching the brain around these topics. I think that the ecology idea was one that started with the Sims and continues with MMOG's like Worlds of Warcraft and even Grand Theft Auto. The problem is that there is no Hand of God that helps prod and poke the ecology along. Until a game maker commits to having a group of people act as God within the ecology we won't see huge advancements in evolutionary game play. On the other hand, by the time this happens, AI will be so well developed that we will all be working for benevolent robot masters and be part of a New Ecology. :-)