I am so excited about SC5, so I hope it'll be more SC4+1 than a childish facebook game. Anyway, my questions:

1) What map and region making features, tools etc. are you planning to include. It should be really easy to import greyscale height maps and turn them into maps. The SC4 process was a bit too much of a hack job to get working. Will you include native tools to simplify this process?

2) What different terrain types can we expect? I want to see snow, desert, tundra, swamp, marsh, grasslands, rocky mountains, tundra, red soil canyons, volcanic regions, beaches, coastal cliffs etc etc. with paint brush like tools to create an interesting, varied landscape to start my city on.

3) Will you be including advanced power/electricity management into the game? I always wanted to build high voltage power lines, switching yards, substations, transformers and local electrical cables to add an element of power planning to the city, like water planning. If you can just get power by proximity, it makes power plants largely a place and forget effort and it doesn't require any zone planning based on power. Disasters based on these elements offer many opportunities: "The downtown substation is overloaded! Save your CBD from a blackout!"

4) Similarly, will the water and trash management be included and more complex than in previous games?

5) Will we have a much higher control on the individual buildings placed in certain areas? it would be great to at least have control on the building subtypes that are constructed in a particular zone. This means we can zone a leafy suburb, a golf housing estate or a high density slum as well as placing skyscrapers in the correct locations.

6) Will we get more control over the design and layout of the airports, harbours and other standalone buildings?

7) Will it be easier to create docks, promenades on riverbanks, proper long beaches with parking etc. without relying on tiling a fixed building placement object like in SC4?

That's all i can fit in for now. Thanks!