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One of my gals has enough strength to kill the target in one hit, with a HANDLE.  A weapon I'm fond of using for taking captives.  And given I was on a mission to actually capture the target instead of killing them, that was annoying as all heck to restart.

 

Tropico 6 is both a continuation of the classic formula as well as a new twist all its own.  You -can- play on either a single large island or a bunch of smaller ones, using the map generator.  This in itself has changed up the game a bit, because you have to do some real planning this time around.

There's a very real limit to how far your population will move to work, to get food, or to find entertainment.  If you place a mine quite far away from teh rest of your city, you'll have to build infrastructure, housing, and everything else around it as well.  Add in the limitations of actually transporting materials around, and you'll basically have to plan out mini-cities based around the resources and industries you place there.

This is even more pronounced with all the islands you can settle.  It's similar to the ANNO games, except you can connect everything with bridges and whatnot.  It's a delicate balance between population management, resource management, transportation management and finances.  Unlike Tropico 5, where if you are smart you can spam a lot of industry and whatnot, in Tropico 6 you have to be smart about where you place things and how you want the bits and pieces to develop.  After all, you only have so much space to put up additional houses for all the workers, leaving room for beauty (gardens) options, entertainment businesses (which require even MORE population), schools and ect.  Missing out on these can really mess things up as you try to balance the politics too.

That said, the game is missing tools that'd be quite helpful.  Like a traffic spotlight and whatnot.  Lol.  Oh, and modding.  Tropico 5 has some nice mods, and I'm hoping they can get translated over to Tropico 6 sometime here soon too~  Haha.

Anyway, rant end.

Yeah, there aren't any in-depth explanations outside of the tooltips for a lot of feats/abilities/spells.  Or even for the Kingdom management side of things, which is highly annoying.  It's like you have to save your game before doing anything to make sure you don't mess up something.

Also, I'm pretty sure you need Arcane Armor Proficiencies/Mastery in order to cast magic while wearing armor.

I just did a bit of advertisement for Outer Colony on a different forum.  May or may not get any hits from it, but I linked to both the forum here and the Outer Colony webpage, asking specifically for pixel artists interested in making a bit of money for their work.

I still have high hopes for Outer Colony, so it's good to hear that development is going apace.  Hopefully you are able to get your money back from the flakes though.  Stuff like that definitely needs to be put under contract.  Ugh.

Quote from: Viken on February 15, 2018, 10:08:40 am

I enjoyed it, and adore games like this.  Which is why I'm here, because I'm a DF nerd.  Lol.

Sadly, I don't have the money to buy the game.  -.-;  Dealing with cancer in the family has drained us dry in our finances.  Gonna keep an eye on Dwelvers though.  I hope it gets better and better.

As if the disease wasn't horrible enough as it is, the system apparently needs to put financial strain on everyone involved... Best of wishes to you and yours.

Thank you, Kagus.  It's gotten to the point where we have to start choosing rather or not to pay bills or have food to eat.  We just don't bring in enough combined income to make up the difference.  Even going to the local foodbanks doesn't help as much as it should.  Still, we'll do what we can to get over it.

And yes, I apologize for dropping such a sad thing in a totally unrelated forum.  At least I can get my gaming fix by watching Youtube videos.

(Sorry for posting so often but I can finally be useful for once)

Quote from: Viken on February 12, 2018, 01:32:55 pm

I haven't played MineCraft in a long time.  The last time I was enjoying Direwolf20's modpack on the FTB app.  But it seems like that all kind of died.

Can someone suggest an equivallent modern modpack?  I tend to do singleplayer mostly and enjoy both tech and magic stuff.

It hasn't died, really. Most modpacks now seem to be on the Twitch launcher, including DW20's 1.12 pack. There's probably something for you on there. DW20, FTB Revelation (for something similar-but-different, though it has a fucked-up Advanced Rocketry config), Undiscovered if you like quest lines, crazy recipes, and exploring lost cities, The Clay Experience for once you get sick and tired of Tinkers and Draconic being in every single modpack ever.

I just spent over an hour trying to get the twitch app to work right.  Had to migrate my old Mojang account over to curse and kick the minecraft launcher into working right.  I have yet to actually try any of the quest line type mods in MC.  Remember, it's been a few years since I last played.  Kinda sucks that Thaumcraft is still playing catchup though.  I really loved that mod.

Okay, what does progressive mods and 'gating' mean?  I feel like a newb all over again.

It may just be that most players aren't sure of what options are available for them.  Most games these days are in pure 3D, with a fully movable camera angle that can get into everything.  Having pre-selected options in Outer Colony without explanations or the habit to look for them can cause others to just simply miss 'em all together.

I'd suggest a UI box/icon/whatever solely dedicated to camera movements.  Up and Down on the Z-Levels, different type of view focuses, half-wall or whatever to be added.  Maybe paired with pause and time speed indicators.  You guys should know what i'm talking about.  Lol.