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Really good session today. I went ahead and tried out Cities: Skylines for the first time. I like it! (although not without its flaws, one of which is
loads & loads of loading). I had to make 4 attempts though, since I kept running out of money (you have to connect to a highway, then you have to find a water source for your water pump and sewage pipe, then find an ideal place for a wind power plant since coal pollutes, so most of your budget is spent in utilities and infrastructure). But eventually I got it figured out to where my town is out of the red and now making money. Yes!
And the Steam Workshop community seems to be active as hell in this game, being able to download things from buildings to maps to various game mods. Definitely gotta look into this in the future. But for right now I just want to work on the fundamentals, trying to make a self-sustaining city that covers all the bases, everything from education to infrastructure.
:)>But later on, I decided to go ahead and do a full-blown Pinball stream earlier than normal, just to get it out of the way. Bad call.
NOBODY showed up for it. So next time, I'll probably just record a one-hour session, and then upload it (I wanted to do my session ASAP because I still needed to work on my blog post from my
PREVIOUS stream, which I figured was going to take most of the night, so I wasn't in the mood to be interrupted). And as for the session itself it was all right. I wasn't great but I wasn't terrible either. Zaccaria Pinball has an interesting challenge mode, where you're not playing for score. Instead, you're completing various random achievements, like hitting the pop bumpers 2-3 times, or taking down a certain drop target etc. A neat way to learn a table.
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This morning I went ahead and played some more Cities: Skylines, working on my city a little bit. And it looks like the north is all nice and polluted now with all that industry, and not much I can do about it (you have to have a population of 500 in order to build schools and other education buildings; Polluting industry is built by uneducated people in this game).
Red buildings indicate unhappiness, FYIEXCELLENT Cities: Skylines session today! I managed to get my city from 300ish all the way to 1000. And had a great time doing it, with lots of people coming on and chat flying thick and heavy (and has been stated before, this is one of the big upsides to playing these kinds of games that aren't very action-oriented: I can just kick back and talk to people. Kinda hard to do when I'm playing fighting games/co-op modes/Pinball/etc).
I also found something else kinda fun in the game: Renaming streets and buildings. On a whim I just started naming streets after my regulars, and often anyone else that came on to chat with me. And it also kinda upped the challenge factor, believe it or not. I'd be less likely to bulldoze a street or house if it actually had a name, so I'd have to learn to do it right the first time.
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BIIIIG drawback to this game though: Unlike other Sim City games, you don't have access to all the buildings and features at the start. You have to unlock them by getting your population to a certain level, which is kinda dumb (you need a population of 500 in order to build elementary schools and clinics, as though children and sick people don't exist beforehand. You need 7,500 citizens - I think - to build cemetaries, as though they're all immortal as long as there's less than 7,499 people or something). It also makes city planning a cluster fuck as well, since I can't really place them where they'd be most effective (I
COULD bulldoze the areas beforehand, but see "renaming streets and buildings" above). I can only place them where there's an open space. Sheesh!
Okay, gotta get a nap in, then I have to get ready for work.
<Take care>, peoples. And have yourselves a good night/day.
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