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[PrimusRibbus]

hnnngggghhhhh

gameplay right here!!!!!!! 12 minutes as well not bad about to watch it....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QRJ1B4DknOY

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[Urist McScoopbeard]

Krieger is the best doctor.

[MoLAoS]

http://www.quartertothree.com/game-talk/showthread.php?70484-Clockwork-Empires-%28from-Gaslamp-Games%29&p=3544331&viewfull=1#post3544331

This a recursive link. The link contains another link which you should click. Also my evil plot to enslave Gaslamp devs for my own amusement.

[motorbitch]

Probably because the first thing some people remember about tropico is the supposed builders only building the buildings you least required and leaving stuff you need right now (like apartments, or farms) unbuilt until later despite prioritizing.

you never understood the game it seems.

[Intrinsic]

RPS Coverage: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2014/03/20/clockwork-empires-preview/

[lordcooper]

How come John Walker gets all the hugs?

[aristabulus]

I, for one, welcome our new obelisk-headed land squid overlords!  ^__________^

I hope the AI is as good as RPS seems to think.  I am fearful of what that means for the hardware requirements, though.

[Puzzlemaker]

This excites me in so many ways.  I wish I could get motivated to make/finish the games I start...  Makes me jelly.

Clockwork empires is looking awesome and the press have responded really well!  Hopefully that brings in more viewers!

[xaritscin]

I, for one, welcome our new obelisk-headed land squid overlords!  ^__________^

I hope the AI is as good as RPS seems to think.  I am fearful of what that means for the hardware requirements, though.

BUT BUT, THE ECHIDNA WAS FIRST!....

[MoLAoS]

Didn't they say you need a quad core processor to play this? Or am I mixing it up with some other game?

[Citizen Daniel]

We didn't want to set expectations low and then have to change them later.  The game will run best on a quad core machine (or whatever), but we're still not sure how it will do on a dual core machine.  You'll be able to run it, I believe, but it won't be an ideal situation.

[Puzzlemaker]

We didn't want to set expectations low and then have to change them later.  The game will run best on a quad core machine (or whatever), but we're still not sure how it will do on a dual core machine.  You'll be able to run it, I believe, but it won't be an ideal situation.

Hyperthreading!

[Aklyon]

Probably because the first thing some people remember about tropico is the supposed builders only building the buildings you least required and leaving stuff you need right now (like apartments, or farms) unbuilt until later despite prioritizing.

you never understood the game it seems.

Well, I've only played parts of 3's campaign, I probably did miss something.

[Farmerbob]

At the time that was designed, it was a visual suggestion for the stockpile zone.  If we go with this whole "visual representation thing", we really need to stick with it.  They do cost planks to create, but this is something we have to play with through testing to get it right.  We have other versions (brick, metal, and... stone i think), so the player will have some choice about how their stockpiles look eventually.  For now, there is only wood.

Well, it should cost some sort of resources to keep supplies in a safe place.  Planks on the ground could be a placeholder for cabinets / bins / buckets / iceboxes / whatever.

Oh.  We have steam power.  What about ice?  Does the clockwork Empire understand heat transfer well enough to create ice machines?

I ask this because it's always a plus if it is possible for one to literally freeze a game that's figuratively gone to Hell.

[Farmerbob]

“somewhere between Dwarf Fortress and SimCity.”

why did you say that?
from all what i read about CE, it will be much more like tropico then like simcity.
witch is awsome. sc is borring.

as breakdown and failure will be such a big thing in CE:
most (if not all) games i played that had some resemblance to CE, it is very easy to prevent failure in the first place.

exemple: in df  there is this spiral of doom, but after a couple of tries one will have learned that the having enough booze will prevent almost every spiral. by this point, the game becomes rather easy (and borring   )

tropico was much more difficult in this regard, but even in tropico there where enough ways that (almost) always made you win that election (like having a gold mine and being rich as a fuck)


are there plans to prevent always sucessfull iwinnau strategies in CE? i think this is very difficult to acheive, as the happy zone between "boredom by ensured victory", and "boredom due to frustration by losing to factors one can not  influence" is so very thin.

(excample: tropico had this one factor that turned ensured victory completely off, it was called hurricane. yet, i found it a very displeasing feature. losing to divine intervention is not all that much fun to me. i prefer losing to my own mistakes)


anyhow: i think i love you guys <3

I think I can explain in the following sentence why they said Sim City rather than Tropico.

What is Tropico?