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[Frumple]

Super easy to miss tip with that one: Defensive summoning builds (the straw dummy stuff, to start) collects items dropped by enemies they kill and delivers it directly into your coffers. The 100% easiest way to get off the ground is to build up to the limit of the earliest one and just let them cook indefinitely. This will net you piles of money, basic resources, and a smattering of other junk, let you get past the initial money/loot crunch and break into the other stuff going on with the game. The restricted building area for defensive buildings means there's a limit on how much it can help, but it still helps a lot.

[Great Order]

The thread and game are old at this point, so I feel like resurrecting them is a bit pointless.

Been replaying Skyrim (Special Edition, since I got that free) on survival mode and the inability to fast travel excluding carriages and boats is making me realise how much unmarked stuff there is in the world. It's actually surprising me, the world's a lot fuller than I'd realised.

Also every time I play I'm reminded of someone in the original thread being amazed that you could shoot down the hawks and immediately think of RDR2 where you can shoot anything that's living, right down to the songbirds. Games came a long way in less than a decade.

[Ulfarr]

I've been playing skyrim, without any markers in the compass (mod) and without using fast travel (choice) for some years now. The world is beautiful to explore.

If you would like a suggestion, you can try to really walk everywhere while you travel and only use jogging/running while in combat. I found that I liked how distinct every aspect of the game felt that way. On top of that, every inn is about one or two days' worth* of walk from each other so it can add some extra roleplay/worldbuilding if you are into that.

*if you only travel while there is daylight and make camp at night

[McTraveller]

I don't think I ever fast-traveled when I played Skyrim, but I did sprint a bit (and gallop when on a horse).  I agree that it's amazing how much there is to see in that game world.  All the more impressive considering its age.

There is someone out there on the internet who mapped out every Sykrim river on foot as well, looking for the sources of every river.

[quinnr]

Elona, a rather eccentric roguelike which had a thread here a while back, is getting a successor called Elin next month. There's a "beta" for Kickstarter supporters which I missed but which is getting good reviews by Elona players. The graphics are pretty, if the original was up your alley it might be worth taking a look next month.

[Frumple]

Huh. Anyone with Dawn of War 1 or 2 on steam might want to check on it. Seems like they auto-updated them both to the anniversary editions they've released recently, which... includes all the DLC. So if you didn't have the DLC for those two, you apparently do now.

[n9103]

I've got the GotY version, which included 3 DLCs. Doesn't look any different in the list.

[Ulfarr]

I finished the Tropico 4 campaign ( not the "modern times" ones).

I still have no idea how to make tourism work as a money maker. Even in the "tourism themed" missions I had to rely on agriculture/industry.

On a different note, I did notice a certain behavior, not sure if it's some game mechanic or not. If you go too much into debt ( more than 8000 - 10000) some people (builders, factory workers) seem to stop working which can result in "death spirals".

[Robsoie]

I still have no idea how to make tourism work as a money maker. Even in the "tourism themed" missions I had to rely on agriculture/industry.

There's this guide that should help to make tourism a money maker :
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=770928849

seems more involved with good planification of where to put attractions, the road system, etc.. than the classic agro-industry to make money

[Ulfarr]

Step 1: make 30k/year from one hotel and a brothel. 

Real step 1: Realize you are bad at the game
Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha that dude outperformed my best tourist island with just two buildings 

Thanks Robsoie, I'll give it a read 

[Yoink]

Anyone played Aska? It basically just looks like Valheim except my computer can't run it, lol.

Been trying to find something to scratch my Valheim itch for ages now, since I can never get the friend I was playing it with the commit to a sesh. I friggin' love that game.

Elona, a rather eccentric roguelike which had a thread here a while back, is getting a successor called Elin next month. There's a "beta" for Kickstarter supporters which I missed but which is getting good reviews by Elona players. The graphics are pretty, if the original was up your alley it might be worth taking a look next month.

Oh God, I remember that...

[Mephisto]

Glad yall are talking about real Elona 2 rather than the IP theft that is the Android game.

I've been bingeing Nightingale for a bit, almost completed the main story. Loving the changes they made in Realms Rebuilt. Much more fine tuned experience, I think.

[Ulfarr]

I've been dragging my feet with Tropico 4's Modern Times campaign.

I'm at the 7th mission (out of 12 iirc) and so far I only enjoyed the one where the island is constantly bombarded by volcanoes and earthquakes.  Every other missions felt like the devs were constantly throwing random bullshit at me or rather they chose each new  bullshit goal based on what contradicted the previous ones the most. It's just not fun

[Akura]

OneShot got a re-port meant for consoles. According to the comments in the reviews, they took to Switch port and ported it back to PC mainly for the Steam Deck.


I bought this game years ago, but never played it. There's something about a game that doesn't let you play through it more than once that tweaks me the wrong way, both from the perspective of enjoying the game, and from a security perspective. Which does suck a little, since I have wanted to play it, it's just that its main premise is what is putting me off from doing so.



Undertale, which has a similar premise, at least you can delete the save folder(and turn off cloud saving), though I'm not 100% sure that does in fact erase the consequences of a Genocide run(I was never able to beat Sans).

[Egan_BW]

I think that Oneshot, in the steam version at least, does about at much to stop you from replaying as Undertale does, which is to say it asks nicely. I can't be sure though, since I've never tried. Don't think it'll be anything more invasive than needing to delete a file in appdata though, steam wouldn't allow it.