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Civ III is still my go-to activity for long flights with no internet - I've yet to find a better way to instantly time-travel forward 12 hours. I haven't tried
by tfehring 8mo ago
Civ III is still my go-to activity for long flights with no internet - I've yet to find a better way to instantly time-travel forward 12 hours.
I haven't tried OpenCiv3, but I'm glad it exists - getting vanilla Civ III running on MacOS is a hassle and still has issues with e.g. audio and cutscenes. I also hope it leads to a way to improve worker automation. Managing your workers well is important, doing it manually is tedious, and the built-in Automate feature is really bad.
- colechristensen 8mo agoThe key here is seeing this mentioned and not time traveling forward until 6 AM Saturday morning.
- mikeaskew4 8mo agoThere goes my weekend…
- kilroy123 8mo agoHow did I not ever think to do this? Such a good idea.
- b3ing 8mo agoI like Civilization games but they make 4hrs feel like 30min, so I can’t play them. Otherwise it would be the year 2060 already
- mr_toad 8mo agoI feel like my last words could be ‘just one more turn’.
- huevosabio 8mo agoYes, exactly I had to stop myself starting the game after 7 else I don't sleep
- philihp 8mo agoCan we settle for Factorio and 2028?
- butvacuum 8mo agowhere do people derive replay value in factorio? I found It got entirely formulaic after my first run, and with SPM as the common measuring stick- its just "who sank the most time into a map." I understand many people self sooth using it, and thats fine. Doesn't make it a good game for replay. -- Somebody with more hours in ONI than Dosh has in Factorio
- AngryData 8mo agoFor me its optimization and scale. Make resources farther, recipes 8x or whatever scale, try and make a factory that can eat and spit out insane amounts of materials. Try to keep up with the expanding need for raw ore and power against the increasingly powerful biter raids. Also there are some achievements for like not using lasers or using mostly solar, or go all out with the technically optional nuclear power plants.
- SilverElfin 8mo ago> I've yet to find a better way to instantly time-travel forward 12 hours I find it very hard to use a computer in the cramped tables of the plane. And the person in front always ends up aggressively reclining only when I have a laptop out. Plus I feel bad that maybe my bright light is disturbing the people sleeping next to me.
- hdgvhicv 8mo agoIt amazes me that high paid SV techies won’t pay more to fly in premium or business
- SilverElfin 8mo agoIt’s incredibly expensive on international flights, right? A 12 hour flight sounds like something that would cost thousands for business class.
- hdgvhicv 8mo agoI consider SV property incredibly expensive but people pay it.
- stevage 8mo agoI remember being a high paid techie getting 19 hours of paid work done between Melbourne and New York, on a laptop in economy (and a long layover in LAX due to a storm). It was fricking glorious, most productive day of my life.
- Der_Einzige 8mo agoThe total war games are like civilization but with actually good combat. Especially if you get mods like DEI for Rome 2, RTR for Rome 1 remastered, etc. It's regrettable that we let the grimdark warhammer crowd define the series. The paradox grand strategy games are like civilization but with real agency and at times straight up historical accuracy. Meanwhile I have to deal with Ghandi actually nuking everyone (the bug is ACTUALLY REAL IN CIV 5, the best modern civ game!). Not sure why Indians aren't mad as hell at the whole series.
- wewtyflakes 8mo agoI have found paradox games to have uneven game mechanics; some run miles wide, some of them run deep, and many others are just very superficial, and there is no reliable indication which will be which when you are playing fresh.
- chongli 8mo agoI've put a lot of time into the Total War series. My favourite is probably Shogun 2. I will say that the combat is quite fun at first but once you learn ranged combat, artillery, and the "sweet spot" it falls apart. Gets to the point where only defensive battles are any fun at all. Attacking just means you sweet spot your way to a flawless victory. This exploit seems to be present in every TW game I've played, including Rome 2. It's totally ruined the series for me.
- ddp26 8mo agoHow do you manage the laptop + mouse?
- jwilliams 8mo agoIt used to be Factorio for me (I live in Australia, so long flights happen a lot). The problem with Factorio the flight isn't long enough! and the game bleeds into 100+ hours post-flight.
- mnw21cam 8mo agoDwarf Fortress. That's really how to suddenly say "Oh, how did it get to 4am already?"
- bpye 8mo agoI lost the best part of a week of my Christmas break to it when the Steam version was released a couple years back...
- lossyalgo 8mo agoDF gets all the news (rightfully so, it's an epic game that I've dumped a ton of hours into) but if you haven't already, consider checking out Songs of Syx. It's like DF but multiplied by 100. You can have tens of thousands of citizens, doing most of the things they do in Dwarf Fortress, and a lot more, including waging huge wars against the neighbors. The limits of DF kinda made me sad, actually, that you are limited to so few Dwarves (and don't say it's because you want to know the story of all of them, because after 30 or so you lose track of who is who anyways, so might as well up the limit from 100 to 50K, or more? ;) Songs of Syx has also routinely been getting massive updates since 2020 and I have a feeling the code is a bit cleaner so the solo dev can add features faster (unlike DF's code base which is, according to one of the new devs a nightmare to work with). It's a game that is never talked about but deserves a whole lot more love from gamers. I don't mean to cast shade on DF, I really do love it, and am happy for its existence, I just think that DF fans should also look into Songs of Syx. The defining difference for me are the generated stories in DF, which often are a lot of random trash but still give a feeling of a deeper meaning.
- AngryData 8mo agoAs a long time DF veteran who has installed but never played Songs of Syx, you convinced me to boot it up.
- felixthehat 8mo agoYeah civ VI on my iPad with an apple pencil kills flights