egosoft.com

@ Morkonan:

Finally got 910 with skinny red lady, tried to get the game back up after 11pm and they'd cut the link. Darn it. 10 to 1 it will show up in the Google Play Store with in game purchases and the ubiquitous ads. Fun while it lasted though. .

Loaded up my physics programs a minute ago and plan on finding some classic plaster gnomes to gauge mass and flight dynamics.
Catapult designs I have from the old pumpkin toss fad. Watch out neighbors!

Hank001 wrote:@ Morkonan:

Finally got 910 with skinny red lady, tried to get the game back up after 11pm and they'd cut the link. Darn it. 10 to 1 it will show up in the Google Play Store with in game purchases and the ubiquitous ads. Fun while it lasted though. .

For future reference, you can still access all old Doodles, here: https://www.google.com/doodles

Enjoy hurling gnomes!

When flash games were a big thing, I used to enjoy playing a game with a trebuchet and castles, where you'd knock down the walls of different castles and advance across the map. The "Angry Birds" game concept was all over the place in flash games before it became a hit on mobile.

@ Morkonan

Thanks! It's a trove for mobile users!

Hank001 wrote:@ Morkonan

Thanks! It's a trove for mobile users!

And, all the games are great for chronic procrastinators, too!

Morkonan noted:

And, all the games are great for chronic procrastinators, too!

Yeah Doc hold on that bone marrow transplant for a second...

I have a 70% discount steam coupon for GalCiv 3 that I have no use for. Valid until 15th June 2018

MFG

Ketraar

PS: Got it for owning GalCiv 2

Ketraar wrote:...PS: Got it for owning GalCiv 2

I had GalCiv II, but the box version. I think I may have bought it through Stardock's old front-end platform, too. Now that's Gamestop, I think. (Dunno... They suck, so I don't use them, anyway.) Never had it through Steam. (I wouldn't want it, anyway.)

It looks like steams summer sale starts today.

burger1 wrote:It looks like steams summer sale starts today.

No sign of anything about that on the actual Steam store page yet?

pjknibbs wrote:

burger1 wrote:It looks like steams summer sale starts today.

No sign of anything about that on the actual Steam store page yet?

https://www.pcgamer.com/steam-summer-sa ... -tomorrow/

It must be on now since the store page is inaccessible atm.

MFG

Ketraar

Gonna be the first sale I'm looking forward to after a while. Finally have something I want to buy instead of just impulse like usual.

Edit: it's up.

Mightysword wrote:Gonna be the first sale I'm looking forward to after a while. Finally have something I want to buy instead of just impulse like usual.

Edit: it's up.

What are you gonna get?!

It may be worth starting a Steam Summer Sale thread.

(Once again, Rimworld is not on sale... :/ I don't really care about "sale's prices" but, by now, it's just the principle of the thing.)

PS - If anyone has any good "building sim" recommendations, I'm all eyes. I have several, like SimCity IV, Gnomoria, Banished, Prison Architect, Roller Coaster Tycoon et al, the Anno stuff, etc.. I'm still looking for the perfect, GUI version of a Dwarf Fortress game. Gnomoria without the bugs would be ideal. Sadly... bugs. :/

Been enjoying the heck out of Prison Architect, lately, so will probably finally break down and get Rimworld, even if it isn't on sale.

Morkonan wrote:PS - If anyone has any good "building sim" recommendations, I'm all eyes. I have several, like SimCity IV, Gnomoria, Banished, Prison Architect, Roller Coaster Tycoon et al, the Anno stuff, etc.. I'm still looking for the perfect, GUI version of a Dwarf Fortress game. Gnomoria without the bugs would be ideal. Sadly... bugs. :/

Been enjoying the heck out of Prison Architect, lately, so will probably finally break down and get Rimworld, even if it isn't on sale.

You should have gotten RimWorld yesterday! This game is amazing but the prize you pay is not the money, it is the many hours of your life getting consumed. Like in the dark ages also known as Minecraft.

Tamina wrote:...You should have gotten RimWorld yesterday! This game is amazing but the prize you pay is not the money, it is the many hours of your life getting consumed. Like in the dark ages also known as Minecraft.

This, I know... I am addicted to watching Aavak's Rimworld vids. I've been watching this game forever, now it's just the matter of committing myself. It's like wanting to find out what is at the bottom of a cliff, "the hard way."

I, too, was a Mincraft addict before the "sale" to They Who Must Not Be Named. I haven't updated my copy since then, but haven't played it in a long time. Spent many hours playing that "Don't Fall in the Lava" game.

Morkonan wrote: What are you gonna get?!

Just dropped 50$ on Legend of Heroes: Trail of Cold Steel I&II.

PS - If anyone has any good "building sim" recommendations, I'm all eyes. I have several, like SimCity IV, Gnomoria, Banished, Prison Architect, Roller Coaster Tycoon et al, the Anno stuff, etc.. I'm still looking for the perfect, GUI version of a Dwarf Fortress game. Gnomoria without the bugs would be ideal. Sadly... bugs. :/

Notice you have Roller Coaster Tycoon - aka the fail imposter - but not Planet Coaster - aka the true successor. So there is that. Gonna assume you Cities:Skylines is part of your "...etc..." . Ofworld Trading Company if you want a quick but intense building/managing Sims. Beyond that not much really. There is Planetbase, which is something like a Banished lite in space, except a bit shallow but for the price, it's worth at least some entertainment.

Mightysword wrote:...Notice you have Roller Coaster Tycoon - aka the fail imposter - but not Planet Coaster - aka the true successor. So there is that. Gonna assume you Cities:Skylines is part of your "...etc..." . Ofworld Trading Company if you want a quick but intense building/managing Sims. Beyond that not much really. There is Planetbase, which is something like a Banished lite in space, except a bit shallow but for the price, it's worth at least some entertainment.

Don't have a rig that can run Planet Coaster to my satisfaction, yet. (My tabletop PC rig is basically dead. I'll rebuild it once I get my basement repair/renovation done.) I have RC III-Platinum, which is arguably the best roller-coaster sim, ever, before Planet Coaster. (Some would say it's still better, though doesn't look as good.) Skylines looks good, but might not be deep enough for me, though I know some posters here really like it. Offworld Trading does hold some interests, though. I just need to look into it a bit deeper. Planetbase has always been appealing, but there were some bugs awhile back when I looked at it and its depth is a bit questionable. Still, probably a decent game on sale. (Some of the bugs that it had, not sure if it still has them, were just plain stupid to find in that sort of game, casting some doubt on the dev's competence, IMO.)

Morkonan wrote: Skylines looks good, but might not be deep enough for me, though I know some posters here really like it. Offworld Trading does hold some interests, though.

You should really try Skylines. It has enough meat on it beyond the base game now. Yes, depth wise it's no Simcity 4, but at the same time, I feel it's the kind of game that how much depth and challenge you can perceive will mostly depend on how far you want to push. Sure, create a successfully and well running city in Skylines is easier than in Simcity4 but only if that's your farthest goal. Create a well looking, interesting, or come up with a novelty layout ... and keep thing functional on top of that? Yeah, not exactly easy. And the thing is, the game has the infrastructure to let your imaginations and creativeness go wild. Samething with Planet Coaster, it doesn't have the same sim depth as RC3, but the creative toolbox make the sky is the limit ... which is kinda why I couldn't quite get into it, I'm not good at creativeness.

Also Skylines has a very big modding community, so it can go the The Elder Scroll way really fast if you don't hold yourself back.

I've been dragging my feet on both of those titles for so long that I'll probably go ahead and get them if the discount is incentive enough. We'll see...

My finger is hovering over the "Purchase" button for Rimworld, right now... It's quivering. I'm getting muscle spams, even though it's not on sale. /shivers

I won't likely be able to actually play PCoaster or CSkylines for a little while, yet, until I get a decent rig. Still in the planning stages on building that box.

Morkonan wrote: My finger is hovering over the "Purchase" button for Rimworld, right now... It's quivering. I'm getting muscle spams, even though it's not on sale. /shivers

Do it! Something something principle something something.