What Videogames are you playing? ΙΔ - Meet your doom

[aimeeandbeatles]

My current Sims 2 neighbourhood, Oakbrook, is made up of 22 districts (the main neighbourhood + the downtowns/shopping districts), has four universities. The population is 612 playable Sims spread out over 212 households. Forty of those Sims were in-game births, and there are 58 playable pets.

It's survived almost four years without corrupting yet. As long as I'm careful it should keep going for a while yet.

Since I have my spreadsheet open (yes, I use a spreadsheet) I can provide some more stats. Note that I'm rounding up/down so the percentages may not add perfectly.

Age Breakdown
Infant: 37 (6.04%)
Toddler: 31 (5.06%)
Child: 71 (11.6%)
Teenager: 70 (11.43%)
Young Adult (uni student): 83 (13.56%)
Adult: 272 (44.44%)
Elder: 47 (22.16%)
Robot: 1 (0.16%)

Gender Breakdown
Male: 300 (49.1%)
Female: 312 (50.9%)

Gender Preference
Straight: 349 (57.02%)
Gay: 33 (5.39%)
Bisexual: 85 (13.88%)
Asexual: 6 (0.9%)
N/A: 139 (22.71)

Primary Aspiration
Grow Up: 138 (22.54)
Family: 109 (17.81%)
Fortune: 88 (14.37%)
Knowledge: 106 (17.32%)
Popularity: 100 (16.33%)
Pleasure: 7 (1.14%)
Grilled Cheese: 1 (0.16%)

My spreadsheet actually got so unwieldy that I'm trying to make it into a proper database but I'm a little rusty when it comes to MS Access

 

[Broken_Erika]

How many fires?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Enough of them.

I have an increased fire spread mod.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

Why are you sticking your face into a prickly pear to "smell" it?

 

[Zardnaar]

Anyone recommend The Outer World's?

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

How many fires?

Enough of them.

I have an increased fire spread mod.

And now another.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

@aimeeandbeatles and @Sommerswerd
You definitely do not want to leave the browser open and only look at it occassionally. Your guys will harvest until an event happens and since events are invevitably bad, you end up losing huts and villagers far faster than they can harvest resources. This is especially true if you aren't actively harvesting wood which provides the bulk of your stores at least until you're pumping out like 20 a second from your villagers or something crazy high in the end game.

I just let it run for an hour, only checking it every 5 or 10 minutes and lost a ton of huts with nothing to show for it.

 

[Arakhor]

Anyone recommend The Outer World's?

Yes. Do you have a more specific question?

@aimeeandbeatles and @Sommerswerd
You definitely do not want to leave the browser open and only look at it occassionally. Your guys will harvest until an event happens and since events are invevitably bad, you end up losing huts and villagers far faster than they can harvest resources. This is especially true if you aren't actively harvesting wood which provides the bulk of your stores at least until you're pumping out like 20 a second from your villagers or something crazy high in the end game.

I just let it run for an hour, only checking it every 5 or 10 minutes and lost a ton of huts with nothing to show for it.

Well, its basic functionality is as an idle game, so have it open in a tab whilst you're browsing the net, so that you can see if you have an event pending. Yes, you will periodically lose stuff, but generally it's not insuperable.

 

[AdamCrock]

I just started Old World Blues in New Vegas . It's wacky ! xD

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

@aimeeandbeatles and @Sommerswerd
You definitely do not want to leave the browser open and only look at it occassionally. Your guys will harvest until an event happens and since events are invevitably bad, you end up losing huts and villagers far faster than they can harvest resources. This is especially true if you aren't actively harvesting wood which provides the bulk of your stores at least until you're pumping out like 20 a second from your villagers or something crazy high in the end game.

I just let it run for an hour, only checking it every 5 or 10 minutes and lost a ton of huts with nothing to show for it.

If you catch the thief, release him and you'll get a helpful perk.

 

[Traitorfish]

Upgraded my laptop to something that can handle Shogun 2. (Check me: only eight years behind the times, rather than twelve.) Started a not-very-successful campaign as the Shimazu clan. Those Christians, I tell ya, what a headache, but I gots to get me those arquebusiers.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

(Check me: only eight years behind the times, rather than twelve.)

Look at me: using my super-ultra-fancy gaming computer to play Sims 2 and Civilization III.

 

[Broken_Erika]

Look at me: using my super-ultra-fancy gaming computer to play Sims 2 and Civilization III.

Pffft! I use my cutting edge gaming PC to play Civilization II!

 

[Arakhor]

Test of Time or go home.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I still haven't gotten Civilization II working on my computer. I did get the map editor working with WineVDM but the game itself fails to launch and most of the tutorials I found have dead links.

EDIT:

I...just got Civilization II running. For some reason it fails to launch if I have the disc in the drive, but if I remove it it works with WineVDM.







EDIT: Very slight problem. I can't actually quit the game. It asks me if I want to exit, and then doesn't exit.

 

[Arakhor]

The lower bar of the F would look better if it were one splodge shorter.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Yes. Do you have a more specific question?



Well, its basic functionality is as an idle game, so have it open in a tab whilst you're browsing the net, so that you can see if you have an event pending. Yes, you will periodically lose stuff, but generally it's not insuperable.

I don't know man, I got absolutely slaughtered last night.

 

[Arakhor]

Going away and leaving it for an hour is probably not your best plan, but maybe you just got unlucky.

 

[aimeeandbeatles]

I keep it and Cookie Clicker in pinned tabs in Vivaldi. But tab discarding does kick in if you don't check it enough.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Going away and leaving it for an hour is probably not your best plan, but maybe you just got unlucky.

I checked it every few minutes. I probably would have been better if I had really left it alone entirely as it would ahve stalled with the first event. As it was, I had 5 or 6 events over the hour and only harvest resources that many times as well. I was unlucky and got a string of shacks burned down which is worth way more than 5 or 6 harvests of wood. I guess I could just chalk it up to luck but I feel the majority of events in this game are really bad which encourages you to actively play it so you can harvest enough to offset the random event losses.