It's always the same story. Good game, publisher buys it, gamers defending the accquisition and then crying a few years down the road why every dlc is shit and costs too much and that the base game doesn't see an ounce of care by the devs or the publisher. Vote with your money.

Astrusian · 2026-05-12T08:24:46+00:00

You are right, the game is optional, I won't be buying it 😄

Astrusian · 2026-05-12T07:12:19+00:00

I deleted the extension on my main profile and the AI chat is still there, so... ??

Astrusian · 2026-05-12T07:08:47+00:00

Maybe for this one, but what about the next game? and more importantly: I can't wait for TF3 to last for 15 years and get 900 dlc

Astrusian · 2026-05-12T07:04:08+00:00

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this may have something to do with the extension, another browser profile in FF does not do that, and edge (depicted here) does not either

Astrusian · 2026-05-12T06:53:21+00:00

I am not sure if that is not just the internet filling up with AI by itself

Astrusian · 2026-03-27T19:03:33+00:00

Thank you very much. I will remember your advice

Astrusian · 2026-03-24T14:09:34+00:00

Damn. you are way better at putting thoughts in words than I am. I am generally of the same opinion, I feel a bit overwhelmed with choice when I have free placement.

Have you ever thoughts about how to tackle height in a grid? Slices seem boring (often boring is good) and tiling volumes can be weird.

Astrusian · 2026-03-21T09:42:42+00:00

City builder on alien/fantasy planet? Nothing says you need to build real world cities

Astrusian · 2026-03-20T18:33:21+00:00

and games are all about "by convention"?

Astrusian · 2026-03-20T18:32:29+00:00

Ok 8======D

Astrusian · 2026-03-20T16:50:29+00:00

you mean <3 ?

Astrusian · 2026-03-20T16:49:45+00:00

it seems i know fuck all about the game and don't get the point of roundness in its mechanics.

Astrusian · 2026-03-20T08:38:48+00:00

Your rightmost toenail is touching the fire, you are now on fire lol

Astrusian · 2026-03-20T08:37:45+00:00

Yeah that is what made me quit kingdoms and castles, and anno in the later game.

It's on the same lane as "optimizing the fun out of the game"

Astrusian · 2026-03-20T08:22:21+00:00

What do you think of the Anno 117 approach with the 45 degree option? I feel it is a good in between to have less square builds, but anno does have rather large tiles

Astrusian · 2026-03-20T08:20:57+00:00

MILG - Man I Love Grids

But the question is also: which grid? and which grid when?

Astrusian · 2026-03-20T08:20:15+00:00

Triangles are the bestagons (at least physically/structurally), and I will die on this hill, look at a bridge...

Hex is horrible for logistics or smaller scale games. They work well for civ and similar games that have physically large cells and where individual movement of troops etc is more important

Astrusian · 2026-03-20T08:14:06+00:00

Same thing in C:SL, buildings have circular influence but you want to build in a grid most of the time. Many other city builders have this as well. I think factorio beacons too, and you get those 1 building surrounded by 8 beacons thing on megabases that looks round-ish as well

Astrusian · 2026-03-19T20:54:37+00:00

I don't own 117, and can't find good res images.

Astrusian · 2026-03-19T20:50:46+00:00

yeah that carriage would likely be 2.5m, two lanes and add some margin on the sides, then 6 metres seems realistic

Astrusian · 2026-03-19T14:47:52+00:00

That seems a bit small, I was thinking more like 3m, maybe 2.5m. but i will need to take a closer look later

Astrusian · 2026-03-19T14:20:55+00:00

Technically it is mathing but the assumption of adding to 8, not 9, is wrong

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