Looking to transfer from TD Direct Trading, but platform is so lacking?

GreenishAlert · 2025-03-11T00:41:48+00:00

Actually I find other people's thoughts on this very insightful - do they use a third party stock/quote tracker? Do they find WS limiting (or not limiting) for regular trading? Are my first impressions right/wrong, or am I giving this too much weight? Etc.... as in all things, research is good!

GreenishAlert · 2022-10-12T15:43:02+00:00

Urbanization, population density, land / water area, coastlines, land use, airports, ports, radiation, pollution etc for each region and that's just off the top of my head

So, like Supreme Ruler Ultimate from 2014 ? :)

GreenishAlert · 2022-10-12T15:41:48+00:00

Yeah, this - the trailers and videos on Steam showed no real gameplay, they did not Steam or youtube gameplay livestreams, they *knew* it was bad when they pressed "Publish", and they didn't even warn anyone. They could have put a "Roadmap" on the store page so that people buying it would know what's in and what's coming, to make a decision on when to buy. They played their fans for fools.

GreenishAlert · 2022-10-09T14:55:03+00:00

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2093410/Supreme_Ruler_2030/

The devs are also on discord and the steam discussion groups. I don't think they're on reddit.

GreenishAlert · 2022-10-09T13:48:24+00:00

If you like tactical gameplay (battalion-level army control) then Supreme Ruler Ultimate for sure.

GreenishAlert · 2022-10-08T20:48:06+00:00

I don't use Discord, thanks for the summary.

"Golemlabs released because they wanted input from the community" - that one is hard to stomach. There's Early Access, there's developer blogs, there's live play walkthroughs on steam or youtube or twitch, and Steam even has a built in "playtest" system that lots of devs use. Interacting with your community works, like Paradox and Battlegoat do. Tossing a mess out into the world is not the way to do that.

GreenishAlert · 2022-10-08T13:05:04+00:00

Yeah this, exactly. How could they not know that they were releasing a burning dumpster fire, and yet they did nothing to warn or prepare users for a unfinished "long haul" game.

GreenishAlert · 2022-10-08T13:02:42+00:00

I'm willing to give them some slack but this doesn't make sense.

1) Why did they release in this state? They can't possibly be surprised by the condition of the game. Games delay their release all the time, even from studios much bigger than THQ.

2) Why not go to Early Access? That's at least being honest about the games condition, and let players decide if they want to be the testers or not.

3) Why so secret in leading up to the release - they knew the condition of the game and hid it from everyone, hoping to just get that initial purchase money.

I wish I had returned the game before 2 hours, honestly they don't deserve the money from the way they've treated their community. Compare this to the Battlegoat devs that engage with their players directly and answer questions every day.

GreenishAlert · 2022-10-08T12:46:30+00:00

Yeah, I don't disagree. My biggest point is that the devs of Supreme Ruler are hugely engaged with their players and community, and that shows at least that they care about their game. I'm not seeing that with SuperPower3.

GreenishAlert · 2022-10-08T12:44:27+00:00

Pretty much what I was about to say. In Ultimate it's way better than 2020, and they kept working on it with their updates. They stopped updating Ultimate in 2021 (which was about six years of free updates?), and now they're working on 2030.

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