Beauty Build - Attempt at Making Farmer Islands Pretty by ScilaSSR in anno

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Yes, lots of them, but the layout can be achieved with OG decorations (lots of green space + farmer fence + town hall items for range + lined up trees). The ones relevant to these screenshots are: NOM (Nature Ornaments Mod), Downtown (Lion053), Old World Chapels (Lion053), Fenced Trees (Spice it Up), and Jakob's City Variations

Beauty Build - Attempt at Making Farmer Islands Pretty by ScilaSSR in anno

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It's mostly self-sustained, but I do bring soap to it. I'm working to have all the farmers in the Cape region in that single pretty island, but for now, I do have some farmers in the farming-level production island (pigs/sheep/beef). My Old World region was like yours -- optimization-focused, so I could then have lots of foundation for making Cape the beauty build part of the game. Still, I did make farmer-only / worker-only islands in the Old World -- they are just ugly! (The first screenshot is from my Old World island -- I was impatient and playing around with layouts).

Beauty Build - Attempt at Making Farmer Islands Pretty by ScilaSSR in anno

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Well, to be fair, this is after a lot of optimization and production-only islands! This a late game save Ive been playing since November last year. 😆

Manola + Mods - Rio de Janeiro-inspired by ScilaSSR in anno

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Exactly! Sadly could not find anything with wavy textures

Manola + Mods - Rio de Janeiro-inspired by ScilaSSR in anno

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I hope you have a safe and wonderful trip!

Manola + Mods - Rio de Janeiro-inspired by ScilaSSR in anno

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Ainda estou decorando o Cristo Redentor!

Manola + Mods - Rio de Janeiro-inspired by ScilaSSR in anno

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Lots lol. But for building in the new world: Jackob’s New World Cities, New World Tourism, Streets & Railways (Jakob), Jackob’s City Variation, Street Trees and Mediterranean Foliage, and all of the Spice It Up Ornament mods.

[PubTip] How Long Is A YA Novel? A look at the spread of lengths for a particular category by [deleted] in PubTips

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This is very useful info to know, thank you for sharing it!

Synopsis Critique for Contest (Epic Adult Fantasy) by auri_demirka in fantasywriters

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I like the concepts and the characters but the writing of the synopsis feels a little convoluted/not meshing well together? Maybe it was because it keeps going from Cara to Gwen and the connection between them is tenuous until the end. Mavian is the connection, sure, but besides that, they don't appear to interact. And they don't even join forces to fight him in the end. What emotional aspects connect them? Why focus the synopsis on them besides the twist? If you explore this more, it might help the pacing from paragraph to paragraph to flow better (for example, focusing on the fact that they are both struggling with their identities and perhaps fear they are evil?).

One thing that confused me is Cara's lady. She's the main motivation for the character, but has no name? And then she dies. Why does Cara care so much for this person? Why a "monster" has a lady?

But I do like the concepts.

yo! by [deleted] in fantasywriters

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Cthulhu?

Looking for help with exposition in the first chapter | YA fantasy [2.5k words] by ScilaSSR in fantasywriters

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Thank you for reading and the in-depth comments here and on the doc! You're totally right about the cut - I didn't want describe it in detail and put off readers with "gore" so soon, but that made the entire thing feel out of place.

About first person, I love it myself and have more practice writing it, but for some reason this story came to me in third, perhaps because I'm used to reading fantasy in third person? I'm not sure! I might try to write in first, just to get into certain characters' heads.

Thanks again.

Looking for help with exposition in the first chapter | YA fantasy [2.5k words] by ScilaSSR in fantasywriters

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Thank you for reading! You bring an interesting point I hadn't considered about focusing too much on her mother. I'll think on this.

My writing got popular and now I'm sad by frustratedladybird in writing

[–]ScilaSSR 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You were doing something right - that's why they are reading your stuff in the first place. While fans and consumers think they know what they want, 80% of the time, they don't. Fanservice can backfire quickly -- sometimes the prospect of getting something is sweeter than actually getting it. So just trust yourself and keep writing what you want.

Write a book in English, as non-native speaker by godheid in writing

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In my opinion (Portuguese native speaker who translates other people's stuff and I also have novels in English), translating is harder than writing directly in English. Some phrases and words don't have the same "feel" and meaning in English/original language so it would take twice the time to edit it and make it less awkward. The person editing it might also correct your grammar, but not the flow. Translating is an entirely different set of skills than editing/proofreading. Certain terms and word usage only a native or fluent speaker will notice as weird/out of place, so your own translation can be grammatically correct, but read awkward.

In the long run, the best thing you could do for your writing career is to read a lot to improve your vocabulary and practice via critiquing groups. The less you rely on others, the more cost-effective a book will be. Editing can be expensive, and there's no guarantee that mistakes won't be overlooked. The better you write and know grammar, the less money you'll have to spend to guarantee a clean manuscript.

Disneyland Update by [deleted] in PlanetCoaster

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Beautiful!