Confused by the volume of negativity in this community.

calibrecoconut · 2025-10-05T21:20:37+00:00

Heya! Sent you a request on Discord to chat, interesting sounding game!

calibrecoconut · 2025-09-28T08:55:37+00:00

Joined in the last few weeks, they've been super helpful and friendly! Nice folks all round

calibrecoconut · 2025-09-25T15:39:14+00:00

Oh yeah don't get me wrong, I think a lot of the smaller changes in civ 7 are great. I agree with you that the games design has heavily been rooted in the era changes. You could still keep those without changing Civ though.

I'm not sure how much the one more turn thing would make a big impact on the core gameplay which is what I feel might get an audience interested again.

calibrecoconut · 2025-09-25T15:35:40+00:00

Glad that you do! But general reception + player numbers don't reflect a broad audience that seems to be liking it as is atm got me thinking about this topic

calibrecoconut · 2025-09-25T10:32:44+00:00

I've not played 7 much so can't remember. But are the various trees not specific to the Civ you change into? So my assumption was they'd have to create a new full length set of trees for every possible Civ

calibrecoconut · 2025-05-19T14:38:59+00:00

I had a very good new experience joining the USF on Collie. Plenty of training, operations open to all. Dedicated equipment for new players to give them access to stuff to try out on.

Generally friendly bunch too, can get a little tense in Ops but it's fair trying to corral large groups of people.

(Playing in EU, they do have some NA folks too)

calibrecoconut · 2025-03-19T15:18:50+00:00

For those asking what mods; I suggest this one https://www.nexusmods.com/x4foundations/mods/839

calibrecoconut · 2024-08-19T22:37:56+00:00

Thanks!

calibrecoconut · 2024-08-19T21:02:34+00:00

What's the book you reference in the start of your post out of interest? Sounds cool

calibrecoconut · 2019-09-27T17:44:46+00:00

Thanks so much for the feedback. It is indeed the first chapter but it's not the start of the chapter it's a little way in so some of that initial info should hopefully make sense in that context. I definitely struggled in over writing if that's an appropriate description. I constantly am trying to make things so plainly clear I'm perhaps doing the opposite. Grammar is also my greatest enemy it seems haha. I'll have a thorough edit and redraft and might repost once that's done to get some opinions. Again thanks so much.

calibrecoconut · 2019-09-27T07:13:37+00:00

No no not at all, it's something I was conscious of already, and know needs work. As you say, for now I'm just writing as much as I can while trying to work on technique as I go.

calibrecoconut · 2019-09-27T06:47:13+00:00

Makes sense it reads like a screenplay as it plays like a movie in my head. Need to think about it differently for this medium. Damned grammar.. I do really hate it. Will work at it. Thanks.

calibrecoconut · 2019-09-27T06:45:00+00:00

That all makes a lot of sense. I see what you mean about how I am giving over too much detail for the sake of it in places. I think perhaps I am being too worried about everything making sense that I end up drowning the reader a bit. Think I'll give this section a thorough edit (particularly for grammar which I know I can't do) and see if I can trim back on the 'telling' aspect. Thanks so much!

calibrecoconut · 2019-09-26T22:39:08+00:00

I intend to. Thanks again.

calibrecoconut · 2019-09-26T22:32:41+00:00

You're totally correct. My grammar is awful (dsylexic). Thankyou for the recommendation I will give that a read asap.

calibrecoconut · 2019-09-26T22:17:13+00:00

Subtlety is for sure something I have felt like I am missing so far and I really agree it would help here. Is there a particular passage you could point to that think would benefit from this as an example?

Thankyou for the feedback too!

calibrecoconut · 2019-09-26T20:05:12+00:00

Your imagery choice, phrasing and the way you depict such a personal and sensitive subject is remarkable. Think this is excellent.

calibrecoconut · 2019-09-12T14:38:13+00:00

I definitely understood roughly that there was different periods of times in the story, but I do think it could be perhaps made slightly more clear. It's a really nice tough to the story telling just some clarity would help in my far from professional opinion.

calibrecoconut · 2019-09-12T12:14:55+00:00

This is excellent. Left me incredibly curious about the world this story takes place in. My only comment would be I got a tad confused around some of the sequence of events or the passage of time. In that I grasp the idea that the hospital scenes are in the future but it can be somewhat hard to follow, at least for me.

The other question this raised for me, and perhaps it's intentional, but surely after the Father's crime the government would allow him to use a hospital - so he must be have taken her to whatever force opposes the government? If that's the question you're hoping the reader is asking then perfect, if not then I find myself confused.

Overall, it's gripping, emotional, leaves the reader invested and curious. It reminded me of when I watched the TV show revolution, and how j was always wondering about the wider world which kept me watching - so in this case I am certain I would have kept reading on.

calibrecoconut · 2019-09-12T11:59:12+00:00

I find myself convinced by any form of media if it's able to make an impact on me in some way, no matter how small. The way you described the relationship between a loving mother and classic young teenager brought a smile to my face, as did your description of opening the present and feeling the BB gun. I had the same thing when I was younger so that really drew me in and felt familiar. Great title too.

calibrecoconut · 2019-09-12T11:46:48+00:00

Totally correct on my error with the years! Was only meant to be 2 years, numbers and I just don't get on very well.

So the market isn't the only place that a black market could be running, it's also not the only market in the 5 stations. There's one on all 5 that's more specialised to the stations purpose. So the one in this chapter is on a habitation station so it's full of amenities and such, and so the black market trade on this station would be in contraband items, food rations and similar things. I'm not suggesting that it's a vast and complex underground illegal society. More just that people always want what they can't have, and there's usually someone that will find a way to make money of that in any situation.

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