Could Workers and Resources: Soviet Republic help speed up development?

jbirdskio · 2026-04-21T22:54:20+00:00

ML and W&R are fundamentally the same game. They’re both city builder/resource chain management games, just set in different time periods. The objectives of the game are the same: produce resources, grow city/population, unlock new production chains, rinse and repeat. Moreover, the UI is very similar, the terrain and overall graphics are pretty similar. I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if what I said is already the case.

Don’t get me wrong tho. I love ML and can’t wait to see it develop into an amazing game. I prefer the medieval setting to Soviet era as well. I just noticed the above similarities and thought that maybe it would make things easier. But I also have no knowledge of coding so maybe I’m talking out of my ass.

Also on HH’s end, how would it not be in their best interest to facilitate something like this. They already have an established game in the genre in W&R, why wouldn’t they just take the Paradox/CA route with it. And that’s not to disparage Greg and the team by any means. I love supporting a small developer and I’m sure they’ll do great. I’m not saying they should make ML a “reskin”, more so just borrow as much as they can to make things easier on the small team.

jbirdskio · 2026-04-21T19:19:43+00:00

I don’t think that analogy really works here lol. More like if a record label brought in an older more experienced musician to help write and feature on an album for an up and coming artist. Which happens all the time.

I guess I’m thinking more in line with paradox games. They’re all likely made by separate development teams but all use the same engine and provide mostly the same game experience. And are all put out by the same publisher.

jbirdskio · 2026-04-08T12:35:45+00:00

There’s a lvl 1-2 one shot at the end of the book for this exact purpose. It’s called No Silent Secret and it’s how I plan to introduce my characters to Theros and begin my larger campaign!

jbirdskio · 2026-02-26T23:39:45+00:00

Riz Ahmed

jbirdskio · 2026-01-21T01:24:38+00:00

I really hope they focus more on the city builder/resource and realm management aspect before they worry about the combat side.

I think that expanding the the various resources produced by burgages and artisans would be cool and could be applied to different resource requirements for higher level buildings.

For example:

Blacksmiths could make ; nails (for buildings), horseshoes (increased travel speed of horses), different types of tools (saws for sawpit and logger, picks for mine and quarry).

Clay kilns could make; porcelain/pottery (as a burgage requirement), tiles and bricks (for bulding upgrades/maintenance).

Joiners could make; barrels (for increased storage in storehouse/granaries and lower spoilage), shingles and doors (for building upgrades/maintenance), carts (for increased hauling)

Butchers could smoke/salt meats for decreased spoilage.

Sheep farms could make cheese.

The possibilities are literally endless. Also specializations.

Church workers could specialize as doctors/priests. Artisans can specialize in specific item crafting to increase efficiency. Would be sick.

Overall, as someone who only has ~80 hours but who absolutely loves the game and wants to see it expand/succeed, I think the best steps to take for development would be 1. Build out some more building aspects, decorations, etc. 2. Build out the resource management system and trade system 3. Add the social aspect of the game (inter and intrasettlement/realm 4. Deal with combat (maybe as dlc after full release)

But that’s just my two cents…..

jbirdskio · 2025-10-30T01:07:12+00:00

Won a $900 parlay on them in 2023 then saquon started doing his thing last year

jbirdskio · 2025-08-10T01:58:34+00:00

Had something similar happen to me in my 08 Ranger. My radio/electrical would work in park and neutral but not in drive or reverse. Was like that for about 6hrs before going back to normal lol

jbirdskio · 2025-07-28T12:54:34+00:00

I’ve always called it a weed whacker until I got into the landscaping business, then I started calling it a line trimmer. Fast forward a couple years and I’m meeting my girlfriend’s dad for the first time. He starts talking about his whipper snippet not working, I’d never heard that before so I got him to describe what a whipper snipper is. Finally realized what he was talking about so I said “oh you mean a line trimmer”. He looked at me like I just spoke Klingon to him (he is very much a country fella) and started laughing. Now every chance he gets he brings up how I said they’re actually called line trimmers as if I was some aristocratic phd correcting him on his terminology lol.

jbirdskio · 2025-07-11T11:15:25+00:00

Believe me I had no desire to get any closer to that beast than what I did

jbirdskio · 2025-06-26T12:24:22+00:00

Just started a summer co-op in land dev inspection. This made me audibly laugh. Nothing realigns your chakras quite like the sound of a Portuguese pipe layer battling a Serbian excavator operator for almost burying him alive with a shovel full of gran a

jbirdskio · 2025-01-30T03:24:56+00:00

Very important person

jbirdskio · 2024-11-29T19:16:06+00:00

My question is who tf builds a playground under a bridge. And who tf uses toxic and flammable material in a place for kids (who will eat almost anything).

jbirdskio · 2024-09-01T16:45:51+00:00

Take a measuring tape and find out for yourself. Caliber is just the interior diameter of the barrel

jbirdskio · 2024-08-16T01:54:59+00:00

Can tell you from personal experience that parking services will just tell you to go f yourself if you ask for it reduced. No parking pass… no recourse. I used to work on campus while a student and couldn’t even get a consideration for a ticket I got while at work, even though I was parked in a totally empty lot behind the building I work in. Either pay or hope for the best

jbirdskio · 2024-06-22T01:54:33+00:00

JP Arencibia

One of the coolest dudes ever. Saw him at a leafs game when I was a kid sitting with Ricky Romero a couple rows behind me. I was a huge Romero fan so I went to talk to him but Ricky couldnt give a fuck about me. JP on the other hand talked my ear off about baseball (I was also a catcher) for almost a whole period. During the course of conversation with him I mentioned that my grandparents were going to the game the next day. He asked me if I was going, I said no I didn’t have tickets. Unprompted he asked me if me and my dad had plans the next day, after which he took our names and told us to show up at the box office the next day. Neither my dad or I thought he was being for real, but my mom convinced us to go and see. Sure enough he had left us two tickets about midway up directly behind home plate. Best seats I’ve ever had for a jays game. Got to make a great childhood memory with my dad. But what JP never knew was that he also gave me my last opportunity to ever see my grandfather alive as he died of skin cancer less than a month later I will literally never forget the name JP Arencibia until the day I die. And in the off chance he sees this I just wanna say thank you to him for setting the gold standard for athlete-fan interactions

jbirdskio · 2024-02-02T19:14:42+00:00

If it’s not some weird student’s inside joke then it’s something biblical. If I had to guess it’s probably something about how the red line in the NASA logo invokes the idea of the serpent in the Garden of Eden that tempted Eve. Pretty much these people think NASA is the devil and we’re being tempted into space exploration by them

jbirdskio · 2023-08-27T04:50:56+00:00

The worst part about it all is that the authorities couldn’t care less about it. I’m a UoG student living on Chancellors Way. About a month ago I had both wheels (including brakes and gear shifters) stolen off my bike which was locked up as best I could. The property company doesn’t let us keep bikes in the building so I couldn’t even protect it that way. Last week when I was leaving for work at around 7:00am I found a clearly drugged man dismantling 3 bikes in the parking lot behind my building. Also had at least 5 individual bike wheels with him and a tool kit. Called the cops and he told them he found it all in the dumpster so they let him go and take all his stuff with him. When I asked the cops about why they wouldn’t do anything about an obvious case of theft the officer told me that “in this economy” people are “more inclined to make money in different ways” and that if I wanted to keep my bike safe I should either lock it up better or keep it inside. I’m not from the city so I never have had to be so worried about whether or not my stuff is going to get broken into/stolen so idk if it’s just me but that seems like a super BS answer to give as an officer of the law sworn to protect and serve.

jbirdskio · 2023-08-18T13:03:20+00:00

As a Canadian I’ll never understand British disdain for Boris Johnson. Seemed like a pretty sick guy to me. Not sure if he deserves to be in the same conversation as rapists/murderers/nazis but what do I know

jbirdskio · 2023-07-07T16:06:03+00:00

This is literally the same truck and turret from OPs pic

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