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Yeah over 10k mods in the first week.. Crazy!
I think skylines mods are non-sandboxed (meaning you can do what you want code-wise, note the mod that adds reddit posts to your game internal chirper) that would concern me from a malware perspective
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Re: The 'SimCity' Empire Has Fallen and 'Skylines' Is Picking Up the Pieces
#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah over 10k mods in the first week.. Crazy!
I think skylines mods are non-sandboxed (meaning you can do what you want code-wise, note the mod that adds reddit posts to your game internal chirper) that would concern me from a malware perspective
They are non-sandboxed but most are open source.
Additionally, there are so many users testing these mods that I doubt any serious malware could be put on Steam without being caught by the community.
Re: The 'SimCity' Empire Has Fallen and 'Skylines' Is Picking Up the Pieces
#133"I feel so bad about Maxis closing down," Hallikainen said. "The older SimCitys were really the inspiration for us to even consider making a city builder."
That is a brave statement these days. No doubt they have to tread carefully lest someone accuse them of infringing the SimCity IP.
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To many, many gamers, as soon as the word EA comes up, it already means "prepare for disappointment, DRM, and disastrous launches".
To me they're a mixed bag. I've enjoyed many titles from them (Dragon Age, Titanfall, Dead Space, NFS: HP, Mass Effect, Bulletstorm, BF: BC2, and countless other titles from older gen consoles and even older PC games like Archon and Kings of the Beach). I think that when expectations are set high (most any recent BF release), disappointment is sure to follow.
EA didn't develop a majority of the games you listed. They were the publisher.
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In real life you tend to have the exact opposite problem. People changing lanes the second the lane they are in starts slowing down without any forward planning about where they might have to go next.
In real life, I observe both, often simultaneously. The far left or right lane can back up a very long way as everybody tries for the same turn. Oblivious or selfish people bypass it all and try to change lanes at the last second, often with sudden braking and occasional bent metal because the target lane is full and stopped.
>Oblivious or selfish
It's not selfish to use the road to its full potential. We should all be merging at the last moment, and using zipper merging to allow smooth traffic flow.
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#136Skylines is a great game, with great mod support... ...that retails for $30 (can get it for less on sites like greenmangaming.com). That part blows my mind.
Do you think $30 is cheap or expensive? I, for one, think it's exactly the right price.
I'd say it's a bit on the cheap side when you are talking full retail pricing. It executes well on its premise, has good polish and has no major issues that I've run into at release. That's better than most games asking for $50+ these days. And yet, it's priced at a discount.
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#137Skylines is hands down my favorite game right now and is directly responsible for my highly unproductive, but fun, weekend. But it's not without faults. For me one of the telling things will be how they handle a very similar problem that EA had with the latest Sim City. Traffic. Once your city becomes a certain size the game goes from City Builder to Traffic Management Simulator. Which itself wouldn't be a problem if…
There's another city sim in the works called Citybound and the dev is seemingly obsessed with getting roads and traffic right. http://blog.cityboundsim.com/
I gotta say, that sim of three lanes of cars all merging into one lane to turn right really was painful to look at. Darn near had flashbacks to my morning commute. Really nice work.
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#138I'm probably in the minority here, but for me the biggest appeal of the SimCity series was the aesthetic and music. The music in particular. I absolutely love what I have seen of Skylines so far, but it seems to be missing the SimCity charm — that urban soundtrack, the way the buildings light up at night, the unique architecture and art style. I'm hoping mods will fill in all these areas.
yup, I think you're in the minority here, I can't imagin anyone appreciating simcity for the music. It had some pretty graphics, for sure, but I think most people view that as fluff. You should hear me gush about factorio, and it looks like this: https://www.google.ca/search?q=factorio&tbm=isch&gws_rd=cr,s... edit: ok, apparently not. apparently people really really really care that their games look pretty, color me…
I loved the music so much that I would use it as bumper music when I would dj at my school's radio station.
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Yes, but there is a pattern of EA ruining previously good development houses. It's like expression, "The common element of all your failed relationships is you."
Studios they really cratered: Origin Westwood JAMDAT Pandemic
I still mourn Westwood and Pandemic.
God damn it how could they.
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In real life, I observe both, often simultaneously. The far left or right lane can back up a very long way as everybody tries for the same turn. Oblivious or selfish people bypass it all and try to change lanes at the last second, often with sudden braking and occasional bent metal because the target lane is full and stopped.
>Oblivious or selfish It's not selfish to use the road to its full potential. We should all be merging at the last moment, and using zipper merging to allow smooth traffic flow.
Zipper merging is good when a lane ends, but that's not what I'm talking about. Attempting a zipper merge into a turn lane at the last moment is a really bad idea, because by attempting to do so you will block a travel lane that other people will want to use for going straight. This slows them down at best, and causes crashes if you're unlucky.
Merge at the last moment when your lane ends. Do not merge at the last moment when you need to get into a turn lane. These are different scenarios.