February 29th, 2016, 18:47
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Why isn't there a North Korea/Rogue State simulator where you set up production chains to create nuclear weapons so you can extort the world governments for food to feed your starving population?
Farming -> To Supply Your Labor Camps -> Military Industrial Complex -> Weapons of Mass Destruction. It'd be like a Anno game where people have needs like Freedom and Food but you have no ways of fulfilling those desires directly so you have to crack down on people's unhappiness with your regime's secret police. So village hovels would upgrade into communes when you aura them with a state ideology center and re-education camp. Aura them with guard towers and secret police bureaus to increase productivity.
City building genre really needs to break away from Western European paradigms.
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Sounds a bit like the Tropico series, only much darker.
It's a bit away from the point of the thread, but if you'd be interested in another board game that can be played online, I'd recommend Through the Ages. It's civilization-themed, with the cunning idea of leaving out the map and focusing on strategy over tactics.
For those who already know it, there's just been a new version released which streamlines the game a bit and fixes a few of the areas where luck played too large a part.
If anyone wants a game (or is interested in learning how to play), let me know.
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Through the Ages has been raised here a couple of times, I think Seven is quite a big fan. I actually played the new version face to face a couple of months back, it's not bad.
I love how the website boardgaming-online only actually runs TtA 
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Yeah, I suspect the owner of the site had ideas about implementing lots of games, but then real life got in the way.
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North Korea idea is gold. I would also like to see an "Aid State" builder, where you strive to put your people into the most photogenic misery in competition for attention of NGO/developed nation donors.
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(February 8th, 2016, 13:24)Bacchus Wrote: It's all about building up continuous-running resource chains, clearing bottlenecks and optimizing logistics is what I mean. "City-building" is just theme in Caesar, one that works excellently, though. no one mentioned Colonization? 
you may enjoy:
Fragile Allegiance
Deadlock 2: Shrine Wars
Seven Kingdoms: Ancient Adversaries
The Guild II Renaissance
THE SETTLERS® 2: GOLD EDITION
also you may find games like Football Manager fun.
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Colonization was the first game I played multiple hours of! Also played quite bit of Championship Manager, back when it was called that.
Seven Kingdoms is actually something I've been meaning to try for a while, thanks for the reminder!
March 1st, 2016, 17:19
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(March 1st, 2016, 14:37)Bacchus Wrote: Colonization was the first game I played multiple hours of! Also played quite bit of Championship Manager, back when it was called that.
Seven Kingdoms is actually something I've been meaning to try for a while, thanks for the reminder! Seven Kingdoms is made by the same folks who did Capitalism and Capitalism2.
Enlight studios is in fact still working on the Capitalism series, with Capitalism Lab, where they decided to pick up where they left off with Cap2 and just keep adding improvements, tweaks, and refinements. http://www.capitalismlab.com/
I think they are only offering CapLab as part of a bundle that includes 7 Kingdoms though, but I'm sure you'll figure out some way to manage. 
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I'd like to put in another recommendation for Settlers 2--that is one of the best strategy games I've ever played, and I still have my original CD (and put in the work to manually install it on DOSBOX). It looks more like a real-time Civilization or SimCity-style game, but the economic comparison makes a lot of sense as most of the core of the game is managing supply lines. It does have a lot of idiosyncrasies though--the gameplay is extremely slow (though pressing V accelerates time, and there are cheats that accelerate it further), and you have to learn a lot of mechanics to get the most out of it (especially in the higher-difficulty story levels, along with the insanely hard world campaign). There also are a lot of other things surrounding it that aren't nearly as good--Settlers 3 and forward are a more-traditional RTS, and while the Anniversary edition is okay (as it's mostly Settlers 2 with a new coat of paint, a new campaign, and some AI improvements), it's much harder (as you can't exploit the AI, and they're much more aggressive towards you). And that's to say nothing of the god-awful DS port I specifically sought out--it's Settlers 2, but with only one save slot and extremely buggy (the music makes the game crash, and it will generally crash about 2-3 hours into a game).
If you do decide to take the plunge, feel free to ask me any questions and I'll help you get through some of the initial speed bumps.
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(March 1st, 2016, 19:28)Cheater Hater Wrote: I'd like to put in another recommendation for Settlers 2--that is one of the best strategy games I've ever played, and I still have my original CD (and put in the work to manually install it on DOSBOX). It looks more like a real-time Civilization or SimCity-style game, but the economic comparison makes a lot of sense as most of the core of the game is managing supply lines. It does have a lot of idiosyncrasies though--the gameplay is extremely slow (though pressing V accelerates time, and there are cheats that accelerate it further), and you have to learn a lot of mechanics to get the most out of it (especially in the higher-difficulty story levels, along with the insanely hard world campaign). There also are a lot of other things surrounding it that aren't nearly as good--Settlers 3 and forward are a more-traditional RTS, and while the Anniversary edition is okay (as it's mostly Settlers 2 with a new coat of paint, a new campaign, and some AI improvements), it's much harder (as you can't exploit the AI, and they're much more aggressive towards you). And that's to say nothing of the god-awful DS port I specifically sought out--it's Settlers 2, but with only one save slot and extremely buggy (the music makes the game crash, and it will generally crash about 2-3 hours into a game).
If you do decide to take the plunge, feel free to ask me any questions and I'll help you get through some of the initial speed bumps.
+1 to settlers 2. I bought gold but couldn't get it to work on my win 7 Laptop. I wasted hours of my childhood on that game. Annoyingly never got through the whole campaign. You needed to be good with your economy on it because it was easy to run out of resources on a map...
Any advice on how to get it to run on a win 7 OS?
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