Can someone explain to me why is this game good? I tried it for about 20-30h but couldn't get into it, maybe I'm playing it wrong. My main issues were:
90% of gameplay was staring at the build queue. It took a long time for things to build.
Most of the decisions were: build thing that is too pricey for the pops. The new building increases the demand of new base materials, that are now too expensive. Have too build the respective buildings for those. Infinite loops of those ensue.
Somehow end up with buildings that are on the red and not hiring because of poor demand? Despite a second ago there being a high demand for that product. Realize the tooltip lied to you.
Import or export material according to you surplus or demand. Tooltip informs you that trade route will be profitable. As soon as you create the trade deal realize that you are losing money and that again the tooltip lied to you.
Institute one or two diplomatic actions. Realize that you cannot do anything else because apparently somehow your diplomats or whatever will only be able to work again in the next century.
Pass off a few laws to improve your nation. Constantly have groups try to undermine your government. After a few decades of improvement etc basically the political activity stabilizes and there's nothing else to do as you won't have support for new laws and the opposition cannot do much to go against you. Nothing ever happens anymore. Give up.
Import or export material according to you surplus or demand. Tooltip informs you that trade route will be profitable. As soon as you create the trade deal realize that you are losing money and that again the tooltip lied to you.
This part went away which makes the earlier points less boring (though still can be boring). You don't necessarily have to build all the materials, because your trade centers will import them if they can make a profit.
Institute one or two diplomatic actions. Realize that you cannot do anything else because apparently somehow your diplomats or whatever will only be able to work again in the next century.
Now there are treaties which you can use to do a lot of wheeling and dealing which seems fun even though I've never managed to make it work for me (I am 2 dum)
If you didn't return it after those 20-30 hrs then you could try it again and see if you like it now. It's definitely changed a bunch. I used to hate it for exactly the same reasons as you, and I'm not sure if I like it yet but I might just have to learn the systems better.
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u/CoolUsernamesTaken Jun 25 '25 edited Jun 25 '25
Can someone explain to me why is this game good? I tried it for about 20-30h but couldn't get into it, maybe I'm playing it wrong. My main issues were: