Evening Reading

by Brian Leahy, Jan 05, 2011 5:00pm PST

Sadly, the 1.2 patch for StarCraft II has been pushed until next week. As soon as it goes live, expect a #shacknews chat room on Battle.net for organizing Shack matches and custom games.

Also, anyone interested in looking at SC2 statistics, build orders, win percentages, APM, and a ton more should go ahead and grab SC2Gears. This program doesn't interact with SC2 at all and runs completely off of replays. It will also autosave and rename your replays when it sees them pop-up in the SC2 folder.

It can also be used to easily upload replays, like so! I will never get tired of writing ER posts about SC2. Deal with it.

Gaming News of the Day

Rift will launch in March.

DC Universe Online beta ends tonight.

We interview Jon Shafer, ex-Civ V lead designer now at Stardock.

Homefront will use an online pass system to limit multiplayer for second-hand copies.

Links from Morning Discussion

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What makes City Building games fun for you?

Jan 06, 2011 12:14am PST

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  I can't say I've ever found them fun, since I can never figure out why my city doesn't grow. :( : thecray
  - Yeah i really need to avoid overcomplicating : PixelPie
- The ability to punish the puny citizens in any immoral way I deem fun. : u sir name
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  Witness the organic growth of your city. That's why block placing games like City XL suck. : guigr
  - Interesting. : PixelPie
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    I hate trying to build organic looking cities in SimCity 4. They're not optimal. I always have to desig... : Volatris
    - That's what I always do, too =/ Haven't played a City Building game in years, though. : famine101
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  There's a certain tactile pleasure to them; something like the pleasure that comes with putting things to... : Happy Doodle Muffin
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    Great articulation. : PixelPie
    - You mean 'building big cities' doesn't help?!? Heh, yeah. I guess it's fun finding the balance betw... : Nixx2004
- Building big cities. : Nixx2004
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  seeing that newspaper fly up that says we invented fusion energy : rgoer
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    also YOU CAN'T CUT BACK ON FUNDING! YOU WILL REGRET THIS! : rgoer
    - serious answer: a lot of the fun comes from in-game rewards for having a well-planned, well-functioning c... : rgoer
    - LOLOL : PixelPie
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  Achieving perfection. Optimizing the perfect design. Exploring the limits of how successful a city can ... : Volatris
  - #1: being able to debug in-game the cause of my city's success or failure. Detailed stats on money in/mo... : Volatris
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  Weirdly, my favourite thing is building a nice big wall around it. : marmite
  - Checkpoint Charlie included ? : Lukiopimp
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    LOL this is awesome. : PixelPie
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      I'm serious too but I can't really explain it. The screen shots of the Settlers 7 with the walls in ma... : marmite
      
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      Play Minecraft. Build walls. : Nixx2004
      
      but then your eyes will bleed : PixelPie
  - I love it when RTS games let me build walls, I always build the most incredibly fortresses :) : thecray
  - This is what I did in Stronghold all the time; make the most awesome castlewall! : Smoochy666
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  Tangent What are your favourite Iphone city building games? : Vincenoir
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    There aren't any good ones. SimCity is fucking horrible. : PixelPie
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      aka I'm making one lol : PixelPie
      
      Awesome! Look forward to it! If you need a beta tester let me know ;) : Vincenoir
- Building perfect cities. I don't want any disasters, or wars, or shit that randomly destroys my city; ... : master_disaster_17
- Being able to watch a tornado roll through and destroy everything : R@zzle
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  Time to play Tropico 3 and study :P
  
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  Time to play Tropico 3 and study :P : PixelPie
- Building small, efficient, self contained cities. Also hearing the citizens say "this city is the best... : Cliffzorz
- The ability to nuke your city once complete would make these types of games interesting for me. : Milleh
- I always thought that the SNES version of Sim City had an awesome reward structure as your city grew. New... : zakazi
- Detail. Being able to watch all the little things happening in the city. : trelain

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