Let's talk city builders and management games

>that's what "open beta" means
You would be surprised how often devs / publisher mislabel their test phases. Seen it more than once that they call it Open Beta but then it's exclusive to pre-orders or fags that have a key, as retarded as that may sound.

i'll play it if they add hotkeys and improve the UI

this is really fun for a while

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When I think open beta, I think that people who bought the game get to beta test. Closed beta usually means friends, family and streamers get to try the game.

>Caesar 3 was here
You may now continue discussing second best

playing Soviet Republic atm
enjoying it a lot so far
its what Tropico should be

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Which Tropico is good?

1 through 4
5 is shit, 6 is slightly less shitty

4

Did people ever made them playable in 1080p and such? If so, how exactly do the games play anyway. Always saw them as a kid but never actually got to play them.

For modern Tropicos I keep hearing people point out 3 or 4 with all DLCs, not sure which it was again. It went up and down after that.

they've been the same since 3
4 is just 3 with some touch ups so that one.
play Soviet Republic comrade

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Caesar 4 > Caesar 3

>you will never play a game that combines both deep city building like anno 1800 with huge armies like in the total war franchise
it's like they really don't want money

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I keep on coming back to Banished every few months.

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I haven't went back since it first came out.

Communism was a mistake

Is that the Colonial Charter thing?

I wish Anno 1800 was actually 1700. Oh, well, we'll see how good it is.

Does Black & White count?
If so that.

Ymir has been slow as shit but very interesting. Im annoyed at how some of the tech is very specific though. Why do I have to use silver for my first currency system when im sitting right on top of a fucking gold vein??

Mix of Colonial Charter, Medieval Towns and a lot of other smaller mods.

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Industrialisation soon fellow robber barons.

I hope you aren't going to give your workers safe working conditions.

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>black and white as dead as hell and 2 was shit thanks to a short campaign and no MP support at all
Tragedy really since it had some really nice QOL improvements

Was sorta excited for this pre-release til then all the issues came up when playing pirated and me not being able to care enough. Have to find a server or some shit.

Neat, thanks for the info user.

>Ymir
I was really interested until I saw it's in GameMaker. Which means that 15-25 second load screen between overworld and city will never go away, as well as a host of other issues and limitations.

WHY do people start these massive autism projects in shitty closed-source engines?

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>it's in GameMaker
IS IT ACTUALLY? Jesus Christ rest in piss Ymir potential I suppose. It's bad enough that the dude is slow as shit since he's alone but hot damn.

cause the dev is an artist, not a programmer, and he needed something accessible.

The loading screens are annoying but they havent stopped me from enjoying it though. Im primarily starting to run into the problem where Im afraid I dont have enough terrain to cultivate to sustain the population. My administration is already low from taking over a barbarian village and I dont think I can keep building new towns to send food to the capital.

I pirated it too user, it's ok playing singleplayer but I can imagine it's better with some players. I donno if theres some pirate server up or anything.

Is there any city builder where I can take control and look at my city from the eyes of the citizen?

Any good city builders you can lose at?

>cause the dev is an artist
That explains the slow as fuck patch cycle

>it's ok playing singleplayer
Did that on release, til i hit a weird block and I would never get a new building then i stopped.

Thats fair, I ended up in a spiral where my population was growing, but conflict was maxed out. All my citizens died before reaching old age so I never got a buncha oldpigs to develop the elder's council, resulting in continued increase of conflict.
I broke out of it eventually though.
This has been something like my 6th attempt to make a functioning city too. Settle down on some copper or you might as well not bother desu.

They're all good, but 4 is probably the best. 6 is fine but honestly the series has barely progressed in a decade.

Anno 1800 will release in a week. Going to play that for at least a month probably.

Guess I might as well give it a shot again and see if I can find a server to join or some shit. Onto cs.rin!

I seriously cant remember which games ive played cause theyre all so fucking similar.

Tropico 6, wish it had a proper campaign. It's a solid 7/10 though. Waiting for Anno 1800

Reminder to all Anno fans;
it's snagged by Epic, so if you want it on Steam, try the open beta (tomorrow) and you can buy it up until release on Steam. After that it's Uplay/Epic Store.

I got it on Uplay even before it got pulled from Steam, because Anno games have a bad history with steam. Uplay was pulling all kinds of shenanigans with the older entries already, so I just caved and got it on their crappy launcher
But remember to not get it on EGS. Uplay is bad, but not as bad as EGS.

god I wish it doesn't suck.

What game is op? Is it anno 1404?

What good city builders have a campaign?

>That feel when Uplay game is Epic Exclusive
>It's likely still using Uplay either way just like with Steam
What a joke

Plus on Uplay you get 20% off using those points.

Dead as hell? You can easily set it up and play in

what would I like if I currently want...
>city/town management
>not sim city or anything recent like released in the past 4 years or so and definitely no fucking tropico I hate that shit
>some micro management but not heavy on it
>medium difficulty
>very little focus on any kind of battle or preferably no battles with anything
>more focus on trading rather than politics shit

Anno 1404, I think the Venice DLC adds more too

yes

Yeah they call it "EGS exclusive", but it's definitely on Uplay. Just get it there. Or you can still get it on Steam until it releases (as a pre-order). I'm generally against pre-orders, but since I already played the beta and loved the shit out of it (and played every anno game before it), I pre-ordered it this time.

Ever play Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom? The least appreciated but best of the old impressions city builder series

Anno 1404 or Impressions city builders.

>but since I already played the beta and loved the shit out of it
That's pretty much my thinking about it. No reason not to buy it on Steam / Uplay while you still can if you've played one of the many betas

My main reason of piracy and avoiding pre-oders is not having demos. I'm happy Anno still does them. I was sceptic as fuck after 2070 and 2205 especially.

Literally Anno as other anons have mentioned ITT. Tomorrow, 1800's open beta comes out so you can try it for free. You just need to install the shitty Uplay launcher, but I think that's worth it.

Beautification of a city was more fun and comfy on 1404 when compared to 2070.
Nukes are way too expensive in 2070, I just wanted to destroy a city. But on medium difficulty the ai only builds small towns, so I'm reduced to nuking myself. How hard are the best ai players?