So, I've recently revived my gaming streak, and for as long as I've gamed, I've always enjoyed interacting with others. As such, I'm curious what games SN folks play. I've been strongly tempted to setup a Minecraft server for SoylentNews, but I don't really want to put in the effort if no one else is interested in playing. So, here's my simple question for the community; what games do you play, and would you want to play on an SN hosted server?
I'm tempted to make any gaming-related things be a subscriber perk, as an attempt to both increase subscriber benefits, and make such a target harder to grief. Not sure if it's a great idea, so I'd love to get feedback below.
(Score: 2) by richtopia on Monday August 10 2015, @03:40PM
From NCommander's last BBQs playing EU4 and DwarfFortress, I would suggest Tropico 5. It is a humorous take on a city builder. I don't have the patience for the true City simulators, but for some reason I really enjoyed the campaign of Tropico 3, 4, 5 (same game engine for all three, 4 is effectively an expansion of 3, but 5 changes some core mechanics).
Unrelated to Tropico, I would suggest adding a "Suggested Servers" or "Games Running" page to the wiki, and include a link somewhere on the main page. There are Soylents who already run game servers who would appreciate other Soylents joining their server. By supplying a wiki page, it has little maintenance for SN staff.
(Score: 2) by NCommander on Monday August 10 2015, @05:10PM
I have it, but I honestly am not a huge fan. Election mechanics seem completely random, even when I have good standing with all the factions. Making any change to the constitution seems to have a disproportional effect on those who it upsets (i.e., if I require soldiers to have education, then all my soldier get fired, unemployment skyrockets, and no one attends the high school).
Still always moving