Maybe the Last Such Update of the Year?
Yes, it’s yet another personal update and it’ll once again be a quick one, because I’m in between things and want to post it before midnight anyway. Then there’s something else I need to write later tonight, though I’ll probably put it off until after I’ll eat, because right now I just woke up from a nap and will be forcing my mind to pull itself together quite quickly and very much against its wishes in order to quickly write this post. As such, I doubt it’ll like moving on to writing something else immediately afterwards, and doing that is hard enough even without such added complications.
Last week, I was saying that I had almost finished Tropico 3 and only needed to play a couple of sandbox games before truly being done with it. I have now done that, going through a quick “God mode” one today just to say that I did that too. The other one took a few days to complete, but I actually generated it so the listed difficulty was 200%, not just 100%, and went through the maximum of 50 years under those conditions, eventually reaching the end with the happiness of my citizens at 70% and therefore finally obtaining the happiness achievement as well.
I hope I’ll manage to write a review before the end of the year, perhaps even next week, but let’s see how that will work out. Right now I found myself moving straight on to Empire Earth, which was offered for free for two days by GOG.com, though of course the AI is wiping the floor with me from the very first scenarios. I really suck at such games, but I guess I’ll give it a shot and then decide whether I’ll keep at it or consider it a lost cause and move on to something else.
Otherwise, I’m actually quite proud to say that yesterday I managed to meet the first two conditions of that crazy plan of mine. It required me to wander around the city for six days and made me feel quite bad in quite a few ways, but at least it’s done now and I can move on to the third condition, which is the last one that actually depends on me. The fourth should also be handled as much as I possibly can, but I’m not the one who’ll have the final say, so it’ll only be a matter of doing my best and then hoping for a good outcome.
Last but not least, with this being this week’s first post and the end of the year being only two weeks away, it means I have five more posts to write, four of which are already planned to some extent. One will be the review for Tropico 3, another will include the details of this crazy plan of mine once it’ll either succeed or fail, while two more should be of the sort that’ll get filed under Society, because a couple of months ago I sort of set a goal of having more than 150 in that category by the end of the year. I won’t necessarily be writing any of the two or three I have in mind right now, but I’ll have to figure something out very soon, because this week’s second post will likely need to be one of these planned ones. If it’s not, then I’ll have my work cut out for me for the next two weeks, with no room to maneuver.
