Reach 'n Settlers

I downloaded The Settlers HD for my phone a couple of months ago, and after having won one match of Monopoly, also downloaded, I turned my attention to The Settlers, a "cute" RTS with a very complicated resource system, the most interesting part of the game.

To build buildings you need wood and stone, easy. To make tools so that you can harvest wood and stone you need iron. To get iron you need a smelter, iron ore and coal. Then a toolsmith to make the tools, or weaponsmith if you're going for weapons. To mine for iron, coal and gold, and the occasional sulfuer and stone, the miners need food in form of bread, meat and fish. So you need to make a grain farm to get wheat, a mill to make flour, a waterworker to get water and a bakery to make the bread. Then a hunter for meat, oooor, a grain farm for what, a water worker to get water, an animal farm to raise animals and a butcher to get meat. Fish is easy, you only need a fisheman.

It's a very complicated economy system, but it's fun. Then you need territory, you can't just build anywhere. So to get territory you need either a tower with atleast one soldier in it or pioneers that slooooowly expand your territory.

I've also played a little on the computer, but the AI is kind of stupid and won't advance any further after their initial attack, which is kind of boooorrriiingg.

Reach? Had a couple of veeerryy laggy games, to the point where I was in the black screen longer than the actual game, and at one point it even restarted the game. Also ran into a group of glitchers. Invasion Slayer on Powerhouse, now, the game was even, we had the lead, then them, and we again. Then at some point when they had the lead they disappeared, in under the map with the help of a glitch in the buddy spawn system. Why bother? I don't see a point in it. You're not going to improve your skills. Why? If you're worse than your opponents then you won't get a chance to win from the start. If you're better than your opponents then there's no reason to go hide in the first place, because you're going to win. It's only a big waste of time for both parties. If it's even, then how are you going to improve? The only thing that may have lead to the lead would be luck.

In this particular match, it became worse as well, as one of them proceeded to kill us through the floor, sure we went there to throw nades and stuff but they had the lead and all of them were under the floor so there was nothing we could do.

Abusing glitches is a bannable offence, the banhammer won't take kindly to it.

Back in business

The funny thing about being away for a longer time is going back, and notice that you still got it, in multiplayer.

Started out with Battlefield 3, because the new maps were out. Haven't played them as much though, I'm still getting through the original ones.

On later days I've developed a liking to the tanks. I can use them efficiently enough to actually be useful with them. On Operation Firestorm I got roughly 5000 points while only using tanks, and I died once, we won. I've destroyed a helicopter, sniped snipers and engineers, ambushed and destroyed many enemy tanks. All in a few says work.

Then I've played some Halo, still going after the six missing achievements. It's difficult when the maps never appear in the voting screen. Hope I get them soon, or I'm going to need some help.

Shout

I've come to the point in Skyrim where I just loot gold, no items. Well, not always gold either. I'm collecting shouts though. My nephew pointed out that you can ask at High Hrotgat.. or however it's spelled. They'll tell you, or, one of them will tell you where the shouts are, then it's just to take a stroll through a dungeon or the likes and get it. I've found that the later of them also have a quest at the entrance, which needs doing.

I'm also hunting dragon priest masks, I got 4 out of 8, not that I think I'll get anything worthwhile from them anyhow.

Hardcore, not till I hit bedrock

The Minecraft fire has been relit on my laptop, not because I'm in a creative mode, but because I'm looking for a challenge, and Minecraft has both.

I tried Hardcore mode this time around and found it all the more better than the regular one. You die and your world gets deleted. It also sets the difficulty to hard, and it can't be changed, so no sneaky sneaky way out there.

It really is hard the first nights, getting a shelter, and food, you need food now to survive. Yes it's realistic and stuff. At first I thought I'd try to find a village to hide in during the night. I even found a seed (on the internet) which spawns you in a house. I tried it, but it didn't feel right. Why am I trying out the hardcore mode if I'm going to chicken out on the first night in a spawned house? Either I find a village, or I build a house, and the latter it was. With some time consuming waiting of course. Wouldn't dear gather resources during the night.

Now I do have my house finished and I'm trying to dig my way down, this time around I'm using ladders instead of stairs. The work do take a lot of time though since I managed to place my house right on top of a multi level cave, with numerous mobs in it.

Then I have to remember that my guy has a stomach now, that needs feeding. So I have to gather mushrooms and meat as well. It is challenging. Next project is either to make a biiig room down below, or make Snow Golems, or a castle, the castle first, then the snow golems. Or maybe find a monster spawner... Soo much to doo.