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Tycoon Games

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All things "Tycoon" games. Park building, zoo building, business building simulations. Any games related to management, financial growth and economic strategy.


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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I will point out that that this looks better developed than many of the first person business simulator games that have been releasing (often in a rather raw state) as of late.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

This is like the second post I have made in short succession where I have mass downvotes for something completely on-topic to a community without having misinformation or tearing people down and I do not know why, is it because guns are a hot-button issue in the United States of America? ;-;

It's really frustrating for me because I don't care about internet points but I do care that I've done something to invite mass disapproval without understanding why people are disapproving in the first place. Especially when they just downvote and say absolutely nothing as to why they disapprove. The knowledge gap, knowing you have done something either actually wrong or just unpopular but not what it is so you can decide whether you want to change your behavior to avoid disapproval (like if I did something that is hurtful, so I am getting disapproved of, I need to change; if I just posted an unpopular but civil and non-hateful opinion and people downvote simply to express disagreement I will probably be made even more stubborn in my opinion and refuse to change but I might think twice about being public about it because social disapproval, even from strangers on the internet, feels bad), is very very frustrating.

Then again maybe it is better nobody explained because I see "lol fucking [insult]" here way more often than an actual explanation of why someone disagrees or why a certain non-hateful take that was expressed in a non-inflammatory way without insults is bad, and one thing that really upsets me, even when not targeted at me, is unnecessary hostility.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

One of the most downvoted posts I've had was about a tycoon game where you renovate mansions.

I wouldn't worry about it, until Lemmy gets bigger (say 200 K MAUs in English and 50K MAUs in other languages, versus our current total of 55K MAUs), you'll see such "artifacts" in terms of downvoting.

I say this as someone who is not OK with US-style unrestricted weapon access (and I've lived in both the US and other countries).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Thanks!

And I'm sorry about that, the people downvoting an on-topic game. I feel it's pretty obvious when someone is posting because "well I like tycoon games and this matches" and when someone is trying to stir shit and be political. But I figure drive-by voters from New or whatever would not know either of us only have the motive of "post tycoon games to Lemmy" and not "we like unrestricted gun access and want you to share our views".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I admit I clicked hoping for an automation game. There's definitely a factory portion where you place down machines to make the guns, an indoor factory, which is something I was looking for awhile back. Not sure how much of the game is the factory portion, so I'll wait and see before I post it to [email protected].

The first thing that stands out to me with the graphics is that the text somehow doesn't feel very good visually. The rest passes well enough. It's an Early Access release that came out April 4, no demo, so I'll be watching closely.

Some 2D artwork on our game is based on AI generation.

Oooof. Really do not appreciate that, so this probably will not be such a high priority for me to check out then. I've dismissed games that appeal more to me for using AI, so I wonder why I'm not immediately mentally binning this one.