I have two answers for this:

1. Yes. If I could try it out in a limited fashion and get a feel to see if it would add value to my learning experience without having to provide login details first, then I’d be much more willing to try it. Especially if its made clear that a login is not required to try, since so many sites have a Try It button that just leads to a sign up page.
2. If the critical information I need to make the decision to try it out is present, easily accessible, and clear then I’m going to be more willing to try it. Not as much as if option 1 was available, but more willing.

This comment may be overly blunt, but I’m also frustrated with trying to find decent language learning tools. This is just being added to the list of frustratingly opaque tools that I’ve bounced off of. I clicked into it and didn’t even make it a full minute before leaving frustrated.

I saw no way to easily find a list of supported languages. That’s the only thing I care about when I click into a site like this. The site not having a list of supported languages in either the menu or on the front page instantly fills me with distrust.

The front page tells me almost nothing. All the info there blurs into corpo speak about how great the site is without giving me real info I need to make the decision on if I should risk giving out my email to sign up. It seems the only way to find the info I need in order to decide if I should use this site in any capacity is to sign up by giving you my email address. That’s a hard pass.

Any site that hides info I need in order to decide if it’s even going to work for me makes me feel like its just trying to either scam me or spam me. As a result, it goes into my list of do not use sites.

Having seen the screenshot you posted here, I have to agree with the other feedback about why I wouldn’t just go to YouTube directly. At least there I can use SponsorBlock and sign in to save their already made playlists. I don’t see how this site adds any actual value over going to YouTube, to be honest.

Looking at the last change notes, the Dev stated that they’re no longer maintaining the app due to openweathermap now requiring credit card info. Looks like they suggested using Cirrus instead.

What makes you say that? We have Mint and leave the country all the time. The Minternational Pass option is one of the main reasons we signed on with Mint.

They already released an updated version that’s clean and was built on a clean device. 30.56, I believe is the clean version.

This sounds like it’s most of what was missing from the base game’s industrial simulation. I’m glad this is getting added to the game, but a lot of this should have been there at the start and not a content pack.

Thanks for the suggestions. I’ve tried out Urbek and TheoTown and found them lacking in certain places. Urbek definitely felt more like a puzzle game, but I’ll try to give it another shake. TheoTown just never grabbed me for some reason.

I haven’t tried Microlandia or Citystate. I’ll check them out.

I think part of what I’m missing are the traffic sim segments from SC1, especially with some of the traffic mods. It made the city really feel more alive. With 2’s simulations being so broken, it ruined that side of things for me.

I am subbed to that comm. I’ll have to make a more concentrated effort to go through it though. I haven’t seen much of it pop up on my feed.

Again, I appreciate the suggestions. I keep hoping to find something that hits the same as CS1 or what 2 was supposed to be.

Are there? I’ve been searching for a good alternative for the last year or more and I haven’t found one. Everything that anyone lists doesn’t scratch the same itch as CS. Anything I see suggested is a different take on the genre. It’s always the same list including things like Manor Lords, Foundation, Workers and Resources, Timberborn, the Anno series, the Tropico series, etc.

And don’t get me wrong, those are all fantastic games that I love for many different reasons. But they aren’t what I would want as an alternative to CS/2 or SimCity.

I genuinely hope there are alternatives, though. I’m just frustrated at running into the same list over and over with suggestions for completely separate styles of games.

You’re entitled to your opinion, of course. I disagree, however. I feel that a published track record is a very valid means of judging a studio. I’m not sure what you’re getting at by saying “that” isn’t how game studios work these days, though. I can say that the business model hasn’t appreciably changed to the point that a track record isn’t valid evidence of how a studio works, though.

That being said, since I own the game from a preorder state I do hope they’re able to get the game in a state that it was supposed to be in since launch. Colossal Order’s FAQ language does not give me hope. Nor does the list of published titles from Iceflake.

“We decided that we couldn’t bother to fix the core simulation issues so we decided to dump the IP onto a developer that seems to primarily make shovelware. Good luck, and thanks for the cash suckers.”

Exactly. So now we have people in a job that already has one of the highest rates of suicide, working for no pay, unable to strike under threat of federal charges, with skills that aren’t easily transferrable to another line of work despite being incredibly necessary.

Reagan made it illegal for ATC to strike, so they face legal punishment if they do. Their options are to quit permanently or work for free.

The constitution only matters if its enforced. That’s no longer the case. It’s not worth pretending that we’re living in times where it was at least marginally followed nor enforced.

To be fair, the slowdowns and flickering were dismal when playing this on the NES. Some places it made the game nearly unplayable. I’ll take the technical improvements.

Now that it’s acetaminophen and circumcisions that cause autism, can we please go back to vaccinating people?

I was still holding on to at least being able to vote out enough of his supporters during the midterms that we might be able to block some of their insanity or even reverse one or two things during the back half of this election cycle, but I’m pretty sure that seals it up. That’s the end of voting mattering, y’all.

Well done to all who voted for him for any reason, as well as those who could have voted and didn’t. I hope you all experience everything this administration wants to do to those it deems as lesser than itself.

After 2 years of refusing to fix core problems and add basic gameplay which is present in the base version of CS1, they continue to ignore the problems and push out more paid content.

They’d have had a lot more success in selling these DLCs if the core game functioned anywhere close to CS1.

Oh, I’m aware of the reality. I just made the mistake of allowing myself some hope that a small number of people that supported him during the last go around were waking up just a little. Seemed like it here and there, but it’s not enough to matter, it seems.

I don’t think that the average person is a frothing MAGAt or anything, I’m just depressed that there are so many people that slurp that shit down without looking around at all. Talked to someone recently who still somehow believes that the Elon Nazi salute debacle was just due to a tricky camera angle.

I’m just exhausted from trying to educate people while watching everything crumble. The majority of us Americans may not be inherently bad, but due to the systematic degradation of our educational system since the days of Reagan we are a lot dumber and less informed than we should be.

40%

Down to 40%

I fuckin hate this place.

Top tier shitpost creampost