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Jan 14th, 2014 at 13:47:26 - Uplink (PC) |
I picked up where I left off last time, going through the missions I had already signed up for. It was fairly monotonous, but not too bad. Since I had so many jobs, many of them called for hacking the same company, which saved me a bit of time, since for many of them, since I had effectively erased my tracks, I still had the administrator password for some of the servers I went back to. I suppose if I had been better organized, I could have copied and deleted all the files from a single server in one trip, but the game interface doesn't particularly lend itself to that kind of organization. You're probably not supposed to sign up for twelve jobs at once, anyway.
The only hitch I had was that in trying to go back to a server that I had already visited (which the game had removed from my map), I accidentally made a direct connection, which got me in some trouble. Fortunately, nothing happened (except getting my password revoked), but since getting caught essentially ends your game and makes you start over, clicking the wrong thing is pretty bad.
At the end of the missions, I had advanced to rank two and managed to save up enough money to buy a fancy new processor. I was doing pretty well with the super slow one, so hopefully a fast processor will mean that these easy jobs will go much faster.
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Jan 14th, 2014 at 00:03:22 - Crusader Kings II (PC) |
I decided to give the Grand Prince of Kiev another shot. Once again, I tried to change my succession laws to keep my empire together, but I noticed that my vassals were much more unhappy with me. While the rulers, borders and such are always the same when you start a new game, apparently the personal characteristics of the leaders are randomly generated each time. I decided to start over a few times until I happened to roll a prince with decent traits that everyone liked. I changed the succession laws and hoped that I could stave off any invasions from my kinsmen.
Perhaps because of my characters winning personality, no one tried to invade me. Rather, everyone kept inviting me to participate in their wars. It seemed to go pretty well, and I won the wars for once. However, I never really profited from them. I tried to fabricate some claims so I could keep some of the territory, but it didn't work. I guess I had to be the one declaring the war or something.
During one of my campaigns, this time helping my son-in-law, the Byzantine Emperor, my heir died of an illness back home. I was over fifty and my new heir, my grandson, was just six months old. Since I had given my son his own county, my new heir was now out of my control, and I had no ability to do much to help him. I just hoped I could survive until he became of age.
In the end, he grew up and assassinated me at age 69, taking over the kingdom.
All three games technically lasted about the same number of years, but it is interesting to see the differences in how they played out. While my own actions in game certainly had consequences, in the grand scheme of things, I didn't seem to be able to do much to change the course of history. I still don't think I quite have the hang of this game.
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Jan 13th, 2014 at 00:50:42 - Uplink (PC) |
I started playing Uplink by doing the tutorial. It went fairly well, so I signed up for my first job. I hacked into a system, copied some files to my hard drive and then mailed them to my client. I didn't own a log deleter, so I ended up taking the money I earned from that job and buying the program. I then went back and tried to cover up my tracks as best I could.
Since my current Uplink computer is as slow as they come, I decided I'd better put some distance between myself and my targets. I logged on to the Internet Information Center and downloaded every link in the phone book. I then set up a set of jumps that used every publicly listed server on the planet. I then saved the map (a very handy feature) and went back to the Uplink Servers.
Having some actual experience under my belt, I went back to the job boards and signed up for every job I was eligible to perform, regardless of the description. I contacted each of the clients and pestered them to give me more money. None of them agreed, of course, but I did manage to convince two or three to pay me half up front, which gave me enough cash to buy the fanciest log deleter in the catalog.
Now that I had ten or eleven clients waiting for me to deliver, I got back to the somewhat tedious task of copying and deleting files...
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Jan 12th, 2014 at 20:35:40 - Crusader Kings II (PC) |
I decided to play again, once again playing as the Prince of Kiev. This time I changed my succession laws to primogeniture, so that my realm wouldn't get smaller every time I died. Again, this made me pretty unpopular, but it only involved bribing one of my vassals. I had considerably fewer attempts on my life this time and I lived to be an old man in his fifties. Unfortunately, I became rather infirm and senile, to the point where I had to name a regent to rule the country. It was about this time when my brother (who apparently had a much bigger kingdom) decided to invade.
The war seemed to be going rather well for me, at first. I raised a decent army and went off to besiege one of my brother's provinces. I won quite a few battles and nearly conquered the county. Considering how few troops he had at the front lines, it seemed a rather poor choice for him to invade me. Unfortunately, a huge army slowly marched in from somewhere, which was about twice as big as mine. It made short work of my troops and then moved into my territory. Half a dozen other nobles decided to declare war on me at this point as well, though I don't think it did much to change the course of the war.
In the end, my brother made peace, after I had died, and left my son with a tiny kingdom in the southwest. It seems as though he died soon after, because his huge empire was soon a bunch of warring counties that occasionally asked me to jump into the fighting against one or another. Despite this shift in power, I was never able to take back my rightful throne in Kiev, leaving me an old man in a rather unimpressive kingdom.
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