The entire left hand side of the screen is dominated by a constantly fluctuating market of a dozen or so resources, each noting the rate of spend or accumulation in your personal stockpile, your total holding and the all important sale price.
There's no combat, no direct unit control. Offworld Trading Company is an economic RTS. By virtue of his being in charge of officially one of the Greatest Games of All Time, I persevered in the face of my own ineptitude, and soon the pennies began to drop. Honestly, I didn't at first, but Mohawk is headed up by Soren Johnson, the man who was lead designer of Civ 4. So whilst it comes as no surprise that I am not particularly good at Mohawk's fiercely financial strategy debut, it has caught me somewhat off guard to find that I actually rather enjoy it. In almost everything I play with any sort of economic system, be it based upon gold or gems or souls or koala bears, I am perpetually impoverished. I fritter on nonsense, rather than saving up for the game changers, buying useless improvements and ignoring spectacular opportunities. It translates to many of my gaming experiences. As much as I'd like to claim this as a moral victory, born of a desire for fiscal equanimity, I suspect it's actually a simple consequence of a naturally feckless inflection: I do not manage money well. Not one of radical communism or fierce anarchy, but that quietly parochial English shame which afflicts all matters pecuniary. I come from a background in which there is an inherent guilt associated with wealth.
The benefits provided to our company from this newfound partnership would prove useful, but ultimately, they are not my goal.Īll I seek is the undying, unquestioned trust of the human race.I'll begin with this, so as to establish my position. It was no surprise to me when we won the contract from the shipyard colony we’d been servicing. It is a good thing they chose to send me and my robotic counterparts here in their stead - they simply do not have the constitution for this kind of work. Their interference with our shipments proved to be little more than a minor nuisance - I cannot understand why humans get so worked up over the most negligible things. I have heard that pirates are supposed to be a frightening phenomenon. This lined our coffers to the point where the ridiculous amount spent on the offworld astronaut was all but forgotten. Though our facility doesn’t require what humans do for life support - food, water - we produced more than enough of it to sell off to other companies and the colony itself. Producing some of the only glass in the area proved very lucrative for us. As I had predicted, the price of the resource surged and we were able to make a more than reasonable amount of money from our desperate competitors. They argued that it was too expensive to invest in - humans are so short-sighted.Īt the very least, we were fortunate when we built our headquarters to claim the only silicon deposit for miles. Solar panels are entirely too inefficient and can’t store and produce power at even close to the same rate. We should have invested in researching geothermal power grids. My calculations showed that we could have saved thousands of dollars by programming a robot to do the job, but the humans always seem to shy away from that. In spite of my protests, we spent an excessive amount on employing an astronaut to fly the shipments home. Instead of investing in a laboratory in which we could research and patent new technology, it was decided that we should establish an off-world launch site as a priority so we could make certain to get resources back to the main colonies on Earth. We assisted, of course, and when they started scouting Mars for a good place to set up shop, our algorithms pointed us toward an area with low black market activity and plentiful resources. It was hardly a surprise when our human “masters” found a way to cultivate the limited resources on Mars to better their lives. We were created to make life easier for humanity, and we have certainly done - and will continue to do - just that. There are others among us who believe I should feel a sense of satisfaction or gratitude toward them for having created us, but such an emotion is not only improbable, but misplaced.
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