A casual-ified Alpha Centauri-type simulation management game that is so much more fun than it sounds. You play the president of a colony of human refugees who have escaped the calamity of Earth to found a new home on a planet whose orbit keeps it on the opposite side of the sun. Hence the name "Via Sol", which means "through the sun" in Latin.
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Fun game. My only big complaint is that it's too easy to build on every.
Single.
Square.
On the entire map. I usually invest in a lot of Quarries and can do this very early.
Cool, but very difficult. I had to put a whole bunch of relatives in charge before I could eventually win (even on beginner). The happiness meter drops so quickly!
The trick is to
build quarries on the vast majority of your flatlands until you can get tech two, at which point you should use biofarms and wind farms to cover all flatlands and hills, respectively. Happiness is almost never able to drop too fast for you to catch up with the early drop using this strategy. I can consistently get about +10/-0 happiness growth with this method. You need just enough for basic functionality until that point. And the answer is always more ore.
And about choosing your starting point:
If it's possible, you should find a point adjacent to an ore deposit and a river, providing quick, cheap boosts to ore and energy production. These will fuel you for the early parts of the game.
heck, i completed this in like, half an hour but this game rocks. its been out for a while though, so im sure allot of other people have played it.
Actually, I found that a better build order was to:
1) Choose a spot next to a river and an ore deposit
2) Start building a College
3) Send roads across the entire map to build on all the deposits
4) Build hydro dams on all of the rivers on the map
5) Finish college, start building Fortress
6) Build two towns
7) Start spamming farms, nuclear plants, and the occasional quarry until victory
I never build any quarries until the late game, and after a failure or two of practice, I can always get the towns and farms out before my happiness level drops too low. Then it's just about building more of the correct resource until you win, all the difficulty is in the first section to get a solid foundation. I can win pretty easily on difficult mode with the really obnoxious governments this way.
Great game! I love the distinct civilization-ness of this title, and the black humor and not-so-subtle sarcasm works perfectly here. The gameplay is pretty deep (and challenging!), and the whole game (graphics and whatnot) feels very polished. Plus, any game where "No, you insolent fool!" is a valid dialog option is gold in my book ;-)
kleptocracy on map two, is it even possible?
Can anyone do Kleptocracy on Pro for Level 3 without needing to let your relative take your place?
I liked the game, but what I didn't was that at the end of the game when happiness reached 100% it gave me the option to
kill all of the ... with a list of population categories with jews on top.
. that's not funny even in sarcasm.
Great game, but IMO interrupted by far too many "events" - they really ruin the pacing of the game and don't really add much. The sarcasm is funny the first couple of times, but after that I was scanning the text as fast as possible to know which choice to click to get on with the game.
Minor flaw, though.
On the menu it states whether or not you have "cheated".
Does anyone know what this means, or if it's even possible, how to "cheat".
Haha.I'm a cheater.
I love this game so much! It's probably my favorite game to play online now, since satrical humor is my favorite kind, the messages in the game appeal to me, especially the one that was about finding the bodies;
choose the one about adding that person's body to the pile and read the following text.
I laughed for about 5 minutes after reading it.
What Is The Cheats?
Please Tell Me!!!
I know the cheats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
they are
To access the console, press "~", or the number "1".
war is peace = Activates cheats
war is war = De-activates cheats
i like gold = +100 ore (up to 250)
food me up = +100 food (up to 250)
boom = +1,000 people
minimum wage = Build time reduced to 1 week
all up in my face = Turns off/on all events
tech X = Sets tech phase to X (where X is 2 or 3)
bunny powa = Replaces your adviser with a bunny
hurricane = Makes the clouds move really fast
omg my eyes = Makes the clouds move at normal speed
the enabling act = Happy meter unable to fall (Can't undo)
I just put them in a police state..hahahahahha!! MUAHAHAHA!
...Ahem.
Now to test out cheats.
ALWAYS build towns first. Citizens are very angry homeless.
*by the way, game is awesome, an improvement from Via Sol 2. I didn't even really know how to play that game.
it took me 2 tries to beat the game on kleptocracy without having a police state. and when i play i almost never have energy till i get tech 3 which is bad and i lose 27 people per week but i gain way more than who die and i just use via sol tv and junk factories till i can make nuclear power plants
the cheats dont work why i press 1 or ~ but nothing
HOORAY for the cheats!! It took me forever to win the game- on beginner- world 1- free market. Countless relatives put in charge, and I even cheated several times. I'm embarrassed now. :) @wyld's method got me to a 'win' first time I tried it tho- thanx so much.
I feel obligated to mention (damn OCD!) that "Via Sol" actually means "Sun Road" or "Way of the Sun" or various other translations. "Through the sun" would be "Trans sol."
Erk, scratch that, it'd be "Trans solem" or "per solem."
All in all, a fun, but easy, game. I won on my second try.
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