Wild West Pioneers: City Skylines meets the Wild West

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Wild West Pioneers is a city builder game with a focus on resource gather set in the Western Expansion phase of the Old West in America.

Here are my ideas for the game.

1. Outlaws who harass the town

I think that many city builders are in two camps. The cozy ones and the ones where there is some outside pressure. The Caesar Series generally was based on having some pressure on the player while the SimCity series more of a cozy game.

Wild West Pioneers needs to have outlaws and their gangs running around in random events. These events should be based on multiple mechanics in the game. I think it would make the game more dyanmic and interesting. Many cozy games end up being chores and boring simply because the player is just looking at graphs and charts here.

2. More than just resources

One of the issues that I have with city builders in our age is that many of them focus too much on resource gathering here. There needs to be a focus on character not just looking at objects on a screen.

This is one issue that I have had with some of the Paradox games. They tend to be too focused on the charts instead of the characters and the story. City Skylines tends to have this issue also where the game is simply too clean and too much of a movie set. I want to see the life of the town, not just collect resources. Such a gameplay loop is more of something you see in the RTS genre, where base building is more important than the personality of the units or structures.

3. Every citizen needs to be unique

One thing that I want to see in the games is that there is a sense that every person in your town is unique. Considering that Wild West Pioneers is dealing with small towns, this should be something the engine can handle here. Virginia City and Carson City were rather modest but had huge personalities that one even struggles to find in some medium sized cities in our age now.

I think that the personality system is really important at cultivating replayablity so players have a willingness to spend more time exploring the game. Too many games tend to have shallow gameplay. Players want to not have work but to have an experience that they can remember. Video games are not meant to be jobs and the developer should remember that there.

4. Mayor system has to matter in the game

I have recently heard that the game is going to have mayors that you can choose. This mechanic should mean something in here. Make them have unique personalities and have different political parties so that the game is more unique in every playthrough.

5. Elections

I think that having elections in this game would give some more flavor to your towns. While I believe that the game will probably add more features in DLCs if it is successful in here, having elections would help make these playthroughs more dynamic and it bring it into line what players want now. With the size of these cities being smaller than most city builders, I think that this should be appropriate for this game.

6. Trains need to play an important role

In many parts of the USA, small towns were supported by a new technology, railways. Cheyenne, Wyoming began as a railway town, so did many other places. The game has to be able to capture this change and vibrancy of the trains steaming into these small towns. The steam train has been a technology that capture the imaginations of that age and they are prefect visual aspects of a video game which can show off the power of an engine.

Why Civilization VII is not a Civilization Game: The Emergent Story

The blurbs that appear at certain times of a Civilization III playthrough were always a great way to know about your progress at certain points of a game.

These blurbs, especially the ones that said: “The Most Advanced Nations of the World” or “The Largest Nations of the World” were important to know whether you were going to build a great empire or be at the mercy of your rivals.

This is what Civilization VII is missing. It has the graphics, but it cannot create a feeling of progress or change.

Civilization games are not just about the Civilization but about they affect the world around them. Civilization VII just takes that away and imposes the board game mentality that was starting to creep in with Civilization V.

When you enter a new age, you start with a new civilization of your own choosing, basically resetting the map and you are back to square one. This is essentially splits the game up into three mini games. That is not interesting in the slightest as Civilization is a macro game not some mobile game. While some mobile games are intriguing, Civilization VII basically railroads you into certain gameplay choices. That makes the game less replayable and essentially is changing the spirit of the game.

Civilization V’s continued presence should be a sign of how fans really perceive the newest game. This 15-year-old game continues to outperform Civilization VII. Even Civilization VI, which I had issues with, is ahead of Civilization VII by a considerable amount. I believe that Firaxis Games will have to create a Civilization VIII more quickly than they anticipated as the game is not gaining traction. Civilization VI was in a much better spot a year after release and Civilization V was not surpassing Civilization VI in the player counts.

These small blurbs are just text but they also connect to the great context of the game. You are not simply building a civilization but building a world. That is what Civilization VII lacks and why players are not warming to the game.

How to save money with AI in 2026: Switch to ChatGPT Go

What is ChatGPT Go?

I have made the choice to switch to ChatGPT Go. This is a new tier in the subscription model in here. It is a basic tier above the free usage of the AI chatbot here. It only costs $8 dollars a month.

ChatGPT has been go to LLM since 2023 alongside Microsoft’s Copilot. However, Google was going to catch up at some point here. While they had some stumbles with earlier versions of their AI models, Gemini is really proficient at creating something specific to my interests, photorealistic images. While many people may be tiring of photorealism in movies or video games, I love seeing how an alternate world or historical age would appear through some tweaks in the prompts.

ChatGPT Pro is $20 dollars a month and I think it has more value than a Netflix subscription. Netflix is just stuffing their platform with games and podcasts instead of filmed shows and movies. ChatGPT can be applied to many areas of productivity and entertainment here.

There has been some criticism of ChatGPT in recent weeks. Some say that the site is burning money. Here is my view: Every internet site goes through this phase. The main difference is that ChatGPT has gone from making 3 billion dollars to making 20 billion dollars in 2025.

The company is requiring some very heavy investments in capital, but I believe that they are on the right track in here.

Who should be using ChatGPT Go?

AI tools are some of the greatest ways to be productive and creative at the same time here. However, these tools are not cheap, and we need to be finding more economical ways to use these groundbreaking tools without spending too much here. This makes sense to anyone who wishes to save money in order to balance their budgets here.

Advertising is a necessary part of growing an internet business now. Open AI has to be careful about how it implements ads into this tier of their services. I do not want to be like how Netflix is shoving their ads into their shows. It needs to be subtle and not in your face here. The approach that they seem to be taking is nice and I appreciate it. They need to make it relevant to the users of their accounts. There have been too many ads that are basically irrelevant to my usage in cyberspace.

ChatGPT is approaching 800 billion weekly users. This is an incredible market to use for monetization and for the stabilization of the AI bubble. However, they need to make sure that they produce a product which people want to use. They need it to be useful for their everyday lives in both entertainment and productivity.

ChatGPT Pro is simply too expensive for me right now and ChatGPT Go is prefect for my usage. Having more affordable options to use AI is great for us.

This tool has changed the economy and the world and now its time to find the best way to use it for the betterment of our age.