MKD - 2012/2013 Season's end

Another season comes to an end... 2012 started off a bit slow, and our team maintained a barely good enough form for a good portion of this season. Not until the last strech of 2013 did the players really put in the work, as you can see on the fixtures for this season.

Here is what the league table looks like for the Championship and for the Premier League

Lastly some stats for you from the EPL and Championship

...and a piece of good news... after pushing a bit on the board, this is what is ahead for MKD

Onyx County - Riverside (pt.2)

 So back to showing my main city at the moment. This is the city of Riverside, which currently has roughly a population of 400k. In the first picture you can see a low mag picture of the NE end of the city, where the city started. The neighbourhood of Great Oak is the oldest residential area of the city and right now isn't really the most developed. I would like to work on making it a bit nicer once the new subdivisions are finished. It is one of the few areas which has low density residential neighbourhoods. It is connected to the downtown area via the Figo Bridge (Onyban South) as well as the monorail that takes a good portion of commuters from this end of the city to the heart of Riverside. You can also see it is connected to the newer subdivisions on the west through a new extension of the Onyban Highway West.

 Below are low mag photos of the west side of the city as well as a piece of the downtown core on the bottom right of the picture.

 The idea behind the design of this downtown was to have an efficient transportation system to get commuters in and out of the core without relying on cars as much as possible. Later on I will show more, but the downtown is well connected via highways (mainly the Onyban South which surrounds part of it) as well as a subway system and the monorail that goes through most of riverside main districts.

 On the west side of Riverside you can see some other dense areas, such as Chapolin Boulevard, which is a large emerging commercial centre, just around the convention centre.

  The area west of the Riverside International Airport reaching Chapolin Boulevard is the Kronenverd District, which is the other main commercial hub of the city built around the city's need for the Airport and the Convention centre, which now attracts a lot of tourists and businesses from abroad.
 

Lastly, this is a photo of the NW side of Riverside, where the new developments are. They run along the Onyban West, and will eventually be part of the connecting development with future commercial hubs in other cities as well as the Lyans Port, which will be one of the main connections between Onyx region and other regions.

Onyx County - overview of my SC4 region (pt.1)

Just recently I decided to get back to one of my favorite games of all times, Sim City 4. It's shocking how exciting a 10 year old game can still be, more shocking that nothing nearly as good has been released in this period. So here is a bit of a tour of my save so far...

To start here is a picture of my region a few weeks ago when I picked up the game again. This is kind of an old save of mine.

Now more recent pictures of my region

In the next post I'll show some of the most interesting cities in close up. But just to give you a sense of the cities, here are some of the demographics:

Riverside (Residential / Commercial / Industrial)

396K / 153K / 28K
Antium
255K / 104K / 13K
Blankyville
248K / 113K / 13K
Singularity Point
35K / 7.7K / 3.4K
Pickett
1.2K / 7.7K / 3.4K
Poluida
457K / 2K / 12K

MKD - 2011/2012 Other results

Just for anyone curious about how the other leagues panned out, here it it. EPL -> Brazilian league -> Championship -> Italian league -> Spanish League

MKD - Promotion to npower Championship

 Season 1 is done, and our MKD won not only a promotion but also the title. Here are some of the stats for this season. First the table and fixtures

We had quite an exciting team as well and here are some interesting stats from our players. Notably, Daniel Power was the league's top scorer with a wooping 37 goals, followed by Francois Zoko (32, Carlisle United) and Iain Hume (28, Preston). Preston actually had a really impressive season in my 2011-2012 season, they not only did well in L1 but they managed to get to the final of the FA Cup after beating Newcastle on the semi final and Wigam in the Sixth round. They lost the final to Manchester City 3x0, but boy they showed some heart there.

Other interesting stats... Daniel Power had the best rating of the L1 with 7.51, followed by Preston's Iain Hume (7.48) and MKD's Mauricio Risso (7.35). In terms of assists Stephen Quinn took 1st (19, Sheffield United), followed by Antonio Tomas (18, MKD) and Dale Stephens (15, Charlton). MOM winner was Francois Zoko (14, Carlisle), Iain Hume (11, Preston) and Daniel Powell / Shefki Kuqi / Nathan Eccleston (8, MKD / Oldham / Brentford)

Milton Keynes Dons - new FM12 carreer

All the talk about FM13 has made me very eager to play FM again. I thought I'd be able to wait for FM13, but turns out I couldn't, so I started a new game managing Milton Keynes Dons from the English Npower League 1. I decided to go with MKD for a couple of reasons:

1. They had a reasonably sized stadium
2. They were not as low league as my previous games
3. They were located in a more prosperous region than some of the other teams I was considering

I will have to come clean to start with... In this game I have cheated a little. By that I mean that I edited so that MKD has a sugar daddy and so that I wiped all the debt off of the team before I joined. Problem? This will just make my financial situation a bit better in this game, which may help me stay motivated and play more than a couple of seasons. Well let's see how it works out.

Also I'm not going to updated the blog on this game as much just to see if I can get further by just playing through. In the beginning I might just do a few reports every season to mention how things are going, however not until I have a pretty solid thing going on, I will post more details on this career.

Review: Faster than light

Just picked up a nice little indy game this week called Faster than light (FTL), which is available on steam for less than $10. The game is a space dungeon crawler kind of thing. You start off with only one option for a ship, and 3 humans as crew. From there you are put in a sector where you have to keep jumping to other sectors as you are being chased by some bad guys. As you move along you encounter different things, such as pirates that want to kill you, ships in distress and other randomized type things. You are often given options on what you want to do next, so there is a level of RPG in it that way as well as the fact that you "level up" and improve your ship as you go.

Similarly to other roguelikes (ie. Dwarf Fortress), it is almost always innevitable that you will die. At least for me so far, the game is about seeing how far I can get before I get myself into a situation I have no chance of succeeding in. The reason I like it so much is the amount of strategy involved with the combat. It reminds me a bit of X3 but obviously it doesn't have the same quality of graphics as you can see from my pic, but managing crew, weapons and so forth are quite fun and it does get quite intense. For that I give this little gem a B+, for it's originality as well as for being such a fun and well paced game.