How is Mount and Blade?

SoaSE: Rebellion is 66% off on Steam right now. I just bought a 4-pack for $40.

                   Massive Sales At Various Sites....

GamersGate Space weekend sale Every Space based game you can think of...Almost...

Sins Rebellion for 12.99 at GameFly As well these games as well....

• Gratuitous Space Battles for $3.75
• Armada 2526 Gold Edition for $9.99
• Endless Space – Admiral Edition for $14.99
• Gemini Wars for $4.99
• X3: Reunion for $2.49
• Galaxy on Fire 2 Full HD for $4.99
• Star Ruler for $4.99

Picked up Cities XL on the midweek Steam sale last week.  Very interesting.  I like the way I'm not tied to a SimCity grid.  I'm a sucker for city builders and I think Cities XL really delivers with the options it has.  I do miss the region map because I believe location matters (unskilled workers are not going to commute daily halfway around the world...) but it's a little thing, and for the most part I don't trade workers anyway - it's always easy enough to just build another zone.  So far.

I bought Cities XL with the sale on Steam too.

One thing I can say for sure is that relative to Simcity (2000 and 3000, at least), the game mechanics are very simple.

For example, I built a factory next to a farm, and the farm suffered no ill effects. I intermindled residential, commercial and indutrial zones, and put low skilled and skilled housing next to each other, and the only warning I got was that people were having a hard time moving into the city.

In simcity, doing those kind of things made people move out, not try to move in.

Another member suggested mods to change the gameplay, but so far, all I've found are building mods.

If I understand correctly, it was orignally a multiplayer game, which could explain why it's so simple relative to the single player SC games.

Sots Pit 4.99$- http://store.steampowered.com/app/233700/

Crusader Kings Complete 19$ or base for 9.99$ http://store.steampowered.com/sub/26483/ and http://store.steampowered.com/app/203770/

Civ V Gold on Steam for $12.50 USD through June 10th!!!

Does anyone use www.reddit.com/r/GameDeals ? That's my go to for all new deals these days. Also, amazon launched a new indie game store, and they are featuring amazing deals and bundles for the whole month of June. Their Double Fine (+other games) bundle is even better than the recent humble bundle.

I've always used slickdeals.net for deals.  I did not know reddit had a setup here.  Thx for mentioning and I'll take a look. 

That sub actually looks really active as well.  Worth a look for others imo.  http://www.reddit.com/r/GameDeals

Humble Bundle Weekly!   ALL Serious Sam games!   Steam keys availble for most of'em!

I use this website for game deals:

http://www.deals4downloads.com/#/f/gp__pc--pst__coregames/s/hot/page/1

You can customize your search for sites, genre, etc. 

One thing to keep in mind is that Elites have a lower tolerance for everything than Executives, etc going down.  Unskilled workers will live anywhere they can get a job.

As for farms/factories, not sure how that works yet.

The economic system is really neat though, a single city needs some of everything, houses demand stuff, industry demands the previous industry and resources, etc. so that you have to build some of each.

Torchlight is free on GOG.com for the next few days.

There's a ton of games on sale on GOG.com, including Faster than Light for $2.49.

http://www.gog.com/

Steam has a huge sale on all things Paradox.