Author Topic: Rant about these Roblox-styled 'tycoons' and why it's a BAD IDEA  (Read 7928 times)

Oh boy, a good ol' tycoon! Just the word tycoon gives me fond memories of fun, tycoon games I would play,

Roller Coaster Tycoon 2,

RCT 3,

Transport Tycoon Deluxe,
oh, we're really at no shortage of good tycoon games.
Hm, so what could go wrong with these tycoons in blockland?

Oh.
It's that kind of tycoon.

So first off I'm going to put this as briefly as possible:

GOOD

WROOOOOOONG

Don't see the point? Let me explain.
So obviously a number of you have enjoyed and played at least one of the tycoon games listed at the top. You enjoyed those games, right? Replayed over and over? Loved them to death?

Okay, so now tell me: Did you EVER get the same feeling when playing one of those tycoons on roblox? Probably not.
I mean that's not to say all 'tycoon' games were the same but uh
Look at the 3 games at the top, then compare to the usual Roblox tycoons.

Do you see a difference?

Yes?

No?

IN THE ROBLOX TYCOONS YOU DO NOTHING BUT SIT ON YOUR GODDAMN FAT ASS WHILE WATCHUNG A RUPPE GOLBERG BLUE BALL MACHINE

What do you do in the other tycoon games?

ACTUALLY CONSTRUCT THINGS IN A CERTAIN MANNER AND MANAGE TO OBTAIN PROFIT.

In the Roblox tycoons you are literally sitting around waiting for an object to go through a contraption straight from MIT to a black square where the object gives you monies.
That's it.
You're doing nothing more than watching paint dry.
In fact, most of them are so boring that they actually have an obby to kill time while you wait for your blue balls to get from one end of the machine to the other. Oh come on. You know something's wrong with a gameplay style if it needs a TIMEKILLING FEATURE.

In games like RCT or TTD, you're not sitting on your ass in order to progress through the game. You're actually building rides/transportation systems in a manner that will give you profit. You're not sitting around the whole time. While you do sit around a bit, that probably one of the last thing on your list when playing those games. You're almost always open to doing more things to get you profit. In Roblox you have to wait around for 5 minutes just to get your walls set up.

It's pretty simple. Why has this not come to mind?

Okay, I know, trying to do something like TTD/RCT in Blockland is a bit extreme but it can't be that extreme for Blockland, right?
I just don't get how nobody saw the problem with Roblox tycoons and also didn't even acknowledge the idea of tycoons like TTD and RCT.

Well, that's that.

/rant
« Last Edit: March 08, 2013, 01:26:10 PM by *FacePalm* »


I, for one, enjoyed the roblox tycoons. Nobody requested a direct carbon copy of the tycoons from roblox, they're just making servers styled like that.

If it doesn't suit you, you don't have to insult people who fancy this sort of server.

I, for one, enjoyed the roblox tycoons.
and besides, maybe we'll have both one day and then we'll have two new things and celebrate and cheer

I agree.

I mean it's pretty neat, but I don't want this to be the new family rp in a month or so.

I agree.

I mean it's pretty neat, but I don't want this to be the new family rp in a month or so.
family RPs are easy enough to make
this is an evented system

i think?

I don't want this to be the new family rp in a month or so.
this was basically the reason for this
also that ithink it'd be much better if the better style of tycoons was pulled off, then blokclanders would be much happier

Off topic: Why did everyone start linking images from Fanpop all of a sudden? I can't see half of them.

On topic: Being from Roblox, I highly agree. We do not need another list of boring game choices replacing Blockland's server list.

Off topic: Why did everyone start linking images from Fanpop all of a sudden? I can't see half of them.
huh
i didnt notice
i'll try and fix that

On topic: Being from Roblox, I highly agree. We do not need another list of boring game choices replacing Blockland's server list.
What I'm getting from this is that "It's from Roblox so it must bad!"

What I'm getting from this is that "It's from Roblox so it must bad!"
Half of the stuff from Roblox IS pretty bad.
I think that instead of tycoons, we should have more RPG-styled games where players can collect money in many different ways, then spend that money on various things such as a house or car.

I think that instead of tycoons, we should have more RPG-styled games where players can collect money in many different ways, then spend that money on various things such as a house or car.
that describes a lot of city RPGs

i feel exactly the opposite of this way.
i got bored of rct 2 in ~a week, but i always and still love the roblox tycoons.

IN THE ROBLOX TYCOONS YOU DO NOTHING BUT SIT ON YOUR GODDAMN FAT ASS WHILE WATCHUNG A RUPPE GOLBERG BLUE BALL MACHINE
You're playing the wrong tycoons.

You're playing the wrong tycoons.
like i said i've played tycoons that aren't that but out of about, let's say 10 tycoons, only about 2 of them are actaully not a blue ball machine.