{"id":184,"date":"2006-11-25T12:55:58","date_gmt":"2006-11-25T16:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/2006\/11\/25\/sid-meiers-railroads\/"},"modified":"2006-11-25T12:55:58","modified_gmt":"2006-11-25T16:55:58","slug":"sid-meiers-railroads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/2006\/11\/sid-meiers-railroads\/","title":{"rendered":"Sid Meier&#039;s Railroads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been playing (in my very little spare time while working on USM2!) the last game from Sid Meier&#8217;s, Railroads. At first my impression was very positive (well is still quite positive). But lately I found that the AI, which is in charge of moving the trains from one city to another, using the binaries you&#8217;ve placed, has some troubles \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>I bet that from the programming point of view that part of the game must have been a real nightmare&#8230; figuring out what is the best path to take with algorithms must have been really hard to program for the (poor) coders of the game!<\/p>\n<p>Apart for that the game rulez, as if Sid was a &#8220;quality guarantee&#8221;. Indeed of their latest games I&#8217;ve played (Pirates, Civilization IV) all of them are very good. Maybe a bit too much geared towards the &#8220;casual&#8221; market (like the annoying cutscenes of Pirates that I was skipping everytime after I saw them once!). Still, he is a real master of gameplay!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been playing (in my very little spare time while working on USM2!) the last game from Sid Meier&#8217;s, Railroads. At first my impression was very positive (well is still quite positive). But lately I found that the AI, which is in charge of moving the trains from one city to another, using the binaries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other-games","category-strategy-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.winterwolves.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}