Songs of Syx: Epic City-State Simulator! - ep 2

This indie, early-access city-builder has a truly EPIC scope. It makes Dwarf Fortress look tiny!
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[@TSZatoichi]

Small QOL tip for you: Make roads 3 tiles wide, later in the game you'll want to put lighting and statues/trees in to beatify the neighborhoods and with 3 tile roads you can put those lights/statues on the center tile without blocking traffic. Also: This is a game of neighborhoods, try keep service buildings small-ish because you're probably going to end up with another one close by anyway.

[@BS-nw1qr]

Quill: I want the settlement to look uneven. Also Quill: I didn't line up this building right... I get it tho.

[@burnhamrobertp]

Syx is the name of the world in which the game is set

[@pterrok5495]

It'll be eye-opening when you find out how to se the trade caravans on the world map--stuff you order, like your metal--comes from SOMEWHERE and may travel by sea or land wagons to get to you. It can take MONTHS to arrive.

[@Dexi]

The buy and sell should be turned into one double-ended slider, drag the left side to buy up to X, drag the right side to sell down to Y.

[@mouse171]

Nah, it's useful so you can sell meats and stuff when full and buy it if you run out

[@Alex_Fahey]

You always want those sliders seperate to allow a range of goods in games that have resource management. Otherwise, you end up without an easy way to manage resources with variable sources and draws over time. For example, you might naturally buy a few of a resource you use but don't have a production chain for. If you suddenly recieve a lot of that resource by an event like defeating a raid or conducting one, then you need to change the sliders to sell to deal with the oversupply clogging up storage and then change it back again and do this process every time something like that happens. Alternatively, if you make the sell and buy the same point, you end up losing a lot more money via trading (assuming there is an actual trading system rather than 1:1 conversion). For example, if you are making food every summer then allowing a stockpile range will allow you to get through the winter without buying more. If you have the sell and buy levels at the same point, you end up selling a lot of food when it is cheap in harvesting season and buying a lot of it when it is expensive in winter.

[@pterrok5495]

About the people portraits: what you were seeing is that their faces were covered in DIRT since they haven't had a bath! (Or some skinny-dipping in a lake.) So once you get the bath-house that should clear up...

[@Yaminakai]

This games feels like Dwarf fortress meet graphic designer. I love it.

[@aelix56]

It's way simpler than dwarf fortress but I hope it can ramp up complexity eventually.

[@Yaminakai]

@@aelix56 True you do not need to castrate cats. But it is scratches the right part of my brain which Dwarf Fortress do as well.

[@ric1194]

@@aelix56 This is a grander scale than DF though, that's more focused on small things where as this is building a kingdom, you could build Erebor on this, you can't do that on DF

[@cheer90099]

@@aelix56 honestly that's pretty good. it's like an in-between of the eye-bleeding, mind-bending complexity of DF and the simpler, more game-y Rimworld

[@agentbarron3945]

@@aelix56 DF actually isnt all that complex. 80% of the complexity is just the awful UI (no dissing on the game at all its one of my favorites) but when someone with a few hundred hours of experience has issues building stairs after a long break then its an issue (b-C-x instead of d-i to dig stairs) The simulation is incredibly deep on df yes, but its mostly just that, a simulation, the player has surprisingly little control of their dwarfs compared to rimworld or even this game. Everyone vastly overstates the learning cliff of Dwarf Fortress, but its exactly that, a cliff, once you get up that steep part of learning the ui, there's a plateau on top of a surprisingly easy to play and enjoy game

[@SqueakySniper]

I don't think I could play this because of how much time I would have to dedicate to learning the mechanics but watching your playthrough is facinating. love the vids Quill.

[@ColinusTheGreat]

I'm loving the music it's good to hear this in a game

[@commanderstorm8874]

I need to buy the full version of this game now that I realize how in depth you can go with the logistics and the city

[@OMamifero]

Best game I’ve played in years for sure. Worth the buy

[@commanderstorm8874]

@@OMamifero yep bought the full version shortly after this comment and have put about 35 hours into it since then with some mods

[@witchfynder_finder]

/looks at length of video I'm calling it now before I watch: somewhere around 35-40 minutes in, quill is gonna say "Oh my god I need to put a cut in!" and then just keeps playing.

[@witchfynder_finder]

Dang, I was wrong, he just straight never noticed the time and played for an entire hour.

[@falicito1710]

Don't ever stop playing this game :)

[@dickrichard626]

That would be a life worse then death. 😆 🤣 😂

[@perhapsyes2493]

On the UX bit 5:43 concerning the import/export control: I would build it so that there is just one bar, with 2 values. Buy up to X1 percent, Sell down to X2 percent. X1 cannot go higher than X2.

[@LuPoN7]

This has been an insta-buy from me during your first video. This game speaks to me on so many levels!

[@jerrydidrik]

Loving this game so far.

[@DeoFavento]

Enjoying this a lot, keep it up

[@PepsisFormosa]

Really really digging this game and Farthest Frontier!

[@GriffinMan00]

Oh shit! I've been playing this for ages and I'm so happy You dropped these all of a sudden!

[@nwahally]

"Lavatories - the throne for the everyday peasant."

[@wippet1412]

Enjoying this a lot ! Btw you're missing a road in the middle !

[@mcmanon5696]

Thanks for the video! Now I want this game :)

[@joelzhl]

Not sure if you know this, but you don't need an import depot for a one time import. You can just buy it from the goods menu. This is really useful for things like early weapon and armor.

[@TSZatoichi]

Ahhh.... thank you, I've never noticed the coins labeled "special orders" before, that'll certainly help in my next playthroughs.

[@Dark__Thoughts]

He literally said and showed that.

[@thomasslattery3567]

OMG I love your videos please make more ☺️

[@thedumbchicken7120]

for the export import I think a system similar to that of foundation would work well, in that game you set a number to keep for example you buy until you have 10 in your stockpile or sell when you have more than 30.

[@Dark__Thoughts]

That's how he expected / wanted it to work as well.

[@stevepittman3770]

1:29 The word you're looking for is 'swell'. ;)

[@Bereli93]

"/.../7, age 14, age 12... I have CHILDREN doing science?!" I dunno why but that was so funny :D

[@hundun5604]

~52:40 '..bread maker'. Sorry for nitpicking, but that's a baker my friend. 😉 He works in a bakery, baking bread.😁 People have a preference what they eat. Just give them what they're craving for. That will improve there fulfillment the most I believe. I don't think a large(r) stockpile will give the same result.

[@TheRojo387]

It's a double whammy for Dwarf Fortress.

[@Maeyanie]

I'm not sure if this is still true after the latest update, but it used to be that, early-game, the technology-boosting techs were a trap. Technology points decay as a % just like everything else, and the technology-boosting techs would increase your decay more than they increased your research, giving a net negative. Later on, once you had expanded research a bit more, _then_ they got useful.

[@xato13]

There are no knowledge boosting techs anymore but some that unlock the ability to upgrade and refurbish the labs and libraries making them more expensive to maintain but produce more knowledge. Also libraries give a % to laboratories and laboratories work like libraries used except they do not consume paper.

[@p4thf1nd3r8]

The music is epic kinda Celtic

[@Zacht1980]

I noticed the snow animation disappears over the "work" buildings, but not over the houses. Bug maybe, or just low quality homes that don't keep out the cold?

[@TwoWayOrbitalStation]

The homes technically don't have walls or roofs at the moment, you have to allow them to use wood

[@hundun5604]

21:50 According the wiki, above 5y is seen as a adult. Don't know why. Maybe to reduce 'useless consumer' time?

[@lachlarlan9467]

Unless it is countered by in-game lore, I'm assuming Syx is what the world is called.

[@LH-ed9ef]

You could also continue enclosing your Borrows with roads to improve the look

[@gerwyn8340]

Syx can also be pronounced Psix (similar to Syxaphone) in the Celtic languages.

[@marcgiudice6070]

I noticed that there’s an army depot so does that mean that fighting happens in the world or is that just a trade mechanic?

[@TumultuousTitan]

There's a raiding mechanic to which you can maintain a militia. There is also an army mechanic which you need to supply. The army can fight raiders in the field and go out and conquer territory, but conquering doesn't come till at least 1000 pops and admin is unlocked. The world has "rebel" provinces and empires. The fighting is Total war style but not instanced, though no where near as polished given the resources the single dev has.

[@bradwood556]

I love the content and music, but the music is a bit loud

[@Joostmhw]

finally

[@kcflick6132]

Do houses not cost resources? Do they have walls and roofs?

[@michaelwilson5866]

Pretty much. You can allow certain resources to be used by houses which increases happiness.

[@kcflick6132]

@@michaelwilson5866 I mean do the walls cost anything? I know the personal items do.

[@michaelwilson5866]

@@kcflick6132 no. Not on the normal housing, such as house, longhouse, or apartment. No cost other than labor.

[@kcflick6132]

@@michaelwilson5866 aww what a Shame, it should use a little wood. Or something. :( for immersion.

[@pira707]

@@kcflick6132 just think of it as a mud hut/ grass hut/ tent.

[@Dacusx]

At 42:20, isn't it music from Witcher 3? kzbin.info/www/bejne/hJzRm3hoiKeDrtk

[@DeoFavento]

Press Delete to get rid of what you have searched for btw dude

[@Chyllstorm]

Either i know you too well, or you know your audience too well, because I was *super close* to leaving a "helicopter landing spot" quip in the comments on part one. 😆

[@OrrgunUK]

An easy way to see if you have homeless people is on the top of the screen to the right of the speed controls.

[@Zacht1980]

Music volume is a little too loud.

[@dot2562]

Sing a song of syx pence

[@barbaron123]

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[@carlosgalaron7878]

Music too loud compared to your voice boss

[@andrewbakescakes9684]

After watching this, it is hard to think DF is good. Unless you want a game with a zillion "behind the curtain" things happening that have an impact on the game in a way that removes even MORE player agency, then DF has nothing on this.

[@broorb4104]

S-igh-x?

[@ianphillips3506]

If I'm right the name is in reference to the river Styx, the river that flows through the land of the dead.

[@Mounthuapleb5890]

My only problem with the game is how ugly races look..and maybe it would've been better if they were classic fantasy races, instead of whatever the other races, other than humans, are supposed to be

[@fredmercury1314]

When I left Uni I shared a flat with two other people. Everyone I knew also had shared accommodation. That was 25 years ago. Stop crying.

[@miniclip1162]

Yeah? How many people in your generation stayed home till their 30ties? 90% of people i grew up with are only starting to move out now in their 30ties. And have lived through 2-3 economic crisises. Nobody is crying about that. You are 25 years out of the loop old timer. Stop pretending you have a pulse on what younger people are going through. Only person crying is you. You aught to try this game. You really need a hobby other than skulking about them "youngins".

[@fredmercury1314]

@@miniclip1162 Choosing to stay at home with your parents, like a lil babby, instead of making your way in the world like an adult, is on you not me. Stop making excuses. Stop crying.

[@madsb7673]

Isn’t english your first language? You seem to struggle to pronounce the most simple words

[@miniclip1162]

Wow. You must be a fun person to hang around with.

[@MikeeGG]

Syx is the world. Derp. You are playing way too slow.