gamesitwatch

I've been playing this game forever, and I started to feel like the tension of the early days is gone. Whatever settings I picked, I had a fairly stacked base in a couple of weeks, and the game changed from being forced to do missions to get stuff I need, to make random missions to get stuff I want. Decorations, sports cars, whatever. And that just wouldn't do.

To tackle it, I created a PZ settings/mod combo that is pretty challenging, relatively realistic, and is ultimately doable (I think), but only just. My goal was to make something that is relentless early on, but also keeps you on your toes much longer than the regular game. I've been testing it for a few days now, it's certainly not

Anxiety cost me everything. I'm not quite at the point of letting people know the full extent of this, but I lost jobs, relationships, even my home, eventually. Years of my life went by without having any social interaction. I wish I was exaggerating - for about 5 of the past 8 years, I ignored emails and phonecalls, kept personal contact to an absolute minimum, basically restricting it to asking the local grocery store clerk: "How much" and saying "thank you" at the end of the "conversation". Most of us are experiencing isolation due the lockdowns, but for me this is nothing new. The amount of times I left the house I currently live in over the past 2 years is probably in single digits, and