question for fedya! what kind of management Sims you play?? you seem like a total roller-coaster tycoon kind of fella but maybe not! what are your favorites?
Fedya's ears twitch when he hears your question, and he looks a little less terrified.
M-my favorite is a game called "Dying Star." It's- Well-
He gives himself a moment to work out how he's going to describe it.
The premise is, something weird happened to the sun the characters' planet orbits. I mean, it might be aliens or evil magic or something, we don't actually know for sure... But the point is, you need to build a spaceship and stock it with stuff to get as many people off planet as possible before the sun explodes and becomes a black hole and everyone dies! And on the highest difficulty it'll explode in a week, and the materials you're working with are basically like, sticks and tinfoil.
As he's explaining all of this, Fedya becomes unrecognizable. He stops shaking, his voice drops in pitch, and his eyes are shining. You stay quiet because you don't want to break this strange, wonderful spell.
Then when the spaceship leaves orbit the goal becomes to keep the people on it alive until they make it to another planet they have a colony on. So like, you really shouldn't take too many people if you don't have enough resources to keep them alive after.
And you don't just need to keep them physically alive, you also need to keep up their spirits. A lot of new players neglect this, since it doesn't have an immediate profit... huge mistake! Cause if the population gets too hopeless they will refuse to work and just accept their doom, and then you're really screwed.
It's tough! I've put-
He pauses.
Well... like... I've put a lot of hours into it.
You get the sense he actually does know the exact number of hours he's put into it, but is choosing to hold back that information.
The last update really messed everything up though, just totally wrecked the ecosystem. So I've been doing other stuff while I'm waiting for the patch.
Like, I got really into this one show! It's-
Once again it looks like something inside Fedya prevents him from telling you more. His ears droop, the spark goes out of his eyes, and he withdraws into the corner of the room.
W-well, nevermind...