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The Millennium Simulation game turned out to be much harder than I expected.. Considering I play a lot of games and simulation games as well, this seemed to be one of the more realistic and challenging ones I have played before. In my first go around, I focused on keeping Fatou and Kojos’ health as high as possible. This meant allocating time and resources in order to make sure that they stayed healthy. Although this was a good strategy for a while and kept them alive, eventually this caused them to get sick anyway due to lack of money.. Also, I constantly thought I had finally found the right balance of allocating time for fishing, farming, gathering fuel and water, but everytime I found the right balance for a round or two, the simulator would tell me the next\u00a0 round that the food or water needs were not met. This really shows that with the changing world, especially in a time where you are trying to stay alive, what you do one year will not always work the next time. It also really shows me the complexity of allocation of time and\u00a0 resources, something that many of us in America and the world who do not have to worry about this allocation of resources take for granted sometimes.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Besides just keeping the characters alive and making sure they had enough wood and water (and it got continuously harder to do this), the thing I struggled with the most was earning money. No matter if I put more time into the small business, farming, wood collecting, etc, for some\u00a0 reason I could never get it to bring in a decent\u00a0 amount of money which was really frustrating. I thought I figured out which crops were better than the other, but then it\u00a0 would tell me there was a really bad season of collecting crops, something me nor the characters I was playing as really had any control over. It really shows you that survival is not\u00a0 always completely in your control, and trying to make money in such a rural setting is\u00a0 very difficult. It also showed me the difficulty of needing to try to make money without having any funds to allocate in order to increase profit. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Millennium Simulation game turned out to be much harder than I expected.. Considering I play a lot of games and simulation games as well, this seemed to be one of the more realistic and challenging ones I have played before. In my first go around, I focused on keeping Fatou and Kojos’ health […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5101,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41194],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-responses"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5101"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6877,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6876\/revisions\/6877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/criticalthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}