A bit Confused

[TerryLEE 0]

Been playing for a couple of hours Is there anything to work toward?  So far I'm making so much money my citizens tell me to spend more.  I keep just plopping new homes venues and work.
Is this it?

[Poetic 0]

I really don't think this game was meant to be difficult (which, to me, isn't completely a bad thing). I like the difficulty of SC4, but I think this game is really more of a fantasy society builder than a strategy game (at least that's what I'm hearing by fans defending the game). Basically if you want a game where you can make a romantic village or a evil dictator society with no problems then try SCS, but if you want a complex game that is realistic then SC4 is better.

SCS is good for imagination (with little-to-no strategy), SC4 is good for realism & strategy. Although, thanks to mods, SC4 is also good at imagination too (just look at the CJs). I'm hoping in the future I'll be able to make really fantasy-like cities that I can really let my imagination run away... I don't know if it will be with SCS, SC4, CU or SC5 (?), but SCS looks the one that is most likely to make it happen (assuming there are mods, expansion packs, etc...)

Some people say SCS is for kids... I think it is definitely for the kid in us. It's an easy, casual gamer, type of game. I think it's more superficial than anything - making an eyecandy fantasy town (like something out of a book or movie) than an actual in-depth game.

[Karybdis 34]

I would say SCS is kinda limited as far as imagination goes too. Regardless of how many tilesets there are, square angled roads of only a couple of surface textures doesn't allow much in the amount of variability... The terrain types are a help though, as is the weather.

Quite frankly, the networks were what allowed the massive amount of variability in SC4 and would have allowed it in SCS. There were an enormous amount of tilesets to build various societies with too, but that was later...