So I’ve recently gotten a new job. I’m working as a clerk at a gas station two blocks from my house. It’s not a bad job, it’s just probably going to be rather monotonous, with me cleaning up messes, stocking shelves, and selling things to people. It will be a decent summer job though, and I should be able to rake in a couple thousand dollars by the end of the summer.

I’ve been playing a lot of World In Conflict lately, and it is interesting to see how over time people change their general strategies on how they play the game. World In Conflict has clearly reached the mature stage of its lifetime, in which the hardened veterans have every single detail worked out on which units are better, how many units they’ll need to beat a certain map, and where all of the best hiding places on the maps are. I personally like to stick with attack helicopters (AH-64s), and I fly around and blow up tanks and heavy artillery units. It has been getting harder though, as most of the new players are gone and the veterans all know how to counter four or five heavy helicopters flying around, blowing up their units. I’d like to write some articles sometime on game-play life-cycles, and how they can affect a game’s long-term scenario. Today is not that day, however, as I have a new job to learn and a new routine to get into.

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