I'm stuck.Welcome to the offical website of Ski Region Simulator. The rear wheels are on the ground, the bucket is in the salt, the salt is in the bucket, but the front wheels, the ones that actually turn when you accelerate, are in midair, touching nothing. I drive my loader over, and slowly push the front of it into the salt pile, thrilled to see that the bucket fills with salt, but not thrilled to see, once again, that the loader has become wedged on the salt pile. But at last, the salt will be mine! The precious, precious salt. I have to sell the snowmobile back, again, at a huge loss, to afford the spreader. Now, I can afford the tractor and the loader, but not the salt spreading attachment, which is $28,000, which seems like a lot for just a big metal saltshaker. ![]() I sell the truck, only noticing after I click the button that I've sold it back at a 50% loss. Henry story "The Gift of the Magi" only with a single gift and several tons of salt. So, I can either have a truck with no salt, or a salt loader with no truck. One problem: I can't afford it without selling the giant salt truck I just purchased. There is something for sale called a "Skid Steer Loader with Bucket", which will allow me to fill my truck with salt, I guess. I rush back to the vehicle store, where my snowmobile is parked, and take a moment to look through the rest of the vehicles. Maybe I can push it off with my snowmobile or something. My $95,000 truck is stuck on the pile of salt. I try backing the truck into the salt, thinking, I don't know, maybe the salt will just jump in there, but my truck simply drives up on the giant salt mountain and stops. An info box tells me I need to fill the truck with salt, but doesn't give me indication of how this is to be accomplished. I drive my new truck over to the salt pile, then begin to wonder how this is going to work. It finally occurs to me that I don't know what to spread salt on or even why I would spread salt on anything, but then I remember: parking lots! Salt is the best way to melt iced-over pavement while simultaneously turning cars into rusting husks. I am going to fill this truck with salt and then spread the salt on things. I head back to the vehicles store, and find an enormous truck called the Lizard Cougar Salt Spreader, which costs $95,000. I love doing things in video games that I've never done before, and I've never done anything with a giant pile of salt before in a video game, so when another fetch quest pops up, promising me thousands of dollars for a routine driving chore, I decline it and decide to do something with this mesmerizing bunch of salt instead. This giant pile of salt is immediately hypnotizing to me. Then, I spot the aforementioned ten-foot-tall pile of salt and that plan goes straight to hell. Maybe I can turn this whole resort around and actually start making a profit. Don't buy any other equipment or vehicles or buildings in the meantime. Subsist on snowmobile missions until I'm making a profit, then invest in additional slopes. A few minutes later, another fetch quest pops up: I'm asked to deliver a spool of replacement cable to one of the lift stations, for which I'll be paid $5,800. ![]() Whoa! $11,000 for spending a few minutes to deliver a box of towels? If someone needs a toothbrush and some contraceptives, I'll actually be able to pay for this snowmobile. There's a box of towels someone has thoughtfully placed outside in the snow for me to collect, because who doesn't enjoy an ice-cold sopping wet towel on a crisp winter day? I speed up the mountain, deliver the towels, and am paid a staggering $11,000. ![]() I speed back to the vehicle store to buy a slightly different kind of sled for another couple grand, then drive to the spot indicated on my map. ![]() For instance, my first task is to drive around in a giant snow tractor, grooming the ski slope I've purchased, which essentially amounts to painting the snow a slightly different shade of white until a percentage meter fills all the way up. And, as many of these simulation games do, it appears as if this is going to be an exercise in driving from A to B in a variety of similar vehicles with a thin layer of finance management spread over the top. I'm playing Ski Region Simulator this week, which promises me the opportunity to create and manage a world class ski resort. And yet, simply by being a pile of salt, it ruined everything. It just sat there, in a pile, being salt. It didn't attack me with a machete or set fire to a building or steal my identity and run up a massive credit card bill in the Bahamas. Granted, I can't really blame the pile of salt itself. I refuse to bury the lede, so I'm just going to come right out and say it: a ten-foot-tall pile of salt has completely destroyed any hopes I had of running a successful ski resort.
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