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I'm itching to get stuck into something for a while. What would you all say is that sim game you have the most hours in?
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Sep 28, 2021 19:25
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Looking at my Steam history my list is Kerbal Space Program, Elite Dangerous, Euro truck 2, and My Summer Car. Honorable mentions American Truck and Farm Sim 19.
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Sep 28, 2021 20:10
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The truck sims for me, then a lot of these games seem to wash out for me around 20 hours. Landlords super, my summer car, bus sim, etc. Still waiting on dang Open Sewer to re-launch. They are consistent in showing development work so it’s not dead but boy it sure is taking them a long time.
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Sep 28, 2021 20:12
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If I get 20 hours out of a game I feel I'm doing well. It's why I've had to set my purchasing limits to games on sale if they're a big name, or more niche games that come in at lower prices. Football Manager is the game I've probably got hundreds of hours out of. Stardew Valley another and most recently Farm Sim racked up a lot of hours. Apart from FM, both SV and FS are both games that go on heavy sale or were already cheap, so it's really tells me something about the kind of games I like, Farm Sim especially, with really niche but strong fanbases that could appeal to me. Lately it's been theHunter I'm racking up hours in, another game I got for about a tenner, with a very strong core fanbase, and it's absolutely worth it.
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Sep 29, 2021 00:10
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Yeah, I've got a ton of these sims but other than FM (where I'm at a thousand hours apparently) it's all 5-15 hour things. Like I enjoy the mindless cleaning in house flipper and train station renovation or any of those things, but I don't really care about the design parts so they don't last long. So it's FM, looong drop to transport fever, then gently caress all
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Sep 29, 2021 03:01
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No. 1 Juicy Boi posted:I'm itching to get stuck into something for a while. What would you all say is that sim game you have the most hours in? Mudrunner, Derail Valley, or Kerbal probably.
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Sep 29, 2021 04:04
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What's a good game for making, like, airline routes or freight routes and a simplified economy?
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Sep 29, 2021 04:38
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Lake of Methane posted:What's a good game for making, like, airline routes or freight routes and a simplified economy? Transport Fever 2 is fairly simple and has routes for planes, trains, trucks, and boats with a very simple economy. Workers and Resources is sort of similar but a little more of a city builder and can be difficult to penetrate and understand. It has an “economy” in that you serve people goods and can use what you generate to build other stuff or export. Both are a little more train focused than plane focused, especially W&R. Both are more focused on an abstract layer that’s a scaled down area and you watch everything move - it’s not like a map game where you watch an icon fly to Hong Kong, or something. I’m sure there’s others I haven’t played (OpenTTD comes to mind) and I’ve bounced off of the few games I’ve tried that are a slightly more abstract “look at a map” level. I’ve always wanted a modern take on something like Ports of Call but anything I’ve seen close (which is a vague memory of a game I saw years ago, so not much) has not looked good. You might be better off asking over in the management games thread if that’s the layer of gameplay you want - it seems like you’re asking more for management rather than hands on button touchy stuff. (Although there’s some mission/career mods for Flight Sim now that let you feel like you’re playing truck sim in the sky!)
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Sep 29, 2021 05:54
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Lake of Methane posted:What's a good game for making, like, airline routes or freight routes and a simplified economy? Take a look at Logistical. The graphics aren't great and the way it's sold is bizarre, but it's pure distilled logistics/supply chain stuff.
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Sep 29, 2021 11:31
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John Murdoch posted:Take a look at Logistical. The graphics aren't great and the way it's sold is bizarre, but it's pure distilled logistics/supply chain stuff. This one or something else? https://store.steampowered.com/app/573060/LOGistICAL/ e: I guess there are at least 3. https://store.steampowered.com/app/672150/LOGistICAL_3_Earth/
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Sep 29, 2021 18:54
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That would be them, yeah. Unfortunately I have no further knowledge of like, what to buy beyond the original base game and/or the Beginner bundle or if the numbered installments are much improved or w/e.
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Sep 29, 2021 21:16
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The Logistical Defender has Logged On You want to start here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/851650/LOGistICAL_ABC_Islands/ as it's free! Then you pick up https://store.steampowered.com/app/573060/LOGistICAL/ and play Australia. What you do is simple: every town has wanted items (Town A wants Bananas) so you find a town with a Banana industry and have your trucks take 'em over. The thing is, if this town wants 100 Bananas and your truck can only haul 8 at a time, unless they're directly next to each other you need more trucks - as the bananas will decay once delivered. So get a bunch of trucks and haul all the bananas over, and bam! Happy town! You get money and - more importantly - you can now build industries on the town. But! You can only build industries you've completely leveled up, by using them and then bringing them upgrade goods. But! You can't access the upgrade goods because they're behind some broken roads! But! You can't get gravel for repairing the road because it's locked, as Town C won't unlock its industries until you feed it bacon! But! Town D has bacon, but it needs pigs! But! Town E has pigs, but you can't upgrade its pig industry until you have the upgrade goods! Finally! The upgrade goods are locked at Town F, AND it wants Bananas. You have bananas! Now take this chain and basic idea and blow it up by a million and do an entire country, or find a state that has entirely broken roads (NY!  ), or toss in boats - and so on!That's Logstical. Every DLC adds a new map to do. Logistical 2 - and then 3 / Earth - add more twists and turns that I haven't gotten to yet because I'm very busy doing all the L1 modules. Final tip: avoid the free XMAS 2017 map, as it's an idle game. Towns don't have item decay, but in exchange they all need a billion items and you start with a broken tuktuk. I finished it after literal years of poking away at it.
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Sep 29, 2021 21:44
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Sounds like a way more complicated version of the happy supply-demand puzzle of Slipways. I don't mean complicated like bad.
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Sep 29, 2021 22:56
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How the hell does LOGistICAL have 9000+ achievements? Also are all those things in your Steam library separate games, not just DLC? Was the whole game procedurally created, haha; I have so many questions now.
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Sep 30, 2021 01:37
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It’s one of those labour of love, single dev things. Person behind it started with single country modules, and has now hand crafted the entire planet. L:E is a mobster of a puzzle game, snd I don’t think many people have solved it. Last time I got sucked in a few months ago, there were a few larger countries missing, but most of the world was in. The absolute madman is also working on a bunch of spinoffs, including a more realistic train logistics game and Logistical - Space.
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Oct 3, 2021 23:01
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Less Fat Luke posted:How the hell does LOGistICAL have 9000+ achievements? Also are all those things in your Steam library separate games, not just DLC? Was the whole game procedurally created, haha; I have so many questions now. Every single town and road and industry have an achievement. Also I didn’t list DLC at all.
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Oct 3, 2021 23:41
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Me 3 hours ago: "haha this LOGistICAL game is whack, these graphics are horrible and the tutorial doesn't explain much, and you just like... drag trucks onto cities? jeez" Me just now: "gently caress, no, I can't walk away now I have to make sure that this city gets its wire, it's almost satisfied, and then my truck will have more power and the iron->steel supply chain will run much more efficiently" 
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Oct 4, 2021 01:25
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Are any of you playing Railroads! Online? It is really early access jank right now but is basically openttd mixed with derail valley with multiplayer. I would host a server if folks are interested. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1696810/RAILROADS_Online/
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Oct 7, 2021 20:36
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SwimNurd posted:Are any of you playing Railroads! Online? a few guys I play games with mentioned it but the reviews have kind of scared me away.
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Oct 7, 2021 20:48
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It is super buggy. They have been patching stuff every day though. The price tag is a bit high for what it is right now, but it has fully captured me.
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Oct 7, 2021 20:53
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Would this be the thread to talk about stormworks? It's a game where you build vehicles (pretty much anything you can think of) out of lego and then stick badly optimised engines inside them. I'm having a lot of fun designing terrible boats but not as much fun trying to get them to move. Really struggling with how to put together an efficient power system. Might try modular engines next, that can only be easier, right?
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Oct 8, 2021 08:56
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LeFishy posted:Would this be the thread to talk about stormworks? If you want your boat to be efficient you need to play around with gearboxes. In boats you generally want to gear up the prop speed to a point where the engine at full throttle limits itself to 7-8 RPS. I use two gearboxes pointing at each other to get more granular ratios (i.e. a 5:2 pointing towards the engine and a 3:2 pointing away (making it a 2:3) gives me 10:6) and then play around until I get there. If the engine turns higher, ratio up, if it turns lower or dies, ratio down. You also probably want more engines than you think you do  e: I love the "Build" part of Stormworks, I'm just sad the "Rescue" part is so underdeveloped. But if you like connecting sensors and writing scripts for autopilots it's the best. GhostDog fucked around with this message at 09:24 on Oct 8, 2021 |
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Oct 8, 2021 09:19
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GhostDog posted:If you want your boat to be efficient you need to play around with gearboxes. In boats you generally want to gear up the prop speed to a point where the engine at full throttle limits itself to 7-8 RPS. I use two gearboxes pointing at each other to get more granular ratios (i.e. a 5:2 pointing towards the engine and a 3:2 pointing away (making it a 2:3) gives me 10:6) and then play around until I get there. If the engine turns higher, ratio up, if it turns lower or dies, ratio down. This is the part I needed. Thank you! Yeah I actually love the career mode because I love games that are just "do fetch quests" but I'm very very tempted to start digging into the scripting stuff and seeing what I can come up with. Stormlink looks super neat.
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Oct 8, 2021 10:24
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SwimNurd posted:Are any of you playing Railroads! Online? i've been keeping an eye on it, but  as the other poster on reviews/bugs scaring me away. if it was  maybe even 20 i'd be all over it, but at 30 i think i'll wait until they iron out the biggest issues
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Oct 8, 2021 11:38
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tater_salad posted:a few guys I play games with mentioned it but the reviews have kind of scared me away. we're just 'guys' now to you eh?
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Oct 8, 2021 14:31
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Blue On Blue posted:we're just 'guys' now to you eh? Blue on Blue mentioned it and he is a dear internet friend who's opinion I value, but not as much as reviews that say "this shits janky" when the games 35bux
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Oct 8, 2021 14:39
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https://twitter.com/microtrailers/status/1448274558646210567?s=20 Junkyard Simulator is out in Early Access. Another Playway published game (surprise surprise) but I've watching some streamers play it and there seems to be a decent amount to it. Crushing cars, restoring cars, refurbishing parts and other junk, etc.
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Oct 13, 2021 18:45
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They must have been giving out alpha keys or something because I saw videos of that ages ago. I figured the new burst of YouTube presence was due to it releasing, not just hitting early access
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Oct 13, 2021 18:48
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Azhais posted:They must have been giving out alpha keys or something because I saw videos of that ages ago. I figured the new burst of YouTube presence was due to it releasing, not just hitting early access There was a demo that came out awhile back, I think
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Oct 13, 2021 19:57
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I bought this.. It's okay probably worth 15bux to drive around and do poo poo.. it' gets real samey real quick though. yes there was a quick demo for the last several months. I feel like Playaway's model is.. Give keys to streamers / pay for them to play becuase you see Drea and Raptor and a bunch of folks play a lot of their (* simulator) games. tater_salad fucked around with this message at 14:51 on Oct 15, 2021 |
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Oct 15, 2021 14:47
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This popped up on my feed and its neat. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1764530/Sailwind/ I really enjoy sailing games and this game hits it well. It does look like it will be pretty content light at what the dev is calling launch, but I definitely think I can get at least $20 out of sailing around and carrying boxes.
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Oct 27, 2021 00:09
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Anime Store Adventure posted:This popped up on my feed and its neat. Anime Store Adventure posted:and carrying boxes.
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Oct 27, 2021 16:00
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tater_salad posted:Blue on Blue mentioned it and he is a dear internet friend who's opinion I value, but not as much as reviews that say "this shits janky" when the games 35bux Oh wow who the gently caress am I then?
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Oct 31, 2021 23:10
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Anime Store Adventure posted:This popped up on my feed and its neat. i'd describe thisun as extremely content light, but my stars is it relaxing to sit down with a beer and just go for a lil sail
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Nov 3, 2021 06:08
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Cling-Wrap Condom posted:i'd describe thisun as extremely content light, but my stars is it relaxing to sit down with a beer and just go for a lil sail Just don't buy the hardcore sperg sail game by mistake.
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Nov 3, 2021 06:37
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algebra testes posted:Just don't buy the hardcore sperg sail game by mistake. whys there so many fucken sail games mate? seems like not good
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Nov 3, 2021 21:58
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Today I learned Derail Valley is about to double in price with the next update.
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Nov 19, 2021 02:57
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It’s been said enough by me and others in this thread but if you even sniff around liking trains, train games, weird niche sims, and/or good hands-on VR, you owe it to yourself to get Derail Valley. I haven’t played in a long time because I’m really waiting for the sim patch before I burn out on trains, but it’s such a seriously fun time.
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Nov 19, 2021 09:20
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Yeah. I'm somewhat into train games but Derail Valley is the only one I'd describe as an actually good game. Well that and densha de go but that's got language and acquisition barriers and even then doesn't sniff at the real and actual fun of derail valley.
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Nov 19, 2021 09:28
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Derail Valley is cool but it gets boring quick once you realize nothing ever changes. It is always the same cars on the same tracks that need to go to the same place. I hope they add some new mechanics where new stuff appears after you have moved the cargo.
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