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Pingcode posted:Huh wait a tic, Astroneer is marked under Base Builders? It’s definitely a base builder especially with all the automation stuff they added. You have to be pretty dumb/careless/drunk to have issues surviving in Astroneer.
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SkyeAuroline posted:Good to know. Does that do much about the "blocked by infrastructure" side, though? It does, kind of. If the whole footprint of a building isn’t silky smooth, the game conveniently adds an extra padding of smaller little dots on the wireframe that remind you how absolutely hosed you are for not leveling it first. These extra dots seem to exist purely to frustrate you. Sometimes you can kind of cheat these even if you can’t level something by placing the building first and then replacing the “blocking” infrastructure in exactly the same spot once it’s down. If two things are fighting each other but look like they should fit, try placingthem in the opposite order. And seeing the second thing to be placed is now happy. (Often the smaller thing/infrastructure is the offender- roads, power lines)
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Okay, I really need to settle a Soviet desert or something.
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Mayveena posted:OK so this where I'm at now. * means a recognized popular 'good' game Tropico 2, obviously. Everyone loves the lovely pirate game.
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Rather than calling games good or not, how about just accessibility? 1 is appropriate for newcomers to management games, 2 for people who are familiar with the genre, 3 for the true "play this for the rest of your life and still never get good" games. That's probably less contentious because it's probably more objective than "good" and I think more useful for people looking for games.
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Deadmeat5150 posted:Edit: Also I can't do straight lines to any extent whatsoever and anyone who can do so consistently is my hero. Settings -> Control Settings -> Rotate Building Sensitivity It doesn't save this setting between sessions so you gotta adjust this every time but combine it with the "Show Wireframe" checkbox while in build mode and it will rock your world Facebook Aunt posted:Tropico 2, obviously. Everyone loves the lovely pirate game. I unironically liked Tropico 2 because my secret dream is a war game where you only do the logistics and leave the fighting to somebody else
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Pornographic Memory posted:I unironically liked Tropico 2 because my secret dream is a war game where you only do the logistics and leave the fighting to somebody else When it came up earlier in the thread I checked and saw I had like 80 hours in it. So I booted it up again and now I have 132 hours in it. The whole time I'm mildly skeeved out, but there is something compelling there.
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Pornographic Memory posted:I unironically liked Tropico 2 because my secret dream is a war game where you only do the logistics and leave the fighting to somebody else I've been toying with the idea of an RTS where you only do the research and don't actually manage any units but I'm having a hard time differentiating that from a tower defense game. Also, I never finish anything I start.
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Jan 4, 2021 05:47
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Is your Forklift Certified version of your avatar new? It rules.
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The Majesty series were kinda like this. I really enjoyed them, shame that there hasn't been a more modern version of that idea.
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workers and resources but your end goal is to make t34s
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Mayveena posted:It’s definitely a base builder especially with all the automation stuff they added. You have to be pretty dumb/careless/drunk to have issues surviving in Astroneer. Yeah it’s worth mentioning it doesn’t have a hunger meter or anything like that. You do need oxygen, but you start with an unlimited source of it and can make more, so that mostly exists to add some logistics challenge as you extend your oxygen network.
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KillHour posted:I've been toying with the idea of an RTS where you only do the research and don't actually manage any units but I'm having a hard time differentiating that from a tower defense game. Also, I never finish anything I start. Foxhole might something for you to look at. It is an plays out like an RTS, but no one person is controlling each faction because each unit is played by a human being player. So a person can just put research bits into the research building and pick the wrong non-meta thing, and the rest of the faction just has to deal with it. It is a World War 1.5 simulator between the not-colonist and the not-nazis. Every single gun must be made by a human player, every peice of scrap accessible is because a human being went out and performed digital labor for a bit. These nerd touched war weapons now have to be delivered by player to The Front where many human players grind bodies and bullets against each other in a Saving Private Ryan manner. These 3 principals intersect in a wild way. There is a thread, no big goon presence. It's like playing a rimworld pawn.
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That sounds horrible except for the unintentional comedy of cascading fuckups that nobody can actually appreciate because they're all too close to see the big picture. Is it at least SS13 levels of hilarity when everything goes to poo poo? KillHour fucked around with this message at 07:13 on Jan 4, 2021 |
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Pornographic Memory posted:workers and resources but your end goal is to make t34s https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/?id=1895842380
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Pornographic Memory posted:workers and resources but your end goal is to make t34s Military production is one of the committed goals according to the Trello    One thing to mention to people having trouble with placing things in W&R: If you attempt to place a building NEAR where it should go, except that the ground is perhaps slightly uneven, attempting to place it will "nudge" the surrounding area a little bit towards what you need. Sometimes, just attempting to place the building a few times will result in success, due to "nudging" the terrain into where it needs to be. This is especially helpful when the terrain is "owned" by other buildings and you cannot otherwise adjust it.
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Anime Store Adventure posted:Is your Forklift Certified version of your avatar new? It rules. No. My avatar was made for me by a dear friend but honestly I don't have $5 to keep paying when people change it so this one will stay at least for awhile until someone else changes it. I'm glad you like the new one 
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Turns out that only Tropico 3,4, 5, and 6 are currently for sale. So which one again?
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KillHour posted:I've been toying with the idea of an RTS where you only do the research and don't actually manage any units but I'm having a hard time differentiating that from a tower defense game. Also, I never finish anything I start. same, lol i think something like a supreme commander mod would be good enough. there's a fixed route units take until they meet and destroy eachother and the better logistics guy wins it's basically how i play RTS games already anyway lol
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Autochess, but with forklifts and trains.
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I gotta say. W&R is starting to click for me. I nearly bounced off but once i started understanding all the mechanics and envisioning the scope i could take them, i cant stop thinking about the game now.
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Anyone play Production Line : Car factory simulation? Any good? https://store.steampowered.com/app/591370/Production_Line__Car_factory_simulation/ Also, worth wishlisting is a game I've been testing out on steam called Timberborn. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1062090/Timberborn/ It's a beaver colony builder. The main challenge is that there is a drought every year, so you need to farm enough food/build up enough water supply to survive the dry season. worth checking out. Harminoff fucked around with this message at 15:36 on Jan 4, 2021 |
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Mayveena posted:Turns out that only Tropico 3,4, 5, and 6 are currently for sale. So which one again? Tropico 6 has enough DLC to outbloat Tropico 5 now. We should all move on to the new one.
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Harminoff posted:Anyone play Production Line : Car factory simulation? Any good? It's good, but it can get awfully brutal.
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Volmarias posted:Military production is one of the committed goals according to the Trello Thanks for the advice. I'll have to give that a try next time I play. Set up to stream through the tutorials for some friends but the constant placement issues cut the actual game short.
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Harminoff posted:Anyone play Production Line : Car factory simulation? Any good? I really loved it but I wish there was more to it or there were more LPers playing it so I can better understand some of the inner workings.
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Hihohe posted:i cant stop thinking about the game now.  even though the terrain stuff drives me bonkers
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I liked Production Line but it leans towards the Big Pharma space-management types of games, so it depends if you like that stuff or not. You get more space to play around with and a bit more on the business management end though compared to Big Pharma.
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GOOD TIMES ON METH posted:I liked Production Line but it leans towards the Big Pharma space-management types of games, so it depends if you like that stuff or not. You get more space to play around with and a bit more on the business management end though compared to Big Pharma. Production line is much more spatial and logistic. You're going to time delivery of materials to unit operations to understand if you need more or more coming from a different direction. You're going to curse how the units fit together and scream spending money on a redesign. The business management isn't really interesting to me though compared to Big Pharma. The tech tree kind of sucks: there's a couple ways to go given the broad tree but there's pretty specific build orders to avoid gotchas where Big Pharmas teching can be very dynamic based on your raw material random attributes. Little Big Workshop is my favorite discrete manufacturing game because of the ability to do more dynamic cell design but I still have my reasons to go back to Big Pharma or Production Line.
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Pornographic Memory posted:I unironically liked Tropico 2 because my secret dream is a war game where you only do the logistics and leave the fighting to somebody else This exists. Foxhole Production line is good. The start is slow and then you lose or youre rich. Similar to WRSR you focus on reducing your biggest cost and building cars in serial. It helped me realize how much rear end electric car batteries are to make. Krataar fucked around with this message at 18:04 on Jan 4, 2021 |
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SkyeAuroline posted:Thanks for the advice. I'll have to give that a try next time I play. Set up to stream through the tutorials for some friends but the constant placement issues cut the actual game short. Spacing things out more also helps a bit, instead of trying to pack everything into minimal area.
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I don't see Aurora4x on this list with a larger star than all the other games, I think its a bad list
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Mayveena, is there a thread I can post in to support your claim? You are a quality goon and should not be harassed.
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Skyl3lazer posted:I don't see Aurora4x on this list with a larger star than all the other games, I think its a bad list why even have other games tbh just have the Op say "Vanilla Aurora 4x"
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Skyl3lazer posted:I don't see Aurora4x on this list with a larger star than all the other games, I think its a bad list Aurora should be in the 4x thread.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Mayveena, is there a thread I can post in to support your claim? You are a quality goon and should not be harassed. No, the only thing I can have done is for the mods to blank the avatar, but I'd still have to pay for a new one so  . Thanks for the support ❤
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Skyl3lazer posted:I don't see Aurora4x on this list with a larger star than all the other games, I think its a bad list The game dev has repeatedly asked the internet to stop messing with his personal model train set. Aurora4x is fuckin wild and I love the concept even when screenshots melt my face Ark of The Convenent style.
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Mayveena posted:No. My avatar was made for me by a dear friend but honestly I don't have $5 to keep paying when people change it so this one will stay at least for awhile until someone else changes it. I'm glad you like the new one That’s real lame of whoever but at least the forklift one has glittery text and feels appropriate for the management games thread. We are all forklift certified in our own, abstracted way here.
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Anime Store Adventure posted:We are all forklift certified in our own, abstracted way here. new thread title plz
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In Big Pharma, having done the tutorials and played this type of the game in a lot the past, is the Advanced start fine or is that going to be overwhelming?
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