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SatansOnion posted:lol if you make your coffee with water like a pleb, real pioneers just stir some fresh-ground beans into our breakfast whiskey before roping and chaining our way over every mountain in sight
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.png) Double-teaming works, but what about down the pass?
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Went and consulted the in-game Hitchhiker's Guide to The American West to doublecheck some details. Apparently fording should always work on rivers 3.5 feet or shallower, and caulking should be used if it's any deeper. 3 feet is definitely the sweet spot where you'll have the most trouble, but I hadn't realized that the game actually takes the weight of your supplies into account, heavier wagons are more likely to get swamped or fall. That same rule applies to hills too, but there's no rule of thumb on what method to use on what kinds of hills. So I say double-team the animals and hope for the best.
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May 25, 2019 23:31
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Ropes and chains worked on the last hill, it will work again.
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UED Special Ops posted:Ropes and chains worked on the last hill, it will work again. Better safe than out of whiskey.
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May 26, 2019 00:47
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Ropes and chains haven't failed us yet, have they?
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May 26, 2019 02:17
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Lock the wheels. It can't fail twice in a row can it?
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May 26, 2019 02:21
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My singing tipped the wagon over.  This time, quietly, with ropes and chains.
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May 26, 2019 04:09
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I've never really understood how the going down hills stuff was resolved. Also the penalty for your wagon tipping while ascending and descending doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. You lose a bunch of stuff, which makes sense with rivers because it could all be ruined by moisture or get swept down stream or fall out of sight. But with a mountain trail shouldn't you be able to just like, pick it all up? Ropes and chains I guess.
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May 26, 2019 05:49
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UED Special Ops posted:Ropes and chains worked on the last hill, it will work again.
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paragon1 posted:I've never really understood how the going down hills stuff was resolved. Also the penalty for your wagon tipping while ascending and descending doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me. You lose a bunch of stuff, which makes sense with rivers because it could all be ruined by moisture or get swept down stream or fall out of sight. But with a mountain trail shouldn't you be able to just like, pick it all up? Questions like this are the reason I get very frustrated with a lot of survival games. Also I'm fairly sure you use different ropes and chains every time until you run out and can't pick that option any more, I guess instead of coiling them up and putting them back in the wagons afterwards we just leave them on the ground and carry on our merry way.
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May 26, 2019 08:15
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True captains of their prairie
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Black Robe posted:Also I'm fairly sure you use different ropes and chains every time until you run out and can't pick that option any more, I guess instead of coiling them up and putting them back in the wagons afterwards we just leave them on the ground and carry on our merry way.  That's incredibly stupid and wasteful even by today's standards when you can just walk into a store anywhere along the route and just buy some cheap mass produced rope. I don't care anymore just put everything in the cart, including the oxen, and continue full speed down the hill.
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May 26, 2019 10:03
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I might be misremembering, it's been a long time, but I'm sure I remember running out of rope for some reason.
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May 26, 2019 10:45
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Ropes and chains
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May 26, 2019 11:39
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People getting pretty kinky in the thread. Ropes and chains 
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May 26, 2019 12:12
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Just pile up everyone's clothes and blankets and pillows at the bottom of the hill to make a cushion, then RIDE THAT WAGON DOWN THE HILL FULL PELT YEEHAW!!!
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May 26, 2019 16:32
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Anything that leaves the wagon is lost to us forever. And it would be wrong to subject even the degenerates of Northern California to naked goons.
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May 26, 2019 17:57
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I meant spare clothes! 
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May 26, 2019 18:49
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I'm back from a weekend off for the holiday! Ropes and chains get us down just fine..png) We make it a good week of travel without anything else happening. Considering the river conditions, I just ford it. .png) Where have I heard that name before?
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May 27, 2019 20:10
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Hastings Cutoff, you say? I get a good vibe from that name, I'm sure nothing bad could possibly happen there.
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May 27, 2019 20:34
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As entertaining as the Hastings Cutoff might wind up being... take the California Trail.
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May 27, 2019 20:38
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It's the wrong time of year for that kind of fun, so take the California trail
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May 27, 2019 20:46
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Think of how much TIME we could save with the cutoff! Think how many abandoned wagons we'll find!
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May 27, 2019 20:52
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California here we come!
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May 27, 2019 22:07
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Cutoff!. Nothing could go wrong.
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May 27, 2019 22:43
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It's even CALLED a cutoff! Let's cutoff months of our journey with the Hastings Cutoff.
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May 27, 2019 23:17
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...California TrailGoodguy3 posted:I meant spare clothes! Hastings meant for no one to get cannibalized, but that ain't what happened now is it. 
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May 27, 2019 23:58
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We are already making good time, lets not mess with this "cutoff". California Trail.
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May 28, 2019 00:31
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You all say we’re making good time as it is, but you know who’s sucking up all of that gold at the end before we get there? That’s right, people who got there even faster than us. Take the cutoff.
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May 28, 2019 01:01
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We'll get all the gold we'd ever want by making/repairing guns and trading them for gold dust when we get there, so California
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May 28, 2019 02:23
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gotta go fast cutoff
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May 28, 2019 02:25
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imo we could use the slight increase in travel time to use up more of our whiskey, so avoid any of these so-called “cut offs” according to Doctor Stringfellow who sells me my daily Opio-Coca vitality tonic, whiskey goes bad if you don’t drink it quickly enough
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May 28, 2019 02:33
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As much as it'd be funny to take the cutoff, I'd rather do this right. California Trail.
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May 28, 2019 03:46
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California trail. We are going to California, after all.
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May 28, 2019 04:03
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Fun fact: You literally cannot pull a Donner party in this game. Unlike OT2, where leaving at the same time as the Dennor Party and getting here in winter had a special game over, the game actually prevents you from traveling if you try to leave too late, forcing you to spend the winter in Winter Quarters way back near Independence. Still, stick to the trail anyway..
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May 28, 2019 04:09
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California here we come!
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May 28, 2019 05:09
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Heir03 posted:As much as it'd be funny to take the cutoff, I'd rather do this right. California Trail. 
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I like the idea of some 10-year old kid who had no idea about the history of the cutoff just innocently clicking on it and following a slow descent into misery and madness.
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