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Someone please make My Summer Train that’s Derail Valley except I have to repair the engine with money I earned pumping septic tanks and selling firewood.
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Anime Store Adventure posted:Someone please make My Summer Train that’s Derail Valley except I have to repair the engine with money I earned pumping septic tanks and selling firewood. https://store.steampowered.com/app/998400/TransSiberian_Railway_Simulator/
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Jan 7, 2024 10:12
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I’ve seen this, but it diverged from what I wanted into “Put in an Ak47 and shooting sections for the kids/general steam buyers.” I don’t begrudge a game for adding guns in a vacuum but imo they decided not to lean into Niche Sim with that type of thing. See also that Checkpoint/Border Guard game that’s vaguely papers please but they made half the game a really terrible shooter. Half baked combat is maybe the biggest red flag for trash Niche Sim.
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Jan 7, 2024 11:02
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My Summer Train but it's a model railroad and you're doing vaguely legal jobs saving money for the historic foundation fees to get references, and paints.
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Jan 7, 2024 16:19
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zedprime posted:My Summer Train but it's a model railroad and you're doing vaguely legal jobs saving money for the historic foundation fees to get references, and paints. Oh, yes please. Actually, I only started following this thread, is there a 'model train' building sim that exists? Or am I thinking of something else that's too 'Inception-y', since a video game is already kind of like playing with a model train set anyway? I'm already all in with OpenTTD, btw.
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Jan 7, 2024 16:25
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Rupert Buttermilk posted:Oh, yes please. Rolling Line It plays great without VR
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Jan 7, 2024 16:31
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I have been playing Derail Valley since the VR demo. I want derail valley with more realistic operations, basically updated run8. I really don’t like the map, it makes operations a bit too easy. Recently I have been playing a lot of Railroader, which is more of a sim of the operations side of running a railroad, than driving trains. It sort of adds an economy to what run8’s logistic sim is. The best “model railroad” game I have found is maybe Railroads Online where you have to lay the track you will be running on. That game is less about the physics of driving and more about the economy.
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Jan 7, 2024 16:35
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Jonny Nox posted:Rolling Line Oh my god. This and Railroads Online. Thanks much, goons!
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Jan 7, 2024 17:11
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Jonny Nox posted:Rolling Line I generally get my space limited modeling kicks from Train Fever 2 and Workers and Resources.
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Jan 7, 2024 17:30
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Rolling line is cool, but the vr has issues. It is very much an early VR game with all of the rough edges.
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Jan 7, 2024 17:33
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Been very much enjoying Derail Valley, but the insurance/repair mechanism has me pretty concerned. I've got $55k and am trying to eye my future directions. Looking for advice on how to progress licensing. Getting Concurrent I, Long Trains, and Logistics seems like a good opportunity to make more money while still using the DE2, since I can haul empty cars and avoid hitting the weight limit. I'm pretty worried about the increased co-pay though. I feel like I would struggle to make any profit given how much my fees are at the end of any run. My debt limit at this point is a bit higher; $15k, which means I might be able to run enough missions between payments to make it, but I'm definitely concerned.
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Jan 21, 2024 17:23
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JerikTelorian posted:Been very much enjoying Derail Valley, but the insurance/repair mechanism has me pretty concerned. I've got $55k and am trying to eye my future directions. Looking for advice on how to progress licensing. Before getting any cargo licenses I went straight into the DM3 which was able to haul most high paying jobs that can get you 20k+ with a decent time bonus. I really only do Freight Hauls or Logistic Hauls and find the highest paying one with a cargo load I can handle with my train. Before you put the job into the machine you can usually suss out which train is the one from the sheet you have by matching up the colors of the containers. Once I have I'll go repair/refuel at the station, figure out which direction I need to be facing to back up to the train for my job then get into position so all I need to do once I put the job into the machine is hitch, disable the handbrakes, and drive forward. This helps you get a big time bonus on all your orders. If you're having money problems I'd say make sure you're manually repairing your train instead of paying full price at the machine, it is annoying having to shuffle around the trainyard after every job but I never really had many money issues and the above is generally how I've been playing. I also didn't pick up any additional cargo licenses unless there was a particularly lucrative job that needed it and I had the money to spend. I really prioritized upgrading locomotives over cargo types though. Once I was able to afford the DH4 license I went from the DM3 to that, it pulls the same tonnage but doesn't have gear shifters so it's simpler to drive which is satisfying to jump to after slumming it in the DM3 for a while. Edit: I forgot logistics were a license you needed. I guess I did pick that one up fairly early since the jobs seemed simple enough and usually pay well for the bigger trains. explosivo fucked around with this message at 17:47 on Jan 21, 2024 |
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Jan 21, 2024 17:44
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Pick up the shunting licence if you haven't already. The cities (harbor, city southwest, goods factory) always have a ton of shunting jobs and you can easily make more money doing a few of them than you would doing any of the freight hauls you can do in the early game. Make sure you're taking advantage of the low copay that you start with. You can run up fuel/maintenance fees way higher than the copay and you only have to pay the copay to pay them off. Once you have some licenses that boost the copay, make sure to pick up manual servicing, it's half the cost to do manual service than it is to pay the fees through the ATM. Another thing you can do if you're worried about running costs is to learn to steam. Both steam engines are way cheaper to run than the diesels. The 060 is a beast and can flat switch way heavier trains than the DE2, although it can't carry enough water to do freight hauls. And the 282 can handle trains almost as heavy as the DE6. The DM3 is another option; cheaper than the DE2 and can haul way more tonnage, although it has to go pretty slow to haul close to its limit. Otherwise concurrent I/long I/logistical is a pretty good combo to start with.
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This makes me want to get cited for shunting without a license.
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Jan 21, 2024 19:05
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Anime Store Adventure posted:I’ve seen this, but it diverged from what I wanted into “Put in an Ak47 and shooting sections for the kids/general steam buyers.” I might have to eat my words on this one. I booted it up and I'm part way through the tutorial and there's so many buttons I don't know how I'm ever going to remember how to start the train again. It's just a 'prologue'/demo and I'm not far in but I'm turning around on it quickly. e: Finished the demo - its just one quick delivery combined with two "mafia" missions. Honestly not bad, though I killed myself trying to get cute and starting my train to get it running and then catch it after I did one of the tasks. Honestly the game will come down to how much there is to do, its definitely fun to have a little 'extra' around a train sim, but I'm worried it might end up being pretty boring stuff if its just a Eat/Drink/Beer/Warmth system tacked on to side missions for the mafia. Definitely will keep an eye on it. The train wasn't quite as complicated as I thought it might be, but I have no idea what level of reality it was. There's a lot of buttons and things, but once you actually get it running it seems pretty easy. Anime Store Adventure fucked around with this message at 04:15 on Jan 24, 2024 |
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explosivo posted:Before getting any cargo licenses I went straight into the DM3 which was able to haul most high paying jobs that can get you 20k+ with a decent time bonus. I really only do Freight Hauls or Logistic Hauls and find the highest paying one with a cargo load I can handle with my train. Before you put the job into the machine you can usually suss out which train is the one from the sheet you have by matching up the colors of the containers. Once I have I'll go repair/refuel at the station, figure out which direction I need to be facing to back up to the train for my job then get into position so all I need to do once I put the job into the machine is hitch, disable the handbrakes, and drive forward. This helps you get a big time bonus on all your orders. If you're having money problems I'd say make sure you're manually repairing your train instead of paying full price at the machine, it is annoying having to shuffle around the trainyard after every job but I never really had many money issues and the above is generally how I've been playing. I also didn't pick up any additional cargo licenses unless there was a particularly lucrative job that needed it and I had the money to spend. I really prioritized upgrading locomotives over cargo types though. I got the DM3 because managing gears seemed fun. On my first run with it I brought along a DE2 as a caboose to provide a little extra boost if needed. Since I was coming out of the harbor this ended up being necessary, as I think I overloaded my train quite a bit (8 cars of scrap metal). It was tense but fun getting up the hill and taught me a lot about the gears. Once I got past the big inclines it was nice to kinda let it rip. It's genuinely a fun train to run. Then, a nice decline to learn to use the jake brake on the way into the Steel Yard. I was doing 45kmph coming into the yard from the southwest and I pushed the jake brake, then tried to engage the train brake. No dice, didn't seem to do anything. The needle wouldn't move. I jammed forward the independent brake and that started going, but it wasn't going to stop 450 tons of scrap. This was when my mistake became evident: the DE2 has auto-lapped brakes, and was connected to the line. The DM3 on the other hand has manual lapping. When I opened the line with the DM3, the DE2 would just fill it right back up and keep the train rolling. Anyway that was my first major collision in the game! JerikTelorian fucked around with this message at 06:15 on Jan 24, 2024 |
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Jan 24, 2024 06:08
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Yeah, if you need to run a DM3 together with any other diesel, you need to keep the DM3 brakes lapped, and control the brakes solely from the auto-lapped engine.
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Anime Store Adventure posted:I might have to eat my words on this one. I booted it up and I'm part way through the tutorial and there's so many buttons I don't know how I'm ever going to remember how to start the train again. the issue with playway games is that (generally).. the demo is neat.. and the 2 hours between buy and return window are decent.. but then the gameplay loop just never expands and it's the same grind.
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tater_salad posted:the issue with playway games is that (generally).. the demo is neat.. and the 2 hours between buy and return window are decent.. but then the gameplay loop just never expands and it's the same grind. Play way kicked my dog too
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Sometimes your brain is leaking out your ears and you want to play the same 2 hours of a game for 50 hours and the Playway model is perfect for that. The good ones under the umbrella at least.
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tater_salad posted:the issue with playway games is that (generally).. the demo is neat.. and the 2 hours between buy and return window are decent.. but then the gameplay loop just never expands and it's the same grind. You aren’t wrong.
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Speaking of , has anyone played pirates journey ? Just released on steam with an atrocious score , but videos reminded me a lot of medieval dynasty I get down for those types of games
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Jan 24, 2024 16:26
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Oh poo poo, the boombox owns for Derail Valley. You can set up internet radio!! SomaFM is perfect for this.
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Blue On Blue posted:Speaking of , has anyone played pirates journey ? Looks like it's way too early, from the reviews.
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Nucleares added chemical treatment:quote:January 23, 2024 I love this insane developer
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StarkRavingMad posted:Nucleares added chemical treatment: Amazing stuff.
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Just… wow
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I need all the boron in the Soviet Union
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Jan 26, 2024 22:49
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At what point does that game start violating some law about spreading information about nuclear reactors.
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Cojawfee posted:At what point does that game start violating some law about spreading information about nuclear reactors. If they're an outsider cargo culting it from open sources, possibly never. If they were nuclear weapon secrets, absolutely, unless you were the President, then they just let you sell that poo poo to whoever 
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In other words the NRC (and most worldwide regulatory agencies in places with signed non-proliferation agreements) strictly regulates all nuclear supply chain and utility info for proliferation prevention but also so much of it is out there they would have a hard time linking someone making accurate nuclear reactor simulations to any NRC controlled document. They would absolutely care if they found you had some silly significant figure match their documents more than if you materially describe how a reactor works.
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Gonna be honest i don’t bookmark many threads, this star citizen and some other gaming ones are all I really follow I just skimmed and saw the nuclear poisoning post and was like yep that checks out of course they’re adding that level of detail to star citizen in 2056 when it’s released
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I feel like I've asked this before but are any of these asset flip car games actually worth the price? Car for Sale Simulator or My Garage both look like they might scratch an itch I think I have but I'm hesitant to drop any cash without some human opinions. Any other suggestions for that sort of ... fixing up junk cars and selling them but also driving them around game?
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Mon Bazou is the only My Summer Car-alike I’ve played that isn’t basically shovelware. Still, it doesn’t take itself super seriously when compared to My Summer Car. If you can squint past some of that it’s decent, but also far from the crunch of Summer Car since there’s probably a total of two dozen parts on the entire car instead of MSC’s two dozen parts for just the engine. There’s also Slaverian Trucker that seems maybe okay but very weird. It never clicked with me but it does at least seem like it’s got some uniqueness. There might be other diamonds in the rough out there in this sub genre but my “game is poo poo” detector for specifically these type of games is pretty well tuned, so I’d be surprised.
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Mon Bazou is a good shout because I already own it and it’s deck verified. Slaverian Trucker is definitely on my radar too! Thank you for saving me some money.
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I have fallen down a stationers hole lately. With the recent phase change update there's a lot of insane ways of handling any problem you may want to solve
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Some friends and I never got past getting a door to open in that one.
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I really enjoy Stationeers for what it is. But its a little too complicated for what I wanted out of a game. I was basically down to just flipping back and forth following tutorials. The exploration part of it was decent though.
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Elendil004 posted:Some friends and I never got past getting a door to open in that one. Can confirm
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My only regret about Stationeers is not having a small crew of non-engineer friends with stuff they need to do around my base, accidentally finding terrible flaws in my designed systems that I have to fix. It’s an extremely good game when you’re looking for the exact thing it’s delivering - but most people aren’t and even my mood on it comes and goes quickly. It’s just that when it’s on, it’s on. I love HVAC.
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