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Oh God, I used to stream this game on Twitch (to an audience of like 3 people), those videos are so painfully bad. Still, I call for hard mode. Start in March of 1848, and spend all your starting money on useless poo poo like furniture.
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Skip the packages and buy your own supplies. Then spend 12 hours trading with people in town until you have ten times your original starting cash. Then spend it all on grandfather clocks.
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May 12, 2019 02:26
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chitoryu12 posted:Of course the game has to work perfectly the day I get it, then decide to stop loading save files when I actually try to do the LP.... For best results, I recommend running it in a Windows 98 virtual machine, anything else always gave me problems out the rear end.
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May 12, 2019 02:39
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I never did figure out during my playthroughs of this game if there's an actual benefit to carrying a variety of food vs. nothing but bacon and beans. The game suggests that a great variety of food increases morale, but it never seemed to be a significant increase. And spices don't seem to matter a dammn but (outside of salt to cure my mighty hauls of buffalo and bear meat). And don't get met started on medicine. At least half of it seems completely worthless. Does fishing work in your version? It's the one thing that's never worked right for me on any modern computer.
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May 12, 2019 04:34
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chitoryu12 posted:You get warnings if you have no fruit or vegetables, so along with poor morale I believe you also run the risk of scurvy if you go too long without Vitamin C. In real life it takes about a month to see the symptoms. I'mm about 30% sure that beans count as vegetables, though you make a good point that the bacon and beans diet would also need some fruit. It's a shame about fishing, because I remember playing this back in the day fishing was actually a really good way to supplement the foods stores.
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May 12, 2019 05:57
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chitoryu12 posted:It's a cold, foggy trip. As far as I can tell there's absolutely no benefit to slowing down or stopping in fog or dust. It just slows you down for no reason. Best I've ever been able to tell, fog and dust increase the chance of certain accidents happening while you travel. As for the Donner party, it's actually possible in OT2 to run into that same snowstorm in that same location and get an automatic special game over from it. This game goes out of its way to prevent you from doing that.
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May 13, 2019 23:22
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You need some caulk in that there wagon son!
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May 14, 2019 05:43
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chitoryu12 posted:While it's possible to take the wrong trail here, it seems a bit obvious which way we're going. So many times I've accidentally gone the wrong way there when I wasn't paying attention. You should *get advice* about cholera, you haven't been showing off the silly costumes enough. Bonus points if you record some of their voice acting.
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May 14, 2019 06:00
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chitoryu12 posted:One 4 oz. bottle. This is something that's always bugged me: every unit of medicine is always used a bottle at a time. Laudanum dosage is measured in drops, a 4 oz bottle would probably kill you. Similarly using an entire pint of alcohol to disinfect wounds.
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May 14, 2019 07:47
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See who's around to get advice from, then dump all the food to lighten the wagon, then lock the wheels and move along.
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May 15, 2019 05:47
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Vavrek posted:We need coffee and laudanum, obviously. More specifically, what are our supplies like right now? We lost some stuff and it's been six weeks. I second this, we need an inventory check. Then you need to dump everything except for a rifle, bullets, and gunpowder (and grandfather clocks), we can totally live off the land from here.
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May 16, 2019 06:09
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Whup, missed a page there. Double-team that load.
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May 18, 2019 19:40
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chitoryu12 posted:Choosing to celebrate doesn't seem to do anything except play a sound clip of everyone whooping and firing guns into the air. It's a free one-time morale boost, which you didn't particularly need anyway.
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May 24, 2019 14:00
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If the river's too shallow, you'll fall over while floating it. If it's too deep, you'll flood the wagon trying to ford it. And three feet seems to be the sweet spot where both of those things have the highest odds. So I say FORD that son of a bitch and let the chips fall where they may.
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May 25, 2019 06:48
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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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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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Edible plants are going to be few and far between form here on out, better get whatever vegetables they have.
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May 30, 2019 00:32
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drat the torpedoes, full speed ahead! We'll sacrifice the kid to get over the mountain okay!
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Jun 2, 2019 09:45
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chitoryu12 posted:
The numerous places this happens bug the hell out of me. There's already a button in the menu to turn around that you can use any time, they didn't need to make trail options that do it too. chitoryu12 posted:Here's our inventory if you want to buy anything: Buy more bullets and gunpowder, then wipe out every living thing west of the mountains.
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Jun 3, 2019 14:15
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You can get scurvy (vitamin C deficiency) and beriberi (vitamin B1 deficiency), but I've never been clear if the game tracks specific food items and their nutritional value, or if it's just "fruits prevent scurvy, veggies prevent beriberi". I suspect the latter.
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Jun 10, 2019 07:46
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I once did a playthrough administering vinegar every time somebody had a cold. It worked surprisingly well. In this case though, just walk it off.
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Jun 13, 2019 05:01
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Pretty sure ice baths are the cure for pneumonia.
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Jun 13, 2019 21:44
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I second the call to apply alcohol!
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Jun 14, 2019 06:18
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I think there was something important back a ways. Go back through Deep Sand.
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Jun 17, 2019 01:03
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Get advice, then go say hello.
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Jun 18, 2019 20:14
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Of course, it's very possible that these strangers might be Spanish speakers, and I don't think Chitoryu took the Spanish skill.
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Jun 19, 2019 00:58
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chitoryu12 posted:If you read back, you'll note that this trail seems very different. The exact path of the Oregon Trail changed over the years, not accounting for settlements and forts that opened and closed/got abandoned along the way. Traveling to ostensibly the same place in 1840 and 1850 are both radically different journeys. Any ideas on why this is? Did people find new routes along the way that were easier to manage, did the terrain shift over time?
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Jun 20, 2019 01:16
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UED Special Ops posted:Noticed in the screenshot for Echo Canyon that it said we had no fruit or vegetables, so stopping and resting might not be a very good idea. Thus if possible see who is around to trade for that stuff. I second this, and request a listing of our current food stocks.
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Jun 20, 2019 06:20
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Take them all Why the hell do we have 200 pounds of biscuits and 500 pounds of corn meal, but we're so low on essentials?
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Jun 21, 2019 04:38
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SelenicMartian posted:Does time pass when you "See who, around" and then "Look for someone else"? Can you spend years waiting for Mr. Right? No time passes, but there's only ever two or three people.
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Jun 21, 2019 23:18
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Lighten the load ,all that cornmeal is weighing us down.
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