Just bought Train Sim World 2020 in a steam sale.....damn impressive so far.
What other games are we all playing?
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Missed out on getting Transportation 2 this holiday sale season. Had too many games I was distracted by for Christmas. 
Now on my Steam wish list for Easter. If anyone has played this, is this anything like the classic Railroad Tycoon PC game?
Hoping Transportation 2 has a solid business sim the likes of Capitalism II at its core. And plays the way this and ETS2 do. Unfortunately, designing good, hard core business tycoon sim like this legacy game has become a lost art form. Especially given publisher/dev/industry obsession with MVP content and online MMO games to date
Now on my Steam wish list for Easter. If anyone has played this, is this anything like the classic Railroad Tycoon PC game?
Hoping Transportation 2 has a solid business sim the likes of Capitalism II at its core. And plays the way this and ETS2 do. Unfortunately, designing good, hard core business tycoon sim like this legacy game has become a lost art form. Especially given publisher/dev/industry obsession with MVP content and online MMO games to date
Hope you're playing on PC with a heavily loaded mod deck. There are some truly incredible mods for FO4 besides the primitive, overpriced junk in CC.
If you're into the world building/Reclamation aspect, then at minimum, be sure to download Chesko's Conquest settlements mod
Conquest - Build New Settlements and Camping
Conquest allows you to build a campsite or full settlement almost anywhere in the Commonwealth.
www.nexusmods.com
which is on the Nexusmods the place where the majority of TES and Fallout PC modding community hangs out. Don't bother with Bethesda's buggy site unless you're forced to d/l mods for console.
On Nexus you can download mods which add new DLC sized world spaces complete with quests, more immersive interactive interiors, camping elements, highly customizable survival gameplay, DIY build new settlements (that evolve in game time), new crafting food/weapon/armor recipes, vehicles like cars and bikes, Human and mutant NPC followers (whom you can also romance), environmental/weather mod overhauls, etc. And yes there are also the naughty adult mods which allows your PC to have intimate relations with other PCs (or their NPC companion) as well.
Sky's the limit.Welcome to the world of single player Fallout
Ye, played it. It was decent. Nothing beats SM RR Tycoon, tho. And that is because all modern attempts struggle with the 3D representation and the pacing. Railroad Tycoon was 2D and crammed just any cars in no matter. And did a lot of wizarding with going around traffic problems. Also many games have problems getting the signaling right. RR Tycoon was simple but worked remarkably well. I'd like a worthy successor. I'm playing Railway Empire to satiate my railroad needs. It's not great but OK. 3D has an advantage in choo-chooing across the countryside. I like to just ride along my trains on the tracks I planned out and built.Missed out on getting Transportation 2 this holiday sale season. Had too many games I was distracted by for Christmas.
Now on my Steam wish list for Easter. If anyone has played this, is this anything like the classic Railroad Tycoon PC game?
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Hoping Transportation 2 has a solid business sim the likes of Capitalism II at its core. And plays the way this and ETS2 do. Unfortunately, designing good, hard core business tycoon sim like this legacy game has become a lost art form. Especially given publisher/dev/industry obsession with MVP content and online MMO games to date
Still wreaking havoc on the tropical islands in Just Cause 3/4 and doing fully loaded flights in Prepar.
Starting to get into Farming Simulator 19, and maybe Arma III which I bought back when it was early access on Steam and hardly ever touched since. I played a rather stupid amount of hours over the holidays focusing entirely on Euro/American Truck Simulator and lord almighty are they fun.
Holy smokes, FS19 is outrageously fun!
I remember when I was playing FS15, I think. My Dad’s always been politely curious about the games I played, so I showed it to him when he was visiting. After watching me harvest a field, he said, “Well, that’s pretty accurate. Now imagine doing that for twelve hours a day, every day, for a month when you were growing up.”
He was the youngest of a large farming family.
I always thought it would be really awesome to have a cross multiplayer between FS and ETS/ATS. With real economy and everything. Maybe one day Microsoft is going to do something like that now that they have the whole planet modeled.
I agree wholeheartedly with your dad...I always said my grandfather should have had a large sign above the farm gates declaring 'Arbeit macht frei'...I also found it very strange that school holidays always coincided with a busy time in the farming season...when the townie kids were off with their families to the Butlitz holiday camps or suchlike before foreign hols became the norm, all us farming kids were toiling in the fields
I managed to escape farming for the 23 years I spent in the army...but the fates caught me up and I returned like a moth to a flame....just punishment for spending my young life trying to escape it I suppose
I tend to virtually slap people who ask if I play FS though.... here's my version of farming simulator 2019.
I even let my youngest daughter play too
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I agree wholeheartedly with your dad...I always said my grandfather should have had a large sign above the farm gates declaring 'Arbeit macht frei'...I also found it very strange that school holidays always coincided with a busy time in the farming season...when the townie kids were off with their families to the Butlitz holiday camps or suchlike before foreign hols became the norm, all us farming kids were toiling in the fields
I managed to escape farming for the 23 years I spent in the army...but the fates caught me up and I returned like a moth to a flame....just punishment for spending my young life trying to escape it I suppose
I tend to virtually slap people who ask if I play FS though.... here's my version of farming simulator 2019.
I even let my youngest daughter play too
Wish I could afford such a farm sim setup, this looks very immersive, almost like you are there!
You just made my day. Much respect to you and your family! My daughter is no weak little wallflower, eitherI agree wholeheartedly with your dad...I always said my grandfather should have had a large sign above the farm gates declaring 'Arbeit macht frei'...I also found it very strange that school holidays always coincided with a busy time in the farming season...when the townie kids were off with their families to the Butlitz holiday camps or suchlike before foreign hols became the norm, all us farming kids were toiling in the fields
I managed to escape farming for the 23 years I spent in the army...but the fates caught me up and I returned like a moth to a flame....just punishment for spending my young life trying to escape it I suppose
I tend to virtually slap people who ask if I play FS though.... here's my version of farming simulator 2019.
I even let my youngest daughter play too
Strangely, she's never been in the slightest bit interested in the usual trends like gaming or social media of any kind. She learned to drive a tractor towing a plough at 8 years of age sitting on my knee, she's spent the last 3 years at agricultural college too...her choice...every inch a farmer's daughter that one...a farmer's wife too eventually since her long term boyfriend is a farmer as well. She'll be helping run his families' farm on the mainland which will be passed to him as the eldest son when they're eventually married... which is a common farming family tradition.You just made my day. Much respect to you and your family! My daughter is no weak little wallflower, either
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Good job, Dad. Gives me hope for the world
Someone already did suggest this very thing...I always thought it would be really awesome to have a cross multiplayer between FS and ETS/ATS. With real economy and everything. Maybe one day Microsoft is going to do something like that now that they have the whole planet modeled.
....and it did not end well both in the poll responses or ETS2 fan boy feed back
The SCS forum is pretty underwhelming imo. Practically dead, too, and almost impossible to get a conversation going on. After getting into the games I tried visiting a bit, but it's mostly full of tribalistic neck-beards such as the couple you quoted who will put down Giant's physics while laughably praising SCS's own.Someone already did suggest this very thing...
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I agree wholeheartedly with your dad...I always said my grandfather should have had a large sign above the farm gates declaring 'Arbeit macht frei'...I also found it very strange that school holidays always coincided with a busy time in the farming season...when the townie kids were off with their families to the Butlitz holiday camps or suchlike before foreign hols became the norm, all us farming kids were toiling in the fields
I managed to escape farming for the 23 years I spent in the army...but the fates caught me up and I returned like a moth to a flame....just punishment for spending my young life trying to escape it I suppose
I tend to virtually slap people who ask if I play FS though.... here's my version of farming simulator 2019.
I even let my youngest daughter play too
Good stuff!
The closest I got to agriculture is when me and my friend picked cherries for a few months in New Zealand some 12 years ago. We were sleeping in a tent or in our old Camry Estate... made me appreciate having a bad to this day!
Where my father lives, in the countryside, one of his friends runs a wineyard the old fashioned way - he is 65-70, but his stamina and raw power is way beyond my puny office body (especially as I quit exercising after the kids were born). I do feel somewhat envious that he lives so close to nature...