I have tried several times to figure this out but I keep delivering stuff to the wrong places.
I assumed from left to right was job1, job2, job3 so I order the stock for job1 and it delivered it to job2 construction site. I have no idea what 1a, 2a, and 3a are.
The way they made the earthwork projects with an indestructible bottom has made a bulldozer just a waste of time. The only thing I use mine for is to rip the soil when directed.
I started off using it for each task that required topsoil removal but soon realized that all you are doing is moving the soil around with no gain on the task. It does not even do it cleanly. You often need to go over the same ground multiple times.
The tasks for dirt removal operate on volume...lets say you have a task with 10 truck loads of dirt to remove. You can fit about 5 loader buckets worth of soil in a truck. You can spend an hour pushing the dirt into a big pile in the middle and then use the loader to pick and dump it 50 times from the pile or you can just use the loader initially to pick and dump the 50 buckets right from the start without the dozer...and it does it cleaner and more effectively. The fact that you can just drop the loader bucket on the ground and push forward without any error means that it is just better at the task than the machine that was built to do that job.
Just my little rant, feel free to ignore me.
I started building the stadium today. First portion of the site is to build the grandstand on one teams side. I got to the site and looked around and I think I actually started salivating seeing how big the place was...knowing that there would be several more parts to this project.
I was several sub-parts into the project before I noticed that a whole other part of the site was building itself in pace with the steps I was doing. Like, REALLY? WHY?
This is a construction simulating game. I have the settings as high as they will go.
WHY AM I NOT BUILDING THAT?
Anyone who has any experience in construction whether professionally or DIY knows there is like a bug we have...the bug that gives up that hit of dopamine when you complete something, when you succeed, accomplish, slap that bish and say "That ain't going nowhere". I think my biggest gripe with this game is the autocomplete of tasks. You are stealing my enjoyment.
Not for everyone I understand...that is why there are other settings. I chose hard.
I have the CAT 394F for the big stuff and I am comfortable with it. I also have the starter backhoe but I hate it. The way it regurgitates soil all over the place drives me nuts.
What is your goto digger for smaller stuff like sapling holes or small footing excavations in tight places where it does not make sense to bring in the big boy?
I would also like it to be useful for moving small items like rocks, logs or saplings into place.
I built a fence about 8 years ago. Each panel has (3) 2"X4" rails supporting the slats, plus an additional 2"X4" top rail laid flat. The top rails have gotten beaten up in the sun and done some warping.
I am curious if there are 2"X4" hollow core PVC "boards" similar to the hollow 4"X4" sleeves they use as posts for the vinyl fencing.
I have not been able to find hollow, and the solid recycles stuff is quite pricey.
I am looking to replace just the top rail which is very non structural.
There was a post about 9 months ago where someone was talking about digging a quarry. No particular reason...just felt like playing around. wb-martin had posted in that reddit that you could dig down 50 meters there. I was wondering if anyone knew what other sites would allow you to dig down that far. I have not found one yet and that site I have already completed.
So far I have found sites that only allow you to dig as far down as the deepest excavation task within the mission. I don't know why the one in the post would be different or what criteria determines that it could.
I have yet to use my warehouse for anything besides my large concrete bucket.
While mentioning the bucket, I have never seen one in person nor seen one used...maybe this thing is entirely accurate based on research...but it would be considerably more convenient if the trap door was on the bottom and the concrete just dropped straight out.
Now back to the real post.
I would be much more apt to make use of a storage yard for bulk materials like dirt, sand, and gravel. It irks me to store my truck half full of gravel and have it sold, then to need more of it on the next job site. When we get to the medium company upgrade and we move into the new company premises we now have the smaller old yard just sitting there doing nothing but receiving vehicles pulled out of storage if your job is nearby.
It would be phenomenal if we could pay for an upgrade like the gas station or workshop that turns some of the parking stalls into walled bays like you see at a mulch or gravel yard where instead of selling bulk back to source we could opt to store it on site and have it available for future jobs.
Thanks for reading.
It all had to go.
My family thinks I may have a problem...The contractor says this is perfectly normal...just let'em cook.
Side note for devs if you happen to peek in...there seems to be a glitch if you make first contact with one of the dig boundaries from the wrong side it creates this weird dirt curtain that behaves like the mission/job parcel boundaries.
All that hardscaping they could have had us do...such a shame...
Guess someone better than us gets the finish work contract...
Putting the sheet metal walls on the sides of a warehouse. I like to take my time and try to turn and place the panels as close as possible to the correct position before I hit release. Twice out of the full set the image turned back to blue just as I was releasing the panel and instead of getting installed they just fell over onto the ground and disappeared into the ether.
I have shut down the game and gotten back in and they have not returned to the surface or the original stacking location. I also got a "cloud error" from steam pop-up after the game closed.
Is there anything I can do besides skip the task to move forward?
When I fuel or repair my truck/trailer with vehicles on it sometimes I get two charges, sometimes three...almost never 4. I thought the third charge was for the secured vehicle, but I am recently figuring out that it never was. Are the vehicles on board not supposed to be fueling/repairing? I have to drive into fuel box, fuel truck, get charged three times even though trailer does not use fuel, unsecure the load, climb in each one, fuel them individually, secure them back to trailer (which often won't even work for one if there are two even though I didn't move anything) then drive to the repair box and repeat that process.
Does not feel intended.
I have not found one yet other than the tracked excavator, but is there any vehicle that can hook and move objects without needing to have the stability supports extended? I am just looking to haul the small rocks and logs and stuff, the "A" loads without needing to be stationary. Don't want to bring the giant excavator on site to move a few rocks.
I don't know why they won't let you hook with the loader buckets.
Still got half that row of pvmt left to put down? nope 100%.
That last strip of compacting is ok to just let it go...100%
Don't worry about that last 20% of the dirt in the basement, your good, 100%
We gonna magically show you a nice parking lot in front of the building while your paving equipment sits in the shop yard.
Jokes aside, I feel somewhat annoyed at times when I don't get to complete the whole task or there are elements added to the site (particularly at the end) that you easily could have taken part in that were not part of the job. I would not mind an "ultra" mode, or "completionist" or something where 100% takes like 97% or 98% actual completion to get to rather than the current, what, 80% maybe even less on some tasks?
There seems like a lot more materials that could be delivered or concrete poured, pavers unpacked, trees planted etc. I get it, not for everyone, keep the current levels, I just am not in any hurry and working finer details on the end of the job gives more of a vibe of accomplishing something in my opinion.
I also know I am just spitting in the wind with the advent of the new game coming...they won't be changing anything haha. Just voicing an opinion.
This is a small site and I am at 99%. The bigger the site the more off it feels.
I finally figured this damn thing out. I played the US map a couple years ago when the game was new and tried and tried to get this drill to work and failed over and over. I eventually just started skipping the drill tasks all together.
This time I am playing in Europe map and I am on the last mission for the Entrepreneur doing the bridge. I was determined to learn this machine. I watched multiple videos and read every post I could find about people having issues. I tried everything they said and nothing seemed to work. I kept getting stuck just under the 35% or 75% thresholds for each pipe section.
This is what finally did it for me in the current game...I say current because maybe they changed stuff from the old vids or posts along the way. I am using a controller on default settings for the drill so your controls may vary.
I do not think the last plunge is intentional which is why there is no position guide and you are only pulling 1 or 2% out of the hole. I think the second casing was suposed to work just like the first one and get you to 75% with one series of actions.
Another tip to avoid switching back and forth to drive mode, you can use a backhoe or excavator to lift the casings into place.
Hope this ends up being helpful to someone.
The number of times I have tried, and succeeded to put two machines on the largest trailer only to be told they could not be secured is extremely disappointing.
Seriously, the machine does not need to be centered on the trailer to be secured...
That is all...
Listen, I get it, it is a game and they needed content to put in that did not require being out of a vehicle...but I have been in and around construction in some form all my life and some of this stuff is low key bugging me lol.
In some cases I have actually learned some things about large commercial type jobs and equipment and I think that is cool and could be good for young people who know a lot less than I do...but then you got things like using a tower crane and prefab walls to put up a garage? I have NEVER seen a tower style crane used on a residential build. How about a large truck crane to lay some sewer pipe? I am pretty sure no one uses 8" concrete for sewer lol. I could see if we were doing 48" RCP or something then yeah haul away.
The one that is really irking me at the moment is the prefab wood frame walls supporting CONCRETE floors. I mean maybe it is done in some places for a single story small space but I just poured the third floor of the Hotel on Europe map solid concrete and all three floors of walls are made of wood. I mean they have the process of forming and pouring concrete walls for the basement...they could have continued that...or instead of wood just use tilt-up concrete walls. Ideally it should have been a bunch of lam or steel I-beams laid in then crane the supply of plywood for the auto install of the subfloor. I am also highly surprised I have not used a mobile crane to set a ton of roof trusses on the smaller stuff.
One final bit of nonsense...drywall on the outside of the prefab walls? Really? The art department couldn't do some OSB with house wrap or even the chicken wire set up for Stucco? Could have had us deliver a dozen pallets of stucco around the building...or bricks and sand and whatnot.
Anyway, just sort of venting...not a big deal...game still works, just a might misleading for the unknowing.
EDIT to add another one I just thought of. I don't think I have ever seen concrete ceiling forms crafted on the ground and then hoisted into place. It might be possible that some other countries do something like that but even in video form, never seen it. How exactly are they supposed to get those bottom surfaces back out after the pour when they span the walls? Only thing I could come up with is maybe they don't and we jus aren't seeing the layer of plaster or whatever they add to it. It sure looks like bare concrete ceiling after the pour is done though. When you look before you pour there are panels,
DO NOT deliver your prefabricated wall containers to the site in an unmarked location and then log off to do "life" thinking "I will place those later". They will be stolen in the night never to be seen again. I had to repurchase 8 full containers when I logged back on and I am pretty sure I did not get any money back from the first loads.
Whether this happens if you put them within the marked storage area I do not know but mine was full of stuff so did not have that option.
Do the vehicles only get repaired/fueled at home base when "stored" inside the building (not visible) and not stored in the parking lot?
In other words, if everything I own is on display outside then the bonus percentages for repair mechanic and fuel in the upgrades isn't doing anything?
Anyone else feel like they missed out on a small trailer made to carry the small backhoe or other small equipment that could be towed by a dump truck or one of the pick up trucks?
I do...I see these combinations all over town where I live. It would have been particularly fitting for the early game when they give you the cargo truck and the backhoe...first purchase would be the trailer to tow it with...
I am about 3 or 4 days into a new run at the base Construction Simulator game. I had previously played a couple years ago and did the American map. This time I am doing Europe.
I jumped in thinking " I am in no hurry, take my time, do the stuff manually. I will fast travel as little as possible." I am now on my first decent sized project and it is literally the opposite side of the map from the Gravel location. After about 4 trips back and forth I am just thinking...is it fun? nope...
I thought to write this after my wife asked me "I thought that was a construction game...every time I look over all I ever see you doing is driving..."
So my question to you all is...how much of the actual driving do you guys really do?
I know there are workers and foreman and even the ability to skip tasks but I never really figured out how to use the additional people the first play through. Is that the way to get around the feeling of cheating or skipping stuff?
