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What is your favourite Survival game ever? The ine that you would olay if you could play only one game for the rest of your life? For me I think it would be Dont starve. Its was an challenge to find stuff out, it zhrows some weird stuff at you that actually fun to find ( like building an effigy out of pig meat and beard hair for another life ). And I am one of those strange people that thinks the permadeath actually added some much needed tension to the game.

I am a weird one. I love building mechanics that other would deem tedious. And by building mechanics I dont necessarily mean what you can build like in Icarus or Enshrouded, its more HOW you have to build it. I want to carry every log to the building site and put it in place. Games like Aska, Sons of the Forest, Chinese Frontiers or The Last Blight come to mind. I want to craft the beams I have to put in place. Do you know of any other games that are like this, maybe lesser known ones?

Title. I am adding 3 drps/sec atm, but some plants, especially the more colourful ones ore those I added later, are not doing so hot, sobI thought to go up to 4/sec. On the other hand I dont want to kill my fish. Its a 300 l tank, no soil, using rootcaps.

Please help me decide between two different species for my tank. I have a 300 l (100cm long) that houses corydoras, three panda garras and 6 Melanotainia praecox. The plan is to add a school of 12 either Melanotainia maccullochi or Kali tawa, but I cant decide on one of the two. Kali tawa look a bit similar to praecox, thats why I am a bit hesitant as I wanted something a bit different. Maccullochi on the other hand look different but a bit less attractive imho ( although I know pictures can be misleading with rainbows as they get more colourful the older they get). I ruled out other bigger species because of my tank size and pseudomugil because they seem to jump and my tank does not have a lid. Do any of you kerp those species and have some info for me that would make the desicion a bit easier?

Tried the demo out for a bit today and I have to say that I am pretty hyped. As someone who loved the slower more strategic pace of SupCom 1 I think this xould turn out to be SupCom 2 we never got (and I dont even necessarily think SupCom2 is a bad game per se, it just never lived up to the first one). I love this style of game and since the first one there was never a game that really scratched that itch. Ashes of Singularity was somehow weird and I never really got into BAR. But this could be really good. Want to sink more time i to the demo, but the mechanics seem to basically pretty much SupCom 1. It also seems to have the mechanic where the battlefield opens up as the Mission goes on, which I really like because you can build up your base before you tackle the next objektive and I loved that in SupCom 1. As someone who basically almost stopped playing rts as I got older and Rts got ever faster this could really be up my alley and bring me back. Hoping for the best.

For a bit of context, I am one of those weird people who dont want to look up youtube tutorials and find out most stuff for themselfes. My problem is that I get a bit dishearted by this game. I am ptetty good at establishing a running base, but as soon as I hit late early or mid game I get stuck not knowing on ehat to focus. All those posts on this sub with the incredibly intricate stuff that is being built dint help with me feeling like a toddler playing with his first Legos. Any tips on how to progress a bit smoother without me having to look up stuff?

For around two weeks now I can see a noticable bacterial film on my water surface (tank is running since beginning of may). My surface agitation is good, so its never really a full on film but more of a noticable oily sheen, as well as some co2 bubbles on the surface. I got a 300l tank with 12 corys, 6 praecox rainbows, 1 old pearl gourami, 3 panda garras and a few amanos, so I dont think overstocking is the problem. For my plants I only use rootcaps and I add potassium and Fe in small dosages (2,5 ml) daily. I changed my canister filter two weeks ago from a small one to an oase 850, but I put some old filter material in it to avoid a no2 spike. Which gets me to overfeeding. I try to feed in small dosages and try to monitor as good as I can to not overfeed. And I do think the main issue is that my corys and pandas often push their pellets around, which leads me to believe they often push them into spaces where they cant reach them anymore and they are left to rot. Would you agree? How do I deal with it? Maybe get some big glass bowl in which I can feed them and nothing can rot in the soil?

I am a big fan of smaller scale colony sims, so I am really interrested to know what your favourites are (although I know that there will be many Rimworld posts ) amd which ones you are looking forward to. Mine would be Oxygen not Included. I got a bit of a love/hate relationship with this game as I really like it but I am pretty terrible at it. I do manage to get to a stable colony of 5 and then thats it. Next would be Clanfolk and Space Haven. Especially space haven is a vibe imho. Honorare mention to Mind over Magic, its not a 10/10 bit a really Solid game with good artstyle and I love the theme. I never got into Rimworld, dont know why. I am looking forward to Romestead, early access was pretty promising. Also love the concept of Dungeon Settlers, hope they can pull it off. If you have any lesser known ones please let me know, I do have all the bigger ones in my library.

This is meant as a little heads up to all the newbies or people who look to get into the hobby. Save yourself some headaches later and dont try to save money in the wrong places, specifically your filter. The filter is arguably the most important piece of tech for your tank. Always try to get a good quality, and always buy a bigger filter than you think you would need. Better save than sorry. I had a Tetra filter up until beginning of this week, and it was okay but not great. I knew I wanted a better filter because I set up a 79 gal tank in the beginning of may. So with my holiday bonus I got a Oase Biomaster 850. It may seem way overtuned for my tank, but you can always ajust speed of your flow. It os running for only two days now and my water is crystal clear. Some other great filters would be Aquael or Eheim (an all time classic, been around for ages).

I got 10 hearts with Raina and Grace, but the 10 heart Events are not unlocking. I am pretty bummed out because I specifically heald out on marrying to wait for Raina. Is there something I am missing? Is it a bug?I completed everything except the Arcade and the dino holograms.

I got the game a long time ago, but with the last update I really jumped in and so far I really like the game. One thing that irks me a bit though are the romances. I am not sure who to marry atm, but so far Leah ans Alice are at the top because they seem to be the only ones really interrested in me, especially with Leah being the only one admitting openly that she is into the mc before you even give her a locket. Initially I was drawn torwards Chaem because buff girls are my type, but she is way too one note. And with most others it seems you are just along for the ride until you give them a locket and they go "Well why not, lets try". But maybe thats a problem with romances in these kinds of games per se. I will hold back until I romanced Raina, but so far Leah is the most satisfying imho. I would really wish that romances in those games are better written. If any of you know such games I am glad for suggestions (but please no pure life sims).

Maybe you folk could help me. My dream catfish has always been Sturisoma aureum. Now I recently got a new tank, but its only 65 gal with 40 inch lengh, which imho is not enough for this fish. I searched around for alternatives and found 4 canidates and thought maybe some of have or had them and could help me fecide on which one fits beyt for my tank and the tankmates he has to live with. Other bottom fish would be a school of venezuelan corys and in the future a pair of bolivian rams. Now the safest option would be Rineloricaria leliella Red. They stay relatively small. I already had them once and they have a pretty similar look to sturisoma. Then theres Rineloricaria parva, which is pretty similar but very rarely held, that makes it interresting. Loricaria Rio Atabapo would be Nr. 3. He would be the most interresting out of the three, but the fact that hes is on the bigger side makes me think if he would even fit. Now the last one, and my favourite, would be sturisomatichtys leightoni, because it is basically a smaller sturisoma, but still pretty big, which leaves me with the same question as with the last one if my tank is even big enough for him. All of them have to be held in groups, so thats a thing they all have in common. Sorry for using the latin namens, butvI am not a native english speaker so I dont know what they are commonly called in english. Thsnks in advance!

I dont know if this is the right sub as I think the fish I want to ask about are not strictly plecos, but maybe you folk could help me. My dream catfish has always been Sturisoma aureum. Now I recently got a new tank, but its only 65 gal with 40 inch lengh, which imho is not enough for this fish. I searched around for alternatives and found 4 canidates and thought maybe some of have or had them and could help me fecide on which one fits beyt for my tank and the tankmates he has to live with. Other bottom fish would be a school of venezuelan corys and in the future a pair of bolivian rams. Now the safest option would be Rineloricaria leliella Red. They stay relatively small. I already had them once and they have a pretty similar look to sturisoma. Then theres Rineloricaria parva, which is pretty similar but very rarely held, that makes it interresting. Loricaria Rio Atabapo would be Nr. 3. He would be the most interresting out of the three, but the fact that hes is on the bigger side makes me think if he would even fit. Now the last one, and my favourite, would be sturisomatichtys leightoni, because it is basically a smaller sturisoma, but still pretty big, which leaves me with the same question as with the last one if my tank is even big enough for him. All of them have to be held in groups, so thats a thing they all have in common. Sorry for using the latin namens, butvI am not a native english speaker so I dont know what they are commonly called in english. Thsnks in advance!