u/chrizbreck

For years I’ve seen Captain of Industry pop up in various feeds and on the recommended page of Steam. For years I’ve sworn I purchased this game somewhere… I just can’t remember.

I looked through my purchase history and saw I had tried the game out in 2022 but refunded it. I vaguely remember being dumped into a map with little to no direction and a backlog of other games calling my name.

Over the last week I have spent 31 hours in game. I haven’t even made it to construction 3 yet with numerous restarts as I realize oh I can do that bit better.

I just brought back my first shipment of oil from an at sea rig to my oil refinery. Pipes running grand distances and conveyor Bus lanes a Factorio player would be jealous of.

I’m sure a veteran would crush my research and build out speed but Im so very glad I gave this game a second chance.

Controller first
Machine second
Frame third(????)

Have we forgotten the most important Valve rule? They can’t count to 3!

Half life 3? Need I say more

PSVR was my first entry to Vr. Then I had a Vive for many moons.

I loved my Vive but I don’t really want to deal with base stations again. I see the pimax has inside out tracking but the headset looks massive? Should I be looking that way or are there other options?

Historically I was always gun-shy on the non “main stream” names. But I’m realizing now there are probably tons of solutions out there that I’m un aware of.

Realistically I’m looking at Beatsaber 95% of the time. Alyx, and flight sim.

Edit:

Budget ~1k but obviously less is always better!

I probably just suck but holy fuck am I getting absolutely slaughtered at the start. The warlock is supposed to be the easy chosen right? Like a joke of a character and he keeps spawning in at the absolute worst of times. Lost hordes galore, he MCs my gunner while hiding allllll the way at the back of the map making it impossible to break the MC. So now I'm down a characteer and hes murdering my squad with the gunner.

I'm just not sure what the hell is going on, i'm playing on normal(?, default) and just dying left and right..

Edit: I'm also feeling really overwhelmed with the overworld map. Like I try and extract some resources that takes 5 days and in that time about 3 other events pop up that have me flying all over the map to deal with 'immediate' needs all while the blacksite is counting down and I can't built connections there because i'm blowing resources on recruits.

Double edit: I’ve restarted. It’s going better. Just a bad series of events I guess that snowballed into living hell

I feel like I've always focused on museum layout and making 'zones' for the various regions worth of stuff. Dinos go with dinos, plants with plants, a little mixing where appropriate to bridge the zones together nicely.

With arty-facts I find myself absolutely giving zero shits about placement. Its difficult if not impossible to tell at a glance from your inventory what youre looking at during layout.

Visually I know what the painting looks like, but is a joy piece? is it a sorrow who the fuck knows. You can have a dark moody picture that is joy? So you might be going for a visual 'feel' but the painting is giving exact opposite vibes to the patrons.

I find myself just throwing art down all over the place without any real flow.

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Edit: Come to think of it is there any cross dlc/base game content here? Like you could marine life in Scorched earth (fantasy). This forces you to employ various experts and leads to diversity. So far the new map only has art and art alone. There should be some prehistory expert requirement for the 'old' stuff or something. I also would have expected some kind of sketched animal/fish to go along with the sketch theme.

Hey all so I recently got a 2022 Topstone 4. Used but seemingly taken care of by a multi bike owner.

I’m coming from a MTB and noticing that if I level the pedals by back spinning at speed in my highest gear (smallest cog, not sure the right lingo there) the chain slacks up a TON and sometimes drops.

I took the bike to REI to get the shifting (and brakes, unrelated) tuned but the issue still exists. The shifting is better for sure (it was missing shifts or taking 3-4 revs before shifting before per click) but the chain still drops.

It also feels like on my MTB I can be giving it some up and go and shift without hearing hardcore clunks like I do with the gravel bike.

The main difference I attribute is the MTB is brand new Trail 1 and the Gravel bike is older and maybe just gunked up needing a deep clean?

When I went to REI initially I briefly mentioned the back spin issue but we really focused on the missed shifts more than anything else. I think if I bring it back within 30 days it’ll fall under the same job so potentially no cost but am I wasting my time? Is it just expected? Seems to maybe be per some other threads “just don’t back pedal, it’s meant to go forwards”.

Rear Derailleur

MicroShift Advent X

Shifters

MicroShift Advent X, 10-Speed

Crank

Prowheel, Charm 40T

Bottom Bracket

Cartridge, square taper

Chain

KMC X10, 10-speed

Rear Cogs

microSHIFT, 11-48, 10-speed