I hate the road making system in this game, at least the vanilla version of it. Is there a way to make my life less hell for doing this? I keep fighting with the snapping and curving. I need to know a way to make prettier curves and more seamless transitions, because this is just ugly.
Edit: To put into context, there is another highway intersection south east from this approximate location.
I finally got the chance to play palworld and i loved it so far! Here's my starter base. Lemme know what you guys think. Also, I would really want to hear some tips and tricks from you guys on how to make my game more fun or interesting.
This feels wrong. A reason why i don't want to focus on roads is because how much i'd have to bulldoze to make it right. Is this how you truly play the game; Build and rebuild?
I'll be honest, doing roads has to be one of the most boring, mind numbing thing in this game. I don't like seeing examples, i don't want to do research just so my traffic reaches an optimal state. I just want to build buildings and unlock new things, not to mention how hard it is to make roads look pretty without bulldozing so many things, wasting so much money to move buildings to make way. But i know that making roads is the key challenge to overcome in this game. So please, tell me, what's the quickest way to learn how to make them without having to learn so many civil engineering theory or read too many guides? I just want to make roads and make do with it so that i can focus on more fun stuff, like trains, busses, metros, making more city districts, industrial districts, actually decorating my city, and whatnot.
So, i have never gotten to a point where my city is thriving like this. Now i have to admit that i am using the infinite oil and ore mod, but that's because running out of oil that fast is lame and unfun, having to rebuild pumps and abandoning places too quickly. Most of my income comes from residential places anyways. So now, i want to know, what you guys usually do at this point? Need some ideas.
I bought a minecraft key from another region and i can redeem it in my microsoft store. However, the app wouldn't download at all. I've tried everything, from resetting the microsoft store, resetting the xbox app, reinstalling game services, to using the game services repair software from microsoft themselves. Any suggestions?
Edit: I installed the legacy launcher and thankfully it worked. But i still want to update the launcher and i can't do so. Using the download from the minecraft site doesn't work, so does installing it from the store.
I've tried reinstalling game services. I've tried using the gaming services repair tool. I've tried using powershell to manually uninstall and reinstall an updated version of gaming services. Yet, I still can't install games from the microsoft store. I can't even open xbox. It always shows the error 0x8007041d. Gaming repair tool either returns with an error or it gets stuck. Any solutions?
So i have been trying and retrying cities skylines and it has never stick with me for long periods of time. Either i'd get to a point of stagnation or got into a minmax dilemma that made me overwhelmed. I need some tips so that i can invest more time into this game properly, especially when it's regarding traffic management and zoning. Any tips? I want to start as early as possible but it feels like planning traffic in this game is quite the ordeal. Other tips are also welcome.
I thought i can tryhard this game and retry sections over and over again, just to get the most ideal ending as young as possible. But nope, this game is difficult, even in normal difficulty. So, let me flip the question and ask, how chill can i take this game's roguelite system?
Cities skylines, Anno 1800, Foundation, and other city building games. I have tried so hard to enjoy them for a long time, but i always reach this point of stagnation with all of them. I can't seem to make substantial profit to enjoy the game, always teetering between profit and loss to the point where it became micro hell for me, and I feel like I'm doing things very wrong in each of those games. Can anyone tell me how do you actually do those things? Starting with cities skylines for instance. I remembered the time when i tried getting serious, most of my time is teetering between managing taxes and building more districts, creating this monotonous, non-creative loop. Then after that, can anyone tell me how to enjoy city builders with resource lines like Anno and Foundation? Those games seem to have more charm than Cities Skylines yet it's the hardest to profit from.
I have a minor obsession with Timberborn and tempted to try it out. However, i don't think it will go well for me, considering its queue based mechanics. I had enough of that in rimworld and to me, those mechanics takes time to truly enjoy. I need some casual yet technical city builder, something like cities skylines but with more charm and mechanics put into it. Any suggestions?
I remembered when i saw a post here about how kids nowadays play games to meet and hang around with friends and how the post accentuates that experiencing the game itself has become secondary to them. While it is a pretty alien concept for a lot of us, i am ashamed to say that I am one of the ones who feels the same way.
Back then, i could enjoy playing games to my own leisure, trying out different games to myself and have fun, despite what people say about games. But now, i found that engaging with the community is fun by itself and it has become a sizeable part of my gaming experience. Therefore, seeing a positive community that always celebrates a game, seeing people interact with each other in a positive way, and seeing the community simply making content out of the game would always bring a smile to my face and somewhat push me to play the said game. Sadly, this effect is true for the opposite and it is simply hard to separate the game from the community, and in turn, from the company.
Nowadays, it feels rather disheartening for me to play a game which a community disapprove of all the time. The tribalism factor in gaming has somewhat taken root in my being slowly but surely. Playing Helldivers 2 is now a waiting game for AH to fix things that i do not find troublesome. Playing Starfield feels like im always at the end of facing the 5 stages of grief and not in a good way, added the fact that everyone still and will still hate the game no matter how much Bethesda is trying to add to it. In the meantime, playing no man's sky feels like being surrounded by egoistic and pompous bootlickers that will excuse hello games for any update they do, no matter how shallow it is. Seeing Cyberpunk 2077 being compared to other games just shy me away from the community, again, for being elitist rpg players, despite the fact that i do enjoy Cyberpunk 2077. Simply put, it feels like no matter how hard i try to separate the game from the community from the company, a part of me just feels off and wants to scream my opinions to mellow out opinions, just so i can justify myself to even boot up the game that i want to play. Other times, if a game doesn't have a big following, playing it feels lonely, like i want more people to know about this game that i like.
At the end of the day, I chose to accept this phenomenon in some way, that community engagement has become a big part of the gaming experience. That's why indie party games are always a hit, no matter how much the devs put out. Engagement matters more than quality. But, should I though?
I have reviewed my materials, albeit imperfect. I've spend my time making and remaking notes. I have attended every single classes, translated my notes, preparing them for one final singular test. I have tried and chew on every single bit of material and learning those that i truly don't understand. I have probably spent more time than i have ever spend in my entire life learning, even if it's not as perfect as high achieving students, and yet i still feel doomed.
I am studying in one of the best universities in germany, that is true. I know how much effort i need to spend on my studies and yet surely there has to be a point where i can feel comfortable at my position. I don't want to nor i need to gain the highest grades. I know I just need to survive. Getting the bare minimum feels like it's supposed to be enough for me. And yet, my weeks have been nothing but stuck in this perpetual state of doom.
Surely, there has to be a clearing that i can rest on. Surely, there has to be a point where i can say "I am good enough, i can pass this, now i can play" or is that how it is in grad school; an endless torment of pain and lingering sense of dread behind my back?
I am currently trying to gather resources as much as i can to study, when a kind friend gave me a bunch of useful resources of basic knowledge. However, these are all in german and i'd like to translate them to english so that i could print them in english. Using google translate, while adequate, does break important formatting that impacts charts, graphs, and images. Are there any available software or online services that are free to use to translate a lot of documents that won't break formatting? I've tried uploading and translating the image of the files with no consistent success. Gemini AI can't do it properly either.
May has ended. As promised, here is a May update. I havent managed to add more vegetable variety, but at least now i can cook steaks properly.
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Im currently studying abroad for my masters degree and it has not been smooth sailing. I found out how much i have to catch up with my studies due to how hard it is while haveing to adapt living in a new area. Feels like im in no place for a relationship, and while i understand that, my heart and body yearns for something.
Going to student clubs feels more like a chore due to how much classes have been taking a toll on my capacity and most of them are very technical oriented, so i havent joined any of them. Doing any sort of hobbies feels like wasting my time, with a high chance of being exmatriculated (expelled). Tried going to parties to see whats up. Didnt quite match my vibe. Been seeking groups that share my interests (video games and fictional media) but i have yet to find any.
So, im just wondering, if i do have the time soon to actually do something about this, how do i find romance in my predicament?
I'm currently taking a master's course on detection, pattern recognition, and another one on deep learning. I thought the class would be more implementational. What a big mistake i've made. Each class felt like days of materials crammed in my head, with no tangible explanations, procedures, or any real way i can implement it on a pen and paper.
Why is it taught like that? I thought electrical engineering math was hard, but at least it has more understandable maths, where a = b, b = c, and so forth. I don't have to build equations, assume things, and elaborate on why a = b every single time. Is there an easier way to digest whatever my professor has taught or do i have to power through the pain of not understanding a single bit of theory in class?
If only the shamblers were idiots and goes through my killbox. Nah, im rerolling this.
Need something like kenshi, with the depth of kenshi, but not punishing as kenshi, where every step can make your progress restart to zero. Actually tried a run once. Got some good cash flow going by mining copper all day and night. Built a house. Got raided and my house ransacked and destroyed. Never tried anything again ever since. I'm basically looking for an immersive life simulator but not the punishing ones. Im in the middle of playing rimworld, It's punishing, true, but the only thing that kept me going is that at least it's balanced, never unfair, and if you're good, you get rewarded by getting to keep the good stuff in the game. I don't want to repeat runs, im not the person who likes to do multiple runs. Got recommended open sewers (obenseuer), yet the setting is putting me off that makes me not want to play it. Sure i can go cozy like playing stardew valley, but that's not exactly immersive.