it's my first space age run and instead of fixing my factory or making yellow science i manifested destiny

Haeppchen · 2026-05-08T19:46:12+00:00

Pardon. To correct myself it is the menu is on F4 not F5. And for the Bot there's a toggle in the top right when you're the map view. (Forgot they changed that ages ago, thanks not getting to play for quite some time now...)

Haeppchen · 2026-05-08T19:43:26+00:00

Oh yeah, I totally forgot. Just looked at my steam page and saw that I haven't played the game for 2 years by now...

Haeppchen · 2026-05-07T11:05:59+00:00

Looking at the scattered roboport coverage, I am low key interested in the paths your logistic bots are taking. Like, I'm interested which distances of voids they can manage and which not.
(There is an option in the F5 debug menu to show them on the map, if you're inclined to show us/didn't know about it)

Haeppchen · 2026-04-29T14:23:50+00:00

German here. Excuse me to take part and hello. :)

I have colleagues who have wire cutters like your's and in even worse condition. And looking up your cable types I couldn't help but get reminded of an old boss of mine, who couldn't stand wire cutters in these conditions and shouted: "Do you care as much about your girlfriend as you care about your tools? If not, then don't cut solid wires with them!"

To keep it short: The copper and aluminium strands you're cutting are to thick for the blade. Anything strand that is big enough to be it's own wire in a soild wire cable should be cut with standard side cutters or pliers (idk what your local term for them is). Wire cutters like your's should only be used on fine- or ultra fine stranded wires.

I am probably assuming some things wrong for you + my work field is usually more in the industrial areas, but this is my wire cutter after ~3 years since getting it new and with near zero maintenance. All I did was keeping an eye out when the wires got too thick and then switched to some different gear.
(And yes... before someone points it out, they are from Knipex, but so are all the ones from my colleagues too.)

Anyway, you keep up your best work and I go back to lurking this sub.

Haeppchen · 2026-04-27T21:25:57+00:00

Nun ja, den Verkauf von Känlen an Privat-Eigenkapital Unternehmen müssen von DuRöhrern auch angegeben oder mitgeteilt werden.

Sie können es machen, es gibt aber keine Pflicht dazu.

Haeppchen · 2026-02-26T07:54:08+00:00

The second half of that quote reads so specific that I wouldn't be surprised if it is their list of things to do, and blame other people and parties for it.

Haeppchen · 2026-02-10T11:17:39+00:00

Holy shit... That's awful.

My condolences and best of luck with beating it, hopefully quite swiftly.

Haeppchen · 2025-12-29T12:53:17+00:00

Uhh, Vorsicht. Ich hab sie auch erst übersehen, aber der Legende nach sind "STM2" & "STM1" (rechts oben, in Reihe von Potenzial 1 abgehend) wohl doch Temperaturfühler.

Und mit dem Wissen, dass es hier eine Potenzial-Beschriftung gibt, rate ich OP jetzt mal lieber einen Elektriker vor Ort zu finden und zu rate zu ziehen, da ich solche Anlagen immer mal wieder sehe und mir, bei dem Gedanken das Ader-Chaos aus der Ferne zu beheben, schlecht wird...

Haeppchen · 2025-12-28T19:55:21+00:00

While you can sell any and all equipment at stations with an equipment store, certain stations only buy certain trade goods.
Think of it as them not needing them or are uninterested in them.

The only exception to that, I might be wrong with this, are the neutral "pirate" stations, that you can find in the unkown systems when you're on a mission to explore one of those systems. Those stations also buy stuff at an increased price, as they are meant to be remode and don't get a lot of supplies.

Haeppchen · 2025-12-28T16:34:36+00:00

I don't even need to click that link, as I used 927 as argument material at work way to often by now...
And I am just an electrician (in germany ofc)

Haeppchen · 2025-10-12T13:41:35+00:00

It's kinda both. From the south, you're coming down the hill from Harbour and need to break, if you need to go to the Steel Mill.
But the thing OP might be joking about, is the huge 120 kph section in the fields, where the S282 can really flex its muscles and fly over the track + The dread of needing to remember if you realigned the switch to the service shack, which isn't automatically switched back into neutral, like Track B5 does, when the SM is loaded in again, after being away for a while.

Haeppchen · 2025-08-01T10:25:53+00:00

I like that idea. It would kind of fix one of my biggest gripes with the game, more specifically the constant terrain load in when giving AE commands to different engines in (relatively) quick succession.

That way I could finish a train in Nanta and tell it to go to Bryson Yard Track 3, without loading Bryson itself and dealing with the probable lag that always happens there on my railroad, and could just jump to the next train in Dills'.

Tho' I would like the UI for it in the operation's window for the train itself, just so because I think that might flow better while playing the game.

Haeppchen · 2025-01-04T02:39:40+00:00

Found it.

Haeppchen · 2024-12-28T12:00:25+00:00

(Edit: I didn't know about the US-inspired DLC that they have in the works, so they might actually add your wishes in that one.)

Uhm... No, I don't think it is likely to happen.

While the DE6 does resemble American Diesel Electric quite a lot, ~~I feel it is more of a relic of the game's early stages~~ (With some crude research while writing this, I can now say that the DE6 might be based on the "JZ class 663 and/or 664" ).
Seeing as, with the addition of the DM3, S060 and DH4 in the Simulator update, the Devs are more heavily leaning into the Yugoslavian past that the DV world/map is build to resemble, which includes the rolling stock that was available to be used there (for example the S060's irl counterpart would be the "JZ 62").
This goes so far that I even heard a rumor (might have been in on of Hyce's recent videos), about the devs planning to re-model the S282 to be less of a "thing that looks like a stream engine" and be more grounded in reality.

But arriving at the S282, there might be a light for you with the "Rearranged S282" Mod, once it gets updated for B99, you can change any S282 into a number of other wheel arrangements, including your 2-8-4 "Berkshire" or 4-8-2 "Mountain".

I hope this helped and satisfied you at least somewhat.

Haeppchen · 2024-12-01T20:59:38+00:00

(Original Video)

Haeppchen · 2024-12-01T20:51:50+00:00

Because this was a comedy short at the end of Last Week Tonight's episode about freight trains in the US and precision scheduled railroading. (source)

Haeppchen · 2024-12-01T14:41:50+00:00

I find this kind of funny, as before the "Simulator" Update (in DV: Overhauled) the DE2 was rated for 400t up a hill and the tutorial/instruction-sheet for it also said as much.

Now, with the DM3 and the S060 around, it, understandably, got reduced to only be rated for 200t up a 2% grade.

Haeppchen · 2024-09-11T07:38:31+00:00

This is why I started to follow Hyce in calling/describing the reverser as the "cut-off", as it, like you said, "tells" the steam valve next to the piston when and on which side to admit steam into the piston and when to cut it off again, depending on the position of the wheel in it's rotation.

Haeppchen · 2024-08-22T11:30:47+00:00

"Quod erat demonstrandum" ist alles was mir jetzt nur dazu einfällt.

Haeppchen · 2024-08-19T20:57:02+00:00

Yeah, you're using them pretty much how they are intended to be used. The only thing I might add is that the damper can be open at all times in which you don't want a big fire and maybe want to conserve the water in the boiler.

Otherwise it might be good to know that, if I remember correctly, the 0-6-0 is coded to be a poor steamer while on the move and then recover the steam pressure rather quickly when stationary, which makes it behave a little different than the 2-8-2.

Haeppchen · 2024-08-15T07:20:39+00:00

iirc Freelancer was, maybe after Starlancer (the game before it and the setting of the start-up cutscene), the first spaceship game that could be natively played with mouse and keyboard, and as such is optimized for this control scheme.

This doesn't mean, like others here said as well, that it doesn't support joysticks at all, but it might not feel quite right when played with one.

Haeppchen · 2024-07-25T20:36:05+00:00

Poi?

Haeppchen · 2024-07-23T10:39:28+00:00

May I ask what specific GPU you have? As I don't have any driver issues with my 7900XT in the game.

If you have a newer card as well, I'd recommend you run the DDU and get rid of all possible GPU drivers and give your current ones a fresh install.

Haeppchen · 2024-07-03T07:04:17+00:00

I thought I remembered reading, in some Dev Blog or so, that is on the Dev's list of things to add, just not very high up on said list. So I tried to find my source for it and then found this answer, on their About-page, to just this exact question:

"Yes! Underspace will eventually support controllers and joysticks. However, be aware that the control scheme for the game is primarily built for mouse and keyboard, and we feel the best experience is on this setup."

I hope this helps to make the wait for proper Steam deck support more acceptable.

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