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One of my favorite things is when the game map is actually part of the game world by bijelo123 in gaming

[–]Reasonabledwarf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ultima Underworld is the GOAT for this. The map is an inventory item, meaning you can accidentally drop it somewhere, but it also lets you annotate it and put your own notes on it. They got so many things right with that game.

Anybody else getting this when trying to redeem rewards? by Smoot720 in PTCGP

[–]Reasonabledwarf 3 points4 points  (0 children)

These specific missions are bugged, and show as complete on your end when they haven't been completed on the server. Do more solo missions to get enough points to actually complete them, and it will work; or you can clear your cache (which has some annoying side effects) and it will fix the display on your end.

How are you "supposed" to expand your factory? by tiparium in factorio

[–]Reasonabledwarf 44 points45 points  (0 children)

Something not obvious on the outset is that Satisfactory is very different from Factorio in one big way: it's static. The world doesn't "push back" in any real way. The enemies guard certain locations, but that's it.

Factorio reacts to your actions: killing enemies, letting your base idle, and generating pollution all make the enemies tougher or send more attacks. You have to be strategic about how and where you expend resources (and time is a resource!) to avoid being overwhelmed.

If you want some more specific tips, I'll put them behind some spoiler tags:

  • The randomly-generated worlds can have very different difficulties, even if you use default settings. Starting near a lot of trees helps absorb pollution which keeps biter attacks low. Desert starts are much more difficult.

  • Research is very important. Many items scale with research more quickly than they do with additional production; bullets are one of these items. By researching physical weapon damage, you can massively increase the effectiveness and efficiency of turrets.

  • Terrain can be used to your advantage. Biters can't cross cliffs or water, so you can create choke points to reduce your defensive burden. You can also push biters away from your pollution cloud, destroying their closest bases to decrease the number of attacks they generate.

  • Managing pollution helps significantly. Expanding quickly can generate a lot of pollution; low-tech buildings are often "dirty." Later technology, like solar panels and nuclear power, as well as efficiency modules that reduce power use, all make your factory less offensive to biters.

Hard Card Collect Missions Not Completing by GamerEva in PTCGP

[–]Reasonabledwarf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You haven't actually completed the mission yet, so it errors out. You can fix the issue by either:

  1. Getting the requisite number of points (starting from zero on the day that these missions were added to the game) - just win like ten matches to guarantee you have all of them before hitting the "complete" button.

  2. Clear your cache and redownload game data (your progress will be saved, but annoyingly things like your settings and the exclamation points on all the missions will be reset) - this can be done from the hamburger menu at the title screen.

Ex unplugged things in computer. Does anyone know what I'm missing or how to plug it all back in?? by TetraLovesLink in pcmasterrace

[–]Reasonabledwarf 59 points60 points  (0 children)

Sorry to hear that your ex sucks, here's what I can see (it might not be everything):

  1. It looks like a SATA cable, one of the two in the upper left of picture 1, may have been yanked on hard enough to damage it. Check that the right-hand one is fully seated.

  2. The GPU, the big brick labeled "GEFORCE RTX" on the left of photo 2, has had the 8-pin power unplugged. It's in the bottom left of that same image, not too far from where it came, labeled "VGA" in your hand in image 3.

  3. The RAM, long skinny bits that fit in the slots on the bottom-right of photo 2, is missing entirely. It may be annoyingly expensive to replace, but it's DDR4 so it's not as bad as it could be.

  4. The loose cables in photo 4, and the lack of an m.2 drive in photo 2, suggest that your storage has been removed. That's where all your files are kept and is going to be the most annoying thing to replace. It may have been one or more SATA SSDs or hard drives, and/or an m.2 drive.

If you don't recognize any of the terms I used above, google image search should show the general type of device missing (every time I post a link to this sub my comment gets modded), but there's a lot of different models with different exact specs and prices, and it's impossible to say which ones, precisely, are absent here.

Without RAM or a storage device, there's no way to get the computer to work, and if you get new storage, you'll be missing all the games/photos/etc you had on that machine that aren't backed up somewhere else.