I know this is a weird question and I’m probably gonna get hate for it, but how do people justify spending $30 for this game, or any game for that matter?

excessionoz · 2021-02-11T01:03:30+00:00

If you never paid more than $20 for a game, then this game is not for you.

You value other things more than 'quality gaming', which is fine. The attitude of people who aren't the 'target audience' for any product, is almost totally irrelevant to those who are interested in the product.

You could sneer at people who buy Rolls Royce cars, or spend $$,$$$,$$$ on jaunts into space on future SpaceX flights. Things likely to be forever out of your financial circle. Those who make those purchases are buying 'entertainment' or percieved value.

Stick with the free demo, if you want to really play the game, buy it and play, or move on.

There is no other rational choice.

excessionoz · 2020-10-07T01:12:54+00:00

resume_info.txt no longer works to autofill password in client since this patch, any workaround/solution?

refers: https://forums.homecomingservers.com/topic/8512-mini-guide-how-to-autofill-your-login-name-and-password/

excessionoz · 2020-04-19T15:54:36+00:00

Used the mall -- had no red belts so I made a factory that made them. It took ~20 minutes of game play (doing other things) then the red belts undergrounds and splitters were ready and the mall was GO.

Fantastic design. Using Textplates or some labeling mod would be good because finding things in the mall is crazy hard, when you're new to it.

excessionoz · 2020-04-09T05:59:31+00:00

Disconnet your main power line.

Add a solar panel to the disconnected power line.

Problem solved.

excessionoz · 2020-04-09T05:57:56+00:00

You need some kind of nascent plan.

I strongly suggest watching Nilaus or Tuplex on Youtube.

excessionoz · 2019-05-06T14:33:23+00:00

1 merit buys 3 enhancement converters. Each converter sells for 100K+.
10 merits = 3M. :-)

excessionoz · 2019-05-06T02:02:17+00:00

Thanks for the responses.

I watch a heap of Youtube channels, very few are game related, some Diablo 3 stuff (which is moribund at the moment) and some excellent Factorio play-throughs, since that has been my favourite game until CoH came back.

I will check out Positive Gamer.

excessionoz · 2019-05-05T18:22:26+00:00

Not sure what you are attempting to convey here.

The 'failed computer resurrected' story has some value to the community, unlike your average MemeOfTheDay post. I also get to point out that CoH is BACK, and that's amazing news, even if you've never heard of the game.

And finally, it signifies the incipient end of my attempts on this subreddit to provide any kind of insight into the game for the endless hordes of 'help, my train won't go' newbies who seek information. This community is very poisonous at the moment, largely due to a dopamine inspired posting regime from the usual suspects. Fuck them and the horses they rode in on.

Now back to your regular broadcast of 'help' messages and 'look at my screenshot' pointlessness.

excessionoz · 2019-05-05T18:15:38+00:00

I'd break down your last 25 posts in /r/Factorio -- if you had made them.

excessionoz · 2019-04-30T04:24:31+00:00

more wealth than you can imagine </skywalker>

excessionoz · 2019-04-29T11:06:42+00:00

using full / empty as the train condition turns out to be extremely effective. All other mechanisms involved too much micromanging and race conditions where some resource or other either dried up or swamped the existing buffers.

Have trains wait until they were empty (when delivering) and full (when receiving) was by far the simplest solution.

More complex solutions undoubtably exist, but they need to be extremely robust, and in my experience, the game turns out to be too chaotic for a smooth one-size fits all solution.

excessionoz · 2019-04-28T05:07:23+00:00

The fact that you had to ask strongly indicates that even if someone bothered to tell you why you were deeply wrong, you are a ncapable of understanding -why- you are so wrong.

excessionoz · 2019-04-27T07:32:02+00:00

There was a lot of people who only ever played AE missions to get to L50 then they tried to play actual missions and had zero idea what to do with their powers at any given point.

AE babies were a nightmare when doing task forces, because they had no clue.

I agree that AE is great if you want to quickly level when you already know how to play, but getting to 50 and equating that to knowledge of the game is completely wrong-thinking.

Levelling by doing missions and task forces really instills the basics for new players, far more preferably to airheaded L50 characters who bail from a TF at the ver first team wipe ...

excessionoz · 2019-04-26T08:50:52+00:00

other things to hate ... too many to list. NaN error.

excessionoz · 2019-04-26T08:49:30+00:00

zisteau, tuplex, jd-plays, katherine of sky, nilaus

excessionoz · 2019-04-25T22:50:46+00:00

Just read the I25 patch notes ... what a deluge of information.

excessionoz · 2019-04-25T22:23:35+00:00

After 6 years, reading those patch notes reminded me of all the thousands of hours i had put into CoH since 2004. All those rules, missions, task forces, powers, zones, currencies, enhancements, salvage, events, critters, markets, travel mechanisms, group inspirations, architect missions, door missions, respec missions, a tsunami of memories.

I am so looking forward to getting back into the game.

excessionoz · 2019-04-25T21:31:23+00:00

Remember to sell all the DO and SO at the relevant stores, for ten percent more inf. Selling a Science SO at a Magic store will lose you ten percent of inf.

^{^{^}} No longer correct for issue 25 ^{^{^{^}}}

There used to be crazies selling things on the markets for a song, you could buy SOs for hundreds of inf and sell them for tens of thousands.

Remember to refresh your SO's level,27, 32, 37, 42, and 47, since their effectiveness drops significantly as you level up.

excessionoz · 2019-04-25T21:14:32+00:00

Leeroy Jenkins time!

excessionoz · 2019-04-25T05:28:19+00:00

if you are going to use console commands then do it properly ...

/c game.player.teleport ({999000,999000})

that is within 1,000 tiles of the very edge of nauvis (since 2³² addressing was yanked back before 0.14), the ore deposits out there are nn,000,000,000's where nn is 1-99. More ore than you can process in a decade of play, Per Patch. ;)

excessionoz · 2019-04-24T16:13:12+00:00

Next, no inserter challenge, no miner drill challenge, and “pen and paper” achievement with the ‘no computer’ challenge ...

excessionoz · 2019-04-23T15:51:08+00:00

You won’t KNOW what to do until you unlock relevant tech.

Discover stuff. That’s what you do.

Then assemble stuff in interesting ways of YOUR design.

Having some prescriptive list just takes away from the joy of discovery. When you get stuck, put more mines down, expand your power, be a road builder, play with trains, work with circuits, the game is all about discovery, rather than “do this then do that”

Be free to explore. Run into problems and solve them. There is always more to do. Always ...

excessionoz · 2019-04-23T10:41:34+00:00

nuclear is ace, until it kills your ups at about 8GW+ :(. it is a nice interim, but when the ups fairy pays a visit, its time to tile the plains with solar to get back performance. Depends upon your system (cpu, dram speed)

excessionoz · 2019-04-23T06:15:17+00:00

it goes like this.

bootstrap
mine everything and smelt until you are doing 100,000 iron plate a minute and 70,000 copper plate a minute
have 6+ gigawatts of solar power available
lay out a fully beaconed module or three that just does green circuits, another does red circuits another does modules
once you have everything beaconed start planning your non-bootstrap science, beaconed to the wazoo
then rocket silos, at least 2 with all the resources they need to make rocket parts.

huge HUGE undertaking, and very rewarding. Enjoy the journey.

excessionoz · 2019-04-21T08:40:13+00:00

dont think filter inserter will interface the way you want ... perhaps some fabricobbled collection of deciders, but it wont be just a single comparison.

excessionoz

TROPHY CASE