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I can likely play most games out there is I choose to. I have an older computer, but I have a i7-4790 32GB memory, 1 TB SSD, three 1440p 5ms monitors driven off of a RTX 2070. Anyone who has built large craft with Kerbal Space Program know it really needs a fast processor, and I have never come across someone who has built and docked craft as large as I have. With KSP, it helps to remove hyperthreading. My 4790 gets about a 12% better single thread performance. The 4790K I believe still has the fasted single thread operations for home computers.

I'm not really into the games that ruin it with excessive graphics. I like the strategy games. Some story type games re OK, until they go into a video scene wasting time. I haven't bought any new games in a while. I go back to playing Civ IV every now and again.

I like the type of games you can build something with.

Ideas?
 
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Lord of Planar said:
I can likely play most games out there is I choose to. I have an older computer, but I have a i7-4790 32GB memory, 1 TB SSD, three 1440p 5ms monitors driven off of a RTX 2070. Anyone who has built large craft with Kerbal Space Program know it really needs a fast processor, and I have never come across someone who has built and docked craft as large as I have. With KSP, it helps to remove hyperthreading. My 4790 gets about a 12% better single thread performance. The 4790K I believe still has the fasted single thread operations for home computers.

I'm not really into the games that ruin it with excessive graphics. I like the strategy games. Some story type games re OK, until they go into a video scene wasting time. I haven't bought any new games in a while. I go back to playing Civ IV every now and again.

I like the type of games you can build something with.

Ideas?
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Well, my #1 suggestion to you would be three suggestions, actually...

1a) Rimworld

1b) Prison Architect

1c) Two Point Hospital

All of them have roughly the same play style, pause-and-command, but all are distinctly different games.

Rimworld is a futuristic survival game where you are stranded on a planet in the far future and forced to survive while being raided by enemy forces, and scrounging for food and resources. You will most assuredly die the first.. uh.. every time you play, but as you learn the game you live longer and can do more things and learn how to plan for unforeseen events.

Prison Architect plays almost exactly like Rimworld, but you are building and maintaining a prison, so replace random events like raiding parties, acid rain and toxic clouds with prison riots, escaped prisoners and budgets.

Two Point Hospital plays almost exactly like Prison architect but involves running a Hospital and replaces prison riots with illness outbreaks and keeps the budgets.
 
Lord of Planar said:
I can likely play most games out there is I choose to. I have an older computer, but I have a i7-4790 32GB memory, 1 TB SSD, three 1440p 5ms monitors driven off of a RTX 2070. Anyone who has built large craft with Kerbal Space Program know it really needs a fast processor, and I have never come across someone who has built and docked craft as large as I have. With KSP, it helps to remove hyperthreading. My 4790 gets about a 12% better single thread performance. The 4790K I believe still has the fasted single thread operations for home computers.

I'm not really into the games that ruin it with excessive graphics. I like the strategy games. Some story type games re OK, until they go into a video scene wasting time. I haven't bought any new games in a while. I go back to playing Civ IV every now and again.

I like the type of games you can build something with.

Ideas?
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Other than what jmotivator mentioned, here are some possibilities:

1: Factorio: endlessly fascinating game of building a factory to build a rocket to get into orbit, automating processes, moving resources and planning the best way to do things.

2: Surviving Mars: city builder, but on mars.

3: For pure strategy, nothing beats Europa Universalis 4, nor even comes close. Guide any country in the world in 1444 over the course of the next almost 400 years.



 
Lord of Planar said:
I've spent lots of hours with Kerbal Space program, but haven't played in a long time. I even landed a Monster mining ship on the Mun, refueled it, and landed in another spot.
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Hmmm. What DLC or mods are you using with Kerbal?
 
PoS said:
Hmmm. What DLC or mods are you using with Kerbal?
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I made that ship with no mods. It was held intact with lots of struts. I have tried mods before, but they broke every time the game was updated. I made it for a KSP forum competition, for the most massive craft landed on the Mun, with stock parts.
 
Redress said:
Other than what jmotivator mentioned, here are some possibilities:

1: Factorio: endlessly fascinating game of building a factory to build a rocket to get into orbit, automating processes, moving resources and planning the best way to do things.

2: Surviving Mars: city builder, but on mars.

3: For pure strategy, nothing beats Europa Universalis 4, nor even comes close. Guide any country in the world in 1444 over the course of the next almost 400 years.



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Thanx. I went ahead and downloaded Factorio. Haven't played it yet. Time to do some shopping.
 
Lord of Planar said:
Thanx. I went ahead and downloaded Factorio. Haven't played it yet. Time to do some shopping.
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Here is a series of videos that really helped me get going in factorio.

 
PoS said:
Hmmm. What DLC or mods are you using with Kerbal?
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I have like 50 I run. Or something like... it's long. The load page break 7k mod adds
I love my mods. My son thinks I'm silly.
 
Renae said:
I have like 50 I run. Or something like... it's long. The load page break 7k mod adds
I love my mods. My son thinks I'm silly.
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I cannot imagine playing Kerbal without MechJeb.
 
Redress said:
I cannot imagine playing Kerbal without MechJeb.
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IKR? He calls it cheating, I'm like "Kiddo, 90% of space flight is automated, they don't eyeball that **** and I don't have a degree in Astrophysics."
 
Satisfactory, kinda a cross between No Mans Sky and Factorio. It is Factorio, but in a gorgeous 3D environment played in first person. With cool looking alien animals.

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Completed the first run through The Division 2, and the last mission was as frantic as I'd hoped.

(Spoiler Ahoy!)


When you finish the primary story missions the city is invaded by some high tech enemies that end up causing a loss of territory, and starting the map over with some new enemies, old enemies, and the beginning of the gear score grind.


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Even if I didn't play any more it was a great sequel, and I think I like it more than the first.

My ONLY knock on the game was actually one of my first positive comments... while the map is a meticulous recreation of the DC streets, the inevitable down-scaling of the terrain and buildings (so that it doesn't take an hour to run across the map) really shows when you enter the Capitol Rotunda... since it is exposed to open air they couldn't instance it and make it bigger than the outside, so the capitol Rotunda is comically small. But it's OK if you don't think about it too much.
 
Loving Satisfactory so far. The Factorio is strong with this one. Starting to run conveyors...

Here you can see my base from a nearby cliff. The main hub is to the right, with a miner behind mining iron, and running on a conveyor to a smelter, with another smelter next to it that I am hand feeding copper.

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And I wish I knew why the screenshots for this are so small when I upload them here...
 
The view down on my (spaghetti) factory from an observation tower:

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It is getting large, and I am running out of room where I started, and I have a long, long way to go.
 
So I used the closest source of coal to me for power(ok, maybe not the best plan, but hey, I am learning), so went to the next closest to bring it in to my base for making steel. Unfortunately, that coal source happened to be on top of a hill(mountain?) with no path up. So to get to the coal, get power up to it to run the miner, and run conveyor belts from the miner back to base proved to be a challenge...

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Imperator Rome is out! So far, looks to be alot of fun, but taking a lot of getting used to. If you like Paradox titles, you will like Imperator. It is Eu4, with some Victoria 2, and a bit of CK2.
 
ESO (Elder Scrolls Online)

Been playing on/off, few days on a few or several off, etc. Got my stam nightblade to CP 299...working on a DK. The DK (25) is supposed to be more of a dick. Either way, I've discovered the joys of stealing whatever isn't bolted down, including that lockbox behind the bag merchant in Wayrest bank...
 
Redress said:
Imperator Rome is out! So far, looks to be alot of fun, but taking a lot of getting used to. If you like Paradox titles, you will like Imperator. It is Eu4, with some Victoria 2, and a bit of CK2.
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Yea looks good....sadly it also exposed my PC as being old and needing an upgrade [emoji22].

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PeteEU said:
Yea looks good....sadly it also exposed my PC as being old and needing an upgrade [emoji22].

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My PC is older and needing upgrade, and Imperator runs fine. If you have the stuttering problem, I think it is not that your PC is old, but some other issue, hopefully fixed in the 1.01 patch next week. There are people with top end PCs saying they have issues, and some of us with older, lower end ones without any.
 
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