I always somehow find my way back to playing No Man’s Sky. No matter what I do, game I play, activity inside or outside of gaming, NMS is always there to play and chill. Sometimes I go on creative and spend a week amassing the perfect color coordinated team of ships, crew, frigates, and freighter.

That and every content update we get for free!

    • Bondegg@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      What is the trick for these “story generator” games? I keep hearing how great Rimworld is, I bought it and it’s OK, but I can’t turn off my game brain from trying to min max it all, most of the time just restarting when something goes wrong. I know I’d like these games (trying CK3 at the moment) but like I said, I keep spoiling it for myself because I can’t relax and go with the flow.

      Sounds a stupid question I know, but If you have any tips I’d really appreciate it!

      • indelible_inc@alien.topBEnglish
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        1 year ago

        CK3 and RimWorld are my two all time favorite games, well really CK2 but it’s hard to go backwards. I was like you, enjoying them to a point but always feeling like I was missing something in my pursuit of perfection. Now they’re atop a 700+ game library/disgusting backlog and I always come back.

        The trick is accepting incomplete playthroughs are the goal, and that playing perfectly for so long that you lose interest is actually not optimal. Treat each playthrough like a reckless random event generator and don’t get too attached that your interest in a single colony or dynasty grows stale.

        It’s sort of like a single player battle royale rogue-lite mindset, let’s see how far I can get with the tools given to me and wiping when it’s run it’s course. There are natural conclusions if you look for them and are keen to see what’s around the next corner enough to try again.

        I get it though, architecture/base layouts in RimWorld are a super nagging temptation, and sometimes you have to min/max a little to know what works for future runs. But once you’ve got it, reset and play the cards you’re dealt.

    • aschesklave@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      I want to love it but every time I get angry.

      Send a pawn to cook, just as he’s about to finish cooking, he goes on a binge, eating most of the raw meat, depleting the food reserves and getting food poisoning, making him useless when we get raided two minutes later.

      Yes, I know it’s part of the gameplay but the willingness of the pawns to have dramatic breakdowns and become useless makes it so goddamn frustrating in the early game when you have a thousand things you need to do at once.

    • Armored_Witch2000@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Im having a hard timebwith rimworld at actually “bonding” with my characters lately. Which really kills the mood :(

    • rolltied@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      How do you read the stories? I just treated it like a generic colony sim sandbox and got bored quickly.

      • ___This_Is_Fine___@alien.topBEnglish
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        1 year ago

        Stories are the little things in the game. Like I killed off all my cats because they kept getting in the freezer storage and drinking all my alcohol and passing out.