Deestan

Played it on Commodore 64. It was a space rocket/shuttle sim where you launched into space on a rocket amd progressed through some minigame-tasks.

(I am fairly certain it was not a good or widespread game.)

One of the tasks was about grabbing a satellite using an arm or a cable. You would try to extend it pixel by pixel to grab the satellite and it was super finicky. I only ever managed it by luck.

I try Google every few years and can't get anywhere. Tried stuff with spacey names in emulators and looking on youtube. List of close-ish games it was not:

• Project Space Station
• Space Shuttle - A Journey Into Space (but this has really close vibes)
• Space Shuttle Challenger
• Apollo 18 Mission To The Moon
• Samantha Fox Strip Poker (i mean it could have been - had to check)

Decided I wanted a run that forced me to scale up instead of just "winging it" because hey after a few research steps I will be able to make it better anyway.

Thought to play "marathon mode", which is vanilla except research cost is multiplied by 4, but ended up going for a multiplier of 100 instead.

To give an example of what this means: Researching solar panels costs 25000 red and green science.

I found this to be an interesting challenge! I not only have to build large and optimized builds with low-tier tech. I also need to be extremely careful with managing biter evolution and pollution. Just red ammo is locked behind several thousand science packs, and I have expanded to 8 ore patches and my perimeter is just tightly packed turrets, because I have not let myself afford researching walls yet.

They were stress-bored and were fidgeting by tapping their watch so much that it accidentally triggered the emergency mode and sent me this SMS.

Alert not intended but also in some way accurate.

From the comic "Girl Genius" by Phil and Kaja Foglio

Just for fun!

Made a shape out of gray self-drying hobby clay, took a (very clumsy) silicon mold of it, and now I have a fun shape to pour excess soap into if I make too much for the main mold.

On the left: clay thing. On the right: lavender soap.

Almost got a full gel this time, which felt nice.

The olive oil was marinating with shredded lemon peels for a week prior to processing, so it got a really strong natural lemon aroma. Hoping it holds up once done curing. :)

Apart from that, no additives.

Orbital Potato is one of my favorite channels to keep up on management/factory/strategy games. He usually covers one game at a time and tons more of them than I can keep up with, so I was happy to see which ones turned out to be favorites. :)

Cataclismo I have played, and its honking brilliant, but the others are new to me.

Rogue Command and Diplomacy is Not an Option look really interesting.

Still new, and trying to learn all the things and terms :)

Came over this (store bought soap) and was wondering why it becomes sorta layered after use. I read today about "glycerin rivers" which can happen both during hot process soap, or cold process where the soap gets very hot during the gel phase.

Mostly only the two timed achievements left.

Having completed the first run in 200 hours, it seem pretty safe to manage 100 hours now that I know what to expect, but the 40 hour one is probably going to need some thought.

Nefrum has started speedruns on it, and set a baseline of 15 hours.

Has anyone managed or tries it? What is your strategy?

100 hours in, about to go to Aquilo, and now I figured out how easy it is.

Torn between feeling giddy and excited, and feeling like a huge idiot.

I always felt it was a bit sad that the really cool engine exhaust was always down off the edge of the screen and anything interesting, so I decided to see how this worked.

Pretty happy with it! Learned from last time that I absolutely do not want any processing to go through the main storage, as it makes it so hard to select cargo when everything shifts around.

Also calmed down with engines and uncalmed on production. This thing is used to transport science from Gleba, so it's got to spend very little time refuelling.

Also added fuel, oxidizer and ammo gauges below the main storage so I didn't have to keep inspecing. When everything is full, a 3x7 rainbow lights up. :)

Any suggestions for name? It looks like a beefy dude with hairy armpits, so trying to come up with something that fits my mental image of that somehow.