God that sucks. I’m sorry you have to deal with that. They truly are racing to the bottom.

The mainboards are unfortunately the common thread with all the issues I have with their printers. My Neptune 3’S mainboard has a well documented fault that they refuse to admit to and would not replace.

The Mars 5 Ultra that MC took back had a faulty board, and the replacement board was also faulty. It was three months of arguing, pics, video, and escalations before I told MC the story and they took pity on me and returned it. Elegoos concession was to send me the smallest bottle of their cheapest resin for a printer I no longer had.

I will never recommend an Elegoo printer after the last two I had. Both broke in unique ways and I got no support for either one. It took MicroCenter going above and beyond to resolve the issue with one by doing a return well past the return period. The manager was horrified when I gave her the extremely long and exhausting story of dealing with their awful support. The other printer is just a pile of parts now.

I picked up an Anycubic Kobra S1 and its been pretty great so far, though my bar is pretty low at this point, TBH.

That being said, they do use their own version of OrcaSlicer, but it works well enough for me, and you can flash some additional firmware into the printer to open it up more.

I’m glad there are 3rd party options. Elegoo shouldn’t be rewarded for making a modular device less so just to sell more bits at once.

It’s to force people to buy the whole hotend. More revenue for them. Elegoo has been speed running a race to the bottom in the name of profit, so this isn’t surprising to me at all.

Thanks for posting this, I’d have never run into it otherwise. I tried the demo, and it’s a very chill experience. Ended up buying it. Nice puzzle and building gameplay.

Uncle Deadly. Though I’d also be fine with Animal or Gonzo.

After Elegoo provided the single worst customer service experience I’ve ever had, I strongly recommended anyone but them. To replace the Neptune that we had so many issues and lack of support with, we picked up an Anycubic Kobra S1 that’s been great. Would recommend for the price. Enclosed CoreXY, so it prints ASA and PETG very well without needing extra enclosures.

The Sword in the Stone.

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Kagi has a feature called Lenses that allows you to setup search profiles to exclude or include sites as well as set date ranges. Highly recommend. I’ve been using it for two years now and even when I forget to use an anti-slop lens the search results are still far better than anywhere else.

I have two answers for this:

1. Yes. If I could try it out in a limited fashion and get a feel to see if it would add value to my learning experience without having to provide login details first, then I’d be much more willing to try it. Especially if its made clear that a login is not required to try, since so many sites have a Try It button that just leads to a sign up page.
2. If the critical information I need to make the decision to try it out is present, easily accessible, and clear then I’m going to be more willing to try it. Not as much as if option 1 was available, but more willing.

This comment may be overly blunt, but I’m also frustrated with trying to find decent language learning tools. This is just being added to the list of frustratingly opaque tools that I’ve bounced off of. I clicked into it and didn’t even make it a full minute before leaving frustrated.

I saw no way to easily find a list of supported languages. That’s the only thing I care about when I click into a site like this. The site not having a list of supported languages in either the menu or on the front page instantly fills me with distrust.

The front page tells me almost nothing. All the info there blurs into corpo speak about how great the site is without giving me real info I need to make the decision on if I should risk giving out my email to sign up. It seems the only way to find the info I need in order to decide if I should use this site in any capacity is to sign up by giving you my email address. That’s a hard pass.

Any site that hides info I need in order to decide if it’s even going to work for me makes me feel like its just trying to either scam me or spam me. As a result, it goes into my list of do not use sites.

Having seen the screenshot you posted here, I have to agree with the other feedback about why I wouldn’t just go to YouTube directly. At least there I can use SponsorBlock and sign in to save their already made playlists. I don’t see how this site adds any actual value over going to YouTube, to be honest.

Looking at the last change notes, the Dev stated that they’re no longer maintaining the app due to openweathermap now requiring credit card info. Looks like they suggested using Cirrus instead.

What makes you say that? We have Mint and leave the country all the time. The Minternational Pass option is one of the main reasons we signed on with Mint.

They already released an updated version that’s clean and was built on a clean device. 30.56, I believe is the clean version.

This sounds like it’s most of what was missing from the base game’s industrial simulation. I’m glad this is getting added to the game, but a lot of this should have been there at the start and not a content pack.

Thanks for the suggestions. I’ve tried out Urbek and TheoTown and found them lacking in certain places. Urbek definitely felt more like a puzzle game, but I’ll try to give it another shake. TheoTown just never grabbed me for some reason.

I haven’t tried Microlandia or Citystate. I’ll check them out.

I think part of what I’m missing are the traffic sim segments from SC1, especially with some of the traffic mods. It made the city really feel more alive. With 2’s simulations being so broken, it ruined that side of things for me.

I am subbed to that comm. I’ll have to make a more concentrated effort to go through it though. I haven’t seen much of it pop up on my feed.

Again, I appreciate the suggestions. I keep hoping to find something that hits the same as CS1 or what 2 was supposed to be.

Are there? I’ve been searching for a good alternative for the last year or more and I haven’t found one. Everything that anyone lists doesn’t scratch the same itch as CS. Anything I see suggested is a different take on the genre. It’s always the same list including things like Manor Lords, Foundation, Workers and Resources, Timberborn, the Anno series, the Tropico series, etc.

And don’t get me wrong, those are all fantastic games that I love for many different reasons. But they aren’t what I would want as an alternative to CS/2 or SimCity.

I genuinely hope there are alternatives, though. I’m just frustrated at running into the same list over and over with suggestions for completely separate styles of games.

You’re entitled to your opinion, of course. I disagree, however. I feel that a published track record is a very valid means of judging a studio. I’m not sure what you’re getting at by saying “that” isn’t how game studios work these days, though. I can say that the business model hasn’t appreciably changed to the point that a track record isn’t valid evidence of how a studio works, though.

That being said, since I own the game from a preorder state I do hope they’re able to get the game in a state that it was supposed to be in since launch. Colossal Order’s FAQ language does not give me hope. Nor does the list of published titles from Iceflake.