Ok am I just too stupid for this game?

[Agathorn (SH)]

Literally right at the start I can't even get started. The message upon new game start says to recycle the abandoned communication station. So I click on it, and click the recycle button. Then...nothing happens. "waiting for materials removal". Ok, but how? What? I feel like an idiot here lol! I honestly can't seem to figure out how to get started.

[someone1981m]

To be honnest it is simple if you know what needs to happen. The docks are full, so the removed materials need to go somewhere. They are mostly used to put in your blastfurnace to turn into molten iron. The concrete blocks are used in an assembler among other things to make building materials. And electronics are needed somewhere too.

So to put it simple: You need to build structures that use the stuff that comes from the abandoned communication station.

[Agathorn (SH)]

Ahh! Ok that makes sense now. I was looking for some sort of storage to build but didn't see one. Thanks!

[Nellvan]

To elaborate, you don't need storage just for the sake of finishing that task. Once the station is set to recycle, the materials are available to use and will be used when- and whereever you need them.

[DDR-Boy]

also look at such sites and on youtube
https://wiki.captain-of-industry.com/

[manfred.stabentheiner]

@agathorn i hope i can help you in a joke form
you are the BOSS of the game
first step you say ...we start recycle the communiation station
now the worker and truckdriver wisper ..hey we have an new boss on ouer isel ..he is cool boss he say we need recyle the station ..but he dont say where we need transport it or where we storage the items.... ok let us smoke one and trink one beer or more till he give us another thing to to..

ok back to the game now ...
if you wish fun in this game ..go slow forward...read the windows what pop up and i am sure you have fun with this game

[atitude7519]

utube has some great starter point how to play

[Le'Stranger Wuv'Bottom]

You are not too stupid for this game. Just takes time and effort. Have to have something being built at the start of the game for those recycled resources to be delivered anywhere from that thing you are recycling. And a few certain buildings need to be placed in order to get the first construction parts going. There is a decent tutorial that goes over most things if not everything you need to understand.

[Agathorn (SH)]

Yeah thank all I got it figured out. @someone1981m gave me the info I needed, I just needed to build something that USED the parts. Obvious in hindsight but was eluding me in the start.

[click]

I still think at least *something* should happen when you click recycle. This confused me too when I first started.

[Peter34]

The problem is not stupidity, but assumptions. Such as the assumption that of course there is some central storage that all valuable materials will be moved to. No there isn't.

Materials usually get to stay where they are until there is a specific need for them, e.g. in a Blast Furnace or in an Assembly Building.

The game probably is a bit hard to learn in "raw" form. I learned it by watching an unbelieavable amount of hours of YouTube LP footage of version 0.31, so I can't be sure what the best approach to learning from scratch actually is.

Maybe assume less and just play more? Do stuff? Then do different stuff? Eventually things will begin to actually happen.

[GameOverRIP]

Originally posted by freshly snipes:

I still think at least *something* should happen when you click recycle. This confused me too when I first started.

I does, IF you have something going on that requires the resources,

[GameOverRIP]

Originally posted by Agathorn (SH):

Literally right at the start I can't even get started. The message upon new game start says to recycle the abandoned communication station. So I click on it, and click the recycle button. Then...nothing happens. "waiting for materials removal". Ok, but how? What? I feel like an idiot here lol! I honestly can't seem to figure out how to get started.

Check out.
https://www.youtube.com/c/JDPlays
JD on youtube covers this game extensively, he also does tutorials about all the aspects of it.

You are not too stupid, the game doesn't lead you by the hand along the way, it seems to assume you know what the various resources are and can be turned into with only some vague tutorial popups. BUT, you can still have alot of fun working it out.

Just a few tips

You have a blueprint button, that when pressed you can put something down and it wont actually build, that way you can lay things out, spend time ligning up pipes or whatever and get it just the way you like.

You could also make a large system and copy the whole thing and plop it somewhere else in BLueprint mode and then just copy back again later if you want another system exactly the same. Only proviso on that tho is if whatever you copy has to sit on a specific resource like water for example, where you plop it interim also has to be on water.

Use the copy and paste, cut functions OFTEN lol.

Enjpu