It’s really just another Unity asset flip, really nothing special, but I think the TCG theme is more compelling to me, compared to other games like this. Also, you can open card packs, which is really neat. Eventually, you can have employees doing basically everything for you, so you’ll just be in charge of ordering new stock and opening packs to sell individual cards.
Because it’s just another Unity game, there’s just a ton of mods already, even though the game is still in Early Access. Either QoL mods, Cheat mods, replace cards with whatever real TCG you want, whatever.
I played for around 50h shortly after launch and pretty much did everything the game had at that time, although I used mods near the end, which did speed up things somewhat. There have been some updates since then, but nothing really that made me go back to the game yet.
The game has a demo/free prologue, so you can check it out before you buy, but I don’t know how much stuff you can do in it.
I just found out about Tabletop Game Shop Simulator and I found it to be a nice alternative to TCG Card Shop Simulator. It only has a demo currently, but it’s been pretty fun to dip my toes into the shop simulator genre of games.
I would have said Super Mini Mart when I started this thread but then @Kolanaki mentioned Supermarket Simulator and I've been playing it ever since (13hrs so far lol). It's got a few issues out of the box, including some oddly loud chirpy bird sounds but also has such an active nexus mod community that you can pretty much fix anything you want that you don't like in it (including those damn birds😆). Id' say give either that or Super Mini Mart a go. The inKonbini prologue demo is great too.
God, I’m so damn excited for this to get an Emulator to play it on. I’m wondering it being so similar to the Switch 1 will speed up the process because of the similarity or not
It only goes as fast as the slowest component. NVMe SSDs often get bottlenecked by something else. You can find some comparisons out there where people are given blind tests of various setups, and they end up calling a SATA SSD the fastest one.
A few years back, when the difference in price between the two were larger, it was often suggested that the SATA version was good enough. It was hard to argue otherwise for real world experience. Now the price difference is small to non-existent, so just get the NVMe.
I’d rather take two SATAs, I have a cheap docking station with two SATA slots (currently housing hard disks) and putting them together on a RAID0 almost doubles a single one’s performance.
I could buy a docking station with two NVMe slots, it would be wise too, but then again, two NVMe SSDs would be faster than one, and again, it may or may not be worth the slight (potential) increase in price and decrease in reliability - especially considering the diminishing returns.
Any use of RAID0 needs to be thoughtful. You’re doubling the chance of complete data loss from a single drive failure. Can you get all the data on that setup back? For games that you can install off Steam or some other way, that’s fine. But be very careful of what you put on there.
Incidentally, caching servers are another good use case.
Otherwise, RAID0 is better used as a building block for more complex RAID levels, like RAID10.
I know the drawbacks, if I lose anything that I put on RAID0 it’s a minor inconvenience at best - in fact, the two hard drives on RAID0 I mentioned are quite old and I’m not sure how long I can expect them to last (not that I use them often).
a cheap docking station with two SATA slots (currently housing hard disks) and putting them together on a RAID0 almost doubles a single one’s performance.
you can buy a 50cc moped and attach a NOS cylinder to it. that might be a fun hobby project, if you’re into it.
but in a drag race, you’re going to get beat by a 10 year old Toyota Prius. because there’s only so much you can eke out of a 50cc engine.
“RAID0 using a cheap 2-slot external enclosure” is one of the more cursed things I’ve ever contemplated. firmly in “just because you can doesn’t mean you should” territory.
After looking at the game’s page, I’d say you could try Raft. It’s a generally chill survival/crafting game with multiplayer co-op. There is wildlife that can present a threat, but it’s definitely not as horror-y as 99 days looks.
short answer: buy NVMe. plug it directly into your motherboard, don’t use an enclosure. forget about wonky RAID0 crap.
longer answer:
SATA SSDs (which you say in the comments below are all you’ve got) are an evolutionary dead-end. they’re SSDs pretending to be very fast hard drives. they end up being bottlenecked by the assumptions that the SATA protocol makes about how fast a hard drive can be.
look at this chart for example. SATA (AHCI) limits a device to having 32 commands queued up at once, which means the operating system needs to jump through hoops in terms of maintaining its own queue of pending reads & writes and issuing them to the device as queue space becomes available.
NVMe raises that limit to 64k, which for any non-server workload is effectively unlimited. the NVMe drive can respond to IO requests pretty much as quickly as the OS can dispatch them.
if you want to know more nitty-gritty details, Scaling ZFS for NVMe is an interesting talk, much of it isn’t specific to ZFS, but instead is about how NVMe devices are so fast that they’re forcing filesystem developers to rethink long-standing assumptions about drives being slow.
You can play split screen multiplayer if you go to the 2p wireless mode and make an empty room to run around in. There’ll be an annoying waiting to connect message at the very bottom though. The only downside is that you can’t do the P block challenges. But the ? Panels and Peach Medallions are still there. My 4 year old loves doing this with me.
I handed it to my brother the other day to play for me and the P Blocks and ? panels were like his favorite thing to do lol. Races? Nope. He wants to do collectibles. Granted he’s older than your 4 year old, but it is funny seeing how much children are enjoying the collectibles
He just bounces right off of it which is lame. I wished there was at least an animation of them dodging out of the way to complete my Mario themed GTA Fantatsy
Part of it might be applying the many patches of definitions and stuff, but it’s probably mostly just loading a shitload of png files in memory.
Even worse, even after years of updates, the several literal minutes of loading on a HDD happen on a completely unresponsive, static screen (Windows even prompts you with that “kill the app or wait for it to respond” pop-up if you alt-tab out of it).
There’s a mod to add a progress bar to that initial mod loading. Yeaaah.
After I decided to go full time Linux on my gaming machine I decided might as well use both nvme drives I was using foe dual boot as a raid0.
I was playing starfield at the time and remembered reading online about how people hated all the loading screens but I never had an issue because any transition would just fade to black and then you were loaded through
I haven’t played Starfield so I can’t say for sure, but I think people hate that the world is divided into instances rather than being seamless and associate loading screens with that critique… probably.
Nice to see that they’re efficient loading screens, though!
Yeah I think another big issue was the transition from surface to space isn’t seemless so if you play on a HDD then I’d imagine you’d be constantly in loading screens
I expected a much bigger hit to performance when i got a 1TB sd card for my steamdeck and initially only was putting small indie games on there, but after gradually moving up to higher performance games and not really noticing a hit, i just throw everything on there now. I think most games these days are more limited by other factors than storage speed.
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