3/24/2023 0 Comments Atom rpg water pumpI would love an accurate computer model of my aircraft to look at before going out to actually work on it. I'm not surprised you can learn from the games as long as they are done well. As in, if it didn't require a crane or special tooling, it was the operator's problem, not the mechanic's. Not as a mechanic, but the military has a pretty wide definition of what is "operator level" maintenance. Tank mechanic may be interesting as well - I did a fair amount of work on APC's and engineer vehicles (most of which were old tanks) in the army. I'm definitely going to have to look for Aircraft Mechanic Simulator now, since that is what I do for a living. I saw links to their auto mechanic simulator, but didn't notice the others. I don't see where either of the two things I mention above would be applicable in the other titles, so they are of very little interest to me.now when I drive by that local gas station with a bunch of restoration jobs parked around their service garage, I'm like, "Ain't no dam way I'm leaving my car here overnight for a brake job!" LOL!!! LOL! Boosting the value of my "restoration" project for sale at auction. So I was removing the newer parts from these jobs and swapping them out with my rusted junk. Believe it or not, this game actually taught me a lot! I even repaired a big part on my Dodge hemi engine (the water pump) which prior to this game I would never even attempt! So learning about all the parts in the engine allowed me to pickup a digital code reader and self-diagnose most engine issues I have and I know stuff like, "Oh that part is on the outside of the engine and is just a few bolts to remove." I also replace my own brakes and rotors now.Īs for gaming, I was having some fun in the 2015 version playing a very shady mechanic! I had a nice 69 Camero that I was working on restoring, and I would deliberately take jobs to do things like replace brake pads on cars with parts that would fit on my rusted out Camero. I wanted to actually learn some basic auto mechanics from the game to apply to my own vehicles/repair work. What makes the original (Auto) Mechanic Simulator fun to me are two elements that the other titles will just completely miss. I've seen that they have since spun-off a number of "Mechanic Simulator" related titles: Semi-Truck, Aircraft, Tank, and now Rover and have the latest 2018 version on my Steam Wishlist to pickup the next time it goes on the cheap. I'd like to see how the later contracts are before buying. The first contract was just a tutorial and was very simple, replacing a single damaged wheel. The demo only allows you to work on Sojourner, but there are at least 3 other repair contracts after the tutorial contract. Granted, I do that in the real world too, but that if much more interesting. The taking things apart, troubleshooting the problem & fixing it, that promises to be much more interesting. I've done enough of that in the real world, I'm not particularly enthused doing it in a game too - although at least in the game, the screw heads don't strip out. The tedious part was removing and reinstalling every single screw holding one of Sojourner's wheels on, one at a time. I need to play more before I decide to buy - it could end up being tedious or fun. They had a free demo, so I downloaded that and played a few minutes this morning. I saw something else that looked interesting on Steam yesterday, Rover Mechanic Simulator. Unfortunately, SWTOR uses the same down time for all servers, so I still lose a day when they do maintenance. One gripe - and I should've actually checked first rather than assume - I picked a European server because I work 2nd shift and most other MMO's I've played used different maintenance times for their European servers instead of ~9 - 11am EST, which wipes all my game time for a day. Not even finished leveling, so having to redo everything hasn't been a problem yet, but I can see they've done it a bunch in the past. I'm enjoying it, but it mostly feels like a single player game that happens to have other people running around. Fast forward to January, and I was getting a little tired of just KSP, and missed playing an MMO since Wildstar shut down so I got SWTOR. I enjoyed Star Wars: Galaxies but when it closed & SWTOR came out, it didn't impress me. I think after the third or fourth round they nerfed one of my son's favorite PvP characters and it just made him walk away. I got tired of having to retool, retrain, and relearn my characters everytime they decided to do a major update. I played SWTOR online for like a couple years.
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