I'm still of the opinion that some of these projects should start selling their games on Steam so they can pay developers and improve the quality and speed of development of the games. Of course, its still FOSS and can be downloaded for free, shared, etc but doesn't mean some people won't pay money.

I think SuperTuxKart were going to do something like this once they implement their new engine.

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I switched to linux recently with over 800 hours played on eu4 and alot of hours on ck2 as well.

That's cool. Were EU4 and CK2 the "must haves" for you to switch?

I really love the game but, I have to say that eu4 and ck2 both have the same nasty graphic bugs. When I launch ck2/eu4 both the normal way either from shortcut or steam library and alt-tab out of the game and go back in the game it somehow changed my resolution which is a very annoying bug.I found a workaround for this by starting the game from the ck2/eu4 folder. Then I'm able to play but this gives additional graphic bugs.

I have encountered that problem in EU4 on my laptop with optimus, but the desktop works fine (I used to run it windowed on the laptop so I could switch). The only graphical bug I get is some weird black marks all over the map but turning off shadows on the graphical options solved this.

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Tho i must admit i cannot force myself not to just save/load cheat when something really goes wrong and it kinda kills the gaming experience. if i had anything to criticise at this game then it would be how the forgiving save system kills the immersion

That' what i always found with the old games. When something goes wrong, it's just too tempting to cheat and seems impossible not to cheat and do well.

You should try IronMan mode on EU4 (not sure if CK2 has it) because it takes the possibility of cheating away. I have had so much more fun playing that than with cheating. It's so satisfying when you lose 4 key provinces in a war and think all is lost, then 10 years later recover them and crush the country that annexed the provinces. It's really difficult at first, but you get used to making alliances with bigger countries that will protect you and generally thinking ahead and assessing threats. Makes the game much more addictive and fun :)

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Quoting: Sn3ipenI have spent thousands of hours on Paradox games. After the release of EU4, i wiped Windows completely and have never looked back. I remember how i regretted buying EU3 when it was released and didn't play it for a month or so because i hated it. That was until i watched some let's play and decided i had to play this game. Its like Risk on steroids and i couldn't stop playing after finally learning the game. EU4 is easier to learn but just as hard to master. A great recipe for a great strategy game. :):)

I think I agree with just about every statement you made haha.

One thing I noticed in the comments and from my own gameplay is the psychological effect of these games. I learned that I have to shut down any Paradox game at least 2 hours before sleeping because it's so hard to snap out of the mindset of all these little numbers and possibilities going round your head - makes it impossible to sleep, kind of like having pure caffeine injected into your eyeballs.

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If I had played the originals, I would be more tempted to play them. I find that often with old games, I can only really get into them if I played that before. I really like SimCity 2000, but I guess most people who haven't played it would go for 3000 or 4 because of the graphics, better features, etc.

That said, I think there was a Colonization released at the time of Civ 4 using that engine, so would be nice to either see a port of that (unlikely) or see a release of a new Colonization after Beyond Earth, which would be pretty awesome because it's a game I've always wanted to play.

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Missed it, UK "transport" let me down again. Listening to the recording now.

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Sorry, it was meant as tongue-in-cheek, wasn't serious but that didn't come across obviously. But yeah, probably not a good idea.

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His employer should know what kind of person they have in their ranks. I would never hire a person like this.

If you know Portuguese you should email the company about the "gross misconduct" of one of their employees.

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"Guest" has to be the best pseudonym ever, kudos!

I've been keeping my eye on this one. The last good city sim released was Cities XL (no Linux support) but the game was released with a lot of features missing - still better than SimCity though.

Hopefully this will be good, SimCity 2000, 3000 and 4 were some of my favorite games growing up, so keen to see something up to those standards.

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Call me a "filthy casual" but I like playing most of my games with a 360 pad (yes, even FPS games like Borderlands) so good to hear that they're still improving gamepad support. I know it's not as good or whatever for certain games, but I like playing them while laying back and relaxing since they're not really my favorite genre.

Strategy games on the other hand (especially Paradox games) are something which I like to play really intensely and sitting forward (whilst making tons of calculations in my head) so could never play one with a controller.

I'm interested in knowing the difference between a 360 controller and an Xbox One controller, apart from it looking more like Batman.

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