Quoting: foobrewI've finally reached mid-game in my current playthrough (just got Battleships) and it's actually getting a little boring now. No wars happening anymore, all systems have been claimed so we're all locked in and all anomalies and such have been researched. I'm basically just spending my time researching, building my fleet and improving my defensive starbases. Is the game normally pretty slow like this for mid-game?

Yeah, it can be, if you look strong and you don't start a war yourself. But there should be some things starting up soon one way or another. Warring marauder clans will unify and start trying to take over the galaxy, you'll fix one of the weird gates and behind it will turn out to be the gray goo nanite people armada, some early crisis will attack, one of the stagnant ancient types will reactivate and start trying to take over the galaxy. That kind of stuff should start happening.

Me, at that stage I'm usually trying to clean up all the archaeological digs and really-high-difficulty anomalies I left alone while my priority was exploration. And trying to get to where I can build up some megastructures. And I'm not so much building up my defensive starbases, although I might do one or two badass ones at really important chokepoints, as building up my trade-network and anti-piracy starbases.

My current playthrough I've been at war a lot. Sheesh, just because I'm a devouring swarm and mean to eat them all, people don't seem to like me!

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Wow, that is . . . amazingly old fashioned. Like the monsters are still images and everything.

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Y'know, I watched the little trailer, and I went to the store page and looked at the screenshots, and . . . I dunno about this one. It looks kind of like you run across some odd events and you get to research some technologies which . . . give you access to like 10 Archaeology sites.

Weird archaeology sites in a different dimension with more story than the typical archaeology site and might get you other interesting benefits, but still I feel like maybe for "Astral Rifts whole other dimensions woo woo" it's kind of nothing much. Might skip this one unless people say it's quite something when it comes out.

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Those are some lucky nightmares. They get to have fun all night.

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OK, so like, I don't think I want to know what you get instead of honey.
Frogs are cute though.

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Quoting: Tuxee

Quoting: GuestI am wondering, why there is no proofreader position to check a submitted translation.

You got a product with dozens of localisations. You would need an armada of proofreaders - something a company as Canonical with its 500 employees can hardly muster.

Welll, not really. Not these days. Or at least, not to check for this kind of thing. For that, you'd just have to Google translate (or whatever) a random spot-check of a few strings in each translation and see that it was about right and not some random unrelated thing.

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Quoting: scaine

Quoting: JarmerFunny enough, it was Paradox's predatory scam dlc behavior

What what? Predatory how? A scam??

Paradox are one of the few publisher's with a well established, regular, value add DLC regime. They support their games YEARS after release. Stellaris, for example, released over 7 years ago, but some of the DLC modules released are just £9 yet add swathes of content.

I wish other publishers would take note instead of trying monetise micro-transactions.

I'll take properly thought out DLC any day over cosmetic shite, Battle passes and "Seasons".

Depends on the game. Remember their flagship, GalCiv?

Whose flagship? Galciv isn't a Paradox game.

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Quoting: ElectricPrismYou would think that with how religious South Korea is over BroodWar that they would have reverse-engineered the game by now into new source code.

https://github.com/Wargus/stratagus [External Link]
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https://github.com/Wargus/stargus [External Link]
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https://www.techradar.com/news/starcraft-the-original-that-is-is-now-completely-free [External Link]

I read that last article. Then I tried the links in the article that seemed to be for actually downloading Starcraft. I got a Blizzard page saying 404 not found. Hopefully they've just shifted around where it's offered.

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Well damn.

I'm kind of surprised it's out and I didn't know. F'rinstance, usually an HBS/Paradox release would be covered on, well, GamingOnLinux. Maybe it was a victim of that RSS feed thing Liam mentioned.

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If the game developer's post was good I was thinking of reading it, but apparently it's just Medium.

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