You won't believe--Master of Orion . . . I. Played a game of II, then thought I'd go super nostalgic and try I. It's not bad. I'm finding Dosbox faintly annoying (scratchy music, cursor position jumps around sometimes, can't use Alt Tab), wishing I had the mojo to install Boxtron or that Boxtron had become mainstream enough that it would just be in the software centre or in Steam by default.

Also Civ VI. Tried a game where I just pretended religion didn't exist so I could keep my precious District slots for other things. Worked pretty damned well, I totally kicked ass. Hadn't noticed before how in Civ VI, you crush one measly opponent in the early-mid game, and the others hate your guts right into the space age even though you weren't even the one to start the war. It just gets pathetic when the king of the vikings spends half his time denouncing you for being a warmonger for a couple thousand years over one conquest. Overall I think I like V better--the districts in VI are interesting, but between districts and wonders and housing it starts getting really annoying how much of your productive real estate they use up.

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Quoting: ElectroDDI already sense that the humor isn't as good as the first one from the trailers. Probably because of SJW non-sense abuot race or offensive jokes or whatever they find to get angry ( the only races I know are with cars, motorbikes and idiot going in circle for fame and money, if you're offended by what I just wrote, you lack the famous sense of humor my friend ! Sue me :) )

No, no, that wasn't offensive at all. Stupid, yes.

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Quoting: RoosterWhy not throw some funny looking chicken in the mix? Or penguins :wink:

Chickens and penguins don't travel in herds so it breaks the name of the game.

They could just tell the herds to flock off.

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A computer game trying to analyze me. Yeah, sure, that's gonna work.

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Quoting: scaineGnome has, with enough extensions, grown on me.

Don't look now, but you have a Gnome growing on you! :tongue:
It does seem to be the case that if I learned how to install the right things to completely frustrate the Gnome devs' ideas about what the Gnome UI should be like, I could have a desktop environment that was quite nice--almost like, say, Mate or Cinnamon.
Or I could just use Mate or Cinnamon, and not have to learn about a bunch of extensions and have them break on me now and then.

For me personally, the "do the typing" thing leaves me kind of cold. And I say that as someone who usually navigates the web by typing the first couple letters of the url. But I have launchers for my most commonly used apps--one click. If I'm starting most other programs I probably can't remember just what the dang thing is called and I actually do want to look in the menus until I see what I want there and say "Oh yeah, that was it!"

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Still Ion Maiden in my mind.

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Quoting: Guest

Quoting: tomaszgWell, time to look for alternatives.

BTW. I'm surprised so few projects decided to move away from Github...

So few developers moved away from Github because you have to be where the people are. Why cut yourself off from such a large developer community?

It will be the same with Discord, people will huff and puff but in the end they will stay where the users are

You may be right, although it's an odd thing for a guy who calls himself "Liberty" to say.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyOh yeah, the other thing is that when I discover a planet that is uninhabitable but could be terraformed, which happens quite a bit, I nearly always never find it again. Those should show up in the expansion planner.

I do not have a save at hand to check right now, but I am pretty sure terraforming candidates can be found using the expansion planner. The trick is that they are not shown if you apply the filter "is colonizable".

Awesome! Thanks so much. Yeah, I usually use "is colonizable" because it seems kind of pointless to be trying to settle worlds in someone else's empire. I'll definitely have to try this out--in my current playthrough I think I found like half a dozen terraforming candidates but I have no idea where they are.

Iirc those in foreign empires also aren't listed if "Is colonizable" is disabled. Those in unclaimed systems are, however.

For me the biggest housekeeping improvement would be a list of claimed but unconquered worlds/systems. I know that the diplomacy map mode shows them, but one has to click any allied war participant individually, and the small spikes that mark completely occupied systems are a bit too easy to miss for my taste...

I swear I was seeing planets in other people's empires (that I explored first, before those other people claimed the system) on my last run-through. But maybe I'm remembering wrong.

I specifically meant planets on which an ally (or oneself) has a claim, and which aren't already occupied. Like a TODO list for wars, to make it easier to see what one still needs to conquer to be able to enforce demands.

No, I get that, and that seems like a good idea. I was just replying to the bit where you said "Iirc those in foreign empires also aren't listed if "Is colonizable" is disabled. Those in unclaimed systems are, however." I'm not sure that's the case for systems I explored which then got occupied by other races--I think planets in such systems were still showing in my expansion planner, for as long as they still hadn't been colonized by the race owning the system.

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Quoting: MilaniumSorry, I don't get it. Not using KickStarter or a Publisher is mad? He is indie, that's nothing special or am I missing something?

I think the thing is that he basically said "My grubstake to make this game isn't big enough, I'm going to dump my savings into the stock market and play it until I can parlay my winnings into something big enough to make the game with" and yeah, that's kind of mad. He pulled it off, so kind of awesome, but it's like a friend of mine who once patted a wild bear--she's still alive to tell the tale, but that doesn't mean she wasn't nuts to do it.

To be fair, it's not as mad right now as it would be under normal historical conditions, because the world's central banks currently seem to have a consensus that they are going to consistently dump so much money into the markets that there can never be another sustained bear market until they stop doing it. So while you can totally lose big on one stock if you mistime whatever pump-and-dump schemes are going on, you pretty much can't lose on the stock market overall. On the gripping hand, he was trying to make a lot of money fast--that still entails risk.

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Quoting: soulsource

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: Guest

Quoting: Purple Library GuyOh yeah, the other thing is that when I discover a planet that is uninhabitable but could be terraformed, which happens quite a bit, I nearly always never find it again. Those should show up in the expansion planner.

I do not have a save at hand to check right now, but I am pretty sure terraforming candidates can be found using the expansion planner. The trick is that they are not shown if you apply the filter "is colonizable".

Awesome! Thanks so much. Yeah, I usually use "is colonizable" because it seems kind of pointless to be trying to settle worlds in someone else's empire. I'll definitely have to try this out--in my current playthrough I think I found like half a dozen terraforming candidates but I have no idea where they are.

Iirc those in foreign empires also aren't listed if "Is colonizable" is disabled. Those in unclaimed systems are, however.

For me the biggest housekeeping improvement would be a list of claimed but unconquered worlds/systems. I know that the diplomacy map mode shows them, but one has to click any allied war participant individually, and the small spikes that mark completely occupied systems are a bit too easy to miss for my taste...

I swear I was seeing planets in other people's empires (that I explored first, before those other people claimed the system) on my last run-through. But maybe I'm remembering wrong.

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