While I personally don't care in the slightest about this kind of sports game, it's still good to see this kind of thing. Whatever my personal taste, the things are pretty popular and I've had the impression that Linux coverage in that genre has been pretty slim pickings, so good news.

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Quoting: Mountain ManI won't be backing - I'm against "crowd funding" on general principle

I haven't really thought through my position on crowd funding, since I don't have a ton of spare funds to be part of a crowd with. So, genuinely wondering, not snarking--what general principle? And, against its existence or against getting involved?

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Quoting: GuestActually it's not okay. The JA source code is available. Heck, it's posted on GitHub! So what Topware is saying is, "We won't make a Linux game with the source code we have. But pay us money for our Windows game."

So the source code is available, so what? The point is, it's an older game so efficiency doesn't matter that much--it won't be putting stress on modern hardware even if Wine adds some overhead, so big whoop--let 'em "port" it that way if it's easier. As long as we can play it on Linux and buy it as a Linux sale, there's no downside. And if their cost of doing it is lower, that means the result doesn't have to sell as much to make a profit and they're more likely to do the same for more titles than if they had to spend the money doing a real port of an old game, probably not written well for cross-platform so a pain to port, the results of which won't sell much (because it's an old game).
The perfect is the enemy of the good, man.

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The War in Heaven sounds like it will significantly change the course of the game, though. And it also sounds kind of like it might not be the same war every time--like, there are a number of ancient races that are normally quiet, and any of them could start fighting.

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Quoting: JahimselfWhat is the difference between jagged alliance 2, and jagged alliance 2 wildfire?

I understand the fire in original Jagged Alliance 2 was too tame.

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The "About the game" lies! There is no such thing as "a decent Monday"!

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Quoting: devlandI'm still not sure what they mean when they use the term "open world".
The game looks like a space strategy game. Where and how does the "open world" aspect kick in?

You're not forced down a set path, you essentially do what you want.

So the games have persistence? I had the impression you played games like in every other 4x/strategy game. Aren't the games session based? Aren't there maps? Is there a universe in which you can travel?

I'm not entirely sure what you're getting at. It's an open-world open-ended space game, you build up your fleet and do whatever you want by the looks of it.

I guess the question is "Then what did you do before?"

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Quoting: minj:rolleyes:

Game level designers are not the sort of people to get platform news from, Liam.

You need engine devs for that. Or porters.

Why is some guy who hauls baggage supposed to know what's going on? ;)

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Quoting: SalvatosI have yet to even start Pillars of Eternity, so on the wishlist it goes for now. I do like the "evil has already won" approach, it's a theme I've been curious about for a while. I just hope the overlord isn't a two-dimensional "conquer the world because I can" villain.

It's not like those are so unrealistic. Up until recently "conquer everyone I can" was more or less an accepted principle of statecraft--not the only possible approach, but a common and perfectly respectable one. When we look at historical kings, Roman emperors and so on are we very often measure them by the "Did he expand the country/empire's territory? Yes? Then he was good!" yardstick.
And to this day it has its adherents--Dick Cheney, for instance.

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Quoting: skryThey offered me a refund. Still, I'm really, really disappointed but let them keep that 15USD just because the game itself deserves it.

I don't know what the game deserves, but the community deserves to at least have people who pull moves like that pay back the money. If nobody goes and gets their refund, the message is you can pull stunts like this and keep the cash. I think your sentiment is misplaced and would strongly hope that others will not "let them keep that 15USD".

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