So, the Tencent money is finally drying up... I just hope they'll release UE as open source before going bankrupt.

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Quoting: GuestThere's a lot of complaints on Stellaris latest DLC as well. I think they've got to a point where the more they tinker or expand their games the worse they make them for one of two reasons. First, the people who buy it from the start keep on losing their save games, mods, playstyles and have to re-learn how to play the game every few or so updates. It's frustrating even if the game gets somehow better. Second, they've decided to target the multiplayer audience and they need to balance the game very well for that but it makes it lose its appeal, emerging story-telling, etc. That's what's cool about games like CK2, Stellaris, more than the strategy itself is. They need to keep EU IV/ HOI IV in a development mindset that is fundamentally different from their other titles.

I agree that Crusaders Kings is all about emergent storytelling, but Stellaris is seriously fun in multiplayer.

I don't get the hate with the recent patches. While it is true is a shame they are not introducing a lot of new quests and random events, the balances are quite good. I don't play Stellaris at what could be considered a competitive level, but I play it a lot with a group of friends, and until recently we had converged towards hive minds and robots because anything else was underwhelming. The latest changes have made things like lithovore empires perform quite well, corporations have now a considerable economic advantage over regular empires, and in general the range of viable strategies have increased considerably, making the game a lot more fun to play,

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Now if they can fix the last_notification_id desync issues that plague multiplayer games, maybe the game becomes playable again.

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It looks better than many of the HD remakes they are selling for the modern consoles. Also, I'm quite surprised by how detailed the Dark Souls and Yakuza textures look. Why did they even bother including such high resolution images when nobody was going to be able to appreciate them at a PS3?

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Quoting: GnurfosBut then you'd need a convention for what working directory the steam games should be run from (maybe this exists already).

You can declare a rpath relative to the binary.

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Quoting: ExpalphalogI've never understood Civ being a multiplayer game. A single game typically runs me 20+ hours and that's without having to wait for anybody else to take their turn. Is multiplayer faster somehow or do people really sit there without sleep for days on end to play?

Simultaneous turns make it almost as far as playing with the IA. Also, we usually extend a single game across several 3-4 hours gaming sessions.

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So, this is not related to the TV series. I'm disappointed.

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¿Square tiles in this day and age? Get with the times guys.

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Ok, my desktop is way over the requirements. Now, please release it already, can't wait to sink hours conquering feudal Japan again.

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Quoting: KetilMultiplayer in freeciv was of the better I have tried, having the turns at the same time, and only wait if one player need longer than another player.

Civ has concurrent turns since Civ V, which makes it a quite good multiplayer experience. Still not better than MOO2.

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