Good, but Windows-only at the moment.

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I somehow think there was one of these for Unix already, decades ago. maybe under a different name? Using X or Athena Widgets maybe?

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The banner here on GOL shows also a baroque painting..

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Doesn't make sense. I'm better with Regex than with Sudoku.

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Sadly, the ships look like abominations. That's not how ships in the "Age of Sails" look. Or work. (Yes, there's a connection to my wearing a Royal Navy Captains Undress Uniform, pattern 1795-1812 on my avatar picture).

This is how it should look:
http://www.loicderrien-illustration.com/jpg_marihisto/64canons-64guns_ship-of-the-line_vaisseau-de-ligne.jpg [External Link]

- Tumblehome; it gets less wide towards the top. Needed, to place the upper guns more to the center of the ship.

- Also, ship gets tapered towards the back end. Incidentally, it's more round to the bow. Basically, it has the form of an elongated drop.

- Guns don't peak over the bulwark. They're below; the topmost thing is just a walkway for people, the main deck is below, it's open to the sky.

- Decks are more or less flush. Certainly not the absured proportions of fore- anmd aft-castles of late 16th century vessels. But IF, then they need to be very narrow. Yes, like this http://multifiles.pressherald.com/uploads/sites/4/2015/07/El-Galeon_22_high-res-Courtesy-of-Fundacion-Nao-Victoria-1024x681.jpg [External Link] It's about stability, again, you want the weight with the most sideways leverage to be as close centered as possible.

And "fantasy" is never an excuse to ignore physics or good historical design; "fantasy" is only ever good if it adds, not if it subtracts.

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There was a strategy game a long time ago, called Waterloo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterloo_(video_game) [External Link]
You got the information from your view (no birds-eye!), and from couriers.
You had to type all your orders; and your aides and couriers would transmit them to the commanders..

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Yup, was quite a nice talk (been there), so I can recommend watching the video.

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Quoting: razing32Is there a way to loose ??

The only way to loose is not to play.

SCNR ;)=

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Quoting: einherjarUsing a Anti Cheat solution via a translationlayer, which can not be controlled by this Anti Cheat solution must lead to a ban.

Actually, it's a lot deeper than that. The Anti-Cheat-Jerks try to effect control of a system they don't own. Which can only fail. And this applies to Windows too.

If they would write games with the assumption that they can't control the device, most cheats wouldn't even work. But hey, performance is more important than to inhibit cheating, and so they resort to crappy attempts at control.

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Quoting: GuestThere are compiled builds which work on many distros thanks to very kind members of the GoL community.

Which aren't that important, because it compiles out of the box with only two warnings. And works.

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