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I'd not consider myself a full-blown Paradox addict, more like a beginner, but I have also spent countless hours reading EUIV and CKII wikis and trying out the proposed strategies to (mostly) bring my IRL nation to the historic glory it was robbed of due to those pesky geopolitics ;)

I am a sort of person that likes to know the minute details of game mechanics so I would know the optimal choice at any given moment. And there SO MANY MINUTE DETAILS in Paradox games it makes your head spin. Worst yet, they change them with every major DLC, even for those that don't buy them. Hence I still shy away from IronMan mode: I still hope to come to that day that I know exactly 'what that button does' before I choose my irreversible fate ;)

Indeed, I fell victim to my own micro-management in CKII. Finding that perfect bride with perfect skills and traits and figuring out the cheapest and/or sneakiest way to get her to my court against her wishes OR doing the same with title-claimants of my annoying neighbors became too tedious too fast.

But then EUIV happened ;D Here I finally found the perfect balance between micro-management and conquering the whole Europe. By the way, largest swathes of land are still gained diplomatically, not with fire and blood. As is historically accurate, war conquest is hard, 'unless you are the Mongols™'. So yeah, even compared to the stripped-down version in EUIV, CivV diplomacy menu is a joke.

Speaking of DLCs, Paradox are a smart bunch not only for creating perhaps world's most addictive games but for capitalizing on that addiction. There are SO MANY DLCs you need to watch your wallet ;)

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Liked the initial concept and the preview looks very promising indeed. Indeed, cartoonish faces would be more relatable.

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Another interesting question is how many 32bit gamers are still out there ;)

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This survey is much better, although I have doubts about not counting bundles as a single purchase.

A small mistake:

It was quite surprising to see that over 50% of GOL readers don’t have a Windows partition, and given all the new releases coming out from when this survey was published until December (Tropico 5 and Borderlands 2 already), this number will most likely see a steady decline - which we may have already witnessed in the Linux increase from Steam Hardware Survey.

Excellent project, please maintain it.

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Quoting: fabertaweSomething randomly creates an empty "Documents" folder which I keep deleting. I'll find the culprit one day and when I do.... :><:

Might have something to do with your ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs…

That's the thing with user-dirs.. I changed all of them to my liking and deleted the defaults but paradox recreated ~/Documents anyway. Probably what @fabertawe was describing as well.

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First time I see this on steam:

Notice: Purchases made in *my_country* are only playable in *list_of_countries*

Region locks? What gives?

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Linux: we need games!
Devs: here you go.
Linux: too many game save folders!
Devs: first-world problems.

Seriously, I approve this message.

My naughty list:

~/:
.Broken Rules
.Cobra Mobile
.Nifflas
.dynamitejack
.frozenbyte
.klei
.paradoxinteractive (use to be in ~/Documents/)
.renpy
.sidhe
.uplink

With the amount of games available it's gonna be folder soup in any case.
Hence I would actually prefer ~/.local/share/games/$GAME_TITLE
Who has the time to learn 100 game studio names and their games?

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All platform sales comparisons are rubbish unless the game in question had a simultaneous release on all of them.

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I have a feeling the survey sampling might be based on IP ranges. I can't remember the last time (ca 12 months ago) I had it pop up on my old connection but I got it this month when I used a new connection for the first time.

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