Count me in! Love builders in general!

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Dumb question. What's your opinion on Terreria? I have Starbound and heard it is very similar. Is it better, worse, totally different? Would it be a waste to have both if I'm more of a casual gamer?

Thanks

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I think these are some great points and a good reminder to be civilized/polite with the people/devs we interact with. Personal attacks and insults never help us. I'm glad that is such a rarity on this site.

Quoting: KelsI'm a non-technical person myself for the most part, and one thing I appreciate about the more mainstream distros like Ubuntu is that for most problems all you need to do is a quick internet search and copy-paste the first solution you find. It takes a lot of the stress out of minor fixes and tweaks, and ties in with the earlier comments about how Linux users as a rule are good at bug reporting.

That brought back a few memories that made me LOL a bit, thanks. I remember when I first tried linux and my issues were in the network (pre-smarphone / wifi). I had to unplug the modem and walk it up/down the stairs to my father's computer to look up the solutions, write them down, unhook the modem, walk it back and hook it all up. I was so mad, but too stubborn to give up. I'm glad I didn't.

ps- I still have my original 15+ year old txt files that I would type the commands into to save them along with my notes of what they did/fixed. I still do that to this day, although more and more of them are hyperlinks to the ARCH wiki and other places.

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Quoting: liamdaweArticle updated with a quote from Valve.

Thank you for the fake news social experiment. It was quite illuminating.

As an unwilling participant, I'm really ok if we don't do this again for a while, or ever.

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Very Happy this came out.

For the complaints that it is not that dis-similar from the previous games, I think it is well known that the changes from game to game in the series are more evolutionary than revolutionary. With a more complicated game like this, even what may appear as a minor difference can completely alter gameplay. I have DOM 3 and 4 and will probably get this at some point.

I personally like these games and this developer. Not only are they linux friendly, they continually update the game (including new content) for free long after the game comes out. They were updating DOM 4 right up through a few months ago.

Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: TheSHEEEP...the series' biggest shortcomings - no AI diplomacy making single player almost entirely useless

Oh dear... perhaps I should remove it from my wishlist.

I play only single player and I enjoy it immensely. There is no AI diplomacy. Its a bit of a glaring omission, I'll be honest. On the other hand, I get the sense that most AI diplomacy is there to make the game easier. Every 4x I've played the Diplomacy aspect is easily exploitable and mainly serves to benefit solely the player as the AI can't compete.

Hope that helps you decide if you may want it or not.

Side note - At least we see their inspiration for their UI design from the Screenshot Liam linked to (J/K)! Seriously, what is that DE? Mate, LXDE/QT?

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Will definitely buy this. Each game is more evolutionary than revolutionary, but its great fun. As to above, I've only played single player and its a blast. I haven't even gotten to the mods yet as there is so much content and stuff to do in game.

I hope for 5, they helped with some of the more tedious micro, Some form of Rally point system would be awesome.

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Make Bug reporting easy. While you can assume most linxers are technically savy and like solving computer related problems, not everyone is at the same level in expertise or ability (or free time). I had one game website that simply said, if you have a bug submit it and the log file here (insert link to their tracker). No indication on what the file's name was, location, etc.

You don't need anything fancy like a log file uploader or anything like that, just some simple, specific directions of what you'd like us to provide. Help us help you!

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Sucks it has to happen, but I'm personally glad you're proactive about it. Thank you.

Side note, I just heard about Trollbots on the radio. Trollbots?!?! I knew about spambots, but a forum/comment bot to troll ppl?!?!? Wow!

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Quoting: solar_domeAt the moment I have no need for a GOG Galaxy client.
I have not used 'LGOGDownloader'.
I am currently using 'gogrepo.py' for my GOG downloading needs.

Nice - I didn't know about gogrepo.py - I'll have to check it out.

Aside - I think for everyone comparing linux contributions between GOG and Steam may not be noting their ambitions. GOG, for the most part is an Online store with little obvious ambition to be anything else. Valve/Steam are a major game developer, major online store, hardware developer, software developer, etc. It seems to me Valve intends Steam to be a nexus of digital entertainment (is that the right word?) and their contributions to linux further that goal.

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It will be really nice to have Galaxy on Linux, as I really personally hate keeping track of each individual download. I do have a number of games from GOG installed and going through them one by one to see if they need an update is not something I have time to do.

I'm sure you know this, but there is an open source GOG client for Linux. It's lgogdownloader. It's a CLI downloader for GOG games. Personally, galaxy or not, I'll prefer this. I can run it on my headless file server to download updated versions of my games without having to add bloat to my gaming machine. I don't really have a need for all the other "features" clients like steam or galaxy offer. I just want to download/update the game and this does it.

I'll admit, lgogdownloader isn't perfect, but it is simple, lightweight, and honestly, probably more useful to me than a client like galaxy. Note if only there was a steam variant, lol.

Edit: typos, typing on a phone is horrible! How do you do it!

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