Oh…oh dear. This looks dangerous to my free time.

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Nice! I didn't figure that out for a few years after the introduction of Proton. :smile:

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I just hope they did not steal many ideas from Stardeus.

The spacegravship stuff in this expansion is basically making the highly-popular mod Save Our Ship 2 official (minus some things like ship-to-ship weapons and combat), and SOS 2 was around years before Stardeus released*. I doubt Tynan needed to look elsewhere for inspiration.

*Or at least the original SOS was, I don't know exactly how far it goes but I know it was a fairly early mod.

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This game is a response to the current trend of Immersive Sim design, where every ability is perfectly suited to solve a specific problem in the game. In order to counter this "Lock and Key" philosophy, Mosa Lina is aggressively random

Y'know…on the one hand – I'm an old Dwarf Fortress player, I can respect that philosophy in a game.

On the other – I get my fill of "aggressively random with no guarantee of being able to solve it" in real life, so… :whistle:

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I heard about this a few months ago, and looked it up on YouTube – it looks like a lot of fun with a bunch of friends. :smile:

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I don't play Minecraft, so this is all seeming very weird to me. "Can't craft saddles" on its own just seems like a bad oversight, and like surely there's a mod for this, right? But then it's supposed to be OK because you . . . hunt for them? So like, you stealth up to a wild saddle and put an arrow through it before it can get away? Um, sure. Can you breed them? Catch some wild saddles and domesticate them, end up with a herd of saddles in your corral?

Mostly it was a cool new thing to search for when saddles were shiny and new, but I think making them craftable is a good move. Before if you wanted saddles then you had to go search or fish for them (regardless of if you wanted to do that or not), and if you didn't care about using them but liked exploring or fishing you eventually ended with a ton of them, all useless to you. Now people who want saddles can just craft them, and explorers can get more useful raw materials. (And yes, mods that made saddles craftable and ones that introduced ways to break them down into raw materials have both existed for over a decade now.)

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A quick follow-up release came after, as Valve forgot to allow you to join your own server if it was set to Friends Only, because you can't be your own Steam Friend. Oops.

Ha! That's pretty funny. :grin:

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Pops? In my Europa Universalis? :grin:

Ah, the sequel to the title that introduced me to Paradox grand strategy games and subsequent thousands of hours of gameplay. Money's a bit tight this year so we'll see if/when I get a chance to pick it up, but it certainly sounds promising.

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This reminds me of Webbed (which was fun), except in 3D instead of 2D.

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Preliminary patch notes (major features only) can be found at this April 30 dev diary: https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/developer-diary/stellaris-dev-diary-382-the-next-step-in-evolution.1738361/
They note that:

There are about 9000 lines in the export log for us to go through to get you the rest, sorry we couldn’t get them sorted by this dev diary!

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