Quoting: chrHow did you manage to get out as Lucca? Got strong allies and beelined for colonies? Then took over Kilwa and the rest of African south-west? Or only the southern tip?

It was a few years ago now so I had to go back and check for any screen shots, but yeah, I think I basically held on in Italy as long as possible with allies while gunning for colonization as quickly as I could. I colonized in western Africa as soon as possible to give me a backup, then it looks like I conquered/colonized my way down the coast into Kongo, slightly. I also colonized south Africa (and I think I moved my capital there when I sold off my Italian possessions to stop getting dragged into wars), and conquered Madagascar (I think this was very soon after Madagascar had been filled out with playable countries). That's the last screenshot I could find other then the one showing my one-province snake into Lucknow from the coast, but I probably expanded in central and eastern Africa as well after that before slowly conquering India.

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Decided to pick it up for for my birthday yesterday as it's under $5, and it's definitely very professional-feeling, from the visuals to the sounds. It's incredibly responsive, and it feels very aesthetically pleasing to move the little emitters and various reflectors and refractors around.

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Interesting! That's a pretty neat idea. I'll have to check it out.

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The sound briefly wasn't working for me when I first switched from running on Proton to the Linux version, but it started working at some point after that (though before this update). Anyway good on them for continuing to bug-fix and provide support. :)

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Quoting: Eike

Quoting: PhiladelphusWait, this is a thing? I've never seen anything like that in my news feed. :S: (And I do have Steam friends, honest! :D) Following the advice above about clicking the cog I don't even have the "Only show product updates" thing checked—that's just all I've ever seen there. Strange.

It's in the (old) "activity" section, not the (new) game news shelf.

Oh, the bit on the individual game pages? Ah, right. Gotcha. :) Yes, I do see that.

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Maybe it's time to finally try that Prince of Egypt achievement run by forming Egypt as Florence. I started it once a few years ago but petered out; now with all the improvements to Catholicism and Europe, and what I've heard is a slight nerfing of the Ottomans, it might be time to give it another go. Getting the Lucky Lucca (owning the Indian province of Lucknow as Lucca, a one-province nation in Italy) achievement was one of my funnest games, where I actually migrated to southern Africa, abandoned Italy entirely, built up over a few centuries, then ended up conquering all of India (and getting the achievement for doing so as a European nation in the process!). :D

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Quoting: TcheyThe "news" may be annoying, but something that bothers me more is the "your friend XXX has a new achievement" "XXX now owns ZZZ game" etc. I don’t care about that part at all. I want only game related news posted by the team... And i can’t find any option to remove it.

Wait, this is a thing? I've never seen anything like that in my news feed. :S: (And I do have Steam friends, honest! :D) Following the advice above about clicking the cog I don't even have the "Only show product updates" thing checked—that's just all I've ever seen there. Strange.

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Quoting: soulsource

Quoting: PhiladelphusHmm, can I finish up my max-size galaxy game before this comes out? :S: Time to find out! :D

Luckily Paradox usually keeps the previous version available in a Steam branch.

Indeed, I was being humorous. But thanks. :)

Quoting: GuestThen again, I've not played Stellaris in a few years and hope they didn't change it too much.

Well, about that… :whistle: The 2.0 update, and several of the updates since, have radically changed certain parts of the game. In my opinion, for the better, but yeah if you haven't played it recently it could be fairly different to how you remember.

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If you've ever been stuck for something to play on Steam

…I know the individual words you're saying, but when you put them together in that order they just…I–I can't…I don't understand.
(:P)

Seriously though, this is a pretty neat feature (even if, as humorously hinted above, I've got about eight games I desperately want to play at the moment and time to play maybe two or three of them. :) ) I'm pretty chintzy with my games buying—many a Steam sale has come and gone without me buying a single game—but even I have a few games I've only played a short time of and never gotten back to.

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Quoting: tuubi

Quoting: PhiladelphusOn the other hand I've never actually used Krita, I don't think. How does it compare to GIMP (which I'm moderately familiar with)? Not in a "which is better" way, I just want an honest evaluation of the strengths and weaknesses (or maybe the different design goals) of each. I'm always interested in finding and learning another cool FOSS tool. :)

Gimp is a general purpose raster graphics editor whereas Krita's main focus is digital painting. If I need to manipulate an image in any way, I grab Gimp. If I feel creative and want to doodle a picture, Krita's slick UI and workflow can't be beat. Oh and Krita also has tools for keyframe-based 2D animation, but I'm not very familiar with that side of things.

Thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for! ^_^

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