Great. I met DoomJuan of the team in another project of his and had some insight on his design approach and who would have guessed: Dude is really doing his research so some buildings should hold up to history in great detail :happy:

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Tycoon++
Voxel--

This is really not easy for me xD

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Quoting: EikeI thoroughly enjoyed it although I never played the first one. I guess it's even better when meeting some people again after a quarter of a century... :)

tbf I wouldn't remember. I mean I did play it and I enjoyed it but that's all I can say today.

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Quoting: einherjarI am glad that on Steam I just can play ;-)

Be assured that this was the last time that I bought a "recent" game at GOG. I'm so tired of this. It's like this with _every_ freakin patch X4 (or similar) get. I can be happy when I get stuff within the same month.

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Originally noted at: Egosoft Forum [External Link]

I got tired of waiting for the DLC packages for Linux on GOG to I started playing around with the Windows DLC.

* Installed Linux x4_foundations_4_00_45652.sh to /games/linux/X4_Foundations/
* Installed the package `innoextract` (v 1.8) (For me: `dnf install innoextract`)
* Put the Windows DLC files into /games/linux/X4_Foundations/game
setup_x4_cradle_of_humanity_4.00_(64bit)_(45636)-1.bin
setup_x4_cradle_of_humanity_4.00_(64bit)_(45636).exe
setup_x4_split_vendetta_4.00_(64bit)_(45636)-1.bin
setup_x4_split_vendetta_4.00_(64bit)_(45636).exe
* Extracted the Windows DLC files manually:

cd /games/linux/X4_Foundations/game
innoextract --exclude-temp --extract setup_x4_split_vendetta_4.00_\(64bit\)_\(45636\).exe 
innoextract --exclude-temp --extract setup_x4_cradle_of_humanity_4.00_\(64bit\)_\(45636\).exe

Run game, shows both DLC.
Selected Terrain Start and watched intro.
Reported back here :)

ymmv.

Edith says: Wrote a more elaborate article on this at https://beko.famkos.net/2021/03/17/x4-cradle-of-humanity-for-linux-and-gog/ [External Link]

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy"The Matter of France", huh? Someone has some knowledge of medieval lit. Gives me a good feeling.

Seeing a plated meatshield holding a kite shield like a purse killed that feeling again :dizzy:

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Whaddya say… the Loki games still work to date :grin:

I still have Railroad Tycoon II and Call To Power installed :)

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Quoting: NanobangSigh. I still have screen shots of the itch version. It was so darn cute.

I still have a dedicaded up and the client for that too :)

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Quoting: drlambI've so far played 11 hours of this game and I haven't ventured out of the starting area yet. As I've got a group of people interested in playing I've set up a dedicated server so that it's not dependent on whoever happens to be online. The next step is putting the dedicated server into a container using this [External Link] as the base image. Steamcmd is 32bit and thus requires 32bit libs to be installed on the host.

If anyone is curious, here's the systemd service unit I'm using for my server as of right now. The systemd unit doesn't take updating the game server into account yet but that could be added with a call to steamcmd in an 'ExecStartPre' directive.

• Setup a user 'steam' with the home /home/steam to run steamcmd
• The game server is downloaded to steam's homedir

 
[Unit]
Description=Valheim Dedicated Server

[Service]
User=steam
Environment="LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/home/steam/valheim/linux64:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
Environment="SteamAppId=892970"
ExecStart=/home/steam/valheim/valheim_server.x86_64 -name "YOUR_SERVER_NAME" -port 2456 -world "YOUR WORLD" -password "YOUR_PASSWORD" -public 1 > /dev/null
Restart=on-failure

[Install]
Wants=network-online.target
After=network-online.target
WantedBy=multi-user.target

This won't save your world data when the server is stopped because it only does so with a SIGINT (not a SIGKILL or SIGTERM). For this there was this weird echo hack but that no longer works as well. Use this in [Service] to improve this: KillSignal=SIGINT

(and mebbe remove that /dev/null - you want logs in case things break )

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Quoting: g000hAsking about the Server side of things in this game:

If you launch the game, planning to play in single-player - Is the server hosting the game world part of the single-player process, or do you need to separately set up a server to host the game-world which you then connect to ?

You can do both. In fact single player also just runs a server in the background.

You can transfer the world saves to a dedicated later and vice versa. In fact that's currently the only way to get a specific SEED to a dedicated server.

(And your character is saved locally and can hop between servers, inventory included. If you want to make sure do backups of your character file).

I love this very open approach that let's you just have fun wherever and however and with whomever you want :)

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