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Quoting: eldakingI feel intrigued by the idea of "tiny" MO. MMOs tend to be a hellhole and not only because of griefers, scalpers, and obnoxious people: in order to force people to interact, they make it impossible to play the game at your own pace. You have to grind to keep up with others otherwise you won't be able to do the meaningful things, have to pay attention to the meta to get grouped up, have to repeatedly craft only whatever is in higher demand, and so on. I enjoy exploring vast (and lived-in) persistent worlds and doing story quests and such, but I don't want to commit to a MMO because it is usually time-consuming and unpleasant.

I'm not sure, though, how this one will work. It sounds more like "interact with strangers, but just a little" than "occasionally join your friends".

Or maybe by "tiny", they mean "small servers", like The Fourth Coming (T4C) back in the day, and their servers of 200 people :wink:

I was expecting this on top of the rest - honestly I didn't even consider that it might try to have everyone on a single server or something.

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I feel intrigued by the idea of "tiny" MO. MMOs tend to be a hellhole and not only because of griefers, scalpers, and obnoxious people: in order to force people to interact, they make it impossible to play the game at your own pace. You have to grind to keep up with others otherwise you won't be able to do the meaningful things, have to pay attention to the meta to get grouped up, have to repeatedly craft only whatever is in higher demand, and so on. I enjoy exploring vast (and lived-in) persistent worlds and doing story quests and such, but I don't want to commit to a MMO because it is usually time-consuming and unpleasant.

I'm not sure, though, how this one will work. It sounds more like "interact with strangers, but just a little" than "occasionally join your friends".

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Thank god for this, at long last sensible tags and categories. I noticed in the last sale they were using those categories and it was great, and I'm really glad it is being rolled out for the rest of the store. This is exactly what I wanted.

Browsing using tags was completely useless before, as searching for "strategy" returned just a bunch of FPS that people thought were brainy and a bunch of generic card games. Further tags didn't help either, as people tagged absolutely everything with "wargame, RTS, base building, simulation, grand strategy, resource management, tactical". And, to add gravy on top of the mess, people would just tag Paradox games as "Action" and "RPG" to make negative filters useless as well.

Oh, and Simulation, the category that (even when tagged sensibly) included Flight Simulator, The Sims, SimCity, Rimworld, Factorio, Universe Sandbox and a bunch more. I'm so glad that they "split" this one in particular into sensible groups.

And it's also a way to browse only the very few specific kinds of action game and RPG that I'm interested in (though this wasn't that bad with tags, and the main issue is finding stuff I liked in the first place).

I just find it a bit weird that Puzzle was tucked away into "casual", with no further subdivisions. I'd like a way to separate the likes of Portal and Talos Principle from Sudoku and Match-3, for example.

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Quoting: kaimanI loved the writing and stories in Sunless Seas, but the game mechanics weren't really my thing. Here's hoping that this one will be a better match for me :-).

Same thing. I watched some gameplay of Sunless Skies, because while the setting, the characters and the stories all looks amazing the driving around, the shooting and the transporting stuff back and forth make playing it myself a big no. A "dating sim", though, looks way more reasonable.

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Hmm, Sins of a Solar Empire should work perfectly with Proton/Wine - though this is the older, outdated version (of a game that is already old-ish): I have only tried with the newer one, Rebellion. It is a nice game, an even mix of 4X with RTS.

GalCiv 3 is a good game with a few expansions, but very borked. Stellaris is the main attraction, though I see it at a level of USD10+ so not better than normal.

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I really thought this was a bundle of farm games. They missed a great thematic opportunity (and it's a pretty good theme too).

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I have been playing some Europa Universalis 4, Charterstone Digital Edition and Thermo Sudoku. I have been defaulting to the familiar those days (well, never played Charterstone before, but it's a worker placement boardgame).

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Quoting: slaapliedjeI mean the Stop button in Steam should be specific for games that crash in a weird state where they won't exit on their own.

Exactly the case with Magicka 2, you can exit through the game's interface, but the game process in linux will run forever until you finish your user session or (now) use the steam stop button.

I have had this issue with games before, though of course now I won't remember which games. It is a minor issue, so I just ignore it most of the time.

A bigger pet peeve is Civ 5 (and Civ BE) where I close the game, and Steam even recognizes it as closed (no stop button)... but the music still plays in the background until I kill the process manually. But even this I'm willing to live with.

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I really love the Stellaris species portraits. They are diverse and imaginative and each has its own identity. I don't need animated 3D faces or long boxes of text for their lore - what I want is something that even at a quick glance makes the galaxy look full of alien life, and Stellaris does that really well.

Quoting: robvvThe only DLC for Stellaris that I require is not discounted. No surprise there!

I mean, me too, but it's a direct consequence - it is the one I need because the others were discounted and this was not (and it all comes from the fact it is the latest).

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Quoting: Perkeleen_VittupääOne of the biggest challenges for seasoned Linux users is to place oneself in the shoes of a new comer that's also a Windows refugee. What is "simple, handy and easy" (*just a few commands on the terminal*) for us, might be a set of total deal breakers for a "normo" to start with :grin:

Had a friend back in the day, who didn't even like GUI. He was convinced everybody had to just learn to use the terminal (and obviously hated Windows). I once asked him: "What about some secretary in an office?", "Yes!!!". And meant it. I think a lot of people in the Linux community do not realize that " just one command" in the terminal is already too Mich for most people. And honestly - you can't be mad at somebody for not wanting to go out of his way when he doesn't have to.

Anyway - cool tool :D

And that type of person traumatizes the heck out of people, that think the command line is the antithesis of user-friendliness and refuses to use anything that resembles it.

Sometimes the terminal is just convenient - you type a simple(-ish) command without changing anything and it does what you want, instead of having to follow a byzantine list of instructions(1). Sometimes it requires very precise syntax that you need to learn, or has poor visualization so you aren't sure if you are doing it right. I use the terminal relatively very little, but I have it as an option.

There's people that really don't have the skills to use the terminal (and neither some complicated examples of GUI...). But there are also people that are technically savvy, that customize and tinker a lot, and are afraid of running a simple "cd /home/user/games && wine game.exe". Look, on twitch chat and discord people are typing complex text commands and invoking bots; it's not that different.

(1) Go to the settings menu, it is the 5th option from the left on the second row of the bar on top. Find an option called window properties, or maybe it is window settings in your version. Look for a radio button - explains what is a radio button, it is not a checkbox - saying x...

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