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Quoting: Maquis196Whats the consensus here? People love/hate Civ5?

My brother still thinks that the original Civilization is the definitive version, although he will accept Civilization II as being acceptable. Anything later than that is crap as far as he is concerned. My uncle is more tolerant of the later ones, however.

Given that, you may have trouble finding a consensus on any of the Civ games from anyone. :P

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holy!

I thought i'd have to wait for Beyond Earth, too!

yay!

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Quoting: Maquis196Damn, I promised myself i'd play it once it came out on Linux. People seem to love it but I find it really dumbed down compared to Civ4 (my favourite outside of AC).

Whats the consensus here? People love/hate Civ5?

Oh and I have all the expansion packs, I keep trying to give it a go but...

Honestly, I had already accepted skipping Civ V and going straight to Beyond Earth, but now I guess I'll buy both just to show my appreciation.

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Quoting: liamdawe

Quoting: wleoncioSo as far as one could tell from SteamDB is Civ V as likely to come to Linux as XCOM: EU?

Not sure, it's all speculation of course until someone confirms it.

I see, but do you know of any records of a game acquiring "Signs of Linux Support" status and then reverting back to "No Linux Launch Config" or something like that?

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Damn, I promised myself i'd play it once it came out on Linux. People seem to love it but I find it really dumbed down compared to Civ4 (my favourite outside of AC).

Whats the consensus here? People love/hate Civ5?

Oh and I have all the expansion packs, I keep trying to give it a go but...

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Quoting: wleoncioSo as far as one could tell from SteamDB is Civ V as likely to come to Linux as XCOM: EU?

Not sure, it's all speculation of course until someone confirms it.

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So as far as one could tell from SteamDB is Civ V as likely to come to Linux as XCOM: EU?

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Quoting: GoCorinthians

Quoting: pb

Quoting: GoCorinthiansThe bureau!...why not 2k :'(?

Don't rush them, one step at a time, now it's time for Civ V. ;-)

lol...Civ V will not come..but the next Civ Beyond

http://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/comments/25yv7o/linux_configurations_just_added_to_sid_meiers/
So, who's laughing now? :P

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The Thing is using a Name like SteamOS over Linux is really good marketing same as google and Android and ChromeOS or Ubuntu if you remove Linux the fear with Linux FUD go's away also from the looks of it this game is 64bit only on Linux :)

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One of my favorite games, worth the price.

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The only problem I see with using "SteamOS" instead of "Linux" is that I can't read that name without picturing John Stamos. :|

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Indeed, try not to get too excited it may only be an updated roadmap for Linux.

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Quoting: SabunAt the end of the month? Nice!

It sounds like they'll have information about the port at the end of the month. Not the port itself. Try not to get your hopes up about it coming soon.

Unless you're one of those people that get excited about news for impending news. In which case, go nuts.

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Quoting: pbI installed it when then made it free on Desura, unfortunately the physics were terrible and the game was hardly playable. Ugh! was a great game and I actually played it to the end on Amiga. I'd gladly play it again, or a remake, but not like that.

You can find it somewhere on the web, it is practically abandonware so you can download it and run it on DOSBox. Works like a charm, still decent coop fun after all these years!

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STOP THE SPAM ALREADY.

Game is available free-to-play, but its download on Steam is broken at the very moment. They are gonna fix it soon.

For Windows and Mac versions you can go to http://toribash.com (Windows version runs with Wine on Linux too)

Linux native version is/will be available on Steam.

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oh wait.. its only for linux users.. well then sorry for wasting your time

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I wish I could get a key , I have been playing toribash for 3-4 years / had 2 accounts joope & joope1
(joope1 the active one atm)I really love this game so would be great if you guys could hit me up with a key, thx

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Quoting: Half-Shot

Quotesomewhat noisy buttons

Ahem, isn't that the point of Cherry MX switches. So you can hear the music of your fingers tapping out gaming poetry?

MOT:
Really really want one now because it has chery MX switches AND Linux support. Will be my next keyboard.

No. that's the point of Cherry MX BLUE switches. reds and blacks are actually quieter than the few membrane keyboards I have.

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Wow! I want this game! :D

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At the end of the month? Nice!

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I installed it when then made it free on Desura, unfortunately the physics were terrible and the game was hardly playable. Ugh! was a great game and I actually played it to the end on Amiga. I'd gladly play it again, or a remake, but not like that.

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Quoting: mrdeathjrTry compiling yourself, on my test i compile wine myself

I appreciate it, but I'm sure I could compile it myself if I wanted to. Plus it's effort for something I prefer to avoid using where I can in the first place (Wine). I was able to get Dawngate working well after installing it in a Windows XP virtual machine and copying the files over.

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This is a remake/clone of old DOS game named Ugh!

It apparently wasn't as good as the original, so instead of selling it they decided to opensource it.

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Been waiting for this

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Quoting: under cover agentThis news seems to be a filthy lie. My best guess would be that this piece of news was engineered to push MIT/BSD like license, which are, as a matter of facts, a real danger for open source software.

Yes, that's it exactly *puts hands up*. I hate the GPL and want to push the MIT license to everyone and GOL is my foothold on the internet to do that.

Sarcasm aside, you are spreading complete FUD. I have my own personal preference for licensing as does everyone.

I actually state in the article:

Quoting: liamdaweThe LGPL isn't a bad license

I haven't told anyone not to use it, nor have I spoken bad about the license itself.

This article was "engineered" directly from the source (the PZ forums) where the person was making their claims, they are not my claims they are theirs.

Also, the comments on this article are now closed before more idiots come along to spread more FUD. If you have a problem with this feel free to register an account and post in the forum.

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java... erk! We all agree on that...

But anyway, that story does not make sense.

If a part of the game is actually a component protected with the GNU Lesser GPL, they don't need to open source the whole game. They just need to publish the additional code they added in that component.
That's it.

This news seems to be a filthy lie. My best guess would be that this piece of news was engineered to push MIT/BSD like license, which are, as a matter of facts, a real danger for open source software.

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Its okay for "random people" to point out such violations be it acidentially or intentionally.

I don't see it being "downright horrible" by them not giving the developers "a chance to explain".

They just make the incident public and are not those in charge for mediation or taking actions. The later they can't anyways if they're not the copyright holders..

At last, I fail to see me being part of "the problem" as I don't see a general problem at all.

My bet for this particual case: As no harm was intended and no harm was done (as they didn't use any of the code in question at all) nothing will happen except some more rampage on various fora..

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I just hope the update also arrives for those who bought @Humblestore...

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@lane_support you don't get the point of my article at all.

Like I said in it:

QuoteYes sticking to licenses is very important, but attacking a developer and threatening them before they get a chance to explain is downright horrible.

That's the point. So, you think it's okay for random people to threaten developers over accidents? Then you are part of the problem. It's a code license and not a contract to be threatened with as pointed out by the Link Hamish provided.

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Well to be honest, I haven't read the whole linked thread but just some ongoing post from the linked one. And it wasn't PZ specifically triggering my reply but the (imo) more general tone in this post against the "defenders of the GPL".

Liam, for me its simple: If you want to make cash with your software, pay close attention to remove license-restriced code before releasing it otherwise obey the rules or simply don't mess around with code like this in first place.

PZ violating the LGPL seem to be accidentially but I don't see any reason shooting at ppl finding oss-license violations in commercial applications as much as I don't see reasons to open up a big barrel in this particular case (i.e. demanding full source code access, threatening the developers with legal actions etc.).

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