Quoting: liamdaweWay more expansive than FTL. FTL is very linear compared to this, nothing alike.

Thanks! I think You helped me make up my mind!

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How is it in terms of content volume / quality? Like is it more along the lines of FTL (limited, but very focused) or more expansive in scope (alla space rangers 2 or star sector)?

Thanks in advance.

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Quoting: GGLucasHi all. One of the original Star Ruler 2 devs here.
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The SR2 dev team all moved on to different jobs after the game was completed a few years ago (some of us in the game industry, some of us outside of it). We didn't use a publisher for SR2 though, so you would still be supporting us directly by purchasing the game on steam or GOG.

Thanks for replying. I've added the game to my wishlist for my next purchase. The game Built for me just fine. I saw the post in the Steam forums about where you and the other Dev's are. I want to wish you all best of luck in your endeavors.

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So.....

Game doesn't always work when bought for Linux
Dev's pull game for sale
Dev's promise to continue to push updates to Linuxers who bought the game
Dev's will consider selling again if/when they can fix the problems

Ummm..... Sad, but kinda reasonable?

I'd hate to see what some of us would do when we go to the grocery and find the Lettuce was pulled due to contamination... I'd feel victimized too if I had only Kale available...

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Many kudos to these devs. Will be compiling tonight to see if it'll run on my old laptop.

Question: if they are "not active", who gets the money from a steam or GOG purchase?

If it works for me, I'd consider buying it for the music and to support the dev.

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Count me in! Love builders in general!

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Dumb question. What's your opinion on Terreria? I have Starbound and heard it is very similar. Is it better, worse, totally different? Would it be a waste to have both if I'm more of a casual gamer?

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I think these are some great points and a good reminder to be civilized/polite with the people/devs we interact with. Personal attacks and insults never help us. I'm glad that is such a rarity on this site.

Quoting: KelsI'm a non-technical person myself for the most part, and one thing I appreciate about the more mainstream distros like Ubuntu is that for most problems all you need to do is a quick internet search and copy-paste the first solution you find. It takes a lot of the stress out of minor fixes and tweaks, and ties in with the earlier comments about how Linux users as a rule are good at bug reporting.

That brought back a few memories that made me LOL a bit, thanks. I remember when I first tried linux and my issues were in the network (pre-smarphone / wifi). I had to unplug the modem and walk it up/down the stairs to my father's computer to look up the solutions, write them down, unhook the modem, walk it back and hook it all up. I was so mad, but too stubborn to give up. I'm glad I didn't.


ps- I still have my original 15+ year old txt files that I would type the commands into to save them along with my notes of what they did/fixed. I still do that to this day, although more and more of them are hyperlinks to the ARCH wiki and other places.

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Quoting: liamdaweArticle updated with a quote from Valve.

Thank you for the fake news social experiment. It was quite illuminating.

As an unwilling participant, I'm really ok if we don't do this again for a while, or ever.

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Very Happy this came out.

For the complaints that it is not that dis-similar from the previous games, I think it is well known that the changes from game to game in the series are more evolutionary than revolutionary. With a more complicated game like this, even what may appear as a minor difference can completely alter gameplay. I have DOM 3 and 4 and will probably get this at some point.

I personally like these games and this developer. Not only are they linux friendly, they continually update the game (including new content) for free long after the game comes out. They were updating DOM 4 right up through a few months ago.

Quoting: Mountain Man

Quoting: TheSHEEEP...the series' biggest shortcomings - no AI diplomacy making single player almost entirely useless

Oh dear... perhaps I should remove it from my wishlist.

I play only single player and I enjoy it immensely. There is no AI diplomacy. Its a bit of a glaring omission, I'll be honest. On the other hand, I get the sense that most AI diplomacy is there to make the game easier. Every 4x I've played the Diplomacy aspect is easily exploitable and mainly serves to benefit solely the player as the AI can't compete.

Hope that helps you decide if you may want it or not.


Side note - At least we see their inspiration for their UI design from the Screenshot Liam linked to (J/K)! Seriously, what is that DE? Mate, LXDE/QT?

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