Will definitely buy this. Each game is more evolutionary than revolutionary, but its great fun. As to above, I've only played single player and its a blast. I haven't even gotten to the mods yet as there is so much content and stuff to do in game.

I hope for 5, they helped with some of the more tedious micro, Some form of Rally point system would be awesome.

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Make Bug reporting easy. While you can assume most linxers are technically savy and like solving computer related problems, not everyone is at the same level in expertise or ability (or free time). I had one game website that simply said, if you have a bug submit it and the log file here (insert link to their tracker). No indication on what the file's name was, location, etc.

You don't need anything fancy like a log file uploader or anything like that, just some simple, specific directions of what you'd like us to provide. Help us help you!

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Sucks it has to happen, but I'm personally glad you're proactive about it. Thank you.

Side note, I just heard about Trollbots on the radio. Trollbots?!?! I knew about spambots, but a forum/comment bot to troll ppl?!?!? Wow!

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Quoting: solar_domeAt the moment I have no need for a GOG Galaxy client.
I have not used 'LGOGDownloader'.
I am currently using 'gogrepo.py' for my GOG downloading needs.

Nice - I didn't know about gogrepo.py - I'll have to check it out.

Aside - I think for everyone comparing linux contributions between GOG and Steam may not be noting their ambitions. GOG, for the most part is an Online store with little obvious ambition to be anything else. Valve/Steam are a major game developer, major online store, hardware developer, software developer, etc. It seems to me Valve intends Steam to be a nexus of digital entertainment (is that the right word?) and their contributions to linux further that goal.

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QuoteIt will be really nice to have Galaxy on Linux, as I really personally hate keeping track of each individual download. I do have a number of games from GOG installed and going through them one by one to see if they need an update is not something I have time to do.

I'm sure you know this, but there is an open source GOG client for Linux. It's lgogdownloader. It's a CLI downloader for GOG games. Personally, galaxy or not, I'll prefer this. I can run it on my headless file server to download updated versions of my games without having to add bloat to my gaming machine. I don't really have a need for all the other "features" clients like steam or galaxy offer. I just want to download/update the game and this does it.

I'll admit, lgogdownloader isn't perfect, but it is simple, lightweight, and honestly, probably more useful to me than a client like galaxy. Note if only there was a steam variant, lol.

Edit: typos, typing on a phone is horrible! How do you do it!

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I am in the same boat with exclusives, I think they are a bad idea, but I seen how they can work to the advantage of the console company.

Anecdotally, my co-workers who are console gamers all own multiple consoles, specifically due to exclusivity. I've actually heard this exact conversation many times:

"Hey bro, you should go get [console X] so we can play [game y] together!"
and usually right after payday, some one comes up and says "Hey I got the console and game, wanna play?"

Now yes, they just dropped several hundred dollars for to play one game, but as calvin pointed out, they now have a system guaranteed to play every game released for that console and they are unlikely to only ever purchase one game over the lifetime of the console ("Hey bro, [games y 2] just came out, are you getting it?).

While it's just my personal experience, I can see how exclusives to work for the console company from a business point of view. I still think they are a bad idea, especially for linux. I think our user-base is too small to make it a sound financial strategy.

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Space Empires IV (wine) - The closest I can get to playing/comprehending Aurora. I really love the ship design system and the need for an actual cohesive fleet - Although Its clearly leaning toward Micro-Management-Hell as the game progresses

Dominions 4 - I've done a few random Early Age games - so much fun. Less micro than the above to the point where you feel you really are running a nation/religion

Homeworld (wine) - Works great and I love the story so far - I'm just too much of a perfectionist to stand loosing a bunch of big ships and I keep replaying the missions over and over.

I'd love to get my some of my friends into Dominions as I think PBEM with a few of them would be a blast (I'm generally not into multiplayer at all, but we all like board games and Dominions feels more board-game than computer sim - in a good way)

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Out of Curiosity, what is the actual cost of support? I was under the impression most of the builds are automated? or does it require substantial code modification to switch between 32 and 64 bit?

I use 32-bit on my HTPC - its an 10 year old laptop running Kodibuntu that we use for streaming. I suppose I could switch to a Pi3 if hardware support ended.

I have a family member who used a 32-bit Gateway PIII as a home file server until the past year or so (lasted 16+ years) so I can imagine a good number of people who use older hardware where they can't afford new hardware to play around with or replace. That was my case growing up. We had an 8086 until 1994 and I used my 286 all through school until 2002.

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Syberia via wine and some Din's Curse

Took a little while to get Syberia running. but I have it at full screen in all its glory

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Sounds Really interesting. Tell me, I've never done an online game, is this something that you can play semi-casually (Not sure if the right word - play for a short period of time every once in a while), or does it require a rather large time commitment to really enjoy?

I ask as I only have a few hours a week of time to myself for R&R and if you need a continuous session to be a few hours long (before you can save/quit), I might have to skip it until I get more free time!

Thanks!

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