Quoting: TcheyI think Star Ruler 2 + Rising Star mod has way more content and replayability.

I saw 'Star Ruler 2' and mistook that for a Star Control 2 mod, and thought "Awesome!"

Then I went and looked in the Stellaris workshop and couldn't find any Star Control 2 mods. :( Come on people, this seems like the perfect game for it! Get cracking! :D

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I've been enjoying the 1.18 patch so far (can't afford Rights of Man at the moment :( ). With the change that allows migratory nations to migrate over one sea zone I played Carib, migrated into the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean, then started colonizing like crazy so that I had about 7–8 provinces by the time Portugal showed up. They then took my capital in a total curb-stomp of a war, which let me reform my government, catch most of the way up in technology, and take it back a decade or so later. ^_^

At some point my dynasty spread to nearby Muisca due to a royal marriage I had with them, but when I converted to Catholicism I kept getting messages while my ruler was heirless about falling under a personal union with them. This intrigued me enough that I actively pursued it, taking event choices that ended up with my heir dying and turning down three separate events that would have given me a new one, until I finally pulled it off, my ruler died, and I came under a PU with Muisca. Who is still Inti.

Just realized that doesn't really have anything to do with the patch, per se, so…I like the new institutions and how they affect technology cost. It's a really cool idea for making technology cost increases over time a bit more organic, and it's amazing to watch them spreading out across the globe from their points of origin.

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Parkitect's main menu music is ridiculously, ludicrously happy. :D

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Even in the slowest areas they appear to have seen ~50% growth in the last two years. I don't know if that's impressive from a business standpoint, but it looks impressive to me!

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So, you're saying it's like TF2, but without the fighting…? ;)

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Quotefinally, a Paradox game where “Comet Sighted” actually means something

I always love Paradox's sense of humor in these feature lists.

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Strange news, and I do hope it works out eventually; but Civ V is still good (still play it with a friend) and in the meantime I've discovered Europa Universalis IV which has rapidly consumed much more of my time than Civ V has, and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future.

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Quoting: MaCroX95Valve releasing an awesome Linux exclusive would mean only 1 thing... thousands of gamers rushing to install Linux to play a game HL3 for example :D Such thing needs to be done so Windows users would lose their tight grip to 1 OS. But back to reality Valve would never do such thing because they are really the one company that cares about PC gaming and their users opposite to majority of game development companies out there.

While I'm against platform-exclusive games on principle, I wouldn't particularly mind if Half-Life 3 was released on Linux first, say, perhaps a week before releasing to other platforms… :)

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I must admit I've mostly stopped following new developments since I'm still on 1.7 (that's where the majority of the modpacks are still), but I like the look of llamas. Fleshing out exploration sounds cool too. ^_^ I wonder if they'll spit, like real llamas…

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I was going to rag on them for the term fourth person, but it turns out that's actually (kinda, sorta) a thing.

While I don't think it's my type of game, the art style is really rather beautiful.

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