General Strategy & Sim thread

[Zloth]

Yeah, Civ was great about putting a lot of really good information in tooltips! Strange that it blew up like that.

I wonder if a second desktop would do the same? Before even starting the game, you can make a second desktop by doing windows key + tab. Once you do that, you can switch between desktops any time with win+ctrl+right/left arrow. That lets you switch without having it try to display a small version of your desktop, so maybe it will be more stable.

Even after rebooting, the second desktop persists until you tell Windows to get rid of it.

 

[Pifanjr]

Yeah, Civ was great about putting a lot of really good information in tooltips! Strange that it blew up like that.

I wonder if a second desktop would do the same? Before even starting the game, you can make a second desktop by doing windows key + tab. Once you do that, you can switch between desktops any time with win+ctrl+right/left arrow. That lets you switch without having it try to display a small version of your desktop, so maybe it will be more stable.

Even after rebooting, the second desktop persists until you tell Windows to get rid of it.

Alternatively you can try running the game in borderless windowed mode instead of fullscreen.

 

[Colif]

I should play this again, it seems to have changed since I last did

Maybe on my next PC.

 

[Zloth]

Did something terrible happen to Solaris?? Steam recommended the new DLC to me, but it has a mostly negative user review score right now. I looked around and it seems the 4.0 update that came with the DLC caused massive performance issues!? That doesn't seem like Paradox's style.

 

[Pifanjr]

Did something terrible happen to Solaris?? Steam recommended the new DLC to me, but it has a mostly negative user review score right now. I looked around and it seems the 4.0 update that came with the DLC caused massive performance issues!? That doesn't seem like Paradox's style.

Stellaris updates are going to start coming more slowly, because new patches are causing new problems and QA testers can't keep up

Stellaris 4.0 still needs work, but the current pace of fixes is apparently causing trouble.

www.pcgamer.com

TL;DR: they weren't quite done with the 4.0 patch that accompanied the new DLC when it released and in their haste to fix it they kept breaking more stuff.

They'll probably fix it in a couple of months.

 

[Zed Clampet]

Did something terrible happen to Solaris?? Steam recommended the new DLC to me, but it has a mostly negative user review score right now. I looked around and it seems the 4.0 update that came with the DLC caused massive performance issues!? That doesn't seem like Paradox's style.

The created a mess and say they'll do the next patch in August. There are a lot of xxxx hours players who are losing their minds.

 

[Zloth]

I noticed the article but didn't read it. I didn't realize it was mangling things so badly, or that 'slow rate' meant 'you will have to deal with it until August!' In the meantime, more folks are trying Distant Worlds 2 and getting confused by all the stuff people often get confused with. I bet other 4X games are seeing refugees showing up, too.