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.

 

[Zloth]

First Endless Space 2 got a big boost long after updates stopped from modders, now it looks like Phoenix Point just got a similar boost:

Phoenix Point - Phoenix Point - The Firebird Update - Steam News

5 Years on Steam - A Big Thank You and a Big Free Update

store.steampowered.com

 

[Zloth]

Terra Invicta fully released today:

Save 35% on Terra Invicta on Steam

An alien invasion has fractured humanity into seven ideological factions each with a unique vision for the future. Lead your chosen faction to take control of Earth’s nations, expand across the Solar System, and battle enemy fleets in tactical combat.

store.steampowered.com

This is a strategy game created by the folks that gave us the Long War mod to XCOM, which made the game bigger, longer, and considerably more brutal. This game is... ambitious. Instead of playing a nation, you play a faction, which is looking for one particular solution to alien invasion. One faction wants to kill them all and any that side with them, one worships them, one wants a negotiated peace, one just wants to get rich, and so on. Each faction tries to gain control of various nations. Through those nations, they fight (protect?) aliens. Sounds a bit XCOM'ish.

Except, it keeps going. You'll be designing spaceships/stations and mining other worlds, too. Much of this battle is going to take place in outer space!

 

[Pifanjr]

Terra Invicta fully released today:

Save 35% on Terra Invicta on Steam

An alien invasion has fractured humanity into seven ideological factions each with a unique vision for the future. Lead your chosen faction to take control of Earth’s nations, expand across the Solar System, and battle enemy fleets in tactical combat.

store.steampowered.com

This is a strategy game created by the folks that gave us the Long War mod to XCOM, which made the game bigger, longer, and considerably more brutal. This game is... ambitious. Instead of playing a nation, you play a faction, which is looking for one particular solution to alien invasion. One faction wants to kill them all and any that side with them, one worships them, one wants a negotiated peace, one just wants to get rich, and so on. Each faction tries to gain control of various nations. Through those nations, they fight (protect?) aliens. Sounds a bit XCOM'ish.

Except, it keeps going. You'll be designing spaceships/stations and mining other worlds, too. Much of this battle is going to take place in outer space!

One of my friends already has more than 400 hours in the game. His review at 136 hours is just "I'm still on my first playthrough."