Happy New Year! General Game Discussion--January 2026

[Zloth]

@Zloth Good luck with Terra Invicta. Supposedly there's a tutorial, but all I got was a world map and a bunch of mysterious buttons. I'm doing things, but whether they are good things or not I couldn't say. And I had a missions toolbar when I started, but that's disappeared, and I have no idea how to get it back.

There are two tutorials, one for the game proper and another for the interface. The interface one pops up every time something new shows up - UNLESS you click the little x in the upper right to close it instead of the 'next' button. It takes that to mean 'close the tutorial and don't bother me again unless I ask.' The other just guides you through missions as near as I can tell.

The mission window shows up when you have a councilor selected and a nation or interest point or some such. You can only assign those missions once per week, too, so a mission that ends early just results in the person taking a little vacation until the mission assignment phase comes back.

There's a LOT in those tutorials. I made popcorn and ate it while reading! Space is impressive, too, including Lagrange points for orbits and many many asteroids/dwarf planets. I had forgotten about Orcus until the game reminded me!

 

[Zloth]

Am currently in the process of begging Valve to stop allowing people to give awards for reviews and forum comments.

DONE! Sort of. They just changed awards completely. ALL the old awards have been wiped. They made 12 new ones. All awards cost 500 and bestow ZERO points to the account that gets them.

The jester is gone. The reason for jester farming is gone.

And all Steam guides now have no awards at all. Arg. It's always something...