unchartedsectors

Hey there, honestly I'm not a Lemmy power user, I just posted in the .world because it was the one with the most people subscribed. I have no particular attachment to any specific instance.

I don't get much what reviving entails, just posting somewhere?

Yeah honestly I wondered if I should post because the place looked dead so I was afraid to look out of place, but in the end I just told myself that if nobody posts nobody will ever post, and I'd be interested in having discussions here, so here I am haha

Thanks for the links, I didn't knew them all :)

Edit: Oh and by the way, grand strategy games are games that follow the vein of Paradox Interactive games (https://www.paradoxinteractive.com/our-games/discover). Very managey games with a deep simulation where what matters is the big decisions on a strategic level, not tactical level. You manage empires, countries, dynasties...

Fair enough, I absolutely get the desire to focus on your favourite part of the mechanics. And Chess doesn't have micromanagement, I've never heard anyone saying it's for filthy casuals haha

I wouldn't say no to that either!

If I may ask, what do you think Generals or Tiberian Suns made right about economy,/resources management? What made those systems particularly engaging or fun?

Very good points, and yeah I loved early Stellaris too. It's a shame they changed the FTLs

Actually my systems allow to do such a thing seamlessly, and I guess I'd have done it in some way, but thanks for pointing it out, it puts light on a broader design space to explore.

MEIOU & Taxes may help you wait if you never tried it. It seems that EU5 takes a lot of ideas from it, so it's kinda EU4.5 haha

He never fails to make me laugh :)

Thank you for the link, I didn't know the inner workings of it :)

I'm using Ubuntu myself to develop actually so I'm kind of doing that all the time. The problem is, my machine isn't everyone's machine, my drivers aren't anyone's drivers, and so on.

In the end I think that I'll try to give Linux builds to testers to see if they report a lot of bugs or not and decide at that moment if it's too much work or not.

Haha problem is I have a kid to feed, and I fear that cutting myself from 90% of my potential player might be a bad play if I want to be able to continue feeding him

Yes my bad haha I had trouble to find another way to write that title which wasn't too long but would mention Steam

I was going to do it anyway, but your answers gave me even more confidence in how important it is! Thank you :)