Strategy Games
Civilization 7 leaks on 2K's own website ahead of the Summer Game Fest showcase
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Can't believe it's been 8 years since Civ6 came out! I still remember people being mad about Civ5 changing stuff from Civ4.
I suppose we're overdue, though. There were only six years between 5 and 6, five between 4 and 5, and four between 3 and 4.
Modded Minecraft
Is there anyway i can transfer a world save from fabric to forge?
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Cool! I think whether or not this works will vary from case to case, but I'm glad you got it working.
birding
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Very handsy boy
Modded Minecraft
Am I going insane? Wasn't Create originally a Fabric mod?
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New Mandela effect just dropped.
No, I always remember it being a forge mod, since the 1.15 days at least. Not sure what to tell you. Maybe they discussed Fabric but went with Forge in the early stages? Maybe you're thinking of being frustrated with it not being a Fabric mod and having to install Forge? Maybe you're thinking of another mod entirely?
Modded Minecraft
February 2024: What Packs Are You Playing?
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Hadn't heard of it before, but looks neat! RPG-style packs are cool but sometimes get ignored in the sea of tech and magic packs.
Modded Minecraft
February 2024: What Packs Are You Playing?
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RLCraft is definitely a modpack, ha. Don't be afraid to change packs if you end up getting frustrated, since I've heard that unfair deaths are pretty common. You could also do stuff like turn KeepInventory on.
Haven't done one of these in awhile. What are you guys up to now?
Haven't done one of these in awhile. What's up, peeps?
On time as always, our monthly community post!
Modded Minecraft
I made a Cute Tram in Create!
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Beautiful! Great to see trains in minecraft. I know it's been done before, but Create does it while keeping in the spirit of the game by having you build it however you want in game.
Spill it, boys. I know you can't stay away.
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PopTop. Railroad Tycoon 2&3 and Tropico 1&2. They got bought by 2K, which eventually killed the studio. The Railroad Tycoon series is dead. Tropico is still around, but I'm not excited about the latest interation. Some of the guys tried to kickstart a new Railroad Tycoon but it didn't fund. Phil Steinmeyer was an underrated developer, though I believe he's retired today.
It's too bad it worked out that way. I think they could have been on the level with Paradox as far as strategy games are concerned, but focusing more on economic games, city builders, and the like. On Steinmeyer's blog he said he didn't think there was demand for heavier games anymore about mid 00s. That might have been true then, but so many games out now prove that wrong.
Dwarf Fortress
What, it's just a little... OH MY GOODNESS
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I waited for most of them to leave first. I do have a good crossbow tower setup, but the problem is that crossbows aren't effective against undead.
 It was quite the battle.
 And it just gets worse. I tried to wait them out, but even when they left a few stayed behind, lurking in the treetops:  I knocked over one tree with a ballista, and those creatures left voluntarily. I took about thirty casualties clearing out the second tree. A year later, the horde returns, and right now I'm ignoring them because there's lots of work inside the fortress that needs done, and I've got a decent tree farm up and going. I'm thinking it's time for Operation FTW, but I'll have to wait until they leave to set up it for the inevitable third return.
Modded Minecraft
Create: Above and Beyond? More like Create: Blood and Bones!
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Mini zombies tend to spawn in groups, I find. Probably not many other valid spawn locations if you're getting a bunch of spawns
Modded Minecraft
The road to Create Aeronautics
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10 months ago
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Looks cool, best of luck.
Modded Minecraft
when you spend an hour trying to get something to work and all you needed was one block
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10 months ago
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It's like that meme where it's the guy saying he just needs that one piece, and the piece is labeled "a billion dollars"
Writing
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To be honest, I just stick to plain ol' LibreOffice. I use folders to organize notes, which isn't perfect but works for me.
boardgames
To experienced players: are BGG categories good?
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Yeah, mechanism is a lot more objective way to classify board games. We can argue all day about, say, what exactly a wargame is, but what games have hex grids, area control, and resource managements is a lot easier to agree on.
Board Games
KS Review of: Obsession: Characters Expansion (with Metal Coins)
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I haven't played the expansions, but I thought the base decent. It was more interesting than your average Euro, but it didn't blow me away either. I'd say buy it if your into the theme.
Gaming
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Must be a day of the week that ends in y.
Not sure why it wasn't before, to be honest, but at some point that setting got changed.
Tip: If you have visitors wandering around your base, you can go under the knowledge task to see what all books they've read in their lifetime and what kind of books they are. That way, you can search for somewhat unusual types like novels, chronicles, cultural histories, biographies, autobiographies, dictionaries, dialogues, and etc. I really wish this functionality was on the written objects screen. Right now you just have to go off of the title. This work, unfortunately, wasn't written in my fortress and we don't have a copy of it, either. That said, I do have a pair of autobiographies and some cultural histories. What I would like to do is figure out a way to reliably make dwarves produce biographies. Unfortunately, I haven't figured out how. The only requirement that I know of for a dwarf to produce a biography is knowledge of the biography topic, which can be obtained either from them reading a book on the subject (easy) to discovering it themselves (very, very hard and random). After that, I don't know if they have to be assigned to a library or not to actually produce the biography. That sounds simple, but the thing is that dwarves are practically-minded. They seem to prefer to write manuals and guides about topics they know than novels, biographies, and etc. What if you had a dwarf that knew only of biographies and of no other topics, though? They might write one guide on the subject of writing biographies, but will they stop writing guides after that and start writing biographies? The problem is, once you have a big library, dwarves tend to swarm it and learn about all the topics. It's hard to pick and dwarf that's "unpolluted," so to speak, and I suspect that if they've avoided the library that much, they'll be poor biographers anyway. One idea I've had is the Dwarven Monastery. We take kids that just turned 18, which haven't had a chance to read books yet, and slap them in a private, sealed off room with writing materials, food, and drink. Toss in a bookshelf and make a tiny library only they can access. Assign them as a scholar, and throw down a book on biographies as inspiration. Then, see what happens. Note that what kind of books your dwarves write has literally no gameplay impact. This is just for Armok and maybe internet points. Damn it, I want my dwarves to have quality literature!
Paradox Games
Question for the people who play Victoria 3.
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I haven't made the 2 to 3 jump yet. I'm waiting for the war patch, which is coming decently quickly.
Writing
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I'd say it depends on the length of the dialogue. If we're talking about 2-3 lines, then yeah, it should only be done on switching. If we're talking about a speech that lasts several pages, I would think that it should be clear from context clues who is speaking.
Anyway, don't get hung up on rules! Write how you want! Have a style!
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I feel like I've seen paragraphs end with quotation marks and then pick back up with more quotation marks on the next paragraph in serious literature, so I'd say write how you want. That said, it is good to break up walls of dialogue every now and then to set the scene with small details like that.
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Yeah, modded Minecraft is still a big deal. You can join us over at !moddedminecraft@sopuli.xyz if you want. The mod Create is a big deal right now, and rightfully so. It may well be the greatest of all time, as far as Minecraft mods go.
Gaming
List of specific video game communities on the Threadiverse, feel free to comment with more
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!strategygames@sopuli.xyz
Edit: didn't mean to make this a comment reply instead of post reply, but it still counts
Modded Minecraft
September 2023: What Packs are You Playing?
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I tried TNFC back in the 1.7.10 era, but never got past a bronze anvil. TFC is fun but can be so tedious to progress in sometimes.
Modded Minecraft
September 2023: What Packs are You Playing?
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I didn't realize TFC was out yet for modern versions. I'll have to check it out,
Modded Minecraft
September 2023: What Packs are You Playing?
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Cool! I saw a vid on Better than Adventure but never got around to checking it out.
Looks interesting. It has more of a fantasy-focus than its inspiration. Right now it's on sale on Steam, so it could be worth checking out.
On time as always, it's time to ask: What Have You Been Playing?
On time as always, our monthly "What Are You Playing?" post! Whatcha all doing, fellow blockheads?
Modded Minecraft
Rotary Skies has been released!
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That's the version Rotarycraft is on.
Modded Minecraft
Rotary Skies has been released!
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It has fastcraft. It's a pretty light pack, performance wise, so hopefully should be good on a steam deck, though I haven't tested it on one.
[Curseforge](https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/modpacks/rotary-skies) [Atlauncher](https://atlauncher.com/pack/RotarySkies) [Discord](https://discord.gg/xrM3W52) From the creator of Brass and a couple other reasonably successful modpacks comes an entirely new experience: Rotary Skies! You wake up and look at your floating rock of dirt. It seems so familiar, somehow, but then a massive meteor screams through the sky overhead. Welcome to Rotary Skies! Rotary Skies is the authorized Rotarycraft-centered Skyblock modpack. The start seems similar enough, but as soon as you get steel, a whole world of engines, gearboxes, grinders, pumps, and centrifuges opens up! Work through over eighty quests as you go from cobblestone generators to fusion reactors! The quests guide you but don’t hold your hand. They’ll tell you what you need to do next, but not exactly how. In Rotary Skies, the “how” is the fun part! There is no sieving in this modpack! What are you, some kind of caveman? No, until our liquefaction machines and centrifuges are up and running, we hunt for ores in the nether, like men (or other strong, mighty genders)! We also keep bees, and by “keep bees” I mean selectively-breed and genetically-modify bees in our quest for the uberbiene: the ultimate bee! We’ve also got trains and stuff, so that’s cool. Eventually the day will come where we will obtain the elusive and mysterious Crystal, allowing us to escape from our Sky Island and into pocket dimensions of our own creation, full of resources and incredible creatures.
Keep Writing
What do you guys use to write in?
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You don't need anything fancy, Imo. I just use LibreOffice
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Still birds
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There's a pair of Beatles albums in this list. I don't mind "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" or "Revolution 9," but "Tomorrow Never Knows" on Revolver counts for me. Frankly, it's the worst Beatles song. I prefer the Daniel Johnston and Jad Fair cover of it on It's Spooky to the Beatles version. It's just that bad.
MEOW_IRL
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I love the mix of shocked and disappointed reactions.
Minecraft
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Yeah, it's hard to get people to care about stuff sometimes. Sometimes you just have to let it die.
boardgames
US-Sino tensions help spawn China card game craze
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Tichu is the bomb, literally.
Modded Minecraft
Patbox's Brewery
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Neat! I've just looked over his Curseforge page and he's got a lot of interesting projects under his belt for Fabric servers. I'll have to keep an eye out for the tech mod. Does he have a discord?
This mod caught my eye. It's similar to a plugin that was on a server I used to play on. Nice to see it as a proper mod instead of a plugin. It's pretty configurable and could be a good addition to the right modpack.
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Mostly just Minecraft out of the box. I feel that resource packs and certain performance mods like optifine could be accurately referred to as "vanilla with optifine" or "vanilla with such-and-such pack." Once you get into datapacks or Forge or Fabric or hacked clients, it's not vanilla.
Serverside, it's a little more dodgy. How many server plugins can you have before it's not vanilla?
That said, I don't think there's much reason to play Java Edition over Bedrock other than mods or wanting to play on older, pre-bedrock versions. Then again, I almost solely play modded anymore so I don't have a lot of vanilla Bedrock under my belt to compare the two.
Map Enthusiasts
1916 propaganda map created by the Allies during World War 1. This map showed what they believe would've happened to the United States if the Central Powers had won.
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Gotta love the projection. "They'll do to us what we did to the Indians!"
boardgames
DoamCon 2023: An AAR
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The trigger happy mergers probably helped me more than they hurt. At one point I dumped a spice company in the chaos and took the cash lead, letting me get a bargain on a rubber merger. It put me back into the game, but it wasn't enough to take the win.
I have played Bus at three. It's been awhile, so I can't say too much about it. That said, I do remember having fun at that count.
As far as expropriation, I felt confusion more than anything. It got better as the game went on, but it does take a moment to wrap your head around it. Still, I though it was an interesting mechanic.
boardgames
DoamCon 2023: An AAR
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New plays were:
- Mahjong
- John Company
- Sol
- Nana
- Kreigbot
- Kremlin
- Lifeboats
- Category 5
- Fresh Fish
- Santiago
boardgames
Who is your most trusted designer?
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Nah, I probably won't make it to Pax Unplugged. I will be at Age of Steam Con, so I might get a play in there.
boardgames
Who is your most trusted designer?
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Horseless Carriage is great. SoPac is one I still need to try. There was a copy at DoamCon last weekend, but I didn't get a game in. I did get West Riding Revisited in, which is excellent. It's one of the few cube rails to have minor and major railways. I'd like to see it licensed, but it's a little unlikely
boardgames
Who is your most trusted designer?
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My list looks similar. Splotter is at the top. I did preorder Horseless Carriage back before we had much info about it and don't regret it. John Bohrer would be up there as well, but though various connections I've played enough Winsomes to know they aren't an instant buy. (Iberian Railways, Italian Railroads, and 1836)
Tangent, but I'm very split on 1836. The opening is incredible, but once you get past the first stock round all the interesting decisions have been made.
It's an authorized port, and it looks like most of the cart stuff has made it over. [Modrinth](https://modrinth.com/mod/railcraft-reborn) [Curseforge](https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/railcraft-reborn)
blog.modrinth.com
From Civ to Centauri and the Aztec to the Second American Civil War, everyone is asking: What have you been playing lately?
New month, new post! Spill it, peeps. What have you been up to?
Hello everybody! When I initially created this community, there wasn't a place to discuss board games on Lemmy yet. I set up this server on sopuli.xyz because many people were gravitating towards lemmy.ml and I wanted to help counteract that somewhat, even in a minor way. That said, activity here has been next to non-existent. The community over at [boardgames@feddit.de](https://feddit.de/c/boardgames) has surpassed this one in every way. Personally, I'm fine with this, so I have decided to **close this community and recommend people join that community instead.** At the time being, there isn't a compelling reason for this community to exist as an alternative. Should this change, I will reopen the community. That said, if anyone else wishes to take over this community, I would be happy to hand it over to them. Until then, goodbye!
github.com
I've been waiting for a reprint of South African Rails for awhile now. I played it awhile back at a con and had a great time, so it's nice to see it get a wider release alongside some maps.
youtu.be
Recently I listened to the Specials self-titled 1979 album and really enjoyed it. I've been wanting to try out some Ska music for awhile now because it's a genre I don't know a whole lot about. What recommendations do you guys have as far as Ska music?
More pics  Early game. Covers some of the old-school skyblock stuff.  Forestry, Railcraft, and other miscellaneous machines like the printing press  Later Rotarycraft machines as well as a touch of Reactorcraft, Minechem, and Mystcraft
Meet the new forge, same as the old forge. Forge has been forked, with the majority of forge's developers moving over to the fork, NeoForge. They hope to implement some major improvements come 1.21 and maintain compatibility with Forge mods on 1.20.
I've been working on a new modpack, which I've been teasing some here and there. It's a Rotarycraft-centered Skyblock without a certain famous skyblock mod, giving it a unique feel. I've finally gotten to the point of having a test build, and here's some screenshots of my starter base. You can see updates on progress on my discord: https://discord.gg/ZsBzr4m
Monthly check in post! The last one was poorly worded. I just want to know what people have been playing on general, as far as strategy games.
Monthly check in! What have you all gotten to the table recently?
Monthly check in post: What's up everybody? Share the latest blocky hotness here!
Working on my skyblock modpack, Rotary Skies. I like how The End is turning out. It has a beautiful, ominous, liminal look.
Thinking about making a skyblock modpack centered on rotarycraft. I've done some checking and haven't really found anything quite like what I'm envisioning. I'd like to use Meteorcraft, another one of Reika's mods, as your main source of ore so as to break out of the rut Skyblock packs tend to run into. Thoughts?
youtube.com
A lost classic, as far as I'm concerned. A sweet, stripped back, and intensely melancholy album. "But we were just fourteen..."
Got a play of Pax Porfiriana in yesterday. Excellent game, very close play. It came down to money after a military coup was narrowly averted. I probably could have won on money had I abandoned the coup attempt and sold off my assassin cards instead, but dang it, I don't want to be the richest player, I want to be the military dictator of Mexico! It's reminiscent of Pax Pamir, which is in the same system. I'd have to get another Pamir play in to compare, but I think I prefer Porfiriana.
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I've got some big plans for this fort. I've got a few megaprojects in mind and I'm going to try and finally make Mountain Home. I'll be sure to post more about it once it's finished.
Every strategy gamer either has a campaign they've just finished up or another they've embarked on. Let's share!
All over the world, board game groups meet and play board games of all kinds, so let's talk about it!
Brand new community, so let's ask everyone. What modpacks have you guys been playing? Chat and discuss!