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I will be taking the plunge on scourge of war waterloo next week. Wish me luck.
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Saros posted:Anyone? I could try a C:tGW but I'm pretty poo poo at it.
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Got a preferred side/year? If so just make the game and post/pm me the name/password. Oh and make sure you have updated to the 1.6.4 patch it fixes a pretty major issue with entrenching. link
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jBrereton posted:Emperor of the Fading Suns is/was sort of this, back in the nineties. EOFS is what actually prompted the space/ground discussion in the first place. I love EOFS and would love a modernized remake or spiritual successor. It's one of the projects I'm mooting for after I finish my Aurora LP. (The other project is turning all the tools I wrote to facilitate my Aurora LP into an Aurora-like).
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Jun 1, 2015 17:33
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bgreman posted:after I finish my Aurora LP. See you in about three decades then! I saw people complaining about the SA paywall on Reddit because it blocks off your LP atm 
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Jun 1, 2015 17:38
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Koesj posted:See you in about three decades then! Meh it's no dangan rompa.
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Panzeh posted:I will be taking the plunge on scourge of war waterloo next week. Wish me luck. Good luck you stupid bastard. Good luck and Godspeed.
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Jun 1, 2015 18:16
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bgreman posted:(The other project is turning all the tools I wrote to facilitate my Aurora LP into an Aurora-like). Mind going into a little detail?
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When I first started the LP, I was taking screenshots of all the important screens and presenting those to the thread so they could keep tabs on the UN's status. Taking those screenshots got to be most of the time I'd spend writing, so I decided to work on something to extract the data directly from the database. I have a .NET application that reads from the Aurora "savefile" (really just a password-protected MS Access database) and spits out the relevant information to JSON. I had a friend write up some quick php pages to display the JSON, which means I've essentially replicated (albeit in read-only format) many portions of the Aurora UI (you can see it here). The .NET application also contains the beginnings of an object model for the important Aurora data entities. Other than Steve and some of the oldest of the old pentarch forumites, I'm probably the foremost expert on the Aurora 5.62 database schema, and have enough code in place that I could probably bang out a direct C# port of the game within a few months if I worked on it regularly. There's some other stuff in the solution as well: a utilities assembly containing a bunch of classes for handling things like Aurora Time and database enums, an aborted armor penetration simulator, a ground combat simulator, an intercept calculator, and about ten minutes worth of work on a WinForms UI for the game. bgreman fucked around with this message at 19:09 on Jun 1, 2015 |
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Jun 1, 2015 19:06
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bgreman posted:When I first started the LP, I was taking screenshots of all the important screens and presenting those to the thread so they could keep tabs on the UN's status. Taking those screenshots got to be most of the time I'd spend writing, so I decided to work on something to extract the data directly from the database. I just started reading your thread a couple of days ago, I'm on page 4. It looks good (I had never heard of Aurora before). Also, you should work with Baloogan and your respective tool sets to integrate CMANO for use in planetary combat in Aurora. 
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bgreman posted:When I first started the LP, I was taking screenshots of all the important screens and presenting those to the thread so they could keep tabs on the UN's status. Taking those screenshots got to be most of the time I'd spend writing, so I decided to work on something to extract the data directly from the database. Wow, really quite impressive!
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Decisive Campaigns update: I've come to the decision that the more reports there are at the start of the turn, the worse things went for you.
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What would the best/any way be of creating a target practice barge in Aurora? I need to try out my rocket designs without waiting for another race to come and curbstomp my survey ships.
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Mokotow posted:What would the best/any way be of creating a target practice barge in Aurora? I need to try out my rocket designs without waiting for another race to come and curbstomp my survey ships. Design the ship, create another faction, SM the ship into existence, and then transfer it to the new race.
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For you Android people, my buddy just released a wargame called "Wartime Cronies". From just checking it out a bit, it looks great. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.cad.ww.android
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And they said Venus was impossible to terraform in Aurora   Sure it's taken me 90 years and cost a massive amount of time and resources building / towing a network of terraforming space stations around the planet, but that's the price of progress goddamnit.
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Jun 4, 2015 14:42
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COOL CORN posted:For you Android people, my buddy just released a wargame called "Wartime Cronies". From just checking it out a bit, it looks great. This is fantastic.
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Is he planning an ios release?COOL CORN posted:For you Android people, my buddy just released a wargame called "Wartime Cronies". From just checking it out a bit, it looks great.
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Dirt Worshipper posted:Is he planning an ios release? Someone asked him on Facebook, to which the answer was no.
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Jun 4, 2015 18:10
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According to Reddit you can get a second locked country for free by selecting it and tapping the flag above the name five times. Haven't tried it yet till I figure out who to use it for...
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Jun 4, 2015 18:12
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:According to Reddit you can get a second locked country for free by selecting it and tapping the flag above the name five times. Works. This is a pretty neat game so far, but not having a friends list and being able to challenge people directly is a bit dumb. Edit: holy flying poo poo, a Slitherine Humble Bundle: https://www.humblebundle.com/weekly Drone fucked around with this message at 19:15 on Jun 4, 2015 |
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Jun 4, 2015 19:02
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https://www.humblebundle.com/weekly Slitherine Bundle! Close Combat! Qvadriga! Rise of Prussia! and more!
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What is the world coming to?!
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Riso posted:https://www.humblebundle.com/weekly This is unbelievable. I thought these companies didn't know how sales worked, let alone the humble freaking bundle. $10 for Close Combat is a steal, but with the other games I just feel bad.
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That's really cool. I guess they're finally realising there's a whole massive market of people like me that are happy to take a risk on a game if it's not ridiculously overpriced. I was stoked to finally get Distant Worlds the other day.
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Jun 4, 2015 19:22
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Grognard Games Megathread - stop making me want this I do not have :tenbux:
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Jun 4, 2015 19:26
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I kinda wonder how the diehard grogs on the Matrix forums are reacting to this, after all their grousing and sneering about how Matrix's high prices are BACKED BY DATA and anyone who wants lower prices are filthy communists.
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Jun 4, 2015 19:29
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Nice. Qvadriga is fun if anyone is wondering. It's like a really simple fast-playing adaptation of Circus Maximus.
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Riso posted:https://www.humblebundle.com/weekly I'm all over this. Thanks for mentioning it. I've been wanting to grab Rise of Prussia since I felt like I got the hang of AGEOD games a few weeks ago. (after having one for like a two years)
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Jun 4, 2015 20:00
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Wow, a bundle was pretty unexpected. How's the CC game? In other news, Matrix have some kind of convention in Italy 23rd-25th of June and they'll be talking about the price of their games and do modern games need counters(Which I wonder if it is related to HoI4 to not having them)? Darkrenown fucked around with this message at 22:38 on Jun 4, 2015 |
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Darkrenown posted:do modern games need counters(Which I wonder if it is related to HoI4 to not having them)? I'm not even really a grog gamer, but I really think NATO counters are a lot cleaner than what most studios use instead (Even you, Paradox).
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Darkrenown posted:Wow, a bundle was pretty unexpected. How's the CC game? It isn't the best Close Combat, but its still pretty good.
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Obstacle2 posted:I'm all over this. Thanks for mentioning it. I've been wanting to grab Rise of Prussia since I felt like I got the hang of AGEOD games a few weeks ago. (after having one for like a two years) Rise of Prussia is pretty solid as wargames go. It is also one of their simpler systems so it's definitely playable and a good gateway to AGEOD in general.
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corn in the bible posted:Rise of Prussia is pretty solid as wargames go. It is also one of their simpler systems so it's definitely playable and a good gateway to AGEOD in general. I'm going to give this a shot soon. I got Civil War II a while ago and have really struggled with it so maybe this will help.
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COOL CORN posted:For you Android people, my buddy just released a wargame called "Wartime Cronies". From just checking it out a bit, it looks great. Seems cool. I'm on there as BrosifBallin if anyone wants to try a game out.
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gently caress yeah, Close Combat and Rise of Prussia. Too bad Hell isnt the iPad version. I have some already so PM me for Battle Academy (super fun steel panthers for babies) or Frontline Moscow (panzer general but not).
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Anyone tried the new WeGo space game from Slitherine? I can't remember the name (something really dumb), but it looked like an interesting way to do space combat and is fairly reasonably priced - unfortunately I've been burned on buying grog games based on interesting surface appearances before, so I'm hesitant about getting it sight unseen. Edit: The name is Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy, which is so bad it makes me nervous about the actual game quality.
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Goetta posted:I'm going to give this a shot soon. I got Civil War II a while ago and have really struggled with it so maybe this will help. I can sympathize. My first AGEOD product was Pride of Nations, and I still have no idea how to play it. RoP is a lot more manageable, and I moved on from there to AJE and TEAW. PoN remains incomprehensible.
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Tomn posted:I kinda wonder how the diehard grogs on the Matrix forums are reacting to this, after all their grousing and sneering about how Matrix's high prices are BACKED BY DATA and anyone who wants lower prices are filthy communists. A dude on the Slitherine forums believes any game on steam isn't a game. I too enjoy actively rooting against a favorite hobby of mine.
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