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Have you considered adding LLM features for the negotiations? Could be cool.
you may be interested in https://www.paxhistoria.co/
No information on the website, but a login. Suspicious.
OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III
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Re: OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III
#162I love that the community is doing this, though I'm curious why Civ 3 in particular. My understanding was that "classic" (for lack of a better term) Civ fans tend to prefer either 2 or 4, and that 3 was considered to be not as good. But perhaps I was mistaken as to the community's opinions on the games.
that was my first thought, I was gonna show my husband this but he's a Civ 2 ride or die
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#163Civ III is still my go-to activity for long flights with no internet - I've yet to find a better way to instantly time-travel forward 12 hours. I haven't tried OpenCiv3, but I'm glad it exists - getting vanilla Civ III running on MacOS is a hassle and still has issues with e.g. audio and cutscenes. I also hope it leads to a way to improve worker automation. Managing your workers well is important, doing it manually i…
The total war games are like civilization but with actually good combat. Especially if you get mods like DEI for Rome 2, RTR for Rome 1 remastered, etc. It's regrettable that we let the grimdark warhammer crowd define the series. The paradox grand strategy games are like civilization but with real agency and at times straight up historical accuracy. Meanwhile I have to deal with Ghandi actually nuking everyone (the b…
I have found paradox games to have uneven game mechanics; some run miles wide, some of them run deep, and many others are just very superficial, and there is no reliable indication which will be which when you are playing fresh.
Re: OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III
#164Civ III is still my go-to activity for long flights with no internet - I've yet to find a better way to instantly time-travel forward 12 hours. I haven't tried OpenCiv3, but I'm glad it exists - getting vanilla Civ III running on MacOS is a hassle and still has issues with e.g. audio and cutscenes. I also hope it leads to a way to improve worker automation. Managing your workers well is important, doing it manually i…
> I've yet to find a better way to instantly time-travel forward 12 hours I find it very hard to use a computer in the cramped tables of the plane. And the person in front always ends up aggressively reclining only when I have a laptop out. Plus I feel bad that maybe my bright light is disturbing the people sleeping next to me.
It amazes me that high paid SV techies won’t pay more to fly in premium or business
Re: OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III
#165“Mac will try hard not to let you run this; it will tell you the app is damaged and can’t be opened and helpfully offer to trash it for you. From a terminal you can xattr -cr /path/to/OpenCiv3.app to enable running it.” How far OSX has come since the days of the “cancel or allow” parody advert.
"cancel or allow" (which Microsoft still does) makes no sense, it just trains user to click "allow" every time. Users don't know what they should allow or not.
It makes a bit more sense on accounts that have a password set, as it requires you to confirm identity when introducing significant changes to the system (and this is something that Apple also does).
Gatekeeper is a different thing, it basically makes sure that the software you're trying to run has been pre-scanned for malware by a trusted party, similar to Windows's "smart screen" and Defender or APt's GPG keyring integration. It's a mechanism that is completely invisible to 99+% of users. If you see a Gatekeeper pop-up and the app in question is not mlaware, the developer is doing something very wrong.
Re: OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III
#166Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I've yet to find a better way to instantly time-travel forward 12 hours I find it very hard to use a computer in the cramped tables of the plane. And the person in front always ends up aggressively reclining only when I have a laptop out. Plus I feel bad that maybe my bright light is disturbing the people sleeping next to me.
It amazes me that high paid SV techies won’t pay more to fly in premium or business
It’s incredibly expensive on international flights, right? A 12 hour flight sounds like something that would cost thousands for business class.
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I mean it has, but the situation is getting ridiculous, I'm at the point where I'm honestly not sure what special set of magical incantations and rituals I need to do to get this process to work, it seems to change between different bits of software and get more complex with time as if Apple keeps finding proverbial bigger fools who can get through this mess without intending to and so they're solution is to keep mak…
You shouldn't need the company's permission to run whatever you want on your machine.
And you don't. THIs is not iOS, gatekeeper can be bypassed if you know how.
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It's not an issue of permission, it's an issue of trying to make a computer that's safe for grandma to use. Criminals can and will convince grandma to navigate a byzantine labyrinth of prompts and technical measures in order to drain her bank account. That's the threat model we're dealing with here.
I think a time-lock feature to enable “I know what I’m doing mode” for a year, after a 48h delay would be ok. Or something like that
I like Chrome OS's approach where you essentially choose your security level at initial setup, and need to wipe your machine if you wish to change it.
Re: OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III
#169This feels like the perfect game to add (screen reader) accessibility to.
Sadly, I don't think it can be done by us screen reader users, as the Godot editor UI is not really accessible (though they're apparently changing that in the latest version).
Re: OpenCiv3: Open-source, cross-platform reimagining of Civilization III
#170I encourage people to try Unciv. It is the best open-source Civ clone for desktop/mobile.