Now that’s a good set of patch notes!

Is that not a game designer thing?

I mean, my understanding is that they fired half of their story continuity team, resulting in a published (physical) lore book that makes no sense.

So now I don’t think they are even trying

Druids currently have 7 trees. (And a treeent form)

1 class tree, 4 spec trees and 2 (or is it 3 for druids?) hero trees. Only 3 can be used at any one time though (to be clear as you don’t currently play)

The more possible combinations, the harder it can be to balance though

They can’t write good stories any more, don’t expect good main story, just good side quests.

It still feels like this expansion was too early (as usual) and many classes could have done with more time in the oven (druids and rogues)

On the talents - they realised that they can’t just keep giving us stuff, so they have switched to having some kind of ‘borrowed power’ that gets taken away after the expansion - I think the hero talents are another example of this? Some are shit though and I imagine it’s going to be balance hell (rip boomkins too lol), as they never seem to learn with this stuff.

It’s the endgame group content that actually sells wow for many people (me), so as long as that works and it’s ok balance wise (or alts can be leveled easily) then it’s probably ok for quite a few people though.

Disclaimer: have not got early access, have bought the expansion, but left it really late to decide.

There was something said (maybe by a youtuber?) about upgrades merging with your town centre or something on a new era (because so much is specific to a single era). Almost like playing 3 games on the same map.

It also implies that tech disparities will be reset twice a game…not sure if that is good or bad.

Also a possibility of a humankind style neolithic era?

But yes, expecting some required DLC unfortunately.

But civ is a patient gamer staple - just wait for 8 to come out and 7’s dlcs will be cheap! 🤣

Interested how the map expansion will work in multiplayer.

Concerned about the era resets.

I like what they appear to have taken from humankind (eras, leader swaps, outposts/yowns, map elevation?) and old world (tile improvements culture bomb)

Also concerned about how the maps seemed to just be cities, no gradual domestication of the world with farms, mines etc.

I would bet that there will be a new space age era added on as a DLC

The ages concern me most though - what progress carries across? Are you going to be going full land grab because your infrastructure resets etc?

2 things to note:

When offline, switch into steam offline mode to launch games, gets round some of the hanging on launch issues

Try connecting to WiFi from the steam decks desktop mode? Probably a router issue though.

I bought Reus 2 (A puzzle god game) at launch last month - game changer!

Finally a game that I enjoy playing on the deck and actually want to play after work on my commute etc. highly recommend it.

Direct link to patch notes; https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/threads/patch-notes-1-1-5f1.1687527/

Or this one if the above doesn’t work? https://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/forums/cities-skylines-2.1147/

they just send a OTP to your email with the idea that you should be keeping your email secure (and that email providers are more secure than they can be)

The whole site seems like a PoC - the accounts don’t even have passwords! (I could actually kinda get on board with this)

I just hope (foolishly) that with the current hype that it’s AI will be a focus. I hate that because it cheats things that would work on me don’t work on the AI etc.

It would be really cool if they made an API for the game so people could build their own AI

It’s refering to a defunct games company: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Bullfrog_Productions_games

Do you have integration with other health and fitness apps to retrieve non phone step counts?

I have a Garmin watch that does all my health tracking etc.

It really depends on the company. You can make fully remote work, you can make 20-40% work or you can do 80-100% work. However the company needs to be run with that in mind to ensure good communication/team building etc.

You also can’t just change the rules. If you change the split someone is going to be unhappy.

(And accept that your possible talent pool is reduced when you don’t offer remote work)

Those quotes aren’t in the parent comment?

Could be supervillain problems 🤣 comments about wishing someone would go away and an underling resolves it’s in a more permanent way …

Probably not, it’s just that his entire exec team are spineless henchman.

I think the spacex team is still independent (ish) for now, I fear for them though!