Native support for Polls would be amazing!

That’s what I’m talking 'bout.

Every person can vote for 2 titles. Civ VII is not even the second favorite for any of the voter. :D

@yxc999@lemmy.ml (Also tagging you here)

I checked the settings again and it was not allowing VPN users, wtf. I know for a fact that I set it to allow before submitting the Poll creation! So now, I set it back to allow, please check if it works.

Haha (not laughing at you, just funny the way you said it). Back when there was only 1 and 2, I thought I play 2 until the rest of my life too. :D I’m currently exploring the rest of the franchise.

Thanks for explaining this. Makes sense that ingame mods are limited.

(Cynically I think it’s a publisher decision to lock modding behind compiled binaries so that DLC can be sold, but technically I may wrong on that.)

I don’t think you are wrong. I think lot of devs or publishers want to block mods, so their DLCs are more worth and can sell them better.

Yes, this is not a real solution to me. Also the games will be auto updated, so the auto update of the client is still in the way. And this gets even worse for simple plug and play sessions as in Steam Deck handheld in example. I could not recommend this to non technical users. They would even have trouble finding the correct ID for the exact depot to download. This is way more complicated than it should be, and I say that as someone who likes to use the terminal.

I don’t know that. I thought that was for developers only. Edit: Found this relevant tool: https://github.com/SteamRE/DepotDownloader Note, I never tried this tool and have no experience. Ah yes, and the official documentation from Valve: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/application/depots

Some games have alternative versions, not necessarily old ones. In Steam game properties > Game Versions & Betas some games offer Beta versions, others a Nighly (meaning newest possible) versions, and some have older fixed versions. Most games don’t have it, and even if, you can’t just use any version you want.

Professionals have standards.

Yes, that was one of the most terrible decisions of Steam to do forced updates. In old days it wasn’t forced, but someday they changed it to. I can understand this for online games, because they need to stay in sync. But for offline games, it shouldn’t be. Wish they differentiated that, its a really terrible thing. Probably the worst thing of Steam in my opinion.

Ah, I see. I have this issue sometimes when I use VPN to access YouTube with third party apps. I saw there was a separate option to allow one vote per IP. I could change that to vote per browser session, but don’t know if this works well or has other quirks too. I’m sorry for this.

I don’t know why that is. There is an option to allow VPN users. I made sure VPN user is allowed.

Do you know any site for polls, that work well?

I mainly play on PC nowadays (well emulation is a thing, but for Civ I don’t need emus). Currently trying out Civ4 and Civ3 is on my todo list. Hmm if 3 is like a polished version of its predecessors, then I think that’s it, I will never touch 1 or 2 again probably.

I just saw the main menu of Civ4 has a Mod entry. Is this a thing with all Civ games (never checked this before, currently don’t want to download all games to check). I’m not modding Steam games usually, so not really familiar how this works. Is the ingame Mod menu compatible with Steam Workshop? Or is this its own thing maybe, to be compatible outside of Steam. I never put any emphasis on mods for Civ games, because they already offer so much, plus the DLCs. I usually think of mods either to fix an issue or to expand content, and none of this was ever an issue for me for Civ games (I’m probably more of a casual Civ player).

I’m also into Sci-Fi and Beyond Earth always interested me. Have to read more about Alpha Centauri and see which of them will try, when I get to.

For the non mainline games, I’m interested into Beyond Earth. I completely forgot Test of Time being a Remake of the original second game.

Well you can vote for 2 games if you want. Do you avoid buying on Steam entirely? Unfortunately 1 and 2 are not available on Steam, but there are other ways to play them anyway.

Hmm. You only need to vote once, so one vote per IP should be not a problem. I don’t understand what the problem is. Last time I did a Poll, I excluded by accident the VPN users and nobody mentioned an issue by IP. Don’t tell me I fucked it up again. :D