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PeterBB

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Registered: 2014-11-06

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A Civilization style game; C-evo: Distant Horizon

C-evo was originally developed for Windows.
  www.c-evo.org
  https://civilization.fandom.com/wiki/C-evo
  https://civilization.fandom.com/wiki/Category:C-evo

More recently its been ported to Linux.
  https://app.zdechov.net/c-evo

I've worked on packaging side, and set up two builds in the AUR.
  https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/c-evo-nh
  https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/c-evo-nh-bin

     {EDIT: moved to https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/c-evo-dh}

The first builds from source, but needs fpc and lazarus as build dependencies.
These can be avoided using the 2nd, that just repackages a prebuilt binary.
( A trick I found from lazpaint https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/lazpaint-bin )

IMHO C-evo is a worthy alternative to Freeciv.

P.S.
Also packaged the external map generator.
  https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/c-evo-map_gen

Last edited by PeterBB (2022-12-08 23:16:47)

PeterBB

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Re: A Civilization style game; C-evo: Distant Horizon

Newer version available now
https://build.opensuse.org/package/show … rBBB/c-evo

This one has the tiny buttons made larger, and supports larger random maps.

Cheers,
Peter

PeterBB

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Re: A Civilization style game; C-evo: Distant Horizon

New Upstream version
http://www.c-evo.org/bb/viewtopic.php?f … t=10#p1768

Note, game data is now saved in ~/.config/C-evo/ instead of ~/.config/c-evo/
I suggest renaming ~/.config/c-evo to ~/.config/C-evo before upgrading.

Cheers,
Peter

PeterBB

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Re: A Civilization style game; C-evo: Distant Horizon

I have now created my own fork of C-evo, branded C-evo Distant Horizon.
The web site (currently a work in progess) is here  https://sourceforge.net/projects/c-evo-eh/

The AUR location is now at  https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/c-evo-dh

The build dependencies (Lazarus) are quite substantial, so  I have uploaded a built binary of C-evo here
https://sourceforge.net/projects/c-evo- … /Download/

I would be very interested to have some feedback from anyone who has tried C-evo.
This thread is showing over 1000 views, but no-one else has commented on it yet!

The in game manual is available in Czech, Chinese, French, German, Italian & Russian as well as English.
The French is mainly an automatic translation, so I'm also interested in opinions on it from any French speakers.

PB

Last edited by PeterBB (2022-12-05 11:24:17)

Lone_Wolf

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Re: A Civilization style game; C-evo: Distant Horizon

I used to be an avid player of CIV 1 , CIV II and SMAC but haven't played them or any later version since I switched to linux almost 2 decades age.
(still have a soft spot for them though)

fpc & lazarus 2.2.4 are available in community repo, there should be no need to provide them yourself.

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PeterBB

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Re: A Civilization style game; C-evo: Distant Horizon

fpc & lazarus 2.2.4 are available in community repo, there should be no need to provide them yourself.

I think some confusion here. I'm not providing fpc & lazarus, but c-evo-dh. I've edited the above post to make that clearer.

I used to be an avid player of CIV 1 , CIV II and SMAC but haven't played them or any later version since I switched to linux almost 2 decades age.
(still have a soft spot for them though)

I especially liked SMAC, but we have Freeciv and now C-evo natively on Linux.

The latest version of c-evo-dh also has the in-game manual in Spanish and Portuguese.
Along with the French, these are based on automated translations,
so feedback from speakers of those languages would be much appreciated.

Cheers,
Peter
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/c-evo-dh

P.S.
There is also an external map generator
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/c-evo-map_gen

lightstream

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Registered: 2011-10-30

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Re: A Civilization style game; C-evo: Distant Horizon

Have you posted it elsewhere? There might be some people interested on the linux_gaming subreddit for instance.

PeterBB

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Re: A Civilization style game; C-evo: Distant Horizon

Have you posted it elsewhere? There might be some people interested on the linux_gaming subreddit for instance.

Interesting suggestion, thanks. C-evo has been mentioned there before
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux_gaming/c … zation_ii/

but the thread rather went off at a tangent on the merits (or otherwise) of snaps.
I'm avoiding snaps, and focusing on distribution specifics such as the AUR.

Cheers,
Peter

P.S.  Recently fixed a few issues with the translations. Recommend anyone using the non-english versions upgrades.

PeterBB

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Re: A Civilization style game; C-evo: Distant Horizon

I've released an external GUI Map Generator tool for C-evo
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cevomapgen

Generates more varied maps than the built in generator.

There's a built binary on my website for those who don't want to
install the build dependencies fpc & lazarus.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/cevoma … /Download/

Cheers,
Peter