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Challenge for CCP! If you create a SteamOS or Linux client, I will...
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Borealis Aquila
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#1 - 2014-02-26 06:11:48 UTC
...take an immediate one year subscription for atleast one account and take second account offer for 90 days!

Come on people!

What would you do if CCP would get into SteamOS or linux?
Borealis Aquila
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#2 - 2014-02-26 10:14:48 UTC
Linux players don't even want to have a native client Shocked
Elmore Jones
New Eden Mining Organisation
The Craftsmen
#3 - 2014-02-26 13:54:50 UTC
Ah the bi-monthly 'make a linux native' thread. Hullo :) Basically there was a cedega (commercial wine fork) version. It died a death some time ago. CCP already makes a decent effort to fix bugs under wine and the time required to redo the game as opengl/whatever for sound, redoing the system calls, installer and so forth is not gonna be financially worth their time. Nice idea but not gonna happen I think.

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Neuntausend
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#4 - 2014-02-26 16:18:51 UTC  |  Edited by: Neuntausend
I'd pay the normal rate for a Linux version and keep my accounts running as per normal. I might even be persuaded to grab a box version from the store, but that's about it. Don't make it so Developers and Publishers start to think they can milk Linux users more than others.
Borealis Aquila
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#5 - 2014-02-26 17:30:33 UTC
Well, atleast Valve knows how to cash my money. S!
Zwo Zateki
Doomheim
#6 - 2014-03-10 13:45:07 UTC
Grab a third and fourth account as native performance will be enough for them (hopefully)

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Sister Hyde
Kaleidoscopes for the Blind
#7 - 2014-04-11 19:23:44 UTC
Borealis Aquila wrote:
Linux players don't even want to have a native client Shocked


There first needs to be something wrong with EvE in wine. What would I want a native client for?

Granted, you have to tweak some settings and install some libraries. Playonlinux does that for you. And I don't get to see the captain's quarters. boohoo.

The other day a patch messed up graphic performance only for us Linux users. CCP fixed it in an update two days later. As long as they spread some penguin love when we need it, I'm fine with wine.
eXeler0n
Shark Coalition
#8 - 2014-04-11 21:51:30 UTC
Sister Hyde wrote:

Granted, you have to tweak some settings and install some libraries. Playonlinux does that for you. And I don't get to see the captain's quarters. boohoo.


There is no need to tweak something anymore. Just run the installer on a clean wine and then run the game. Only tweak is to deactivate CQ.


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Neuntausend
Republic Military School
Minmatar Republic
#9 - 2014-04-11 23:20:05 UTC
There's still a performance loss, compared to the Windows version and ervery now and then a patch comes along that breaks something. So it's not like a native version wouldn't be nice. I, as a Linux user would welcome a native version. I am not however willing to pay extra, extend my sybscription or perform a thank you dance. Well, maybe the dance - since a truely native Eve client will never happen, I can safely promise that one.
Webvan
All Kill No Skill
#10 - 2014-04-12 02:11:25 UTC
A full client? Probably not needed due to wine. However, would like to see a minimalistic client, one for log-in, skill que, market, and chat channels. Run under native linux and android(mobile linux).

I'm in it for the money

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Sister Hyde
Kaleidoscopes for the Blind
#11 - 2014-04-12 11:18:43 UTC
eXeler0n wrote:
Sister Hyde wrote:

Granted, you have to tweak some settings and install some libraries. Playonlinux does that for you. And I don't get to see the captain's quarters. boohoo.


There is no need to tweak something anymore. Just run the installer on a clean wine and then run the game. Only tweak is to deactivate CQ.




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darmwand
Stay Frosty.
A Band Apart.
#12 - 2014-04-15 16:19:52 UTC
Don't worry, some other spaceship game is coming to Linux.

"The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp."
Kismeteer
Bat Country
Pandemic Horde
#13 - 2014-04-15 19:34:34 UTC
darmwand wrote:
Don't worry, some other spaceship game is coming to Linux.


**** Star Citizen. They could have actually gone to space with all the money they've wasted.

Besides, eve runs fine with wine.
darmwand
Stay Frosty.
A Band Apart.
#14 - 2014-04-15 20:06:04 UTC
Kismeteer wrote:

Besides, eve runs fine with wine.


So far I haven't had much success, especially using multiple screens. Maybe I should try again one of these days...

"The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp."
Boyamin
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
#15 - 2014-04-17 18:14:22 UTC
eve doesn't really work out-of-the-box with steamOS due to ~64-bit~ issues and pulseaudio, it works pretty well otherwise in wine. bit of a missed opportunity really, I can't think of a single upcoming space MMO game that isn't natively supported on linux.
darmwand
Stay Frosty.
A Band Apart.
#16 - 2014-04-21 23:54:43 UTC
Boyamin wrote:
it works pretty well otherwise in wine


Well I tried again and couldn't get it to run (on a 64bit system). A shame really since EVE is literally the only reason why I still need to boot Windows.

Now if there were a similar game that didn't make me reboot I might finally have a reason to stop playing EVE. Luckily there's no competition yet, I suppose...

"The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp."
Boyamin
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
#17 - 2014-04-22 05:47:50 UTC
darmwand wrote:
Boyamin wrote:
it works pretty well otherwise in wine


Well I tried again and couldn't get it to run (on a 64bit system). A shame really since EVE is literally the only reason why I still need to boot Windows.



There isn't really a _stable_ 64 bit wine branch that you can use on a 64 bit system, it's still possible with a chroot if you like shell acrobatics, but if eve is the only reason you're rebooting, I would simply re-install with a 32-bit linux distro.
Doc McCoy
High Life Side Line Vacation
#18 - 2014-04-22 20:29:06 UTC
If you are running a 64 bit version of linux you can run Eve pretty easily provided you use a newer version of wine. True you aren't running wine in 64bit mode, but any Linux distro worth using has either a 1.6.x or 1.7.x 32bit version of wine all packaged up for you. Head on over to winehq, and follow the howtos.
Torgeir Hekard
I MYSELF AND ME
#19 - 2014-04-23 04:48:46 UTC
Boyamin wrote:
There isn't really a _stable_ 64 bit wine branch that you can use on a 64 bit system, it's still possible with a chroot if you like shell acrobatics, but if eve is the only reason you're rebooting, I would simply re-install with a 32-bit linux distro.

Ehmmm. I'm using x64 distros for several years already, and never had a problem with wine compatibility. You just have to install required x86 libs for your system. That being said, there is a need for chrooting if you want to build wine yourself (at least in *buntu distros).
SCV'Argos
TheMurk
#20 - 2014-05-13 06:07:15 UTC
Captain's Quarters work under wine, actually. With low graphics settings, with lags and serious graphical glitches - but at least you can get there. It wasn't possible about a year ago, so there's some progress.
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