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zakblood wrote: ↑Thu Jan 26, 2023 5:56 pm congratulations on become a dad

All this is hypothetical

nikossaiz wrote: ↑Sat Jan 28, 2023 9:36 am Hello PIP,

All this is hypothetical

actually it work. I play the GOG version of both games on steamdeck ( i bought them also on steam to be sure for compatibillity, but all the DLCs are on the GOG versions so i play those ) and the same PFX directories apply on it too.
So , now we have the option to export the battle from empires to FOG2. obviously the " copy this , copy that, copy this etc" isnt a viable solution, since its quite tiredsome and time consuming from one hand and from another it prohibits you from playing on steamdecks game OS ( witch preserve all the key biddings, customizations etc ) . Also one time that i manage to make it work just for the sake of it , i had to manually open one game, close it , open the other. Non of the automatical way we have on windows ( a think that some guys found it time consuming ! )

Hope for the full interaction of the games in the future! please inform us when you manage to do so!

Hmm, couldn't you just write a simple windows batch file do all the tiresome file transfers?

AdmiralNaismith wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 8:13 pm For anyone still struggling with this, I have a solution.

Longtime fan of FoG2, I've recently sold my gaming PC and moved over to the Steam Deck. For anyone else wanting to have Windows-like cross-compatability between FoG2 and Empires, the easy solution in Linux is using symbolic links within each prefix. These soft symbolic links will let the games communicate, and they update automatically too.

Here's the step by step process, for all eight of us who play these games on Deck:

1. Navigate to your 'My Games' folder within the FoG Empires prefix (e.g., '/home/deck/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/YOURPREFIXNUMBERHERE/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/My Documents/My Games/'). Confirm that the folder 'FieldOfGloryEmpires' is within this 'My Games' folder.

2. In a new window, navigate to the 'My Games' folder in the FoG 2 prefix and open the 'FieldOfGlory2' directory within. Copy the whole path to the clipboard.

3. Open the terminal (Konsole) within the /My Games/ folder in FoG EMPIRES! (you can do this simply by right clicking within the folder, and choosing 'open in Konsole' from the drop-down menu).

4. Input the command below, and paste the full path for the FoG2 folder so it looks like this (only with the correct prefix number for your Steam Deck):

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ln -s '/home/deck/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/FoG2PREFIXNUMBER/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/My Documents/My Games/FieldOfGlory2/'

Don't forget to change this to your actual prefix path, and put quotes around it!

5. Now, close that Konsole window and copy the full path for your 'FieldOfGloryEmpires' folder within the Empires prefix 'My Games' folder.

6. Navigate to the 'My Games' folder within the FoG 2 prefix, and open up the Konsole there.

7. Input this command to do the same for FoG 2, now, as we did for FoG Empires:

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ln -s '/home/deck/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/FoGEmpiresPREFIXNUMBER/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/My Documents/My Games/FieldOfGloryEmpires/'

Once again, don't forget to make sure the command is using your actual prefix path (not my example path) and that it's enclosed within 'single quotes'.

8. All done! Now the process is just like Windows - the contents of these folders are visible to each game and you can export directly to FoG2 from Empires without copying any files.

To confirm that everything has worked, when you open up your 'My Games' folder within either of the games' prefixes. You should see two folders, one for each game. One will be in italic font (that's the one that was symlinked into the folder). I've attached a screencap of my FoG Empires prefix 'My Games' folder as an example.

If you're having trouble finding your prefix folders for each game (the specific numbered folders within '/home/deck/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/'), just load each game up and make a new save in each. Then you can sort the folders within /compatdata/ by 'Last modified', and the top of the list will be the folders for FoG 2 and Empires.

AdmiralNaismith wrote: ↑Thu May 30, 2024 8:13 pm For anyone still struggling with this, I have a solution.

Longtime fan of FoG2, I've recently sold my gaming PC and moved over to the Steam Deck. For anyone else wanting to have Windows-like cross-compatability between FoG2 and Empires, the easy solution in Linux is using symbolic links within each prefix. These soft symbolic links will let the games communicate, and they update automatically too.

Here's the step by step process, for all eight of us who play these games on Deck:

1. Navigate to your 'My Games' folder within the FoG Empires prefix (e.g., '/home/deck/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/YOURPREFIXNUMBERHERE/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/My Documents/My Games/'). Confirm that the folder 'FieldOfGloryEmpires' is within this 'My Games' folder.

2. In a new window, navigate to the 'My Games' folder in the FoG 2 prefix and open the 'FieldOfGlory2' directory within. Copy the whole path to the clipboard.

3. Open the terminal (Konsole) within the /My Games/ folder in FoG EMPIRES! (you can do this simply by right clicking within the folder, and choosing 'open in Konsole' from the drop-down menu).

4. Input the command below, and paste the full path for the FoG2 folder so it looks like this (only with the correct prefix number for your Steam Deck):

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ln -s '/home/deck/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/FoG2PREFIXNUMBER/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/My Documents/My Games/FieldOfGlory2/'

Don't forget to change this to your actual prefix path, and put quotes around it!

5. Now, close that Konsole window and copy the full path for your 'FieldOfGloryEmpires' folder within the Empires prefix 'My Games' folder.

6. Navigate to the 'My Games' folder within the FoG 2 prefix, and open up the Konsole there.

7. Input this command to do the same for FoG 2, now, as we did for FoG Empires:

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ln -s '/home/deck/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/FoGEmpiresPREFIXNUMBER/pfx/drive_c/users/steamuser/My Documents/My Games/FieldOfGloryEmpires/'

Once again, don't forget to make sure the command is using your actual prefix path (not my example path) and that it's enclosed within 'single quotes'.

8. All done! Now the process is just like Windows - the contents of these folders are visible to each game and you can export directly to FoG2 from Empires without copying any files.

To confirm that everything has worked, when you open up your 'My Games' folder within either of the games' prefixes. You should see two folders, one for each game. One will be in italic font (that's the one that was symlinked into the folder). I've attached a screencap of my FoG Empires prefix 'My Games' folder as an example.

If you're having trouble finding your prefix folders for each game (the specific numbered folders within '/home/deck/.steam/steam/steamapps/compatdata/'), just load each game up and make a new save in each. Then you can sort the folders within /compatdata/ by 'Last modified', and the top of the list will be the folders for FoG 2 and Empires.