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I tried DF awhile back and quit in disgust, getting nowhere.

Then, recently, something caused me to give it another try (I think it was Mike Mayday's graphics pack, give it a search, it changes most of the ASCII to graphical tiles, which made everything better for me). I now cannot stop playing it. It's like a drug addiction. I look at the future features planned and I am amazed.

I don't get it, either, someone needs to explain to me why I am so amazed by those crappy graphics and buggy dwarves. What is it about DF that makes it so addictive? Right now I'm running a huge strip mining operation and smelting ore. Good times!

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the answer, my friend, is in what it is not.

That is, more pablum processed out by the corporate machine that took over gaming.

It is fun and addictive because it is built from passion, and not purely greed inspired rationalization.

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X-Com was before me but I enjoyed LSN for a while, don't really know why I stopped playing. I never thought I would run into so many people who had even heard of DF(apart from on the wiki) what a game! I guess its because people my age seem to eat up the crap made by the "corporate machine".

I'd like to add Civ Alpha Centauri to the great games of old. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

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I have to say I was in the same boat as Stryke11, I've tried DF but couldn't get into the fortress mode. After dying 5 or 6 times on adventure mode to harmless sounding creatures, I figured this was just a game for masochists.

Last night, I tried the graphics pack that was mentioned, and it really improves the situation and turns down the learning curve for the fortress mode. (Though I do have a nagging suspicion that if one plays the game long enough in any mode, you no longer see the sprites/ascii... kind of like how if you play a text mud for years, you no longer see lines of text, but blonde, brunette, etc...) http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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@otthegreat
Alpha Centauri, how could I miss that one!?

@Saulot
Exactly http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Alpha Centauri is the reason I flunked out of college on my first try through.

that and all the pot.

and to think that I'm working on a PhD now. how things change.

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Hey, wanna play some net Alpha Centauri with me? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image.../firedevil.gif

http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Yeah yeah, thanks for pushing me on dwarf fortress. I downloaded it 2 days ago and now all I do all day is tinkering plans for my fortress. Don't know if that makes my boss happy...

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Have any of you tried starting next to lakes or seas? If you select the sea screen, some of those have habitable land to one side. There are waves in the sea...

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away ye foul tempter!!!

I have enough trouble dealing with Dom3 (and the occasional guilty excursion with DF or MB or whatever else). I don't need anything else distracting me from school.