[KermNelson]

Hi folks,
I've been a member for a while but obviously not very active. I tend to research a game I'm interested in and then "explore" play it while looking into the game files and enjoying interacting with the game itself. Bartles test helped me recognize my desires in and with gaming. I explore so don't expect me to go multiplayer unless I feel really sociable and don't mind getting thumped.

I started serious gaming in HS during the early '70s. I played chess and a member of our HS team brought a copy of S&T's USN which we mostly looked at but this got me to subscribe to S&T (Strategy & Tactics) for several years. In college I not only played Napoleonic minatures (Column, Line & Square: 25mm) but when in Army ROTC went to Jump school and learned D&D with the small boxed set and the AD&D Players Manual that had just come out. The army when at Ft Bragg decided to train me on the Apple II+ in the very early '80s and I bought one of the first Macs in Feb or Mar '84. I had games on both my Apple II+ and Mac but eventually surrendered to PC popularity and moved on to PCs & their games. I've MMO'd EQ, AC, & SWG. I tend to play MMOs to explore but I will group with friends. I've explored (dissected?) games from the start looking at hexcode all the time. I've bought Austerlitz & SE IV here and I am looking at Dom 3. I've got a lot of Strategy First, Paradox, and Total War games and have enjoyed editing them. I'm not dedicated enough to really 'mod' a game but enjoy exploring the mods other players have made.

I'm 'here' to see if Dom 3 is interesting enough for this explorer. I don't like suffering through tough learning curves so I like to quickly learn to edit a game so I can stumble along enjoying the very weak competition while I see how the game plays. If I can't hexedit or find tools to allow me to stumble along easily I probably won't buy Dom 3. But I'm willing to put a fair amount of time into puzzling through game structure and editing to enable me to roll along in game.