I love simulation games (love Rimworld and Prison Architect for example) but the Dwarf Fortress learning curve is too much for me. I love Rimworld and Dwarf Fortress, but they occupy different spaces within a similar genre in my mind. I think what you consider a 'horrible' user experience cannot be divorced from what we know as Dwarf Fortress today. To an extent I think the 'horrible' user experience cannot be divorced from Dwarf Fortress. People often complain about Dwarf Fortress's graphics in the same vain and breath as the UI, but I think these are parts of the charm and instead of being weaknesses they are leveraged as strengths.įor instance, the lack of fidelity of the game allows any new character to be added in 2 seconds, yet Rimworld needs a considerable amount of time and effort developing each texture. Okey now I want to build on top of the trees and call myself "The petite elves".I agree Dwarf Fortress is quite hard to learn and the UI plays a large part of that as it's completely keyboard based and requires a lot of upfront effort to learn, but once you do you become much faster than you would otherwise (much like text editors). Your stonemasons will also basically be rolling in passive EXP-gain because if they've got nothing better to do and there's rocks available, they'll go cut them into blocks. ![]() Blocks are twice the value of undressed stone when you build something with them, and by specifying which types of stone you'll avoid problems with someone having chopped up all the marble into blocks when you want to make a nice marble statue or some thrones or whatever. Those will mostly keep loose stone from cluttering up the place (looks messy and dwarves don't like that), and give you plenty of much-more-easily toted stone blocks to build things with. ![]() Originally posted by evildagmar:I wouldn't bother with quantum stockpiles for boulders unless the fortress is well into an advanced state of "filthus maximus" with clutter as far as the eye can see.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |