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In Tolkien's works, you had all those poems and songs, so would it have been the same if the books had some shallow high level abstraction for that?
No. It would have been better.
"O Elbereth! Gilthoniel! Pages of Etc!"
In Tolkien's works, you had all those poems and songs, so would it have been the same if the books had some shallow high level abstraction for that?
Maybe he's too bright for his own good. I stopped paying attention to the updates when he was musing about making tree leaves fall to the ground in a realistic manner.
Maybe he's too bright for his own good. I stopped paying attention to the updates when he was musing about making tree leaves fall to the ground in a realistic manner.
Some "too bright for their own good" people can be great game developers if there is someone else to give them design goals so they won't spend years on insignificant details that add nothing to the game but they must do because they have autism. Adding worthless randomly generated poetry to a game like this in great need of a lot of core gameplay, performance and UI improvements makes as much sense as the shit Chris-Chan did.
Although it's ultimately Toady that is squandering the potential of Dwarf Fortress, some blame must go to fanboys like Perkel and Porky for applauding the pointless trivialities added to the game in place of real improvements.
To many of us those things are autistic details which add little or nothing to the gameplay. To you they're not; fine. But don't try to make it sound like they're integral to the enjoyment of the game.
To me, DF is an excellent base-management sim due to its ridiculous array of, for the most part, well-implemented features. Certainly far in excess of any other game. It's not the larp potential that makes it good, not the detailed implementation of stuff that would work just as well for gameplay with an abstract implementation that would take a fraction of the time. The best parts of DF were made in the first few years when he was still working primarily on basic gameplay options.
I wish I could play this. I have watched a few LPs and it seems fantastic. But I just can't get passed the UI and graphics. And everything looks so abstract to me
No need, just put it somewhere in the forum title.We need an "Autism" thread tag.
Succesion game? I'm kind of newbie in that matter, but this mean we change who play one fortress each year/dwarf life/whatever?Anyone up for a succession game?