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haha, confusion + nightblades (invisible) almost a cheat

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Thanks for the RL info, everyone. Perhaps my problem was starting with the Nethack variant Slash 'Em, which is likely the most complicated of the lot. I will check out the 7day ones and Crawl. I appreciate the info.

As to DF being Sims with Dwarves...well...I would actually have purchased a Sims game if it included goblin invasions you had to fight off. IMO, if you get rid of the nonsensical dwarven justice, and if noble requests were LOGICAL (like no request for glass in an area with no sand) it would be pretty much perfect. The website says the dev wants to make seiges, and army stuff in general, more cool, and that's just gravy. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

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Dwarf Fortress is very, very far from finish if you look at all the planned development. It is still only in early alpha, and Toady is working on it on it day and night. I find this extremely cool.

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Not counting dom3, here's a short list:

X-Com
Master of Orion I
Master of Magic
Ultima VI and VII
Civilization
Battletech: The Cresent Hawk's Revenge (wonderful tactical squad based mech game)

I also played that Magic The Gathering card game for a whlle and dom3's system of counters and counters to those counters is familiar (I think I read this in an interview with the devs somewhere...)

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Master of Magic - I never played this. I tried once to download some abandonware and DOS emulator but I am no tech guru and never managed to get this to run.

I see now you can buy a version on eBay for ~$80 that supposedly has been patched to easily run on XP or Vista and has the manuals on CD.

Wondering how fun it would be at this point? On the plus side, I have never played it. On the negative side, that is pretty expensive and some of those old school games are more fun in one's memory than they are when you try to play them these days.

Any thoughts? Thanks.

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don't click the link

NO!!! I said DON'T click the link.

ahh. you done did it. you clicked the link. you can kiss your evening goodbye.

http://www.handdrawngames.com/DesktopTD/game.asp

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Borsuk, thanks for the Crawl suggestion. I'm playing it and it's great, way more fun then Slash 'Em, and I think I'm picking up the key commands, since it appears for the most part they stay the same across games.

ToME seems cool, too, but I'm just not ready for that level of complexity. I dl'd a few of the 7Day games that looked promising, as well.

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DC, MoM is a classic (and fun) game, but I wouldn't spend $US80 on it.

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Wokeye, thanks for the feedback. I wish I hadn't missed it the first time around, but suspect that it wouldn't be worth so much cold hard cash today, despite the fat and enticing manual... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/frown.gif

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You're welcome. If you have any questions, it would be best to join ##crawl at irc.freenode.org . Traffic is quite high over there, much higher than #dominions. And you can often chat with developers.
There are a lot of subtle commands ready to be discovered. For example, try pressing CTRL-O for auto-explore. You can disable/enable autopickup with CTRL-A . CTRL-G lets you travel between explored levels. CTRL-F is for searching. You can search for items, shops, staircases etc... and just press a letter to travel there.
Check your species' innate abilities by pressing A .