A game Dominion players(and modders) might enjoy

otthegreat · #1 February 12th, 2008, 07:53 PM

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.

Saulot · #2 February 12th, 2008, 10:10 PM

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...)

Dedas · #3 February 13th, 2008, 03:14 AM

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

@Saulot
Exactly

Omnirizon · #4 February 13th, 2008, 04:11 AM

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.

Dedas · #5 February 13th, 2008, 05:30 AM

Hey, wanna play some net Alpha Centauri with me?

cupido2 · #6 February 13th, 2008, 05:50 AM

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...

Endoperez · #7 February 13th, 2008, 07:40 AM

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...

Omnirizon · #8 February 13th, 2008, 01:07 PM

Quote:

Dedas said:
Hey, wanna play some net Alpha Centauri with me?

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.

otthegreat · #9 February 13th, 2008, 06:48 PM

Exactly, I've had to uninstall games lately so I could do relatively unimportant things like homework.