Just side-tracking a little here.
I don't really need to watch let's play videos of DF, but sometimes I enjoy watching how other players plan their forts.
And well, most DF youtubers are fucking awful at this game. I don't mind when it's just a random let's play. But when they try to make some sort of tutorial series, clearly aimed at new players, and go from generally crap gameplay to downright WRONG informations, well, it's a problem.
These days I just watched a few episodes of a series. The guy claims he's doing an informative tutorial.
Yet, in the first few episodes he does the following. We are talking not even a year into the game:
- he wastes hundreds of embark points on wheelbarrows, splints, crutches, buckets, bags
- he goes from zero beds with people sleeping on the dirt to a gigantic bedroom complex with 30+ rooms, before doing anything actually useful for a new fort
- he literally makes a 20x20 farm (probably bigger), using multiple adjacent plots, with no dedicated planters, with less than 20 dwarves in his fort
- he builds his depot behind traps
- he does the god-fucking-awful gigantic 'here will be workshops' room and literally puts everything in there, ashery and soapmaker included. Half of those are sitting there, still unbuilt, 2-3 episodes later. Absolutely no regard about how or where to put all the relevant stockpiles, because:
- he does the god-fucking-awful gigantic 'here will be EVERYTHING' stockpile. And I don't mean a temporary one to get all the shit inside. He really intends to keep it that way.
I don't know if he optimizes that mess at some point. I forced myself to watch a few videos, but there's absolutely no way I'm going through 35 episodes of that garbage.
So, if you just want to make a LP to mess around or to try some kind of challenge, go for it and have fun.
But please, if you want to make a tutorial LP, a new player guide of sort, PLEASE, don't be fucking terrible at this game.
I'm pretty sure most of DF's reputation being incredibly harsh and ruthless on new players comes from these shitty youtube LPs. They see self-proclaimed experts, think they are actually good and mimic their awful gameplay, ending in absolute disaster.
Conclusion: "boho this game is IMPOSSIBLE".