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Dampe

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First time playing Masterwork, any advice?
« on: July 21, 2015, 12:36:09 pm »

Only just recently downloaded MW. How is it different from Vanilla or other mods?
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Re: First time playing Masterwork, any advice?
« Reply #1 on: July 21, 2015, 02:20:27 pm »

It's big, in that most of the races are themselves a major mod.  With a few exceptions you can get started playing as you would in vanilla and begin to explore mix in new industries at your own pace.  Invaders carry steel (or mithril or metal-glass) so you want to eventually tech up past iron for sure. 

You might want to turn off diseases and secret !fun! Depending on your tolerance for random seeming deaths.  Many of the other Harder settings like farming are at least arguably better balanced than vanilla though.

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Re: First time playing Masterwork, any advice?
« Reply #2 on: July 21, 2015, 03:48:14 pm »

It's big, in that most of the races are themselves a major mod.  With a few exceptions you can get started playing as you would in vanilla and begin to explore mix in new industries at your own pace.  Invaders carry steel (or mithril or metal-glass) so you want to eventually tech up past iron for sure. 

You might want to turn off diseases and secret !fun! Depending on your tolerance for random seeming deaths.  Many of the other Harder settings like farming are at least arguably better balanced than vanilla though.

Is there an ASCII version of the graphics?
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Re: First time playing Masterwork, any advice?
« Reply #3 on: July 21, 2015, 04:55:21 pm »

Sure.

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Re: First time playing Masterwork, any advice?
« Reply #4 on: July 22, 2015, 10:35:11 am »

Because Masterwork has more uses for corpses (crematory), you might have to do more micromanaging of refuse piles to reduce horrifying thoughts.
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Re: First time playing Masterwork, any advice?
« Reply #5 on: July 22, 2015, 12:11:37 pm »

Sure.

Do you know where I can download it?
That tileset makes my head spin.
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Re: First time playing Masterwork, any advice?
« Reply #6 on: July 22, 2015, 01:33:38 pm »

No need, its an option of the GUI and included in the game.
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Re: First time playing Masterwork, any advice?
« Reply #7 on: July 22, 2015, 05:27:56 pm »

how do you tell what race you're embarking as?
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Re: First time playing Masterwork, any advice?
« Reply #8 on: July 22, 2015, 05:31:33 pm »

If you look at the neighbors list on the location selection screen, your race is the first selection.  I tend to only enable one race as fortable before I gen a world, so I don't need to deal with that.
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