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[YetAnotherStupidDorf]

The graphics seem to be the main thing that turns new players away, plus the steep learning cliff.

Nope.
Steep learning cliff is okay, not every game needs easiness of Farmville. This game is not for everyone and this is fine.
DF have tilesets and I think they are sufficient to understand for new player what is happening.

Obtuse messy crap-on-stick called "interface" is reason no 1. Evidence is in comment thread for this annoucement and everywhere else. Shame that it will never be fixed.

[franti]

I like DF being hard and complicated. It makes it unique. If it wasn't so hard to keep your dwarves from walking off a cliff, then seeing them die for a legitimate reason wouldn't feel so rewarding.
If DF is too hard for somebody, they should go back to playing My Little Pony or Warhammer 40K or something like that.

[Shades]

I like DF being hard and complicated. It makes it unique. If it wasn't so hard to keep your dwarves from walking off a cliff, then seeing them die for a legitimate reason wouldn't feel so rewarding.
If DF is too hard for somebody, they should go back to playing My Little Pony or Warhammer 40K or something like that.

DF isn't hard though. Complicate sure, but it's not hard.

[frodo0800]

just noticed that two posters are using poneys as avatars   

[loose nut]

There's good news for all the Dwarf Fortress hipsters, DF will never, ever, be cool.

"Dwarf Fortress hipsters"?

That word truly has no meaning now.

Thank you for, at long last, eliminating the word "hipster" from the English language. I mean this with all sincerity. You have done good this day.

[Strife26]

just noticed that two posters are using poneys as avatars   

More than that. There's a whole different culture in the southern boards around here.


Bay 12 is already big enough to have subcultures. We've done more harm worrying about forum decay than forum decay's ever done. That's not actually true. VN was pretty bad. But still. It's never been nothing that we haven't been able to self/toady/kurtlemak regulate.

[Aklyon]

751 people on the day of the class. Big class is Big.

Yuuko: But how many of them are people who already know how to play and are just watching for the lulz?

[Cruxador]

I actually find a downside in DF gaining more popularity, although it is quite small.

This place, the forums will (eventually) be introduced to regular internet trash, and the community will never be the same again...

This game is highly resilient to those kind of people, since it requires patience, intelligence, imagination and creativity.

But a good troll requires all those same things.

[Teneb]

I actually find a downside in DF gaining more popularity, although it is quite small.

This place, the forums will (eventually) be introduced to regular internet trash, and the community will never be the same again...

This game is highly resilient to those kind of people, since it requires patience, intelligence, imagination and creativity.

But a good troll requires all those same things.

Good thing there aren't a lot of good trolls out there. Just a lot of dumb ones.

[darkrider2]

I actually find a downside in DF gaining more popularity, although it is quite small.

This place, the forums will (eventually) be introduced to regular internet trash, and the community will never be the same again...

This game is highly resilient to those kind of people, since it requires patience, intelligence, imagination and creativity.

But a good troll requires all those same things.

Good thing there aren't a lot of good trolls out there. Just a lot of dumb ones.

If there were a lot of good trolls, with the aforementioned qualities, I would be prouder of society.

[Vlad]

Trolls are easy to defeat, just recruit a group of peasants and swarm them. 

[darkrider2]

Duplicating raws will unlock the win scenarios for dwarf fortress. GO DO IT.

[IT 000]

For reference here's a link to the video. It's going on right now. I'm sure he won't mind a few people tagging along.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/dwarf-fortress-class

Well that was short, he said he'll be getting a new computer so he can get better resolution. And he'll be showing it again next Wednesday (Aug 10)

SUMMARY : Just showed how to generate a world.

[Aklyon]

guy has really bad quality as of this post and this class is mostly set-up anyway. hopefully next is better.