I don't like Discord at all, I don't even have an account with them. As for market saturation, maybe I'm using the term wrong, but what I mean is that, in my opinion, anyone who could/would have started playing the game, have done so. I also believe anyone who plays the game and goes to the reddit will make an account here too. If someone's not committed to make an account here, they weren't committed to play the game in the first place.
When I talk of commitment, I mean learning the game in the first place needs commitment. You need to put hours and weeks into learning the game and if that's not for you, no amount of badgering from friends will convince you otherwise. People who are into gatcha, shooters and other plug-and-play games will likely never commit to learning DF. That's the biggest hurdle and I don't think the Steam version will overly help with that.
As for my turn, I've had some downs and ups, thankfully in that order. Some crashes at the start before I realized that while I nominally fixed my computer, there's some video buffer problem or w/e which means if I have too many programs open (DF, Firefox, Opera etc.) the game will run fine, but will insta-crash when I save, so now I have to play with everything else closed. I found some weird things, including this, which I am calling "Trade Depot corpse pile-up" in which a BUNCH of undead AND thralls were in a neat Trade Depot/Kennel layout. I cleared the thralls the first time, but I ran into that save issue, and the second time I'm not sure I got them all. I decided that I was done and left for... other pastures.
I was exploring the west jungles, looking for some worthy prey (lots of boars and mountain goats, but nothing worth killing) until I found a fort (Palacework) with a nameless stray cave dragon. I was prepared to fight for my life, but by some miracle I two-shot it. I'm not sure if it's been done before, but my submission is now a dragon corpse (mutilated, unfortunately). I hauled it on the highest chamber of the Museum (the one below the roof).
I've been visiting around. For now, Northmanor impressed me as it's sitting on a literal mountain of gold. A very tall, very rich mountain of gold. And a lot of hard-worked steel is there. I was so tempted to take a bin of gold and/or steel, but I abstained myself. Livingstead (Livingdead?) is simply insanely built. I have no other words. I'm at Emeraldcrown now, the first time I visited it. I didn't know it was built around a volcano. There are some goblins there, I hope nobody minds if I massacre them. Then I'm going to Razorbridge and maybe that annex to Mabkor, I've been wanting to add a few gifts there for turns now. Is Razorbridge that co-op project Bralbaard and Maloy took on, if I remember correctly?
I still want to murderize things, but the jungles are empty. No trolls, no unicorns, nothing worthwhile.
There is a place where a bridge might be worthwhile, somewhere between Blueocean and the fortress to its east (and further east is the one on the northern island, I didn't visit that). I had to swim for a few minutes to get to the other side. To be fair, it could be bypassed in a longer route, I suppose.
Weird things I encountered were some player fortresses that were nearly empty or outright unbuilt. I don't know if it's the corruption or people staking claims on land and barely building anything on it (though again to be fair, I probably did the same in the Mine of Silver). Some of which had goblins, which I exterminated, of course. A hamlet had two dwarf settlers, and I suspect it was conquered. The trend of hillocks full of humans
continues is more unassailable than your average dwarf fortress.
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Topic: Museum III, adventure succession game (DF 0.47.05) (Read 506856 times)