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[jdturner11]

 Who here uses tile sets and who here roughs out the ASCII version? Just curious, I'm sure other members are too!

JD

[Spreggo]

I used to play with my own tileset, but now I use Phoebus' prepacked one

[Ganthan]

I cannot play DF with standard ascii graphics.  I just don't know what I'm looking at.  Initially I used Mayday, but when new releases started getting churned out super fast I ended up switching to Phoebus.   There are two reasons for this:

1. Phoebus looks a bit better to me.
2. Mayday updates his prepackage with the current release too slowly compared to Phoebus, who can do it in the same day.  Every time I've tried to convert the graphics myself, I always mess something up.

[Auto Slaughter]

Just Phoebus, I can't play with ASCII either.

[cdrcjsn]

I don't play with tilesets.

I'm used to the standard version.  Don't really consider it roughing it.

[NecroRebel]

I've tried using tilesets a couple of times, but find them to be impossible difficult to actually read. The standard ASCII display is clean, clear, and very effective once you've learned to read it, so it's vastly superior to the busy appearance most tilesets give. The only thing that I dislike about the ASCII display is that diagonal smooth walls look like zig-zags instead of diagonal walls, but I can deal with that easily enough.

[Murphy]

This question is older than dirt.
ASCII is superior, because it is also older than dirt.

[MrWiggles]

Whats a tile set?

[ext0l]

I always used ASCII. It wasn't that bad to me since I played a bit of nethack earlier. Now I'm too lazy to bother trying to install a tile set and re-learning the pictures.

[FuzzyZergling]

ASCII.
It's pretty much ingrained itself in my brain.
When I look at screenshots from people with tilesets, I'm like "WTF am I looking at?"

[USEC_OFFICER]

ASCII.
It's pretty much ingrained itself in my brain.
When I look at screenshots from people with tilesets, I'm like "WTF am I looking at?"

Same here. Tilesets kinda look bizarre to me now, though I can see why they are used. However, the random objects in name/command etc. really pisses me off. A lot.

[iceball3]

ACSII
I've gone the movie Matrix, but backwards...
Personaly:
Before "A oh look, it's all just text"
after "HOLY SHIT A SWORD SOO MUCH QUALITY"
Ironically, it is impossible for me to play nethack without the tileset.

[schussel]

ironhands all the way

[proxn_punkd]

ASCII

I originally started playing this game so I could write an analysis of it for a Game Design class, and felt that installing a tileset would interfere with my study of the game itself. Then I got used to seeing the ASCII, and now I can't imagine playing with a tileset.

Incidentally, my academic conclusion was that DF is a poorly-designed game, with a confusing interface, dozens of bugs, and a ridiculous learning curve, but none of the fans care because the challenge is part of the !!Fun!!.

[iceball3]

ASCII

I originally started playing this game so I could write an analysis of it for a Game Design class, and felt that installing a tileset would interfere with my study of the game itself. Then I got used to seeing the ASCII, and now I can't imagine playing with a tileset.

Incidentally, my academic conclusion was that DF is a poorly-designed game, with a confusing interface, dozens of bugs, and a ridiculous learning curve, but none of the fans care because the challenge is part of the !!Fun!!.

Don't you mean incomplete? The design itself is quite frankly amazing.