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[USEC_OFFICER]

The 1992 Oregon Trail I'm playing only runs through DOS and was certainly released on floppies, but I can't say if it might have been re-released on discs with a windows friendly EXE (well, I'm sure it ran on windows up to 3.1 but that was really only an extension of DOS).

Looking at the Wikipedia page, it appears that I must have been playing the 1993-96 version. Still, the two version look pretty close to me.

FAKEEDIT: I found the CD. The copyright is from 1996, so there you go.

Fording means walking the wagon through the river after all.

Not in my version. Apparently, to my families, fording means building a giant slingshot to propel yourself across (I wish I was making this up). Looks to be the same in Sensei's version too.

EDIT: According to the internet, people recover more quickly at landmarks/towns. Seeing as the next fort is only 3 days away, we should easily make it there, allowing Jackie to heal faster. If the next fort is further than 8~10 days away we should probably just rest where we are.

[Basque]

Alright USEC_OFFICER, thanks for being awesome. If we heal quicker in town we should make it to the fort and then rest.

I laughed at the slingshot comment. XD Actually, fording is the source for a lot of names apparently, since crossing rivers was very common back in the day. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_%28crossing%29

[Detonate]

Keep on going. Cholera is wimpy, it's always the snake bites that do the party members in. Rest at the fort for two days and then keep on going.

[Sensei]

Fun fact: In a test run I did, but didn't save (before suggestions were in), I continued to the fort on strenuous pace and everybody was sick or injured by the time we got there. Them random numbers!

Also, to those speaking of buying grandfather clocks and shotguns and rifles: The items in the store screenshot are the only goods in the game.

First things first, I shot a buffalo. Since repeated hunting makes game scarce very quickly, I'll probably be hunting often in case later we get stuck in an area with poor game.


Before long, we reached Fort Kearney.



We can buy and trade things here if we need to, but we're doing well for supplies and goods are 25% more expensive out here. So anyway, we rest.


It took us a total of five days' waiting before everyone was in good health and Jackie was cured of his cholera (ignore the log saying we waited for six in total, I interrupted it to look at the status).


We hunt for some more food right out of town, and god dammit Jackie, what is it this time?


That's right, it's a snake bite. For now, everyone's in good health (except Jackie) and we have lots of food. However, it's more than twice as far to the next landmark (not actually a fort, but there's a fort a little past there) as it was last time Jackie got injured. Also, for the record, a steady pace is about half as fast as a strenuous one.

Time to decide if/how long we wait, and how we manage our pace (brotip: for those who don't know, pace options are grueling, strenuous and steady, trading speed for health).

[Bdthemag]

Keep going! If he can shake off Cholera he can shrug off a snake bite!

[Tarran]

Watching for the lulz.

Jake is obviously not very smart. Drinking contaminated water AND playing around with a snake. Tisk tisk.

[Basque]

Grueling is 16 hours a day, Strenuous is 12, and Steady is 8. I always assume the main goal is to make it to Oregon with everyone alive, so if that's the case we do need to take care of this stuff (otherwise we can just let anyone die ). If resting really does work better at landmarks then maybe we should wait to rest there, but you should reduce the speed to Steady to lower the chances of his condition worsting.

But just like you said Sensei, the majority of it relies on the RNG! XD

[Sheb]

Just rest where you are. Either he'll die quickly, or heal quickly, it's a snake bite.

[Urist Mcinternetuser]

First time I played this everyone survived, one guy contracted typhoid, cholera, and dysentery, meanwhile breaking both arms, but he made it through to Oregon.

Edit: Can you post a link to where you got this version?

[MonkeyHead]

posting to follow....

[IronyOwl]

I'm tempted to say Jackie's not learning anything. Perhaps we should move along.

[NRDL]

Guys, I want to survive.  Is that too much to ask?

[USEC_OFFICER]

Let's wait for Jackie Boy to recover. Reducing our pacing in an attempt to reach the next fort will waste more time than simply waiting.

Alright USEC_OFFICER, thanks for being awesome.

Ironically, I've only reached the Oregon once, and that was with the help of my sister. And that was a long time ago.

Still, dying can be fun as well. I remember one game where I was left with one person alive, who was always one rabbit away from starvation. If I couldn't shoot me some wildlife (The annoying fast kind, like ducks or rabbits, and barely any animals showed up), then he'd die. Getting sick was always the worst, because I was basically wasting food and getting nowhere. But eventually he made it died.

[Sensei]

I decided to wait for Jackie to heal, but after five days we're continuing on a steady pace.


After a few days, a thief stole some clothing! Fortunately, we still have more clothing than people, but not by much.


Eventually we reached Chimney Rock. Jackie is all better now, too. The weather's been getting a little on the colder side, on and off.


We should probably make up on our clothing supply in case we have to trade with indians.


A little reluctantly, I agree to make a deal for 210 pounds of food- I can get that back by hunting pretty easily, or so I hope (and I do, in short time).

Just our luck, we have another snake bite.


Since we're so close to town, we ride in and wait four days for him to heal. We've been doing very well so far with snake bites.

I figure we don't need to trade for anything, and goods in the store are 50% more expensive here anyway.

The grass is turning to yellow now. As well, the game is a little tougher to hunt. No more buffalo out here, it looks like.

I wasted 10 bullets shooting more critters than I needed to, but we still have plenty.

Quite a ways out in the wilderness, Brian gets a fever.


Everyone's health is suffering a little from the pace. Should we stop, slow down, or scurry to the next landmark? It's not a fort, and I'm unsure whether just camping at a landmark actually helps.

[Bdthemag]

It would probally be best to rest a few day's and then continue at a normal pace.