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[moki]

I started with Mayday's tileset (probably from one of the old "noob packs") and found it highly confusing. It may have been DF itself that caused the confusion, I don't know. After a while I tried ASCII just to see what it's like and loved it right away, without any experience with other ASCII-based games. The only thing I needed to do was to make my own 12x12. I need a square set and the 16x16 is way too big.

[Telgin]

Only ever played with ASCII... Took about two weeks to not have my hand hovering over the k button.

Ditto.  Playing Dwarf Fortress is like reading a book to me.  The more of my imagination I have to use, the more fun it is.

Not that having a tileset really changes it that much.  I was also too lazy to find and install one.

[NotPete]

I switched tile-sets 2-3 times, and eventually got really good at figuring out what each thingy was, and all I needed to do was stare at the screen for a couple seconds. After that, figuring out ASCII was really not a problem.

[Neyvn]

The only time I really use k these days is to double check if that was Sphalerite or Tetrahedrite, Gold or Limonite, Cassiterite or Copper, Silver or Galena- But those two are the same anyway but its nice to know what I am dealing with. Oh and to check the Gender of animals/stuff...

I tried a Graphicspack, lasted 3mins...

[Funk]

i played a lot of Adventure Mode so it takes a lot longer to stop useing k all the time, i use it more now than i did back in 40d.

[gabandre]

1-2 weeks

[Teneb]

I only used tilesets once, out of curiosity. I prefer the ASCII myself, despite playing no rogue-likes (or any game with ASCII graphics for that matter) before DF. I had more trouble with the controls than with the graphics themselves.

[FearfulJesuit]

I've only ever used ASCII.

[Dakk]

I started on ASCII. Took about a week to figure the important stuff out, some weeks to figure everything out.

[carabide]

On an unrelated note, is there a way to change it so the tiles are squares, instead of rectangles?

[Draco18s]

On an unrelated note, is there a way to change it so the tiles are squares, instead of rectangles?

Yes.  Easily.  It's all in the init.txt.
Well that and you need a square tileset.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Like curses_square_16x16, which is readily available.

[Pokon]

I prefer the ASCII. I got used to it in about two weeks, and found that the texture packs slowed down my game a bit more than I liked.

[Yoink]

I played ADOM and other roguelikes for a long time before finding DF, and I prefer to use my imagination than stare at some nondescript blobs of pixels anyway. Naturally I had to learn what all the varied symbols meant, of course.

[EveryZig]

It's the graphics packs that look like vomit to me. What do you mean, the natural spelling of my fortress includes two cabinets and a cat?

Seconded.