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Let's Organize a Tildes "Dwarf Fortress" Succession Game!
Let's do it guys! Every good forum/community from Ars Technica to the XKCD forums has had a go taking turns playing the most detailed simulation game I have ever seen. I can generate the world for ideal 44.10 (and hopefully 44.11) settings with my extra adventurer reactions.
Now that dwarves can get angry and stressed again, now is an opportune time. Who's with me?
Maybe this will be the push I needed to finally learn how to play this game.
We'd be welcome to have new players and veterans alike!
You don't need to learn the game to play the game though!
In fact, it might make the succession game more fun if you don't ;)
It's less that I need to learn how to play the game and more I've never been able to get all the controls down.
Oh, true. The controls are pretty terrible even if you're familiar with them and can get past the "menu of menus plus hotkeys" design.
That always ends up bring my issue. I wanna play the game and I wouldn't even care if I was bad at the gameplay aspect of it, I just cant even figure out how to do much after starting my fort.
For anyone who's looking at DF right now and going "what is this? what is a succession game? what makes this so good?", It's basically where you play DF for (allotted time) and pass the save to the next person, and it goes on like that for a while.
Here are some of my favorite succession games:
Boatmurdered !!!
Necrothreat
Breadbowl
SparkGear 1
I know what DF is and that's it. Never played it. Count me in if you'd have a total noob at this.
I'm a huge fan of RimWorld and I've wanted to get into DF but I found that the UIUX/hotkeys are an unintuitive mess, does anyone know if there are an QOL mods that fix this? I did a little searching a while back but didn't find anything.
PeridexisErrant's Starter Pack bundles a few mods to make it a bit more intuitive like DF Therapist, some tilesets, soundsense, and some other stuff. Try it out if you have some time!
So I'm talking specifically about menu navigation & hotkeys not the "graphics" per say.
DF Therapist does this for assigning dwarves to different things, so it eliminates a decent chunk of that terrible menuing, but there's not much else for stuff like military and digging. Sorry.
PeridexisErrant's Starter Pack is pretty decent
I don't play but really enjoyed reading Boatmurdered back in the day. Would the plan be to write summaries a bit like that for other folks to follow along? It'd be fun to watch :)
Of course!
Awesome! I look forward to it~ (And maybe one day I'll have the patience to learn to play, haha.)
I don't know anything about this but it sounds interesting
I don't know if I'll have the time to participate, but I'll at least follow along with whatever shenanigans you get up to.
I would also like to suggest that you play a vanilla world rather than try to use any mods.
The only mods I have affect adventure mode which wouldn't even be the game mode used...
Requiring any mods can end up complicating the install process for newbies, imo.
Not when it's literally in the save file...
Oh, sure, if it's just a mod to the RAWs or whatever then that's fine. You'd just need to be the one to start the fort in that case. It's been a while since I've played DF so I'm a bit hazy on what sorts of mods require what sort of user fiddling to make work.