Marine - thanks for that link, I ran through the first 5 tutorials last night and I can finally appreciate the game. The tileset linked in that tutorial was also a big help to understand the game more than the ascii, and the iso view was neat, though largely useless. I opted to use the older build of DF so I could follow…
Did you guys read through wikis or intros/tutorials before jumping into the game? I've heard so many good things about the game that I tried to stumble my way through it last night but I haven't a clue what's going on. After getting confused I looked through the intro tutorial on the wiki linked here but even that was way…
I read through a couple tutorials before starting to play the game again a few months ago. Still took a few hours of play to learn the basics. Haven't had a fortress get over 20 or so dwarves and survive though.