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DF Suggestions / Difficulty quantifier.
« on: March 09, 2008, 04:06:00 am »
So I was reading another post in which a chap says that he came back to DF recently and was suprised by the lack of challenge and after a little thought I realised the man made a good point, I also realised DF itself can be anything thing from mind bogglingy simple to teeth wrenchingly difficult but new and perhaps veteran users of the game have no real way of knowing which they are going to get before embarking.
Currently I tend to look at some factors such as spookeyness of an area, does it have tree's and so on, but that does not always turn out to be the deciding factor in making an easy or hard game, sometimes its just luck therefore my suggestion....
Why not include a rating system for each biome that shows at a glance how difficult an area might be, now I know the spirit of DF is very much one of exploration and chance so I would not ask the system to be very verbose, in its most simple form maybe just "hard / easy" indicator or perhaps a simple 5 star rating with 1 being a walkover and 5 being supermonkeyninja hard.