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Oblivion and Morrowind (daggerfall is too long ago) have the worst leveling system ever. I'm jumping around the landscape, try not to raise the wrong skill, just to get the best attribute bonus when I do level up. Next level I'm casting the same spell hundreds of times, and am careful not to run or jump for fear of messing up the bonus once again. Bah.

I for one welcome the Skyrim skill experiment.

It was mostly fine in Morrowind, you could pretty much ignore it and take 2x, 3x in your 3 attributes. Since you had over 70 levels to work with, you're pretty much guaranteed to cap everything long, long before then. No levelled enemies helped too.

I think I did the same thing through my Oblivion saves. In the end, it's not too bad. Might give a bit more of a challenge, but likely nothing insurmountable.

Elves only by name though. They couldn't be any dwarfier if they tried. Unfortunately, that dwarfiness is probably part of the reason why they got extinct in the first place.

Yeah, I know. I live in what's considered the wettest. By strictly rainfall, we shouldn't really be a desert but we are. Annual rainfall average is 12 inches.

Though, most of that comes during monsoon season. Perhaps minecraft deserts should get violent but rare thunderstorms.

Hmm. This will be a tough one... games like that with no win conditions are pretty rare. But here's some I could think of:

Mount & Blade - Closest match is Pirates!... you ride a horse instead of a boat and stab people instead of shoot them. Ride around the countryside doing odd jobs or pledge allegiance to one of the nations. Raise up (or hire) a small army or band of marauders to pillage the enemy. Or traders if you feel like being a bandit. Warbands adds more stuff to M&B including a new nation.

Tropico - Fits nation building exactly, but there is no real competition with other nations (barring special events). Hence little AI interaction unless you are including civilians and whatnot. But you get to rule an island nation as you see fit, either as a tyrant who bleeds them dry or a benevolent dictator who seeks to cater to their every need.

Spore - Less of a match. There are clear "win conditions" for the early phases, but space phase is relatively open even if there isn't too much to do. I think there was an expansion pack that added more to space phase, though.


This isn't easy.

I did not know this but this explains a lot.

http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=1020&t=268825&sid=a3ffdd7f9b9362672e7fc3a7ee3b7566

Apparently, ore distributions are slightly messed up. SW of spawn has the highest (unbugged?) concentrations of ore, while NE of spawn has the least.
This was noticed on my friends SMP server too. He lives NE of spawn and has trouble getting ore compared to my location in the SE. Nobody lives in the SW though.

I ran cartograph on one of my own maps, this does seem to be real. It's quite noticeable for iron.

There was an arcade game where you controlled a ghost and could possess a wide variety of enemies you face to fight your way through platformer-like levels.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avenging_Spirit

Unfortunately, since it's an arcade game, you'll have to resort to emulators and such. I think it's pretty obscure, took me a couple tries for my Google-fu to succeed.

Well, if they get too big they'll probably be on the recieving end of another antitrust suit.
Happened in the 70s, could happen again.

Sold. Looking forward to trying it out.