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'Roguelike' is considerably less words

Still accurate, too. There's not really anything in T4 that's not in other RLs, it's just that T4's one of the first to pull as many together into such a polished package, performance issues and bugs aside. Despite being one of the oldest of game types, it still feels like RL development and expansion outside of the big names (NetHack, Angband, Crawl, ADOM) is only just now kicking off. The next three-five years promise to have some seriously interesting things go down in the RL scene, and T4's continuing development is only one of many. Good times.

There's hope of optimization in the future, yes, but that's in the future. There's been issues with graphical junk causing slowdowns in the past, and while stuff's getting fixed, it takes time, et al. But yeah, T4 is actually pretty resource heavy, so you're probably not doing anything wrong, especially if your comp's specs aren't freakishly powerful. If you do have a killer rig, though, something else is probably going on and more info will be needed.

My suggestion is thus: Go into the options and turn off everything that'll turn off and still allow the game to run. Set the particle number to 0. Then see if the game's still wrecking your comp. T4 plays fine without all the fancy graphical shenanigans

I've found that cutting the particle count to 0 or 1 basically halved CPU consumption on my computer, in most situations.

E: Also, try asking over on the T4 forum or IRC channel if you have specific areas or situations where slowdown is bad. T4's dev is pretty open and tries to help when he can, and the rest of the community tends to be pretty non-hostile. It might be that whatever problem you're having just needs to be brought to Darkgod's attention.

Man, Der Ring des Nibelungen totally ripped off Toady's idea*. It had dwarves and artifact jewelery!

*Well over 100 years before Toady was born. Ain't that a hat-trick?

Seriously though, it's good to see Dungeon Keeper inspiring anything, even if apparently not terribly much. Every little bit helps.

Command and Conquer And this. And Warzone 2100. And Spring.

Honestly, with the size of memory sticks nowadays, you're not terribly limited. I could fit the entirety of my roguelike folder on a single one, and there's probably over a hundred games in it right now. You're not exactly pressed for room when you've got over a gig of space.

Hrm, memory must be failing me, then. Remember playing shadowrun on an actual SNES without much trouble, many years ago. It's been a while...

Or better yet, just play both. They're different enough from each other to get enjoyable playthroughs from either.

Obviously it'd be behavior locked in some ways. Go-go 3 laws. (AI: I dun wanna' play with this idiot! Behavior Program: BUT THOU MUST.)

While the moral choice, it'd be incredibly stupid to create something just as intelligent (or even remotely as intelligent) as ourselves without making bloody sure it's not going to do something we don't want it to.

In short, slavery. But it's alright, since we made it (At least until it reaches the age of majority).