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Nah, all I lost was half of asymmetric hall (which is cool. Probably going to put up a sign and leave it like that) and like one line of blocks off the Gra Vegloo which left some fairly awesome floating torches. Most of my junk was untouched. I just don't want to have to dig the whole bloody thing again if we reset. Took well over an hour of straight digging to get that hole in the ground, and that was before I started putting up walls and crap.

If you're talking about the disheartening part, I wasn't saying I'm disheartened, per se. I'm fine with it. Seeing so much of other people's work go up in smoke is just a bit of downer.

Eh. I guess if I could talk someone into cuboiding me a hole in the ground to remake Freefall tower I could get behind it. Digging any significant hole down to the bedrock is entirely too time consuming to do by hand again, even with warp points and immortality to speed things up.

I kinda' like the random holes in constructions, though, for all that the loss of folks' work is a bit disheartening.

They're randomly placed each game. You'll just have to hunt.

Re: Bat -- you can also kill a vampire that's turned bat. S'how I got it.

Personally, I finish most levels with the yellow dragon, but my favorite critters are the cubes. There's actually at least one non-cube that has the purple cube's attack -- it's a purple golem looking thing, so if you see one, have a care not to get hit. I was rendered unable to unlock the golem of cubish awesomeness due to being turned into a cube.

The absolute easiest character to play on non-boss/dragon maps, though, is probably the invisible man. Nothing attacks you.

Half (and precisely half, amusingly enough) of m'asymmetric hall disappeared, but that was about it for me. I don't have much in the way of cobblestone, but I do have probably a good thousand or so blocks of dirt and sand if anyone can use 'em.

Gonna' be doing a lot of resource harvesting when I have some time anyway, since th'shop's gone defunct, so I don't mind handing it out to the needy.

Whatwhatwhat? You can unlock things without defeating them?

You get one unlock every time you beat the boss, which you can use by pressing C while highlighting a locked square. Beating the boss resets your exploration, but not your unlocked critters, so you can go beat th'bugger again and again and again.

Though the boss isn't exactly impressive. It's just a random large critter, same as you can run into in the normal fights, in th'upper right corner of one of the rooms.

Ah, yeah. Had forgotten it was windowed, actually. And not an issue for higher resolutions, just lower ones. Aurora has this thing where it'll only display properly above a certain resolution (1200x1028, iirc) and there's absolutely no support for what happens if either of those dimensions are smaller (Say 1400x900). I feel your odd resolution pain, which is terribly strange considering how much time I spend with games that won't go over 800x600

Non-widescreen is better for old-gaming, I guess. Or having a CRT monitor (they're cheap, these days, if you can't just go and pick one up from someone's garage or whatever.) laying around to plug into stuff. Multiple monitors are kinda' neat anyway.

As for its interface, it only takes maybe 20-30 minutes sitting down with the wiki to figure out, more or less, what everything does. Not that bad, so far as that goes, but Aurora's even less of a game than DF is, being almost entirely data-driven simulation. Good for what the dev uses it for, not quite so much for the playings.

Man, Aurora must make your failometer do backflips. I wish my graphical problems were so expensive Well, fixing them would be, but... would you believe I've actually got a CRT monitor plugged into a laptop with a dead screen? S'totally tech-ghetto. Which is awesome in its own way, but moving those bloody CRTs is a pain.

If we're doing FPSes, I'd probably vote for something like, I'unno, Tribes or Savage (Didn't the first one go freeware?) or something. Free stuff with some punch instead of generiFPSn^5. Supposedly there's some decent ones out there, but I don't do FPS much these days and it's bloody rare anything with even remotely modern specs won't bring my computer to a screeching halt. Not an issue if folks have already got the numbers to do a full game though, heh. I'm just here to pad the numbers~

The Allegiance virii ding's already been noted in another thread. It's a false positive.

Just dl'd tripleA to check it out. Is... is there a spectator option? There's no way in 'ell I'd enjoy playing that, at least the base "Big World: 1942" that came with the windows DL. Entirely too much micromanagment of a sort I don't enjoy. Would rather play Dominions 3, 'cept I don't have access to anything except the demo.

Is there anything for the 3A engine thing that's, uh, not quite so fiddly? Or WW-ie? Only game of that sort I've ever been able to get in to was Fantasy General and Dom3