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Subthread: anyone else wants to join my support group for people who don’t get these games? I tried rimworld, which seemed much easier to get into, and it seems like a sims-like game except that unlike sims it’s very unintuitive. I’ve been trying to figure out how to enjoy this game the same way I enjoyed sims when I was younger, and it dawned on me that I never really played sims the “correct” way and rather just did things because I wanted to see these things happen in my sims people’s lives. That makes sense. But what’s a colony? What do I want to do with that colony? I got confused by the lack of feedback from my decisions (or the complexity and depth of every decisions you can make) and realized at some point that I was not enjoying the game coz I was just trying to figure out the mechanics in order to win. Maybe I’m playing it wrong. Maybe the whole point of this game is to have some sort of digital terrarium?

[jackmott42]

>I never really played sims the “correct” way and rather just did things because I wanted to see these things happen in my sims people’s lives

That is exactly how to play DF. There is no winning. Just do what you want, see what happens. I'm working on creating the greatest library in the world, hoping to get elven and human visitors to learn and contribute even more knowledge.

It does get harder as I get older to enjoy this stuff, but I have my moments.

[assbuttbuttass]

Digital terrarium isn't far off, a lot of the fun of the game is just seeing what crazy stuff it can throw at you (and, what you can throw back)