I think one of my biggest hang ups with dwarf fortress is setting goals that are too big and take so long i lose interest or the progress slows to a.crawl as logistical issues start piling up
In terms of design its hard to find a flaw in DF, maybe animal people should be more interactable, but thats just an opinion. The actual proble wit DF is the miriad of small bugs that have accumulated. Seeds clogging cages rendering them unusable, dwarves stuck in offscreen missions, missing artifact/named item sprites, etc. They are smaller issues but they DO pile up and it reache a point where it becomes obnoxious to continue a fort. I wish Tarn would just halt feature development for a time and just take a few months to focus solely on fixing bugs and ironing out stuff thats already IN the game.
Dwarven engineering is at its finest when it is also asthetically pleasing. Otherwise its just a sparkling death machine.
I think one of my biggest hang ups with dwarf fortress is setting goals that are too big and take so long i lose interest or the progress slows to a.crawl as logistical issues start piling up
In terms of design its hard to find a flaw in DF, maybe animal people should be more interactable, but thats just an opinion. The actual proble wit DF is the miriad of small bugs that have accumulated. Seeds clogging cages rendering them unusable, dwarves stuck in offscreen missions, missing artifact/named item sprites, etc. They are smaller issues but they DO pile up and it reache a point where it becomes obnoxious to continue a fort. I wish Tarn would just halt feature development for a time and just take a few months to focus solely on fixing bugs and ironing out stuff thats already IN the game.