Why developing my variant is often more fun than playing

[Spacebux]

Font-settnigs.

Can't read your comment. Could you please edit your comment and remove all the unnecessary colors and stupid font-settings from it so that it becomes readable.

Stupid?

Just ignore my posts from now on, please.

Thanks.

[AnonymousHero]

Stupid?

Why add all that colour? It does absolutely nothing to help make your point -- in fact it's just one huge jumble of distraction.

With my settings (default forum theme, I guess) some bits of your first post were almost unreadable just because of the colouring. Constant colour switching also generally breaks the flow of reading. Therefore, I didn't bother to read it.

There are very good reason for limiting yourself to bold and italics when writing prose.

Just ignore my posts from now on, please.

If you carry on using colour like that, most people will, regardless of the substance of what you're saying. If you want people to read what you post you have to make some effort at making it, y'know, readable.

[nppangband]

because I suck.

I've once or twice in the past gotten past dL60, but in what seems like the past thousand games (most of them very short), I can't seem to get past dL15.

Okay it's partly because I don't like sticking to the easiest class/race combos, but it's mainly because I suck.

I know how to play smart, but I don't seem to have the patence.

1) Because coding *is* more fun than playing (ie making the exact game you want to play rather than playing a game that isnt' quite what you want it to be).
2) Because once we start coding, we are really just testing out your own game features rather than playing to win. (Hmmm I wonder,if those new spells I just coded means my level 30 mage has any chance in a battle vs that dracolich in that vault over there).
3) Because we spend so much time coding we forget how to play.
4) Because we think we know everything about how to play our own variant, and we don't.

[will_asher]

1) Because coding *is* more fun than playing (ie making the exact game you want to play rather than playing a game that isnt' quite what you want it to be).
2) Because once we start coding, we are really just testing out your own game features rather than playing to win. (Hmmm I wonder,if those new spells I just coded means my level 30 mage has any chance in a battle vs that dracolich in that vault over there).
3) Because we spend so much time coding we forget how to play.
4) Because we think we know everything about how to play our own variant, and we don't.

exactly. this too.

[Tiburon Silverflame]

Spacebux: what Anon said. Color has its purposes even on boards like this...but it's isolated usage to highlight particular things, and/or create separation between blocks...in other words, to add content, not simply to make the content "pretty."