The chief things that bother me are related to the issues that UnAndrew raise in his blog about a year ago (btw, pav - a link to the blog on the links page would be nice).
It turns out that the current best way to get a good turncount in FA is stairscum on the Anfauglith 56/58 border - I tried this a few times last night with thralls, and my characters included one which had found Crisdurian, the Glaive of Pain and Caspanion by 5000 turns.
I don't know about anyone else, but this seems unbalanced to me - not in a fairness sense, but in that it is an overemphasis on a small part of the game.
While I'm philosophising, I'll say that I dislike excessive focus on turncount. For me, focus is on winning, with the expectation of enjoying the journey - certainly with my comp game win, I could have gone faster at the end but was still enjoying killing off uniques, so didn't. Once one has won a variant once, I understand that one needs new challenges, and winning as fast as possible is certainly a valid one. But there are others - different race/class combinations, or the (self-regulated) equivalent of Nethack's conducts, for example.
I need to stop now before I start on instant gratification and the evils of modern society
It turns out that the current best way to get a good turncount in FA is stairscum on the Anfauglith 56/58 border - I tried this a few times last night with thralls, and my characters included one which had found Crisdurian, the Glaive of Pain and Caspanion by 5000 turns.
I don't know about anyone else, but this seems unbalanced to me - not in a fairness sense, but in that it is an overemphasis on a small part of the game.
While I'm philosophising, I'll say that I dislike excessive focus on turncount. For me, focus is on winning, with the expectation of enjoying the journey - certainly with my comp game win, I could have gone faster at the end but was still enjoying killing off uniques, so didn't. Once one has won a variant once, I understand that one needs new challenges, and winning as fast as possible is certainly a valid one. But there are others - different race/class combinations, or the (self-regulated) equivalent of Nethack's conducts, for example.
I need to stop now before I start on instant gratification and the evils of modern society
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