If Dwarf Fortress sells millions on Steam, its creators will give the money away

Dwarf fortress always seems like a brilliant idea wrapped up in a terrible ui and execution. I recently started playing rimworld and its a very similar game but much easier to get started on. The game progressively gives you tips and messages on how to get better and do stuff rather than requiring you to spend hours reading a wiki to get started.

&gt; &quot; [...] at the point where Zack and I would both have like 5 million dollars, and I don&#x27;t know what that means,” he says. “Is that going to corrupt my morality somehow and turn me into a strange person?&quot; [...]<p>The fact that he thinks about it this way, already tells me, that he shouldn&#x27;t be so worried about it. Put it in a few different banks with a good track record and just let it sit there if you don&#x27;t want to interact with it. It&#x27;s there when you need it then :)

DF seems amazing but the learning curve is so steep it&#x27;s discouraging.<p>I&#x27;ve yet to find a base building game that feels fair and does not put so much pressure on the player. Tried Prison Architect but my prison got burnt to the ground because guards were on strike (and they announced it 3 hours before while it takes 5 hours to be able to offer them a raise). Tried Oxygen Not Included but the water behaves SO erratically that my whole base got flooded because one of my minions stepped on the wrong tile (and it seems like the water keeps on expanding like a gaz, not like a fluid) and they were all frozen. Tried Don&#x27;t Starve and Banished, and these felt so unfair (I hate dying because I didn&#x27;t plan for something I couldn&#x27;t guess 140 turns before).<p>Base Building Games are hard to program, I agree, but I don&#x27;t feel they should be hard to play and enjoy.

Everyone is always above money until they’re looking at a stack of it in front of them. The only folks I know that have the willpower to turn down a pile of money is someone who has their eyes set on a mountain of money.

I&#x27;m just glad that Tarn is finally looking concerned about his own health, considering he has (according to interviews) been living like a hermit and subsisting on red bull and soft drinks...

I&#x27;ve considered this issue before. How much is &#x27;enough&#x27;? It certainly depends on what your preference is (are you okay with second hand cars, or do you want to try a Lamborghini for size?), but $5M in the bank is 50 years at $100K a year (ignoring interest, etc). Towards the end of your life you probably don&#x27;t need that much, but if you didn&#x27;t want to have &#x27;too much&#x27; and were disciplined enough to leave most of what you have in the bank and just give yourself an &#x27;allowance&#x27;, $5M would not be an unreasonable sum.

Don&#x27;t buy it on Steam. Cut the middleman and donate the creators directly.

i mean.. that&#x27;s nice. but damn. If they dont qualify as deserving to reap their rewards... I dont know who does!<p>Edit: It seems like they may be vaguely referencing Markus &quot;Notch&quot; Persson&#x27;s cash flush success after selling Minecraft.<p>I think just being self aware enough to be worried about how &quot;money&quot; might change them should be enough to settle their worries.<p>Notch had a rough time for a while, but he was always a very public person... these guys are a lot less public and I&#x27;d suggest less susceptible to being led astray... but who knows I guess.

A truly American story, basically the only developed country in the world where you can be bankrupted from getting sick.