Re: Should I give up?

Doug Freyburger wrote: 
Davémon wrote:

Should I resign to my fate, and give up playing NH unascended? 


I haven't ascended in a decade, but I'm still playing.
Either I don't understand your question or I don't
understand the deal with ascending.


I suppose it's a bit like climbing Everest.

Or is not getting past mine town after 9 months of sporadic play just
par for the course?


Par.  You are playing a bit too aggressively.  Learn
some lesson from every death.  If your character
dies and you do not learn a lesson, consider the
events until you have.  Often lessons aren't simple
one-time point-of-action ones like "don't eat a
really old corpse" but are more like "don't allow
yourself to get into a crowd".

You're right, I probably wasn't used to looking at/for the bigger picture, it's really unusual for computer games to have that level of strategy.


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Davémon
http://www.nightsoil.co.uk
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