Well I'm glad it's improved then - I tried it but I think I'll stick to spaceships for now
EVE has the same risk/reward aspect, if you die you've lost what you had and someone else can loot your wreck, makes it much more interesting.
It's also pretty heavily player driven which is something I like, but I think that's also true of DF.
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