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by Gankenstein
May 7th, 2009, 8:21 am
Forum: Users’ Forum
Topic: Age of Wesnoth Players
Replies: 350
Views: 74206

Re: Age of Wesnoth Players

Could you post a link to one of these surveys? A quick search yielded a some articles which do not quite back up my claim but still shows there are a lot of "older" and/or female gamers: Study: 64% of Online Gamers are Women , this must be in the USA (so not "Western World" as I...
by Gankenstein
May 6th, 2009, 6:02 pm
Forum: Users’ Forum
Topic: Age of Wesnoth Players
Replies: 350
Views: 74206

Re: Age of Wesnoth Players

I'm from 1958, and having just read this thread I wish to say gamers come in all ages and genders. :eng: Several surveys in recent years claim the largest gamer segment in the Western world are women aged 40+. I've at least three women friends around my own age who're hardcore WoW'ers (I'm a male bt...
by Gankenstein
April 20th, 2009, 4:47 pm
Forum: Release Announcements, Compiling & Installation
Topic: Wesnoth 1.6.1
Replies: 19
Views: 10868

Re: Wesnoth 1.6.1

Thanks, loonycyborg!
by Gankenstein
April 19th, 2009, 6:16 pm
Forum: Release Announcements, Compiling & Installation
Topic: Wesnoth 1.6.1
Replies: 19
Views: 10868

Re: Wesnoth 1.6.1

What would be the best way to upgrade from 1.6.0a to 1.6.1 on a Win32 (XP) Box? Here's what I did, in case somebody wants to add it (or an improved version) to a FAQ My install was/is "for all users" with user files placed in Documents\My Games\Wesnoth1.6 - I uninstalled 1.6.0a using the u...
by Gankenstein
April 18th, 2009, 7:36 pm
Forum: Users’ Forum
Topic: How did you find out about Wesnoth?
Replies: 666
Views: 160482

Re: How did you find out about Wesnoth?

Slashdot ran a piece on the 1.6 release.
by Gankenstein
April 18th, 2009, 5:46 pm
Forum: Users’ Forum
Topic: Why are the campaigns designed to be so hard?
Replies: 20
Views: 5264

Re: Why are the campaigns designed to be so hard?

The campaigns are IMO not so hard as to be unplayable. So far I played Heir to the Throne, South Guard, Rise of Wesnoth and am currentlly doing Legend of Wesmere. All of which had easier diffuculty settings than those I used. As for 'cheating', I did a lot of save-reloading especially in the beginni...