Over 20 years ago, I almost bankrupted MicroProse by designing Darklands and leading the team that built it. I will do my best to answer design questions in this thread. There are some caveats: - I do not have any legal rights to the game or its code, so I can't promise any improvements or follow-ons. - I am unfamiliar with the code adjustments made to produce this version. I can't help you with bugs. - I'm a designer and producer, not an artist or programmer, so I can't help you mod the graphics ...

There used to be a literally step-by-step guide to creating an optimized party that covered each character's development year by year here on steam and now it seems to have disappeared. Does anyone know what happened, or better yet, where to find it?

The game will boot you out even if you bought it on steam, is that a feature? lol Please fix it.

I will start by saying i know the potions can stun, slow, blind, damage, etc enemy. And I know it gets rough at endgame with groups of plate armored goons and supernatural enemy. And there are the buff potions, for tough fights, as well. This isn't about the benefits of potions themselves, its about buying them vs crafting them, really. Generally, then, it seems like to do alchemy 'right' you already beat the game? You need: - either a guy too old to fight worth anything, probably in his 50s, ...

It really crashes a lot. More than it should, and for reasons that it shouldn't I feel like. Super frustrated with crashes because I was playing tonight and got a 5th party member (a Schulze), only to be met by copy protection. Alt + Tabbing out, to get the alchemy code for the protection wall, made the game crash. Pretty frustrating....