I fully admit that I spent 40 delicious hours faffing about in Act 1 and then put it down out of fear that I'd never get anything else done. :P

One big upside of single player games is that they have an ending. After playing MUDs back in the day, this was a decision I've kept -- no games without an end.

To be fair, I've still spent a crazy amount of time with the Civilization games so let's say that was a partial success.

You can make it run much better by increasing the game's process priority with `renice`. I know that sounds like something that should not work, but it does.