Btw if you want to get any classic games from The Underdogs, make sure you aren't using any download accelerators. I just got banned from downloading off that site for a week, and all I tried to do was download Darklands while browsing with Firefox.
Got banned in about 2 seconds.
edit: I'm fairly clueless as to networking and such, but using netstat -n it appears that when i first begin to download a file it will open a crapload of connections, then once it's established the optimal one (I guess), it switches to just using the one; so, that's probably why The Underdogs banned me for my accidental misbehavior. Though, not a problem, googled 'Darklands abandonware' and found a few other sites that had it, such as Abandonia.
Oh and for the record I'd love to see a Master of Magic remake too.
A fantasy empire TBS with RPG elements just hasn't been done to the same degree since, there was just such a remarkable number of features that nothing exactly compares. However, it was lacking a lot of automation features (build queues for starters), the town advancement was relatively limited, and it didn't feel to me like each game 'felt' different from the last; in other words I felt the replay value wasn't quite what it could've been. All these things are things Stardock could surely remedy. On second thought it's really not the replay value it was lacking, since your spell choices, race and perk picks could make a big difference, I think it goes back to the lack of automation makes it feel repetitive to me if I go back and play it now.
