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  • MattB
    Veteran
    • Mar 2013
    • 1214

    #16
    Originally posted by Knight
    The only thing I find to be an issue with that is that sometimes, if I'm already full, I'll wind up at Gorged and -10 speed.
    No need to worry about that in v3.5[dev], Takkaria has got rid of the gorged status.

    Edit: Sorry, too late. Derakon got there before me!

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    • MattB
      Veteran
      • Mar 2013
      • 1214

      #17
      Originally posted by Knight


      Any suggestions? I want to try to teleport the Beholder hive-mother in the top row away and loot only said top row, and leave the rest, but I'm not sure if I should even come close to the vault. There's so many goodies, though...
      Wow, that IS a crazy vault!

      The good news is that you're only going to have to fight one monster at a time (except for the summoners. Mind you, if you're standing next to them and they're surrounded by vault, can they summon behind you?).
      Also, don't forget that if you read a phase door you'll be dumped outside of the entire thing, which will give you plenty of time to rest up. The pathfinding will probably mean the current freed beasty won't be able to find a way out.

      Your biggest problem, as you mention on your ladder dump, is your terrible damage output. Lots of those baddies resist poison so you'll only be doing 49 damage per round, which will take a long time to wear down a greater wyrm.

      The worst things in there are the great wyrm of many colours and the Mouth of Sauron (well, the bottom half of him anyway), but they're quite a ways in. And don't walk into the Death Mould. And watch out for that Scruffy Looking Hobbit!

      If only you had more than 2 charges on your TO it would be simple! Or even a single rod of TO. I don't suppose you've found more TO since your ladder dump?

      Maybe it would be better to run screaming into the distance after all!

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      • Knight
        Scout
        • Oct 2011
        • 49

        #18
        Haha, thanks for the advice. I took the latter part of valor, as well as the latter part of your advice (insinuating, perhaps, that your advice is valor?) and ran screaming into the distance. I didn't even want to mess with the Beholder hive-mother, even though I had a charge of TO. She could cast darkness storm for more than my current max health and I didn't want to mess with that.

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        • MattB
          Veteran
          • Mar 2013
          • 1214

          #19
          Originally posted by Knight
          Haha, thanks for the advice. I took the latter part of valor, as well as the latter part of your advice (insinuating, perhaps, that your advice is valor?) and ran screaming into the distance. I didn't even want to mess with the Beholder hive-mother, even though I had a charge of TO. She could cast darkness storm for more than my current max health and I didn't want to mess with that.
          Probably wise, a 5% fail chance on your last charge on a wand of teleport other triggers 19 times out of 20 in my experience.

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          • Timo Pietilä
            Prophet
            • Apr 2007
            • 4096

            #20
            Originally posted by Knight
            Another edit: Craziest vault I've ever seen:

            [picture of colored blobs]

            Any suggestions?
            Can't give any suggestion because I can't recognize anything in that picture. How an earth can people play with that? Could you turn tiles off and then take another picture?

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            • MattB
              Veteran
              • Mar 2013
              • 1214

              #21
              Originally posted by Timo Pietilä
              Can't give any suggestion because I can't recognize anything in that picture. How an earth can people play with that? Could you turn tiles off and then take another picture?
              Makes perfect sense to me!

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              • Knight
                Scout
                • Oct 2011
                • 49

                #22
                Timo, I've actually passed that vault and moved on since, didn't even try to mess with it that much. The main reason I play with tiles is because I can't figure out how to get the text to not stretch when I resize the window on a Mac... the same amount of tiles always is displayed, no matter what the resolution of the window is. Is there a way around this by any chance?

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                • Derakon
                  Prophet
                  • Dec 2009
                  • 9022

                  #23
                  The way around it is to upgrade to 3.5. Molybdenum graciously gave us the benefit of their OSX/Cocoa expertise.

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                  • debo
                    Veteran
                    • Oct 2011
                    • 2402

                    #24
                    or if you don't want to upgrade, I think you can increase your font-size (per window) using the dropdowns...
                    Glaurung, Father of the Dragons says, 'You cannot avoid the ballyhack.'

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                    • molybdenum
                      Apprentice
                      • May 2013
                      • 84

                      #25
                      Originally posted by Knight
                      Timo, I've actually passed that vault and moved on since, didn't even try to mess with it that much. The main reason I play with tiles is because I can't figure out how to get the text to not stretch when I resize the window on a Mac... the same amount of tiles always is displayed, no matter what the resolution of the window is. Is there a way around this by any chance?
                      Unfortunately, the OS X port of 3.4 and earlier is hardcoded to 80x24.

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                      • Knight
                        Scout
                        • Oct 2011
                        • 49

                        #26
                        Okay, awesome. Can I play a 3.4.1 character in 3.5? I'd love to have more tiles displayed but don't want to lose my current character. (speaking of which, I just uploaded him to the ladder, he's doing pretty good in comparison to my other characters).

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                        • molybdenum
                          Apprentice
                          • May 2013
                          • 84

                          #27
                          Originally posted by Knight
                          Okay, awesome. Can I play a 3.4.1 character in 3.5? I'd love to have more tiles displayed but don't want to lose my current character. (speaking of which, I just uploaded him to the ladder, he's doing pretty good in comparison to my other characters).
                          The general suggestion is to wait until your character dies before moving a savefile to a different version. If you don't want to wait, you'll at least want to make a backup of the save; once 3.5 saves the game, that file won't work on older versions.

                          Also, the tile size is controlled by the font size, so you can adjust that to get the tile size that you want.

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                          • Knight
                            Scout
                            • Oct 2011
                            • 49

                            #28
                            Ah, okay, thanks molybdenum. Any idea where I could find a Mac build of 3.5? Can't seem to locate one.

                            Also, I found Ringil!

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                            • molybdenum
                              Apprentice
                              • May 2013
                              • 84

                              #29
                              Originally posted by Knight
                              Ah, okay, thanks molybdenum. Any idea where I could find a Mac build of 3.5? Can't seem to locate one.

                              Also, I found Ringil!
                              http://rephial.org/nightlies is where you can find 3.5 until the official release is out.

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