Next competition

[Nick]

Oh, and the turncount used for the ladder.

I believe Pav has fixed that one.

[Ingwe Ingweron]

4.0beta next plz

Ranger of some sort might be good, to get good coverage of spells, melee, shooting and bad pseudo-ID

That would be great! The "Sauron and artifacts appearing only once unless reset by closing and reopening" bug is the only really major one I can think of that would need to be fixed before a comp. Oh, and the turncount used for the ladder. Those two bugs and a comp should work.

But please, not another "Leon". That was painful!

[debo]

Yes, I imagine grid bugs are particularly susceptible to ranged attacks.

Betacomp it is! We have some more weird ones I'd like to try, but it'll be good to play something new and broken instead of old and broken for the next one

[Nick]

4.0beta next plz

Ranger of some sort might be good, to get good coverage of spells, melee, shooting and bad pseudo-ID

[debo]

Me thinks Compo 172 should be on CthAngband 5.0.0.

I was hoping the timing would work out for this! The comp start will probably be a couple days late (I'm traveling right now, and I suspect that building a new release like this for non-windows will probably have a few snags) -- however, if anyone wants to give a go at creating a savefile, I'd welcome suggestions.

[HugoVirtuoso]

Me thinks Compo 172 should be on CthAngband 5.0.0.

[debo]

I think human warrior is the way to go. We haven't ever done one of those.

[nppangband]

Please let me know if you need anything. I was going to suggest a Dunadan Ranger starting with Anduril. Human warrior should also be quite good.

[HugoVirtuoso]

We haven't done a true NPP competition in about a billion years. Any objections to that being next? Also happy to take savefile proposals.

How about an NPP-Angband Human Warrior?

[debo]

We haven't done a true NPP competition in about a billion years. Any objections to that being next? Also happy to take savefile proposals.

[Jungle_Boy]

I ended up going with PowerWyrm's Leon. (We hadn't done a ranger in a while.)

Thank you for your contribution, though!

You're welcome. I ended up playing slink myself and decided that no preserve is just a death wish waiting to happen.

[debo]

Those both sound fun too. I don't think I've ever had a no artifact game, at least not one that got far.

I ended up going with PowerWyrm's Leon. (We hadn't done a ranger in a while.)

Thank you for your contribution, though!

[Jungle_Boy]

Those both sound fun too. I don't think I've ever had a no artifact game, at least not one that got far.

[PowerWyrm]

Here's my idea, taken directly from http://www.penancecomic.com/2007/06/21/2-18-penance.

Leon is a human ranger. He has broken the rules of his community. For his penance, he was told to go 5000ft down the fortress of Angband and slay Morgoth. And since he was going to take the task too lightly, the gods decided that no artifacts would cross his path during that task.

Another idea, taken from http://www.penancecomic.com/2007/07/31/3-5-say-it.

Lucky is a half troll mage. He has an interesting background story (see previous link).

Savefiles attached. Both characters are force descent/no selling, with tougher monsters enabled (ai_learn). Leon also has artifacts disabled. I think both characters would be fun to play.

[Estie]

Randarts ? Its about the only option that matters to me, dont want to find no Caspanion no more :/