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[debo]

Are you saying you want us to decide the compo combo before it starts? Or this upcoming compo allows us to pick any combination we want??

The latter

[MITZE]

the latter

Gee I wonder what Hugo is going to play if he joins!

[Gwarl]

Gwarl: how's the web client going? If it's comp-ready we can do after this next one.

It's improving, I'm willing to say I'll have it ready by the time this 2 week competition is over.

In the case of this competition it's possible now - my entry into this comp will be played online.

If you want to use a particular variant for the next one I'll see what I can do about supporting it. Currently the choices are Vanilla, Poschengband, FAAngband and before long Sil.

If 4.1 gets a release before the end of this competition I'd suggest we pick that - this time a low str race red book class.

[debo]

It's improving, I'm willing to say I'll have it ready by the time this 2 week competition is over.

In the case of this competition it's possible now - my entry into this comp will be played online.

If you want to use a particular variant for the next one I'll see what I can do about supporting it. Currently the choices are Vanilla, Poschengband, FAAngband and before long Sil.

If 4.1 gets a release before the end of this competition I'd suggest we pick that - this time a low str race red book class.

Very cool! It'd be cool to suggest people try optionally playing on it if they want for this comp if that's possible -- I didn't realize poscheng was already set up. Is there an easy way to get chardumps from the game server to an oook competition ladder?

[Gwarl]

Very cool! It'd be cool to suggest people try optionally playing on it if they want for this comp if that's possible -- I didn't realize poscheng was already set up. Is there an easy way to get chardumps from the game server to an oook competition ladder?

Char dumps are accessible by URL but there are no instructions so:

If you're logged in as Bilbo and you call your char dump Hobbit.txt your dump would be at

/user/Bilbo/poschengband/Hobbit.txt

Assuming you were playing poschengband.

Providing a list of links to the contents of the user folders is on the agenda. I would also like to add a button to post directly to the ladder but I don't know that all works just yet.

[HugoVirtuoso]

My only issues with the PosChengband on the webserver are the following: Running (Shift+directional key) doesn't work and its colors are off. Other than that, it may be good to go.

[HugoVirtuoso]

Pick whatever we want also means we can choose Monster races too, right? E.g. Possessors and Mimics?

[Gwarl]

Time for another competition soon.. 4.1.0?

[debo]

Vanilla 4.1 comp will be going up in the next 24-48hrs. If anyone has a character / birth option setup they'd love to see played, post it here! Otherwise I'll just make something up, probably on the obscenely difficult side.

[Derakon]

Vanilla 4.1 comp will be going up in the next 24-48hrs. If anyone has a character / birth option setup they'd love to see played, post it here! Otherwise I'll just make something up, probably on the obscenely difficult side.

Half-troll mage, forced-descent no-recall.

[bron]

on the obscenely difficult side.

I'm not a fan of forced descent, but no-recall would be good. I'd be partial to a human warrior. Things like mages and priests have a hard time starting up: if you look at the recent comp, about half the total turn count of the winners was spent just getting to dlvl 30. A warrior (even a human warrior) should be able to move through the initial (boring) levels a lot faster, but has a harder time down deeper. And IMO the inventory problem of no-recall is especially tough on a warrior.

edit: well, maybe a third, not a half. And yes those are Standard turns, not Game turns. But I still claim that casters spend a lot of time on the early, less interesting parts.

[Pete Mack]

@bron: don't know about priests but Mages--especially HE--spend the boring time between around CL 33 and CL 40.
EDIT: *Especially* if the get shortchanged on !DEX and !Restore Mana. I've found 2 of each in my current game!

[Derakon]

edit: well, maybe a third, not a half. And yes those are Standard turns, not Game turns. But I still claim that casters spend a lot of time on the early, less interesting parts.

Isn't a lot of that due to having to rest to restore SP? So if you play a race with innate regeneration, that's not a problem.

[Gwarl]

My preference:

low str race red book class.

To contrast with the last V comp (High str race green book class).

I mean you could get obscenely difficult with that. Kobold mage anybody?

[debo]

My preference:


To contrast with the last V comp (High str race green book class).

I mean you could get obscenely difficult with that. Kobold mage anybody?

I was thinking kobold mage myself