Competition 63

[buzzkill]

I've found a Ring of Delving. It supposedly turns Stone to Mud when you aim it. I put it on and tried 'a'im, 'z'ap, 'u'se, and 'A'ctivate all without success. What's the secret???
Perhaps I just have to let it charge up first?

[pav]

Lovely, I STILL managed to do it....

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I will modify it to refuse the dump if no name is provided.

[The Sparrow]

Attention players: Vanilla dumps starting 3.1.0 no longer contain name of your character. So please make sure to fill it in manually when uploading your dump to the ladder, both competition ladder and regular.

Lovely, I STILL managed to do it....

*smacks forehead*

[Big Al]

If the character history was included in the char dumps, then a lot of that info is already displayed. It's being tracked but not printed out:

Turncount
Experience
Score (this doesn't get talked about much...)
Number of uniques killed
Deepest unique killed
Gold
Number of artifacts found
Deepest artifact found
Most valuable artifact found

[chem]

These are now in the bug DB for V, but I don't know that I'll get round to implementing them very soon. (aka. patches please! )

NPP does the basic uniques killed and artifacts found thing very nicely, so there should be some kind of V-friendly patch out there somewhere... I hope!

[takkaria]

Is the Socratic method working for you?

Seeing this seems to be the week for lists, here we go:

• Turncount
• Experience
• Score (this doesn't get talked about much...)
• "Player turns" (a la NPP)
• Number of uniques killed
• Deepest unique killed
• Deepest monster killed
• Gold
• Number of artifacts found
• Deepest artifact found
• Most valuable artifact found
• Real time taken (whether from some future internal clock or just elapsed since game start)
• Character name (sorry takkaria )
• Other variant specific info (like deepest dungeon guardian in FA, or deepest completed quest in NPP)

Some of those are already there, obviously.

These are now in the bug DB for V, but I don't know that I'll get round to implementing them very soon. (aka. patches please! )

[Antoine]

Is the Socratic method working for you?

It sho' is Nice list.

[Nick]

Can we put a feature request together along these lines?

Is the Socratic method working for you?

Seeing this seems to be the week for lists, here we go:

• Turncount
• Experience
• Score (this doesn't get talked about much...)
• "Player turns" (a la NPP)
• Number of uniques killed
• Deepest unique killed
• Deepest monster killed
• Gold
• Number of artifacts found
• Deepest artifact found
• Most valuable artifact found
• Real time taken (whether from some future internal clock or just elapsed since game start)
• Character name (sorry takkaria )
• Other variant specific info (like deepest dungeon guardian in FA, or deepest completed quest in NPP)

Some of those are already there, obviously.

[Antoine]

Definitely.

Can we put a feature request together along these lines?

A.

[Nick]

Since this is a just started character is it legal to just continue using the same savefile and quickstart new characters? This would save you from having to delete and copy savefiles everytime you start a new character.

On reflection, I think "No" is the best answer - keeps it simple, and stops people getting into bad competition habits for variants without quickstart (or with a different one).

[Nick]

With future competitions in mind, would it be worthwhile to get more information into the chardump? Uniques killed, artifacts found, ...?

Definitely.

[Antoine]

It's fewest turns. I went with the simple thing, in the end.

With future competitions in mind, would it be worthwhile to get more information into the chardump? Uniques killed, artifacts found, ...?

A.

[buzzkill]

(Thinks...how do I not betray my ignorance of quickstart...) "That's a good question. What do other people think?"

I'd say no. How hard is it to make a copy of or re-download the original save file.

[Jungle_Boy]

the only differences I can think of would be monster memory and different items in the stores. It would also prevent you from metagaming item flavors.

[Nick]

Since this is a just started character is it legal to just continue using the same savefile and quickstart new characters? This would save you from having to delete and copy savefiles everytime you start a new character.

(Thinks...how do I not betray my ignorance of quickstart...) "That's a good question. What do other people think?"