Competition 65

[Nick]

Competition 65 is now available from the competition page; it is an FAangband Ent Rogue.

Note that Comp 64 still has a week to run.

[Pete Mack]

Competition 65 is now available from the competition page; it is an FAangband Ent Rogue.

Note that Comp 64 still has a week to run.

So, what odds will people give on evariste vs Psi?

[Nick]

A couple of quick tips for starting out:

1. You may want to move to (or at least set a recall point in) a big town at some point (for the better shops). Belegost is probably the best bet at first, although Menegroth and Gondolin shopkeepers will probably be friendlier to ents.
2. You can order scrolls potions and town books in the Travelling Merchant (shop 0) in small towns. My first step was to order !Speed and C&T and I&I (rogues don't use S&E); I also ordered ?Recall and ?tLevel in case the alchemist runs out. They are expensive at the merchant, but better than nothing.

[Psi]

...and the useful thing about Ents is that when not meleeing, they are hard to detect on tree grids (denoted by Hidden on the status line). Higher level monsters will find you more easily though.

[Magnate]

Well, a good reason to give FA a try. When is the end date of this comp?

[Nick]

Well, a good reason to give FA a try. When is the end date of this comp?

March the 22nd. Have fun

[Nick]

Pav - I've just noticed that max depth doesn't really work for FA. Alternatives I can think of off the top of my head are check for the biggest depth of recall points, check for the biggest depth in the notes, or just check for guardians killed (again in the notes, I guess) and only add a depth for one of those. None of these is perfect, I'm afraid...

[Jungle_Boy]

A couple of quick tips for starting out:

1. You may want to move to (or at least set a recall point in) a big town at some point (for the better shops). Belegost is probably the best bet at first, although Menegroth and Gondolin shopkeepers will probably be friendlier to ents.
2. You can order scrolls potions and town books in the Travelling Merchant (shop 0) in small towns. My first step was to order !Speed and C&T and I&I (rogues don't use S&E); I also ordered ?Recall and ?tLevel in case the alchemist runs out. They are expensive at the merchant, but better than nothing.

What is C&T, I&I, and S&E, I thought I knew most band abbreviations but those have me stumped.

[Donald Jonker]

What is C&T, I&I, and S&E, I thought I knew most band abbreviations but those have me stumped.

The mage books - Conjurings & Tricks, Incantations & Illusions, and Sorcery & Evocations. (It took me a minute to figure them out too.)

[pav]

Pav - I've just noticed that max depth doesn't really work for FA. Alternatives I can think of off the top of my head are check for the biggest depth of recall points, check for the biggest depth in the notes, or just check for guardians killed (again in the notes, I guess) and only add a depth for one of those. None of these is perfect, I'm afraid...

I'd just hide the column from the view in the table, if you don't mind.

[Donald Jonker]

Just a heads up for people playing comp 65:

When you save & exit, it will save under the savefile Splinter, not 65 (previous comps have been different). If you open 65 again, and then save and exit again, it'll overwrite whatever progress you previously made.

So you may want to change your char name to make sure you don't screw up.. I know I will.

[Nick]

I'd just hide the column from the view in the table, if you don't mind.

Yeah, that works.

[Nick]

When you save & exit, it will save under the savefile Splinter, not 65 (previous comps have been different). If you open 65 again, and then save and exit again, it'll overwrite whatever progress you previously made.

So you may want to change your char name to make sure you don't screw up.. I know I will.

This is standard behaviour for FA in Windows - I'm surprised it didn't happen in the O comp, actually. Sorry about that. Yet another reason to play in Linux

EDIT: Yes, pav, or BSD.

[pav]

EDIT: Yes, pav, or BSD.

Linux's fine, really. I'm not militant

[Nick]

In case anyone's wondering, turning off autoscum is allowed.