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  • Nick
    Vanilla maintainer
    • Apr 2007
    • 9633

    Competition 80

    Competition 80 is now available from here; it is a Furyband Dark-Elf Jedi.

    Note that comp 79 still has about half a day to go.
    One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
    In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
  • konijn_
    Hellband maintainer
    • Jul 2007
    • 367

    #2
    So far so good, first character died of embarrasment, or was it hunger and lack of scrolls of recalls

    Second character cleaned out first dungeon, killed Old Man Willow and got into Orc Dungeon finally. Got into a level with all '&''s. Moving in these ampersands would get me tons of messages of 'it died' and then in the end the game crashed..

    T.
    * Are you ready for something else ? Hellband 0.8.8 is out! *

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    • JohnCW9
      Adept
      • Jul 2009
      • 118

      #3
      Originally posted by konijn_
      So far so good, first character died of embarrasment, or was it hunger and lack of scrolls of recalls

      Second character cleaned out first dungeon, killed Old Man Willow and got into Orc Dungeon finally. Got into a level with all '&''s. Moving in these ampersands would get me tons of messages of 'it died' and then in the end the game crashed..

      T.
      This is a known bug in the program, save often use Force Disarm
      My first legit winner http://angband.oook.cz/ladder-show.php?id=5114

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      • konijn_
        Hellband maintainer
        • Jul 2007
        • 367

        #4
        What is 'Force Disarm?' ?

        I quite like this contest. "Walking softly, carrying a big stick".
        I've never done the spider quest in this fashion, they never knew what was coming, they just die in one blow, even the purple ones, never woke up.

        T.
        * Are you ready for something else ? Hellband 0.8.8 is out! *

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        • JohnCW9
          Adept
          • Jul 2009
          • 118

          #5
          Originally posted by konijn_
          What is 'Force Disarm?' ?

          I quite like this contest. "Walking softly, carrying a big stick".
          I've never done the spider quest in this fashion, they never knew what was coming, they just die in one blow, even the purple ones, never woke up.

          T.
          Its one of the Jedi powers that your character has, To use it press 'm' select the 'use Jedi powers' then 'f'. Each point you put into Jedi and subsections adds to his abilties and new one come available as he progresses.

          John
          My first legit winner http://angband.oook.cz/ladder-show.php?id=5114

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          • konijn_
            Hellband maintainer
            • Jul 2007
            • 367

            #6
            Originally posted by JohnCW9
            Its one of the Jedi powers that your character has, To use it press 'm' select the 'use Jedi powers' then 'f'. Each point you put into Jedi and subsections adds to his abilties and new one come available as he progresses.

            John
            Seriously ;]
            Well that wasnt clear
            Good I didnt invest in disarming yet

            T.
            * Are you ready for something else ? Hellband 0.8.8 is out! *

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            • The GP Fury
              Apprentice
              • May 2007
              • 66

              #7
              Orc Caves is a known bug, and I was never able to figure out a fix.
              Photography ~ Tech Blog

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              • konijn_
                Hellband maintainer
                • Jul 2007
                • 367

                #8
                Originally posted by The GP Fury
                Orc Caves is a known bug, and I was never able to figure out a fix.
                Eh, dont worry about it, it is still a really good game, I thought the whole jedi thing would suck, but it is in fact quite interesting to play, I've gone thru 16 attempts now.

                Some remarks :
                - This game _needs_ scrolls of Deep Descent
                - It is too easy to die and not generate a char dump, you should see how other variants deal with that, I lost at least 2 good chardumps because of this
                - Not enough special boots !! One char was level 42, had awesome gear and boots [3,+6], ToME had the same problem by the way, maybe introduce more footwear ? Sandals, Dragon Boots, Shoes, etc ...
                - It would be nice if the game would say which power was gained by ego weapons, this way I dont need to intently stare at the 'I'inspect information every time the weapon gains a level
                - Maybe add some fixed way at the end of each section of the main dungeon to find out where the next section is, I still havent found within the game what the next section is. It's not crucial of course.

                Good stuff,
                T.
                * Are you ready for something else ? Hellband 0.8.8 is out! *

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                • The GP Fury
                  Apprentice
                  • May 2007
                  • 66

                  #9
                  Thanks for the suggestions. If I ever decide to revisit the game, I'll see about reimplementing them. It's been a really long time since I've done any *banding. Been too busy trying to get into photography that I just haven't had a chance.
                  Photography ~ Tech Blog

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                  • Seany C
                    Swordsman
                    • Apr 2007
                    • 283

                    #10
                    When Automatisers turn bad...

                    >>You hit a trap of Silent Switching.
                    >>You are no longer wielding a Double-Ended Lightsabre
                    >><auto-destroy>
                    >> You destroy a Double-Ended Lightsabre...


                    Gah. That'll teach me to use the built-in Automatiser (i.e. squelch settings). I assumed that it was set to only destroy lightsabres for non-Jedi. Where's the best place to find a replacement, now that I'm wielding a bloody Magestaff?

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                    • JohnCW9
                      Adept
                      • Jul 2009
                      • 118

                      #11
                      Originally posted by Seany C
                      >>You hit a trap of Silent Switching.
                      >>You are no longer wielding a Double-Ended Lightsabre
                      >><auto-destroy>
                      >> You destroy a Double-Ended Lightsabre...


                      Gah. That'll teach me to use the built-in Automatiser (i.e. squelch settings). I assumed that it was set to only destroy lightsabres for non-Jedi. Where's the best place to find a replacement, now that I'm wielding a bloody Magestaff?
                      I have a slightly improved Automatiser that would prevent that but since Its not perfect I haven't resleased it though I did send a correction to levels problem quite a while ago to GPfury.



                      John
                      My first legit winner http://angband.oook.cz/ladder-show.php?id=5114

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                      • Pete Mack
                        Prophet
                        • Apr 2007
                        • 6883

                        #12
                        Do inscriptions not work against the automizer? In the NPP squelch model, the inscription {no} disables auto-destroy (squelch).

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                        • JohnCW9
                          Adept
                          • Jul 2009
                          • 118

                          #13
                          Originally posted by Pete Mack
                          Do inscriptions not work against the automizer? In the NPP squelch model, the inscription {no} disables auto-destroy (squelch).
                          I use !k or !* myself.

                          John
                          My first legit winner http://angband.oook.cz/ladder-show.php?id=5114

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                          • Nick
                            Vanilla maintainer
                            • Apr 2007
                            • 9633

                            #14
                            Competition 80 is now finished; congratulations to Roch for getting the only game winner. And it's lucky he did, because my ranking system had totally failed, and most players were dropping lower on the ladder as they progressed...
                            One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
                            In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

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