Competition 88

[Nick]

Competition 88 is now available from the competition page; it is a Vanilla Half-Elf Ranger with randarts. Note that the savefile is from the latest build, and it is expected that players will update to the latest as the competition progresses (if they choose to).

Note also that comp 87 still has a few days to run.

[Zikke]

How do competition games handle randarts? Does everybody get the same set of randarts based on the character file? Or does it generate a different set for each person?

[Sirridan]

How do competition games handle randarts? Does everybody get the same set of randarts based on the character file? Or does it generate a different set for each person?

Same set, the randarts are generated at creation and saved to the file.

[Zikke]

>The Giant Salamander hits you.
>You are enveloped in flames!
>Your Maul (+2, +4) is damaged!



Since when has fire damage done acid-esque damage to mauls?

[LostTemplar]

Is there any way to download latest source manually without using subversion ?

[PowerDiver]

Is there any way to download latest source manually without using subversion ?

If you send me mail and I try to send it to you. Hotmail is supposed to handle 10M and it seems to be about 7M in tgz form.

[Magnate]

Competition 88 is now available from the competition page; it is a Vanilla Half-Elf Ranger with randarts. Note that the savefile is from the latest build, and it is expected that players will update to the latest as the competition progresses (if they choose to).

Note also that comp 87 still has a few days to run.

Nick, is there any reason why you're using game turns for the ranking instead of player turns? The latter is specifically intended to negate the advantage of early speed items (which was demonstrated in the previous comp, IIUC).

[Nick]

Nick, is there any reason why you're using game turns for the ranking instead of player turns? The latter is specifically intended to negate the advantage of early speed items (which was demonstrated in the previous comp, IIUC).

I did vaguely wonder about that...

I'll change it to player turns.

[Timo Pietilä]

Competition 88 is now available from the competition page; it is a Vanilla Half-Elf Ranger with randarts. Note that the savefile is from the latest build, and it is expected that players will update to the latest as the competition progresses (if they choose to).

Note also that comp 87 still has a few days to run.

Question: how long do I have to complete my char? I don't play much these days (too busy at work) so if this requires fast play I need to submit "work in progress" chardump.

[Magnate]

I did vaguely wonder about that...

I'll change it to player turns.

It's currently ordering by max depth rather than xp/any kind of turn ...

Another question: are we all agreed that it's cheating to generate the artifact spoiler before the end of the comp? Or are we ok with having a look at what's out there to be found?

[Nick]

Question: how long do I have to complete my char? I don't play much these days (too busy at work) so if this requires fast play I need to submit "work in progress" chardump.

The comp finishes on the 25th of June (it says a little way down the competition page). Some people update their dump frequently, some less so - it's a matter of personal taste.

Also, if you want to post more than one character, you'll need to change the name or the older one will be overwritten.

[Nick]

It's currently ordering by max depth rather than xp/any kind of turn ...

That may be because existing dumps (I think) don't get re-ordered, or perhaps pav hasn't changed the ranking yet.

Another question: are we all agreed that it's cheating to generate the artifact spoiler before the end of the comp? Or are we ok with having a look at what's out there to be found?

It probably doesn't matter much, but I guess we could agree that it's frowned upon. Unless someone disagrees.

[Magnate]

@pav: Every time I upload my dump, I get this error:

Warning: mysql_fetch_array(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL result resource in /usr/home/pav/www/angband/ladder-submit.php on line 148

Didn't happen the first two times, but has happened since. Never seen this error with a non-comp dump.

[sandtrap]

Another question: are we all agreed that it's cheating to generate the artifact spoiler before the end of the comp? Or are we ok with having a look at what's out there to be found?

Currently there is some artifact info to be found looking at the dumps on the ladder. But I don't really want to dissuade anyone from posting an in progress dump to the ladder. And deaths would still give up artifact info.

[Nick]

Yeah, the top two dumps are ranked 0, too - presumably a symptom of the same problem.