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  • Nick
    Vanilla maintainer
    • Apr 2007
    • 9637

    Competition 95

    Competition 95 is now available from the competition page; it is a Fangband (yes, Fangband) High-Elf Mage.

    Note that comp 94 still has about 5 days to go.
    One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
    In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
  • buzzkill
    Prophet
    • May 2008
    • 2939

    #2
    Does anyone have a feel for this Fangband that could provide a brief description. It's not listed on the Oook variant tab, and all I found on the web was Fang Band (a band), some FAangband links and this plethora of info from Wiki (in it's entierety)...

    Not to be confused with FAangband
    ... which it apparently is, quite often.
    www.mediafire.com/buzzkill - Get your 32x32 tiles here. UT32 now compatible Ironband and Quickband 9/6/2012.
    My banding life on Buzzkill's ladder.

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    • Magnate
      Angband Devteam member
      • May 2007
      • 5110

      #3
      Originally posted by buzzkill
      Does anyone have a feel for this Fangband that could provide a brief description. It's not listed on the Oook variant tab, and all I found on the web was Fang Band (a band), some FAangband links and this plethora of info from Wiki (in it's entierety)...



      ... which it apparently is, quite often.
      It's one of the earliest variants, possibly the very first. So expect an experience like frog-knows. That's all I know.
      "Been away so long I hardly knew the place, gee it's good to be back home" - The Beatles

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      • buzzkill
        Prophet
        • May 2008
        • 2939

        #4
        The (furytech) Fangband download is a self extracting exe. Put it in a folder before you execute it.
        Rename the save file "SAVE" and place it in the main Fangband directory.

        PAV/NICK: The competition ladder doesn't accept the character dump. It seems slightly barren, maybe I did something wrong.

        Does anyone know if there is an equivalent of the 'n' (again) key in Fangband?
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        Last edited by buzzkill; November 27, 2010, 22:33.
        www.mediafire.com/buzzkill - Get your 32x32 tiles here. UT32 now compatible Ironband and Quickband 9/6/2012.
        My banding life on Buzzkill's ladder.

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        • Nick
          Vanilla maintainer
          • Apr 2007
          • 9637

          #5
          Originally posted by buzzkill
          PAV/NICK: The competition ladder doesn't accept the character dump. It seems slightly barren, maybe I did something wrong.
          It's too old a variant to have a parser on oook - my bad for not letting pav know this was happening.

          Does anyone know if there is an equivalent of the 'n' (again) key in Fangband?
          I don't think so. Note that this savefile is set to roguelike keyset by default, too.
          One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
          In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

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          • pav
            Administrator
            • Apr 2007
            • 793

            #6
            Originally posted by buzzkill
            PAV/NICK: The competition ladder doesn't accept the character dump. It seems slightly barren, maybe I did something wrong.
            It does not have the usual header with variant name, so dumps will be allowed on competition ladder only. That said, it should work now.
            See the elves and everything! http://angband.oook.cz

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            • buzzkill
              Prophet
              • May 2008
              • 2939

              #7
              Fangband is painful to play. Why (are we doing this)?
              Is there a way to resize the default window?
              There's no turn count in the char dump. We'll need a new winning formula.
              www.mediafire.com/buzzkill - Get your 32x32 tiles here. UT32 now compatible Ironband and Quickband 9/6/2012.
              My banding life on Buzzkill's ladder.

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              • Nick
                Vanilla maintainer
                • Apr 2007
                • 9637

                #8
                Originally posted by buzzkill
                Fangband is painful to play. Why (are we doing this)?
                So people stop complaining about small stuff

                Is there a way to resize the default window?
                Nope.

                There's no turn count in the char dump. We'll need a new winning formula.
                Yes, back-to-back failures by me to have a verifiable win condition. I'll change this to just straight experience.
                One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
                In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

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                • Bostock
                  Swordsman
                  • Aug 2007
                  • 335

                  #9
                  Originally posted by buzzkill
                  Does anyone have a feel for this Fangband that could provide a brief description.
                  People's descriptions of work (play it is apparently not) with this variant have left me not wanting to join the comp this month, but I was curious about this mystery variant, so I did some poking around. This page might prove of interest:

                  So you ride yourselves over the fields and you make all your animal deals and your wise men don't know how it feels to be thick as a brick.

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                  • buzzkill
                    Prophet
                    • May 2008
                    • 2939

                    #10
                    I find it hard to believe that there's no way to inspect an item, to see what properties it has. How is one supposed to keep track of resists or know what abilities artifacts have. Is there some less-than-obvious frog-knows command that I'm missing?

                    Can anyone explain the difference between staffs of perceptions and enlightenment?
                    www.mediafire.com/buzzkill - Get your 32x32 tiles here. UT32 now compatible Ironband and Quickband 9/6/2012.
                    My banding life on Buzzkill's ladder.

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                    • Derakon
                      Prophet
                      • Dec 2009
                      • 9022

                      #11
                      If I recall correctly, the only way to get a full reading of the abilities of an item is to read a Scroll of *Identify* on it, and then write down what you see before dismissing the message. You can also deduce what powers an item has by using Potions of Self-Knowledge.

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                      • Roch
                        Adept
                        • Oct 2008
                        • 104

                        #12
                        Yes, I used a potion of self-knowledge after I removed my ring of FA, to determine that my other equipment gave me FA. I never came across a ? of *Id*.

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                        • Roch
                          Adept
                          • Oct 2008
                          • 104

                          #13
                          Nick/pav, please replace my name as the comp 94 winner with thapper's.

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                          • Nick
                            Vanilla maintainer
                            • Apr 2007
                            • 9637

                            #14
                            Competition 95 has now officially finished; congratulations to Roch for winning and Buzzkill for participating. I promise not to do that again. Well, not exactly that.

                            Note that Comp 96 still has about five days to run.
                            One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
                            In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

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                            • Matthias
                              Adept
                              • Apr 2007
                              • 201

                              #15
                              I think this competition did a really good job of showing us how much Angband has improved over the years, especially in the interface department and also in stability. My attempt died by notebook overheating from too much CPU usage o_0

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