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  • Nick
    Vanilla maintainer
    • Apr 2007
    • 9634

    Competition 126

    Competition 126 is now available from the competition page; it is a Hellband 0.8.7 Imp Warrior.

    Note that comp 125 still has about a day to go.
    One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
    In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
  • myshkin
    Angband Devteam member
    • Apr 2007
    • 334

    #2
    Originally posted by Nick
    Competition 126 is now available from the competition page; it is a Hellband 0.8.7 Imp Warrior.
    Please be aware that there are some known bugs in Hellband 0.8.7, some of which are fixed in Subversion. In particular, it is possible to get negative gold drops later in the game; breaths may or may not work as desired; taking off an item when your inventory is full makes the item disappear; and the quest monsters can occasionally get multiple moves on you regardless of your speed. See my chardump from 2010 for more details, and Google Code for the source repository.

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    • myshkin
      Angband Devteam member
      • Apr 2007
      • 334

      #3
      Another thing I'm not sure about...the Erebuses that show up mid-dungeon (typically as escorts for Azazel, for some reason) are getting the description for the dlvl 90 Erebus. I have not been brave enough to try taking one of them on to see which version it actually is. Just a little difference between ~300 HP with acid breath and 7500 HP with fire/chaos/nether breath.

      Obviously, summoning and escorts are still not working as expected.

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      • murphy
        Adept
        • Sep 2009
        • 101

        #4
        I downloaded hb087src.zip and compiled (linux), seems to run ok generally, but I get a "broken savefile" crash when trying to read the competition 126 savefile. Its dying in rd_inventory(). Anyone have an idea what would be going wrong?

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        • Roch
          Adept
          • Oct 2008
          • 104

          #5
          I took on an erebus and couldn't knock off a single star, dlevel 30 or so. I teleported after a few turns. There were several escorting a fallen angel. Probably lucky it didn't kill me or disenchant too badly. It looks like those are the green erebuses. I later encountered a gray one (also on level 30) that was a relative pushover.

          I had trouble with the windows savefile. I ended up starting a new character with the same basic attributes as the comp character, but not identical, so it could be a disqualification.
          Last edited by Roch; August 22, 2012, 07:14.

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          • myshkin
            Angband Devteam member
            • Apr 2007
            • 334

            #6
            Originally posted by Roch
            I took on an erebus and couldn't knock off a single star, dlevel 30 or so. I teleported after a few turns. There were several escorting a fallen angel. Probably lucky it didn't kill me or disenchant too badly. It looks like those are the green erebuses. I later encountered a gray one (also on level 30) that was a relative pushover.
            That's consistent with my experience as well.

            I had trouble with the windows savefile. I ended up starting a new character with the same basic attributes as the comp character, but not identical, so it could be a disqualification.
            Ugh. It looks as if the Mac download available on konijn_'s web page produces savefiles incompatible from builds from source, even builds from source on a Mac. I'm not sure what's going on there.

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            • Nick
              Vanilla maintainer
              • Apr 2007
              • 9634

              #7
              Originally posted by murphy
              I downloaded hb087src.zip and compiled (linux), seems to run ok generally, but I get a "broken savefile" crash when trying to read the competition 126 savefile. Its dying in rd_inventory(). Anyone have an idea what would be going wrong?
              OK - I'll see what I can do to fix that.
              One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
              In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

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              • myshkin
                Angband Devteam member
                • Apr 2007
                • 334

                #8
                Originally posted by Nick
                OK - I'll see what I can do to fix that.
                Okay, I think the attached savefile is essentially identical to the provided comp savefile, and should load on 0.8.7. It seems that the published dmg is not quite 0.8.7, but is instead a few svn revisions later than 0.8.7. If you are using the OS X app from the dmg, this savefile will not work for you; continue to use the original comp savefile.
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                Last edited by myshkin; August 22, 2012, 08:46. Reason: Added clarification about compatibility on OS X.

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                • Nick
                  Vanilla maintainer
                  • Apr 2007
                  • 9634

                  #9
                  Originally posted by myshkin
                  Okay, I think the attached savefile is essentially identical to the provided comp savefile, and should load on 0.8.7. It seems that the published dmg is not quite 0.8.7, but is instead a few svn revisions later than 0.8.7.
                  Brilliant. All - please use myshkin's savefile. Any other workarounds (like Roch's) will be accepted too.
                  One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
                  In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

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                  • murphy
                    Adept
                    • Sep 2009
                    • 101

                    #10
                    myshkin's savefile is working for me. thanks guys!

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                    • murphy
                      Adept
                      • Sep 2009
                      • 101

                      #11
                      well, I played a bit and got to clvl 17 and had a crash (message was just "software bug") and that seemed to corrupt the savefile because now I'm getting "broken savefile" again :-(

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                      • ewan
                        Adept
                        • Aug 2007
                        • 108

                        #12
                        Looks as though at least one of the Erebus versions should be a UNIQUE, and possibly both? Certainly a pit of 44K xp monsters is, ah, not going to get cleared..

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                        • debo
                          Veteran
                          • Oct 2011
                          • 2402

                          #13
                          Is it possible to get XP in this game for non-monster-killing actions? If so, I might just start a character, get some pacifist XP, and then retire +inf competition score, baby!
                          Glaurung, Father of the Dragons says, 'You cannot avoid the ballyhack.'

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                          • myshkin
                            Angband Devteam member
                            • Apr 2007
                            • 334

                            #14
                            Originally posted by debo
                            Is it possible to get XP in this game for non-monster-killing actions? If so, I might just start a character, get some pacifist XP, and then retire +inf competition score, baby!
                            Yes, it is possible, but I have no idea how Nick set up the competition ladder to handle dividing by zero. You might get stuck at the bottom.

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                            • Nick
                              Vanilla maintainer
                              • Apr 2007
                              • 9634

                              #15
                              Originally posted by myshkin
                              Yes, it is possible, but I have no idea how Nick set up the competition ladder to handle dividing by zero. You might get stuck at the bottom.
                              Well, technically pav set it up. As far as this schem goes, let me quote from the competition page:
                              "Winner is the max XP/killcount (we'll see how that scoring system goes)"

                              I guess we're seeing
                              One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
                              In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

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