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  • Nick
    Vanilla maintainer
    • Apr 2007
    • 9647

    Competition 135

    In late celebration of the release of 'The Hobbit' movie, competition 135 is now available from the competition page; it is an Angband 3.4.1 Hobbit Rogue.

    Note that comp 134 still has a few hours to go.
    One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
    In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.
  • Philip
    Knight
    • Jul 2009
    • 909

    #2
    As it happens, I am unfortunately enough already playing an (O) hobbit rogue.

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    • PowerWyrm
      Prophet
      • Apr 2008
      • 2987

      #3
      This sounds fun... ironman and starting almost naked at 500' on a semi-insane level.

      By the way, why the pebbles?
      PWMAngband variant maintainer - check https://github.com/draconisPW/PWMAngband (or http://www.mangband.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=9) to learn more about this new variant!

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      • Nick
        Vanilla maintainer
        • Apr 2007
        • 9647

        #4
        Originally posted by PowerWyrm
        By the way, why the pebbles?
        Throwing stones was the main thing Bilbo was good at. And eating.
        One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
        In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

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        • Qyx
          Apprentice
          • Dec 2012
          • 64

          #5
          Originally posted by Nick
          And eating.
          Not my Bilbo, who tossed all his food and 20+ cure lights for no explicable reason... oh he needed one more unIDed ring of protection, I guess... (should have got two! never was that good at math... RIP)

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          • Qyx
            Apprentice
            • Dec 2012
            • 64

            #6
            Not sure the competition page is ranking the results so far properly... shouldn't it be by max xp / standard turns?

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            • Nick
              Vanilla maintainer
              • Apr 2007
              • 9647

              #7
              Originally posted by Qyx
              Not sure the competition page is ranking the results so far properly... shouldn't it be by max xp / standard turns?
              You were right, it was sorting on XP/game turns - pav has now fixed it.
              One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
              In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

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              • T-Mick
                Adept
                • Mar 2012
                • 120

                #8
                I can't help but notice there is always a ranking problem.

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                • Nick
                  Vanilla maintainer
                  • Apr 2007
                  • 9647

                  #9
                  Originally posted by T-Mick
                  I can't help but notice there is always a ranking problem.
                  The process for setting up the scoring goes like this:
                  1. I come up with a ranking scheme, based on values readable from the character dump;
                  2. I let pav know the scheme, by email;
                  3. pav writes some code to read the relevant values and calculate the rankings.


                  So if I forget to email, or set up impossible conditions, or explain badly or wrong, or pav misunderstands, or doesn't get to his email, or miscodes, then things go wrong. All this is being done across many different variants, so we're both inclined to make assumptions about the character dump which turn out to be wrong. And even if we get everything technically right, my instructions on the competition page may be confusing or wrong.

                  Also, if anyone ever complains, we have special code to make them appear last
                  One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
                  In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

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                  • PowerWyrm
                    Prophet
                    • Apr 2008
                    • 2987

                    #10
                    And Bilbo killed Morgoth!

                    I don't play V a lot, but that surely was a fun game...
                    PWMAngband variant maintainer - check https://github.com/draconisPW/PWMAngband (or http://www.mangband.org/forum/viewforum.php?f=9) to learn more about this new variant!

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                    • Nick
                      Vanilla maintainer
                      • Apr 2007
                      • 9647

                      #11
                      Competition 135 is now finished - congrats to PowerWyrm for getting the only game win. The ladder is currently ordering PowerWyrm as third (which he is based on XP/turns), but I have asked pav to amend that.
                      One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
                      In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

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