Competition 138

[Estie]

The only thing that counts for stocking purposes is that a slot is used, not the total number of items, so buying out +0 weapons would open up space for more inventory to be added.

And in 3.5-dev, the buyout trick doesn't work in shops where there are infinite stacks of stuff.

Thanks for the clarification. The only remaining question is why there is a lower amount of !csw, !ccw than previously; is it connected with the guaranteed 40 !clw somehow ?

[takkaria]

Thanks for the clarification. The only remaining question is why there is a lower amount of !csw, !ccw than previously; is it connected with the guaranteed 40 !clw somehow ?

I don't think it should, looking at the code, but I could be missing something!

[takkaria]

The latest autobuild version at rephial.org/nightlies has a few fixes in now:

• Shouldn't be any more out-of-bounds crashes
• Monster fear works again
• A bunch of redraw bugs to do with traps and doors have been fixed

[Raajaton]

Thanks! I've had a couple of deaths due to supposedly feared monsters.

[PowerWyrm]

Note that the removal of ai_smart made ALL monsters smart. So now anything will try to find a "smart" location for fleeing. It was supposed to be the opposite, no? All other occurences were replaced by FALSE, except for monster fear.

[Pete Mack]

Note that the removal of ai_smart made ALL monsters smart. So now anything will try to find a "smart" location for fleeing. It was supposed to be the opposite, no? All other occurences were replaced by FALSE, except for monster fear.

"Smart" monsters was for spell-casting. It is essentially impossible in a game with infinite monster mana. (Monsters with heal-self just can't be beat. I only one it once, playing a Paladin with an uber-weapon and a huge stack of !rMana and !heal.)

[fizzix]

"Smart" monsters was for spell-casting. It is essentially impossible in a game with infinite monster mana. (Monsters with heal-self just can't be beat. I only one it once, playing a Paladin with an uber-weapon and a huge stack of !rMana and !heal.)

I'm not sure this is correct. There definitely was a birth_ai_smart call when it dealt with fleeing monsters, that has since been removed.

[Pete Mack]

I'm not sure this is correct. There definitely was a birth_ai_smart call when it dealt with fleeing monsters, that has since been removed.

OK I didn't know this. The real problem with birth_ai_smart was its effect on monster spell-casting. Any monster with heal-self became nearly unkillable.

[PowerWyrm]

Yeah all birth_ai_smart calls were removed (disabled) so monsters don't behave "smartly" now. Except when fleeing: the birth_ai_smart behavior has been kept.

[takkaria]

Yeah all birth_ai_smart calls were removed (disabled) so monsters don't behave "smartly" now. Except when fleeing: the birth_ai_smart behavior has been kept.

That was the case up until my commits yesterday, but now 'smart' fleeing is turned off too. It was a mistake that it wasn't in the first place.

[Raajaton]

Were Potions of Lost Memories recently re-instituted into the game? I just found one on the latest 3.5-dev nightly, and I can't remember the last time I came across one in any of my games since coming back to Angband.

[Derakon]

As far as I'm aware, they've always been in the game. They're one of the few remaining bad potions.

[Raajaton]

Ahh ok, I guess I've just been fortunate enough to not get any in my recent games, or perhaps I found them late enough to where I was already able to just identify everything I got on pickup and didn't remember. This one came pretty early so it was ID'd it by use.

[Estie]

Has anyone found these ?

Ringil -> Lead-Filled Mace of Mornur
Feanor -> Whip 'Daithissa'
Deathwreaker -> Battle Axe 'Anolmen'
Bladeturner -> Power Dragon Scale Mail of Palvan

[Nick]

Competition 138 is now officially over; congratulations to fizzix for winning, and to clouded and Estie for game wins, and an honorable mention to myshkin for just running out of time with a potential winner.