Competition 142

[Nick]

Still seems a bug to me that you can be teleported by traps. No teleport should prevent any sort of teleporting.

It's a design choice - I considered disallowing all teleporting, and decided I prefer this way.

Err... Shop 2 has this piece of crap for sale: Double Chain Mail of Vulnerability [16,-3]. Is that normal?

Shops will sell anything that has positive value. I'm guessing that one was quite cheap.

What does "Spec. (1)" mean? Special ability? How do you learn that?

'O' for specialties - you should get a message about it whenever you start the game with specialties available, or when a new one becomes available (when you kill your first two quest monsters).

[Moya2]

Nope, still don't work. Tried on document as well as in program files folders. Maybe the problem is my computer?? Will try on other computer later to see what happens. The thing is I have other roguelike games in E drive and they are fine to dump. Anyway, thank you for your help!

An update on my quest for file dumps. I tried it on computer in my office, also running WINDOWS 7 and it didn't work out. Same failing messages. My next try will be an older computer running XP in another place.

I had a character going well, found two rings with the "lamp" and YASD when I switched my trsuty magestaff with an ego axe.

[Moya2]

An update on my quest for file dumps. I tried it on computer in my office, also running WINDOWS 7 and it didn't work out. Same failing messages. My next try will be an older computer running XP in another place.

I had a character going well, found two rings with the "lamp" and YASD when I switched my trsuty magestaff with an ego axe.

EDIT : I just downloaded FAangband.133 and tried it out. It dumped files nicely on my WIN 7 computer. So maybe there is a bug on FAangband.14 on file dumping ??

[Nick]

EDIT : I just downloaded FAangband.133 and tried it out. It dumped files nicely on my WIN 7 computer. So maybe there is a bug on FAangband.14 on file dumping ??

OK, I can confirm that it crashes on attempting a character dump for me i Win 7. I'll work on a fix.

[Nick]

Character dump problem is now fixed in the development version. I'll try to get a new version out tomorrow.

[Nick]

Version 1.4.1 is now available here, so you can all make character dumps and post them to the competition ladder. That is what was holding you back, right?

[OOD Town drunk]

Ok, I'm quite sure this isn't user error:
I label my beginners' book @m1
I create keymap: [space]=m1a =(fire bolt) =no problem
I create keymap: [space]=m1a* =I still have to input * for target (this works in vanilla)
I create keymap: !=m1b =(detect monsters) =requires additional 'b' input. unlike m1a which worked.

WTF? oh and !=mab works without an addition 'b' input.
Is this some sort of computer timing issue? I turned off base delay with no change. I'm dumbstruck at this point but this is also a dealbreaker. I can't play angband without keymaps.

I hope this made sense. I can clarify if anyone can help!

[Nick]

oh and !=mab works without an addition 'b' input.

It seems like the game is failing to deal with the numbers in inscriptions properly - I can't work out why yet, all the relevant code seems identical to Vanilla.

The workaround for now is as you have more or less identified - use the book letter directly, not the number. Not ideal, I know.

[OOD Town drunk]

It seems like the game is failing to deal with the numbers in inscriptions properly - I can't work out why yet, all the relevant code seems identical to Vanilla.

The workaround for now is as you have more or less identified - use the book letter directly, not the number. Not ideal, I know.

Were you able to recreate the problem?

[Nick]

Were you able to recreate the problem?

Yes - it was as you described it.

[OOD Town drunk]

Yes - it was as you described it.

How cool is it that I can be playing a computer game at 6 in the morning, have an issue, open a a forum and have help from the game designer himself within like 15 minutes. Thanks! And removing the numbers from the equation is working just fine. Thanks again

[Moya2]

Version 1.4.1 is now available here, so you can all make character dumps and post them to the competition ladder. That is what was holding you back, right?

Thanks a lot!! By the way, how can I get additional special ability? I am not sure what are the "quests" you mentioned in other thread?

[Satyr]

Thanks a lot!! By the way, how can I get additional special ability? I am not sure what are the "quests" you mentioned in other thread?

In addition to Sauron and Morgoth there are three (four?) additional "Quest Monsters" in FA that appear at fixed depths. Those are optional in wilderness mode, since they guard the bottom of the non-Angband dungeons, but the first two you kill give you an additional special abillity. I don't know if you can bypass them in "Angband mode" or have to actually kill them to make the down stairs appear, haven't gotten this deep yet

[Nick]

In addition to Sauron and Morgoth there are three (four?) additional "Quest Monsters" in FA that appear at fixed depths. Those are optional in wilderness mode, since they guard the bottom of the non-Angband dungeons, but the first two you kill give you an additional special abillity. I don't know if you can bypass them in "Angband mode" or have to actually kill them to make the down stairs appear, haven't gotten this deep yet

In Angband mode they just appear as a regular monster would, but they're still marked as quest monsters (so their description says "You have an intense desire to kill"), and you get a specialty for the first two you kill. It's never really been secret before who they are, but I'll hide it anyway in case anyone doesn't want it spoiled.

[SPOILER]They're Mim (native depth 30), Glaurung (55), and Ungoliant (70)[/SPOILER]

[DaviddesJ]

Is there a reliable source of spoilers (monster abilities, especially) for FAangband, for those of us who might want to try it but don't want to learn every stupid way to die by trial and error?