Competition 145

[Nick]

Competition 145 is now available from the competition page; it is an Angband 3.4.1 High-Elf Mage.

[debo]

Awww no frog-knows?

[Nick]

I wasn't sure enough of getting it to run - I couldn't get it to run on any OS. I'll have another go for the next comp.

[PowerWyrm]

Interesting. No connected stairs, no level feelings, no selling. The only drawback is the 16 starting INT which will make spellcasting harder.

[MattB]

And no potions of cure light/serious in the shops!

[PowerWyrm]

Yeah I immediately suicided the starting character and quick-restarted because it was simply impossible to go anywhere without a starting kit in this configuration (urchins + rogues everywhere).

[PowerWyrm]

And no potions of cure light/serious in the shops!

Remember that in 3.4.1 these are in shop 5, not shop 4. Probably the only version to have this strangeness...

[PowerWyrm]

Awww no frog-knows?

I tried this version today and it's only working for people with qwerty keyboards. Otherwise, you have to mentally map all the keys to your keyboard, which is tedious

[debo]

I tried this version today and it's only working for people with qwerty keyboards. Otherwise, you have to mentally map all the keys to your keyboard, which is tedious

"Winner is whoever finishes the game using dvorak, or otherwise whoever kills morgoth in the least # of turns"

[PowerWyrm]

Interesting. No connected stairs, no level feelings, no selling. The only drawback is the 16 starting INT which will make spellcasting harder.

I'm done with this char. Won in a little more than 1 million game turns (180000 standard turns). This sounds reasonable for me, who tends to rest a lot for mana with mages...

[PowerWyrm]

Three winners with close turn counts! And a fourth quasi-winner who would have probably beat the best score with a little more time...

Clearly a 3.4 mage is an easy class to play. Time to try a frog-knows mage now