Comp 180

[debo]

Comp 180 is up. It's a PosChengband 3.5.0 mimic... with a couple of spooky surprises. Enjoy!

[HugoVirtuoso]

Comp 180 is up. It's a PosChengband 3.5.0 mimic... with a couple of spooky surprises. Enjoy!

I wonder what surprises in particular. So far, with my two attempts at Compo 180, I didn't encounter anything nightmarishingly insane.

Edit - I know what it is. Randarts!

[wobbly]

I think the spooky surprise is how to sort through all the goodies. It's broken my normal pickup settings.

[debo]

As an added incentive to this competition, whoever has the dump with the spookiest mimicked form (has to be the active form in the upload) will win a special shoutout. I'll add it to the comp text after for posterity.

*spookiness is decided completely by debo's objective and nonpartisan judgment.

[PowerWyrm]

/me looks at posts with Logrus Master annihilating low/midlevel characters with overpowered life-draining attacks.

How the **** do you play this? The only thing that's missing is the Goodbye Charlie traps...

[Arjen]

Easy to avoid Logrus Masters. Don't do the Logrus Master quest at a low lvl =)

[debo]

/me looks at posts with Logrus Master annihilating low/midlevel characters with overpowered life-draining attacks.

How the **** do you play this? The only thing that's missing is the Goodbye Charlie traps...

You're not poscheng enough for Hugo strats yet.

[HugoVirtuoso]

I still haven't figured out what the keymapping changes were about.

[debo]

I still haven't figured out what the keymapping changes were about.

Yeah, I don't know what that's about either The spookiness in this comp was courtesy of two birth options that we don't use very often.

[wobbly]

This isn't as bad as it 1st seems. Labyrinth, quests & wilderness are as normal for 1 thing. How I start:

do thieves quest (I just buy scroll of light, sling & a few !clw or !csw).

Sell quest reward. Buy staff of detect invisible, some !csw, lots of: ?teleports, ?detect monsters, a few ?detect traps, maybe a couple of ?magic mapping.

You can now enter the dungeons knowing you can detect everything & cure confusion so normal rules apply, i.e just don't fight anything that's going to kill you.

[ShadowTechnology]

Learning new forms

Learning my first two forms was quick and easy. The 3rd one took a while. I've been working on a 4th form, unsuccessfully, for some time. Am I correct in assuming it's getting harder? Is the difficulty due to my trying to learn the forms of higher level monsters, or is it because the probability of success decreases as you approach the limit of 5 learned forms? If so, is there a way to "unlearn" a form in order to make it easier to learn a new one?

[debo]

Learning my first two forms was quick and easy. The 3rd one took a while. I've been working on a 4th form, unsuccessfully, for some time. Am I correct in assuming it's getting harder? Is the difficulty due to my trying to learn the forms of higher level monsters, or is it because the probability of success decreases as you approach the limit of 5 learned forms? If so, is there a way to "unlearn" a form in order to make it easier to learn a new one?

Looking at the code, you always have a 1 in 20 shot to learn a new form. So, not sure there's anything you can do short of cloning and killing the same monster over and over again to get specific forms that you want.

Also, just to be clear, you need to be mimicking a thing when you land the killing blow on it to even get a chance.

[ShadowTechnology]

Thanks. Does the killing blow have to be in melee, or will a well placed arrow or spell do the trick?

[wobbly]

Shooters and spells work. Not sure about friendly fire or summons.

[debo]

Congrats to clouded for (unsurprisingly) winning comp 180.

As for the spooky costume contest.... the winners are:

1st place: Gorbad 'Nazgul' costume

2nd place: murphy 'Dread' costume

3rd place: wobbly 'Gargoyle' costume