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  • debo
    Veteran
    • Oct 2011
    • 2402

    Comp 207

    Comp 207 is up. It's the Vanilla 4.1 Dunadan mage that nobody asked for.

    I specifically thought "what character/stat allocation would annoy Pete Mack the most in this competition" when creating this character, and went with that.
    Glaurung, Father of the Dragons says, 'You cannot avoid the ballyhack.'
  • Pete Mack
    Prophet
    • Apr 2007
    • 6883

    #2
    I'm not sure why you think a near-optimal distribution will annoy me. Yeah, it could do with a bit more strength, but it's certainly not a horrible build. It's great for stat gain, in any case.

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    • debo
      Veteran
      • Oct 2011
      • 2402

      #3
      Originally posted by Pete Mack
      I'm not sure why you think a near-optimal distribution will annoy me. Yeah, it could do with a bit more strength, but it's certainly not a horrible build. It's great for stat gain, in any case.
      My attempt at deadpan humor failed
      Glaurung, Father of the Dragons says, 'You cannot avoid the ballyhack.'

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      • Ingwe Ingweron
        Veteran
        • Jan 2009
        • 2129

        #4
        You mention being able to do the comp on Angband Live. This should be really cool, especially if Gwarl gets the record function up and running. But, how does one load the initial comp savefile onto Angband Live?
        “We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.”
        ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

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        • Gwarl
          Administrator
          • Jan 2017
          • 1025

          #5
          Big thanks to debo for adding the link, but I needed to wait for the savefile to be posted first

          Now I have the savefile I'll be including competition mode. Competition games will be recorded. That should be available sometime later today.

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          • Gwarl
            Administrator
            • Jan 2017
            • 1025

            #6
            Okay competition mode is up.

            Games are being recorded. If you quit and continue, the recording will continue. If you die, the recording is kept, and if you make a new attempt you get a fresh competition savefile and the last recorded run will be overrwritten with the new one.

            There's no way to watch the recordings through the website yet, but there will be soon.

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            • debo
              Veteran
              • Oct 2011
              • 2402

              #7
              Originally posted by Gwarl
              Okay competition mode is up.

              Games are being recorded. If you quit and continue, the recording will continue. If you die, the recording is kept, and if you make a new attempt you get a fresh competition savefile and the last recorded run will be overrwritten with the new one.

              There's no way to watch the recordings through the website yet, but there will be soon.
              Awesome!!!!!
              Glaurung, Father of the Dragons says, 'You cannot avoid the ballyhack.'

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              • Nick
                Vanilla maintainer
                • Apr 2007
                • 9633

                #8
                Know all runes - I should have expected that, I guess
                One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
                In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

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                • kandrc
                  Swordsman
                  • Dec 2007
                  • 299

                  #9
                  Originally posted by Nick
                  Know all runes - I should have expected that, I guess
                  Is this an admonishment? It's not as if it actually matters with a mage.

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                  • debo
                    Veteran
                    • Oct 2011
                    • 2402

                    #10
                    Originally posted by Nick
                    Know all runes - I should have expected that, I guess
                    We've tested runes so much already that I figured it wouldn't matter. Also, I selfishly want to play this comp and there was no way I was going to do that with runeid There's gotta be some skimming off the top as comp organizer!
                    Glaurung, Father of the Dragons says, 'You cannot avoid the ballyhack.'

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                    • Nick
                      Vanilla maintainer
                      • Apr 2007
                      • 9633

                      #11
                      Originally posted by kandrc
                      Is this an admonishment? It's not as if it actually matters with a mage.
                      Not at all - I was surprised when I noticed it when playing, and then realised how I shouldn't have been surprised (because debo), and then thought the fact might be worth mentioning in this thread.
                      One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
                      In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

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                      • debo
                        Veteran
                        • Oct 2011
                        • 2402

                        #12
                        Originally posted by Nick
                        Not at all - I was surprised when I noticed it when playing, and then realised how I shouldn't have been surprised (because debo), and then thought the fact might be worth mentioning in this thread.
                        Nick has definitely earned the right to admonish me!
                        Glaurung, Father of the Dragons says, 'You cannot avoid the ballyhack.'

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                        • Pete Mack
                          Prophet
                          • Apr 2007
                          • 6883

                          #13
                          RuneID hardly matters for a mage anyway--the spell is low level and low cost.

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                          • Ingwe Ingweron
                            Veteran
                            • Jan 2009
                            • 2129

                            #14
                            Originally posted by Nick
                            Not at all - I was surprised when I noticed it when playing, and then realised how I shouldn't have been surprised (because debo), and then thought the fact might be worth mentioning in this thread.
                            I'm with debo on this. The id game is interesting for a while when learning to play, but eventually it just becomes a bit tedious. Same as monster knowledge. It's great to learn and discover things about monsters slowly over time, but at some point I wish I could just easily look up whether it was a Nightwalker or a Nightcrawler that had disenchantment versus having acid, etc.
                            “We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.”
                            ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

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                            • bron
                              Knight
                              • May 2008
                              • 515

                              #15
                              Incidentally, a small tip for any newbies not familiar with Forced Descent: you don't have to use Word of Recall to return to the dungeon from the town. If you just use the normal stairs, that will put you at your former level, plus one; same as a recall will do. This only really matters in the very early going, but can save a few hundred gold, and cash is in short supply at the start.

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