Comp 207

[debo]

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.

[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.

[debo]

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

[Ingwe Ingweron]

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?

[Gwarl]

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.

[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.

[debo]

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!!!!!

[Nick]

Know all runes - I should have expected that, I guess

[kandrc]

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.

[debo]

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!

[Nick]

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.

[debo]

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!

[Pete Mack]

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

[Ingwe Ingweron]

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.

[bron]

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.