Comp 209

[wobbly]

congrats, ranger jeff. looking in previous comps you won comp 209, 3 times. Impressive.

[HugoVirtuoso]

Major props to ranger jeff for the win, PCB 7.0.0-style...which lately has been deemed the hardest version to date because of the out of control summoning!

[ranger jeff]

I won!! I want to say, but gomen_gomen showed me the way, all credit to him. Tough early, but easy late, oddly.

[Gwarl]

Is playing 7.0.1 considered acceptable? Not sure how much of a difference it'll make.

No. 209 is 7.0.0

[wobbly]

Is playing 7.0.1 considered acceptable? Not sure how much of a difference it'll make.

[debo]

Just a note, not "all previous competitions" had the same rules for winner. E.g., Hobbit comp won by PwrWyrm was the winner with the LEAST experience, regardless of turncount.

Poscheng, specifically, was usually "fastest winner, or highest number of uniques killed if no winner". I don't even remember where the reasoning behind that one came from; I think it might be because poscheng never actually had "game turns" or whatever (just simulated game time), but that doesn't explain why we still used that measure for winners

[Ingwe Ingweron]

Same rules as in all previous competitions - winner in the least number of turns. If no winner, best experience/turn.

Just a note, not "all previous competitions" had the same rules for winner. E.g., Hobbit comp won by PwrWyrm was the winner with the LEAST experience, regardless of turncount.

[Gwarl]

The html vs txt thing is a problem with the ladder - it was present in the last poschengband competition until Pav fixed it.

If you name your dump .txt at the end, poschengband will know and format the dump appropriately.

Same rules as in all previous competitions - winner in the least number of turns. If no winner, best experience/turn.

[ShadowTechnology]

At the 'C'haracter screen use the pipe symbol | (shift+\)

Gwarl,

The HTML character dumps are reporting turn count differently from the txt dumps on the competition 209 web page.

Also, the parameters for determining the winner of this competition are not defined. Winner in least (turns?). Or if or winner, most experience/(turn?)? I'm happy with other parameters, but it would be nice to know and adapt play style accordingly.

[Gwarl]

hrmmm... how do I generate a character dump to upload to the comp?

At the 'C'haracter screen use the pipe symbol | (shift+\)

[ranger jeff]

hrmmm... how do I generate a character dump to upload to the comp?

[Gwarl]

Hey, I get this error when loading Competition 209 on the webserver:

execvp(3) failed.: No such file or directory

What's up with that?

Apparently, once I "play" Compo 209, it then replaces the PCB 7.0 savefile right away? Is that right/

yeah the error wasn't intended but doesn't really matter. Trying to play comp 209 loads your savefile into poscheng 7, meaning it is possible to play the competition, which is all I was going for this time round.

[HugoVirtuoso]

Sounds like a balanced competition.

That puts a limit to my usual Tonberry tactics

[HugoVirtuoso]

Hey, I get this error when loading Competition 209 on the webserver:

execvp(3) failed.: No such file or directory

What's up with that?

Apparently, once I "play" Compo 209, it then replaces the PCB 7.0 savefile right away? Is that right/

[Gwarl]

And Gwarl, can you please email me my current PCB 7.0 savefile on Angband.live

Done.
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