Comp 209

[Gwarl]

For the new version of PosChengband we're playing an unwon race (balance drake) with an unwon school of magic (domination). And we have permanent aggravation.

[debo]

Sounds like a balanced competition.

[HugoVirtuoso]

I just noticed that Compo 209 is not available on Angband.live...is that because of the recording issue? (The fact that it's not available via Angband.live should NOT change it from continuing as the current competition.)

Edit -
Nevermind. Gwarl (on Angband.live) says Compo 209 will be available on Angband.live.

[GenericPseudonym]

Aggravation plus domination realm? Ouch, that's a nasty combo.

AFAIK aggravation makes charm spells (a lot of what Domination does) fail, and it makes the Cult of Personality effect far worse -- about half of affected summons just get turned friendly instead of becoming pets, but aggravate will immediately turn those friendlies right back into enemies.

[Gwarl]

Nevermind. Gwarl (on Angband.live) says Compo 209 will be available on Angband.live.

It's up but please read the note before starting a game.

[HugoVirtuoso]

NOTE: Playing this mode will overwrite your poschengband savefile. To continue a competition run, choose poschengband 7 from the game menu.

^ smh

And Gwarl, can you please email me my current PCB 7.0 savefile on Angband.live...Yes, it's crashy, I know. Email it to me at YggdrasilTid@gmail.com I want a copy of it so that I can give it to Chris to check out. I might be putting any further PCB 7.0 Angband.live attempts on the backburner until I get a copy of crashy save.

Aggravation plus domination realm? Ouch, that's a nasty combo.

AFAIK aggravation makes charm spells (a lot of what Domination does) fail, and it makes the Cult of Personality effect far worse -- about half of affected summons just get turned friendly instead of becoming pets, but aggravate will immediately turn those friendlies right back into enemies.

This just took the sinister aspect of PosChengband to a whole new level!

[Gwarl]

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

Done.
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[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/

[HugoVirtuoso]

Sounds like a balanced competition.

That puts a limit to my usual Tonberry tactics

[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.

[ranger jeff]

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

[Gwarl]

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

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

[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]

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.

[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.