Where have all the dragon pits gone?

[Nomad]

Please can we add dark elf pits? Please? Or if not pits, then little villages of them? (Oooh, sangband has this - maybe we could steal that code ...)

Code for pit.txt:

N:14:Dark elves
R:1
A:1:30
O:0
T:humanoid
F:HURT_LIGHT

Depth and rarity are something of a random guess, so tweak at will.

Other pits I've managed to test so far have tended to have unexpected results, but if I get any others producing a sensible selection of monsters I'll post those too.

[PowerWyrm]

To break the monotony of jelly/orc pits, I added to my variant the following pits/nests:
- mimic nest (15+): "Hey, who left all this stuff on the floor?"
- people pit (20+): "Hi guys! When does the concert start?"
- angel pit (40+): "Repent your sins NOW!"
- unlife (NONLIVING flag) nest (70+): "An empty nest? I should talk to the dungeon architect..."

Always fun to get one when unprepared...

[PowerWyrm]

I have a character at dlvl 98 with ~1M turns and I don't think a single dragon pit has been generated. Has anyone else definitely seen (or definitely not seen) a dragon pit?

I suspect this may be a bug with the pit/nest refactors from awhile ago. If so, it definitely needs to be fixed for 3.3.

Check pit.txt:

# 'A' is for rarity and average level. A rarity of N means that the pit is N times
# more rare than a pit with a rarity of 1. The average level is the dungeon level
# at which this pit is most common.

And:

N:4:Acid dragons
R:1
A:6:85
O:0
T:dragon
T:ancient dragon
S:BR_ACID
s:BR_ELEC

All dragon pits have a rarity of 6 (probably because there are 6 sorts of dragon pits). Maybe tone down the rarity to get more D pits?

[CunningGabe]

All dragon pits have a rarity of 6 (probably because there are 6 sorts of dragon pits).

Precisely. The game used to sometimes generate a dragon pit, and then pick the flavor. Now it just picks a flavor. The end result should be the same in terms of how often they come up.