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www.mediafire.com/buzzkill - Get your 32x32 tiles here. UT32 now compatible Ironband and Quickband 9/6/2012.
My banding life on Buzzkill's ladder.Comment
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Sil
I'm new on this forum, but an old angband player. Every few years I like to check how some of the more active variants are doing. Over the past week or two, I have played FA, Sil, Cheng, Sang, Steam and Halls of Mist. Skipped ToME this time, only because I played it quite a bit last time around.
Anyway.. Sil is amazing! You guys stand on the shoulders of giants, but you strike an impressive pose. So impressive that you have set the bar for variants.
Sil was clearly designed by someone(s) who understand game mechanics, and put a lot of thought into creating a well balanced, interesting, and fun game (as balanced as can be expected for a game so young [Yeah, I'm looking at you, stealth archer balrog hunters!] :-)
I love the attention to detail in Sil, from the simle things like longbows having a -1 to evade, to the interface that is more smooth and intuitive than any other variant to date, the transparency in combat rolls and the skill system, the ability to create skill combos (not just the classic Dodge + Flanking, but many less obvious combos as well). There is just so much awesomeness here that it can't fit into a single post without creating a text wall. Oh, and the AI. Great stuff!
I hope we will see some high magic variants based on Sil, with a larger scope and further expanded skill system. This may require some serious thought put into how to scale Sil's mechanics to a game with a larger scope, but I'm confident Half and his partners in crime are up for the challenge.
Great work so far guys!!Comment
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There is a lot of discussion of Sil characters and different aspects of the game in the ladder section of this website -- do upload some of your characters there, and you will get lots of comments.
I hope we will see some high magic variants based on Sil, with a larger scope and further expanded skill system. This may require some serious thought put into how to scale Sil's mechanics to a game with a larger scope, but I'm confident Half and his partners in crime are up for the challenge.Comment
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Of course, everything will be multiplied by 2 or 3 so I can add extra resolution.Comment
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So is there a way to set up character generation so that it retains how I spend my initial 5000 xp?
Currently the system retains race/house/stats, all I have to do is press enter, and that's great. But I churn through a LOT of characters (I play impatiently) and it gets kind of old having to redo the initial 5000 over and over.Comment
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There is a trivial bug that I've found, and I want to share a fix.
During character creation, when you roll age/weight/height, you can press 'm' and it allows you to input custom values.
But ranges for this values are all wrong: age range, for example, is hard-coded, so you can create a 4000-year-old Naugrim, which is not right.
I attach a patch that solves this, setting min and max values to what a random roll (get_ahw_aux() function) can return.Attached FilesComment
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Actually this is something that Scatha convinced me to allow, as some players might want to be a 14 year old or something and there is no real harm in letting them be (I originally had it your way, I think). Incidentally, I think there was a dwarf that was more than 4,000 years old at that point! (Durin I).Comment
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[UPD] Well, apparently, what I wrote below doesn't apply to the current version, so disregard this. [/UPD]
Okay, but then you are being too restrictive on height: you can't manually set to be a 7'1" male elf, while a random roll can go higher than 8'.
(I wanted to replicate a character that I had and I couldn't -- because of this. Kind of OCDish, I know...)Last edited by nryut; December 4, 2012, 22:02.Comment
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We did talk about this in development, but experience allocation doesn't feel like an intrinsic part of the character in the same way that stats are. And we thought that by leaving this step non-automated we were more likely to get people to try variations on their build.
I don't have a strong feeling about what the right decision here is, because weighing against the factors I list above, it would improve user interface. Is there a lot of call for this feature? I don't think this would be high priority even if we wanted to add it.Comment
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Is there a difference between allocating XP points at character generation, or immediately after it at turn 1 when you start your game? The second method is more powerful since it lets you assign your initial 5000 xp's to special abilities as well.
If there is really no difference, I would suggest removing the possibility to assign XP points during character generation.--
Dive fast, die young, leave a high-CHA corpse.Comment
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Is there a difference between allocating XP points at character generation, or immediately after it at turn 1 when you start your game? The second method is more powerful since it lets you assign your initial 5000 xp's to special abilities as well.
If there is really no difference, I would suggest removing the possibility to assign XP points during character generation.
1) Thematically it feels like you are playing a character who already had certain skills before they entered the dungeon, instead of being a blank slate who quickly gains some skills
2) It means that new players will allocate all or most of their experience. Otherwise there would be an awful lot of people getting killed at 50 ft who hadn't thought to allocate experience.
If you want some abilities, just leave some points unallocated. You can't get abilities without skill points anyway, so just think of it as the first phase of experience point allocation.Comment
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