No tel levels

[sffp]

Not sure I'm such a big fan.

Just got killed in one after I dropped down into a No-tel level in the middle of a pack of gravity hounds.

Then there are cases where there's a ridiculously hard pit of monsters between where you are and where the stairs are.

[Grotug]

I encountered this level recently and didn't see any reason for me to participate on it so I Word of Recalled.

[sffp]

Yeah - I've been playing in masochist mode
So straight ironman rules, no going up at all with a fragile hobbit nec.

[Jay]

I just came here to report this as a bug. So there are no tel levels on purpose now? I was frantically checking all my gear to make sure I wasn't wearing something cursed.

Is there some sort of in-game notification that I missed? Because it sucks to discover that you're on a no tel level when you're trying to teleport out of a bad situation.

[backwardsEric]

I just came here to report this as a bug. So there are no tel levels on purpose now? I was frantically checking all my gear to make sure I wasn't wearing something cursed.

Is there some sort of in-game notification that I missed?

Gauntlet levels (cavern on one side with the up stairs, cavern on the other side with down stairs, and joined by a labyrinth in the middle) have the portions with the up stairs and labyrinth marked so player teleportation is forbidden. There's no notification in game for those levels, but I believe that has been suggested as a way to make them less of a surprise.

[Jay]

Gauntlet levels (cavern on one side with the up stairs, cavern on the other side with down stairs, and joined by a labyrinth in the middle) have the portions with the up stairs and labyrinth marked so player teleportation is forbidden. There's no notification in game for those levels, but I believe that has been suggested as a way to make them less of a surprise.

That makes sense — I've come across one of those levels since my first post and had the same experience.

I can see where a level like that would be a significant hindrance to playing an ironman game. Maybe "include gauntlet levels y/n" could be a user setup option? Or dump them entirely.

[Thraalbee]

I only do ironman except comps and don't mind the added difficulty from this. I was surprised the first time though and a warning of sorts would be ok but not required.

[wobbly]

I don't have a strong opinion on this, I'll just give 2 comments:

It's very unclear why teleport is failing, even after the fail message.
It's hard to spot the difference between gauntlet levels and caverns.

[Nick]

If you don't like gauntlet levels, you can just set the "alloc" value for them in dungeon_profile.txt to 0, then they will never appear.