Experiences with new Angband 4.2.5 and questions about Identifying and Variants

[PowerDiver]

2. To easily start from a new terminal: It was recommended to start from the installation directory with: src/angband -c -msdl2 What speaks against starting from an other directory with a link like this: ~/Downloads/angband_28_01/src/angband -c -msdl2

Perhaps things are better now, but in the old days there were relative paths in the code, so e.g. for the game to be able to find the "lib" directory you needed to be running in the directory above it. I continue to do it that way.

Assuming you have a personal bin directory that appears early in your $PATH, you could put the cd and options and whatever else into a script in your bin directory. E.g. there was a time I was tracking real time played, and I used

#! /bin/bash

cd ~/angband/Angband-4.2.5/
echo "" >> ../logs/log.4.2.5
date >> ../logs/log.4.2.5
./angband
date >> ../logs/log.4.2.5

The ./angband was a symlink to src/angband. Technically I had that file in a directory of shell scripts and a symlink to it from ~/bin

[Michaelyx]

Thanks for the tip!
I created a startup shortcut: With a script called “angband” in /usr/local/bin/ using an editor:
sudo gedit /usr/local/bin/angband

Contents:

#!/bin/sh
cd /home/michaelyx/Downloads/angband_28_01
./src/angband -c -msdl2

Then make this script executable: sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/angband

[Michaelyx]

Hello!
I need your advice again.
Increasing stats with suitable potions is no longer as successful as I remember.
e.g. Sustain wisdom of objects does not protect. Was still reduced by a Potion of Toughness. Since all of my stats except Constitution are sustained, I was actually sure that I would only have the advantage of stat gain.
Since when has this been like this? Is this a bug?

[Nick]

Hello!
I need your advice again.
Increasing stats with suitable potions is no longer as successful as I remember.
e.g. Sustain wisdom of objects does not protect. Was still reduced by a Potion of Toughness. Since all of my stats except Constitution are sustained, I was actually sure that I would only have the advantage of stat gain.
Since when has this been like this? Is this a bug?

No, this is the way the stat swap potions have worked since they were introduced; sustains don't work against the stat loss from them.

[Michaelyx]

No, this is the way the stat swap potions have worked since they were introduced; sustains don't work against the stat loss from them.

Thanks for the info! Then I remembered it wrong.