Borgs?

[Cyrlous]

I've just recently started playing this again and I was just wondering if there are any borgs for modern versions of this game, and if not what was the last stable version that had a borg and where can I find it? I always found Borgs amusing and would like to try to find one again if possible.

[Whelk]

I believe 3.0.9b (on rephial.org) has a borg. I used it as my screensaver for a while, but it spent a good chunk of its time running around aimlessly while "waiting to sell."

[Timo Pietilä]

I've just recently started playing this again and I was just wondering if there are any borgs for modern versions of this game, and if not what was the last stable version that had a borg and where can I find it? I always found Borgs amusing and would like to try to find one again if possible.

Check this: http://angband.oook.cz/forum/showthread.php?t=3871

[Cyrlous]

Thanks!

Ok, thanks for the help, I got it all set up now.

I gotta say, this Borg is EXTREMELY conservative. He's a Paladin with 17 HP but he keeps running from kobolds and won't even venture out of the first room of the dungeon.

I wonder how he'll deal with the ever-cheap floating eyes. I can't count the number of times I have a decent character going, walk around a corner, and there's a floating eye, game over =(.

[Derakon]

You can avoid floating eyes just fine with two things:

1) Get a radius-2 light source. In modern Vanilla, that just means ensuring your light source remains reasonably fully-fueled.
2) Ensure your movement options are set so you don't cut corners when running. This doesn't apply in modern Vanilla; the option appears to have been removed. I'm curious what the default behavior is now.

[zaimoni]

When that option was removed, the behavior was defaulted to not cutting corners when running.

[Timo Pietilä]

You can avoid floating eyes just fine with two things:

1) Get a radius-2 light source. In modern Vanilla, that just means ensuring your light source remains reasonably fully-fueled.
2) Ensure your movement options are set so you don't cut corners when running. This doesn't apply in modern Vanilla; the option appears to have been removed. I'm curious what the default behavior is now.

+8 AC is enough to prevent death by floating eyes in old versions, and now in modern to-be-released version paralyzis is not cumulative, so if you make saving throw and paralyzer doesn't hit you you get out. It still can kill you, but it isn't certain death.

[stabbo]

I love borgs simply because the first few levels of the game are so boring. I tend to run them, or used to before I upgraded Angband, until I got somewhere between level 5-10.

I wish there was some option you could use that started you effectively after your first dive.

[fbas]

I love borgs simply because the first few levels of the game are so boring. I tend to run them, or used to before I upgraded Angband, until I got somewhere between level 5-10.

I wish there was some option you could use that started you effectively after your first dive.

You could just save/share your save files from level 5-10 characters.

What? Don't act like you've never saved a file before.

[stabbo]

You could just save/share your save files from level 5-10 characters.

What? Don't act like you've never saved a file before.

Wouldn't that ruin ancestor memory and whatnot?