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[wastedyouth]

Dual wielding...

I still miss the primary and secondary weapon slots that exchange with X... I don't like getting bonuses from both the bow and weapon simultaneously...

[Poop Loops]

Dual weilding would be awesome, but I think we'd need a whole new class just for that, to nerf its defense to compensate for the attack.

[Big Al]

I don't think that anything would have to be nerfed too badly, depending how it was implemented; if eg. you got one attack with your main weapon, then one attack with your offhand, it would be about the same as getting two attacks with your main. If you could only use the offhand weapon in your shield slot, any equipment bonuses from the offhand weapon would be offset by not getting any bonuses from your shield. I know some variants have introduced offhand weapons, but I've never really played around with them much.

[Poop Loops]

I was thinking you'd get your weapon instead of your shield, but get extra attacks (maybe 50% more?) or something. The whole point of the extra weapon would be to become the world's greatest killing machine.

Taking CON down by a point or two as a class penalty wouldn't be too bad. I mean, Rangers traditionally have dual-wield, but they already have the ranged side of the game covered, so I don't know about having an extra feature just for them.

It could either be something like a brute force barbarian, or a cunning assassin type (with two light weapons only, but a STR penalty). It would be either a special case of a Warrior or Rogue in that case, which I don't like too much, either, because that's not different enough.

I don't think anybody would be for modifying the Warrior or Rogue that way, either. That seems too fundamental of a change for V.

[JamesDoyle]

Working on artifacts for the User Manual, I noted the following errors in the artifacts.txt file:

Necklace of the Dwarves: carencet > carcenet
Ring of Barahir: twinned >? twined
Power Dragon Scale Mail 'Bladeturner' untramelled > untrammelled
Bastard Sword Calris: incused >? incised (incused is a real word, but not sure this is what was meant)
Bastard Sword Calris: hint > hilt
Broad Sword 'Aeglin' coved > covered
Spear Nimloth: silvan >? sylvan; although the elves are Silvan, a shaft should probably be sylvan
Lochaber Axe Mundwine: filleted >? filigree
Trident of Ulmo mightest > mightiest

[Irashtar]

More squelching features, I want to be able to squelch by quality on a slot by slot basis when it comes to armour, like in FAangband.
Also, being able to squelch specific ego flavours would be nice.
seconding the slay foo giving detect foo, I think TOME did this before...

[Narvius]

The whole "Automizer" thing ToME has could be stolen for V. It's awesome.
I don't like partial ESP (what does ESP mean, anyways?), it's okay for ToME, but V should keep it simple.

[Zikke]

Extra sensory perception? a.k.a. telepathy in some variants

[Jude]

Non-activateable telepathy drives me nuts; you can never rest because there's always some monster within range moving to disturb you.

[Psi]

Non-activateable telepathy drives me nuts; you can never rest because there's always some monster within range moving to disturb you.

Change your disturb options then...

[Pete Mack]

iPhone/iPod touch port

Oh, the iPod Touch has such a fine high-res (480x320, 1/2 VGA) little screen... Now I want to play angband on it...

[Lebannen]

Yes, I was pondering the iPod Touch/iPhone stuff - to the best of my knowledge, the iPhone SDK does expose most of Carbon, ATSUI, etc - so we may be able to lift a lot of code from the Carbon port. The interface would have to be rather different than the DS version - I would imagine no virtual keyboard support because there's not enough space, but using a variation of the mouse-based interface:
- Use of the Buttons along the bottom of the screen
- Support tap-to-target
- Don't support tap-to-move in the conventional sense (not enough accuracy) - instead, split the screen into virtual quadrants, so tap to move/attack in that direction (double-tap to run).
- Use keep-player-centered mode by default - with the small screen and the decently fast processor, this shouldn't be a problem.

I suspect it would still be unplayable, but it'd be an interesting exercise

[chem]

We really, really need a Cocoa port of Angband.

http://ridiculousfish.com/angband/

If someone can make that port functional in the current vanilla CVS, I will help maintain it.

[Pete Mack]

Screen-scraped dumps

I'd like to be able to make a screen-dump (snapshot) of any screen, not just the current map. In particular, I'd like to be able to dump messages, inventory, etc, either in a separate window or that are displayed on top of the map.

(This was inspired by finding both Wrath of God and Kelek's in consecutive rooms on dl99 ...as an NPP brigand.)

[andrewdoull]

I'd like to be able to make a screen-dump (snapshot) of any screen, not just the current map. In particular, I'd like to be able to dump messages, inventory, etc, either in a separate window or that are displayed on top of the map.

(This was inspired by finding both Wrath of God and Kelek's in consecutive rooms on dl99 ...as an NPP brigand.)

IIRC, I did this in UnAngband by supporting ^] to mean dump the screen at any point waiting for input. It couldn't do the cave tile remapping that the standard dump did though.

Andrew