How long does a game take you?

[fizzix]

You recorder an session?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_caNGTMJa0&list=PLqmp3AQjl7rYfmWDflNf9GYhk1-MP_S9x

I was kind of sad that there were no "expert-ish" videos of angband play, instead of videos of newbies grinding levels 1-5 and then getting killed by an umber hulk. So I decided to do something about it.

[Scraper]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_caN...f9GYhk1-MP_S9x

I was kind of sad that there were no "expert-ish" videos of angband play, instead of videos of newbies grinding levels 1-5 and then getting killed by an umber hulk. So I decided to do something about it.

Thank you for doing these videos. I'm looking forward to going through them all. Especially the later ones (I'm on 6 atm).

[Timo Pietilä]

3) The groupthink of the old days was pretty silly. "Don't go past 1650' until your stats are maxed." "Don't go below 2000' without poison resistance." "Don't go below 1000' without basic elemental resistance, FA, and SI." We forced ourselves to do a lot of grinding because we imagined that instant death awaited us if we passed these imaginary thresholds without being sufficiently equipped. How wrong we were.

In old days those were not that stupid advices, mainly because game limited your detection a lot more than it does now. First of all you had only one screen, and it was rather limited size, detection gave you information only of the screen you were currently seeing. No extra info about monsters your char sees, and no information about items other than symbol onto screen. You couldn't even look beyond what was in your actual LoS and color selections were far more limited, so something like plasma hounds and fire hounds looked identical. IIRC running didn't stop when your char saw monster, only if you saw it. That resulted a lot more surprise off-screen breaths. At 1000' or so you could easily enter in LoS of Ancient Red Dragon without knowing about it and without fire resistance get yourself burned to crisp. Fog of war-effect was much stronger in them.

This obviously is now long gone, and advices from these really old days were given far too long, far beyond their expiration date.

[Derakon]

This obviously is now long gone, and advices from these really old days were given far too long, far beyond their expiration date.

Yeah, I was thinking of the 2.8.x days, when we had the "expand the power of the look command" option and so on, but the groupthink was still incredibly strong. Such advice might have been better in the 2.4 days, but then ISTR that grinding also didn't take so long in the 2.4 days because the item generator was more generous.

[Scraper]

A couple of notes:

1) You should try the "no selling" birth option. It increases the gold you get from money drops, in exchange for making the shopkeepers only ever buy things for 0AU. As a result, you don't have to worry about the cash value of "crappy but good" items you find (like a Spear of Slay Giant, say), and can instead dedicate all of your inventory capacity to potentially-useful items. This also means you can spend less time in town and more time in the dungeon.

Thank you so much for this. In my latest game I am playing with no selling and it is making a vast difference to how my early game is going. I don't think I will ever go back to a selling game.

[Vertigo1]

usually around 3-4 hours, then i get mugged by a pack of dreads and an umber hulk :<