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[Ingwe Ingweron]

... You will never see 4 blows in a single attack because that would use more time than is allowed; however, each time you attack (and get 3 blows) you use somewhat less than a full turn's worth of time. It's like having a speed advantage over your opponent.

And, if I understand it correctly, eventually double-move the opponent.

[Jungle_Boy]

It doesn't work the way you think it does. It costs you 1/3.8 turns worth of time to make a single melee attack, and when you attack you attack as many times as possible without using more than a full turn's worth of time. You will never see 4 blows in a single attack because that would use more time than is allowed; however, each time you attack (and get 3 blows) you use somewhat less than a full turn's worth of time. It's like having a speed advantage over your opponent.

Ok, thanks for clarifying.

[Derakon]

I think I found a bug in the blows calculation. I had 3.8 blows and I watched my combat carefully for quite a while and never saw four blows even though it seems like I should have gotten four blows 80% of the time. Unless partial blows does not work like I think it does.

It doesn't work the way you think it does. It costs you 1/3.8 turns worth of time to make a single melee attack, and when you attack you attack as many times as possible without using more than a full turn's worth of time. You will never see 4 blows in a single attack because that would use more time than is allowed; however, each time you attack (and get 3 blows) you use somewhat less than a full turn's worth of time. It's like having a speed advantage over your opponent.

[Jungle_Boy]

I think I found a bug in the blows calculation. I had 3.8 blows and I watched my combat carefully for quite a while and never saw four blows even though it seems like I should have gotten four blows 80% of the time. Unless partial blows does not work like I think it does.

Also if you try to sell stuff to the magic shop to recharge it seems it only accepts certain staves and no wands, our at least not any of the ones I had. This may be working as designed but it also gives the message about viewing equipment or quiver which is probably not right and if you hit / for equipment it shows a blank screen.

[Ingwe Ingweron]

No idea if it has been reported before, but in the latest comp I've found arrows of acid that I wanted to keep for Sauron, so I inscribed them @f9 so they end up in slot j. The quiver is made of slots a-g and j. When I generate a chardump, slot j is not mentioned.

Yeah, I think Thraalbeast has mentioned this one. And we're still waiting to see if Nick will return the quiver to the 3.5.1 identification of numbers 0 - 9 so that they make sense with the inscriptions for firing.

[PowerWyrm]

No idea if it has been reported before, but in the latest comp I've found arrows of acid that I wanted to keep for Sauron, so I inscribed them @f9 so they end up in slot j. The quiver is made of slots a-g and j. When I generate a chardump, slot j is not mentioned.

[Timo Pietilä]

Just checked again and you're right. Just didn't remember that this was changed in 3.5.

It does feel wrong though. It feels that Wyrms should have a bit better drops, but for game balance point of view just ordinary item drop works fine.

Internal debate goes a bit like this:

- I want more!!!
- You have speed +32, weapon that makes 600+ damage, AC 200+, HP 1000+ and all the consumables and resistances you wanted. You don't need more.
- I WANT MORE!!! "Need" is not an issue here.

[PowerWyrm]

Not a bug. Non-unique ancient dragons have only "ONLY_ITEM" in 3.5 too. Not even "DROP_GOOD".

That's just unusual because it is so shallow level item.

Just checked again and you're right. Just didn't remember that this was changed in 3.5.

[Ingwe Ingweron]

Angband 4.0 dev f59f9e5

Another display issue. @ found The One Ring and has just successfully killed Morgoth. Experience is at full, but the Character Level is shown in Yellow rather than Green. Ruin.zip

[Jungle_Boy]

My current competition character was lucky enough to find a multi-hued DSM! The description says it breathes for 250 damage but I just breathed acid on a mean looking mercenary and he only lost two stars! It seemed a little underwhelming in the dungeon but now a can't even use it to kill townies?

[Jungle_Boy]

When using an enchant armor scroll on a cursed item I got the message "your item glows brightly!" Then "the curse is broken!" This would lead me to believe that the item had been enchanted as well as the curse broken but looking at the item I'm pretty sure the enchantment did not change. I'm not sure if this is new or normal but it seemed odd.

[Timo Pietilä]

No idea if it has been reported before, but a Great Hell Wyrm just dropped a magic book "Magic for Beginners", which is clearly not a drop that should be allowed...

Not a bug. Non-unique ancient dragons have only "ONLY_ITEM" in 3.5 too. Not even "DROP_GOOD".

That's just unusual because it is so shallow level item.

[PowerWyrm]

No idea if it has been reported before, but a Great Hell Wyrm just dropped a magic book "Magic for Beginners", which is clearly not a drop that should be allowed...

[Thraalbee]

(rev. 300) Character dump also fails to list entire quiver. It only lists until the first blank slot. My latest dump says 40 + 10 arrows and my slots are equipped as:
a) 40 ...
b) 10 ...
) (nothing)
d) 12 ...
e) 24
) (nothing)
g) 34 ...

[Thraalbee]

Another observation, the home inventory in the character dump is normally sorted nicely as e.g. the current leader in the comp. But look at my dump with today's release, http://angband.oook.cz/ladder-show.php?id=17794. It seems random. The same for PowerWyrm's latest dump, http://angband.oook.cz/ladder-show.php?id=17774