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Just had a stat swap (+/-) potion, !Niimbleness, only said "You feel very dextrous." There was no corresponding ill effect. Did Dex swap with Dex? I didn't think that was supposed to be possible.
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“We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.”
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Do you have any sustains via equipment or @ racial abilities?Comment
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“We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are DeadComment
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Yeah, looking good in Windows so far. Adding my test tile set with the necessary tweaks for the new structure went over without a hitch, and even some mildly weird shit I tried worked just fine as well (lol'd at being able to put a tile set directly in tiles/ by using D:. or D:./ in list.txt)
What I noticed:- I guess no unicode for file and path names used within list.txt is "as intended"?
- The issue with garbage being displayed in the Options->Graphics menu when tileset names are longer than 31 characters does persist.
- Making the game trip by putting e.g. "D:" (rather than "D:.") in list.txt gives a "Graphics list load failed" message, but no hint as to what exactly happened / which line broke things.
Standing by my suggestion to axe list.txt entirely btw.Comment
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The extra complexity required to nuke list.txt isn't worth it IMO. Serial numbers are not a big deal - if you make a new tileset, you just add it at the end with a new serial number.
The name copying bit is annoying and needs fixing using my_strcpy() instead of strncpy() in grafmode.c.takkaria whispers something about options. -more-Comment
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“We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are DeadComment
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Why are fail percentages for spell etc. never more than 50%? Even at other percentages, the spells fail probability is lot more than what is reported. Can't we have a better estimate (I don't have any idea)?
Also, birth option of preserving artifacts still does not work well. I don't see a few basic artifacts after long hours of play. In debug mode, for example, if you generate hundred of very good objects, you can see phial generated on the ground nearby and bam after some repeations it is no longer generated. My guess is when it is generated in the inventory of some monster (possibly unique) it is no longer generated again. No proof, just guessing.
Also I am running out of macros, I run angband on linux console (playing it there since ages). Running out of numbers for rods too @a0 @a9. So I have to define these ingame and reuse it, instead of auto inscription. Well this is more of a feature request than anything else. Can we have and use @a[letter].
Anyway, I like angband, it is great game. Started with nethack but now I play only angband for quite a while.Comment
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I too became convinced that this was the case. I was running a half-troll ranger who I had accidentally added points onto WIS instead of INT. I was about to kill him off and reroll, but in the end I got quite attached to the poor fellow (at least until he had an accident on dlvl40 with an Ancient Green - still with 50% fail on Magic Missile and a max of 9SP), but anyway...
I started recording my casts and although it actually came out at 52% fail, rather than 50%, I had been convinced it was more like 75%. I think it is runs of 7 or 8 fails in a row that convince the human brain that something is wrong with probablilty.Comment
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Update cb2b719 fixes:- OS X graphics (thanks myshkin)
- Make lib/tiles/list.txt look prettier
- On Powerwyrm's advice, do an explicit check that a monster is never placed on top of the player
No bugs for a while - apart from the OS X sidebar update problem.One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.Comment
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The spell failure rates are accurate. You just notice the "unlikely" failures far more than you notice the "unlikely" successes, because humans are bad at coping with randomness.
Fun fact: one way to recognize when someone is trying to generate "random" data by hand is that it doesn't have long streams of the same result. In sufficiently large datasets you should expect to see a few such streams.
I'd like to see Angband collect more stats on the player. A breakdown of how often each spell is cast and how its nominal failure rate compared to its actual failure rate would be pretty neat to see.
Remember that once you learn the name of an item, it cannot be generated again. If your workflow for this test included picking up the phial, then you would expect to never see it again. What exactly were you doing?Also, birth option of preserving artifacts still does not work well. I don't see a few basic artifacts after long hours of play. In debug mode, for example, if you generate hundred of very good objects, you can see phial generated on the ground nearby and bam after some repeations it is no longer generated. My guess is when it is generated in the inventory of some monster (possibly unique) it is no longer generated again. No proof, just guessing.Comment
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Angband 4.0 dev cb2b719
This is an error in OSX. On initial character creation, there was an error - "failure to save subwindow preferences" (or something like that). What was apparently happening was that the Documents/Angband directory was not being created before the attempt to save .prf and savefiles. After the failure, there was a Documents/Angband directory, but it was empty - no subdirectories, no files. Reattempting character creation worked fine, I believe because now the Documents/Angband directory existed.“We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.”
― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are DeadComment
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I also see this with your savefile. Oddly, the basic character subterm updates just fine. Also, for me, becoming encumbered doesn't trigger an update, but becoming unencumbered does.
In both cases, update_sidebar() and update_player_compact_subwindow() both get called at least once, and prt_ac() eventually prints something with the correct new value. I'm not sure yet why this would fail just on OSX, or why it fails at all. I should note that wearing the full plate triggers enough message text to have a -More- after the wearing message, while wearing the robe allows everything to fit on one line. I'm guessing it has something to do with that.Comment
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