Bugs and complaints on current master

[PowerWyrm]

Strange door placement: http://angband.oook.cz/screen-show.php?id=4265

Also the game crashed on me while making that screenshot with a "no terrain feature with number 0" message.

[PowerWyrm]

There's an amulet of infravision in the BM that doesn't display its +, is that normal?

[PowerWyrm]

Latest source doesn't compile for me. The compiler complain about "ssize_t" not defined in set_del(). It works if I replace it with "int".

[Derakon]

Latest source doesn't compile for me. The compiler complain about "ssize_t" not defined in set_del(). It works if I replace it with "int".

Probably should be a size_t instead.

[takkaria]

Latest source doesn't compile for me. The compiler complain about "ssize_t" not defined in set_del(). It works if I replace it with "int".

Yeah, we should just use int instead. ssize_t is unnecessarily anal and also not ISO C.

[PowerWyrm]

Current game, climbing up the stairs: assertion failed, cave-square.c line 464, square_in_bounds(c, y, x).

[PowerWyrm]

I IDed-by-use a potion of lose memories as a hobbit and it didn't do anything. I'm pretty sure HOLD_LIFE didn't prevent xp drain completely before...

[fizzix]

Are randarts bugged (as of e906c66) because the phial I found should never be creatable.

[Nick]

Are randarts bugged (as of e906c66) because the phial I found should never be creatable.

I think that's just the result of the recent change where lights, rings and amulets are randomised like other artifacts.

[Pete Mack]

@Nick--
Did you consider game balance when you made that change? The Palantir was removed because it was unbalancing. That phial is even more so. I have said it before: when randarts are completely random, on average it makes the best weapons and armors slightly worse (with shields more or less a wash.) But for everything else, the best items are on average significantly better--as is the average for that slot.
As there are extremely good ego items in the armor and weapon slots, the result is the average character ends up significantly more powerful. Adding lights to the mix makes this even more extreme.

[fizzix]

Pete is right. This item is unbalancing. Finding it has made me not want to play the character anymore...

The simplest short term solution would be to put a power cap on specific slots. Lights should have a low cap, and amulets, gloves and cloaks should have a medium cap.

[Nick]

Did you consider game balance when you made that change? The Palantir was removed because it was unbalancing. That phial is even more so. I have said it before: when randarts are completely random, on average it makes the best weapons and armors slightly worse (with shields more or less a wash.) But for everything else, the best items are on average significantly better--as is the average for that slot.

The idea was to make a minimal change first, to make sure the mechanics were right, and then test how well that worked. I agree that the current situation is unbalanced.

The traditional philosophy has been to base the randart set on the standard artifacts. My favoured solution, then, would be to try to mimic the power distribution for each slot. This will probably require a more holistic approach to the randart set generation rather than the current approach of running through and randomising the standarts one by one in index order; I think the result should be worth it, though.

[Pete Mack]

Yes! The value has to be a bit higher than the actual max value in the standard artifacts, because the artifacts won't be so carefully matched as they are in V. But gloves based on Deathwreaker are just silly.

Pete is right. This item is unbalancing. Finding it has made me not want to play the character anymore...

The simplest short term solution would be to put a power cap on specific slots. Lights should have a low cap, and amulets, gloves and cloaks should have a medium cap.

[Pete Mack]

Ever since Enchant scrolls stopped showing up in the Alchemy shop, Calris has been essentially broken for mages and warriors. It's almost impossible to get the thing even up to (+0,20). I kept it all game, since it was my best +CON weapon. I religiously picked up *Enchant Weapon* scrolls. I Managed to get it only to (-5,+20) which is still pretty crippling for a mage. Make it (-8,+20) or at least make Enchant scrolls always work when the value is below zero, even for artifacts.

+CON weapons are so desirable for Mage, it's a shame that one of the two common good ones (Thunderfist being the other) isn't useful for the class. (Eonwe and especially Deathwreaker are rare.)

Edit: another possibility is to make Enchant Weapon work for mage the way it does for priests--almost useless, except for Calris and Glaive of Pain. But that's really special pleading.

[Pete Mack]

HTML sreen dump causes clean (exit code 0) exit, but with no save file made. Lost the victory over Morgoth