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Should any of you try out 3.a, and want to discuss a specific game mechanic in depth, please post your questions here. You could start by reading EFGchanges or just dive in.
The biggest change is that experience is hard to come by. You get 1 exp for each monster type killed, or each flavor learned by use. That means buying unlearned items from the shop will set you back experiencewise until you find potions of experience deep in the dungeon. I also stamped out the most common abuses such as hack-and-back, hockeysticks, sea of runes.
There is a set of "easiness" options. They are sort of the opposite of birth options. You can turn them on and off at any point in the game, but it will remember if you ever turned each one on during the game. If there were a real scoring system, using them would cause a worse score. Hopefully they will allow the game to be accessible to non-experts.
If you do not play ironman, and you die, the next time you start the game you will be given the option to resurrect your character. Doing so puts @ on the stairs in town with equipment carried at death. It marks the game as cheating. Hopefully I did it well enough that you can't be marked a winner for the game. I received enough requests for resurrecting dead chars over the years that I think it's worth including, even though it might lead to bad habits simply having it available.
The biggest change is that experience is hard to come by. You get 1 exp for each monster type killed, or each flavor learned by use. That means buying unlearned items from the shop will set you back experiencewise until you find potions of experience deep in the dungeon. I also stamped out the most common abuses such as hack-and-back, hockeysticks, sea of runes.
There is a set of "easiness" options. They are sort of the opposite of birth options. You can turn them on and off at any point in the game, but it will remember if you ever turned each one on during the game. If there were a real scoring system, using them would cause a worse score. Hopefully they will allow the game to be accessible to non-experts.
If you do not play ironman, and you die, the next time you start the game you will be given the option to resurrect your character. Doing so puts @ on the stairs in town with equipment carried at death. It marks the game as cheating. Hopefully I did it well enough that you can't be marked a winner for the game. I received enough requests for resurrecting dead chars over the years that I think it's worth including, even though it might lead to bad habits simply having it available.
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