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(Reposted from rgra in case anyone here can help)
Magnate wrote:
> Magnate wrote:
>> "Werner Baer" <werner.baer@gmx.de> wrote
>>> "Magnate" <not@receiving.here> schrieb...
>>>>
>>>> My investigations into vortices have made me fear that I don't
>>>> understand something about monster.txt, or that something has changed.
>>> [...]
>>>> Checking my current monster.txt for 3.0.9b, sure enough all the early
>>>> vortices have W lines starting W:21:1...
>>>>
>>>> Yet they show up on my current monster recall as being native to 350', not 1050' ...??
>>>
>>> The game reads the data from monster.raw in the lib/data folder.
>>> That file gets recreated from monster.txt if it's not there, or
>>> monster.txt is newer.
>>>
>>> So delete your monster.raw file, and all should be fine after the next
>>> start.
>>
>> Wow. How on earth did that happen?
Well, I still don't know how, but every time I start Angband it writes a
version of monster.txt into /home/chrisc/.angband/Angband - regardless of what is in /etc/angband/edit or /var/games/angband/data
Once upon a time, about a year ago, I downloaded UnAndrew's rebalanced monster.txt for 3.0.8 - http://prdownload.berlios.de/unangband/monster.txt
(see http://angband.oook.cz/forum/showthread.php?t=30)
This is the monster.txt that is getting created in my ~/.angband/Angband
directory every time I start Angband. I don't understand how - it doesn't
exist anywhere on this system.
What I don't understand is,
1. Why is it doing this? Does anybody else's version write monster.txt into
their home dir?
2. Where is it getting its info from? The only other monster.txt on the
system is in /etc/angband/edit and is the untouched version from 3.0.9b
3. Why is it ignoring the correct monster.txt in /etc/angband/edit?
Really grateful if somebody could help me get to the bottom of this. It does
this whenever Angband starts, no matter what I do. (It doesn't happen on my Windows version.)
... well, at least I now know the source of the problem. Somehow my Angband installation recreates UnAndrew's rebalanced 3.0.8 monster list (even though the one it creates in ~/.angband/Angband is more up to date than that, complete with FORGET flags). So, a question for Takkaria: did you incorporate UnAndrew's rebalancing code into 3.0.9 or 3.0.9b?
If not, I can't understand why this is happening. The monster.txt in /etc/angband/edit is being totally ignored. The game is creating its own version, the instant it starts (without loading a savefile, without any monster.raw existing, before a character is even created).
Does nobody else have this problem??
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Magnate wrote:
> Magnate wrote:
>> "Werner Baer" <werner.baer@gmx.de> wrote
>>> "Magnate" <not@receiving.here> schrieb...
>>>>
>>>> My investigations into vortices have made me fear that I don't
>>>> understand something about monster.txt, or that something has changed.
>>> [...]
>>>> Checking my current monster.txt for 3.0.9b, sure enough all the early
>>>> vortices have W lines starting W:21:1...
>>>>
>>>> Yet they show up on my current monster recall as being native to 350', not 1050' ...??
>>>
>>> The game reads the data from monster.raw in the lib/data folder.
>>> That file gets recreated from monster.txt if it's not there, or
>>> monster.txt is newer.
>>>
>>> So delete your monster.raw file, and all should be fine after the next
>>> start.
>>
>> Wow. How on earth did that happen?
Well, I still don't know how, but every time I start Angband it writes a
version of monster.txt into /home/chrisc/.angband/Angband - regardless of what is in /etc/angband/edit or /var/games/angband/data
Once upon a time, about a year ago, I downloaded UnAndrew's rebalanced monster.txt for 3.0.8 - http://prdownload.berlios.de/unangband/monster.txt
(see http://angband.oook.cz/forum/showthread.php?t=30)
This is the monster.txt that is getting created in my ~/.angband/Angband
directory every time I start Angband. I don't understand how - it doesn't
exist anywhere on this system.
What I don't understand is,
1. Why is it doing this? Does anybody else's version write monster.txt into
their home dir?
2. Where is it getting its info from? The only other monster.txt on the
system is in /etc/angband/edit and is the untouched version from 3.0.9b
3. Why is it ignoring the correct monster.txt in /etc/angband/edit?
Really grateful if somebody could help me get to the bottom of this. It does
this whenever Angband starts, no matter what I do. (It doesn't happen on my Windows version.)
... well, at least I now know the source of the problem. Somehow my Angband installation recreates UnAndrew's rebalanced 3.0.8 monster list (even though the one it creates in ~/.angband/Angband is more up to date than that, complete with FORGET flags). So, a question for Takkaria: did you incorporate UnAndrew's rebalancing code into 3.0.9 or 3.0.9b?
If not, I can't understand why this is happening. The monster.txt in /etc/angband/edit is being totally ignored. The game is creating its own version, the instant it starts (without loading a savefile, without any monster.raw existing, before a character is even created).
Does nobody else have this problem??
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