Current master post-4.1.3

[PowerWyrm]

Ok maybe you can help me here...

I have implemented in PWMAngband the change that moves all books from object.txt to class.txt and now I have a constant crash when launching the game.

The crash happens when registering the artifacts. I have put a watch on "classes->start_items->kind->name" which shows "Word of Recall", but when the game registers the Arkenstone, this value changes to "NULL" when the code does:

temp = mem_realloc(k_info, (z_info->k_max + 1) * sizeof(*temp));

Any idea?

[PowerWyrm]

Pretty sure that Mormegil and Beruthiel are worse.

Beruthiel is actually useful. I've used it in the past when it was my only source of ESP.

[wobbly]

I don't dispute that dreads are tougher then most things at their old depths but I do dispute that monsters should appear at there "correct" depth in the monster list (see others comments upthread on white wraiths).

You know one of the changes I liked least in late poscheng was the removal of Gachapin. He appeared super early for the threat level he presented, adding occassional danger to otherwise "safe" mid-levels. An early dangerous monster presents a different threat to OOD, eapecially considering there's a dynamic (earlier dreads + OOD). It's a different density & probability spread. I think it's a mistake to impose too much order here.

[Nick]

Nick-- why are Dreads so deep? Yes they were tough at dl 36...and that is good. But they are pretty much solved by dl 44.

One of the aims was to spread the lump of monsters before DL50 out a bit, which mostly got done by moving things deeper and buffing them. I thought dreads, in comparison to other things (especially the other ghosts), were probably more of a DL44 monster, but maybe they should be buffed a bit too.

[Pete Mack]

Nick-- why are Dreads so deep? Yes they were tough at dl 36...and that is good. But they are pretty much solved by dl 44.

[Pete Mack]

Pretty sure that Mormegil and Beruthiel are worse.

[Estragon]

New winner for lame randart... The Long Sword of Gunuruil (2d5) (+6, +8).

The only other thing it has? Slay animal. That's it. Nothing else.

hah, that's nothing:

The Ring of Eondi
Provides resistance to fire. Cannot be harmed by lightning. Aggravates creatures nearby.

[Chud]

New winner for lame randart... The Long Sword of Gunuruil (2d5) (+6, +8).

The only other thing it has? Slay animal. That's it. Nothing else.

[Nick]

Something's bothering me a lot with the latest classes... Rogues are not able to detect traps??? Err... Sorry but that's like the first thing you learn as a rogue, like "FIRE" for mages or "CURE" for priests.

They get perfect disarm fairly quickly, though.

[PowerWyrm]

Something's bothering me a lot with the latest classes... Rogues are not able to detect traps??? Err... Sorry but that's like the first thing you learn as a rogue, like "FIRE" for mages or "CURE" for priests.

[Thraalbee]

Minor thing. When having fire immunity, running into lava still stops with a warning "... step into it?" whereas walking into lava does not give such a warning.

[Chud]

uniques and monsters -- that resist fear -- are not affected
not
uniques -- and monsters that resist fear -- are not affected

so just stuff that resist fear cannot be frightened

Got it. Parsing error on my part. :-) Thanks!

[PowerWyrm]

On the necromancer spell "Frighten," the description says uniques and monsters that resist fear are not affected -- however, uniques are affected (worked on both one of the Umbar guys and Tom the stone troll). Not sure whether it's the description or the behavior that's wrong, but they don't match.

uniques and monsters -- that resist fear -- are not affected
not
uniques -- and monsters that resist fear -- are not affected

so just stuff that resist fear cannot be frightened

[Chud]

On the necromancer spell "Frighten," the description says uniques and monsters that resist fear are not affected -- however, uniques are affected (worked on both one of the Umbar guys and Tom the stone troll). Not sure whether it's the description or the behavior that's wrong, but they don't match.

[Nick]

Um... I think he'd referring to the odd spelling error. "prepres"

Yeah, I got that, the rest was advertising