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[gglibertine]

Is inability to enchant artifact armour an intentional thing? I'm on 4.1.3-465-g2a840212b still (so as not to corrupt my savefile) and while I've been able to enchant artifact weapons, armour fails every time. It *could* be coincidence, but I've tried a LOT, given that all my armour is artifacts, and it's failed a couple of dozen times at least, including with *Enchant Armour*.

[Derakon]

Chance to successfully enchant depends on how enchanted the item is already. It's flat-out impossible to enchant anything above +15, and it's pretty hard to get above +10. Most artifact armors have AC bonuses well above +10.

If I recall correctly, artifacts also have some degree of "enchantment resistance" that makes them additionally harder to improve, presumably to counterbalance their innate resistance to being disenchanted.

[gglibertine]

Ah, interesting. I didn't know they resisted disenchantment! I must've used up a couple of dozen scrolls of Enchant Armour on a +9 artifact cloak, though. I know you can't get above +15, but I've managed to get above +10 with things if I'm persistent enough in the past. This time, though, absolutely NONE of my artifact armour has taken an enchantment, whereas the weapons have, so I started to wonder if there might be a bug.

[wobbly]

It's a flat 50% fail chance for an artifact & I think 30% chance for +9. It's this table anyway, & chance is out of 1000

static const int enchant_table[16] =
{
	0, 10,  20, 40, 80,
	160, 280, 400, 550, 700,
	800, 900, 950, 970, 990,
	1000
};

Sounds like you got a little unlucky, but not extremely so.

[wobbly]

The rate you get hungry at with regen seems crazy & I barely use the rest command (190 rest turns by dlvl 37). While it's nice that slow digestion has a use, I think this is currently over the top. Certainly I wouldn't want to play iron man with it like how it is now.

[Nick]

The rate you get hungry at with regen seems crazy & I barely use the rest command (190 rest turns by dlvl 37). While it's nice that slow digestion has a use, I think this is currently over the top. Certainly I wouldn't want to play iron man with it like how it is now.

OK, I see what the problem is. I have reduced the size of the food meter from 17500 to 10000, and halved the rate of digestion, which looks like you need less food; but the effective size of the meter (above hungry and below slowing starting) has gone from 15000 to 6000. I will make some adjustments.

[Ingwe Ingweron]

OK, I see what the problem is. I have reduced the size of the food meter from 17500 to 10000, and halved the rate of digestion, which looks like you need less food; but the effective size of the meter (above hungry and below slowing starting) has gone from 15000 to 6000. I will make some adjustments.

So, I wasn't just crazy?

[Nick]

So, I wasn't just crazy?

It would seem not. Changes in development move the top of "Hungry" down to 15%, and the bottom of "Full" up to 90%, which means the good range should last the same number of turns as before now. I've also made food descriptions include percentage as well as turns.

[Ingwe Ingweron]

It would seem not....

Gotta love Nick, always the statesman and only going to say that I don't "seem" crazy. Reminds me of a Robert E. Howard quote from a "Conan" novel that I remember reading as a kid, "Those who are sane believe there is a great difference between illusion and reality-- those who are mad know that this is simply not true."

[Nick]

Gotta love Nick, always the statesman and only going to say that I don't "seem" crazy. Reminds me of a Robert E. Howard quote from a "Conan" novel that I remember reading as a kid, "Those who are sane believe there is a great difference between illusion and reality-- those who are mad know that this is simply not true."

I'm just glad someone's paying attention

[Ingwe Ingweron]

"Ignoring" bug: shining dragon scale mail can only be ignored "this item only"

[Nick]

"Ignoring" bug: shining dragon scale mail can only be ignored "this item only"

Thanks, fixed in development.

[Nick]

New builds up on the nightlies page and angband.live with the following changes:

• Use correct number of blows in deciding whether to attempt a shield bash (thanks PowerWyrm)
• Expand the useful section of the food range so that it is essentially the same as before
• Adjust effects at the top and bottom of the food range to be cleaner and more robust to changes in the data file
• Fix message order in shapechanges (ticket #2114)
• Add percentages to food value descriptions
• Stopped Drop All on the item menu from needing confirmation (request from Clearshade)
• Allow the 8th window in the SDL2 port to be opened without causing a crash (thanks EducatedNoob)
• Add reference to Once's Windows console compilation instructions to Makefile.win (actual instructions are here)
• Fix bug stopping rune of protection being cast on squares containing an object (thanks Ingwe)
• Fix ignore for Shining DSM (Ingwe again)
• Make stores always accept items with unknown runes in no-selling (#2080)
• Stop light being ignorable from the tval menu - makes no sense now that there are ego and artifact torches and lanterns (#2119)
• Drop ignored stolen items immediately, avoiding possible drop of something useful (#2126)

I'm pretty happy with food now, but let me know if there are more issues.

[gglibertine]

Just noticed that Protection from Fear isn't flagged in the character info, even when wearing items that say they provide it. This is still a few builds back, 4.1.3-465-g2a840212b, but I don't remember seeing anything about it the last couple of weeks.

[ClaytonAguiar]

Is the dungeon map as a spoiler?

Hi,

Some pages ago, Nick told that giving any hint about poisoining status could "spoil" the gameplay. Don't you think the full map, as implemented now, also contains a spoiler?

When you press M, it gets very easy to see the approximate size of the dungeon. I know we don't have those huge levels anymore (unless we tweak some txt files), but they still vary in size.

Why don't use, for the M command, the same idea of Fallout (3, New Vegas and 4), "scaling" the full map? This would work even for those that edit parameter files to generate larger dungeons. Initially, pressing M would assume we are in a small dungeon, stretching its boundaries as we explore it...