27 years playing, second ever completion!

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  • lgpmichael
    Rookie
    • Jun 2019
    • 3

    27 years playing, second ever completion!

    Took me long enough!

    Version 2.4.FK of course.
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  • Ingwe Ingweron
    Veteran
    • Jan 2009
    • 2129

    #2
    Congratulations!
    “We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.”
    ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

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    • tangar
      Veteran
      • Mar 2015
      • 1004

      #3
      gratoz, comrade! =D
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      tangaria.com/variants - Angband variants table
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      • Sky
        Veteran
        • Oct 2016
        • 2321

        #4
        when there was still Charisma.
        "i can take this dracolich"

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        • Sideways
          Knight
          • Nov 2008
          • 896

          #5
          Congratulations, nice work!
          The Complainer worries about the lack of activity here these days.

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          • Nick
            Vanilla maintainer
            • Apr 2007
            • 9633

            #6
            I understand there's a new release available if you're interested.
            One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
            In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

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            • lgpmichael
              Rookie
              • Jun 2019
              • 3

              #7
              Originally posted by Nick
              I understand there's a new release available if you're interested.
              Hell no! This is the version I played at Warwick, this is the version I'll keep on playing until they bury me with it {;-)

              If I skipped to a newer version, I'd feel I'd somehow cheated to have new features. I'd never know if I could win with some of the harder classes to win with.

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              • fph
                Veteran
                • Apr 2009
                • 1030

                #8
                Congratulations! That's true dedication.
                --
                Dive fast, die young, leave a high-CHA corpse.

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                • Sky
                  Veteran
                  • Oct 2016
                  • 2321

                  #9
                  it's a disgrace that nobody edited https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Warwick to include Popular Culture - Angband -
                  "i can take this dracolich"

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                  • gglibertine
                    Adept
                    • Dec 2007
                    • 234

                    #10
                    Congratulations! I still haven't won after just about as long, but someday... SOMEDAY.

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                    • Ed_47569
                      Adept
                      • Feb 2010
                      • 114

                      #11
                      Congratulations on the win! I first started playing 2.7.8 way back in 1997, didn't win legitimately until 3.0.5 in about 2005. I've probably won with every version since but really struggling with the latest nightlies thanks to the monster upgrades - this is a good thing by the way! I feel the changes take the game back towards the difficulty of older versions (pre-3.0), but with much better features and UI.

                      I know Geoff Hill (University of Warwick) still hangs out on this forum occasionally, so at least one of the original developers still has an interest in the game.

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                      • Sky
                        Veteran
                        • Oct 2016
                        • 2321

                        #12
                        Originally posted by gglibertine
                        Congratulations! I still haven't won after just about as long, but someday... SOMEDAY.
                        seriously, im tempted to get on a train, come there and make you win.
                        "i can take this dracolich"

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                        • Pete Mack
                          Prophet
                          • Apr 2007
                          • 6883

                          #13
                          Using Eddie Grove's "Tales of the Bold" (archived on google groups in a few threads on rec.games.roguelike.angband) as a strategy guide might change that. I found the game strategically easier (if tactically more difficult) when I took his advice. He was one of the earliest diving evangelists, back in the day.


                          Originally posted by gglibertine
                          Congratulations! I still haven't won after just about as long, but someday... SOMEDAY.

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                          • Ingwe Ingweron
                            Veteran
                            • Jan 2009
                            • 2129

                            #14
                            Originally posted by gglibertine
                            Congratulations! I still haven't won after just about as long, but someday... SOMEDAY.
                            Watching Fizzix's "Let's Play Angband" series on YouTube was what got me to be able to start winning.
                            “We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see.”
                            ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

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                            • gglibertine
                              Adept
                              • Dec 2007
                              • 234

                              #15
                              Originally posted by Sky
                              seriously, im tempted to get on a train, come there and make you win.
                              I dunno, I almost feel like winning might spoil it for me. "Man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's heaven for?"

                              That said, I'm at a point in my current game where I'm absolutely stumped for which gear to carry. I'm doing well enough that I should probably start a thread and beg for help before I screw it up.

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