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  • Nick
    Vanilla maintainer
    • Apr 2007
    • 9638

    The FA repository is now not just at Launchpad, but also at github. Bugs can be reported in either place - but both require you to sign up (free) to report a bug. At some point I may do a wiki at github, too.
    One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
    In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

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    • Fendell Orcbane
      Swordsman
      • Apr 2010
      • 460

      Are the damage values the same as Oangband's? damage? I just wonder because I have Razorback, which I would wield if I knew that I could avoid a lot of shard damage.

      Thanks again.

      Also I feel like Breathing storm does way too much damage.

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      • LostTemplar
        Knight
        • Aug 2009
        • 670

        storm do up to 300 pure + some elemental. +25% if you stand in water.

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        • Nick
          Vanilla maintainer
          • Apr 2007
          • 9638

          Originally posted by Fendell Orcbane
          Also I feel like Breathing storm does way too much damage.
          I've actually toned storm down in the dev version - just be careful for now
          One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
          In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

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          • Fendell Orcbane
            Swordsman
            • Apr 2010
            • 460

            Originally posted by Nick
            I've actually toned storm down in the dev version - just be careful for now
            Good, because I think that Winged Dragons of Storm do much more damage with that Storm attack than they should. Maybe if they were worth more exp. But I've an easier time dealing with Smaug, or most other Winged Dragons including some which are worth more exp. But I actually like the fact that you can't just kill everything really easy...like in V. Great job on making the difficulty ramp up. I feel like the best games do this, a perfect example would be Cave Story. I just keeps getting harder and harder. A lot of games seem to reach a point where they level out until you finish the game. V tends to do this especially if you play a high elf warrior.

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            • Derakon
              Prophet
              • Dec 2009
              • 9022

              So I decided to try something different from Vanilla for a bit, and downloaded FAAngband. And already I have a question: how do I get it to make use of the full-sized main screen? Right now it looks like this, which I'm sure you agree is a bit silly. And after all this time playing variants that support arbitrarily-sized main dungeon views, playing with anything else is downright claustrophobic.

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              • Nick
                Vanilla maintainer
                • Apr 2007
                • 9638

                Originally posted by Derakon
                how do I get it to make use of the full-sized main screen?
                Go into interface options and set bottom_status to no, and see what that does.

                It still looks a bit strange to me - is it V1.1.5?

                Edit: Another question - does it still look like this outside the town? And I assume you are playing on OSX - is this correct?
                Last edited by Nick; December 1, 2010, 23:10.
                One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
                In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

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                • Psi
                  Knight
                  • Apr 2007
                  • 870

                  Couple of things I've noticed...

                  Can artifacts actually be destroyed by uncursing. I went through a whole _RemoveCurse on Calris before it finally uncursed. I expected it to blow up well before then.

                  Evil Iggy isn't evil. Seems odd.

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                  • Philip
                    Knight
                    • Jul 2009
                    • 909

                    Originally posted by Fendell Orcbane
                    Good, because I think that Winged Dragons of Storm do much more damage with that Storm attack than they should. Maybe if they were worth more exp. But I've an easier time dealing with Smaug, or most other Winged Dragons including some which are worth more exp. But I actually like the fact that you can't just kill everything really easy...like in V. Great job on making the difficulty ramp up. I feel like the best games do this, a perfect example would be Cave Story. I just keeps getting harder and harder. A lot of games seem to reach a point where they level out until you finish the game. V tends to do this especially if you play a high elf warrior.
                    I totally agree on High-elf warrior. My two winners are vanilla high-elf warriors. But i just figured out that mages can survive unless they fight orcs or wormtongue(actually he would be a pushover if not for him doing frost bolt twice in a row).

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                    • HallucinationMushroom
                      Knight
                      • Apr 2007
                      • 785

                      Originally posted by Psi
                      Couple of things I've noticed...

                      Can artifacts actually be destroyed by uncursing. I went through a whole _RemoveCurse on Calris before it finally uncursed. I expected it to blow up well before then.

                      Evil Iggy isn't evil. Seems odd.
                      I noticed the same thing about Calris. I got it up to +9 with no luck getting it uncursed that way, and then I went through 2 *remove curse* and then maybe 6 regular remove curse scrolls with no explosions.

                      I think Evil Iggy is a tribute unique to a player who kept finding ways to beat Moria. I remember coming across him while reading about the history of Moria and Angband. I think he is only evil in regards to the RNG who he often defied. It's really more like Cunning Iggy than Evil Iggy, I suppose. I would give him the same alignment of rogues and brigands whatever that is.
                      You are on something strange

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                      • Fendell Orcbane
                        Swordsman
                        • Apr 2010
                        • 460

                        Originally posted by Philip
                        I totally agree on High-elf warrior. My two winners are vanilla high-elf warriors. But i just figured out that mages can survive unless they fight orcs or wormtongue(actually he would be a pushover if not for him doing frost bolt twice in a row).
                        Actually warriors are best for the early to mid game, because you can actual fight orcs off. Later on you really need to find ESP and/or detection. Rangers in V are a bit easier because you have detection spells and resist spells. Its just getting over the first 20 lvls without getting killed by orcs that you can't out run or phase away from. Mages in V are pretty hard until you get a lot of spell points/spell books. Then you can get rid of Z's or whatever else you don't want to deal with. FA makes you deal with Z's in vaults though...plus TO doesn't beam like in V. This can be either good or bad. Mostly bad IMO.

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                        • Nick
                          Vanilla maintainer
                          • Apr 2007
                          • 9638

                          Originally posted by Psi
                          Can artifacts actually be destroyed by uncursing. I went through a whole _RemoveCurse on Calris before it finally uncursed. I expected it to blow up well before then.
                          Artifacts have a 25% chance of uncursing with every attempt. The first attempt has no chance of blowing up, but after that the chance of that is 25% too. So you were lucky, but not extraordinarily.

                          Evil Iggy isn't evil. Seems odd.
                          HM answered this one
                          One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
                          In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

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                          • Derakon
                            Prophet
                            • Dec 2009
                            • 9022

                            Hm, better, but it's still not using the full screen.

                            And yes, this is the 1.1.5 OSX binary download.

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                            • Nick
                              Vanilla maintainer
                              • Apr 2007
                              • 9638

                              Originally posted by Derakon
                              Hm, better, but it's still not using the full screen.

                              And yes, this is the 1.1.5 OSX binary download.
                              That's very odd - mine doesn't behave like this at all. I wonder if it's an OS version issue - I compiled it and am running on Snow Leopard. What version are you using, and can you compile and run and see how it goes?
                              One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne
                              In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

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                              • Derakon
                                Prophet
                                • Dec 2009
                                • 9022

                                Also running Snow Leopard. Tried to compile and got this:
                                Code:
                                Undefined symbols:
                                  "_SDL_GetError", referenced from:
                                      _init_sound_sdl in snd-sdl.o
                                      _init_sound_sdl in snd-sdl.o
                                      _init_sound_sdl in snd-sdl.o
                                  "_SDL_Init", referenced from:
                                      _init_sound_sdl in snd-sdl.o
                                  "_SDL_Quit", referenced from:
                                      _close_audio in snd-sdl.o
                                ld: symbol(s) not found
                                collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
                                make[3]: *** [faangband] Error 1
                                make[2]: *** [all] Error 1
                                make[1]: *** [subdirs] Error 1
                                make: *** [all] Error 1
                                I'm too tired to muck with it much right now, sorry.

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