FAangband 1.1

[Nick]

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.

[Fendell Orcbane]

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.

[LostTemplar]

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

[Nick]

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

[Fendell Orcbane]

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.

[Derakon]

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.

[Nick]

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?

[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.

[Philip]

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).

[HallucinationMushroom]

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.

[Fendell Orcbane]

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.

[Nick]

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

[Derakon]

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

And yes, this is the 1.1.5 OSX binary download.

[Nick]

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?

[Derakon]

Also running Snow Leopard. Tried to compile and got this:

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.