RePosBand: play as a monster in Angbad 3.2

[molotov]

Lastly, the 8x13 font does not display correctly using windows XP.

I get this problem too. Floor tiles show up as white rectangles, as do walls. This makes it very difficult to distinguish between the two, and makes adventures in the dungeon very tedious until the font is changed to something else (I do this every time I start a new install of RePos).

[buzzkill]

RePos 6.3 playing with the comp lich.

The nether bolt is fairly useless because of it's high mana cost and everything seems to resist it.

A young red dragon resists it, should it? It doesn't show as resisting nether in the monster memory. As a matter of fact, I think that everything may resist both nether bolt and the death orb. I'm afraid to try it any more.

[Pete Mack]

All evil monsters resist nether to some degree.

[pampl]

It looks to me like the code should be fine.

!(PROJECT_AWARE) should look something like 111111011111 so &=ing should only remove that one flag like the code seems to indicate it should. Presumably he only wants one bolt to appear even though it actually projects two separate bolts.

An alternate approach would be to split out the damage with a new type flag instead.

Doesn't the non-bitwise ! operator just evaluate 11etc as being true and return false?

I get this problem too. Floor tiles show up as white rectangles, as do walls. This makes it very difficult to distinguish between the two, and makes adventures in the dungeon very tedious until the font is changed to something else (I do this every time I start a new install of RePos).

Alright, I'll check it out.

RePos 6.3 playing with the comp lich.

The nether bolt is fairly useless because of it's high mana cost and everything seems to resist it.

A young red dragon resists it, should it? It doesn't show as resisting nether in the monster memory. As a matter of fact, I think that everything may resist both nether bolt and the death orb. I'm afraid to try it any more.

I don't use it much either, so I've reduced the mana cost. It does (player level - 9)d8 so presumably at high levels it's a decent little attack, but at high levels it also doesn't matter much if it costs 7 mana or 3 mana. It looks like it's supposed to be the lich's main attack spell as well so it should be pretty good.

[zaimoni]

Actually, I'm kind of curious about this one.. did this

				if (type != GF_ARROW)
				{
					project(-1, 0, y, x, (k + 1)/2, type, flg);
					/* Make the physical portion TOP SECRET -Simon */
					flg &= !(PROJECT_AWARE);
					project(-1, 0, y, x, k/2, GF_ARROW, flg);
				}
				else
					project(-1, 0, y, x, k, type, flg);

turn off all the flags before projecting?

Yes. As already noted, problem is using logical-not ! rather than bitwise complement ~; it should read

flg &= ~(PROJECT_AWARE);

[buzzkill]

What's the deal?

RePos 6.3 - competition lich character.

My SP seems to have maxed out at 337. INT is 18/197 and I can add more, but adding more doesn't increase my SP any. What's the deal?

[pampl]

Looking at tables.c, INT/WIS stop adding mana at 18/180... that seems pretty low to me, but it's that way in the nightlies too so it's not a Repos change. Min fail rate maxes at 18/200 and fail rate adjustment (not important for monsters atm) maxes at 220, so there's still value in adding to it, but it does seem strange that it stops giving mana so low.

[buzzkill]

Looking at tables.c, INT/WIS stop adding mana at 18/180... that seems pretty low to me, but it's that way in the nightlies too so it's not a Repos change. Min fail rate maxes at 18/200 and fail rate adjustment (not important for monsters atm) maxes at 220, so there's still value in adding to it, but it does seem strange that it stops giving mana so low.

Thanks for the info. I've never had a caster that has been this successful before. I just assumed that every point of INT up to 18/*** added more SP.

[pampl]

New version up. Just bugfixes and balancing though. Savefile compatible unless you're an Umber Hulk.. they lost their missile weapon slot. Innate elemental melee should now correctly do half physical damage, the quiver will now display, ice ogres have been made less weak. Other minor changes I think... need to start documenting my changes better. I was hoping to put this release off until 3.2.1 but now that the competition is (almost) over I might as well release it.

[jevansau]

Hi,

I've tried the 0.6.4 version (using a savefile from 0.6.3) but I still can't see the contents of the quiver. Character is a lesser Balrog.

Regards,
Jonathan

[GF_ARROW]

The K directive of Greater Basilisk seems bogus. Great variant! I'm enyoing playing a balrog right now.

[pampl]

Hi,

I've tried the 0.6.4 version (using a savefile from 0.6.3) but I still can't see the contents of the quiver. Character is a lesser Balrog.

Regards,
Jonathan

It should be displaying all the quiver. Can you attach your savefile?

The K directive of Greater Basilisk seems bogus. Great variant! I'm enyoing playing a balrog right now.

Good catch, and thanks

RePosBand 0.6.5 is up, with basilisks no longer having a nonsensical king and passwall being changed so that monsters will still try to hit you with spells while you're in the wall. You can be hit, too, if you're standing on a wall but there aren't any walls between you and the monster. This should keep passwall viable for retreating without also rendering you invulnerable to breath weapons etc.

https://github.com/downloads/simongre/RePosBand/reposband%200.6.5.rar

[jevansau]

Hi,

No need to post the savefile I think - the quiver works perfectly with 0.6.5.

Thanks for your work on this - great variant.

Regards,
Jonathan

[andrewdoull]

Tunnel a square of granite once inside. Perfect resting place.

Disallow tunnelling unless there is an empty space next to you. Otherwise, where do you put the rubble?

Andrew

[Derakon]

Disallow tunnelling unless there is an empty space next to you. Otherwise, where do you put the [s]rubble[/s]spoil?

Clearly it just automatically gets squelched. Unfortunately a bug prevents spoil from getting listed in the squelch settings menu so you can't unsquelch it.