[Announce] Poschengband 2.0.0 Released

[Derakon]

I was playing as an android, so I didn't even get any experience from them...

[mrrstark]

This may be a very basic and very dumb question, but how can I get this variant to save my user preferences?

Do I have to manually edit them in a user text file or something?

[MattB]

I guess the part where you're trying to kill them all for experience made them mad.

That seems pretty reasonable to me.
Every @ has to get on in life.

[HugoVirtuoso]

Made another Possessor (Hugo$oul 94) who possessed an Umber Hulk at clvl 16, and can *bore through* trees in the overworld map, which is quite neat. Is this a bug or feature?

Screenshot here:
Umber Hulk *Passwall* into Angwil woods...

[Derakon]

Trees are walls, didn't you know?

[chris]

Yeah, it's a minor, interesting quirk. Kill Walls does destroy trees underfoot, and the Wilderness mode is a big hack anyway. Don't worry, the trees grow back just fine!

[HugoVirtuoso]

Yeah, it's a minor, interesting quirk. Kill Walls does destroy trees underfoot, and the Wilderness mode is a big hack anyway. Don't worry, the trees grow back just fine!

Question - Do Rock Giants and Hrus drop corpses in version 2.0.2? Please tell me yes....

[Arjen]

Question - Do Rock Giants and Hrus drop corpses in version 2.0.2? Please tell me yes....

They both don't have a DROP_CORPSE flag. So, no. Sucks.

[clouded]

Compilation in cygwin has broken for me. I'm using "make -f makefile.linux install" (same as before the recent commits), I get the error:

main.c: In function 'init_stuff':
main.c:133:24: error: 'DEFAULT_CONFIG_PATH' undeclared (first use in this function)
main.c:133:24: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
main.c:134:21: error: 'DEFAULT_LIB_PATH' undeclared (first use in this function)
main.c:135:22: error: 'DEFAULT_DATA_PATH' undeclared (first use in this function)
main.c: In function 'change_path':
main.c:176:2: warning: array subscript has type 'char' [-Wchar-subscripts]
<builtin>: recipe for target `main.o' failed
make: *** [main.o] Error 1

I have a friend who reported an error of "init2.c:232:25: error: 'S_IFDIR' undeclared (first use in this function)", though it was an offhand comment, so I'm not sure on the details.

[chris]

Compilation in cygwin has broken for me. I'm using "make -f makefile.linux install" (same as before the recent commits), I get the error:

main.c: In function 'init_stuff':
main.c:133:24: error: 'DEFAULT_CONFIG_PATH' undeclared (first use in this function)
main.c:133:24: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
main.c:134:21: error: 'DEFAULT_LIB_PATH' undeclared (first use in this function)
main.c:135:22: error: 'DEFAULT_DATA_PATH' undeclared (first use in this function)
main.c: In function 'change_path':
main.c:176:2: warning: array subscript has type 'char' [-Wchar-subscripts]
<builtin>: recipe for target `main.o' failed
make: *** [main.o] Error 1

I have a friend who reported an error of "init2.c:232:25: error: 'S_IFDIR' undeclared (first use in this function)", though it was an offhand comment, so I'm not sure on the details.

This is probably due to the Mac OSX support recently added. I must confess, I'm not familiar with main.c nor using Cygwin nor with the recent changes to support running on the Mac, so I'm not sure I will able to fix this.

Can I ask why you don't just download the binaries?

Edit: It may be that makefile.linux no longer works? Nick submitted a patch so that the normal configure, make, etc stuff that angband uses on linux works. I have yet to try any of this out ...

Edit2: I see this "AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([DEFAULT_CONFIG_PATH], "${configdir}", [Path to the game's configuration data])" in configure.ac. So I think you need to configure, then make, etc.

[chris]

Release the Kraken! Version 2.0.3 has been released, mostly focusing on possessor changes, of course. Nothing too major has been added, except quite a few new forms and some rebalancing. Oh yeah, one slight adjustment has been to replace monster base immunities with normal resistance, and of course this will be reflected in possessor play. A few monsters still have normal immunity, but the days of 600+ monster races being immune to basic elemental attacks are over!

[emulord]

Can I give a suggestion? I know you want to make people switch bodies more often, but I don't think booting them out of one at low health is the way to go. Its a Ragequit inducing mechanic.
Maybe instead if your character reaches low health, you decrease life rating by 1%. Simulate body decay and force people to burn !New life (Which matches theme!) or trade bodies. Early game people will switch bodies too often for this to matter, but midgame this will be a interesting mechanic!

[Nick]

Compilation in cygwin has broken for me. I'm using "make -f makefile.linux install" (same as before the recent commits), I get the error...

Yep, my fault. I added multiple file paths like modern Vanilla. I think replacing

	init_file_paths(path);

by

	init_file_paths(path, path, path);

in init_stuff in main.c will fix it.

I have a friend who reported an error of "init2.c:232:25: error: 'S_IFDIR' undeclared (first use in this function)", though it was an offhand comment, so I'm not sure on the details.

I had this too at one point. If that's in linux, the solution is probably to build by

./autogen.sh
./configure --with-no-install
make

- there are variations on this, but that's the simplest and will mimic previous behaviour.

[f1rst]

Possessor

Just an idea:
Possessor's could learn to control body better, like weapons. (Instead of losing body or being forced out of body)

The longer you stay in one type of body, the better you'd be with it. -could get better resistances, higher hp/mp, etc.

[Angry Bob]

I rolled a Golem Rune-Knight that was too stupid to have an SP bar. This had the side effect of making their runes completely free. Should this be considered an exploit, or is the inability to cast their other spells an acceptable trade?