I'll certainly consider your ideas ... You might consider trying the Devicemaster class. Though more focused than the Magiceater, they have a few cool abilities, including a desperation talent that grants extra power at the expense of using extra charges or possibly destroying the device in question. They can also shuffle charges around from one device to another which is quite useful. In addition, they have powers of preservation so that usage of specialty devices do not always consume charges, and this grows more powerful with experience.
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I'll certainly consider your ideas ... You might consider trying the Devicemaster class. Though more focused than the Magiceater, they have a few cool abilities, including a desperation talent that grants extra power at the expense of using extra charges or possibly destroying the device in question. They can also shuffle charges around from one device to another which is quite useful. In addition, they have powers of preservation so that usage of specialty devices do not always consume charges, and this grows more powerful with experience. -
I'm not a fan of the change a few versions back to make the wilderness encounter rate higher. It makes traveling to the towns much more of a chore than it needs to be, especially if you are going through a string of early deaths. The ambushes aren't even dangerous unless you try to shortcut through water or something.Comment
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I'm not a fan of the change a few versions back to make the wilderness encounter rate higher. It makes traveling to the towns much more of a chore than it needs to be, especially if you are going through a string of early deaths. The ambushes aren't even dangerous unless you try to shortcut through water or something.Comment
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Ditto. Chris increased the number of ambushes to prevent players from start-scumming 'Acquirement' at Mt Olympus for artifacts.My best try at PosChengband 7.0.0's nightmare-mode on Angband.live:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwAR0WOphUA
If I'm offline I'm probably in the middle of maintaining Gentoo or something-Linux or other.
As of February 18th, 2022, my YouTube username is MidgardVirtuosoComment
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I'm not a fan of the change a few versions back to make the wilderness encounter rate higher. It makes traveling to the towns much more of a chore than it needs to be, especially if you are going through a string of early deaths. The ambushes aren't even dangerous unless you try to shortcut through water or something.
Like everyone above, I too found Hengband's ambush system annoying and nerfed it for Chengband. But in so doing, I made it far too easy to run over to R'lyeh (and now Mount Olympus) with scrolls of acquirement and artifact creation. *Way* too easy ... Back in Hengband, that was always risky, and I've even lost CL50 characters to deep water ambushes. Taking the risk with the Arena acquirement scroll, for example, required some boldness, and sometimes the return trip after an amazing acquisition would prove fatal: Grrrrrr.
So I reverted the ambush odds for the time being when I learned that even a CL1 character can swim to Mount Olympus with barely any risk.
Here is advice on playing with the current system:
[1] Don't travel with early characters. You can level up quickly by doing the Thieves' Hideout followed by the Warg quest. This should net at least CL10. Another 10 minutes of play in Camelot is recommended to hit CL16. At this point, you are immune to ambush if you stay on the grassland roads ('*' characters in w_info.txt, if you are curious). There are more dangerous roads up near Angwil and between the mountains too.
[2] And now for the munchkin option. If you are ambushed by really weak stuff, you can often just press '<' to run away! So often you don't have to fight at all ... but this option is only practical once you are CL12 or higher.
[3] Stealth matters. Time of day does not.
That said, I would love something new for the wilderness and am open to ideas, even if they will probably exceed my coding capabilities ...Comment
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New ideas:
I'd recommend generation of outside guardians protecting the entrance to high-level dungeons. IIRC, Z+Angband (maybe the original ZAngband 2.7.4/pre-2.7.5) had groups of monsters protecting high-level dungeon entrances!!
For Mount Olympus, perhaps, change the code so that the player is *required* to kill a very-high-level dragon, for example, a Sky Drake ('D') to *unlock* the Mount Olympus entrance. If you can't kill it, the entrance won't open (of course!), but then your only option is... RUN...OR...TELEPORT!!
As for R'lyeh, maybe the player should be required to kill the nearby Lesser/Greaker krakens to unlock the entrance?
For Dragon's Lair, maybe a Dracolich/Dracolisk should be guarding it!
For the Mine...a Drolem.
For the Arena (near Zul)...a Storm Troll.
Maybe these will guarantee prevention of early scumming of such deep level dungeons!!
And so on...
Last edited by HugoVirtuoso; October 6, 2013, 09:26.My best try at PosChengband 7.0.0's nightmare-mode on Angband.live:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwAR0WOphUA
If I'm offline I'm probably in the middle of maintaining Gentoo or something-Linux or other.
As of February 18th, 2022, my YouTube username is MidgardVirtuosoComment
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My best try at PosChengband 7.0.0's nightmare-mode on Angband.live:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwAR0WOphUA
If I'm offline I'm probably in the middle of maintaining Gentoo or something-Linux or other.
As of February 18th, 2022, my YouTube username is MidgardVirtuosoComment
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A couple of archer questions:
What does the (x/y) at the end of each ammo stack indicate?
Is there a way to automatically pick up identified ammo? Manually scavenging recent battle sites is a little annoying and picking up ammo while running from something nasty is impossible. If I can effortlessly scoop up 174 pieces of gold while confused, stunned, and hallucinating, I don't think snagging a single bolt or arrow is unrealistic
Would it be trivial to code a quiver so we don't have to select our ammo of choice every time we fire? Common quivers could be sold at the general store while powerfully enchanted ones could be found. The quiver could take up the shield slot and, if you have a couple kinds of ammo that you do cycle between, the quiver could be activated or deactivated as a free action.Comment
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Is there a way to automatically pick up identified ammo?
Would it be trivial to code a quiver so we don't have to select our ammo of choice every time we fire? Common quivers could be sold at the general store while powerfully enchanted ones could be found. The quiver could take up the shield slot and, if you have a couple kinds of ammo that you do cycle between, the quiver could be activated or deactivated as a free action.
Instead, try inscribing your ammo with, for example: @f1=g
The @f1 part says to use this object by pressing '1' whenever invoking the 'f' command. So press 'f' then '1' to shoot this ammo (or better yet, macro up something like \e*tf1 to auto shoot the first enemy in range). Obviously, if you change the inscription part from @f1 to @f2, then the 2 key would be used.
The =g part says to automatically pick up this object.
For archers, I usually inscribe my primary ammo with @f1=g and my secondary ammo (with slays or whatever) with @f2=g. Then I macro up \e*tf1 to deal with trivial monsters. But I use *t then f2 then n (for repeat) to deal with difficult monsters.
HTH
EDIT: And I set the use_old_target to be true. Without this option, you need to re-target after every fire command which is very annoying!Comment
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Minor bug:
Wielding 'Sting' (as opposed to picking it up) does not give the so-called 'you have completed your quest' message. But, when you go the 'main building' the guy correctly marks the quest as 'complete,' so it is NOT a failure.
Suggestion:
ToME does this.... Implement an option that *ASKS* before picking up heavy corpses that slow down the character. My last all-powerful character got killed because I was lugging this *stupid* Greater Hell-beast corpse by mistake... a hugely costly one.Last edited by HugoVirtuoso; October 13, 2013, 00:50.My best try at PosChengband 7.0.0's nightmare-mode on Angband.live:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwAR0WOphUA
If I'm offline I'm probably in the middle of maintaining Gentoo or something-Linux or other.
As of February 18th, 2022, my YouTube username is MidgardVirtuosoComment
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