[Announce] PosChengband 4.0.0 Released

[Pete Mack]

@Destro--That's something V gets right: get rid of the "shopping game" with higher gold drops and no sales of known items. (Unknown items are worth zero.)

[HugoVirtuoso]

Convincing chris to follow V's anti-shopping idea isn't going to happen

[debo]

@Destro--That's something V gets right: get rid of the "shopping game" with higher gold drops and no sales of known items. (Unknown items are worth zero.)

IMO V trivially gets this right because money is totally useless after DL20 or so.

[wobbly]

Had a magic mushroom polymorph me into a [doppelganger] today & the game thinks your mimic-ing it. Didn't risk a possible crash by un-mimicing.

[HugoVirtuoso]

Did you try to let the game...crash anyway?

[wobbly]

Not sure I understand the question

I just hit 'U'se Ability & noticed I had stop mimicry rather then mimic. If I see it again I'll save, copy my save then see what happens if I stop mimicing. Maybe I resume true form, maybe I permanently polymorph in to a doppelganger & possibly the game just crashes or does something wierd.

[HugoVirtuoso]

New? bug:
In 4.0.1, I was playing a Ring that got tossed by a suddenly-hostile lvl 19 Lizard king. But there was one problem, I couldn't re-charm it. It was still labeled as a pet. Oddly enough, I was able to get rid of it by dismissing it!

[Destro]

I'm finally pretty good at the game, have all monsters recalled, and am preparing for some of the harder level 80+ bosses.

edit: I found the answers to my two questions by reading the source code. I made a video of myself 'clearing' a lvl 88 floor (close enough). It includes some of my thoughts and reactions in notepad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZKT...ature=youtu.be

3/13/2016 edit: I managed to beat the game... somehow! Amazing! http://angband.oook.cz/ladder-show.php?id=18868. I put my whole character strategy there and the video of me winning (now in shining 1080p 1920x1200 resolution!). I'm sure all of the veterans know this stuff but I wanted to put it for any curious new players or players who never played since there are not many videos/strategy guides for efficiently getting through the game.

I'm going to try to beat the game with ironman settings and nightmare mode now and see what I can do. I have some ideas for a legitimately overpowered character that is simply invulnerable. The gear requirements will be high but I think it can faceroll everything and would be perfect for the hardest difficulty settings.

I want to say THANKS CHRIS for the fun! It's been a blast playing this game and the hundreds of hours that I have blown through have been great!

[yyt16384]

Is it a bug that I can use a scroll of crafting or artifact creation on my death sword character? Now imagine getting +2 attacks from (Daemon). It feels overpowered.

[debo]

Is it a bug that I can use a scroll of crafting or artifact creation on my death sword character? Now imagine getting +2 attacks from (Daemon). It feels overpowered.

Wow cool! That is pretty weird. I wonder what happens if you read ?Mundanity on yourself?

[Destro]

Sounds like a bug to me. Those scrolls can only be used on non-ego & non-artifact items right? So maybe it wasn't considered that somebody would get those scrolls without getting at least one mod on their death sword. I only played death sword a bit so those are my thoughts from my limited experience.

In other news, I think there is a typo with the display for nightmare mode in the character screen. It says "O" when I'm like 99% sure it should be "On".

[yyt16384]

Wow cool! That is pretty weird. I wonder what happens if you read ?Mundanity on yourself?

Extra bonuses from ego or artifact are gone, but the essence-based ones are still there. Basically they are innate properties.

[Nivim]

I'm tempted to fix it in my game so ?mundanity just kills you for Death Swords and Rings, with a prompt, death message, and everything.

[HugoVirtuoso]

I'm tempted to fix it in my game so ?mundanity just kills you for Death Swords and Rings, with a prompt, death message, and everything.

Well, that's interesting. So, does ?Mundanity kill the player Death Swords and Rings, etc. in the original PosChengband? or this will be a feature to be added into a custom version?

[Nivim]

Oh, just another one of my own weird changes; I have a bunch that don't actually effect the game significantly but itched in the back of my mind until I made them. Like with the reforging message I replaced "several hours" with "strange, timeless hours", since the in-game time doesn't increment at all when you reforge. Or like how I added the Glow property to Pattern tiles.

This is in contrast to the changes I made that matter, like making the Ring spell Clarity actually work, or adding a bunch of different Ring spells because I couldn't see why not.

Both of those are also different from the changes I copied from elli- and mpa- Poschengband, which is mostly Loremaster streamlining and making standart->randart conversation preserve activations.