[Announce] PosChengband 4.0.0 Released

[krazyhades]

I should revert the dice change in my local copy because it was 10000x more fun with the old dice...or rather, die. I don't see any reason for the alteration.

[HugoVirtuoso]

What about that silly weapon for the lazy personality? Is that even still in the game?

It IS still in the game (in 4.0.0!), though chris made a slight modification to the weapon dice.

[Regalia]

What about that silly weapon for the lazy personality? Is that even still in the game?

[wobbly]

I think heavy lances are the one notable exception for maulers - they're 40lb, and I think they're the only weapon type where you might still want to pick up an average/good one when they'd normally be autodestroyed (since you can buy plain lances at 30lb in the shop, and I don't think there are any other particularly good plain heavy weapons). Scythes of Slicing are 25lb so probably not particularly good.

(But yeah, something like "~weapons More Weight Than 30" looks like a better way of doing it anyway, that's neat.)

Thanks to both of you. Yeah I've looked it up in the help & I can set be weight, so good. Found a great hammer (30lbs & better damage then the lance) & looked in the proficencies: There's a mighty hammer (probably doesn't come in ordinary though), a great axe(? lbs) & the heavy lance. It's a shame blades of chaos don't come in a heavy form but I guess there's always (armageddon) blades of chaos.

[MarvinPA]

I think heavy lances are the one notable exception for maulers - they're 40lb, and I think they're the only weapon type where you might still want to pick up an average/good one when they'd normally be autodestroyed (since you can buy plain lances at 30lb in the shop, and I don't think there are any other particularly good plain heavy weapons). Scythes of Slicing are 25lb so probably not particularly good.

(But yeah, something like "~weapons More Weight Than 30" looks like a better way of doing it anyway, that's neat.)

[Regalia]

I'm having trouble with auto-squelch settings for maulers. Normally I'd just be auto-squelching average/good weapons at this stage but I'd like to keep any over 30lb weapons for potential reforge. Trouble is I don't know what weapons come at that weight. Also unsure if you can reforge on a scythe of slicing (or whether it's even heavy enough to be useful).

I have never used it, but there is an option:

More Weight Than NN

in the "The Mogaminator".

[caruso]

I just went naming everything hlp and what not, shame that the help stuff is broken. I guess I'll need to look up the keybindings out of game.

Thanks everyone for the help.

I only know the very basics of compiling, but perhaps yyt16384's suggestion makes things easier:

There are some compile errors here saying that there are conflicting declarations of usleep and putenv. Removing the declarations makes it compile.

lib/help/Makefile also looks outdated.

[wobbly]

Also if you like recharge on the go, rather then resting, carry 2 or 3 till you find a bigger id staff. Outside the early game they are cheap & can simply be dungeon dumped if you need to clear inventory space. 2 is more then double the charges, because if you alternate they both recharge.

Edit: Or turn off auto-id for devices & just aim them at a wall.

I'm having trouble with auto-squelch settings for maulers. Normally I'd just be auto-squelching average/good weapons at this stage but I'd like to keep any over 30lb weapons for potential reforge. Trouble is I don't know what weapons come at that weight. Also unsure if you can reforge on a scythe of slicing (or whether it's even heavy enough to be useful).

[Regalia]

[...]I can't stand the time it takes for a staff of identify to recharge [...]

Let me know if I'm missing an obvious alternative that makes identifying items more bearable. I'm already only identifying artifacts,rings and wands/staves/rods.

Here it is (I keep posting this as if it were some panacea for all poscheng ills):

A:\e\e\eR100\r
P:\t

Press a few times and you've got your charges back. Also, there are id staves with 20-30 charges, just not right away.

Sadly, you can't use the * notation with *Identify* staves :/. So that actually is something I'd like to see in the game.

Edit: honestly, it's much easier now. In pcb35 before finding ~10 perception rods I'd pretty much recall every time I got a bag full of excellent items then id in bulk via town services.

[Exo]

Given the current ID-end-game, Scrolls of ID are definitely not common enough in shops and in dungeons (I can't stand the time it takes for a staff of identify to recharge so I usually just take a bunch of scrolls of ID with me).
They should probably be sold by shops in big stacks similar to teleport scrolls which come in stacks of 45+.

Right now ID scrolls usually show up in stacks of 5-15 which is definitely not enough given how many rings, wands etc there are to identify.
Another option would be to give the ID staves a higher regen because with +25 speed it takes over 700 turns to get a single recharge out of one.

Let me know if I'm missing an obvious alternative that makes identifying items more bearable. I'm already only identifying artifacts,rings and wands/staves/rods.

[HugoVirtuoso]

Perhaps. Was it like this: You sold 24 bolts of wounding (1d5) (+9,+9) for 9984 gp? Heck, maybe it was but I don't remember it being that much.

Chr 14 - Drac Rogue

I noticed this not long ago with Hugo$oul 8320. Apparently, the ammo selling bug happens to this extent only(?) with ammo of wounding.

I noticed lately with a recent Compo 183 dude (it's #221 and not posted) that after carrying excessive weight exceeding the slow down speed of -99 do not speed up hunger. Apparently, the game caps excessively slow speeds at -99. Now, I actually really need to further test if slow speeds from -1 to -99 speed up hunger or not.

[Killzemallgod]

To solve this, I edited poschengband/lib/help/Makefile to not look for files which don't exist. The help files are broken at the current time as far as I can tell.

I just went naming everything hlp and what not, shame that the help stuff is broken. I guess I'll need to look up the keybindings out of game.

Thanks everyone for the help.

[nikheizen]

That just made another error.... I'll try the same here, not sure if it'll make a difference.

Yeah you want to comment that out as well.

Theres also a issue with it trying to get attack.hlp and other files in /lib/help

To solve this, I edited poschengband/lib/help/Makefile to not look for files which don't exist. The help files are broken at the current time as far as I can tell.

[Killzemallgod]

That just made another error.

main-x11.c:128:13: error: conflicting types for ‘usleep’
 extern void usleep(int);
             ^
In file included from h-system.h:96:0,
                 from h-basic.h:22,
                 from angband.h:19,
                 from main-x11.c:101:
/usr/include/unistd.h:460:12: note: previous declaration of ‘usleep’ was here
 extern int usleep (__useconds_t __useconds);
            ^

Theres also a issue with it trying to get attack.hlp and other files in /lib/help
I'll try the same here, not sure if it'll make a difference.

[Nick]

What does 'commenting out lines' mean?

The compiler ignores lines marked as comments, like this:

/* Comment */

or this

//Comment

so a good way to temporarily remove a line of code is to mark it as a comment.