PosChengband

[debo]

IIRC, Phoenix has a random chance to resurrect up to 3 times. I don't think there's anything you can do to stop this, you just have to be prepared for it going into the fight.

[wobbly]

I think there may have been a nearby monster that was resurrecting the Phoenix, causing the scene you were having.

archvile? Unless you have auto-destroy corpse, it might cause this kind of shenanigans.

A test would be to stash the corpse safe & sound in home or museum. I've never actually seen the Phoenix rise from it's own ashes.

[HugoVirtuoso]

Ok, new problem. How do I make the Phoenix stay dead? I've killed it twice so far, and it just pops right back. I thought maybe it'd respawn once, but apparently it does so at least twice. Is it indefinite? If so, how do I take it down?

Edit: Problem solved, though I'm not sure exactly how. I decided to make another attempt to see whether disintegrating the bastard would prevent him from having any ashes to rise from. Can't say if that's what did it, or if he only resurrects twice, or whether there was another variable I'm unaware of, but regardless, he's now dead.

If anyone knows for sure what it takes to kill it, though, that'll be good to know for future characters - not everyone's got disintegration type damage available to them, so as cool as that would be, I'm kind of hoping it's something else.

I think there may have been a nearby monster that was resurrecting the Phoenix, causing the scene you were having.

[Avenger]

Ok, new problem. How do I make the Phoenix stay dead? I've killed it twice so far, and it just pops right back. I thought maybe it'd respawn once, but apparently it does so at least twice. Is it indefinite? If so, how do I take it down?

Edit: Problem solved, though I'm not sure exactly how. I decided to make another attempt to see whether disintegrating the bastard would prevent him from having any ashes to rise from. Can't say if that's what did it, or if he only resurrects twice, or whether there was another variable I'm unaware of, but regardless, he's now dead.

If anyone knows for sure what it takes to kill it, though, that'll be good to know for future characters - not everyone's got disintegration type damage available to them, so as cool as that would be, I'm kind of hoping it's something else.

[debo]

Generally, these are ways to increase your fame. In the pre-4.0.0 days, you'd be able to know your fame by a numerical value. But as of 4.0.0, not anymore and we're left with a description of your fate and that's it!!

Just go to fighter's hall and look at what your max reforge power, it's really all that matters.

[HugoVirtuoso]

Off the top of my head for fame: quests, uniques, dungeon bosses, the arena but I've never actually seen a list.

Generally, these are ways to increase your fame. In the pre-4.0.0 days, you'd be able to know your fame by a numerical value. But as of 4.0.0, not anymore and we're left with a description of your fate and that's it!!

[wobbly]

If you can read code: https://github.com/poschengband/posc.../src/object3.c copied from this thread: http://angband.oook.cz/forum/showthr...hlight=reforge

[Regalia]

You can check your fame level at the inn but you're better off checking your reforge power directly at the reforge service.

[wobbly]

Yes it keeps the base powers. You can't reforge to an ego: ring of speed, cloak of stealth etc. You can reforge to a non-ego with powers: elven cloak, dragon scale mail etc. Pretty sure the base counts to total powers, so a powerful base gains less extras.

For examples look in screenshots, the other mitze posted a few recently.

Off the top of my head for fame: quests, uniques, dungeon bosses, the arena but I've never actually seen a list.

[Avenger]

Thanks for the explanation - few more questions:

Does the base item factor into the reforge? Say I reforge an artifact I'm not using onto my =ofSpeed, will I keep the speed boost? Will it be wiped out? Is there a chance either way, and if so, which outcome does it favor?

What is fame? Is it based on XP, Uniques killed, Artifacts found, Quests completed, Dungeons completed? Some combination?

[Regalia]

Since the spirit of this thread is more publicly available knowledge about PosChengband, I'll continue posting my questions here. Next up: Reforging.

I've been seeing lots of mentions of it while looking through PosCheng mortems. What is it, what does it do, why is it valuable, are there any risks involved, and how do I do it?

According to my old (pcb35) experiences: go to Morivant and check one of the buildings for a reforge service.

Then you take a base plain item (no egos) and an artifact (randart's work too). Then you reforge the artifact onto the item (can be completely different types) to obtain a new artifact with the "power" similar to that of the original artifact. You seem to keep all the properties of the base item and get new properties on top of that.

Power ~ price and can be measured by dropping your item in home (*ID*ing seems to change the price in pcb4, not sure what's the interaction with reforging here). Reforging cost scales with price of the artifact at least. Also the stronger the base item, the more expensive artifact required.

It might be all inaccurate in pcb4 .

Whistles cannot be reforged onto .

Edit: To expand a bit.
Risks are that you might get a bad result.
Benefits are that you might get a great artifact. Especially if a particular type of items does not have many good fixedarts. Cloaks (dragon wings) and lights are a good pick most of the time; apparently lights halve the power of the resulting artifact but are still better than most fixedart lights.
Finally, to try your first reforge, get a plain ring and whatever cheap artifact you can find. Not too cheap though I think it needs to be 10 * power (~price) of the ring for it to work.

Oh. and the most important thing, you need fame. More fame the stronger the artifact you want to reforge.

[Avenger]

Since the spirit of this thread is more publicly available knowledge about PosChengband, I'll continue posting my questions here. Next up: Reforging.

I've been seeing lots of mentions of it while looking through PosCheng mortems. What is it, what does it do, why is it valuable, are there any risks involved, and how do I do it?

[Avenger]

Yeah, I generally buy a stack at the first opportunity. This character's already dead, though.

Thanks for the reply.

[wobbly]

More questions.

I have now been wandering back and forth between Morivant and Outpost for several days and nights, hoping one of the temples will spawn a Remove Curse scroll.

Yet the inventories of both shops appear completely unchanged. What, then, causes them to refresh their inventory?

Is it as simple as a trip to a dungeon and back? A much longer period of time(though I know I've seen refreshes more frequent then several days)? A combination of a dungeon trip and time?

While I'm not exactly sure of the answer try leveling up or completing a quest. These tend to work for me. Depending on what's cursed you could also try enchanting it at the fighter's guild.

It won't do you much good this time but for future reference remove curse seems rarer in 4.0. I grab a stack as soon as I see them & stash them in the home.

[Avenger]

More questions.

I have now been wandering back and forth between Morivant and Outpost for several days and nights, hoping one of the temples will spawn a Remove Curse scroll.

Yet the inventories of both shops appear completely unchanged. What, then, causes them to refresh their inventory?

Is it as simple as a trip to a dungeon and back? A much longer period of time(though I know I've seen refreshes more frequent then several days)? A combination of a dungeon trip and time?