[Announce] PosChengband 6.0.0 Released

[Pete Mack]

Feature request: character changes color with HP, as in V. I've lost a number of characters in this game because I keep thinking the character is healthy.

Also, don't lose turns when you are "too scared" to do something, or there are 0 charges left on a device. Just don't do it and give the time to try something else.

[Avatar]

Overland map

If you don't mind a small spoiler, there's a handy map here:

http://angband.oook.cz/forum/showthread.php?t=7812

Bring teleport scrolls when you wander on the overland map, it can be a lot more dangerous that you might expect.

Also, "Warlock of Dragons" !! Heck yeah, there's my next character

[penster]

OMG! I was walking for EVER outside... and then I ran out of road.

[GenericPseudonym]

The important thing is to press < on the surface level to get to the world map so you can quickly travel to other towns and dungeons.

Apparently some new players miss this bit and think they have to walk everywhere on the zoomed-in map.

[HugoVirtuoso]

Edit: How do I get past DL15 in the Stronghold? I can't find any down stairs...

DL15 is the max depth in the Stronghold. After you kill Stronghold's dungeon master, you'll have to go on expeditions to other dungeons. Each dungeon has a different max depth.

[MITZE]

Manual Inconsistency

Skillmasters: Remove (+h,+d) melee bonuses

When you did this, you forgot to adjust the documentation too; it still says that that two points into a given melee skill gets you to 'Skilled' proficiency (+10 to-hit), when currently two points only gets you to halfway past 'Beginner' (+5 to-hit).

[penster]

Thank you! This all helps greatly. Now to go post my dead leprechaun in the competition. :-)

Edit: How do I get past DL15 in the Stronghold? I can't find any down stairs...

[GenericPseudonym]

I'm using roguelike commands and cannot figure out how to target and move myself using the "teleport to" function of my leprechaun. Anyone able to help?

Also, is there somewhere I can learn more about the various types of weapons and skills? For example, I seem to have something that allows me to ride - but I had no idea I could ride anything. And why I would want to.

I went to the maintainer's site, but...nothing useful.

Thanks much!

The "teleport to" spell does not do what you think it does. You target a monster, and it teleports that monster to you. There is another spell that lets you pick your own teleport destination: it's called "dimension door", and it's pretty rare and high level.

As for weapons with "riding" -- it just means that the weapon can be used without penalties if you are riding.
You can press p to access the pet menu and pick the option to ride in there, but you can only ride monsters that are already your pets. If your class doesn't have a way to summon or charm monsters, you'll need to buy a magic device or a capture ball to do it for you.

Unfortunately if your class isn't specialised in riding there isn't much point in doing it. Only a few classes (Cavalry, Beastmaster, Warlock of Dragons, or Skillmaster) can reach "Master" skill level, and the level of pets you can ride is based on your skill level, so everyone else has to give up on riding when they reach the lategame and can't use a high enough level mount.

[penster]

I'm using roguelike commands and cannot figure out how to target and move myself using the "teleport to" function of my leprechaun. Anyone able to help?

Also, is there somewhere I can learn more about the various types of weapons and skills? For example, I seem to have something that allows me to ride - but I had no idea I could ride anything. And why I would want to.

I went to the maintainer's site, but...nothing useful.

Thanks much!

[Pete Mack]

@Hugo--I've noticed that the top of the screen sometimes blacks out too when I'm near the bottom of the map.

[HugoVirtuoso]

6.0.5 wilderness map bug? or new intended feature?:
I noticed a portion of the top / bottom / left / right portion of the screen gets blacked out based on your position and which way you're navigating. Check out my 'Map bug' screenshots and you'll see what I mean....My first time playing 6.0.5, btw

[AnonymousHero]

Thinking about this yesterday I understand how our views differ, to me, archery doesn't need to be interesting taken in a vacuum. Is melee? That is just "hit hit hit," it's abilities, spells and other things in the game used in combination which make things interesting. So to me, I would simplify ranged so it can be used a plain base for other things while keeping the tedium aspect to a minimum even if it means sacrificing some of the strategic aspect of ammo, that's why I've suggested the things I have.

+1, soulmate. (Not that I've played PosCheng much, but this is very much a philosophy I agree with. I haven't figured out how to apply this to T2, but I'm thinking about it... well, that and it's going to take a lot of work given the general state of the code base )

[Pete Mack]

Unexpected discovery: illumination spell lights up the whole outdoors (or all of town if you are there.) I had no idea.

[clouded]

How lame! Just fire, fire, fire

Thinking about this yesterday I understand how our views differ, to me, archery doesn't need to be interesting taken in a vacuum. Is melee? That is just "hit hit hit," it's abilities, spells and other things in the game used in combination which make things interesting. So to me, I would simplify ranged so it can be used a plain base for other things while keeping the tedium aspect to a minimum even if it means sacrificing some of the strategic aspect of ammo, that's why I've suggested the things I have.

With a standard set of equipment (Bard, +12 seekers, good archery ring), archery specialist have an average of 400 normal damage. Sure, ego ammo gives more against most targets but in both games I've played those classes didn't have create ammo (sniper, bowmaster) so by the end I had run out of ego ammo and was just using +12 seekers all the time anyway. But what about for anyone who doesn't innately get archery bonuses? Picking a random class, an Archaeologist with that equipment shoots for 228 damage a round, that's not viable and clearly inferior to devices.

[EpicMan]

(3) When the autodestroyer is instructed to destroy good items of a certain type it doesn't automatically destroy average items of that type

Specifying "nameless" items works for good & average (and bad)