It doesn't feel right to me that so many weapons that psuedo as "excellent" are now junk. Part of me prefers the old style weapons which even if they were a useless slay, at least had bonuses that meant they'd be serviceable weapons.
Rune-based ID just got a little better
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Don't know if you still want general v4 comments in this thread, but a couple of small things
I can ID by use ammo by throwing it. A couple ammo issues. I ID'ed "Broken" bolts that were 1d5 (+1,+1). Seems like they should have been worse.
Also, things I ID by throwing show up as {fired}, maybe {used} instead?
when fighting an invisible monster, I get "it touches you." ("it" should be capitalized.
possibly an issue- maybe just rng. I enter a room and see 3 single scrolls on the floor within 2 tiles of each other, all three the same unknown scroll.
Haven't recreated my text issue. My guess is it is related to accented characters, since I'm sure it happened with Smeagol and Grishnak.Comment
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Text Corruption
OK- got a save and some screen grabs.
I'm on OS-X 10.6.
In picture 1, I'm almost positive the box characters were not there until I clicked out of the Angband window to fire up the screen grab program.
The corruption gets worse the longer the messages go on.
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Thanks for the zip - I'll check that out.
On pseudo, we've all agreed that it needs re-working. I'm thinking of trying Nomad's idea of summing affix levels and basing pseudo grade on that. But with rune-based ID, we need to re-think what's obvious and what gets sensed after time. I agree that less stuff needs to sense as "excellent" now.
On runes, we're thinking of separating out the non-magical flags so that they are all obvious, and leaving only the magical properties as runes. So all the "hates" flags would be obvious on everything, and won't show up as runes. We're not sure about "ignores" - personally I think they're magical, so should be runes.
Thanks for all the feedback."Been away so long I hardly knew the place, gee it's good to be back home" - The BeatlesComment
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On pseudo, we've all agreed that it needs re-working. I'm thinking of trying Nomad's idea of summing affix levels and basing pseudo grade on that. But with rune-based ID, we need to re-think what's obvious and what gets sensed after time. I agree that less stuff needs to sense as "excellent" now.
The longer term solution would be to give a full power rating for each item, and set breakpoints there.Comment
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The Inspect screen's looking a little overloaded with information now it lists both affixes and known vs unknown runes. Maybe both types of runes could be combined into a display single line with some colour coding to divide them? Something like this:
Code:[TT][BC=black][COLOR=white] Runes on this item: [COLOR="#FFFF00"]Fear Protection[/COLOR], [COLOR="#FFFF00"]Slow Digestion[/COLOR], [COLOR="#808080"]"ma"[/COLOR], [COLOR="#808080"]"wyngu"[/COLOR] [/COLOR][/BC][/TT]
It also seems a little redundant to list affixes/properties now their effects are covered by extra details in the item description and the rune info, but I guess it's currently pretty handy for debugging purposes.Comment
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It also seems a little redundant to list affixes/properties now their effects are covered by extra details in the item description and the rune info, but I guess it's currently pretty handy for debugging purposes."Been away so long I hardly knew the place, gee it's good to be back home" - The BeatlesComment
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On runes, we're thinking of separating out the non-magical flags so that they are all obvious, and leaving only the magical properties as runes. So all the "hates" flags would be obvious on everything, and won't show up as runes. We're not sure about "ignores" - personally I think they're magical, so should be runes.
EDIT: also, I'm not sure the rune names are actually being generated from the N:3 rune list, or at least not from that exclusively: I'm getting rune names that I think must be based on the Latin-style scroll names, since the rune list doesn't have any seed names with x or q in.Last edited by Nomad; November 6, 2011, 17:38.Comment
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EDIT: also, I'm not sure the rune names are actually being generated from the N:3 rune list, or at least not from that exclusively: I'm getting rune names that I think must be based on the Latin-style scroll names, since the rune list doesn't have any seed names with x or q in."Been away so long I hardly knew the place, gee it's good to be back home" - The BeatlesComment
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