How long have you been playing without winning

[Garrie]

Hahaha yeah, but prison isn't as fun, now is it?

Well, I've been working in one since my youngest was born... as long as you get to go home every day, they're a laugh a minute!

[Garrie]

I've been Angbanding without a win for about 14 years now ... and I used to cheat, too. I've just in the past month started playing without cheating, and it's much more fun and exciting.

Even though it is really easy to roll up a new @, it is amazing how much difference it makes that the new one is different compared to even save-scumming with an @ that has never seen 50'.

[uberbacon]

I started playing 1999, first a little bit of vanilla but I soon changed to ZAngband (2.2.8) and didn't change variant since then. I played with hundreds of extra monsters for a while, manually added monsters to the r_info from many other variants. Recently, I realized how unbalancedly difficault it actually was with dragonriders and stuff so I restored the original r_info. The game is more fun now :P

Of course I haven't actively played all these years, just small periods here and there with occasional year-long breaks. I've had a few level 50 characters at least (warriors and chaos-warriors), one was actually doing quite good but died on level 99 by Oberon. Don't laugh!

[Skelwing]

I've been playing on and off for about two years, alternating between Vanilla, ToME and NetHack. Never had a winner, but the Vanilla character I have going right now is doing pretty well - maxed stats, level 40, multi-hued DSM, and a nice artifact weapon.

[will_asher]

It must be hard switching between Angband and Nethack. I started with Hack and then Nethack, but don't play Nethack anymore, not because I don't like it, but because it's a lot of trouble to rework my mind to fit the stategy and stuff of the game I'm playing because Nethack and Angband have very different strategies and gameplay and stuff.

[Snotty]

Ive been playing angband for around 11 years now on and off without ever winning. Ive not even got half way through the dungeon as I wont cheat with the save file. Now thats what I call value for money in a game

[tprice]

Off and on since Moria back in '90 or 91. Mostly short lived mages but this time a Troll Warrior in V and about to leave stat gain for unknown below 2000'...

Thomas Price
aka The Bookworm

[Zikke]

I've been playing off and on since Moria (took a long time off around the Diablo and Warcraft years). Still no win, even though I have gotten to max depth and max stats and full resists. I guess I'm just not strategic enough to pull the final trigger...

[nobody]

i've been playing for about 18 years, started with umoria i think, i played hack a little too, but always prefered moria/angband. i was around 10 when i started, and don't much remember back then

[Papayouki]

I was about 16 when I first played angband on my Amiga.
Due to a problem of space on the disk, I was not able to save after playing more than one hour. So I just tried the game.
I won once when I was 21, but I was save-scumming.

Time to time I install a new version (now nppangband) and try it.

But I never won the game. I am 35, so that's 19 year of stupid deaths, bad luck and overconfidence.

[Pete Mack]

WRT to cheating and finishing more than 1/2 the dungeon

DO IT. I was suffering from 2500' to ~4000; I just could not get past 3000'.

So I made a copy of a partial-stat-gained character at 2000', then played over and over until I found a speed ring at native depth (3750'). After that, winning was much, much easier. The quadratic-time learning curve can be a huge turn-off, and there are reasonable ways to cheat that do not defeat the purpose.

[Cardinal Rob]

Took me about 10 years on and off play to beat Angband, although I had beaten Moria in my youth and Zangband twice.

I finally beat Angband with a half-elf rogue.

Usually I die out of carelessness and boredom. If I stagger my play to about 1 hour a day or so, I find I can beat it.

[darkdrone]

year and a half , not that i dont have standing power, but a whole lot of Angband out there!

[awldune]

Started playing in early 90's with Frog-Knows. Got two winners around 2002, but no winners since. I've been playing NPP since it came out, which might be part of why.

[Tenka]

Drat, I came in hoping to blow some minds with "12 YEARS FELLAS", but some of you have me beat.

I usually get tired by about lvl40, can't be arsed getting a kit together covering all resists for a push towards to lower lvls so I just hoarde a big pile of uniques at my house and become the bane of Trolls.


I started off with Vanilla angband in the dark age before the internet..the game facinated me before I figured out how to decend into the dungeon and eat food to avoid starvation
Took a good many years before I was able to run a decently strong character and it was only 2 years ago that I met another human who had ever heard of this and still played it.