[announce]Angband 3.0.6 alpha 1 released

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I've prepared an alpha version of Angband 3.0.6 to test the various tiny
changes, tweaks, and bugfixes that have been added since the 3.0.5 release.

Angband 3.0.6 alpha 1 is available as source code:
ftp://ftp.thangorodrim.net/pub/angband/Source/angband-3.0.6-alpha1.tar.gz
and Mac OS X version:
ftp://ftp.thangorodrim.net/pub/angband/Macintosh/Angband-306-alpha1-osx.dmg
DOS and Windows versions will follow in the next few days.

This release is largely untested, so keep an eye open for bugs and report
them to me. The internal version number is still 3.0.5 and savefiles are
fully compatible in case you want to go back. Nonetheless making a backup
of your savefile might be a good idea.

Changes in Angband 3.0.6 alpha 1:
- Wands and staves are no longer destroyed when a recharge attempt
backfires. Instead all the charges are drained.
- Renamed the artifact short sword 'Gilettar' to 'Dagmor' since that
name is mentioned for the sword of Beren in Tolkien's notes.
(suggested by Tyler Witter)
- Added a new type of subwindow for displaying the dungeon area around
the player.
- Added a new subwindow type "Display player (compact)" that displays
the left-hand-side of the main term (player stats, hitpoints, gold,
...) in a separate window.
- Added a new window type that displays the info from the status line.
- Turned the "scroll map while targetting" option permanently on.
- Added a display of the temporary resists to the status line. The
resists are only displayed if there is enough room after the dungeon
level (when using a main or status term with at least 85 cols).
The verbosity of the output (between "Acid Elec Fire Cold Pois" and
"AEFCP") depends on the term width.
- Display the player's speed in the character dump and on the info page.
- Identified scrolls can now look different from unidentified ones.
This allows the use of the individual scroll tiles created by David
Gervais.
- Allow the ammo-branding activation of 'Cubragol' to be aborted without
using up the charge. (Diego Gonzalez and Jeff Greene)
- Use actual monster and object symbols instead of a list of hardcoded
symbols when hallucinating.
- Added Craig Oliver's Sound FX Patch version 1.1 that adds about 120
new sound events to the game.
(see also http://www.chambrook.org/angband/soundfx.php)
- Scroll the map when the player is 1/4th of the visible grids away from
the edge of the map display.
- Allow the OS X version to be started from a read-only medium, for
example from a disk image or a central installation under
'Applications'. All user-specific files like savefiles, scores,
char-dumps, and saved preferences are stored in
'Library/Preferences/Angband/' and its subfolders inside the user's
home directory.
- The Mac OS X application bundle now includes all the necessary files
from the lib folder. The separate lib folder in the distribution is
no longer necessary. This means that the OS X version can now be
installed by simply dragging the application icon to the target
directory.
- The OS X version would crash when changing the sound or graphics
options before a character was created or loaded. (reported by Patrick
Hughes)
- Don't save the Mac OS X preferences on exit if the game hasn't been
initialized properly to prevent corruption of the preference file in
case of an error at startup. Skip loading the preference file if it
is broken. (problem reported by Matt Stone)
- Include the basic Angband sound files per default in the OS X version.
- Made the tile size independent of the font size in the X11 version.
Store various window settings like the window size between sessions.
- Don't add a hardcoded 'games' subdirectory to the installation path on
multi-user machines.
- Allow all user created files to be saved in subdirectories under
~/.angband/Angband/ when PRIVATE_USER_PATH is defined.
- Allow the use of the 'vcs' display module on systems with devfs-style
'/dev/vc/*' terminals.
- The virtual console (vcs) front-end does now implement cursor
visibility and bigscreen support. (Alexander Ulyanov)
- Enable cursor visibility in the "gcu" front-end on Linux systems.
(Alexander Ulyanov)
- Fixed a bug in the Xaw frontend, which made Angband crash if the main
window geometry was specified as an X resource. (Alexander Ulyanov)
- Make X11 frontends show floors as centered dots, walls as blocks, and
treasures as diamonds. (Alexander Ulyanov)
- Removed the restriction of bigtile mode to the main window in the X11
version.
- Added Alexander Ulyanov's Linux framebuffer display module from:
http://posband.earthsea.org/misc/angband-lfb-20050220.tar.gz
- Added compile instructions for MinGW/MSYS on Windows. (Tuomas
Härkönen)
- Added compile instructions for gcc on Mac OS X.
- Fixed a stupid bug that could cause the game to hang or crash when
killing quest monsters near the edge of the dungeon. (Ivan Tuckwell
and Dr. Andrew White)
- Added missing tiles and tile assignments for the 32x32 tiles. (Ivan
Jekic and David Gervais)
- The charges of rods of perception weren't handled correctly when
compiling with scripting turned off. (reported by "Twilight" and Jeff
Greene)
- Cursed speed rings should not increase the level feeling. (Anssi
Ramela and Jeff Greene)
- Refresh the list of visible monsters after (Mass) Banishment,
Earthquake, and Destruction spells, when using the 'delete nearby
monsters' function in debug mode, as well as when pressing Ctrl-R.
("Twilight")
- Don't try to write zero-length blocks when saving the lib/data/*.raw
files. (suggested by Juha Niemimaki)
- Corrected the item description for scrolls of recharging. (reported by
Hugo Kornelis)

There are still tons of patches and suggestions sitting in my inbox, but I
doubt that any of them will make it into the 3.0.6 final. A new Angband
release is long overdue, so anything not in this release will have to wait
for 3.0.7.

--
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"Thangorodrim - The Angband Page" : http://www.thangorodrim.net/
Visit the #angband chat channel at irc.worldirc.org

 

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Robert Ruehlmann wrote:
> - Fixed a stupid bug that could cause the game to hang or crash when
> killing quest monsters near the edge of the dungeon. (Ivan Tuckwell
> and Dr. Andrew White)

Quest monsters? In Vanilla? By this do you mean killing Sauron or Morgoth?

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Robert Ruehlmann <rr9@thangorodrim.net> writes:

> Changes in Angband 3.0.6 alpha 1:
> - Wands and staves are no longer destroyed when a recharge attempt
> backfires. Instead all the charges are drained.

Not a good idea; a staff of healing now becomes a source of unlimited
healing, since you can recharge when it runs out, and do it a second
time if the first one fails.

> - Scroll the map when the player is 1/4th of the visible grids away from
> the edge of the map display.

I haven't tried it, but 1/4 may be too close; if you walk south and the
screen scrolls, how many spaces do you have to walk north before it
scrolls back?

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On 03 Apr 2005 20:54:21 -0400, grabiner@alumni.princeton.edu (David J.
Grabiner) wrote:

>Robert Ruehlmann <rr9@thangorodrim.net> writes:
>
>> Changes in Angband 3.0.6 alpha 1:
>> - Wands and staves are no longer destroyed when a recharge attempt
>> backfires. Instead all the charges are drained.
>
>Not a good idea; a staff of healing now becomes a source of unlimited
>healing, since you can recharge when it runs out, and do it a second
>time if the first one fails.

Agreed. This is unlike weapons where increasing their charge takes a *lot*
of time and resourses, as opposed to staves which are good for a few more
>
>> - Scroll the map when the player is 1/4th of the visible grids away from
>> the edge of the map display.
>
>I haven't tried it, but 1/4 may be too close; if you walk south and the
>screen scrolls, how many spaces do you have to walk north before it
>scrolls back?

Isn't too much of a problem - I've created a macro on ^I (Tab) that scrolls
the map. If you can manually scroll with ease, being 1/4 shouldn't be a
problem.

Besides, 1/4 is a bit further way. Not much, but the 3.0.5 system requires
the player to go right up to the edge.

 

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David J. Grabiner wrote:
> Not a good idea; a staff of healing now becomes a source of unlimited
> healing,

balanced by the failure risk. Its main use will be to heal when not
dangerously low on HPs, or to heal while out of combat without spending
a while resting, which means the opponent doesn't heal so much while you
heal. That's the same effect as a small increase in damage output. Add
to that that the staff can burn and the things're rare, and I don't see
a problem here.

> I haven't tried it, but 1/4 may be too close; if you walk south and the
> screen scrolls, how many spaces do you have to walk north before it
> scrolls back?

One. The screens (when not autocentering) overlap by half, so 1/4 of the
way from the edge of one is 1/4 of the way from the edge of another one
as well.

If anyone has a problem with offscreen breaths their best bet is
autocentering anyway -- no reasonably recent machine runs Angband too
slowly with autocentering on. (As in, maybe 20 years old but not 30.)

The monster list display would also be useful for that -- if only it
worked. Unfortunately, it doesn't, at least not in the 3.0.5 windows
binary distribution. If you turn on an additional terminal window,
that's exactly what you get -- an additional terminal window. It's
blank, doesn't respond to input of any kind, lacks menus, and isn't
affected by any of the main window's menus except the one that turns it
off again. There's no apparent way to tell it to put something in the
terminal window!

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"Robert Ruehlmann" <rr9@thangorodrim.net> wrote in message
news:d2opic$226$04$1@news.t-online.com...
> I've prepared an alpha version of Angband 3.0.6 to test the various tiny
> changes, tweaks, and bugfixes that have been added since the 3.0.5
> release.
>
> Angband 3.0.6 alpha 1 is available as source code:
> ftp://ftp.thangorodrim.net/pub/angband/Source/angband-3.0.6-alpha1.tar.gz
> and Mac OS X version:
> ftp://ftp.thangorodrim.net/pub/angband/Macintosh/Angband-306-alpha1-osx.dmg
> DOS and Windows versions will follow in the next few days.
>
> This release is largely untested, so keep an eye open for bugs and report
> them to me. The internal version number is still 3.0.5 and savefiles are
> fully compatible in case you want to go back. Nonetheless making a backup
> of your savefile might be a good idea.
>
> Changes in Angband 3.0.6 alpha 1:
> - Wands and staves are no longer destroyed when a recharge attempt
> backfires. Instead all the charges are drained.
> - Renamed the artifact short sword 'Gilettar' to 'Dagmor' since that
> name is mentioned for the sword of Beren in Tolkien's notes.
> (suggested by Tyler Witter)
> - Added a new type of subwindow for displaying the dungeon area around
> the player.
> - Added a new subwindow type "Display player (compact)" that displays
> the left-hand-side of the main term (player stats, hitpoints, gold,
> ...) in a separate window.
> - Added a new window type that displays the info from the status line.
> - Turned the "scroll map while targetting" option permanently on.
> - Added a display of the temporary resists to the status line. The
> resists are only displayed if there is enough room after the dungeon
> level (when using a main or status term with at least 85 cols).
> The verbosity of the output (between "Acid Elec Fire Cold Pois" and
> "AEFCP") depends on the term width.
> - Display the player's speed in the character dump and on the info page.
> - Identified scrolls can now look different from unidentified ones.
> This allows the use of the individual scroll tiles created by David
> Gervais.
> - Allow the ammo-branding activation of 'Cubragol' to be aborted without
> using up the charge. (Diego Gonzalez and Jeff Greene)
> - Use actual monster and object symbols instead of a list of hardcoded
> symbols when hallucinating.
> - Added Craig Oliver's Sound FX Patch version 1.1 that adds about 120
> new sound events to the game.
> (see also http://www.chambrook.org/angband/soundfx.php)
> - Scroll the map when the player is 1/4th of the visible grids away from
> the edge of the map display.
> - Allow the OS X version to be started from a read-only medium, for
> example from a disk image or a central installation under
> 'Applications'. All user-specific files like savefiles, scores,
> char-dumps, and saved preferences are stored in
> 'Library/Preferences/Angband/' and its subfolders inside the user's
> home directory.
> - The Mac OS X application bundle now includes all the necessary files
> from the lib folder. The separate lib folder in the distribution is
> no longer necessary. This means that the OS X version can now be
> installed by simply dragging the application icon to the target
> directory.
> - The OS X version would crash when changing the sound or graphics
> options before a character was created or loaded. (reported by Patrick
> Hughes)
> - Don't save the Mac OS X preferences on exit if the game hasn't been
> initialized properly to prevent corruption of the preference file in
> case of an error at startup. Skip loading the preference file if it
> is broken. (problem reported by Matt Stone)
> - Include the basic Angband sound files per default in the OS X version.
> - Made the tile size independent of the font size in the X11 version.
> Store various window settings like the window size between sessions.
> - Don't add a hardcoded 'games' subdirectory to the installation path on
> multi-user machines.
> - Allow all user created files to be saved in subdirectories under
> ~/.angband/Angband/ when PRIVATE_USER_PATH is defined.
> - Allow the use of the 'vcs' display module on systems with devfs-style
> '/dev/vc/*' terminals.
> - The virtual console (vcs) front-end does now implement cursor
> visibility and bigscreen support. (Alexander Ulyanov)
> - Enable cursor visibility in the "gcu" front-end on Linux systems.
> (Alexander Ulyanov)
> - Fixed a bug in the Xaw frontend, which made Angband crash if the main
> window geometry was specified as an X resource. (Alexander Ulyanov)
> - Make X11 frontends show floors as centered dots, walls as blocks, and
> treasures as diamonds. (Alexander Ulyanov)
> - Removed the restriction of bigtile mode to the main window in the X11
> version.
> - Added Alexander Ulyanov's Linux framebuffer display module from:
> http://posband.earthsea.org/misc/angband-lfb-20050220.tar.gz
> - Added compile instructions for MinGW/MSYS on Windows. (Tuomas
> Härkönen)
> - Added compile instructions for gcc on Mac OS X.
> - Fixed a stupid bug that could cause the game to hang or crash when
> killing quest monsters near the edge of the dungeon. (Ivan Tuckwell
> and Dr. Andrew White)
> - Added missing tiles and tile assignments for the 32x32 tiles. (Ivan
> Jekic and David Gervais)
> - The charges of rods of perception weren't handled correctly when
> compiling with scripting turned off. (reported by "Twilight" and Jeff
> Greene)
> - Cursed speed rings should not increase the level feeling. (Anssi
> Ramela and Jeff Greene)
> - Refresh the list of visible monsters after (Mass) Banishment,
> Earthquake, and Destruction spells, when using the 'delete nearby
> monsters' function in debug mode, as well as when pressing Ctrl-R.
> ("Twilight")
> - Don't try to write zero-length blocks when saving the lib/data/*.raw
> files. (suggested by Juha Niemimaki)
> - Corrected the item description for scrolls of recharging. (reported by
> Hugo Kornelis)
>
> There are still tons of patches and suggestions sitting in my inbox, but I
> doubt that any of them will make it into the 3.0.6 final. A new Angband
> release is long overdue, so anything not in this release will have to wait
> for 3.0.7.
>

Looks like most of the changes are UI fixes and features. They are very
welcome on my part since I would like angband to have a better UI.

Now only if someone would update angband tk....

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> "Thangorodrim - The Angband Page" : http://www.thangorodrim.net/
> Visit the #angband chat channel at irc.worldirc.org

 

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"Raymond Martineau" <bk039@ncf.ca> wrote in message
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> On 03 Apr 2005 20:54:21 -0400, grabiner@alumni.princeton.edu (David J.
> Grabiner) wrote:
>
>>Robert Ruehlmann <rr9@thangorodrim.net> writes:
>>
>>> Changes in Angband 3.0.6 alpha 1:
>>> - Wands and staves are no longer destroyed when a recharge attempt
>>> backfires. Instead all the charges are drained.
>>
>>Not a good idea; a staff of healing now becomes a source of unlimited
>>healing, since you can recharge when it runs out, and do it a second
>>time if the first one fails.
>
> Agreed. This is unlike weapons where increasing their charge takes a
> *lot*
> of time and resourses, as opposed to staves which are good for a few more

I disagree:



Loosing a staff due to a recharge attempt near the endgame is just annoying;
not

catastrophic. You simply spend time finding another one in an earlier depth,
and

money is not an issue, so if it comes up in a store you will buy it.



At the start of the game, money matters. So loosing a staff or wand is
catastrophic

especially if you bought it on the black market.



However, I would suggest making recharging a bit more expensive because as
it stands

it is very cheap especially now that the risk is removed.




>>
>>> - Scroll the map when the player is 1/4th of the visible grids away from
>>> the edge of the map display.
>>
>>I haven't tried it, but 1/4 may be too close; if you walk south and the
>>screen scrolls, how many spaces do you have to walk north before it
>>scrolls back?
>
> Isn't too much of a problem - I've created a macro on ^I (Tab) that
> scrolls
> the map. If you can manually scroll with ease, being 1/4 shouldn't be a
> problem.
>
> Besides, 1/4 is a bit further way. Not much, but the 3.0.5 system
> requires
> the player to go right up to the edge.

 

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Michael Hadjivassiliou wrote:
>
> "Raymond Martineau" <bk039@ncf.ca> wrote in message
> news:sf3151ddb32fu9mb8rb840dv09ahbvnnfd@4ax.com...
>
>> On 03 Apr 2005 20:54:21 -0400, grabiner@alumni.princeton.edu (David J.
>> Grabiner) wrote:
>>
>>> Robert Ruehlmann <rr9@thangorodrim.net> writes:
>>>
>>>> Changes in Angband 3.0.6 alpha 1:
>>>> - Wands and staves are no longer destroyed when a recharge attempt
>>>> backfires. Instead all the charges are drained.
>>>
>>>
>>> Not a good idea; a staff of healing now becomes a source of unlimited
>>> healing, since you can recharge when it runs out, and do it a second
>>> time if the first one fails.
>>
>>
>> Agreed. This is unlike weapons where increasing their charge takes a
>> *lot*
>> of time and resourses, as opposed to staves which are good for a few more
>
> I disagree *snip*


How about giving a 50% chance the staff is destroyed when recharging
fails? It seems to be a nice balance of both worlds.

 

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Staves should be destroyable, as they already have several
hi-points, especially for warriors:
- easy activation (relative to rods)
- possible reapeated use if there´s charges
- relatively ease to find key staffs
And almost always there´s an alternative to staff, if there´s
not alternative, (healing to warriors for example), staff
destruction imho is something we should live with.

Came to this conclusion playing Heng... always picking the most
kickass personality / class for warrior. (low MD!)
Well.. i can´t activate rods of whatever and can activate
a staff of healing after some tries.

A recharge shop service that would cost an insane amount of
money with complete safety i think would be cool.
Like, 5000 per healing charge, etc.
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Atriel wrote:
> Staves should be destroyable, as they already have several
> hi-points, especially for warriors:
> - easy activation (relative to rods)
> - possible reapeated use if there´s charges
> - relatively ease to find key staffs
> And almost always there´s an alternative to staff, if there´s
> not alternative, (healing to warriors for example), staff
> destruction imho is something we should live with.

And still will -- fire can still toast them. Add to that that staves are
heavy, especially if you carry many.

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In article <d2opic$226$04$1@news.t-online.com>,
Robert Ruehlmann <rr9@thangorodrim.net> wrote:
>I've prepared an alpha version of Angband 3.0.6 to test the various tiny
>changes, tweaks, and bugfixes that have been added since the 3.0.5 release.
>
>Changes in Angband 3.0.6 alpha 1:
>- Wands and staves are no longer destroyed when a recharge attempt
> backfires. Instead all the charges are drained.

I don't like this. What's the problem with the current system?

Anyway, most recharging in my experience happens when the item is
already empty.

Yes, you can lose items. This is part of the balance of charged items
- you get only so many uses. You can extend it with recharging, but
not forever - eventually, the RNG catches up with you. If they never
die to a recharge, why use rods over wands and staves?

>- Allow the OS X version to be started from a read-only medium, for
> example from a disk image or a central installation under
> 'Applications'. All user-specific files like savefiles, scores,
> char-dumps, and saved preferences are stored in
> 'Library/Preferences/Angband/' and its subfolders inside the user's
> home directory.
>- The Mac OS X application bundle now includes all the necessary files
> from the lib folder. The separate lib folder in the distribution is
> no longer necessary. This means that the OS X version can now be
> installed by simply dragging the application icon to the target
> directory.

The OS X version really should support running in a proper multiuser
mode, with shared score files at the minimum.

The application bundle is really supposed to be static. The raw info
files should be kept elsewhere, probably /Library/Application Support
in a multiuser setup, and ~/Library/Application Support for
single-user.

(Of course, I'm not actually offering to do the work...)

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On 2005-04-04 07:28:44, Atriel <atriel666@hotmail.com> wrote:

> Staves should be destroyable, as they already have several
> hi-points, especially for warriors:
> - easy activation (relative to rods)
> - possible reapeated use if there´s charges
> - relatively ease to find key staffs
> And almost always there´s an alternative to staff, if there´s
> not alternative, (healing to warriors for example), staff
> destruction imho is something we should live with.

Yet staffs are still destroyable by the most common pre-Narya manner problem
with staffs, fire damage. IMHO recharging should either a) not have a destroy
failure, or b) have one that reduces to 0% either using the INT stat or the
Magic Device Skill

> Came to this conclusion playing Heng... always picking the most
> kickass personality / class for warrior. (low MD!)
> Well.. i can´t activate rods of whatever and can activate
> a staff of healing after some tries.
>
> A recharge shop service that would cost an insane amount of
> money with complete safety i think would be cool.
> Like, 5000 per healing charge, etc.

I totally agree with this last one.

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On 2005-04-03 15:02:43, Robert Ruehlmann <rr9@thangorodrim.net> wrote:

> - Cursed speed rings should not increase the level feeling. (Anssi
> Ramela and Jeff Greene)

I find it oddly ego-inflating to be listed as having contributed to V. ;-)

Anyway, extending this to all cursed rings would IMO, be a good idea for
consistency. At least, I can't think of a reason why it wouldn't be...

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On Mon, 04 Apr 2005 03:06:00 -0400, Twisted One wrote:

(snip)
>The monster list display would also be useful for that -- if only it
>worked. Unfortunately, it doesn't, at least not in the 3.0.5 windows
>binary distribution. If you turn on an additional terminal window,
>that's exactly what you get -- an additional terminal window. It's
>blank, doesn't respond to input of any kind, lacks menus, and isn't
>affected by any of the main window's menus except the one that turns it
>off again. There's no apparent way to tell it to put something in the
>terminal window!

Hi Neo,

=w

(And to prevent yet another flamewar - this means that you merely have
to press the = key to bring up the options menu, then the w key to go to
the "windows flags" submenu).

Best, Hugo
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Hugo Kornelis wrote:
> Hi Neo,
>
> =w
>
> (And to prevent yet another flamewar - this means that you merely have
> to press the = key to bring up the options menu, then the w key to go to
> the "windows flags" submenu).

Hrm -- problem being the window didn't respond to any input. At least,
not that I saw. I also couldn't recall finding anything in the help,
though I fiddled with the % (visuals) command a bit to see if there was
something in there for assigning something to a terminal window.

Addendum: it works -- the window doesn't visibly respond unless you type
"=w" blind, and then the ORIGINAL window shows a grid for assigning
ANYthing to ANY terminal window, rather than just the window you typed
it into displaying a menu of choices for THAT window. Strange. Perhaps
new term windows should have a menu bar with a menu listing the choices
with a check by whichever is current, and some sensible default
(inventory?). The current interface under mswin is, I must say, less
than intuitive. :/

Also, the term windows seem to be wholly noninteractive once you put
something in them. I put the monster list in one and found a monster;
there's no obvious way to select an item in the list and do a recall, or
anything else useful such as display the monster's health bar and status
(say, click a Master Vampire and it says it's unhurt, asleep, and show a
life bar of ten green stars). Of course you can 'l'ook at the thing in
your main game window and see this info and also do a recall from there,
but you can do that anyway; being able to do it from the monster list
window, in that window, without clobbering the current target etc. in
the main window would be useful.

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On Mon, 04 Apr 2005 04:06:16 -0400, Twisted One wrote:

>Hugo Kornelis wrote:
>> Hi Neo,
>>
>> =w
>>
>> (And to prevent yet another flamewar - this means that you merely have
>> to press the = key to bring up the options menu, then the w key to go to
>> the "windows flags" submenu).
>
>Hrm -- problem being the window didn't respond to any input. At least,
>not that I saw. I also couldn't recall finding anything in the help,
>though I fiddled with the % (visuals) command a bit to see if there was
>something in there for assigning something to a terminal window.
(snip)

Hi Neo,

The "extra" windows are read only. The main window remains the only one
that receives input (even if you activate another window, the game
processes it as if it's been types in the main window - IIRC).

I agree that it would be nice to make the windows more interactive, as
you suggest in the rest of your post, but I don't think it will happen.
It's a HUGE lot of work (I think), and probably very hard to get working
on all platforms currently supported by Angband.

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On Mon, 4 Apr 2005 09:26:41 +0000 (UTC), Ramela wrote:

>On 2005-04-03 15:02:43, Robert Ruehlmann <rr9@thangorodrim.net> wrote:
>
>> - Cursed speed rings should not increase the level feeling. (Anssi
>> Ramela and Jeff Greene)
>
>I find it oddly ego-inflating to be listed as having contributed to V. ;-)
>
>Anyway, extending this to all cursed rings would IMO, be a good idea for
>consistency. At least, I can't think of a reason why it wouldn't be...

Hi Anssi,

Only rings of speed and the artifact rings have effect on the level
feeling. And as far as I know, there are no cursed artifact rings.

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On Mon, 04 Apr 2005 13:36:48 +0200, Hugo Kornelis
<Angband@hugo.is_NO_dit.c_SPAM_om> wrote:

>On Mon, 4 Apr 2005 09:26:41 +0000 (UTC), Ramela wrote:
>
>>
>>I find it oddly ego-inflating to be listed as having contributed to V. ;-)
>>
>>Anyway, extending this to all cursed rings would IMO, be a good idea for
>>consistency. At least, I can't think of a reason why it wouldn't be...
>
>Hi Anssi,
>
>Only rings of speed and the artifact rings have effect on the level
>feeling. And as far as I know, there are no cursed artifact rings.

The Plain Gold Ring is cursed. (But that's a special case.)

 

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Raymond Martineau wrote:
>>Only rings of speed and the artifact rings have effect on the level
>>feeling. And as far as I know, there are no cursed artifact rings.
>
> The Plain Gold Ring is cursed. (But that's a special case.)

Doesn't any out of depth object also affect level feelings, including as
a special case rings? So a ring of dex at 50' should make it "strangely
lucky" or some such -- even if it's a ring of dex (-3) {cursed}.

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"topazg" <graham@blessyou.co.uk> wrote in message
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> On 2005-04-04 07:28:44, Atriel <atriel666@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Staves should be destroyable, as they already have several
>> hi-points, especially for warriors:
>> - easy activation (relative to rods)
>> - possible reapeated use if there´s charges
>> - relatively ease to find key staffs
>> And almost always there´s an alternative to staff, if there´s
>> not alternative, (healing to warriors for example), staff
>> destruction imho is something we should live with.
>
> Yet staffs are still destroyable by the most common pre-Narya manner
> problem
> with staffs, fire damage. IMHO recharging should either a) not have a
> destroy
> failure, or b) have one that reduces to 0% either using the INT stat or
> the
> Magic Device Skill
>
>> Came to this conclusion playing Heng... always picking the most
>> kickass personality / class for warrior. (low MD!)
>> Well.. i can´t activate rods of whatever and can activate
>> a staff of healing after some tries.
>>
>> A recharge shop service that would cost an insane amount of
>> money with complete safety i think would be cool.
>> Like, 5000 per healing charge, etc.
>
> I totally agree with this last one.
>

Adding a shop service is a big change IMHO. And beyond recharging, there are
many services that could be added. (Zangband has many).

How about adding rare and expensive Scrolls of *Recharge* that recharge to
full charges without fail, and keep the current fail=destroy behaviour in
normal scrolls of recharge?

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Michael Hadjivassiliou wrote:
> How about adding rare and expensive Scrolls of *Recharge* that recharge
> to full charges without fail, and keep the current fail=destroy
> behaviour in normal scrolls of recharge?

Scrolls of *Recharging*, say. Mage spellbooks would be tweaked to
replace Recharge I, II, and III with just Recharging and *Recharging*
with the same effects. Sleep I, II, and III would be replaced with just
Sleep Monster and Sleep Monsters -- the latter affecting LOS. (The
current intermediate sleeps everything adjacent, which isn't all that
useful. It's useful when surrounded by weak foes, but late in the game
it's a waste of mana since those foes are so weak if they are affected
at all, and early in the game you're better off teleporting away when
surrounded by any foes whatsoever as a mage.)

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"Hugo Kornelis" <Angband@hugo.is_NO_dit.c_SPAM_om> schrieb ...

>>Anyway, extending this to all cursed rings would IMO, be a good idea for
>>consistency. At least, I can't think of a reason why it wouldn't be...
>
> Only rings of speed and the artifact rings have effect on the level
> feeling. And as far as I know, there are no cursed artifact rings.

There are different ways how they affect level feeling:

Normal out of depth items only grant a bonus, if they aren't worthless.

Artifacts always grant a bonus, depending on their value.
So if the cursed ring has a high value (the One?), it would improve the feeling.

There is a special coding for rings of speed and dragon scale mail.
It's that code that has been changed to ignore cursed speed rings.

In the early game, a cursed speed ring can be a nice find.
Once i got a -1 speed ring around 1000'. I carried it around, until
i found one of the umbar twins. After that, i was able to sell it to
the black market for 30.000 Gold (thanks to amnesia).

Werner.

 

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Werner Bär wrote:
> In the early game, a cursed speed ring can be a nice find.
> Once i got a -1 speed ring around 1000'. I carried it around, until
> i found one of the umbar twins. After that, i was able to sell it to
> the black market for 30.000 Gold (thanks to amnesia).

*gasp* That's cheating!

Well, abusing a game mechanic (if you can call the shopkeepers only
knowing whatever YOU know about any given item a "game mechanic" rather
than "a really, really unjustifiably unrealistic programming shortcut"...)

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Hmm
I think scrolls of *recharge* is a good idea, but now with
stacking, it can become *VERY* overpowered too.
Scrolls of *recharge* imho should cost as much and be almost
as rare as scrolls of *acquirement*, so that it costs near a
million in the shops, if 0% destroy rate comes true.

I like destruction being based in magic device skill, but i think
its still better how [O] handles the draining / destruction of
one or several devices based on Class, the Mage being the
top MD user, followed by the other 3 mage-type, and then
by the hybrid classes / warrior.

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Atriel wrote:

> Hmm
> I think scrolls of *recharge* is a good idea, but now with
> stacking, it can become *VERY* overpowered too.
> Scrolls of *recharge* imho should cost as much and be almost
> as rare as scrolls of *acquirement*, so that it costs near a
> million in the shops, if 0% destroy rate comes true.
>
> I like destruction being based in magic device skill, but i think
> its still better how [O] handles the draining / destruction of
> one or several devices based on Class, the Mage being the
> top MD user, followed by the other 3 mage-type, and then
> by the hybrid classes / warrior.

I think scrolls of *recharge* are useless already. Why create something
like that, so rare and expensive that it's much better and far far far
easier to find a new staff than the tool used to recharge it ?

It's akin to :
- We want feature A !
- Feature A is overpowered, we'll create an impossible to find item
which does that instead. That way it isn't overpowered because nobody
will use it.