MAngband

How about some sort of (mana limit | cooldown | fail rate) for monster (spells | breath attacks | summons) ? Or is something like that in the 3.x system?

So are you basically rewriting PernMAngband 3.x or what? And where do I get the client?

I randomly happened to check the forum tonight. Wonderful news! Thanks for taking the time to do this, Crimson.

Most of the few players you do see only dive to 2k or so. There are what, three or four semi-active players who go super deep? Let's call them Elite players--they are able to succeed without fighting alongside others. Say, then, that for all non-elite players, cooperation is required to survive at s...

Furthermore, stop editing your posts while I'm typing.

That quote strikes me as nothing but a convenient justification for not making effort to address gameplay issues. Now, I certainly wouldn't want mangband to become too easy. However, I'm going to reveal a little secret: It's not hard to write (or, dare I say, maintain) a game that is, by design, alm...

In my defense, I was teleported to the site of death. Right in front of the door there. Normally, I don't go anywhere near an animal pit. I am guessing that you think I'm just another whiner, but you of all people ought to know better. If I had started at the east end of that hallway, I would not ha...

This is Clive, and I'm done with this game. Instadeath with total gear loss is simply not fun, no matter how we try to justify its existence. Since I play games to have fun, mangband no longer qualifies as a way I shall be spending my time. My Power Dragon Scale Mail is on 2800. Have fun with the ch...

In either OAngband or Vanilla 3.x, when you (l)ook at an item, if there's a trap underneath it looks like this:

^ A flask of oil (Gas Trap)

So there is a carat before the name, and the type of trap afterwards, if the trap is identified.

Giving monsters mana or cooldown times for attacks would be nice. However, a much easier change would be to give a non-insignificant chance of failure to monsters' special attacks like spells, summons, and breaths.

I play on my G3 Powerbook all the time. Open up X11 and make mangband from the xterm there. Then run it from the top mangband directory. I can't remember if I had to tweak anything but if you post problems I'll try and remember my way through. Congrats on the ibook! edit: Make sure and get gcc etc f...

I'd like to voice my total agreement with this thread so far. It takes me so long to get to level 30 and find decent gear that I'm a complete coward past 2k. Instadeath is just too common, whether it's from getting pushed off of stairs from hounds, getting surrounded by a quick summon or two, or bre...

Oh come on, people. The spell is Brand Weapon not Curse Weapon. I say we jack up the failure rate and curse the weapon sometimes on fail. Then we can just focus on the good effects during success (elemental most common, then slays, blessed, *slays*, defender, ha, ea, and whatnot). On fail we can hav...

Mac OS X!

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