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Re: townies. Since 8/17/2007 (that is, about three months), the irc_gate has reported tho following deaths related to these three townies: ...was killed by a Battle-scarred veteran --- 68 ...was killed by a Mean looking mercenary   --- 30 ...was killed by an Aimless looking merchant --- 3 Thats 30-o...

Ah, thanks for those comments Ashi, thats just the stuff we need to hear about. We have a lot of new stuff to digest, and it will be an interesting puzzle to figure out just what we need to tweak to keep the vanilla spirit, but also make things work out sensibly in realtime.

http://www.juti.nl/hugo/Angband/Spoiler/characters.htm

3.0.8 spoilers are hosted above, so you can peek through the spell changes etc.

My trigger finger is getting itchy! Chop chop, Warrior!

I still remember this day, heh. I think I deleted the original post when someone on the server told me to leave town - figured it was a useless thread, but the thread persisted despite the original post delete. My comment was "geez louise, I understand that a timer has to be long for the effect to m...

Man, I almost feel bad for prodding the deep characters to get diving. Sbluen rolled in and started a dive, but bit it not far out of the gate. Here's his dump:  [Ironman MAngband 0.7.3 Character Dump]                 Name   : Sbluen      Age       12  STR:  18/40     Sex    : Male                  ...

Hey, those are some cool sounding ideas PW. Awesome!

Spooky!

I almost wish that if a room is detected as being totally cut off, that we'd just fill it with non-floating undead for the fun of it

Heck no! After the experiment, I'll start using the 1.0 code

Another thing that has come to mind is the semi-inoperability of the Japanese and English clients. PowerWyrm had this to say about it: "Japanese clients use Unicode standard for encoding strings using double bytes. Since most of the code uses hardcoded values for char buffer and packet sizes, most o...

Hola Ironpeople! I have a little experiment I want to run on my server (details forthcoming when the time comes). This would mean wrapping up the current instance to do so. My plan was to wait until we are out of alpha/beta stage on vanilla Mangband, but I'm getting itchy to try some stuff out. So, ...

Hats off to your Ironman!

Now get your butt to 2k and play that warrior you have sitting there on my server

Well, all the more reason, then, to shift focus on a well-put-together brain-dump/guide on playing mages in MAngband! Get crackin!

Though that way you're in risk of running into another, maybe bigger pack of monsters

I see what you mean (thought it took me some thinking)
And if it'd be considered cheating I won't bother trying