Tangaria

To reduce ‘shop grind’ (need of wating for certain items at stores) were made several experimental adjustments:

1. refresh time for shops boosted from 250 to 100
2. added ‘always’ to BM (Black Market):
   – Cure Serious Wounds
   – Cure Critical Wounds
   – Restore Life Levels
   3. added ‘always’ to XBT (Expensive Black Market):
   – Healing
   – Speed
   – Resist Poison
   – Teleportation scrolls
   4. Prices changed:
   – Teleportation scrolls: x5 (40 -> 200 value)
   – Speed potions: x2 (75 -> 150 value)

This is temporary measures to reduce grind because currently there is a problem that it’s not possible to assing ‘normal’ price appearence to BM and XBM. Also more price rebalancing are planned soon. Please leave your feedback!

Fixed critical bug which crushed client when player was idle:

Quick update to narrow down the bug which occures quite rare, but it’s crush the server. Eg

090119 164424 Goose: You enter a maze of down staircases.
090119 164424 BEGIN dungeon_change_level()
090119 164424 depth=1 height=66 width=198
090119 164424 END dungeon_change_level()
090119 164424 Shutting down (panic save).
090119 164424 Server panic info save succeeded!

So when player changes the lvl – he crush server. And if after I restart server he try to login again – crush repeats.

List of changes:

– Add a server option to automatically transfer death dumps to the client (AUTO_DUMP in mangband.cfg)
– Add a debug version of the server executable which generates a mangband.rpt file when a crash occurs

Files are available for download at the usual location: http://powerwyrm.monsite-orange.fr

To update server in debug mode:
– download PWMAngband server (debug version)
– copy the files from the zip into the /PWMAngband directory
This will replace the executable mangband.exe and add files to include debug information to generate a file named mangband.rpt when a crash occurs.

– Remove “change password” feature from character description screen
– Reduce the allowed minimum size of subterms to a fifth of the maximal size (16×4)
– Fix 32bit builds of the Windows client
– Allow looking and targeting with roguelike keyset
– Make maximum number of characters per account a server option

Players must get the new client to play on beta 1 servers. Files are available for download at the usual location: http://powerwyrm.monsite-orange.fr . Here’s a little upgrade procedure for players:

1) Rename the /PWMAngband directory to /PWMAngband_old
2) Unzip the binaries into /PWMAngband directory
3) Replace \PWMAngband\lib\user by \PWMAngband_old\lib\user
4) Replace modified configuration files by the ones from /PWMAngband_old: the ini files, any .prf modified in /lib/customize, any .fon added in /lib/fonts
5) Archive (or delete) /PWMAngband_old
6) Restart your client

And this one for server admins:

1) Rename the /PWMAngband directory to /PWMAngband_old
2) Unzip the binaries into /PWMAngband directory
3) Replace \PWMAngband\lib\user by \PWMAngband_old\lib\user (this should copy the savefiles, preference files, logs and score file)
4) Replace modified configuration files by the ones from /PWMAngband_old: the cfg file 
5) Archive (or delete) /PWMAngband_old
6) Restart your server

Hiho! We are online 😀 It was my dream for a long time: to have proper, truly online roguelike gameplay without cheating, stair-scumming, everlasting and other stuff with spoil the fun and habitate people to play ‘wrong’, non-roguelikish way, so after a while they loose interest to the game. No! In my opinion, online roguelike should propose different philosophy opposite to MMORPG boredom hoarder-simulators.
Roguelike – it’s just you, your skill, your guts.. and your freedom.

Freedom from fear of death. Freedom from fear ‘to loose’. Every adventure – counts. Every death – is an achievement. Every new character – is a happiness of unique exploration experience.

It’s came at last! Time to dive!