@Derakon--
I think you are overthinking this. The chances of Wormtongue dropping something useful after dl 30 or so are exceedingly slim anyway, far less than even a scroll of acquirement. A single "excellent" (DL+10)/2 item just doesn't have much value at depth. The value of delaying killing Wormtongue already becomes negative very quickly after around DL 20. The issue is fundamentally that you shouldn't be able to use him as a piggy bank by stealing a large number of ego items. It seems that the solution should be other than special pleading on drop quality.

Saving Throws?
 

Hello all. I just registered after playing angband on and off for a couple years, (never with much success :rolleyes:) but I've been wondering if saving throws need to be reworked. It seems rather weird that you have just as much a chance of saving against one of Morgoth's spells as you would against a novice priest or something like that. Maybe it would be more interesting if harder opponents (or better spellcasters?) were harder to save against. This might be a nightmare to rework though. Keep up the good work with the game though Nick!

I dunno what the final decision on this is, but I strongly feel that there is something wrong with the speed model for shapechange of other monsters. When a Maia of Manwe turned into a shardstorm, it was utterly helpless. At normal speed, it barely got in 2 more moves after changing. (Note: I am playing an old version, but I don't think this has been fully addressed either way.)

Poslikes (Pos, Compos, Frog etc.) keep track of how many items you've stolen from each unique during the game (and also how many items you've stolen from each monster), so you can never steal more items from a monster than it would drop anyway, and the stolen items are deducted from the eventual drop.

Not sure how this would play with V's stealing mechanics, haven't tried the new V yet.

For a time, you had them ordered in descending cost order, which made great ammo be fired first before the bog standard ones, unless one made a conscious choice (with all the added keystrokes), so thank you so much for when you changed it to reverse order. However, my point of view is that damage would be a better metric than cost. That is their true value to @. A normal mithril ammo may be worth more gold (but not really, when one plays no-selling), than seeker ammo, but it doesn't do as much damage. I end up inscribing ammo (f0=g, f1=g, f2=g, ... f9=g) to "correctly" order ammo in terms of damage, from low damage to high.

+1 to this.
I don't remember the exact number, but I also saw magical pebbles coming before iron shots, although the pebbles had more than 2x damage compared to the shots. Is that reasonable from pricing perspective?

speaking personally, having seeker arrows fire before mithril arrows by default made more sense to me, since seeker arrows are more likely to break or be destroyed through attrition it made sense to use them first, while you still had them, rather than chipping away at your mithril while monster breaths chipped away at a pile of seeker arrows.

I was asking to myself: why digging is hurting my blackguard? I just saw the code and found the reason: the new digging code makes you quietly wield the digger for the digging boost, so I lose the CON boost my main weapon has.

It's not a bug, it's a bit funny actually.

Keep on with the changes Nick! I'm enjoying playing the game again thanks to your work.

Sky Dragon should bite to electrify, surely?

Out of rabbit hole, nothing really needed doing after all, #2118 fixed. Back to bugfixing and tidying up stuff like the stealing issue.