Question about randarts

[Malak Darkhunter]

I am playing Vanilla r1215 with randarts on. Does each game generate a new set of artifacts, or are the same ones every time? This is the first time I have tried playing with randarts on.

[Magnate]

Originally Posted by Malak Darkhunter

I am playing Vanilla r1215 with randarts on. Does each game generate a new set of artifacts, or are the same ones every time? This is the first time I have tried playing with randarts on.

Randarts are generated at birth (on older machines you can see a noticeable pause before the town screen appears for the first time). They're then static for the duration of that character, and a completely new set is generated at the birth of the next character.

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[Malak Darkhunter]

Thanks, I sort of thought it was that way but had never tested it. Randarts make the game a little more interesting, something new each time you play.

[Elsairon]

Looking for the same items over and over isn't as fun for me. Once I started playing w/ rand-arts I have not looked back.

[Larvitz]

Does randarts actually make all new artifacts? Or does it just modify a couple things about the existing ones? And where can I get the nightly builds, ((isn't that what the r"----"'s are?))

[Pete Mack]

All the artifacts are completely randomized, with the caveat that the "power" of the new artifacts is supposed to be the same as the old ones.

http://rephial.org/nightlies

Or follow the instructions in the sticky "how to compile V & Un" thread.

[Magnate]

Originally Posted by Pete Mack

All the artifacts are completely randomized, with the caveat that the "power" of the new artifacts is supposed to be the same as the old ones.

http://rephial.org/nightlies

Or follow the instructions in the sticky "how to compile V & Un" thread.

Apparently my randart code (which is in r1228 and on) crashes on both Windows and OSX. Sorry about that - I'm not really sure how, but I will look into it as soon as I get a couple of log files. It works fine on Linux, and it shouldn't be hard to fix once I work out why it's crashing.

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[PowerDiver]

I wouldn't be sure it works on Linux either. Your comment about where you put the logfile sounded dangerous. Many users do not have write permission to that directory, so the question is whether failure to write to the logfile will cause a crash.

[Magnate]

Originally Posted by PowerDiver

I wouldn't be sure it works on Linux either. Your comment about where you put the logfile sounded dangerous. Many users do not have write permission to that directory, so the question is whether failure to write to the logfile will cause a crash.

Well, yes and no. You're quite right that I should have listened to that guilty voice telling me that it was sloppy not to use proper pathing for the logfile, but that at least would be a crash that was easy to understand and fix. Unfortunately I've done something worse, which results in division by zero during rarity calculation, which means I have somehow introduced an illegal object sval into choose_item, I think.

Anyway, at least I can fix both with a single commit. Soon, I hope.

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