[Announce] PosChengband 4.0.0 Released

[clouded]

Originally Posted by chris

*ID*

Yeah it's not that bad later thanks to the *ID* staves, that is a big improvement. Though it still seems a little weird in some places, I remember once *ID*ing a craft weapon (the one with all elemental slays) to sell it and the price actually went down. Also, staves of genocide are a great addition.

By the way, yesterday I gave the Vapor Quest some Doom Quest II treatment. This quest always takes forever and it has annoying hidden monsters, so here's a new, smaller, more lethal version: https://bpaste.net/raw/7ecede0e7d99

The most notable monster remains (weird fume) and there's now a shimmering vortex which can shriek and wake up all the air elementals which will quickly swarm you. It's harder so I upped the danger level to 40 and also added six rings and six amulets as loot inside, it could be worth trying it early for those.

May update or make some new quests too, I did this one impulsively.

[HugoVirtuoso]

I wonder if Chris would make the new quest idea official. Anyways, great to see a PosChengband update!

[Arjen]

Originally Posted by clouded

By the way, yesterday I gave the Vapor Quest some Doom Quest II treatment. This quest always takes forever and it has annoying hidden monsters, so here's a new, smaller, more lethal version: https://bpaste.net/raw/7ecede0e7d99

Looks nice and a bit less bothersome than the current, and with the vortex and water elementals, a bit more dangerous. Only point i might tune down a bit, are the 6 rings and 6 amulets as loot. 2-3 of each might be better. Or a chance that several are plain.

[HugoVirtuoso]

Usual place for the PosChengband update is here for easy access (from the most recent posts)

[Destro]

Really cool update. Somehow I've made it to level 40 for the first time ever on a char without dying yet so I'm going to try and beat the current version before updating. I doubt upgrading would effect my save but I kind of want to beat the game 'as is' if possible.

I can't wait to take advantage of ego lore. I kind of don't get point 2 of the update with pricing. My items never factored in unknown attributes. I always buy *id* when I think I will make a profit and the price goes up or down based on what the *id* reveals. Like, if I try to sell spear of hagan the price will be crap but if I *id* it then it will factor in the speed and the price will shoot up. But cursed items will maybe go down to 1 when they'd be worth a little bit unid'd. Either way I'm sure it fixes something so I'm looking forward to it too.

[Pete Mack]

@Destro--That's something V gets right: get rid of the "shopping game" with higher gold drops and no sales of known items. (Unknown items are worth zero.)

[HugoVirtuoso]

Convincing chris to follow V's anti-shopping idea isn't going to happen

[debo]

Originally Posted by Pete Mack

@Destro--That's something V gets right: get rid of the "shopping game" with higher gold drops and no sales of known items. (Unknown items are worth zero.)

IMO V trivially gets this right because money is totally useless after DL20 or so.

[wobbly]

Had a magic mushroom polymorph me into a [doppelganger] today & the game thinks your mimic-ing it. Didn't risk a possible crash by un-mimicing.

[HugoVirtuoso]

Did you try to let the game...crash anyway?