How long does a game take you?

[Scraper]

I've just come back to Angband after a long hiatus and was wondering how long it usually takes to finish (win) a game.

My play style is to scour most of every level and return to town when my bags are full or my stacks of consumables are starting to run low.

I have only managed to beat the game once but I find it takes me several weeks if not months to get to cL50 and be in a position to think about taking on the much harder uniques.

What are your styles and how long does it take you to win?

[Pete Mack]

Originally Posted by Scraper

I've just come back to Angband after a long hiatus and was wondering how long it usually takes to finish (win) a game.

My play style is to scour most of every level and return to town when my bags are full or my stacks of consumables are starting to run low.

I have only managed to beat the game once but I find it takes me several weeks if not months to get to cL50 and be in a position to think about taking on the much harder uniques.

What are your styles and how long does it take you to win?

About 12-24 hours total play time.
Dive quickly; level up occasionally on "good" levels, where "good" is contingent on current stats, equipment, character level, etc.

[Scraper]

Originally Posted by Pete Mack

About 12-24 hours total play time.
Dive quickly; level up occasionally on "good" levels, where "good" is contingent on current stats, equipment, character level, etc.

Wow, that is really fast. I wasn't expecting people to be able to finish the game so quickly. It can take me hours and hours to get through a vault. Even to the point of taking me several sessions to completely knock over a vault.

[Narvius]

I don't think I'd want to spend so much time on a single character. xD I haven't won yet, but the one time I reached Morgoth I probably played around 20-25 hours. Which made me just realize the ungodly amount of time I spent on this game already. :x

[Pete Mack]

Originally Posted by Scraper

Wow, that is really fast. I wasn't expecting people to be able to finish the game so quickly. It can take me hours and hours to get through a vault. Even to the point of taking me several sessions to completely knock over a vault.

If a vault is sufficiently scary to require hours to complete, I will just skip it as an unacceptable risk/reward.

[Estie]

12-24 hours sounds about right, where 24 hours might be an ironman run.

Are you making heavy use of macros ? When you say it takes you days to clear a vault, I suspect that you use many manual casts. For example, for me detect traps is always mapped to the F5 key, regardless of class; a warrior might zap a rod, while a caster use their spell from a book. Almost all keys not used by the game are mapped to something (and even one that is; I map F (fuel light) to teleport other eventually, assuming that normally I have a permanent source of light before making heavy use of TO). That allows me to play without looking at the keyboard, like piano.

[Scraper]

Originally Posted by Estie

12-24 hours sounds about right, where 24 hours might be an ironman run.

Are you making heavy use of macros ? When you say it takes you days to clear a vault, I suspect that you use many manual casts. For example, for me detect traps is always mapped to the F5 key, regardless of class; a warrior might zap a rod, while a caster use their spell from a book. Almost all keys not used by the game are mapped to something (and even one that is; I map F (fuel light) to teleport other eventually, assuming that normally I have a permanent source of light before making heavy use of TO). That allows me to play without looking at the keyboard, like piano.

I don't use macros at all. I only started inscribing items in the last game I played too. I do everything manually. I will look into when I play next though. Sounds like it would be faster.

[eMeM]

I'm not sure, because I don't look at clock when I play. I guess it's 30-50 hours.

[MattB]

For me most of my characters last a week, which I guess equates to about 35 hours play, and they usually die about two thirds of the way through the dungeon. On that basis I suppose about 50-60 hours real time for a win. Mind you, in my one and only win, the Morgoth battle took about three hours.

However, sometimes things move a lot faster than others. Here's page 1 of my Hall of Fame for v3.4.1 and while there is very consistent failure, look at the turn count. Four of them almost exactly the same and one of them about half of the others. Just goes to show...something.

[scud]

Originally Posted by MattB

Mind you, in my one and only win, the Morgoth battle took about three hours.

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