Competition 63

Nick · January 9, 2009, 23:49

Competition 63 is now available from the competition page. It is an Angband 3.1.0 Kobold Rogue. The competition will run for a calendar month. The winning condition is fastest winner, or failing that exp/turns; attempts to get a different winning condition sorted out were derailed by my apparent inability to work out what day it is.

Donald Jonker · January 9, 2009, 23:57

I fired up an Elen real quick just to see what was what. I found Mordy's escapes on the floor at 400'.

Don't worry, I don't plan on letting her live long enough to use it. But it's gonna hurt - not like Lucky with his infinitely regenerating pdsm...

takkaria · January 10, 2009, 00:00

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Originally Posted by Nick

Competition 63 is now available from the competition page. It is an Angband 3.1.0 Kobold Rogue. The competition will run for a calendar month. The winning condition is fastest winner, or failing that exp/turns; attempts to get a different winning condition sorted out were derailed by my apparent inability to work out what day it is.

Damn you, Nick, I was just about to go to bed.

I might have a go at playing this one.

Nick · January 10, 2009, 00:05

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Originally Posted by takkaria

Damn you, Nick, I was just about to go to bed.

I might have a go at playing this one.

So you sleep?

takkaria · January 10, 2009, 10:25

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Originally Posted by Nick

So you sleep?

It has been known. Some days Angband gets the better of me, though.

Yoric · January 10, 2009, 19:01

I installed 3.1.0 to try out the competition, but I'm having no luck getting Elen to load. I've copied the 63 savefile over my 1000.username file, tried to open the file using the -uElen option... no luck. I run Ubuntu and configured --with-libpath=/usr/games/lib/angband and --bindir=/usr/games

Can anyone help? Nick, since I know you're a Linux user?

Thanks

**EDIT** All saved games fail to load on my system... I'll tinker with this for a while to try to find the issue.

chem · January 10, 2009, 19:45

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Originally Posted by Nick

Competition 63 is now available from the competition page. It is an Angband 3.1.0 Kobold Rogue. The competition will run for a calendar month. The winning condition is fastest winner,

Is "fastest winner" the first person to post a winner? Or is it fewest turns? The comp page says fewest turns, but an old suggested by Donald that you seemed receptive to: "This probably won't be popular, but you could do a real-time race to the finish: first person to win from the time the contest starts gets the gold" was otherwise.

buzzkill · January 10, 2009, 20:02

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Originally Posted by chem

"This probably won't be popular, but you could do a real-time race to the finish: first person to win from the time the contest starts gets the gold" was otherwise.

It seems like it would be easy enough to add a real-time timer to Angband. It would simply keep track of the real time (from the moment you arrive in town, till the moment you die) spent playing any given character.

Until this is implemented, I don't see any real value in a 'real-time' competition.

Afterwords, I see all types of new possibilities for victory.

Donald Jonker · January 10, 2009, 20:36

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Originally Posted by buzzkill

It seems like it would be easy enough to add a real-time timer to Angband. It would simply keep track of the real time (from the moment you arrive in town, till the moment you die) spent playing any given character.

I hadn't thought of that - that really would be cool. The angband comps could draw a lot of inspiration from the annual nethack devnull competitions, but you'd naturally need to adapt it so that it wouldn't be necessary to play on an online server (which I wouldn't be very keen on doing). Unfortunately I suppose this would put more work on maintainers.

Other ideas:
Minimum time/level.
Maximum depth/turn or realtime

Maximum uniques/turn or realtime
Maximum artifacts/turn or realtime
Most $/turn or realtime

Most monsters killed/turn or realtime
Fewest monsters killed/depth
Fewest monsters or uniques killed/artifacts

These would obviously require some innovations in the character dump department.

Big Al · January 10, 2009, 20:41

Something seems to have gone wrong with character dumps in this comp - there was no box for me to enter the name of the charater. Pav, can you take a look at this?

You can still get to the dump manually, but not by clicking on the name because there is no name link to click on: http://angband.oook.cz/ladder-show.php?id=8459.

Character names don't seem to be on 3.1.0 char dumps any more. Bug?

January 9, 2009, 23:49	#1
Nick Vanilla maintainer Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Canberra, Australia Age: 55 Posts: 8,759 Donated: $60	Competition 63 Competition 63 is now available from the competition page. It is an Angband 3.1.0 Kobold Rogue. The competition will run for a calendar month. The winning condition is fastest winner, or failing that exp/turns; attempts to get a different winning condition sorted out were derailed by my apparent inability to work out what day it is. __________________ One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie.

January 10, 2009, 19:01	#6
Yoric Rookie Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Baltimore, MD, USA Age: 39 Posts: 2	I installed 3.1.0 to try out the competition, but I'm having no luck getting Elen to load. I've copied the 63 savefile over my 1000.username file, tried to open the file using the -uElen option... no luck. I run Ubuntu and configured --with-libpath=/usr/games/lib/angband and --bindir=/usr/games Can anyone help? Nick, since I know you're a Linux user? Thanks EDIT All saved games fail to load on my system... I'll tinker with this for a while to try to find the issue. Last edited by Yoric; January 10, 2009 at 19:18.

January 10, 2009, 20:41	#10
Big Al Swordsman Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Calgary Age: 33 Posts: 327 Donated: $18.32	Something seems to have gone wrong with character dumps in this comp - there was no box for me to enter the name of the charater. Pav, can you take a look at this? You can still get to the dump manually, but not by clicking on the name because there is no name link to click on: http://angband.oook.cz/ladder-show.php?id=8459. Character names don't seem to be on 3.1.0 char dumps any more. Bug? __________________ Come play Metroplexity! Un, V MX H- D c-- f- PV s- d+ P++ M+ c-- S I++ So+ B+ ac- !GHB SQ RQ+ V+

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Donald Jonker Knight Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 593	I fired up an Elen real quick just to see what was what. I found Mordy's escapes on the floor at 400'. Don't worry, I don't plan on letting her live long enough to use it. But it's gonna hurt - not like Lucky with his infinitely regenerating pdsm...

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