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quarague · July 11, 2013, 14:23

Just a random idea I had to compensate for Nexus breathers. Every once in a while somebody starts a help thread on the forum: a nexus hound/vortex breathed at me and now my HT warrior has 3 strength, can I reverse this, what should I do (I did at some point)? Currently the answer is: you are screwed.
This situation could be improved by a new item: the potion of exchange. When drunk, it randomly switches two of your stats, ie has the same effect as a nexus breath. These potions should occur fairly early, have the possibility to appear in stacks and be reasonably common. They count as a bad item, so shop keepers don't stock them and get annoying when you sell an unided one to them. If they occur early enough some people will drink them to identify them, this would be annoying but not fatal and if you have 2 or 3 of them, odds are you can get your stats reasonably close to what you want them to be (or occasionally make matters much worse). These potions wouldn't affect game balance anywhere else, so it is a rather minor change.

Derakon · July 11, 2013, 14:55

I believe in 3.5 nexus swap has simply been removed. Personally I'd like to see it pull 3 points from 1 stat and move it to a different stat, but I guess removal is easier. I don't think anyone really liked nexus swap, and thematically it was kind of weird anyway.

konijn_ · July 11, 2013, 21:16

Potion of bottled nexus?

Antoine · July 11, 2013, 21:20

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Originally Posted by konijn_

Potion of bottled nexus?

Long time no see konijn!

Raajaton · July 13, 2013, 19:21

I know Fizzix had removed nexus swap in his personal modified version, but I know I got screwed by a nexus swap during my 3.5 competition character playing one of the more recent nightlies (at that time). Unless it had been removed in one of the newer official 3.5-dev nightlies I think it's still in the game.

However if it has in fact been removed, I am going to download and start playing that, cause nexus swap pisses me off lol. I took a bit of a hiatus from angband after hitting it really hard for quite a while, but I'm about to start going back at it. I still have 2 more classes to beat it with!

AnonymousHero · July 15, 2013, 03:46

AFAICT Nexus stat swap hasn't been removed in 'master' yet -- no activity for roughly a month and I remember having to cherry-pick fizzix's patch into that. (I hope that sentence makes sense... anyway, bottom line: hasn't been removed.)

Pete Mack · July 15, 2013, 06:30

PLEASE don't remove nexus swap in trunk. It's the single most interesting non-fatal attack in angband. And yes, I hate it too. But that doesn't mean I want to remove it from the game!

July 11, 2013, 14:23	#1
quarague Swordsman Join Date: Jun 2012 Posts: 257	item suggestion Just a random idea I had to compensate for Nexus breathers. Every once in a while somebody starts a help thread on the forum: a nexus hound/vortex breathed at me and now my HT warrior has 3 strength, can I reverse this, what should I do (I did at some point)? Currently the answer is: you are screwed. This situation could be improved by a new item: the potion of exchange. When drunk, it randomly switches two of your stats, ie has the same effect as a nexus breath. These potions should occur fairly early, have the possibility to appear in stacks and be reasonably common. They count as a bad item, so shop keepers don't stock them and get annoying when you sell an unided one to them. If they occur early enough some people will drink them to identify them, this would be annoying but not fatal and if you have 2 or 3 of them, odds are you can get your stats reasonably close to what you want them to be (or occasionally make matters much worse). These potions wouldn't affect game balance anywhere else, so it is a rather minor change.

July 11, 2013, 21:16	#3
konijn_ Hellband maintainer Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: New York, the Big Apple Age: 46 Posts: 367 Donated: $120	Potion of bottled nexus? __________________ * Are you ready for something else ? Hellband 0.8.8 is out! *

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July 11, 2013, 14:55	#2
Derakon Prophet Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 9,022	I believe in 3.5 nexus swap has simply been removed. Personally I'd like to see it pull 3 points from 1 stat and move it to a different stat, but I guess removal is easier. I don't think anyone really liked nexus swap, and thematically it was kind of weird anyway.

July 13, 2013, 19:21	#5
Raajaton Swordsman Join Date: May 2012 Posts: 296	I know Fizzix had removed nexus swap in his personal modified version, but I know I got screwed by a nexus swap during my 3.5 competition character playing one of the more recent nightlies (at that time). Unless it had been removed in one of the newer official 3.5-dev nightlies I think it's still in the game. However if it has in fact been removed, I am going to download and start playing that, cause nexus swap pisses me off lol. I took a bit of a hiatus from angband after hitting it really hard for quite a while, but I'm about to start going back at it. I still have 2 more classes to beat it with!

July 15, 2013, 03:46	#6
AnonymousHero Veteran Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 1,391	AFAICT Nexus stat swap hasn't been removed in 'master' yet -- no activity for roughly a month and I remember having to cherry-pick fizzix's patch into that. (I hope that sentence makes sense... anyway, bottom line: hasn't been removed.)

July 15, 2013, 06:30	#7
Pete Mack Prophet Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Seattle, WA Posts: 6,768 Donated: $40	PLEASE don't remove nexus swap in trunk. It's the single most interesting non-fatal attack in angband. And yes, I hate it too. But that doesn't mean I want to remove it from the game!

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