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From: Matthias Kurzke <mawende@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [announce] Angband 3.0.4 beta 1 released
Date: 2004-02-02 12:16:51
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Robert Ruehlmann wrote:
> I've prepared a beta version of Angband 3.0.4 for testing. It is available
> as:
>
>
>
> Changes since the 3.0.3 release:
[snip lots of good changes]
> - Rods, wands, and staves with different charges can now be stacked.
> (based on the NPPAngband version that in turn is based on
> Leon Marrick's rod/wand stacking in OAngband.
> - Rods can't be recharged anymore, but can be vulnerable to electricity.
> - Rods of Recall, Perception, Curing, Healing, Restoration, and Speed
> will not be destroyed by electricity.
What I like least about this is that while rods can't be recharged,
their charges can be drained by a monster melee attack. This asymmetry
makes rods a LOT less valuable deep down in the dungeon, where monsters
with drain charges attacks are getting common (and those get very scary
because you can't teleport them away after they have touched you once
and drained all your teleport other rods at once). It is also very bad
for warriors, who have to carry rods and have to use melee (which means
the monsters heal themselves by draining your rods). Please consider
making rods either rechargeable or undrainable.
The compromise about which rods are destructible is good. Is the
destruction chance the same as for wands now? (Rods in NPP get destroyed
very seldom, maybe that chance should be higher for the shallow rods if
the powerful ones aren't affected anyway).
Matthias
| [announce] Angband 3.0.4 beta 1 released | 43 posts | |
|---|---|---|
| ..... Robert Ruehlmann | 2004-02-01 20:38:49 | 176 |
| .......... Robert Ruehlmann | 2004-02-01 20:49:51 | 17 |
| .......... =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Timo_Pietilä?= | 2004-02-01 21:15:26 | 12 |
| .......... Velvet Elvis | 2004-02-01 23:00:39 | 65 |
| ............... Jonathan Ellis | 2004-02-01 23:12:15 | 67 |
| .................... Harriet Bazley | 2004-02-02 19:02:19 | 37 |
| ......................... Neodymium | 2004-02-02 20:31:56 | 21 |
| .............................. Harriet Bazley | 2004-02-04 00:29:26 | 35 |
| .......... MightyKitten | 2004-02-01 23:51:56 | 10 |
| .......... Matthew Collett | 2004-02-02 04:34:01 | 41 |
| .......... Tom Whistler | 2004-02-02 10:36:26 | 8 |
| ............... Neodymium | 2004-02-02 11:20:42 | 24 |
| ............... Matthias Kurzke | 2004-02-02 14:27:42 | 17 |
| ............... Robert Ruehlmann | 2004-02-02 18:48:19 | 14 |
| .......... Matthias Kurzke | 2004-02-02 12:16:51 | 33 |
| ............... Jonathan Ellis | 2004-02-02 12:46:05 | 47 |
| .................... Matthew Collett | 2004-02-02 21:29:25 | 36 |
| ......................... Jonathan Ellis | 2004-02-02 23:47:56 | 54 |
| .............................. Neodymium | 2004-02-03 00:02:21 | 24 |
| ................................... David Grenier | 2004-02-04 01:26:27 | 40 |
| ........................................ Neodymium | 2004-02-04 10:16:58 | 76 |
| .............................. Matthew Collett | 2004-02-03 07:25:57 | 23 |
| ................................... Jonathan Ellis | 2004-02-03 09:47:04 | 37 |
| ............... Michael Roper | 2004-02-02 13:56:28 | 16 |
| .................... Juergen Frieling | 2004-02-02 15:03:01 | 10 |
| ......................... Michael Roper | 2004-02-02 15:46:13 | 27 |
| .............................. Jiamat | 2004-02-02 16:32:08 | 40 |
| ................................... Neodymium | 2004-02-02 16:55:20 | 36 |
| .......... pelpel | 2004-02-02 15:21:22 | 39 |
| ............... pelpel | 2004-02-02 16:07:31 | 10 |
| .......... Atriel | 2004-02-02 17:44:43 | 44 |
| ............... Jiamat | 2004-02-02 18:13:00 | 70 |
| .................... Atriel | 2004-02-03 00:31:37 | 12 |
| .......... Michael Roper | 2004-02-03 03:18:31 | 10 |
| .......... Eddie Grove | 2004-02-03 18:01:08 | 26 |
| ............... David Vestal | 2004-02-03 18:07:20 | 32 |
| ............... Jonathan Ellis | 2004-02-03 19:47:11 | 36 |
| .................... Jiamat | 2004-02-03 20:36:38 | 37 |
| ......................... Jeff Greene | 2004-02-04 00:06:13 | 38 |
| .................... Toby | 2004-02-04 11:42:36 | 26 |
| .......... Eddie Grove | 2004-02-10 07:31:44 | 23 |
| ............... Michael Roper | 2004-02-10 08:03:34 | 8 |
| .................... Eddie Grove | 2004-02-10 09:46:33 | 32 |
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