MAngband

Hi guys... been a while.

For those of you, (this might include most of you) who doesn't know me, I'm Warrior, a once very active player and member of the MAngband community. I started playing MAngband not many months after it's "birth" and between 1997 and 2003 I put quite a few thousand hours into the game.

I see there's a lot (well, all things are relative) of talk about the lack of players on the servers these days and I find that pretty sad, considering the huge potential of this game.

For my own part I've been caught up in the terrible state of having a life, including work, girlfriends, other hobbies and just cursed adult life in general.

This said I've also played a few other games that has taken up any spare time that I might've had so... I guess its the same for all of us.

Well, I just thought I'd say hi, see if any of the old guys still are out there and maybe we could all dive down to 4000 ft, run around like headless chickens and have ourselves trashed by the Mouth of Sauron  ;D

See you and play you all soon

Warrior

Great to have you back Warrior! Looks like some of the older players are coming back now, so maybe we can get this game started again. I will start playing more once I can get the Internet connection in my dorm working, and I can also talk to Narchan about coming back. Also there are a few former mang players on ToME-net now, so we might be able to get a few of them back. And Bigjuan, maybe you could talk to the rest of the Oregon crew and get them playing again?Anybody hear from Maegdae, Ashi, Sav, Dwarfy, Roseblood, Laoshi, etc., or most importantly Crimson lately? If so, it looks like MAngband could come back to life.
See you in game as soon as possible Warrior, and everybody else who's still playing.
-Avenger

What do you mean "the rest of the Oregon crew?"  It consists of me, Angus, Varguar and Mozze...and since some SERIOUS RL drama went down involving Mozze...I seriously doubt he'll log on again, as he knows Angus and I will prevent him from playing.

Don't ask, it's bad.

But, on the plus side, I'm tryin' to get Angus to get off his dead butt and reconnect his server...so mebbe that'll happen sometime soon.

That was what I meant by the Oregon crew, just you four. I'm not gonna ask what happened with Mozze, because, quite frankly, I don't want to know, but if you can get Angus and his sever back online that would be great.

Bigjuan, Angus, Varguar, Mozze... I take full responsibility for that phrase being used to describe you guys. Sorry. What would you prefer?

Ah, voices from the semi-distant past.  It's odd, but I think I'm right there with some of you - I feel like I'm waiting for the right excuse to play again.

Work got pretty busy for a bit (and has since mellowed). Started playing Angband (man, so much interesting new stuff in it) a bit and, well, yeah - I'm down for some MAngband. I miss GoI

-fink




oh yeah - Crimson is actually suprisingly easy to get in touch with. Just go to his irc server (irc.mangband.org), and ask him whatever. If you keep connected, he will eventually see it and respond. Like, ask a question, go to work, and when you come back home, you'll see his response. It's like ultra-slow IM-ing

Thanks all! Great to be back, I've played a bit now and I'm up to lv 25 or so, gonna have to read up on the spoilers and such before I do much more.

I've also been scumming the forums today, lots of interesting reading - but I found out that the old forum at crud.net appears to be dead.

Anyone know anything about this? It'd be really cool to read it again, outdated and silly of course, but still fun to read.

I googled some of the old guys + mangband and one hit led me to the following info:

/* Option : give (most!) mages a bonus hitpoint / lvl */
     if (cfg_mage_hp_bonus)
           if ((p_ptr->pclass == CLASS_MAGE) && (strcmp(p_ptr->name,"Seth"))) mhp += p_ptr->lev;

plus Berendol's comment:

Somebody named "Seth" was getting excluded from the mage hitpoint bonus. I removed this exclusion and simplified the if.

Just a funny thing to see. Seth was one of the real old timers, started playing about the same time as Conn and I did, spring/summer 97 IIRC.  I still find it pretty damn funny that Alex _DID_ exclude him when he requested it. Looking back, I have to give it to Alex, he was a  good server admin and maintanier.

(we'd see "Seth was killed by a trap" as a lvl 19 human mage almost daily).

Just a funny story.
Play you all soon.

Note: That line from the changelog is for BMAngband only. The exception is still intact in MAngband... along with two others: Strider and Tarik.

Whoa whoa whoa, whats this? Like, I name myself those things and I'm hosed?

Hosed is such a strong word. I prefer "developmentally restricted"...

Pwned is good too.

Hey, this may be a bit of a stretch, but if a number of ye olde guarde roll back, I wonder if we could get a fresh instance started.  I mean, you know, so Angus and Juan can come mop up all the sweet art. Hmm. Yeah, nevermind

-fink

Well see,

There was SUPPOSED to be a new instance and an upgrade to 0.8.0 as soon as someone kinged.. So I did it in like 3 weeks.. unfortunately 0.8.0 wasn't ready (and I assume RL has gotten in the way of it being finished yet) so who knows.  

I'd be up for a server reset though.  As Juan says I may be getting my server back up shortly as I should have some free time on my hands (damn lay-offs) so that may be a possibility for a fresh server too.

- Angus/Jube/Domino/Justice uhh how many of these do I have again?

Yeah, I recall Crim saying that he was going to do an uber reset after the last calamity-caused reset. Now, if memory serves me correctly, I believe he mentioned doing his retune of monster difficulty. I'm still curious what that would be like. I think he said something about being suprised how quickly someone kinged, so he was not ready for us.

Hm, if you put a server up, I'll be torn between mangband.org and yours. Is it wise to dilute things so much with such a small band of players?

-fink

Of course it is.  It's not dilution, each server has it's own things.  Angus's server has some things turned on, like ghost diving, and some other changes (not giving away any secrets there...you'll just have to play around with stuff you'd normally chuck).

Crimson has always encouraged others to compile and run their own servers, from what I remember.