Re: YASD Oh hello, Fang!



pete mack wrote:
> Wuphon's Reach wrote:
> > Finished my shopping with my newest character, walked down to the first
> > dungeon level. I started to clear the first room (a single yellow
> > centipede) and got all of 3 steps away from the stairs.
> >
> > In comes Fang from a corridor and he proceeds to maul my poor mage
> > before I could get back to the stairs.
> >
> > (sigh)
> >
> > I suspect that character was doomed from the get-go.
>
> I think my next patch to Vanilla is going to be a death-statistics
> package. It will keep track of killer, depth, character level for each
> class.
>
> I expect that about 1/10 of characters die before they ever get
> started. Things like:
>
> You found a trap! --more-- You are engulfed in flames! --more-- you
> die.
>
> I figure I should be good for generating death statistics, since I die
> so damn often.

I would be really interested in this. I estimate that over half my
characters die before 250'. Those who survive the dogs (and, in S,
Feldisham the Unfeasibly Hard For His Depth) tend to at least get to
stat gain. I suspect I have well under 10% making it through stat gain,
which is probably about greed - going for potions which should be left
alone ...

CC

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