Re: Angband's future (was Re: Angband maintainer)

Andrew Sidwell writes:
Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
The one problem I see is with the score, but one could have
"internal XP" as now but display some fraction of that as the "actual
XP" - the score. (Generalizing wizard mode a bit, with actual XP = 0.)

I'm kind of tempted to remove the score, just because it's not a
particularly good measure of anything. Gumby (Joseph William Dixon) has
a change which might make it worth more, but I'd rather make the hall of
fame sortable by level or depth and nuke the score entirely.

Better scoring would definitly be good, but I'm not sure how much hope
there is for that. Angband is too complex, preferred player styles
differ to much, that I can see that any any formula could give a fair
measure of how well one played a game. Until you get good enough to
hope to win, XP is one fairly reasonable measure of survival ability.
Depth can favor people who dive fast and die often. Highher score for
faster (fewer turns) to get a high depth/level/XP/whatever might
diffrentiate between people who regularly win - but would go against
people who simply prefer to play carefully.

--
Regards,
Hallvard
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