User:Tjr

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My contributions. Summarized.

Statement of bias

I specialize in (mostly elven) wizards. Edits will reflect this.

Plans

  • describe altar work
  • figure out how to do the protection racket safely. Is it feasible to get level-drained in the Valley of the Dead? Better: get wraith to Mine Town. The wizard quest or reverse genocide seems to be a reasonable choice.

Slashem should be a namespace, but I don't intend to do the necessary politics.

Page views

Are there statistics available on page views? All I have found on the wikia statistics pages regards entire wikis lumped together. I would appreciate some input on that.

Game enjoyment

I think Nethack is like gambling. Most gamblers don't experience bliss, but continue for other reasons.

Ways to make Nethack more fun

Devteam, please unburden me from micromanagement. For example, I would like to press a button "eat", and have the game engrave Elbereth, check the engraving, eat a corpse if I know it is fresh, tin it if I would choke, and give back control. I long for an automation that performs sacrifests for me. My current solution is to consider a wizard ascended if he has the Eye and could pull it off unless atheist. Managing a large stash also belongs into this non-fun category. Polypile conduct is more about keeping the game enjoyable than about challenge.

Where I disagree with the wiki

Wishing for the Eye of the Overworld is a bad idea for a spellcaster. I prefer the three divination spells.

Everybody says a tourist is hard. In my experience, an early-game wizard is hardly easier. Most of the survival techniques apply to both cases (daggers, top priority armor, Elbereth,...).