User:Tjr
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Statement of bias, ascensions
I specialize in (mostly elven) wizards. Edits will reflect this.
I mostly play on my local machine. Tiles is way more comfortable, especially w.r.t. scrolling through battle spam. Often, I will #quit after it is clear my character can ascend because the mid- to late game is too boring.
2009-07-25: My latest ascension is an atheist, pacifist, weaponless, wishless, genocide-less, polyself-less, neutral human wizard. Elbereth smiled often - over 1600 acts of literacy. Several polymorphed or charmed vampire lords kept me from starving after the initial Sokoban dive and mine town. The starting magic marker allowed me to create silver scale mail and a spellbook of polymorph. Getting able to cast that was not easy - alchemy, a helm of brilliance in a shop, and a handwritten book of knock helped here. In total, I polymorphed 6030 items, most of them attempts to make ordinary armor magical. Finally, a helm of opposite alignment gave me enough alignment to go on the quest. Next, I farmed for an archon in Vlad's tower and fully kitted it out (+7 Excalibur, all possible magical armor, except no cornuthaum for magic cancellation). The rest was easy. I don't think I ever used conflict, I got the ring only right before the ascension run.
Obselete plans
- describe altar work (monster source: create monster, puddings, blocked ki-rin); steps: 1) prepare light, locks, 8xElbereth, boulders, luckstone, Eye, =oShapeChangers 2)preload protection as below, 3) artiwish if at all, 4)artifacts, including HelmoOA ones, 5) prayer cycle for books, HP, uncursing (->polypile fodder, ?oRC), blessing unihorns/weapons, 6) get crowned to unlock some weapon, 7)save and continue another day to avoid YASD because you are nauseated from boredom, 8) never do this again; go atheist but dream of a bot
- 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, mine's end or reverse genocide seem to be reasonable sources. Note this is the only "fast" way to gain back protection (HoOA) after you have been crowned or to pre-load altar work.
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.
Bots and farming
Business 101: Users want an upgrade path, though they rarely use it. Pudding or altar farming offers that in Nethack. Though I wish I had a bot to do it for me ... [[1]]
other
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,...).
Adminship
- You offer the Amulet of Yendor to Wikihack.
- An invisible choir sings, and you are bathed in radiance.
- The voice of ZeroOne booms out: "Congratulations, mortal!"
- "In return to thy service, I grant thee the gift of Adminship!"
- You ascend to the status of Demigod...
—ZeroOne (talk / @) 21:48, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
- Hey, cool, thank you! -Tjr 21:58, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
