User:Cidwardo

I have ascended once in 3.6.0 as a Wizard, thanks to this wiki and the advice of people on freenode #nethack. I may have ascended as a Valkyrie in the 1990's, but don't remember the details. Currently I'm experimenting with other roles.

Thoughts for improving Nethack:

Show Weights

Have an option to show weights and sort by weight in inventory, so that instead of the usual Weapons, Armor, Comestibles, etc. order, they would be sorted from whatever category is heaviest, to whatever is lightest. Same thing in your bag. I would want to turn this on temporarily, in-game, when I was burdened, then turn it off again after dropping a cache somewhere.

• Tools #106

 * K - pickaxe #126
 * U - unicorn horn #20
 * t - towel #5
 * k - key #1

• Comestibles #90

 * F - 4 uncursed food rations #80
 * T - tripe ration #10

Auto-Price-Identify

Few things are as tedious as looking up the price of each scroll, wand and potion in a table based on your charisma, version of nethack, etc., then renaming the items in your inventory based on what you discovered. This is something computers do better than people. I'd love to see the game keep track of this information for you so that once you've seen an item in a shop, it will say, "Base price 100" next to the item description or something. You could make this an option to turn on in case people think it's cheating. As someone who played (on and off) for 20 years before ascending, I think it's OK to make this a little easier.

Polypiling

It just isn't very fun picking up every little piece of junk and making 7 huge piles, with groups of less than 5 items, trying to mix up the composition of each file. Having done this a few times now, I will place a bigger premium on accumulating magical armor and tools, so maybe it will get better. Maybe one monster would pick up magical armor around the level and horde it. The same monster or a different one might do the same with magical tools. You could either find and tame these monsters and set them loose on a level. Or wish for their figurines? Blessed figurine of a hoarder/janitor.

Maybe a giant magnet that sucks items from everywhere on a level? It could be heavy. It could cost a charge. Some items could hit you as they flew past.

There are probably other solutions as well.

More multi-tile monsters

It's cool that the long worm takes up multiple squares. It would be neat if other monsters took up 2 or 3 squares as well.