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You could avoid that by adding severe and uncurable weakness (stat depletion) after death, which heals on its own over one hour (as the player gets better and recovers after death). They will still be able to do what you suggest, but it would be pointles, as the player would have no chances of ...

Making signs consistent - some are activated by walking over them, others you need to apply to read. This would involve going through all the maps and is very tedious.

Me too :)

If you want to compile from source on Windows, cygwin "tar -xvzf" will untar the tarballs quite comfortably. Then you can either "./configure && make && make install" from cygwin as cavehippo said. Thsi will generate binaries compiled against Cygwin libraries, so to run it you will need ...

...then levelling up can be made easier (by modifying exp loss settings), and overall the game will stay the same, but there will be a higher feeling of progress.

exp table with about 200 levels, with the first 115 levels roughly the same as they are now would be interesting...

now if we can just get max stats de-hard-coded

...and reduce the natural heal rate to something close to 0, and reduce resistance gains by wearing resistance granting equipment.

This would make the level difference of player-monster a more important factor.


As for dying experience loss, I like ...

IMO it is a good idea to remove rods - they effectively give unlimited mana to the caster. Even the recharging time is defeated by carrying 3 rods.

I was about to say that rods for spells like town portal and dimension door should stay, as they are utility spells and can not really get abused, but ...

At the moment class selection is mostly to chose the face. If class was to be made more important, there would need to be more faces to chose from (a face for each class of each race, and for dragons, for each colour).

One way to make skill development in some skills more difficult for some players ...

A great idea! Additionally this could be automated if the random treasure lists could be made to only have some items come up on specific days.

This could then have impacts for alchemy, where a recipe could say "get a flower gathered on the 2nd friday of a month" or something like that.

If ...

Was it not to do with the native windows thing integtation (when GTK will use the Windows theme used as if it was the GTK theme)?