User talk:Bwijn

New year - new challenge! Alive and kicking (errors & mistakes) anew.

Curiosity killed the cat, sent the minotaur to the abyss and made a human a vegan. - Popular Saying

The unbelievable incident of the crawler's week

A) Just a pesky "vamp mosquito" experience of raven tar black developer's viciousness: You can cast Apportation to pull items towards yourself that turn out to be item mimics in the very moment they bite you. I had supposed those were just perfect delusions. But no, they have nearly no weight/mass but a powerful biting. - On the other hand I just stumbled upon a potion of experience lying around at Vault:2. Which one is the more surprising incident? -- Bwijn 18:51, 24 February 2013 (CET)

B) Which sort of mini vault could it be if you encounter on D:16 a gang of 5 humans, a wizard and a necromancer? (Each single might not be a bad challenge.) Have you seen anything like that? -- Bwijn 20:33, 18 March 2013 (CET)

The gang of five humans isn't too uncommon. I'm pretty sure that they can appear in small packs like that naturally. The wizard and necromancer, I'm not so sure about. Were there any unusual structures nearby? --MoogleDan 20:38, 18 March 2013 (CET)

Yeah, a stone walled 8x4 structure (temple?) to the left and a normal rock walled 3x2 fields chamber (treasure? barracks?) to the right. -- Bwijn 20:44, 18 March 2013 (CET)

That's not reminding me of any PARTICULAR vault, but if you have any scrolls of magic mapping lying around, I'd suggest you use one just to see what's inside. --MoogleDan 20:49, 18 March 2013 (CET)

None at hand. By the way the fighting abilities of a band of six humans surpass my SpAK capability to win. -- Bwijn 20:54, 18 March 2013 (CET)

It was just the entry hall to the Vaults staircase. No vault guards but a simple band of "humans" guarding it. And I had never before encountered such a "common" gang. -- Bwijn 10:51, 23 March 2013 (CET)

C) What a shocking scenery: I come around a corner and see the gateway to a bazaar. On three sides there are stone walls. The only entrance is occupied by a silver statue. Damned! No wand of disintegration available because this SpAK despite XL15 never ever found such a wand. If you'd flee the bazaar would be lost. Just by luck a ring of teleport control and a scroll of blinking and another to teleport are investable. So I've found a solution. *grin* -- Bwijn 10:51, 23 March 2013 (CET)

D) It never before was as dangerous as in 0.11.2 to explore Orcish Mines:4. I've met lots of simple orcs who carried axes of distortion. Never in 0.10.3 I saw anything comparable. No, it's not the ever possible one random case, it's sort of a feature to make it "hotter" in the Mines. -- Bwijn 19:02, 27 March 2013 (CET)

Bullshit Minivault

E) What a chasm of maliciousness is this BullshitMinivault I found at D:17. [[Wall]s of green crystal, translucent and normal stone prevent anyone who is not an earth magician (shatter, Lee'S rapid deconstruction) to get the randart double sword inside. Malicious design! -- Bwijn 02:56, 8 April 2013 (CEST)

how to avoid online game aborts?

I've finally done the step to have an account on CDO. Have to try it out, maybe take part on the tournament. Unluckily I've not even found initially the place to config "tiles" session for me and have experienced a series of crashes. Error message: "network error: software caused connection abort". My antivirus and firewall had been both changed to game modus awhile, so that is not the reason. Does the browser intervene? I need it to use the wiki or database. Any *useful* hints to prevent those crashes? -- Bwijn 21:46, 7 April 2013 (CEST)

Are you going to https://tiles.crawl.develz.org/ ? Is it here that you crash? --Flun 02:18, 8 April 2013 (CEST)

I used not openssh but putty, just along the instructions: http://crawl.develz.org/cao_key.ppk (putty) Basic SSH connection to CDO directions for putty: grab the second key mentioned above and putty. On the basic session page, make sure ssh is selected, and put "crawl.develz.org" for the host name (no quotes, of course). The port should default to "22" automatically." It worked. Nevertheless I suspect that a small "gap" undermines the stability. For example, should I write "tiles.crawl.develz.org" instead of "crawl.develz.org"? Of course I'd prefer https but don't know if putty supports it? Being not familiar with putty I was perplex that I could not change putty to fullscreen. Technically correct or error of mine? -- Bwijn 02:36, 8 April 2013 (CEST)