Angband Borg

There was another unhook associated with defense maneuver 22.  If you see anymore, send me the savefile.

I also began reworking the borg_heal().  Now that potions heal a percent of the damage, the borg needs to be able to appropriately consume potions.  I have the first phase done.  I will be testing the borg and making sure he is healing correctly.  If you find dead borgs because he did not heal when he should have, send me the .map file.  I’m sure there will be several tweaks and corrections to this over the next few months.

I also found that he was casting Word of Destruction too often and I made that a bit more conservative.

The borg was taught to use anti-summon corridors.  He does not dig them; he uses the spells/Ring of Delving/activation of items.  I have been testing it over several days and I think I got all the major problems worked out.  If you find any others, please send the savefile and description of the event.

I added a numeric selection for enchanting items.  The borg can spend thousands of rounds enchanting his equipment up to +15.  Some can argue that it is a waste of time since there is little benefit late in the game.  Others argue, the borg has nothing but time, so let him have every advantage.  There is now an option in borg.txt called borg_enchant_limit.  It defaults to +12.

The borg might mis-calculate the number of safe grids when seeing if he is surrounded.

The borg needed a slight improvement when guessing where walls are.  If he shoots into an unknown grid, he anticipates a pain response from the monster.  If the response is not heard, he assumes there is a wall there blocking the shot.  But it is not that clean and cut.  Sometimes when shooting a missile, there is no pain response on a missed shot.

Vborg was getting stuck in munchkin mode if a stair he wanted was behind a wall.

Updated more archaic activation checks built into borg4.c

Updated how the borg is allow to reset recall depth while at depth 99 and 100.

Added more support for use of Stoneskin mushrooms. Borg will store them for end-game and will use them as a defense maneuver.

If the borg wanted to grab an item from the home, either equipment to be worn or an inventory item, he needed to have at least one empty inventory space (in order to add it to the inventory). That was not always required since an item taken from the home might merge into an existing stack in the inventory. That is now fixed.

A warrior hunting Morgoth was rewarded for carrying a !Res Mana, and !Resist Heat/Cold. Those inventory slots are better spent elsewhere.

Borgs were not taking their stash of !Life with them for the final battle with Morgoth. He had collected about 63 during the game and left them all at home.

Do not carry a ?Recharge or _Teleport to depth 100.

Fixed a problem with the borg not recognizing he was ready to attack Morgoth. He kept ditching level 100.

The Stoneskin mushrooms did not have an ignition message that was being caught.

Dwarf Warrior won the game today.  First winner for me in about 18 months.