Crypt Cleanser
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Joined: Monday, 24th April 2017, 11:46
Tuesday, 4th July 2017, 06:21
Better recognition of dungeon features after mapping
Yesterday I was greeted by a Wizard lab announcement when entering Depths 5. Excitedly, a mapped the level and was informed that 9 shops/portals had been identified, none of which happened to be in my LOS. The map presented itself to me as follows:
(I cleaned up this map a little bit, removing steam/fog and all items, and showing the shops/portals as they presented themselves to me after mapping)
Having nine identically looking things on the map, each of which could be the lab, was rather frustrating. Of course entering the level I first had to overcome some considerable opposition, heal up upstairs, and go down again. I discarded the portal in the west as an obvious entrance to pandemonium, and first headed north-east, because I considered that most promising (in hindsight, that clearly looks like an entrance to hell, which it was). I proceeded south-east. Needless to say, I ran into more opposition, had to burn three scrolls of blinking in a row to get my sorry butt to the eastern staircase, and healed up again. It was clear that I had lost the race for the portal. BTW, it was the western portal I discarded on sight.
All this to say it might be a good idea to show portals somewhat differently from each other when mapping a level. Or to at least have shops coming with a different symbol, as they do when you actually see them. Using a scroll of magic mapping to find a portal and then finding out you know as much as before makes me feel cheated.
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(I cleaned up this map a little bit, removing steam/fog and all items, and showing the shops/portals as they presented themselves to me after mapping)
Having nine identically looking things on the map, each of which could be the lab, was rather frustrating. Of course entering the level I first had to overcome some considerable opposition, heal up upstairs, and go down again. I discarded the portal in the west as an obvious entrance to pandemonium, and first headed north-east, because I considered that most promising (in hindsight, that clearly looks like an entrance to hell, which it was). I proceeded south-east. Needless to say, I ran into more opposition, had to burn three scrolls of blinking in a row to get my sorry butt to the eastern staircase, and healed up again. It was clear that I had lost the race for the portal. BTW, it was the western portal I discarded on sight.
All this to say it might be a good idea to show portals somewhat differently from each other when mapping a level. Or to at least have shops coming with a different symbol, as they do when you actually see them. Using a scroll of magic mapping to find a portal and then finding out you know as much as before makes me feel cheated.
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