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Joined: Wednesday, 6th June 2012, 18:59
Allow more vaults to place in Zot
Part of the answer might relate to some aspects of vault placement - right now, anywhere that's not D:20-27 has an 83% chance of not placing a main vault (those D levels have successively greater chances of placing such a vault, ending at 100% with D:26-27) and all levels that can place minivaults have a minimum of a 50% chance of not placing a minivault (with some exceptions having to do with purely decorative vaults).
Since Zot is supposed to be climactic, we want it to be memorable, yes? So why not let it place chunks of levels that aren't the bog-standard layout more often, especially when the end of D already does so?
If we really wanted to go all-out, we could have Zot:1-4 place main vaults 100% of the time (Zot:5 already has a 100% vault - the hall of Zot itself!), and possibly increase the probability of minivaults getting generated. Some quick testing on my part suggests that doing so would not generally burden the player too much above and beyond what they normally expect (though the chance of getting a stair vault would, of course, increase as a result of this), but that they will see at least part of a vault or minivault during their trip through Zot - something that should stand out to them.
What do you think - something worth doing or not?