Cocytus Succeeder
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Aut scoring
MarvinPA wrote:tasonir wrote:The reason we don't just switch to aut scoring is that would completely destroy many types of speed running characters from ever being competitive again. Casters as a whole would be nerfed (10 aut casting speed vs 7 aut 2h melee weapons), no one could speed run with Chei anymore (Chei is the #1 god in terms of species high scores, a good enough proxy for "best speedrun god"). It would be extremely problematic and still vulnerable to being gamed in other ways - characters who find that early wand of hasting and then learn the haste spell are suddenly far superior to anyone who didn't...
Haste spell is the only thing there that's anything close to being an actual problem for aut scoring. Aut scoring has been discussed plenty in the past (to resolve the problem of there being two different types of turncount instead of one), as far as I'm aware it could quite feasibly become a thing especially if haste spell should ever have some kind of accident.
Now that haste spell (and wand of hasting) are removed, perhaps one can move to aut scoring? Chei could probably be tweaked so that it halves the "effective auts" for scoring purposes (or something like that).