Umoria, Known Errors

explain non obvious spells/prayers, many of the priest spells are confusing, really should have a general section on spells explaining the 'G' command, how int/wis and level affects number of spells/prayers, how area effect spells work, centering before casting an area effect spell is very useful and perhaps other stuff about spells/magic
explain the special inventory_items/equipment mode?
explain how misc abilities depend on level, give table of classes versus ability showing the relative gain per level values
mention too-heavy weapons?
says nothing about levels and EXP should mention that level 40 is the highest level that can be reached

black ooze should resist acid, but can't code this because it casts spells and would breathe acid if it were given acid resistance
identifying items by one-digit inscriptions should work for items in equipment list as well as for items in inventory_items
saving and restoring takes a turn, this can be fatal in combat

JEW's old ERRORS list, excluding things fixed by DJG

stores probably should buy items which have been marked {damned} by being worn and then cleared via remove curse, after all they buy unident damned items
creating traps can destroy staircases
chests should create treasure appropriate to the level they were found on, or to the level of the chest, not the level that they are opened on
color MacMoria bugs: the colors dialog box says greed not green
- the help dialog lists the wrong versions
- my address is wrong
when wearing a ring of speed, light should not be used up as fast, the faster you are moving, the more turns it should last - by the same reasoning, stores lockout are broken too, in fact just about anything using time won't work `correctly' when character is sped up
calling put_qio() every turn during running significantly slows it down on slow hosts which are using curses, I believe it was added only for aesthetics, and it probably isn't strictly necessary, could at least surround it with an #ifndef FAST_RUNNING or similar
when thief steals an object, say what was stolen in message when item in backpack is destroyed, indicate what item was destroyed inventory_items does not take a turn
display_scores(), at end of the game, should display top 15 or so scores, and list the current player's score below that if not in the top 15 list, at least, the value of show_player should be false at the end
better, display_scores can put a message line at the bottom like this ( ESC : return to game space : toggle all scores/your scores) and then the player can easily choose which scores to see
the 32767 limit in the recall code for number of monsters killed is too easy to reach, making it unsigned will extend the range to 65535, making it a long would increase program size by 2K, I don't think that this change is worth the extra memory used
monsters should probably not be summoned on top of a rune of protection
could make scorefile code more efficient if I read/write more than one entry at a time
to floorsym?, shouldn't the save.c file change '.' to floorsym and vice versa, just like it already does for wallsym?
remove the hours support for all micros, or else give people the option in the config.h file to remove it
when functions are not used, ifdef out the calls instead of providing dummy functions, to save some space
in stores.c, the comment "Your mother was a troll!" doesn't mean anything if you are a half-troll, change to Ogre?
the ms_misc.c file maps the 'Ins' key, which is the '0' key to 'i', this confuses the hell out of a lot of people, this IS documented, but few people read the documentation
add a turns counter to the higscores entry, and check this when restoring a character, don't score the character if this value is different this prevents someone from playing a character, goofing, saving it while alive, and then going back to the first savefile
haste self is a level 1 potion, and super heroism is level 3, both seem far too low of a level for the potions considering how useful they are, increasing the levels would make them more common deeper in the dungeon restore potions are level 40 are too deep, they are available in the stores, and just aren't that powerful of a potion DJG: haste self is needed at level 1 for early encounters with nasty monsters super heroism could be higher
the sorting code does not work with foodstuffs, problem is that when restore a 5.2.1 character which has unsorted food, the new code may put a food ration at the start instead of merging it with the other unsorted food, thus overflowing the inventory_items size, there are few 5.2.1 characters left anyways, so perhaps this isn't much of a problem anymore
wine/ale should be potions to be quaffed, not foodstuffs to be eaten
^M = ^J when digging, can't really solve well, because of bugs in some version of curses which requires this to be true
perhaps add an option to control the Drop One/Drop All query for multiple stacking items
give warriors a better chance of detecting that ego weapons are magik, but only for ego weapons, not all items
an inscription is lost when two objects are merged, either choose longest, or ask player, try to combine them, at least do something
if you curse a special magic item (HA, RF, etc), it retains its very high value, its cost should be reset to the value in game_objects[index]
if you curse a special cursed object (noise, irritation), it will lose its special cursed ability (two wrongs make a right?!?), this should not happen, instead of clearing ALL flag bits, should only clear the 'good' ones
if wield a torch, and a silver jelly immediately drains it to 1, the program will be confused for one turn thinking that you still have light even though you don't
scoring unfair to humans/warriors/etc, since they have a lower max exp than other player_races/classes, should adjust exp downward by inflationary factors when calculating score? DJG: unnecessary
should reduce stack usage in generate.c
in the stores, should have some way to determine how close one is to getting perfect haggling
replace all of those heavy weapon messages with an automatic inscription, how should this be maintainted, should it change only when wielded, or should it change whenever the players strength changes?
throwing a lot of objects into a pile can cause problems?
make the printing of stuff under monsters an option for those who find it bothersome
make monster movement more intelligent:
- for slow monsters, in movement_rate(), instead of using mod, use (randint(2 - speed) == 1) to make monster movement a little more uncertain for fast monsters, give a little variance to speed, i.e. 66% of time monster moves at speed, 17% of time move at speed+1, 17% of time move at speed-1
- monsters which are about to die should flee if intelligent
- monsters should breathe at player if only separated by a single column
- better spell selection, don't cast teleport_to when standing next to player, etc.
- have monsters with multiple attacks spread the attacks over each turn if moving slower than player, instead of doing nothing one turn, and then attacking multiple times on the next turn
- remember the previous two moves for each intelligent monster, so they can tell which direction they are moving
in get_com(), get_dir(), etc, put -escape- on the msg line if escape key pressed, useful if message doesn't get deleted, but doesn't this always happen?, apparently not on the Atari ST MWC port
rubble can be generated underneath a monster, which should not happen
why call sigsetmask(0)? delete signals() and nosignals() as unnecessary?
killing a shell -1 results in the game disappearing without leaving a save file, what happened?
the save.c code that says "file exists, overwrite?", can this ever be executed?, if so, does it do the right thing?, and also, what happens on EOF? will it go into an infinite loop on EOF?
what exactly does the damned flag mean, should it be on for all except known2 items, or should it be on when an item is known to be cursed?
add ptodam to damage before calling critical_hits
- modify C command to print to dam bonuses modified by weapon, should print both the unmodified bonus, and the modified bonus
- should take about 10 slay dragon arrows to kill AMHD, check this after ptodam code is changed, may need to increase damages from +3?
- also check other ego weapons for play balance, maybe reduce ego multipliers
when rogues list Beginners Majik spell book, spells are listed 'a'-'e', when cast from the spell book, spells are listed 'b'-'f', the spell casting list should also go from 'a'-'e', but this looks hard to fix
allow SPACE to exit from inventory_items commands
no monster, except Balrog, can resist mass polymorph, should I make it more like polymorph?
mass polymorph is much higher level than polymorph, and is useful for dire emergencies, either don't give monsters a saving throw, or make is something like level/(3*MAX_MONS_LEVEL/2) which will make it possible but not certain that the staff will work on AMHD's
should mac port have a separate io.c file?
'headless' monsters should not glare when recovering from a bash
version.inf file should not contain version number/copyright, these should be printed from the variable values
in misc1.c, the pusht code requires search of entire cave structure, this needs to be written more efficiently, perhaps put x,y into Inventory for every object located somewhere in the cave?
eliminate all #if 0 in the code

Changes that can wait...

only let warriors get GREAT hits?
in critical_hits(), change the threshholds to 400-600-800, which will make all melee weapons eligible for great hits, and only let warriors get great hits
since this makes Mage's much worse fighters, swap Sleep II for Lightning Ball (giving a much needed intermediate Ball spell), and Recharge I for Object Dectection (to compensate for Priest's sense surroundings) DJG: object detection isn't very useful
increase the classes of weapons from 3 to 5, i.e. missile, blunt, assassin, melee (two handed weapons, etc., only these can do GREAT hits), and normal. Then modify fighting abilities as follows:
```
           mis   blu   ass   mel   nor
            a)    b)    c)    d)    e)      -- := suck
  Warrior   +     +     +     ++    +       -  := iffy
  Rogue     +     0     ++    -     0       0  := unchanged
  Mage      0     0     0     --    0       +  := improved
  Ranger    ++    0     0     0     0       ++ := hyperb
  Priest    0     +     -     --    0
  Paladin   0     ++    0     0     0
```
the monster memory always prints monster attack types and damage types together, this can lead to strange situations, for example, if a grey mushroom patch releases spores, but does not confuse the player, nothing appears in the monster memory because the player does not know they were confusion spores, but he/she does know that that spores are released
show how many spells player can learn via the 'G' command
add max mana to display in addition to current mana
add inscriptions that apply to a classes of objects, not just a single instance
shouldn't be able to genocide invalid letters; escape out of genocide
have alternative messages to 'dies in a fit of agony', that gets a bit repetitive, and boring
a command to allow writing the monster memory to a file
get sources for nethack/omega, look for any really good ideas, also check to see how the implement Mac compatibility, portability, protection, and other general concepts
treasure.c has an arrow and a bolt out of order (arrow in the rings, and bolt in the amulets)
secret doors are always granite, would be nice to have secrets doors hidden in other types of rock, would make them less obvious when hightlight seams is on, also current scheme gives an advantage while searching since walls displayed as % obviously are not secret doors
MAX_SIGHT is 20, but rooms can be larger than twenty across, that gives strange situation where moving one step away from a monster in a large room can cause it to disappear, either increase MAX_SIGHT to be size of largest possible room size, or else use different MAX_SIGHT values in rooms/corridors/ town level?
instead of printing 'it can hit to attack and hit to attack' print 'it can hit to attack twice' in monster descriptions?
change haggling so that initial price depends on how many good bargains you have had
add key to accept price, instead of forcing player to type in price
when reach perfect haggling, should just give object to player without asking for any prompt, bad idea if someone mistypes a letter
add an option so that player can play with or without haggling, without haggling, give prices that are always, say, 30% above the minimum
add stores commands to buy/sell without haggling, with price say, 20%, less/greater than asking price
improve map command (see nethack), define an array of special characters, one for each type of composite wall, say, and then let end users specify the necessary graphic characters, allow for multiple character graphic sequences
combat in a room should have a chance of waking up sleeping monsters, except that it would not be fair, since monsters can send breath weapons through other monsters, but the player can only attack the nearest monsters
(high level?) monsters should slowly regenerate hit points, esp since the doc states that the Balrog does
note, if leave level and come back, the Balrog is regenerated (sic) with full hit points
every 128 turns, let monsters regenerate 1/64 of their total hit points?
have several different types of Balrog, i.e. a fire breathing one, a cold breathing one, a lightning breathing one, etc.
should be a chance of weapons breaking when try to dig with them? NO, it is too easy to dig with weapon by accident, shouldn't dull them unless there is some way to sharpen them which there currently isn't
can get small groups of rooms which are connected to each other, but not to the rest of the rooms on the level, perhaps check for cycles in tunnel/room graph before trying to build tunnels?
can not use counted commands while bashing a door, because of the paralyzation that sometimes occurs always stops a counted command
allow character building, by allocation of a limited number of stat points, instead of random rerolling??
add another aux inventory_items slot, so that there is one for picks, and one for bows
decrease mithril values, increase gem values, more expensive items in the shops, should be greater difference between prices of low level objects and high level objects, more gold/silver/copper on lower levels, selling high enchanted objects should not be so profitable (good idea here, favorite suggestion for fixing the money problem)
in object_offset(), give 70/71 and 75/76 different codes, shift by 5 (32) everywhere instead of 6 (64), reduce size of identified_objects_size[] from 764 to 932, objects 71 must all have 2 added to subval so that they start at 96, objects 76 must all have 1 added to subval
all variables (including bss) should be initialized before they are used, see the mac sources
add a macro capability
most case statements should use table or if/else instead, table are much faster, both give much smaller code
if have one unidentified object, and sell it to a stores, and it gets identified, and you happen to have some similar stores items, you will get a 'combining' message, even though no combining is really taking place, perhaps adding an extra parameter to identify which indicates whether the item will remain in inventory_items after ident, if it does not remain, then should not give combining message if there is only one of them
many of the constants in constant.h should really be enums instead, this would make the game more maintainable
some fields of Treasure are const and could be deleted
missile weapons should be made more useful, make them stackable after identified if they are identical, increase the benefit of using proper bow/arrow combo, increase +todam, +tohit more than now, perhaps give an advantage here to fighters/paladins/rangers/rogues somehow, don't decrease ptohit so much in inven_throw() (currently reduced by distance)
should recall info be set in breath() for other monsters?
finish monster compiler, write defs for all monsters
should be able to increase digging plusses for weapons??
should be able to increase ring plusses?? this would seriously unbalance the game if allowed
in the stores bargain code, separate the sell good bargains from the purchase good bargains? this is important for store_owners with very high inflate values as it is easy to reach sell final value, but very difficult to reach purchase final value, change from 20 to 10 if do this
change move to take a char-number i.e. '0' instead of a number, i.e. 0
put all prt_ functions into a separate file, put all movement functions in a separate file
define constants for all possible tchars, number-directions, attack-types, last_line = 23, scroll flags, potion flags, etc
would be nice if 10-23 were all wielded objects, i.e. move light 15 outside this range
use scroll bars on the Mac version for showing the rest of the level, L/W, might be confusing since this won't scroll the whole window, only the dungeon view
have multiple windows, one for inventory_items, one resizable/scrollable for dungeon view, etc...
should eliminate need for 70/71 scrolls and 75/76 potions
replace hex flag fields in treasure with constants
should not get message "something rolls under feet" when step on a loose rock /* Hid Obj*/ trap?, also should not get this message when cast create food some people prefer to have these messages though

ideas from Bron Campbell Nelson

potion of boldness should have duration, i.e. should be safe from fear for a little while after quaffing boldness potion (also heroism/super-heroism) the current length values seem a little long, perhaps just improve the characters resistance to fear?
warriors too hard, give them more hitpoints?, lower base-to-hit of other classes?, fix warrior so can withstand one AMHD poison breath attack?
boots of speed are too hard to find, 1/7000 is ring of speed, 1/14000+ is boots of speed, other evidence suggests that boots are about 10 times as rare as rings
items needed for win: see invisible, free action, resist fire, speed, if add black market, don't make it too easy to get these items
black market suggestions:
- staff of teleportation 20000
- staff of speed 100000
- mushroom of restoring 20000
- and perhaps some powerful archery items
heavy armor is useless, does not protect against spells/breate, and reduces from to-hit, reduce penalty for characters with high STR?
new shop: enchantorium, where enchantments can be purchased for a high price, price proportional to how many enchants already there (i.e. enchanting a +9 item costs a fabulous amount, but enchanting a +0 item costs a little more than one enchant armor/weapon scroll), allow enchant to any value, i.e. AC/digging for HA/DF, digging for picks/shovels/etc, etc...
less reasonble suggestions follow...
too many weapon types, the variety is useless
have armor protect by subtracting ac/10 (sic) instead of reducing by %
speed is too important, need smaller time quanta
player_races/classes adjustments should be more meaningful, give races/classes max stat values which are not 18/100
add an autosave option
add more up stairways? currently there are only randint(2) per level, perhaps guarantee that there will be at least 2
warriors should automatically recognize ego weapons
dispel evil/undead are nearly worthless since they do not do much damage for their mana cost, change dispel_creature from mon_take_hit (i, randint(damage)) to mon_take_hit (i, damage)
rune of protection is too powerful, reduce OBJ_RUNE_PROT to 800, maybe 1000, if make this change, should make the spell somewhat easier to cast, say 50% for a level 33 priest DJG: this makes them much less useful against the Balrog
Balrog should not cast cause serious wounds as it does less damage than a normal attack, should not cast slow/paralyze since the player almost certainly will have some form of free action

reincarnate, and lose 1/2 exp?
give enchant scrolls (or perhaps just enchant) a small probability of creating ego weapons
give enchant scrolls a small probability of destroying ego enchantments if they fail to increase pluses
make the number of hits per round probabilistic, i.e. instead of getting 1/2/3/4 hits per round, gives weapons 2.4 hits per round etc, to smoothen the curve
perhaps add option to order monsters differently?
give list of all monsters of that type, and then recall all if type 0, else only recall the one indicated by the number typed in change ident_char() in help.c
have all top level action functions (aim, move, throw, inven_command, etc.) return true if took a turn, otherwise false
add command to show number of turns played, time spent playing, date character started, perhaps even a calendar to give game date '1037 in the Third Age'
enter_store in store2.c calls draw_cave when exiting the stores, it should save the current screen contents away in memory and then restore from that saved screen
if type control-C while resting, sometimes the counter is not cleared, happens often when count less than 10, to fix, should move all I/O code out of signal handler, it should just set a flag and return
should examine_book(), scrolls(), and spells/prayers work when hallucinating?
change player attributes to counters, things like sustain_stat, etc. this would greatly simplify calc_bonuses()
should not be able to stun creates which do not move, and creatures which have no brains
los code used to determine if monsters are visible but not for objects, this leads to strange situations, when room lights up, one can see all objects in the room, but must enter the room before can see then monsters
have the monster generator make a table of undead monster indexes, to simplify summon_undead()
add some unique levels to make it more interesting, mazes, etc.
add a metric option
add diagonal corridors???
add a storage rental shop, so players can save objects until they need them, but must pay for the priviledge, and have to go back to level 0 to retrieve the objects
create a safe haven for the player, where hp regen faster, poison/disease cure faster, and player must be in to win
add amulet of poison resistance, make it a high level item, people would have to take off amulet of the magi to wear it
add another set of gain stat potions, at about 1550 feet, to encourage people to go deeper in search of them
add a bank for saving/borrowing money (I don't like this), would rather make money less plentiful, perhaps make magic items less profitable to sell?
possible AD&D enhancements:
- mages can't wear armor and cast at the same time
- stealth decreases when wearing armor (for thieves)
- priests can't use edged weapons
- spell casting takes time (more than one turn for high level spells?)
- ranger attack bonuses
- paladin's laying on hands and wealth limits
give females better dexterity, and/or better spell casting ability, and/or more stealth
Orcs should always appear in groups?
possible balancing enhancements:
- characters have max stat of 18/50+ initial player_races/classes mod, for example, human mage has max str of 18/50 - 5 = 18.
- increase warrior HP so that a warrior can withstand one breath of any type frlom any dragon
- dex is very important, so everybody should have a chance of getting high dex values
add option to find code so that it can optionally stop before lighting up or entering a room
add otpion to find code so that will enter corridor intersections
Change key-dispatch table in dungeon.c back to ORIGINAL mode.
put shell_out code in OS dependent files, unix.c/msdos.c/etc.
save all levels, problems with the sheer size of doing this, 10K * 50 levels is 500K total
change stats to straight 1-40 range
replace sets.c with an array ~110*16 with a flag for each type of damage faster and smaller than current scheme
add option to loc_symbol so that it can optionally print char to screen, most loc_symbol calls feed directly to print()
the look code uses a different algorithm from the los code, is recursive, hard to understand, has 3 gotos, I would prefer code more like los using the shading ideas of jnh
lose_dex is never called, well, we'd better fix that!
for characters with low dex, should have slight chance of dropping weapon, maybe less for fighters, more for mages and priests, should also trip occassionally when running
acid attacks should lower charisma?
the first nasty invisible monster is the Banshee at 1200 feet, so need to have see invisible items start appearing at about this time, the current balance seems OK to me though
black mold, and shimmering mold have 00000080 CMOVE flag set which has no effect
boots of great mass can be identified by checking the weight display, should eliminate them and replace with some other type of cursed boots suggestion: boots of two left feet, (- to dexterity)
add another field to Monster, treasurep, cloned/multiplyed monsters
- should not have treasure, but if they pick up an object, then
- again let them carry treasure
change randnor from table lookup to 8d99, save 512 bytes for table
remove ASCII dependencies
- many places assume that a-z are consecutive, i.e. 'a'+25 = 'z'
- the hallucination code assumes ascii - randint(95)+31 (misc1.c)
eliminate sscanf calls in ms_misc.c and wizard.c
allow numbers instead of letters in menus, i.e. spell lists, inventory_items/equip lists
don't use num-lock for tunneling in PC version, this is a locking key

characters accumulate too much cash, perhaps do this:

change OBJ_TOWN_LEVEL from 7 to 17, and change place_gold() in misc2.c

  293c293,294
  <   i = ((randint(dun_level+2)+2)/2.0) - 1;
  ---
  > /* NF: Change randint multiplier from (r(d+2)+2)/2 to (r(d+2)+4)/3 */
  >   i = ((randint(dun_level+2)+4)/3.0) - 1;

the fixes above (decrease mithril values ...) are preferable

show time elapsed playing, date character started, and number of turns elapsed
have option to put inventory_items/equipment list on one screen
set a timer, and if the game has been idle for 15 minutes, gracefully save and exit?

new monster suggestions by berman-andrew@yale, because there are no medium difficult monsters before level 40...

 {"Electric Golem", 0x00020002, 0x00080004, 0x1080, 100,  380, 12, 85, 0, 'g', "70d8", "8 1 1d24|8 1 1d24", 35}
 {"Queen Harpy",    0x37120012, 0x00008208, 0x2036, 100, 1200, 20, 80, 2, 'h', "46d8", "1 3 2d6|1 3 2d6|1 2 2d12|3 7 0d0", 35}

new monster suggestions by Don Dodson

Nether Lich: invisible, phases through walls, similar to Emperor Lich in other respects
Archer: fires arrows that do normal damage, or poison, or reduce stat
Wizard: Like a sorceror but more powerful. Casts fireballs, summons all sorts of nasties, blindness, and hold person. Very high saving throw and resistant for fire/frost.
balls should affect player if inside radius, unfortunately, this is not really such a good idea, since the player is often forced to cast to the next space, would be OK if the player can specify any point for the target of the spell
when resting, a player should have a chance of not waking up when a monster enters a room
add wizard command that would create new MORIA_HOU file, since there already is a default def for it, otherwise, make days array bss
for HA weapons, p1 is used for both str increase, and sustain stat
rewrite my own sprintf routine that just takes strings %s and integers %d and nothing else, may be faster/smaller than the library version, or perhaps have a routine which cats 3 strings together, or 2 strings and an int
age characters before killing them of Ripe-Old-Age
these commands which take a dir should not work when confused, closeobject, jamdoor, openobject
monsters need a 'not carry large object' flag in CMOVE, have all chests (type 2), polearms (type 22) and staffs (type 55) be large objects, these should be rerolled if they occur when only small objects allowed, chests should have this bit set, also small creatures should have it set: kobolds, mummified kobolds, greedy little gnomes, scruffy-looking hobbits.
trap names are vague, have two names for each trap, a simple search discloses current vague name, setting it off, or a find/identify trap gives the long name
allow option of making aux files either hard coded paths, or paths relative to the executables directory, could then make the aux files relative, put exe file in same directory as aux files, and start up program with shell script that cds to aux file direcotry, this makes it easy to keep multiply moria versions around
allow rerolling after choose player_races/classes
still too slow on i/o, perhaps rewrite to avoid refresh() calls? perhaps use only motion optimization stuff?
should we call m_name if spell only applies to visible creatures?
when moving on objects, say what character moved onto (like rogue)
for throw command, ask for direction first (like rogue)
should be able to enchant to-hit to-dam of gauntlets of slaying? likewise, enchant toac of HA swords, etc. either should allow enchant of HA sword toac, or else disenchanter bats should not be allowed to reduce it
fix save files to include obj desc, then only need one random number generator which can use table program
give rogues detect treasure and detect objects, also give them a chance to steal objects from monsters
modify 'x' command to show monster hitpoints
replace magic numbers with constants
name objects if use did not identify them
when creature steals and then dies, the stolen item should appear, unless creature has teleported away in the meantime
always add exp to current and max, instead of just increasing max when current exceeds it, this would make attacking undead creatures a little more profitable since you are guaranteed a net gain of exp if you kill it, even if it drains a lot of EXP from you
allow chests to hold items
have a global variable, savefile field to keep track of the number of times a character has been resurrected
should not be able to use a two-handed weapon (two-handed sword, pole arm, bow, crossbow, flail, etc.) at same time as wearing a shield should be able to also choose to wield two weapons, but with a penalty of some sort, probably lowered AC
can't cast in any direction, should be able to, should also be able to cast down at feet (5), should be able to cast area affect spells (balls) at any point, so that the burst will affect any desired area
Long term stuff, enhancement suggestions:
- give player something to do with money, i.e. 1Million gp for HA +10 +10 sword 'flavor' the levels, dragons on one level, undead on another, etc.
- what's been discovered list
- commands not close enough to rogue style
- fixed item lettering in inventory_items, in-line/cmd-line options?
- command line option to print out times open
- Y destroy command, allow destroy from equipment list
- let o, c, D commands automatically pick direction when they can
- give rogue's a chance to steal, e.g. let monsters carry items that they pick up, if rogue fails, then monster gets a free hit, otherwise monster stays asleep, with a small chance of monster waking up
- give magic users a chance at pre identifying scrolls
- could use a help system, like VMS version
- have multiple character parties, note that almost everything character dependent is stored in the py structure already
could reduce the size of the types.h file (and other source files too) if eliminate reduce type specifiers, i.e. int32u cmove;\n int32u spells; could be int32u cmove,\n spells;
add color, i.e. red dragons show up as a red 'D', etc
an inn on the town level, in which you must pay to stay, could be used by those who need to wait to get back into a stores, or who want to wait until a stores's inventory_items changes
when look at monsters, give monster state in addition to monster name, i.e. "You see a sleeping ancient red dragon."
add code to the get_dir() function so that one can optionally specific a hex instead of a direction, i.e. if you enter '.', then program goes into a cursor positioning mode, allowing you to move the cursor to the spot you want to specify
don't like the player_exp_levels values, the increase is not very even, especially in the upper levels
cloak of protection is misleading, it has no special features
need documentation on what each spell/prayer/staff/etc does, this is needed for priestly spells in particular, since these are non obvious also needed for special objects, such as crown of magi
eating elvish waybread for curing can cause a character to become bloated and start moving slower, either decrease food value of ew to 5000, or increase player food limit to 17500, or combination of both, or perhaps change the you are full message, maybe have another message at 7500?, or maybe make elvish waybread immune to the slowing effect
monsters should be more intelligent, should know about corridors so that they don't get stuck in dead ends, or continually retrace their movement
RNG for Moria should have a table shuffle, see Knuth
don't update stores inventories across save, unless the save file is at least, say, an hour old
when monster appears, print its name, may need some work to work reasonably with detect spells

Features:

hero/superhero do not subtract hit points when effect wears off
WOR scroll can save you with minus hit points!!
detect monster does not detect invisible monsters (normally)
can hit monsters in walls, but can not cast at them
can not enchant something with negative numbers (i.e. cursed items)
how does armor protect against breath/gas? it doesn't!!!
missing amulets: strength, constitution, intelligence, dexterity
missing rings: gain wisdom, gain charisma note that missing rings/amulets are disjoint
missing detect monster potion (feature!)
missing blank scrolls (feature!)
missing staff genocide (feature!)
missing staff mass_genocide (feature!)

D&D Inconsistencies, most of these should not be fixed since that would unbalance the game:

priests should not need light for prayers
magic missile should do 1d4+1 per level
detect invisible should last 5 rounds, instead of 1
stinking cloud should be renamed cloudkill
fireball does 1d6 per level, should destroy all paper/wood and melt metal
lightning does 1d6 per level
hold monster 1 round per level of caster
phase door by touching a wall, and end up on other side of the wall
light spells should be mobile
heroism should not work when over level 11, superheroism should not work when over level 14
rings can not be used cummulatively, rings or prot have no effect if wearing armor
Flame Tongue, +3 versus cold creatures and avian, +4 vs undead
Holy Avenger, +50% on all saving throws

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Umoria, Known Errors

JEW's old ERRORS list, excluding things fixed by DJG

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ideas from Bron Campbell Nelson

new monster suggestions by Don Dodson

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D&D Inconsistencies, most of these should not be fixed since that would unbalance the game:

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Umoria, Known Errors

JEW's old ERRORS list, excluding things fixed by DJG

Changes that can wait...

ideas from Bron Campbell Nelson

new monster suggestions by Don Dodson

Features:

D&D Inconsistencies, most of these should not be fixed since that would unbalance the game: