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August 21, 2008,\u00a0Implemented changes recommended on the Forum.
\n1) \u00a0Genociding Nasties will begin earlier (depth 25 instead
\nof depth 50). \u00a0Loosened the restrictions slightly. \u00a02) Added
\nnew borg command ‘C’ which will log the current Nasty Count.
\nNasties are monsters that the borg would rather not fight.
\nHe genocides them if they get too numerous on a level. \u00a0By
\ndefault, the nasties are monsters with the following tokens: ZAVULWD.
\nThe borg keeps count of these monsters and when they reach a
\ncertain number on the depth, he will use Genocide to thin them out.
\nCounts are 20, 20, and 10 for the others. \u00a0I dont think the
\ncount is configured in Borg.txt but it could easily be made to do so.
\nBy default, at the beginning of every level, he automatically
\nassumes there are 25 hounds, and will Genocide Z as soon as he can.
\nAs mentioned above, he did not do this until depth 50 but will
\nnow start earlier. \u00a0The borg has been genociding hounds at the
\nbeginning of each level for years (he began doing it November 2002).<\/p>\n

August 20, 2008, 1) Improvements to light handles. \u00a0The borg
\nincorrectly thought that Lanterns of Brightness caused him to glow
\n(being a permanent light source) \u00a02) For years, the borg has been
\nable navigate the dungeon if he runs out of light. \u00a0He has been
\nable to cast Call Light if he found himself on a glowing grid, which
\nwould help him illuminate the halls, every few steps, as he moved
\nthrough them. \u00a0Of course, he could not cast the Call Light spell
\nunless he were on a glowing grid. \u00a0I just added a feature which
\nwill allow him to use his remaining few turns of light to Call Light so
\nhe had a glowing grid to start on. \u00a0The major drag with this
\nLight-as-you-go technique is that it uses a lot of food due to all the
\nresting to regain mana. \u00a0So he will only do it if he has food to
\nspare. \u00a0Running out of light is still a very dangerous position
\nfor the borg. \u00a0He might survive the ascent while dark, but its
\nreally risky.<\/p>\n

August 19, 2008, 1) The borg will be a bit more
\nflexible in following out-of-sight monsters which are moving and will
\ntry to avoid creating a new\u00a0monster index for the same monster.
\n2) Borg will attempt to rest on a single grid to avoid the
\nsituation wherein the borg is two grids away from a monster and when
\nthe borg moves 1 grid to close the distance, the monster gets a free
\nhit on the borg. \u00a0This is a bit tricky to do correctly; several
\nthings are involved including the borg-monster speed differential.<\/p>\n

August
\n18, 2008, 1) Repairs to the borg targetting PASS_WALL
\nmonsters who sit in a wall. \u00a02) The spell Detect Invis is no
\nlonger a timed event. \u00a0The borg needed to be told so. \u00a0Was
\nthis game change listed in any change log? \u00a0This type of spell
\nchange is important for the borg and I am surprised I didn’t catch it
\nin a log. 3) Improvements to how the borg uses wands:\u00a0 he will be
\nmore careful about wasting charges and hold onto certain wands (MM,
\nStinking Cloud). \u00a04) Low level borgs tend to waste a lot of ?WoR
\nwhile on depth 1 avoiding Scaryguys. \u00a0The borg will be allowed to
\nuse the borg_desperate functions to find stairs.<\/p>\n

August 11, 2008, 1) The distribution files did not seem to
\nwork on computers that did not have M$ Visual Studio 2008 installed.
\nThere is a well known issue with VS2008, producing executable
\nfiles requiring a special non-default dll to be installed on the target
\nmachine. \u00a0I have modified the solution to link directly to the
\nneeded parts of the dll. 2) Borg will cast the Detection type spells a
\nbit less frequently. \u00a0This will help the low level guys save some
\nmana and keep him from the rest-regain mana-cast spell-rest again-loop.
\n3) borg wills reset their flow and movement goals after
\nstrategically backing away from a monster. \u00a0This will force him to
\nreevaluate the danger and value of the grids. \u00a04) The borg will be
\nless likely to rest to mana recoop right after casting certain
\nprepatory\/defence spells.<\/p>\n

August 8, 2008, 1) The problem with the borg not buying
\ntorches to refuel his\u00a0Torch is Brightness is solved.<\/p>\n

August
\n7, 2008, 1) Some changes to the game code when upgrading from
\nA to B\u00a0modified the store purchasing keys. \u00a0These
\nchanges are
\nnow addressed in this borg. \u00a0So that basically means that this
\nrelease will not work on 309a due to the shopping changes. \u00a0If
\nyou
\nreally want to, you can get this source code to work by editing borg1.c
\nat line 454. \u00a0It is commented for you. \u00a0If you
\nattempt to use
\nany prior borg on 309b, there will be some serious problems with
\npurchasing wares from the store and shops. \u00a02) The borg is
\nhaving
\nsome goofy issues relating to buying torches and running out of light.
\nThis is a new weirdness. \u00a0I have only seen him do it
\nwith
\nTorches of Brightness. \u00a0I strongly suspect he is not buying
\nnormal
\ntorches to refuel the Brightness torch due to a problem with him
\nthinking the new torch will replace the Brightness one, giving him less
\npower. \u00a0I will track it down and fix it in the next days.<\/p>\n

August 6, 2008, 1) Updated a potential crash related to the
\nborg
\nbeing very near the edge of the dungeon border and having a large light
\nradius. \u00a02) Corrected how the borg was calculating light
\nradius
\nfrom artifacts. \u00a0This did\u00a0cause bad behavior related
\nto using
\nLight Beam to illuminate hallways for locating unseen monsters. 3)
\nImproved how the borg will illuminate hallways looking for
\nunseen
\nmonsters. \u00a0Unseen monsters are those who hide in the dark and
\nuse
\nranged attacks. \u00a0The borg is aware of these attacks and
\nattempts
\nto light up the hallways to reveal the monster in order to ID it and
\ncalculate an attack strategy.<\/p>\n

August 5, 2008, Updated the webpage. \u00a0Updated the
\nZborg.
\nIt had been about 4 years since I looked at that code.
\nI
\ngot it up and running under VS2008. \u00a0Fixed a crash error.<\/p>\n

March 1, 2008, 1) The borg could miscalculate the benefit of
\nusing Teleport Other if he were fighting only a single guy.<\/p>\n

February 27, 2008, 1) Updated the 309 borg. \u00a0If the
\noption to
\nremember torch-lit grids was on, then the borg believed that those
\ngrids were glowing grids and would get stuck \u00a0if he ran out of
\ntorch\/lantern light. \u00a0 This lead to a few starvation deaths.
\nIt’s now corrected, that option can be set either way.<\/p>\n

February 20, 2008, Major fixes today. \u00a01) When the
\nborg was
\nrespawning (rerolling a
\ncharacter after one dies) the startup equipment included torches with 0
\nturns. \u00a0Prior to 309, the Pval of the torch determined the
\nturns
\nof light remaining. \u00a0In 309, it is the Timeout. \u00a0This
\nis now
\ncorrected. \u00a02) Significantly improved how the borg calculates
\ndamage to and fear of compromised (sleeping, confused, slow) monsters.
\nThis will allow him to use the wands of slow\/sleep, etc.
\nPreviously, he would very rarely use those things eventhough
\nhe
\nknew how. \u00a03) \u00a0Removed some old 3.0.5 references to
\nclean the
\ncode. \u00a04) \u00a0Improved how the borg will use the defence
\nand
\nperma maneuvers for Bless. \u00a0This made a huge improvement for
\nhis
\nmana in the very early game. \u00a05) \u00a0Improved how very
\nlow level
\nborgs will explore the dungeon and stay close to the stairs.
\nPreviously, he would return to town after a short exploration
\nof
\nthe dungeon (usually just one hallway). \u00a0The problem is the
\ntown
\nis a very dangerous place with no exp reward for that risk exposure.
\nHe will now return to town less frequently and explore the
\ndungeon a little more efficiently while still staying close to the
\nstairs. \u00a0Staying next to the stairs is a good idea so he can
\nmake
\na prompt escape from Grip\/Fang\/Jackals, etc. \u00a0Basically he
\nwill
\nexplore more than just one hall.\u00a0 6) \u00a0The borg will
\nnow clear
\nhis flow codes when a monster changes his sleep state. \u00a0This
\nwill
\nallow him to abort his flee attempts and attack a monster which has
\njust been put to sleep.<\/p>\n

February 19th, 2008, 1) Because the General Store no longer
\nbuys
\ntorches or cloaks, the borg is filling his inventory with them.
\nThe torches are useful, but the way he was sorting them, he
\nprefered higher pvalue torches (3000 turns) over used ones (~500 turns)
\nand would refuel his torch with the higher pval ones. \u00a0I
\ncorrected
\nhow he sorts for them and will now prefere the shorter stacks over
\nhigher pval. \u00a0This will keep him from filling up his inventory
\nwith a bunch of used torches. \u00a02) \u00a0I will sell cloaks
\nto the
\nBlack Market for the same reason as above. \u00a03) added a
\nborg_verbose flag to borg.txt which will cut back on how many reports
\nare sent to the log. (Cuts back on all the parsing messages making the
\nlog much easier for noobs to read.)<\/p>\n

February 17th, 2008, 1) Slight tweak on strategic Backing Up,
\nwhich
\nwill allow the borg to step back into a hall or other safe place to
\navoid being surrounded and such. \u00a0The restrictions were
\nloosened
\nso the borg will be more likely to do this.<\/p>\n

February 16th 2008, 1) Bless is more likely to be cast for low
\nlevel
\nguys. \u00a02) If fleeing the level from a scaryguy and a monster
\nis
\nadjacent, he will attempt to attack that guy. \u00a0He keeps dying
\nto
\nbats and really easy guys. \u00a03) Some improvements to the
\ncritical
\nPhase Door attempts. \u00a0Borgs with several ?PD would rather
\nfight in
\na suicide fight rather than even attempt the phase.<\/p>\n

February 9th, 2008, 1) Slight correction to how the borg store
\nthe
\narray of runes of protection. \u00a02) the borg will no longer cast
\nRune of Protection (Glyph) in anti-summon corridors. \u00a0He was
\nusing
\ntoo much mana doing this. \u00a03) Another slight fix to the 309
\nborg.
\nDecember 14, 2007, 1) Had to repair the 309 borg. \u00a0It
\nis still not perfect but it does run. \u00a0There was an issue with
\nTorches of Brightness and the borg thinking that he was glowing.<\/p>\n

October 26, 2007 1) I have been working daily on the 3.0.9
\nversion
\nborg. \u00a0There have been quite a few issues to address.
\nThe
\nborg is running and is mostly stable. \u00a0I find little bugs
\nevery
\nfew days. \u00a0Today, I found that the message for failed glyph
\ncreation changed. \u00a0So I had to make that correction.
\nLittle
\nthings like that pop up. \u00a0It is stable enough to send out for
\nbeta
\nwork. \u00a0I find some unhooks after shopping. \u00a0You can
\nfind a
\ncopy of the borg source code and the necessary game code changes here<\/a>.
\nI am pretty sure I included all the game files that were
\naltered.
\nIf the borg won’t compile, drop me a line so I can fix that
\nzip
\nfile. \u00a0 \u00a02) I added some better handling for *Heal*
\nand Life
\npotions. \u00a0He will be more careful about storing potions in the
\nhome rather than carrying them around and running the risk of getting
\nthem shattered by cold attacks. \u00a03) Correction to how the borg
\ndeals with a glyph creation in an anti-summoning corridor. \u00a04)
\nSome work on getting the borg to run under a big screen (wider than 80
\ncolumns).<\/p>\n

Sept 28, 2007, 1) Corrected a bug which could cause the game
\nto
\ncrash while fighting Morgoth. 2) \u00a0The mage spell of Rift
\nneeded to
\nbe defined as a beam, had been a bolt. 3) \u00a0Shooting into grids
\nthat contained the borg_invis feature need some corrections for
\npass_wall ghosts. \u00a04) Placing a possible wall under a
\npass_wall
\nghost if the borg shoots and misses a pain response. \u00a05)
\nLeave_level() has some changes to make him want to stay on
\nlevel
\n100 longer. \u00a06) \u00a0Minor repair to how the borg will
\nrest if he
\nis in a sea of runes waiting for Morgoth. \u00a07) \u00a0The
\nborg’s
\nself-defined money scumming limit is now 85k. \u00a0I have a
\nmachine
\nwith him scumming to get $334,000. \u00a0He has been there for 2
\nweeks
\nalready. \u00a08) Rewrite to the banish nasties defence routine in
\nborg6.c. \u00a0This routine will count the number of certain
\nmonsters
\nand bast Banishment on them if they get too numerous on a level.
\nI modified it to make it much easier to expand the list and
\nmodify its usage. 9) \u00a0Mass Banishment scrolls are collected
\nand
\nstored in the home better. \u00a010) Interestingly, the borg was
\ndoing
\nsome interesting behavior. \u00a0He would stay on\u00a0depth
\n99,
\ncollecting *Heal* potions, as expected, and storing some in his home.
\nAs soon as his *Heal* potion goal is met (adding the personal
\nsupply and home supply), he would dive to 100. \u00a0The problem
\nis, he
\nwould dive right then, instead of returning to his home and gathering
\nup all his stored items. \u00a0He will now return home first, to
\ngather
\nhis gear before driving. \u00a0There were a few changes to the
\nborg.txt, so its a good idea to replace yours (or set the Dynamic Calcs
\noff).<\/p>\n

Sept 21, 2007, 1) There had been a very elusive bug were the
\nborg at
\ndepth 99 would literally get naked in the dungeon, taking off all his
\nstuff and throwing it on the ground. \u00a0He would usually pick it
\nback up again, but not always. \u00a0He would sometimes trade out
\nhis
\nnice gear (like Ringil) for an {excellent} weapon. \u00a0I have
\nseen
\nthe borg after this event but never caught him in the act. \u00a0I
\nreceived a savefile with this behavior in full swing. \u00a0With
\nthe
\nhelp of the savefile, I think I was able to identify and correct the
\nerror.<\/p>\n

Sept 20, 2007, 1) Repaired a potential \u00a0bug in how
\nthe borg
\ntracks the glyphs. \u00a0It was causing crashes in some battles
\nwith
\nMorgoth. \u00a02) \u00a0Major improvement in anti equipment
\nloops.
\nThere had been a persistant 3-way armor bug with Belegonnon,
\nThalkettoth, and Isildur. \u00a0I now have the borg tracking the
\nartifacts he wears and will forbid him from rewearing an artifact which
\nhad recently been removed. \u00a0This will not effect the swapping
\nof
\narmor or weapons from the Swap routine which is designed to help him
\nwear a backup item. \u00a0You will still see him swap a tiny bit
\nwith
\nrespect to the Best Combo routine.<\/p>\n

Sept 19, 2007, 1) Repaired a swapping loop at the house.
\nThis
\none involved swapping staves. \u00a0He still loops a little but not
\nnearly as much. \u00a0I fear this change may adversely impact his
\nfood
\npurchase ability. \u00a0Keep an eye out for an increase in
\nstarvations.
\nThis repair will significantly improve his turn count.
\nHe
\nwould previously flee town in a swap loop. \u00a0That flee would
\ntake
\nhim to depth 1 for a while then return to town and swap again.
\nThis will help reduce the time on depth 1. \u00a02)
\nMade a
\nmajor bug fix on the money scumming for the botg. \u00a0He kept
\nbuying
\nstuff instead of saving all his money for the scum item. \u00a0This
\nshould help reduce the number of rounds he spends scumming.<\/p>\n

April 9, 2007, 1) Borg will no longer attempt those emergency
\nteleport spells if clevel >10. \u00a02) Borg will have an
\nextra
\ncheck on using the EZ_Heal potions. \u00a03) There is still one
\nmore
\n3-way armor swap that needs to be fixed. \u00a0I have a save file
\ndemonstrating the bug. \u00a0I will work on it over the next week.
\n4) A few winners were submitted.<\/p>\n

April 8, 2007, 1) More improvements to the borg resting to
\nrecover
\nhis mana points. \u00a02) Another repair to equipment swaps.
\nThe
\nmost likely 3-way armor swaps include Rohirrim. \u00a03)
\nImprovement to
\nthe use of Sanctuary spell. \u00a04) Improvement to use of
\nmissile\/ball<\/p>\n

attacks to Pass Wall monsters while they are in a wall (Dreads, etc) 5)
\nOffset attacks that only do 1 damage are less likely.
\n6)
\nSome monsters have immunities which, in the game, reduce the damage by
\n90%. \u00a0The borg would previously make this exact calculation
\nwhich
\noften permitted the borg to use an expensive spell and only do 10%
\ndamage. \u00a0The damage is now reduced to zero which should save
\nhim
\nsome mana. \u00a0This was often seen as the borg using offset
\nattacks
\n(usually poison ball) on a never_move monster. \u00a0While the borg
\nrested to regain his mana, the monster would typically heal up.
\nIf any of this behavior is seen following this update, send
\nme
\nthe savefile while the borg is doing it.<\/p>\n

Feb 23, 2007.\u00a01) Borg will be slightly more likely to
\nrest to
\nrecover his HP\/SP.\u00a02) Borg will reset his recall depth a
\nlittle
\nmore often especially if he is slightly out of depth \u00a0(maximal
\ndepth is about 5 deeper than what he is prepared to
\nhandle).\u00a03)
\nBorg will be slightly more likely to quaff his !Speed if fighting
\ncertain annoying uniques (Wormtongue, Orc Uniques, Bullroarer)<\/p>\n

Feb 11, 2007, 1) Repaired some of the Staff Buy-Sell loops.
\nThese were introduced when staves stacked. \u00a02) Money
\nScumming seemed to double up some times. \u00a0Meaning, after he
\nscummed for the 20k to get the stat potion, he would purchase the
\npotion then continue to scum another 20k. \u00a0This is now
\nrepaired.<\/p>\n

October 7, 2006, 1) Borg was having problems counting charges
\nin his staff stacks.<\/p>\n

July 15, 2006, 1) Sometimes the borg would cast Create Door in
\ntown
\nwhich could leave him trapped in the ring of doors and he did not
\nunderstand how to open them. \u00a0That is now repaired.<\/p>\n

July 11, 2006, 1) Found and corrected one source of
\nshop-loops. If
\nthe borg was in rough shape upon returning from the dungeon, he might
\ndecide to buy something and sell something in the same turn.<\/p>\n

July 8, 2006, 1) Some fine tuning to the sea of runes
\ntechnique. 2)
\nDo not use Teleport Level Defence maneuver if Morgoth is on the level.
\n3) Log the reason why the borg is looking for up-stairs. 4) I used a
\nsavefile of a mage at depth 100 to kill Morgoth about 10 times. There
\nwere only a few instances were he was getting whipped. I will try to
\nresolve those this month.<\/p>\n

July 6, 2006, 1) Some borgs (Paladins and Priests with < 650 HP
\nand valid Heal spells) were trying to Questor Combat Heal while in
\ntown. 2) Borg Perma skills need not be cast in shallow depths, nor
\nshould the high level borgs need to Lunal (stair) scum while shallow.
\n3) Borg.txt is updated to set the borg_self_lunal = FALSE. Self_lunal
\nmode was actually taking more turns to dive than looking for the stairs.<\/p>\n

June 28, 2006, 1) I think I fixed that crash issue with low level borgs
\nin the dungeon.<\/p>\n

April 24, 2006, 1) It was possible for the borg to unhook on
\nlevel
\n100 if he ran out of mana while making a sea of runes. 2) The borg
\nneeded to not do his Restock() checks while in town.<\/p>\n

February 17, 2006, 1) Seasoned borgs (clevel 10) were dying on
\nlevel
\n1 while trying to escape a ‘scary guy level.’ They would choose to not
\nfight on the race to the stairs, and take hits from faster monsters. So
\nnow, if the borg is clevel >= depth*4, he will stand and fight.
\n2)
\nBorg needed to be more open to the idea of using the using the
\nDestruction staves.<\/p>\n

February 12, 2006, 1) Borg needed a backup method to see if he
\nwas
\nstanding on stairs, so that he could use them to escape better. There
\nwere some cases of ‘flowing to stairs 0’ which means stair was under
\nhim, but he was not able to use. 2) ‘Desperate for Stairs 3’ allowed a
\nlow level borg in danger to continue moving to stairs instead of
\nturning to fight. The borg was being too risky and dying. 3) Slight
\ntweak on danger-escape thresholds to make the borg a bit more timid.<\/p>\n

Apr 7, 2004 1) Some borgs were being punished if they got ESP and had the
\nDetect Evil spell. This would have them avoid wearing anything with ESP power.
\n2) Apr 1, 1) Previously the borg would reset his goals when ever a monster or
\nobject moved. This is identified by the message ‘Tracking a monster from
\n(y1,x1 to y2,x2)’ Once his goal was reset, he would choose another. It would
\ninduce bouncing in some spots. I have told the borg not to reset his goals if a
\nmonster moves unless he is flowing to a monster. Same for objects. This will
\nnot cause problems with monsters that are LOS. Pretty much only those seen with
\nESP. 2) Borgs with Regeneration without Slow Metabolism have a greater reward
\nfor carrying food. Should help the 1\/2 trolls. This reward has been in place
\nfor a long time, but I doubled the value from what it used to be.<\/p>\n

Mar 30, 1) Working copy of borg 304 is ready. Several changes needed to be
\nmade to attack routines, and especially how staff\/wands are treated. There had
\nbeen some crashes earlier when trying to buy Staff of Teleportation. Keep an
\neye on stuff and report the errors.<\/p>\n

Mar 28, 1) Borg will no longer inscribe food with cool names (until the
\nQuark issue is resolved). 2) The borg tries to conserve ammo and mana by not
\nusing ranged attacks against certain types of weak monsters. There is a list of
\nmonster attributes which will allow the borg to use ranged attacks. I added the
\nRBE_EAT_GOLD to that list. 3) Better protection against pickpockets including
\nchecking DEX and using PFE.<\/p>\n

Mar 24, 1) Borg was not moving to depth 99 because Sauron was still alive.
\nAs you might guess, that could seriously impair the borgs long term goals. 2)
\nBorg could deposit too many food items in the home. 3) Borg can still (rarely)
\noverflow when hallucinating. So he is taking steps to delete objects and
\nmonsters while hallucinating. 4) Borg was walking around with 1 ring on loose
\nfinger and none on the tight one. This setup would not allow him to consider
\nplacing a ring on the tight hand.<\/p>\n

Mar 18, 2004 1) Borg thought he was penalized for having light radius 4, so
\nhe would not use Light Radius items (like Sting). That is now corrected, I
\nthink. 2) Borg will now reset his recall depth if certain conditions are right.
\nThis will help him if he has max-depth of 90 and loses his ESP item forcing his
\nprep depth to be about 55. And stuff like that.<\/p>\n

Mar 11, 1) The recent problems with the lanterns were related to fuels and
\nnot necessarily with the choice of lantern or torch. I got them worked over
\nagain. Try this version.<\/p>\n

Mar 8, 1) Still messed up. I should really work on the borg when I am awake.
\nThe borg was not replacing torches with lanterns. Replace the borg.txt entries:<\/p>\n

# Light bonuses<\/p>\n

POWER_CLASS999_DEPTH000_RANGE000TO000_CURLITE=-3000<\/p>\n

POWER_CLASS999_DEPTH000_RANGE001TO001_CURLITE=500000<\/p>\n

POWER_CLASS999_DEPTH000_RANGE002TO002_CURLITE=550000<\/p>\n

POWER_CLASS999_DEPTH000_RANGE003TO099_CURLITE=580000<\/p>\n

Mar 6, 1) Typo in borg.txt kept the torch problem in the game. Replace the
\nborg.txt entries:<\/p>\n

# Light bonuses<\/p>\n

POWER_CLASS999_DEPTH000_RANGE000TO000_CURLITE=-3000<\/p>\n

POWER_CLASS999_DEPTH000_RANGE001TO002_CURLITE=500000<\/p>\n

POWER_CLASS999_DEPTH000_RANGE003TO099_CURLITE=550000<\/p>\n

Mar 4, 1) Sorry I screwed up the Level 1 guys with the lights. I did not
\ntest the changes from 2 weeks ago with the low level guys. Borgs will now use
\ntorches and lanterns correctly.<\/p>\n

Feb 17, 1) Smoothed out the problem with borgs swapping light radius stuff.<\/p>\n

Feb 11, 1) Another modification to the borg_no_deeper: it uses
\nborg_prepared()<\/p>\n

Feb 10, 1) Borg was unhooking, and I needed to implement a new borg.txt
\nvariable (borg_no_deeper) which will allow the borg to continue to play but he
\nwill not dive deeper than the depth listed. The default of this number is 127.
\n2) Fixed the problem with overvalueing the items that increase lite radius.<\/p>\n

Feb 9, 1) Minor repairs update, no big deal.<\/p>\n

Jan 29, 1) Another fix on that ring swap-loop. I think this will be fully
\ncorrected now.<\/p>\n

Jan 19, 1) The ring swap deal over the past few weeks was missing the unique
\nrings, so I had to add support for them. 2) Some very goofy equipment choice
\nwere happening in deep (> 98) dungeon. Fixed them by removing the
\n‘SoandSoUnique is still alive’ checks. Since the borg was not keeping track of
\n>3 uniques after clevel 50, he does not need to check for living uniques
\nbefore diving to 100.<\/p>\n

Jan 14, 1) Corrected a very old restock bug. The borg looks at restock needs
\nwith a great degree of urgency. If he needs to restock on an item, he knows to
\nleave that level immediately and return to town. For a long time, the borg
\ntriggered the rs_recall if the number of recall items was less than 1. See any
\nproblems with that? How can he recall to town if he has < 1 recall item?
\nThat rs_recall was moved to depth 10 and made < 2. The problem (and many
\nborg deaths) is when the borg has 1 recall scroll in the dungeon and he is hit
\nwith a firebolt, burns the scroll, and he is left screwed.<\/p>\n

Jan 13, 1) Mage borgs were doing some Defence maneuvers before doing the
\nHealing. He needed to Heal up first if poisoned, bleeding, or confused.<\/p>\n

Jan 12, 1) Destruction allowed if fighting too many uniques at same time. 2)
\nIncreased bravery a lot if the borg is out of food. 3) When considering the
\nlanding zone on teleport, unknown grids were considered off limits but will now
\nbe ok to land on.<\/p>\n

Jan 11, 1) Sometimes the borg tried to take off cursed rings when they were
\nstill cursed. Fixed it.<\/p>\n

Jan 9, 1) Some swap loops were happening with rings. Made those fixes.<\/p>\n

Jan 1, 2004, 1) Priest spell of Banishment needed some fixes. 2) If scaryguy
\non level, borg will try to use a Speed item. 3) There was only place where the
\nborg was denied from taking downstairs if he was out of food. This needed to be
\ncorrected to match the other checks.<\/p>\n

Dec 30,2003, 1) Increased the penalty for using broken swords as weapons.<\/p>\n

Dec 29, 1) The borg was getting credit for ateleportlvl if the spell was
\n_legal_fail() instead of _okay_fail(). This was having the borg believe that he
\nhad a form of teleport and kept him from returning to town to restock.<\/p>\n

Dec 27, 1) Defence use of elemental rings needed to be able target
\nsomething.<\/p>\n

Dec 26, 1) Borgs with good HP and a Bless\/Hero\/Berserk engaged was not
\nresting to restore depleted Mana. The borg will now rest to restore that mana
\nif it is less that 1\/3 the max Mana. Some control measures are in place to keep
\nhim from casting-resting-casting while around clevel 20. 2) the borg_status
\nscreen needed a fix. The slay dragon and exterminate demons was not showing up
\ncorrectly.<\/p>\n

Dec 24, for some strange region, the rangers were unhooking if the Rfire
\nspell would leave his mana under 22 (reserve mana). The borg was incorrectly
\npassing the spell_okay_fail(). It may be related to a variable tromp. After a
\ncouple quick checks and recompiling the error seems gone. Let me know if it
\nreturns.<\/p>\n

Dec 23, 1) Mages are more likely to teleport out of a mildly dangerous room
\nif getting low on mana. And along that same vein, the reserve mana for mages
\nwas improved slightly. 2) The elemental rings will be included for attacks, and
\ndefence manuevers.<\/p>\n

Dec 19, 1) Repaired a potential bug with 3-way ring swapping. 2) Repaired
\nand improved the Banishment defence maneuver. The borg will scan the monsters
\nand if there is a race that contributes a lot of danger to the level, but not
\nnecessarily immediate threat, he will consider nuking them.<\/p>\n

Dec 18, 1) the borg_quaff_crit() needed a fix, as did the quaffing of cure
\ncrits while confused.<\/p>\n

Dec 16, 1) If the borg has perfect saves, rdark, and rlight, then it can
\nqualify for Rblindness. 2) Mage borgs will count and banish Wights if they get
\ntoo numerous.<\/p>\n

Dec 14, 1) The artifacts which grant Teleport and Phase will give only 1
\ninstead of 1000 like the other spells. 2) the curse Aggrevation will be feared
\nmore except for Mages. 3) Repaired a typo in some flowing stuff relating food. This
\nmight have contributed to some starvation deaths.<\/p>\n

Dec 10, 1) In borg_escape(), Teleport Level scrolls will be used before the
\nrisky staff of Teleportation. 2) The act_mana_bolt gloves are now considered in
\nthe attack types.<\/p>\n

Dec 8, 1) Borg shopping in the BM needed some fixes, including buying Rods
\nof Illumination if the borg does not have have source of Call Light. 2) Borg
\nneeded a slight fix in the borg.txt formulas. 3) Mages will count Liches,
\nDemons, and Angels. If they get too numerous on a level, he will Genocide them.
\nQuite similar to what he does to hounds. 4) Some speed-up issues for the borg
\nin borg_defence().<\/p>\n

Dec 7, Priests were not calculating the benefit of Banishment correctly (the
\nevil one, not genocide). 2) Slight modification to how a borg chooses and
\nscores his equipment choices. It may help to improve his choices. In
\nparticular, there was a problem with him prefering the Numenor helm instead of
\nDor-Lomin eventhough the Dor-Lomin granted much more power.<\/p>\n

Dec 4, Fixed the problem which kept some borgs from diving d\/t loss of ESP.
\n2) Several more artifact activations will be appreciated more and can qualify
\nas a good source of that spell (like WoR, Restoration, Teleport, Phase). It may
\npose a tiny problem if a borg has only the artifact as a source of Teleport.
\nBut he is also more careful to wait and recharge certain artifacts. In exchange
\nfor this risk exposure, the borg will spend far less time scumming for teleport
\nand recall.<\/p>\n

Dec 2, Borg will be allowed to buy Healing pots from the BM, even scum for
\nthem.<\/p>\n

Dec 1, 1) Borg will store Recharge items in the home. 2) Borg given a slight
\nreward for increasing his light radius.<\/p>\n

Nov 30, 1) Borg was stuck never believing he was ready to fight Morgoth due
\nto one of the changes on Nov 19. 2) Borg was going spastic with dark-4, dark-5.
\nIt may have been related to trying to dig rubble while hungry and weak. 3)
\nTeleport Level spell added to defence maneuvers. Used in extreme danger and
\nwhen landing grids from teleport are probably dangerous.<\/p>\n

Nov 28, 1) Borg will try to use a Teleport Level scroll before use a staff
\nof Destruction. 2) He will be allowed to scum the BM for them as well. 3)
\nSlight correction to Genocide to make sure there was not too much danger after
\nthe spell was cast. 4) No casting of attack spells in town while money
\nscumming, keeps mana up so starving is reduced. 5) Certain deaths from resting
\nwith the game option disturb_move have been reduced. 6) Correction to the way
\nthe ‘cackles evilly’ was handled. 7) Problems with diving while the ‘need to
\nrefuel but can’t’ eventhough the borg has a perma lightsource has been fixed.
\n8) A few LOS changes to help the borg be more fearful if wounded. He thought
\nsome unknown grids were walls when in fact they open and he was taking hits.<\/p>\n

Nov 24, 1) Reinforced the rule on no casting emergency use of attack spells
\nif several monsters are near. 2) There was a strange problem with the borg
\nwanting to flow dark-4, dark-5 immediately. He is supposed to flow dark-4 or 5
\nbut not both in the same turn. This is inducing some bounce behavior. Several
\ndeaths and starvations resulted from this. I will keep an eye out for it.<\/p>\n

Nov 22, 1) Borg will be allowed to scum town in order to buy the dungeon
\nspell books. 2) Earthquake is more likely to be cast if borg is fighting a
\nsummoner. 3) Borg will genocide hounds if more than 20 are on a level
\n(previously was 30). 4) The priest spell of Banish Evil was not being
\ncalculated correctly. And it will log who gets banished.<\/p>\n

Nov 20, 1) The goal_ignoring flags will not need to be set for farming but
\nwill continue to be set for breeder levels if recall == 0. 2) Borg will not
\nsearch spastic if near a monster. 3) Critical attempts to escape were resulting
\nin too many deaths. Now he will only do it, if his HP are 10% of his full HP. 4)
\nBorg will receive an extra bonus on number of blows from melee weapons if under
\nclevel 10. This will encourage the borg to use whips and daggers, which might
\nhelp out his fighting. 5) Teleport Other will not be cast unless the borg is
\nleft in a far less dangerous position. 6) Borg will be allowed to stack Hero
\nand Berserk, where previously he was only interested in casting one or the
\nother. He will not rest to regain mana after casting these spells. So he will
\nbe lower on mana but prepared for fights. It is too bad rangers do not get Hero
\nuntil they find book 7, otherwise that +12 tohit would be awsome. 7) I have
\nseen a lot of ‘frying-pan-fire’ deaths with teleport lately. Any suggestions
\nwould be appreciated. I have considered and implemented a limited check on
\npossible landing zones with Teleport to check for possible damage. I have also
\nconsidered having the borg use Destruction more. But Destruction is a little
\nhard to get and keep. Other options could be more liberal use of Teleport
\nOther, Banishment, Mass Banishment.<\/p>\n

Nov 19, 1) Risky borgs (and clevel 50) will not be required to kill uniques
\nbefore diving. I am seriously considering removing that requirement all
\ntogether. Risky Borg Behavior is not really a suicide trip, but he is slightly
\nmore risky and not constrained by conservative guidelines. He dives faster and
\nescapes fights slightly less. I imagine if a risky borg won, he would do it in
\nabout 25% of the time a non risky borg. For more information on risky borgs
\nread the borg.txt.<\/p>\n

Nov 17, 1) Borg will be able to use Teleport Other on a unique if it is
\ninside of a vault. 2) Borg is encouraged explore vaults by flowing to monsters
\ninspite of some dangers.<\/p>\n

Nov 15, 1) The borg needed to be able to flow to the house if he and the
\ngeneral store were out of food.<\/p>\n

Nov 14, 1) Borg was not fleeing downstairs if he was hungry. He would flee
\n‘to’ the stair, but not down them. That is now repaired. 2) Minor fix to the
\nSee Invis changes yesterday; he needed to understand that the See Invis spell
\nwould not be engaged in town. 3) I got what I needed out of the level advances
\nin borg map and log files. They will be cut.<\/p>\n

Nov 13, 1) Willem S. gave two super recommendations which were implemented: If
\nthe borg has perfect saves then the FA req. is covered. If the borg has a good
\nspell source of See Invis then it can cover the borg’s requirement.<\/p>\n

Nov 11, 1) Borg was not detecting traps, walls or doors correctly. 2) Borg
\nwas deleting objects from his memory as soon as they disappeared from view (if
\na monster stepped onto it). This could induce bouncing behavior. Now the item
\nmust be missing for 3 or more turns before it is deleted from memory. Nov 10,
\nDetect Evil (although important at low level) does not need to be cast so
\nfrequently in town. 2) Borgs were allowed to flow over traps to escape scaryguy
\nlevels. But it caused more problems that it solved. So hopefully he will not
\nbounce on traps.<\/p>\n

Nov 9, After multiple hours and runs of GDB and about 5 Dr. Peppers, I got
\nthe problem from yesterday fixed. Eric Peters submitted some very good clues on
\nwhere I might look.<\/p>\n

Nov 8, Borg is having a problem with the borg_skill[] being overwritten. I
\nhave used gdb to trap the event and it looks like the calc_player_bonus() is
\ninvolved somehow. I need some help tracking down the error. You can see the
\nerror in progress if the borg is Searching while in town (must be clevel
\n<=3) or if he spastic searches in town. The borg_skill[CDEPTH]
\n(borg_skill[1257]) is getting massively pounded, as are a few other
\nborg_skill[] numbers. Included with the distribution is a savefile wherein you
\ncan recreate the error. Just have the borg walk in town and you may see him
\nacting dumb. Please help track this down so we can get the borg up and running
\nagain.<\/p>\n

Nov 7, 1) Borg will not perform the ‘safe to phase’ checks if he does not
\nhave a source of phase. 2) There have been some starving deaths in town which
\nare related to the borg_skill[] variable being overwritten. I am trying to
\nlocate it. You may see this if the borg gets twitchy in town or tries to flow
\nspastic in town. 3) Borg is better able to flee the level via closest stair (up
\nor down) if fleeing the level from a scaryguy. 4) Some minor changes to using
\nstairs to help ensure a good exit from the level. 5) Borg needed to know if the
\ngame option ‘dungeon_stair’ was on or not.<\/p>\n

Nov 5, 1) Previously, the borg would not flow to certain grids if the danger
\nwas greater than 1\/3 his HP, but some other grids had varying danger thresholds
\nwhich would allow him to be more brave under certain circumstances. I have
\nequalized all the formula so that the borg can move more efficiently. 2) The
\nborg will no longer overflow on messages when paralyzed. 3) The borg will keep
\ntrack of closed doors while he is under clevel 5. If a door opens in the
\ndungeon from a monster, the borg will consider that a scaryguy is on the level
\nand will quickly flee. This will allow the borg to get advanced knowledge that
\na monster is approaching. 4) Slight modifications to scaryguys. 5) Borg will
\nreport in the .map file if it is daytime in town. (Will help with collecting
\ndata on town deaths). 6) Borg will not back-up as a retreat if a scaryguy is on
\nthe level. Hopefully, he will plow through monsters and head straight to the
\nstairs.<\/p>\n

Oct 29, 1) Retreating and Backing-Up were modified to make sure it is a
\nclear reward for the borg. Too often as he would back up 4 or 5 steps, he would
\ntake hits in the process and get his HP wittled down. 2) Flow patterns and icky
\ngrids (scary grids due to monsters) will be re-evaluated each round if there is
\na scary guy on the level (using the danger_wipe). Also, the borg will be
\nallowed to flow through dangerous grids in the process of finding an escape
\nroute. This slows the borg down a tiny bit, but helps the borg to escape levels
\nwith breeding worms and mice, and decreases the starvation deaths. 3) The perma
\nspell Bless has been changed to the Bless spell to allow low level priests and
\npaladins to use it (previously it was the Prayer spell from book. Having a
\npriest walk around the dungeon with a free +10 to hit might make a differece
\nfor them. 4) Repaired a bug which could allow the borg to recall down into the
\ndungeon from town when leaving the town if he had nothing to sell.<\/p>\n

Oct 27, 1) Starving borgs will be able to flow through dangerous grids and
\nwill not flow to kills. Hopefully he will flow to stairs more instead of
\nstarving.<\/p>\n

Oct 25, 1) Repaired a spell address bug on defence spell of Destruction. 2)
\nRepaired a bug which was which causing the borgskill[] to be overwritten. The
\nbug was manifesting on my machine as the borg trying to not reset his recall
\ndepth while recalling from town.<\/p>\n

Oct 22, 1) Sometimes, if the borg is wielding the artifact diggers, he will
\nnot want to buy or sell stuff in town.<\/p>\n

Oct 20, 1) The borg will create a Sea of Runes to attack and kill Morgoth. I
\nhave tested this routine about 35 times with Mages. It works great. I have not
\nfully tested it with Priests. 2) Borg will wait to enchant and brand bolts,
\navoiding having 3 stacks of 5 bolts with varying enchants and brands. 3) Borg
\nwill be careful when using Chaos spells which can polymorph almost dead
\nmonsters, making new ones with perfect health. 4) Limited the use of
\nShootNScoot on monsters easily killable. 5) Repaired a possible crash with
\nflowing spastic. 6) Reduced the amount of time a borg will spend in town if low
\nlevel. The BSV, SER, & MLM were kicking his trash. So the borg will no
\nlonger be required to visit all shops (skips BM, Home, Magic Shop if not mage)
\nprior to doing his shopping. Also, if the borg has no money and only a few
\nthings to sell, he will not be required to visit all shops before he can leave
\ntown.<\/p>\n

Oct 2, 1) Altered the way the borg will count up sellable items in inventory
\nso that he will stay in the dungeon longer. 2) Increased the radius that the
\nborg will search for monsters who generated a message. This will reduce the
\nnumber of ‘Unable to located monster’ messages.<\/p>\n

Oct 1, 1) Repaired a spell address typo for num_ID. and Sanctuary. 2) Clevel
\n50 borgs have slightly more bravery when it comes to establishing flow
\npatterns. 3) Critical phase not done in town. 4) Borg will consider using
\nDestruction instead of Teleport on certain situations. He will attempt to avoid
\nthe frying-pan-fire deaths by estimating the number of safe landing zones for
\nTeleport and not Teleporting if there are too many dangerous ones.<\/p>\n

Sept 23, 1) Borg will log when he gets to depth 100. 2) Applied a submitted
\npatch to repair the ^z$ crash. 3) Borg will not use ShootN’Scoot against
\nmonsters who pass_wall or kill_wall.<\/p>\n

Sept 22, 1) Borg will be allowed to buy more items from the black market
\n(certain rods like healing, speed, recall). I am trying allowing the borg to
\nmoney scum town in order to buy these special rods. Problem is, the warrior
\nborgs will run out of stored food and the town will run low on food if he
\nspends several thousand turns resting in town to mug drunks. But the warriors
\nwill benefit most from having these rods. So I am thinking about having the
\nwarrior borg store 500 rations in town in order to store. So report any
\nineffecient behavior related to this.<\/p>\n

Sept 21, 1) Applied a fix for reported level bouncing related to checking
\nfor living uniques. I have not seen the bug myself. 2) Borg will not note money
\nscumming stuff in the log if he has more money than needed and does not
\nactually have to scum the town for more. He will also not note the advancement
\nto a level if he is gaining it back after being drained. 3) Teleport Other was
\nstill acting goofy, another repair.<\/p>\n

Sept 18, 1) Another correction to underestimating danger. 2) Before spastic
\nsearching for secret doors, borg will attempt to cast Detection spells. 3) Borg
\nwill log when he finds the Phial.<\/p>\n

Sept 10, Minor fixes to the borg restock and depth preparedness relating to
\nhealing potions.<\/p>\n

Sept 5, The borg will try to head straight to the General Store to buy a
\nlantern (as opposed to having to check each shop first before making any
\npurchase). The borg will leave level one very quickly if he had to flee the
\ntown level quickly. These two changes will help the borg to get a lantern early
\non which help him greatly to avoid early monster death.<\/p>\n

Sept 3, The borg will keep a short log of events. He will record the turn
\nnumber for level advancements and when he uses the money-scumming routines.<\/p>\n

August 31, Repaired a bug that kept the borg from finalizing his town scum
\npurchase. A new borg cheat command was added (^zr) will restock the stores.
\nThis is useful for debugging shop behavior.<\/p>\n

August 29, Minor repair to the modifications in yesterdays twitchy fix.<\/p>\n

August 28, 1) Previously, the borg would not return to town to restock if a
\nunique was on the level. That is now lifted. Restock means he is seriously low
\non gear and must get back to town. 2) Storing food at home is now graded so
\nthat a level 5 borg won’t spend all his money to get 99 food rations in the
\nhome. Cut offs are at clevel 15, and 35. Fuel is also handled this way. 3)
\nBreeder levels will trigger the goal_fleeing now instead of goal_leaving. 4) If
\nthe borg gets to the Level 3 Twitchy and Boosted Bravery, multiple factors of
\nthe level are ‘forgotten’ which will have him relearn important things.<\/p>\n

August 25, 1) Various improvements to how the borg will use Detect Evil.
\nWill greatly reduce the deaths from town scary guys. 2) The borg may use ranged
\nattacks against mice and worms even though they are scaryguys.<\/p>\n

August 23, 1) Low level borgs (clevel < 10) will use some of the
\nborg_worship_gold behaviors to improve cash flow early in the game. 2) I made
\nthe shootNscoot behavior smarter for Rogues and Warriors. 3) No flowing to
\nitems if a scaryguy on level.<\/p>\n

August 22, 1) The borg will not be allowed to swap out certain resistances
\nthinking it is an improvement. 2) The borg will not add the regional fear
\ninduced from multiple monsters if he has been sitting on the panel for too
\nlong. 3) With respect to using recall items, the borg has used certain
\nfail-rate checks to determine which will be the most successful type. I have
\nremoved the fail-rate check for Rods of Recall used in the activation check.
\nBut it will remain for counting spells. Meaning, the borg will not count the
\nRod of Recall as a reliable type of recall unless he can reasonably succeed.
\nHowever, if he has one in inventory, he will try it when needing to recall. I
\nam hoping this change will fix the starvation-recall issues which crept in with
\nthe 3.0.3 update.<\/p>\n

August 21, Repaired a problem with the Lunal Mode not diving.<\/p>\n

August 11, Repaired that bug which caused the borg to unhook after casting
\ncertain defence manuevers.<\/p>\n

July 29, Borg will store fuel in the house until he gets an artifact lite.
\nThe town has run out of fuel a few times the borg has freeked out. He will be
\nneeding an extra supply.<\/p>\n

July 23, Borg will now recall to town quicker if he needs to restock. This
\nwill slow the borg down as he burns his recall scrolls. The low level borgs
\nwill not flow to dark-5 too far. This will keep him from pacing back and forth
\nwhile < clevel 5. Mage borgs will consider Teleport Other on a unique which
\nis adjacent to him. I had to fix some very stupid behavior involving the
\nShootN’Scoot behavior. Lastly, the borg is still misIDing monsters as items
\n(thinks the monster is a wooden torch instead of a Drolem, etc). I have no idea
\nwhy it is happening. It started with 303. If anyone finds pattern to it, let me
\nknow.<\/p>\n

July 11, Completely reworked the Teleport Other spell. Previously the borg
\nwould calculate the danger of each monster in the beam-path then add them all
\nup. Unfortunately, the way borg_danger() works, this made frequent mistakes and
\nhe would cast TO and leave himself in danger. Now the borg will keep a list of
\nall the monsters in the beam path then calculate the danger once but it will
\nskip each of the monsters in that list.<\/p>\n

July 4, Borg will assume traps are adjacent to him and will use Detect Trap
\nif any monster “cackles evilly.” The danger of the monster listed in
\nthe Teleport Other spell path is displayed.<\/p>\n

July 2, Teleport Other spell will create a log of the beam pathway to see
\nwhat monsters the borg thinks will be included. This will help me in debugging
\nand improving the use of this spell. Teleport Other has been modified: the borg
\nwill consider it at a lower danger threshold than before, and will consider it
\nif he is fighting more than 2 uniques at one time. He will be allowed to
\nTeleport Away a unique if that unique is causing more danger than the borg has
\nHP (30% more) or if fighting more than one unique. Lastly the Teleport Other
\nspell has been turned back into a beam for the borg. He had been considering it
\nas a bolt so that only the most dangerous monster would be sent away. As a
\nbeam, he can more correctly consider the best target to get multiple monsters
\nand the most dangerous line-up.<\/p>\n

June 25 2003, Repaired a mistake which would result in the borg ignoring
\nregional fear from unseen monsters. Mage borgs will be allowed to melee in town
\ninstead of always resting to restore mana. Improved the way in which the borg
\nwill consider the use of Emergency Magic Missiles (he tends to faint and die
\ntoo much). Offset attacks that do only 1 point of damage are now forbidden.
\nLevel 50 borgs have the regional fear induced from multiple monsters in a
\nconfined area cut significantly, this will make them a bit more brave.<\/p>\n

May 10, Fixed a targetting error which would keep the borg from using offset
\ntargetting with bolts. (Aiming beyond the target.) Added a check to see that
\nthe borg was not using mana expensive spells to do little damage. Greatly
\nimproved the likelyhood that a borg would attempt a shot over an unknown grid
\nto hit a monster. Also, I made some repairs to how the borg can crush items
\nwhich slow him down.<\/p>\n

May 8, Few details added to some borg comments in the log to make it easier
\nfor others to see what the borg is thinking. Making sure that floor grids are
\nbeing placed under non-pass wall monsters (some never_move monsters kept there
\nfeat_invis grid which kept the borg from using offset targetting).<\/p>\n

May 7, Fixed the buggy behavior and spinning introduced by the Player Ghost
\nfix from two days ago.<\/p>\n

May 5, Fixed the Player Ghost assumption when the borgs equipment was not
\naffected by an attack.<\/p>\n

Improvements and modifications to how scary guys are handled.<\/p>\n

Improved searching while walking functions (careful not to search if close to
\nmonsters or scaryguys).<\/p>\n

April 20, Fixed the bashing door problem. Tracking down the problem with the
\nFlasks of Oil not being tracked correctly which is leading to their recreation
\neach turn.<\/p>\n

March 31, Borg will be rewarded more for storing WoR in the home. Warrior
\nborgs will not carry the resist heat\/cold potions if they are immune.<\/p>\n

March 18, Improvement on how the borg will collect Phase Door scrolls. Borg
\nwill have increased rewared for getting CSW Potions if he can not find CCW. The
\nradius of the fear monsters is decreased from 7 grids to 6.<\/p>\n

March 17, The borg will now hustle down if he is playing too shallow.
\nExample: If the borg is maxdepth set at 81 but prepared to 25 due to Teleport
\nrestrictions, he will walk from town down to 25. But he takes his sweet time
\nand explores each level completely. Now the borg will dive very quickly until
\nhe is within 5 dlevels of the prepared depth.<\/p>\n

March 16, I fixed the ‘boy, I love to carry 300 pebbles around’ bug<\/p>\n

March 13, Repair to a few typos in the most recent borg.txt.<\/p>\n

ShootN’Scoot should not have been engaged if the borg approaches a never_move
\nmonster.<\/p>\n

Correction to the extremely long line in the.map file.<\/p>\n

March 12, Yesterday’s archive was not uploaded correctly.<\/p>\n

March 11, To help the borg not get slowed down by having to carry so much
\nstuff, the number of certain items required by the borg will be decreased until
\nthe borg reaches strength 15. Those items include: ID scrolls, flasks of oil,
\nmissiles, 2nd copy of spell books, recall scrolls, and teleports. I finally
\nnoticed the reported bug with the Grey Mushroom Patch. The borg thinks it is a
\nwooden torch. I hope to fix this in a day or two. Are there any other types of
\nmonsters that do this?<\/p>\n

March 10, Reliable Phase Door spells and Blink spells count towards
\namt_phase.<\/p>\n

March 9, Jammed doors were not being ‘B’ashed correctly.<\/p>\n

I increased the AUTO_TEMP_MAX to 9000 to match the AUTO_VIEW_MAX. There was a
\nbug report related to Big Screen and this may be the problem. I do not use Big Screen
\nso I have not seen any bugs.<\/p>\n

Sometimes after reading an Unknown Scroll or Unknown Staff, he can get stuck in
\na loop (if the unknown is an ID)<\/p>\n

March 8, Repaired some reported crashes. I have not seen the crashes, but I
\nsuspect they were related to the zone fear induced by monsters. I also altered
\nthe ^z$ stuff. I hope I fixed that crash.<\/p>\n

March 1, A new level a grid danger is added. The borg will add a little bit
\nof fear around each monster. The fear won’t scare the borg away but each
\nmonster will contribute some fear. So if the borg is near 15 or 20 Orcs, he
\nwill get very nervous. I hope this will keep the borg from getting killed by a
\nmassive mob. It will also help him use his Teleport items more effectively. The
\nborg command of ^z_ will now show both the regional fear as before but also
\nthis new regional fear. The never_move monsters do not induce this extra fear.
\nBorg will not ‘spastic search’ over traps.<\/p>\n

Feb 26, The map file created at the death of the borg will now dump the
\nborg_skill[] information which will aid me in making improvements.<\/p>\n

Feb 22, Borg will not target a PASS_WALL monster with a ranged attack unless
\nthat monster is on a known floor grid.<\/p>\n

Feb 21, I think I corrected the home-swap-loop with Staves of Teleport. I
\nfixed some bugs with Teleport Level scrolls. And I fixed a bug which was
\ncausing the borg to miss his target when trying to shoot it with the Fingolfin
\nactivation (spikes). I added\/changed the ^z% to display the borgs projection
\npath. It will show the pathway the borg believes his projectile will follow
\n(red asterisk), then display the games projection path (purple beam of
\nasterisks, subject to game speed delay, increase to see the purple dots
\nbetter). This will aid in debugging issues with the borgs internal projection
\ncode to see it is matches the rapidly changeing game code.<\/p>\n

Feb 12, If the borg has a reasonably good chance to successfully use a Staff
\nof Teleportation then it can count towards the requirement of ATELEPORT (which
\nis generally considered scrolls of teleportation). Also, if the borg has
\nscrolls of teleport level, then it will count towards the ATELEPORT. This will
\nassist the deep borgs from getting held up at depth 46 waiting to ‘rs
\nATELEPORT(1)’ (restock 1 teleport scroll before diving deeper). Monsters are
\ngiven some ‘minimal energy’ to equate the borg’s energy in borg_danger(). This
\nwill help the borg better calculate danger of attacks when the borg is faster
\nthan monsters. (I will closely monitor this for a few days. Report any buggy
\nfear behavior on this change.) Changes made to the way the borg monitors the
\nchanges in his hitpoints from game turn. This will help if he gets hit from an
\nunseen monster or poison damage.<\/p>\n

Feb 9, Borg is now rewarded for carrying a Wand of Teleport Other. And he
\nwill try not destroy (crush) them unless he really needs to.<\/p>\n

Feb 6, Repaired an issue where the defence spell Resist Cold was over valued
\nand cast too often. Borg is slightly more like to cast Teleport Other. There
\nwas a hidden bug with the Glyph of Protection in the borg_danger(). It’s fixed
\nnow. I hope the borg won’t feel that he is invulnerable while standing on a
\nglyph.<\/p>\n

Jan 27, Updated for 303.<\/p>\n

Jan 25, Fixed the corrupted zip files. The priest spell Teleport Level is
\nnow included in the other methods of escape in danger level 1.<\/p>\n

Jan 22, Fixed the problem with the 302 borg being omniscient with the items
\nthat are non ID.<\/p>\n

Jan 20, I updated the borg to work with Angband 3.0.2. There were some
\nproblems with the new object_desc_spoil(). I think I fixed em up. There may
\nalso be some issues with a Robe of Magi. I have not been able to get the game
\nto generate one randomly. If you find one, send me the savefile so I can mess
\nwith it.<\/p>\n

Jan 18, The borg will not cast the preparatory spells prior to stairs if he
\nis fleeing the level. Also, he is a bit more careful about resting to regain
\nmana just after he has cast one of these prep spells.<\/p>\n

Jan 17, The distance the borg will spastic search (looking around for secret
\ndoors because he is bored and all hallways have been fully explored) will be 25
\nsteps if < clevel 30 and clevel 50 otherwise. This had been 250 so he would
\nspend many turns walking back and forth over the dungeon looking for secret doors
\nand finding none. This is done to help him reduce the number of turns he takes
\nin the whole game. It has no direct effect on his survivability. Also, the borg
\nwas not using wands of wonder unless the danger was twice his hit points. I
\nreduced this to 80%. There are 17 nice attacks on the wand and 6 neutral\/bad
\nones. Seems like he can take a chance and use the wand more frequently. Use of
\nthe wand is noted in the log so if there are lots of deaths following this use,
\nthen we can modify it again. Lastly, the borg was not buying Teleport Scrolls
\nfor some reason. The code is in place and the formula is in the borg.txt. So I
\ndon’t know what is wrong. To solve this, I copied the formula into the section
\nof dynamic-calcs power that is not handled by the borg.txt file.<\/p>\n

Jan 16, Borgs will be a little more timid when fighting uniques (at least
\nwhile under clevel 35). He used to stay in the fight until the danger was 120%
\nof his hit points; now its 100% at clevel 35 and 80% under clevel 10. Low level
\nborgs will not set the Searching flag if moving under boosted bravery. Clevel 5
\nis now the upper end of trap searching while moving (was at 3, too many level 4
\nborgs were stepping on traps and getting instadeath). I also repaired an
\nuncommon problem where the borg might try to flow over and thus be required to
\ndisarm a trap when he should not be doing so.<\/p>\n

Jan 12 2003, I saw some odd behavior with Teleport scrolls. I am trying to
\nreproduce the errors to track it down. Borgs will be allowed to buy Teleport
\nScrolls from the BM.<\/p>\n

Dec 10 2002, Repaired the Priest\/Paladin enchantment of missile bug. Borg
\nwill be much more concerned about carrying Scrolls of Teleport after depth 20,
\ninstead of relying solely on his spells and staves. The WoR requirement for
\ndepth 3 was moved to depth 5 and reduced to 2 scrolls.<\/p>\n

Dec 2, Clevel 45 requirement for depth 39 was removed.<\/p>\n

Dec 1, Improved some WoR requirements for the depth 24 area. Previously, if
\nthe borg was playing too deep (twice his depth preparation), he liked to recall
\nto town then climb down stairs to his comfort level. Now, the borg will only do
\nthis if the maximal depth is greater than 65.<\/p>\n

Nov 30, Repaired that very serious issue with not refilling the lanterns and
\ntorches. Sorry about that. Mass Genocide and Genocide scrolls are now needed
\nfor level 100 not 98.<\/p>\n

Nov 27, Attempted to repair the wide-screen issues. Please help test this to
\nsee if the borg gets unsynched due to mis-parsing the extra long messages.<\/p>\n

Nov 26, Fixed that problem with the borg carrying a glowing item and not wanting
\nto buy more fuel for the lantern or torches.<\/p>\n

Nov 23, Fixed a modest error in the ^zo function to display item flags.
\nBorgs will now store Aman and Elvenkind items in the home even if they are not
\nyet *ID*’d. He will pull these items from the home if he has *ID* scrolls.<\/p>\n

Nov 21, The borg was not correctly handling glowing items, like the Ammy of
\nDevotion while the lantern was out of light. He assumed he was in darkness,
\neven though the ammy was giving light. I also added the additive effects of
\nglowing items to the light radius. Having a glowing item will add one degree to
\nthe light-source radius. Having multiple equipment (Ringil, and Ammy of
\nDevotion) items with light radius is not handled; they still give one degree of
\nincreased radius. I added support for the branding of missiles spells,
\npreviously, only Cubragol was doing this.<\/p>\n

Nov 13, The money scumming for potions was modified slightly to make sure
\nthe borg had a better chance to avoid the mugging (moved from 65% to 80%).<\/p>\n

Nov 12, Remembrance spell is considered a source for Hold Life, so borgs
\nwill not be bound to finding HLife before diving deeper.<\/p>\n

Nov 11, Fixed the goofy behavior with shootNscoot. The bugs related to the
\nborg being out of sync and interacting with colors menu and other weirdness
\nhave been tracked down to using a bigscreen. If the message line is greater
\nthan 80 characters, the borg cannot parse the messages correctly. I will work
\nto correct this over the next few days. If anyone else wants to help, look at
\nborg9.c in borg_inkey_hack about line 4310 where the borg is reading the
\nmessages and catching the “-more-” prompt. I’m pretty sure the
\nproblem is related to borg_what_text(), and I suspect with the third element.<\/p>\n

Nov 9, The borg was over-valueing the Staff of Holiness for it’s healing
\npowers.<\/p>\n

Nov 8, Repaired the issues with boots and shields of Elvenkind not been
\nrecognized as having high resists. I also fixed an interesting bug where the
\nborg would not cast a spell at a monster if there was an object in the flight
\npath between the borg and the monster, and the borg had never seen that floor
\ngrid previously (as in coming down there stairs and finding a potion on the
\nground between the stair and the monster). The borg was not seeing this as a
\nlegitimate floor grid and would flow to the monster in order to melee attack
\nit. I also decreased the penalties for casting spells which will encourage the
\nmages and priests to use their spells instead of tanking around the dungeon. I
\nrepaired the problem with the borg not wanting to use the Cloak of Luthien.<\/p>\n

Nov 6, Made another major speed enhancement by further optimizing the way in
\nwhich the borg checks for living uniques while doing his level preparation
\nchecks. I repaired a bug with the borg.txt from 301. There are some references
\nto formulas dealing with GOI. Those need to be removed. I think they are
\nformula 58-60, or pretty close to that. If you replace your borg.txt with the
\nmost recent one, you will be fine.<\/p>\n

Oct 31, Fail rate on enchanting moved from 40% to 65%. Penalty for using
\nslings with STR less than 14 was moved to STR 9. Borgs will store enchant
\nscrolls in the house and save them for at least a x3 shooter (long bow or light
\nxbow). Steps were taken to make sure the borg did not enchant the x2 shooter by
\nmistake when he should be enchanting the melee weapon. I had to repair a unhook
\nbug which crept in with the efficiency changes to item analyzing.<\/p>\n

Oct 28, A few optimizing routines added from Mr. Anderson. Matthew Anstey
\nrequested that borgs be more critical of keeping junk in the inventory while
\ndeep in the dungeon. Borgs had been filling up with some good stuff to sell
\nthen returning to town to sell it instead of scumming for more potions. This is
\nprobably a waste of time since at depth 95 he already has more money then Bill
\nGates (well, almost). I repaired an unhook bug which could result if the borg
\nhad two artifacts with the same activation and the first one in line was
\ncharging, but the second one was not.<\/p>\n

Oct 17, Mikeal Anderson provided some very useful computations on how much
\nCPU time is spent in various borg functions. Using this information, he and I
\nhave made the worst bottle neck more effecient. The largest user of CPU time
\nwas the borg_prepared() function, with about 30% of all the CPU going to this
\nroutine with it’s two daughter routines. We have made that code more efficient
\nand greatly reduced the number of times which it is called. I also tinkered on
\nthe way the borg will buy stat potions from the BM. There had been some cases
\nof him scumming to get the cash then not buying them.<\/p>\n

Oct 16, Added the Shoot’N’Scoot to the 301 code.<\/p>\n

Oct 14, Fixed a problem which could keep the borg from using Phase Door
\nspells correctly if he did not have a scroll of PD on him. Corrected some
\nproblems with choice of missile attacks on certain types of monsters. This
\nshould really help mages with magic missile use. I told the 293 borg how to use
\nShoot’N’Scoot maneuvers. I will test this out for a few days before sticking it
\ninto the 301 borg.<\/p>\n

Oct 11, Fixed the problem with the artifact shield of Haradrim.<\/p>\n

Oct 7, The borg has tried to not damage items on ground with certain types
\nof spells (fireball on scrolls, electric ball on rings, etc). But sadly the
\nborg will not use the most effective and damaging spell for fear of damaging
\nthe treasure on the ground. I have reduced the penalty for damaging the
\ntreasure on the ground. This will allow the borg to have more flexibility in
\nspell choice. Also, I added some routines to allow the borg to scum town for
\ncertain items found in the Black Market, namely Stat Pots, *Heal*, Life, and
\nHeals. He will stay in town, mugging drunks and saving his money. This can have
\nhim sitting in town a long time, so the option is set in Borg.txt under
\nborg_self_scum. Default is TRUE. The borg won’t do this unless he is at least
\nclevel 15, has a perma light source, Satisfy Hunger spell, and at least a 65%
\nchance to avoid getting mugged by townspeople. 65% is not very easy to get to.
\nA clevel 30 borg would need a dexterity of 18\/70. A clevel 45 borg would need a
\ndexterity of 18\/40. This routine will help the borg get his stats maxed without
\nall the risk of being in the dungeon. But it will stay in town a lot. If that
\nupsets you, then turn the option off in borg.txt. Along this line, the borg has
\na slightly improved method for spending time in town waiting for the
\ntownspeople to breed. The borg_status window is also updated to indicate that
\nit is scumming for cash and that cash goal amount. Lastly, The borg has
\nimproved crushing of ‘Junk’ (with respect to being under the influence of
\nborg_worship_gold or borg_self_scum flags). (And some Zborg fixes.)<\/p>\n

Oct 4, (301) Repaired the bug which was causing some unusual keypress loops.
\nThe bug was related enchanting weapons. Modified the lunal mode a bit so that
\nthe borg is a bit smarter about doing it, and he will leave the stairs to
\ncollect gold and potions. Again, lunal_mode is not at a point where it works
\ncorrectly. It’s more of a test to see how deep the borg can get doing it. So
\nunhooks are common.<\/p>\n

Oct 2, (301) Began working on a cheat called borg_lunal_mode which can be
\nset in the borg.txt. Basically the borg will scum stairs for other stairs,
\ntrying to dive as fast as he can. He tries to be careful while doing this since
\nat low clevel he is subject to instadeath. Note: you need to have connecting
\nstairways on in order to make full use of this. Again, I just started this so
\nthere may be some bugs in this. Oct 1, Repaired the bug with the Elfstones and
\nJewel artifacts. For the record, it was not a borg bug but an omission of the
\nINSTA_ART flag for these two items in the artifact.txt file (they do have the
\nflag in objects.txt). Repaired some ID loop problems induced by the mistaken
\nomission of the EASY_KNOW flag to the Amulet of Resistance. Amulets should get
\neither EASY_KNOW or HIDE_TYPE flags. The Amulet of Resistance did not get
\neither one. This is a mistake and needs to be corrected. Fixed the bouncing
\nproblem that low level borgs had if two stairs are on the screen. Borg is
\nallowed to buy Stat Pots from the BM. Shrieking creatures are added to scaryguy
\nlist because they cast Haste on to monsters. Borg will do less spastic
\nsearching while under clevel 3.<\/p>\n

Sep 30, Removed the forced slow-down for delay factors. 301:Removed the
\nwork-around for the quartz-amulet problem, and added RR’s macro for correct
\ninterpretation of flavors. Repaired the very annoying artifact activation bug.<\/p>\n

Sep 25, Added some protection against segfaults relation to borg_slot().
\nBorg will be more careful to keep the Resistance spell up, and to refresh it
\nwhen he thinks it is about to expire.<\/p>\n

Sep 24, Fixed some potential problems with the borg desperate (moving to
\nstairs under stress). (for 301) Repaired the Stone to Mud on amulet problem and
\nremoved the left over borg notations used for debugging artifacts.<\/p>\n

Sep 23, Work on the 301 borg is now complete and ready for release. There
\nwere some interesting game play issues and needed to be dealt with. The borg
\nwas not reading mineral veins (*) correctly. He was seeing them as quote marks,
\nand tried to walk through them. I had to redo the magic system a bit. So please
\nreport bugs and odd behavior to me so I can fix it. The 301 screen saver seems
\nto be working ok. I had to modify the main-win.c file. If you plan on compiling
\nyour own screensaver, use my main-win.c.<\/p>\n

Sep 21, Better use of Teleport Level to escape danger. Borg will now carry a
\nfew Teleport Level on him. The borg is now a lot less likely to be stuck at
\ndlevel 26 searching for a few teleport scrolls in order to continue. Seems silly
\nthat a clevel 30-40 borg has a maximal depth of 26 because of teleport scroll
\nlimitations. Zang and Drang borgs also updated.<\/p>\n

Sep 18, Fixed a problem in borg.txt (the line that is ateleport = 7 should
\nbe 2). Better handling of how the borg stores and collects scrolls of teleport
\nand staves of teleportation. Fixed a major problem with consuming ez_heal
\npotions in extreme danger (even when not badly damaged).<\/p>\n

Sep 16, Borg_check_rest() will now check the Regional Fear (fear from
\nnon-seen monsters). Danger from non-seen monster attacks increased a bit. Borg
\nwill report if he is ‘searching’ while walking. Borg will be more careful about
\nretreating to safer grids; the first step must be relatively safe.<\/p>\n

Sep 13, Borg will be more likely to cast the good Resistance spell over the
\nsmaller ones if he is clevel 45 or higher. Repaired a spell address problem
\nwith casting spells before taking stairs.<\/p>\n

Sep 6, Repaired some more mishandling of the One Ring. Added Respawing Borg
\ncommand and a command to examine what flags the borg believes an item has.
\nBorgs will collect a few more EZHeal potions (*Heal* and Life) prior to that
\nfinal fight. Repaired some potential crash problems with array bounds.<\/p>\n

Jul 10, Began looking at the vanilla 3.0 code. I’ll start to upgrade the
\nvborg to function in 3.0. It won’t be ready soon. But I’ll tinker on it.<\/p>\n

Jun 26, Slight improvement on when Holy Word is cast while in Questor
\nCombat.<\/p>\n

Jun 7, Borgs needed some help reseting his shop goals after consuming his
\nlast type of item (thus moving the address of his goal_item).<\/p>\n

May 23, Low level borgs will not attempt to walk into NEVER_MOVE monsters.<\/p>\n

Apr 23, Scaryguy fixed for Light and Dark hounds. If the borg resists that
\nform of attack (or blindness) then the hound won’t be a scary guy. Added a
\nspecial hack to further influence borg defence manuevers: if the borg is
\nfighting a particular unique, RFire, RCold benefits are enhanced. Mainly
\ndesigned for Tarresque but it can be applied to other types of defence setups
\nand other uniques.<\/p>\n

Apr 21, Repair to a mistake with ‘ifndef bablos.’ If the borg is not
\nrespawning correctly, let me know. Borg will not try to open doors if under
\nclevel 15 and there is a monster adjacent to him. (He gets stuck trying to pick
\nthe lock while some whimpy monsters beats him to death). Final healing check
\nmodified slightly to allow for more use of *heal* while fighting uniques.<\/p>\n

Apr 16, Too many borgs dying while moving ‘desperate for stairs’. To avoid
\ncertain types of death, the borg will not retreat to a stair is a monster is sitting
\non that stair. Rarely, some borgs need to be able to escape up the stairs even
\nif waiting for recall. This is now allowed.<\/p>\n

Apr 15, Winning borgs who have ‘respawn winners’ on will log into the
\nborg.dat.<\/p>\n

Apr 13, Borg will try to use a Teleport Staff before trying to phase door.<\/p>\n

Apr 5, Better handling of Anti-magic effect. Borg was wearing pseudoID’d
\nboots with that effect, but was not understanding that the effect was on. If
\nthe boots had been *ID*’d then he would have understood the effect. The borg is
\nnow cheating to know if he is afflicted by this effect but not which item is
\ncausing this. So he will not be able to dump that item until it is *ID*’d.<\/p>\n

Apr 4, Added better control over when the borg uses *Destruction*.<\/p>\n

Apr 2, Fixed a spell address problem when casting a spell prior to taking a
\nstairs\/recall; borg was casting Remove Fear instead of Bless. Fixed an
\nequipment choice problem which caused the borg to think his stats were higher
\nand subsequently he would not choose equipment to boost stats (priests running
\naround with 18\/170 Wis, instead of 18\/220). The routine to return to town to
\nscum for objects (mainly CCW) was altered to have him check more frequently.
\nRepaired the spamming fprint function that I forgot to remove from borg3.c.
\nWillem S suggested (mainly for zborg) that borgs get power for using Rod of
\nIllumination if they don’t have Call Light ability. This was added to vborg and
\nzborg. Winners list updated. Improved handling of monsters while
\nhallucincating. I moved all borg files over to my laptop so some of the batch
\nfiles used to create the zipfiles may have been goofed up. Let me know if the
\narchives seem off.<\/p>\n

Mar 26, Several little patches over the month. One in particular is better
\nhandling of fear of non seen monsters.<\/p>\n

1-8-2002, Fixed a bug relating to using Format() twice in the same call.<\/p>\n

12-31, Zborg is officially released. I would appreciate specific bug
\nreports.<\/p>\n

12-26, Still working on the Zborg. It is at a fairly stable point now. The
\nzborg source is released. I have still not tracked down that bug which is
\ncausing the borg to bounce between two flow grids. I have been spending about
\n20 hrs a week working on the Zborg. I will get to back to bug fixes in time.<\/p>\n

12-5, 1) Borg running around with no weapon is fixed. 2) The borg status
\nscreen updated to show Immunity flags (white) over magical resistance flags
\n(green). 3) Made an attempt to fix that bug where the borg will bounce on the
\nlevel while trying to choose his new flow pattern, then forgetting the objects
\nand monsters, then finally fleeing the level. 4) Low level borgs who do not
\nhave slow digestion are now allowed to carry more than five food, up to the
\namount specified in borg.txt.<\/p>\n

11-29, Borgs who are scumming for the *heal* pots at depth 99, will now
\nstore all the extra crap they are carrying for the end fight, namely the 15
\nRestoration mushrooms and the >15 Restore Mana potions. You will need to
\nreplace your borg.txt file<\/strong> if you are down at depth 99 or so.<\/p>\n

11-28, Ok, I got the borg working again. The changes on 11-16 were the cause
\nof the problem. Working good now. I also added a new borg command control-z ^.
\nThe ‘%’ displays Flow information. This new one, ‘^’ will display the probable
\npathway the borg will take. I also added the name of the unique who is on the
\nlevel to the borg_status window. Finally, the borg may use the *heal* potions
\nto fix confusion if he is really low on HP, and that annoying
\nwaiting-on-the-shop-door-step-while-waiting-for-recall has been fixed.<\/p>\n

11-21, I undid many of the changes from 11-13. I hope the buggy behavior is
\nfixed. There still seem to be some very unusual borg_powers, and equipment
\nchoices. Please report any weird stuff. Also for the next few days I will be
\nreworking the borg_best_stuff(). That routine is supposed to test every combination
\nof equipment and select the best package. It does not work right. I have a plan
\nto rewrite it so that is will explore every possible equipment combination. I’m
\ncertain it will be a slower routine, but it should make a difference in borg
\nequipment selection.<\/p>\n

11-19, Wife is away this week, just me and the four kids at home. Borg
\nupdates might be slow. Fixed the problem where borgs would not recall into
\ndungeon if the failrate was over 40%. Still patching up problems relating to
\nthe borg now correctly handling his stats. The borg will now receive a
\ngraduating penalty based on his maximal mana. So if he wears heavy armour at
\nclevel 10 lowering his mana 10 pts which represents about 1\/2 his mana, he will
\nreceive a greater penalty than if he suffered a 10 mana point loss when his
\nmana is over 300. This may induce equipment swapping if his maximal mana is
\nnear one of the threshold values.<\/p>\n

11-16, Replaced the cheat where the borg was getting the acual HP of each
\nmonster. Now he will ‘read’ the health bar and estimate the number of HP
\nremaining based on the maximal possible for that monster. Desire for dragon
\nscale armour based solely on its activation is decreased. I repaired some
\nerrors that were making the borg like to have massive primary stats (like 18\/320
\nINT). I think I got that fixed now. I fixed the formulas which granted extra
\npoints for having an item with multiple high resist. Previously the borg was
\nonly considering RNeth, RChaos, RDisen on any single item. For formula was
\nchanged to: value += 30000 * (item->flags2 & TR2_RES_POIS +
\nitem->flags2 & TR2_RES_LITE + item->flags2 & TR2_RES_DARK +
\nitem->flags2 & TR2_RES_BLIND + item->flags2 & TR2_RES_CONFU +
\nitem->flags2 & TR2_RES_SOUND + item->flags2 & TR2_RES_SHARD +
\nitem->flags2 & TR2_RES_NEXUS + item->flags2 & TR2_RES_NETHR +
\nitem->flags2 & TR2_RES_CHAOS + item->flags2 & TR2_RES_DISEN).
\nThus granting 30k pts for each of the high resists. Fixed that bug where the
\nborg would cast tons of prep spells before using stairs only to rest to regain
\nhis mana, then cast the spells again. DragonAngband borg fixed on a few minor
\nthings.<\/p>\n

11-15, Fixed a Genocide ‘ ‘ issue. Fixed the money scum bug which allowed
\nthe borg to sell your gear.<\/p>\n

11-14, A few minor changes to how the borg retreats from danger and backing
\nup one grid.<\/p>\n

11-13, Replace your Borg.txt. <\/strong>Borgs will cast a few more preparatory
\nspells (Bless, Berserk, Hero, Speed, Resistance) before Recall hits, and also
\nbefore taking stairs down. Also I made a significant revision in borg
\nvariables. The borg will now cheat more variables instead of reading them from
\nthe screen. This will help speed him up a bit. I have renamed many of the
\nvariables and moved some into Adam Goodman’s borg_skill[] array. This will aid
\nin porting the borg to other variants. With these new changes, there may be
\nsome odd bugs creep in. I found one related to the borg not liking speed rings.
\nI found another one with the borg not wanting to carry food. Adam was kind
\nenough to debug for me, for which I am grateful. There may be more hiding. I hope
\nto be able to convert and cheat in a few more variables which will allow
\nportability and speed to the borg. Cheating game variables goes against the
\nPrime Directive of the Borg, which was “to read the screen and make
\ndecisions based on that information.” But the information being cheated is
\nnot privilaged, the borg ‘could’ be made to read that information, I am just
\nskipping the read to speed up the borg. Anything the borg is cheating to know,
\nthe player has access to. So if you have a significant philosophical hangup
\nwith some of these new changes, better stick with November 9 borg. (Confession:
\nthe borg does cheat privilaged information when it tracks monster health.
\nInstead of reading the **** bar at the bottom and guessing the monsters
\nremaining HP, it steals the actual number of HP from the game. Getting rid of
\nthis cheat is on my to-do list. I think RML will let me borrow this from his
\nborg.)<\/p>\n

11-9, Borgs who are waiting to recall back into the dungeon will try to cast
\nPFE, or GOI just before the Recall hits. The borg will cast the spell 20 game
\nturns after the recall is cast. Note this is game turns not borg turns, incase
\nthe borg is hastened or slowed. The recall will occurr somewhere between 16 and
\n35 turns after the recall spell is cast. So there is a chance that the GOI\/PFE
\nwon’t be on if the recall is activated from 16-19 turns. Resting to regain mana
\nwill now take place until clevel 25, instead of 15. The perma-spells won’t be
\nused until clevel 30 to avoid certain types of low mana loops. Lastly, the borg
\nwon’t use Genocide if he has less than 75 HP. (Which was a very sad death when
\nhe Genocided ‘D’s with only 9 HP).<\/p>\n

11-8, Tried to reduce the behavior of swapping in and out junky bows and
\nslings. I also updated the HAS_LITE patch for 293. Lastly, borgs will crush the
\nwhole stack of items instead of one at a time.<\/p>\n

11-7, Confused borgs would cure confusion at just about any cost. Even
\nsurrounded by 100 Chaos Bugs and with only 1 HP, he would drink a CCW to cure
\nconfusion then attempt the teleport staff on the next round. I have corrected
\nthis so if the borg is in pretty tough circumstances (danger >= HP * 15\/10)
\nthen he will risk the fail attempt and try that Teleport Staff. He has nothing
\nto lose, there would be very little chance of him surviving a second round.<\/p>\n

11-5, Clevel <= 5 borgs will flee level 1 & 2 if they hear a door
\nbeing bashed open. Grip and Fang do this. It may help the borg. Some snakes
\nalso bust down doors. Snakes are not generally a problem for the borg, but the
\ndogs are. 2) When trying to gain speed spell, borg will now choose artifacts
\nand other recharging things before consumables (staves, potions). 3) Borg is
\nnow aware that GOI does not protect against the annoying effect of some attack
\ntypes (disenchanting of equipment, blindess, etc) .<\/p>\n

11-2, Added a new function which has been called Mynstral Scumming or Money
\nScumming. The borg will stay in town killing townspeople until a monetary goal
\nis reached. The goal can be set in borg.txt called borg_money_scum_amount. Read
\nthe note in borg.txt for more information on this. This routine is more for
\npple playing the game than for the borg itself. It is set up to help you
\npurchase that gotsta-get-me-one-a-dem Black Market items.<\/p>\n

10-25, Corrected a miscalc error induced by the borg_danger changes made a
\nfew days ago. This is a big deal here. The mistake forced the Averaging of
\nMonster Danger. So you could encounter a Dracolisk (w\/o any RNeth) and have it
\nonly return a danger of 150 or so, since the Nether attack was averaged.
\nActually the danger should be close to 500.<\/p>\n

10-14, Borg will conserve arrows a bit more by not shooting at non-melee
\nguys guys lower than his level. A few scary guy changes: 1. Borg is now allowed
\nto flow through traps (even if they are dangerous) if a scary guy is on the
\nlevel. 2. Borg will walk over a trap instead of disarming it if fleeing. 3. No
\nresting to recover HP\/SP.<\/p>\n

10-23, Borg rebrowses store more frequently to reduce the store loops.<\/p>\n

10-22, The borg has been able to genocide monsters which immediately threaten
\nhim, Mass Genocide, and genocides Hounds at the start of a level. But I have
\nadded a new routine which will genocide a race which is very threatening to the
\nlevel, though not on him directly. This will allow him to genocide escorts even
\nthough they are not posing immediate danger. It will also allow the borg to
\ngenocide a race if a summoner went happy and filled the level with a particular
\ntype. The criteria may need some tweaking. Currently the borg will genocide a
\nrace if that race’s combined danger is at least 10x the borg’s maximal
\nhitpoints. I suspect that would be about 8 Dracoliches or Black Reavers on a
\nlevel, or maybe 6 Chaos Beetles. Safegards have been added to make sure the
\nborg does not kill himself in the process.<\/p>\n

10-19, Added a safegaurd to the genocide spells, incase there were monsters
\nwhich were not known to the borg.<\/p>\n

10-18, Mages are encouraged not to melee (while low level) attack if
\npossible they tend to swing and miss too much when they should be using Magic
\nMissile. The reduced danger of scared monsters with ranged attacks is removed,
\nthey are still dangerous and still cast spells. (Stupid borg got killed by a
\nNightwing with only 35 HP. It cast Nether Ball, and the borg had about 150HP.
\nThe borg did not fear the NW since it was fleeing and was about 5 grids away.
\nOne arrow would have finished it up.) I increased the likelihood of the borg
\nusing his perma spells. ( Perma spells are things like, Haste Self is cheap so
\nhave it on all the time).<\/p>\n

10-17, Sometimes (albeit rarely) the borg may think that it is on a glyph
\nand assume that he is safe from danger. I added a routine to remove the glyph
\nfrom under the borg if he is struck in melee combat. I also allowed borgs to
\nuse their *heal* and life pots as part of their healing check. But they are
\nrestricted to combat with uniques. This will save some borgs but the borg will
\nhave a tough time collecting these potions since he will be consuming them more
\nfrequently. Dark and Light hounds will be ‘scary-guys’ even if the borg has a
\nsupply of CCW. Too many were drinking and getting blinded the next turn. So
\nnow, unless the borg has RBlind, these guys will be feared. The borg will now
\nrest to recharge a rod of recall (he already does this for healing rods).<\/p>\n

10-16, Rework of how full vs probable danger (damage) is calculated by the
\nborg. He had been miscalculating the danger of breath attacks partly due to his
\nincreased speed and some arbitrary formulas. ie. If a Wyrm only breathes 1 out
\nof 10 turns but breaths for 500 damage. The borg would consider the danger to
\nbe 50. But if the borg had 500 or fewer HP then the danger was recognized as
\n500 (Since it could kill him in one turn). However, if the borg was hastened to
\ntwice the wyrm speed then the 50 danger was reduced even more. Basically, it
\nwas messing up at calculating the true danger of breath attacks especially if
\nthe borg was greater than +10 speed. I also added a 6th check in borg_escape().
\nThis will allow mage and priest borgs to escape if he is getting low on mana
\nand in a moderately dangerous position (danger is about 60% of his HP).<\/p>\n

10-15, 1) Desperate borgs will now not flow through unknown grids to get to
\nthe stairs. It is better for them to take the known route. 2) Chaos breather
\ntypes are added to the scary guy list. 3) Minor fix on buying equipment from
\nthe home and having to rebrowse the store. 4) Minor tweak on the mana-use
\npenalties associated with use of Magic Missile by low level mages. 5) Tweak to
\nthe Level 4 Healing test.<\/p>\n

10-12, Genocide will now make a count and estimate the amount of strain
\ndamage to be recieved. (Mass Gen already did this, I must have forgotten it for
\nGeno). Some rework on the danger of an unseen monster done. Also, the borg may
\nuse the Teleport Level scroll to flee a dangerous place. I made a change to the
\nborg_danger() routine also. For some time now, the borg would average the
\ndamage of the various ranged attacks of the monster. This helped his bravery
\nconsiderably. Especially if he had two immunities. However, if there was an
\nattack that had significantly more damage than the others, then no average was
\nmade and the most dangerous attack was returned. There is a problem when
\ndealing with defence manuevers. If the borg is considering casting a spell like
\nResistance and the monster also has a non resistable attack (like Disenchant
\nfor the Tarresque) then the damage returned will be for that spell, since the
\ndanger of the others (like fire, cold) will be greatly reduced by the proposed
\ndefence spell. The result will be the borg will not cast the resistance spell eventhough
\nit may be a very good idea. To fix this, the flag ‘average’ is added to the
\nborg_danger() to skip this check and return the average damage. This will allow
\nthe borg to more carefully consider the double resist defence manuevers.<\/p>\n

10-11, I improved the ‘short leash’ routines for low level borgs. They will
\nnow stay in the dungeon longer but still remain fairly close to the stairs.<\/p>\n

10-4, I improved the ‘Desperate for Stairs’ routine, it does help the borg
\nbut many die being desperate for stairs. I also improved how the borg will
\nfight when there is a scary guy on the level.<\/p>\n

10-3, Borgs had been very careful when exploring traps; only doing so if
\ndexterous enough or with enough HP to survive setting it off. However borgs
\nwere allowed to flow through a trap on its way to some other interesting grid.
\nThis allowed the borg to disarm the trap as it passed by. This is resulted in a
\nseveral trap deaths. This is now repaired. A borg will be forbidden to flow
\nthrough a trap if it does not meet certain criteria based on Disarming Skill
\nand HP. In addition to this, the low level borgs will activate the search
\ncommand while exploring the dungeon. Hopefully this cut down down on some trap
\ndeaths. 2) Borgs had been ‘resting on town stairs to gain mana’ with a scrawny cat
\nscratching him for 1 pt each round, eventually leading to a very embarrassing
\ndeath.<\/p>\n

10-2, Borgs had been penalized for shooting monsters who stood one square
\naway. That restriction is now lifted if the monster is a unique. Minor fix to
\nhow Warriors and Rogues ID {good} items.<\/p>\n

10-1, Repaired a bug relating to the recent ring fixes; the recently removed
\nring may take the inventory slot of the desired ring and the borg was putting
\non the old ring again, creating a loop. It is now repaired.<\/p>\n

9-27, The bug relating to having a +14 Ring of Speed in the home and a +7 on
\nthe hand has been repaired. With this I also made the ring selecting routine a
\nbit smarter. I also fixed the bug that let a borg wield a digger while trying
\nto fight monsters. If I get a chance later today, I will take a closer look at
\nammo use for rangers: making sure they don’t waste it, pick it up after
\nshooting, and possibly return to town if low on ammo. Finally, I’d like to make
\nsure the borg is not using weak damage spells on tough monsters when he should
\nrun up on them and beat them with a weapon. Too often the borg has launched
\nMagic Missiles at Tiamat because she was not within melee range and the borg
\nhad no other ranged attack. Personally, I’d run up on her or hide around a
\ncorner and let her come to me.<\/p>\n

8-30, Borg upgraded to run in 293. I added a new borg.txt variable
\n(borg_delay_factor) for those folks who can’t seem to figure out how to slow
\nthe borg down. I corrected some errors pointed out by David Grabiner relating
\nto some borg_restock, borg_prep functions.<\/p>\n

7-25, I fixed some errors pointed out by Mika V. They related to
\ninconsistencies in Dynamic vs non-Dynamic Calcs, and a few minor others. Borg
\nupdates are slow this Summer. Several house projects going on, and work has
\nbeen pretty busy (I might need to hire more staff).<\/p>\n

7-19, I increased the value of the Detect Evil\/Monster for borgs so that
\nthey will learn it faster, and increased the frequency of its use for low level
\nborgs. This greatly helped clevel 2 mages and clevel 1 priests avoid Kobolds
\nand other scary guys. Immediately upon entering a level they detected the scary
\nguys and fled back to town. Secondly, if a spell caster loses his spell book
\nwhich grants Sat.Hunger he will flee to town instantly (let me know if this
\ndoes not happen). If a starving player has a full inventory he cannot buy food.
\nSo a starving player will crush inventory items to make room for food. Thirdly,
\nI made sure the borg had enough money to make group puchases (5 food for $20).
\nLastly, I repaired the problem with the 74-75 AC problem; that curve is
\nsmoothed out (I hope).<\/p>\n

7-16, The borg was told to not flow to a summoner through a perma rock.
\nThere are a bunch of winners that were emailed to my home computer that need to
\nbe forwarded to my work computer. I will try to get those winners in the next
\nday or so.<\/p>\n

7-13, The spell book dump (^zd) did not list the 9th spells. That is now
\nrepaired. Light and Dark hounds are now considered scaryguys if the borg does
\nnot have at least 3 CCW. Rerolling of stats upon respawn was redone. It is now
\nPrimary 17, Str 14, Dex 16, Con 13. This should help those poor mages who end
\nup with 6 Str and get slowed by equipment. The ‘desperate for stairs’ was
\nmodified slightly to make it smarter. The borg will still consider Grip and
\nFang scaryguys and try to run from them. But if they are adjacent to the borg
\nthen he will (or should) fight them. These two guys have extra speed so the
\nborg tries to run to the stairs (distance of n spaces) and the dog get one move
\nand one hit each round, leading to the borg death. I think if a borg had about
\n15 HP he ought to be able to take out the dogs.<\/p>\n

6-28, The fix that correction for the inscription problem may be causing
\ncrashes so I removed it.<\/p>\n

6-18, The borg will now correctly handle chests that are not trapped.<\/p>\n

6-13, Fixed that bug that made the borg crash when starting on depth 127.<\/p>\n

6-12, Ez_heals are more likely to be used if Morgoth is dead. Some more
\ninformation is displayed in Borg_status window when deeper than level 97.
\nAnother alteration to formula111 of borg.txt. I boosted the reward for melee
\ndamage if deeper than depth 75 while decreasing AC bonus if AC is greater than
\n75. I am hoping that a borg will choose a ring of damage over a ring of
\nprotection. There is still a problem with the borg inscribing objects and the
\ngame not accepting the inscription. To work around this, the borg will only
\ninscribe in town.<\/p>\n

6-8, Fixed the sanctuary-chaos bettle thing.<\/p>\n

6-5, Stat draining monsters are feared more if the borg does not Sustain.
\nAltered slightly the formula111 for borg.txt. I added some code to handle the
\nOne Ring better.<\/p>\n

6-4, Borgs will now be more likely to consume a ez_heal if he has several of
\nthem in inventory or if he is fighting a unique deep in the dungeon. A minor
\noversight involving a “more confused” monster was repaired<\/p>\n

6-1, Borgs will now Search, Disarm and Open chests. I tried to influence the
\nborg to dive quicker to 100 if on 99 and prepped to dive.<\/p>\n

5-30, 1) I fixed it so that borgs won’t prefere Hard Biscuits over Food
\nRations when low on food. 2) Borgs may store a few more food items in the home.
\n3) I corrected for a potential problem where the borg may take too many slots
\nin the house storing foods of different types. I hope these cut down on the
\nsurge in starvation deaths.<\/p>\n

5-29, Added a bonus to borgs to carry more food if they Regenerate but do
\nnot have Slow Digestion. Fixed a few bugs in the the dragon borg.<\/p>\n

5-25, Slime Molds will now be eaten as food if the borg is hungry.
\nDragonAngband Borg is ready.<\/p>\n

5-24, Repaired a bug which had risky borgs crashing the game.<\/p>\n

5-17, I allowed the borg_worship variables to work when the dynamic calc
\noption is on, previously the worship variables only effected the borg if
\ndynamic calcs were off. Also fixed it so that the borg_plays_risky will work if
\ndynamic calcs are on.<\/p>\n

5-15, Vaevictus is providing scripts for more up to date borg stats. Check
\nout the stat page. Borgs set on continual play mode (auto respawning) will now
\nmake high score entries.<\/p>\n

5-14, Repaired a possible bug with shop-swaps (buying-selling same item).
\nShovels will not be carried if the player has crappy digging skills. Stat
\nreducing attacks are now feared much more. Holy Word is a bit more likely to be
\ncast when in Questor Combat.<\/p>\n

5-11, I attempted to fix a possible reason why some preists get their stats
\ndrained to zilch (by increasing the skill amount required before attempting to
\ndisarm traps). Repaired a bug relating to Maggot and mages dancing in town. I
\naltered the ‘reason for not diving’ from “Uniques >=3” to the name
\nof the most shallow unique which must be killed. Now it is not entirely true
\nthat that particular unique must die (one of the other two could die and that
\nwould satisfy the borg enough to dive). But having th e name looks cool. I also
\nadded the name to the depth 99 reason “Uniques still alive.” I also
\nfixed a rare miscalc in which borgs would die to Chaos Beetles. Digging has
\nbeen altered so that the borg is less likely to dig (requiring greater digging
\nskills).<\/p>\n

5-10, I fixed an error on the borg txt relating to maximizing spell points
\nonce GOI is legal. I added the recall depth to the borg status window. Vaevictus<\/a> is putting together cgi scripts for
\nthe borg stats. I made an attempt to fix the problem that kept mages from
\ndiving to depth 100 even though they had potions. If you have a borg stuck on
\ndlevel 99, I’d like a copy of the save file so I can test the various fixes.<\/p>\n

5-7, I fixed the bug that kept the winners from dumping their maps. I added
\na new borg.txt variable ‘auto_respawn_winners’ which will have the borg respawn
\na new borg right after killing Morgoth. Personally, I like seeing winner screen
\nwith all the earthquake destruction and the crown laying on the ground. But
\nsome folks in the newsgroup would like it so they won’t have to mess with
\nrenaming saver files after a win. By default this variable will be off.<\/p>\n

5-3, Aggrevation curse now has a higher penalty. I corrected the way in
\nwhich maximal weapon damage is calculated with respect to adding the +to_dam
\nthen calculating the slay factor. I made some modifications to the weapon
\nchoice and reward system. The borg was not really considering overlaping slays
\nand was given great rewards for ‘slay everything’ weapons. I have altered the
\nborg with the following:<\/p>\n

1. Slay Animal is only rewarded if Brand Electric is not possesed.<\/p>\n

2. Slay Orc and Slay Troll are rewarded less if Slay Evil is possesed.<\/p>\n

3. Brand Electric has an increased reward.<\/p>\n

These changes will significantly impact how the borg worships Zarcuthra.
\nAlthough it is a nice weapon, it was receiving too great a reward based solely
\non the slays. One problem with the altering of SAnimal and BElec will be
\nlightning breathing hounds and vortices. But I would not worry about that too
\nmuch.<\/p>\n

5-1, I repaired a bug which had mages acting goofy when maggot was around.
\n15 food rations and light fuels are no longer required since they are so heavy
\nfor low level characters. The borg who is scumming town will return after about
\n3500 turns instead of 10,000. I repaired a bug which had borgs planting glyphs
\nwhile digging out vaults with summoners therein. I also implemented a very good
\nsuggestion concerning disturb_move. The spell casters will rest to regain mana,
\nbut resting with ESP will only res t one turn. Now disturb_move will be altered
\nbased on the danger of near by monsters. This will allow borgs to fully rest
\ninstead of resting a few turns.<\/p>\n

4-25, I lowered the ‘out-of-sync’ threshold to 10,000 turns. So the borg will
\nrealize that something is wrong sooner. I lowered the number of times that the
\nborg will park and try to enchant his equipment. It was at 500 turns in town,
\nnow to 350. I also added some time variables to the borg status term window.
\nThis might help in some debugging of loops.<\/p>\n

4-17, I fixed that bug that kept the borg resting to recharge an item that
\nhad already recharged.<\/p>\n

4-16, Bablos and RyanW reported home-purchasing problems with the borg. I
\ntracked the bug to a faulty check to see if items were cursed. It is now
\nrepaired. I also improved the borg_restock() function by reducing the need for
\nCCW if the borg resists blindness and confusion.<\/p>\n

4-15, I noticed that the borg was turning auto_scum on when he was <
\nclevl 5 and on depth1-5. This is pretty insane. So I altered it so the borg
\nwill not turn on auto_scumming until he is at a safer clevel (35).<\/p>\n

4-13, I repaired a potential bug in the borg defence code, the borg may have
\ntried to read a scroll of Detect Inviso when it was dark and he was out of
\nlight. I also modified the respawn stats and removed them from borg.txt. Now
\nthe primary and secondary stats will be rolled at 17, and CON will be 16. These
\nare values before any race\/class bonuses are added. Secondary stat is usually
\nDEX except for Priests, they have STR as their secondary.<\/p>\n

4-12, Added two more “scary guys”: Filthy street urchins, and
\nFarmer Maggot. Neither one was bad individually but they caused the borg to
\nrace around town waking up too many towns ppl and that lead to deaths. I
\nrepaired a potential bug with Azriel’s listing as a scary guy, since Mages
\nwon’t need RNethr Azriel may have been classified as Scary. I made a few minor
\nimprovements to the digging routines to keep weakling from trying to dig for
\ntreasure. I also made borgs more likely to rest to regain mana and HP.<\/p>\n

4-11, (late in the afternoon) I greatly modified how the mages and priests
\ntreat their equipment and mana. Once the mage has the GOI spell the borg will
\nturn on a super mana-worship in order to get the INT up to 18\/200. Priests do a
\nsimilar thing once they have the Holy Word spell. Again, this is done through
\nborg.txt. My goal is to get as close to 0% fail on GOI and HW.<\/p>\n

4-11, There must have been some problems with my updates. I had patched the
\nborg to fix the cursed shovel business but something must have gotten messed up
\nwith the upload. I have repatched those areas so that the borg will better
\nhandle cursed equipment. I implemented a suggestion from Riivo not to force
\nmages to have RNethr or RChaos if they have good HP and reliable GOI. This will
\nallow your mage borgs to dive faster since they do not have to wait for these
\ntwo resists at depth 60. What “reliable” means is this: If a mage has
\ngreater than 650 HP and<\/em> RBlind and<\/em> RConf and<\/em> ESP and<\/em>
\nGOI is at least 4% fail. Thankfully I was able to code this into the BORG.TXT.
\nSo if you do not want to have this implemented then you can modify those two
\nlines of borg.txt (all send a warm-fuzzy to Adam). Please update your
\nborg.txt<\/strong><\/p>\n

4-10, Borgs are now more likely to purchase *Enchant* scrolls. Borgs are now
\nless likely to waste their CCW on annoyances (Blind Warrior with ESP, Cuts when
\nHP are high). The cursed shovel thing is (I hope) repaired.<\/p>\n

4-4, Lowered the amount of time that priests and paladins will spend
\nenchanting their stuff (cut in half). Riivo submittted a patch to repair some
\nbugs in the swap code which may have been causing errors and crashes on Win2k
\nmachines. Several winners in the past couple of weeks.<\/p>\n

3-19, Lowered the threshold for the ‘out-of-sync’ borg to attempt to
\nresynchronize with the game. I updated the has_lite
\npatch for 292<\/a> and enabled it for the binaries here.<\/p>\n

3-15, Repaired the bug which made certain classes (mostly rogues) store
\nseveral hundred speed pots in the house. This error was a big deal because he
\nwould junk more important items to make room for more speed pots. I also tried
\nto speed the borg up some by eliminating two monster race scans that occur
\nafter depth 75. They were related to looking for the Tarrasque instead of
\npointing to the index (539). It now looks directly at the index. This is only a
\nconcern for people who use the JLE patch and move The Tarraseque from its
\nlocation (monster 539). The borg will now return to his home if he has been
\naway ofr longer than 10,000 turns (regardless if fighting a unique, or a vault
\non the level).<\/p>\n

3-14, The game option of auto_more will now be set FALSE by the borg. I also
\nmodified the borg stat roller to use primary and secondary stats. Jesper Nelson
\nsubmitted a patch which will allow randomly generated borgs to have higher
\nstarting (but still legal) stats. For example a Warrior would roll for 17 STR
\nand 17 DEX and 16 CON, while Mage would want INT to be maxed instead of STR.
\nThese values are called upon when the auto_respawn_class is -1 (for random)
\notherwise the starting stats from borg.txt are used. Also, a note is made in
\nthe message log about how many turns it took the stat roller to meet the
\nminimal requirements. Several folks have submitted
\nwinners<\/a>, so the list is growing.<\/p>\n

3-9, I attempted to repair a bug which kept the priest borgs from diving to
\ndepth 100 if they had Life potions instead of *Healing* as their emergency
\nheals. If you have a priest at depth 99 and it has more than 25 *Healing* and
\nLife potions and it won’t dive, then please let
\nme know<\/a> and send me the file. Also, I very minor bug fix to
\nborg_home_power() related to the priest Restoration spell. You will need to
\nreplace your borg.txt<\/span><\/p>\n

3-8, Fixed a bug which could make the borg collect ego weapons if he was
\nwielding a randart digging weapon.<\/p>\n

3-7, Fixed an error which kept borgs fighting in dangerous situations if
\nthere maximal hitpoints were greater than 550. It should have been the current
\nHP instead. Also fixed several things related to wearing cursed items. 1)
\ncursed shovels won’t be selected and the borg will not try to swap out a cursed
\nweapon to wield his shovel. 2) buying scroll of *remove curse* (he already knew
\nto use them, just not buy them). 3) Improvements on identifying what items are
\ncursed.<\/p>\n

3-5, Fixed a bug that kept priests from diving to depth 100. Fixed a minor
\nissue relating to the purchasing-selling loops. You will need to update your
\nborg.txt file.<\/p>\n

2-28, Fixed a bug that allowed the borg to crush really nice ego items if
\nthey suffered some acid damage. Borgs will now not dig if they are in danger,
\nbut will use the Stone to Mud spell.<\/p>\n

2-27, Encouraged the borg to carry more missiles, and to carry less food (to
\navoid being slow while low STR) This (most likely) will not impact the rate at
\nwhich borgs die of starvation.<\/p>\n

2-26, Minor repair to the shoveling code (again). Minor alteration to
\nimprove the Banishment spell. Minor fix to keep the borg from trying to pick up
\nand item when all his inventory slots are full.<\/p>\n

2-24, Minor but possibly sgnificant change in how the borg calcuates the
\neffectiveness of the Banishment spell. Also swap weapons as diggers improved:
\nRandarts with tunnelling counted, and if the Stone to Mud spell is legal, then
\nno diggers are carried.<\/p>\n

2-22, Forbade the borg from crushing Speed potions (Although mages might do
\nit later), Applied some patches from Markus L. to smooth out a couple of rough
\nedges. Also, borgs are more likely to back into a corridor if surrounded, even
\nif the first few steps are dangerous.<\/p>\n

2-21, Teleport Level is now used to escape a very dangerous level if the
\nborg has no Teleports or Phase. The borg will no longer Bash doors if he is
\nweak from hunger.<\/p>\n

2-20, A few more purchase restrictions, this time paladins and rangers
\nbuying that 2nd spell book before clevel 8. Removed the dlevel 25 ‘teleport7’
\nrequirement for mage and priests if they have 0% fail on the teleport spell and
\nRBlind and RConf.<\/p>\n

2-19, I restricted the low level borgs ability to buy things in order to
\nconserve money for more imortant items. For example a brand new borg would buy
\n5 more Food items, and 5 more Torches. Spending about $40 on these. A mage
\nmight by the next spell book for $125, even though he can not read a spell
\nuntil clevel 5. So I have restricted his ability to buy these items if he
\nalready has enough. I also made a few minor enhancements to DVE’s Borg Status
\nWindow. I repaired a bug which had the borg acting twitchy in town and bouncing
\noff and on the stairs until he died. I reduced the number of Heal Pots required
\nfor Mages and Priests. Update your borg.txt.2-18, Several changes 1) altered
\nand improved the way the borg collects and uses Speed Potions for the end game.
\n2) reduced the fear of uniques who summon other monsters. 3) repaired a bug in
\nthe borg_ready_morgoth calculations 4) borg will remove the borg_on_level flag
\nif he kills a unique on that level (otherwise he would stay on that level for
\nabout 8000 turns) 5) Monstes to teleport or blink, or polymorpth are no longer
\nconsidered dead but are deleted from the monster list. 6) improved how the borg
\nwill fear the final uniques at the deep levels as he prepares for Sauron and
\nMorgoth. 7) repaired an error in the borg_heal() routine that could creep in
\nwhile fighting Questors. 8) borg is more likely to use Mana Storm on uniques.
\n9) the fear of collateral damage from spells reduced (ice shatters potions,
\nborg penalized the spell by 2000 pts). Collateral damage fear removed entirely
\nfor Mana Storm spell. 10) use of Banishment improved. 11) use of perma spells
\nwhile holding the immunity made smarter. 12) borg a little braver about chasing
\ndown a unique and picking a fight with it. 13) resting to recharge an item now
\nchecks for nearby monsters. 14) added the weapon slays to the borg status
\nwindow. 15) I think I fixed that junk at the end of the line in the .map
\nfile<\/p>\n

1-31, A few fine tuning of the shovel code, including the bug that had him
\ncrushing his main weapon as soon as he swapped in the shovel.<\/p>\n

1-27, The borg will now carry and use Diggers (shovels, picks). He will swap
\nthem in right before digging, then wield his weapon as soon as the dig is
\ncomplete. I fixed a bug with borgs being out of light and wanting to the
\nstairs.<\/p>\n

1-25, Repair to the Azriel scary_guy code. Some repairs and changes to how
\nthe borg fears uniques at low levels. Also some changes and improvements to the
\n“leash” on the low level borgs.<\/p>\n

1-24, I made some improvements to how the borg refreshes the GOI spell. I
\nalso improved the way the borg handles his preparedness for the final two
\nquestors and their levels.<\/p>\n

1-23, 1) Tinkered with a few of the borg_defense() maneuvers. 2) Tinkered
\nwith the upper end borg_heal() stuff. 3) Borg will not dig a-s corridor into a
\nperma-wall (“Dayam, this rock is tough”) 4) Borg will not drop to
\ndlevel 99 until non-Questor uniques are dead (most of the time). 5) added a new
\nborg.txt option borg_scums_uniques. When TRUE it will turn on the autoscumming
\nif the borg is waiting to kill a unique in order to dive. 6) The borg is now
\nallowed to dive to 99, under special conditions, even if uniques are still
\nalive. 7) The borg will immediately cast Teleport Level to rise to 99 if he
\nrecalls to dlevel 100 and he is not ready to fight Morgoth.<\/p>\n

1-22, I fixed the crash bug that crept in on the 1-19 release. I repaired a
\nbug in the way the borg collects Res Mana pots for the final fight. I also
\nmodified the low mana threshold for when the borg will rest to regain mana. I
\npatched a hole in borg_heal().<\/p>\n

1-19, A couple of fine tunes to the anti-summoning routine. He will not
\ntunnel if confused, out of light, or too weak (or no stone to mud spell). He
\nwill not tunnel if the summoner is further than 8 grids away.<\/p>\n

1-18, The borg will now dig anti-summoning corridors. He will do this in a
\nlimited way. The summoner must be adjacent to a wall, and that wall grid must
\nnot have more than 4 floor grids touching it. Please report any abnormal
\nbehavior with this behavior. I also added some changes so that the TK borg can
\nbe updated without too much effort from Tim B.<\/p>\n

1-16, 1) Repaired a bug relating to the borg exploiting offset-target ball
\nspells and Orb of Draining. 2) The borg will try to avoid carrying staves down
\nto fight Morgoth, since he drains them to heal himself. 3) Tweaked the use of
\nBanishment for Priests. 4) Mushrooms of Restoring are stored in the house for
\nuse against Morgoth.<\/p>\n

1-12, Altered the RFire and RCold perma spells so that the borg will (more
\nlikely) cast them if fighting a unique. Borg now reports if he is standing on a
\nstair (used in debugging certain types of twitchy town deaths)<\/p>\n

1-11, Repaired how the borg sees and averages the danger of spell attacks
\nfrom monsters. I also modified the ‘short leash’ on borgs to keep them close to
\nthe stairs.<\/p>\n

1-9, Repaired a minor error on low level borgs exploring the dungeon far
\nfrom stairs.<\/p>\n

1-2, Added the auto_stop_clevel, _dlevel and _king to the borg.txt file.<\/p>\n

1-1, 2001 I repaired some bugs that crept in when I messed up my downloads the
\nother day. Priests have a slightly different way of handling this Glyph arrays,
\nincluding then glyphs are destroyed. It sure would be nice if the glyph spell
\nhad a launch message like the scroll. RR- think you can put that back in for
\n292?<\/p>\n

12-30, Fixed a bug in the borg_perma_spells(); the priests were not casting
\nRFire or RCold.<\/p>\n

12-29, A few minor fixes. 1) how the borg uses Holy Word, 2) tried to fix a
\nbug that caused the borg to be twitchy in town instead of taking stairs. 11-24,
\nAdded two more winners. Made changes and corrections to the way the borg uses
\nDetect Invisible spell. I fixed some errors in borg_power pointed out from Adam
\nG. Lastly, made a few modifications to how items are sold if the
\nborg_worships_gold.<\/p>\n

11-21, Made a correction to the use to Teleport Away; I think I finally got
\nit right \ud83d\ude42 I repaired a hack for fighitng the Tarrasque. Oh and I went deer
\nhunting this morning and got a really nice doe.<\/p>\n

11-20, Made some clean ups to the code. Altered: 1) added a
\nborg_worships_gold to the borg.txt; you can read about it in the borg.txt. 2)
\nSlight improvement to how the borg uses LIfe potions when fighting Morgoth.<\/p>\n

11-17, Repaired the inscription routines which could result in a very minor
\nbug. Added another Winner<\/a> to the list.<\/p>\n

11-16, Cleaned the code a bit. I was asked to move all the borg related
\nfiles to \\lib\\user\\ which I did. I now ask you to move your borg.txt file to
\n\\lib\\user\\. This helps to clean the directories up a bit and when Angband 2.9.2
\ncomes out, it will be important to have the directory structure clean. If you
\ndo not have your borg.txt file in the user directory, then your borg will run
\nwith the default values on. Grahame White had another winner<\/a>. Nice job. Keep those Winners and
\nAlmosts in the email. And plz include the number of turns your borg had. You
\ncan read the final battle in the borg diary called battle.log.<\/p>\n

11-14, 1) Borg will takeoff items which grant regeneration if starving and
\nin town. 2) Made some repairs to the food and slime mold inscriptions; caused
\nproblems on unix machines. 3) Slight change to how the borg heals when fighting
\nQuestor monsters; he uses potions and won’t risk the fail of a rod or staff. 4)
\nIncreased his bravery while fighting Sauron. 5) Borg conserves his arrows alot
\nmore now. 5) The retreat code was modified to make him more likely to retreat
\nwhen surrounded by monsters, 6) He may rest on a stair if recooping his mana.<\/p>\n

11-13, 1) Made a repair and re-instated the Refreshing of GOI for mages. 2)
\nChanges to borg_escape() and borg_heal() to reduce risks of spell failures. 3)
\nI modified how the Tank Mage uses swaps; he had trouble diving. 4) Cleaned up
\nthe borg_log_battle() code for unix users. 5) Borgs will inscribe food and
\nSlime Molds (he keeps a few as pets)<\/p>\n

11-8. Several tweaks. 1) Rods of Ident now have a fail check. 2) Increased
\nthe borg auto roller to 500,000 instead of the 64,000. 3) Increased the penalty
\nfor using Broken Weapons. 4) Increased the penalty for carrying heavy stuff. 5)
\nModified the anti-clock overflow checks slightly. 6) Added a fail check to the
\namt_recall for spells. Some low intelligence borgs could not cast it. 7)
\nModified the cure blindness check in borg_heal() to avoid fixing blindness in
\nextreme danger when the borg has a teleport staff (and can successfully use
\nit). 8) Increased the urgency of restocking items in inventory. 9) Added a few
\nmore forms of phase to the “buying time for recall” section of
\nborg_caution(). 10) I added a special check and cure for confusion in borg_heal();
\nit relates to being confused and not being able to use a teleport staff with
\nsuccess. 11) Modified borg_flow_kill() so that he would not flow to ‘FRIENDS’
\nmonsters unless he and the monster are in hallways. This should cut down on
\nCave Spider deaths and other types where he gets whoopped by a gang.<\/p>\n

11-7, 1) Modified the penalty to Rangers and Rogues for wearing gloves; I
\nmade it less severe than mages. So they may wear gloves but at a penalty of
\n15000 pts, that translates to gloves of +8 AC will be worn. But if the
\nborg_worships_ac then he will be more likely to wear gloves of lesser AC (maybe
\n+5). 2) I attempted to repair a crash problem related to the borg_log_battle().
\nLet me know if you have problems with this routine in Linux.<\/p>\n

11-6, 1) I had to make a tiny fix to the back_swap() routine; it was looping
\nwith GOI on. 2) I also moved the auto stop variables to the borg.txt file.
\nThese three variables, when set, can tell the borg to stop at certain clevels,
\ndlevels, or when he wins the game. 3) Tiny fix on when the borg can retreat.<\/p>\n

11-3, Actually I had two winners yesterday. The other was a High Elf Mage.
\nYou can read about him above. I made a tiny change to borg_wear_stuff() so that
\nhe would not exchange items if he were in danger (unless that slot was empty).
\nI also set up collection and use of Potions of Beserk Strength. They are saved
\nby non-mage and non-priests, kept in the house until late in the game. He will
\nuse them when fighting uniques. I added a check for {indestructible} items.
\n{special} and {terrible} were already considered.<\/p>\n

11-2, Had a Winner today. A dwarf priest. Some repairs to the overhaul. A
\ncomplete detail may come in a day or two. I had the borg keep a diary of his
\nfight with Sauron, and Morgoth. It will be in Battle.log. I added a Tank Mage
\nplay style to high level mages. Basically, they try to conserve mana to keep
\nthe GOI up and use a massive damage weapon on monsters. I also had to fix the
\ndefence maneuver of Earthquake, it was miscalculating the benefit and so was
\nusing it too much. Other changes include: 1) don’t crush spell books to make
\nroom for items, 2) altered the collection of restore mana for fighting unique,
\n3) recalc of danger if PFE is on, 4) encourge borg to stay in the fight with
\nMorgoth even if very dangerous, 5) Do not use Word of Destruction on Morgoth.<\/p>\n

10-31, Major overhaul completed. Adam Goodman submitted a massive patch with
\nnumerous tweaks and some fine new code. The list of changes is extensive and
\nmuch of it relates to better handling of his equipment\/inventory. You will find
\nthat he dives faster and has greater life expectancy. Also, he and I worked on
\na Borg Configuration. Where you, the player\/observer, can configure and
\ncustomize the borg through a borg.txt. The borg.txt file should be placed in your
\n\\bone\\ directory. Then modify the variables to how you want the borg to play.
\nMore variables will be added as time goes on. The borg.txt has nice
\ndocumentation so read it for specifics. Send
\nsome feedback<\/a>.<\/p>\n

10-26, I increased the reward for Warriors, Paladins, and Rogues to carry
\nColluin (for the activation). I added Colluin to the list of BP_activations but
\nonly if a unique is on the level. I modified the BP_ spells to increase their
\nusage if uniques are on the level and especially if a unique is near the
\nplayer. I added the anti-buy-sell code to one other place where it could happen
\n(Best Fit). Boosted the Magic Missile damage for low level mages; too many were
\ngoing melee with and dying to Kobolds and they still had 2 or 3 mana pts. I
\nadded a varied AC bonus, so AC is worth less as you gain in clevels. I
\nincreased the danger from Nether attacks and lowered it’s requirement to dlevel
\n55 instead of 60. I increased the message buffer dump if the player dies on
\ndlevel 100; this might help us get a better feel of what happened if they die
\nto Morgoth.<\/p>\n

10-24, Repair to DragonBorg: Dragon Mages did not like to wear rings in one
\nparticular slot. I also added some requested code for Bablos.<\/p>\n

10-23, I made repairs to the DragonBorg. No changes to the Vanilla borg.<\/p>\n

10-19, Had a ***WINNER*** today. Human Mage. I had to make multiple changes
\nscattered throughout the code relating to how a borg deals with GOI, as well as
\nmany other changes. Here is a brief description. Increased the bonus for
\ncarrying Ringil, modifed the section in borg4.c relating to preparations for
\nthe big fight, encouraged the borg to drink his Potions of Life is his stats
\nare drained and fighting Morgoth.<\/p>\n

10-18, Minor tweaks how he borg deals with resists at deeper levels. I
\ninstalled the “genocide hounds.” So now he will kill hounds when he
\nenters a deep level so long as it is safe and he is in full health (and health
\nis at least 400). Resting to recharge Rod of Healing will not occurr is the big
\nRecharge Spell is legal. I modified the way the borg calculates danger while
\nGOI is up.<\/p>\n

10-17, I modified the way the borg handles weakness from hunger so that he
\nwill also consume potions for their nutritional value. I also tinkered with the
\nMass Genocide spell to see if I can get it to work better, including rewarding
\nthe borg for carrying Mass Genocide Scrolls.<\/p>\n

10-16, Fixed a potential bug in the Speed spell. Modified the Slay and Kill
\nDragon to be less desirable. Fixed a potential bug in the way the borg tracks
\nand forgets some types of monsters. I now have all the *.map files dump to the
\n‘save’ directory. I also reworked the Panel Shift code to shift the panel with
\napproaching the edge of the screen. He does this after dlevel 70.<\/p>\n

10-13, Fixed a potential bug in the re-worked Genocide Spell. It was
\npossible for him to a non -existant monster. It was highly unlikely that it
\nwould occurr, but you never know.<\/p>\n

10-12, I am still trying to pin down some common overflow bugs. One relates
\nto ID’ing a previously ID’d randart phial. Another involves reading a recall
\nscroll. And to my great disappointment my very promising mage died on level 71
\nto starvation. He was stuck bouncing on an item wanting to pick it up but his
\ninvenotry was full. I have no idea what he was thinking. There are several
\ncontrol measures that should stop that. Also, I repaired a bug in the new
\nGenocide calculations.<\/p>\n

10-10, I improved the way Genocide is calculated. I altered the way Heal
\nPotions are used when fighting Morgoth. And that required a slight increase in
\nthe number of ez-heal potions required for the final fight.<\/p>\n

10-9, Fixed a bug in the calculation of Mass Genocide. The borg thought it
\nworked on Uniques too. Fixed a hidden bug relating to waiting for the Recall to
\nkick in; sometimes the borg would rest too close to monsters. Modified the Prep
\nvalues for preparedness. Now instead of the ambigious “level” or ‘hp’
\nresponse, it will give the exact reason. ex: ’50 hp’ or ’25 clevel’. I also
\nfixed a bug that only occurred in the old tiles graphics. The borg would try to
\ndisarm Glyphs. This is because on the tile for traps and glyphs is the same in
\nthe Old Tiles. This bug did not occurr in ASCII or AB Tile mode.<\/p>\n

10-5, Fixed a bug in the priest defence spell Banishment (non evil critters
\nwere included and they should not be). I modifed the danger of melee fights
\nwith monster who HAVE_FRIENDS or ESCORTS or BREEDERS. I Added the WoR
\ncount-down to the death dump. This way you can see how many turns the borg
\nneeded before he would have returned to town. I know, I will cry too if the
\ncount is only 1. I modified the penalty for Mages who encumber themselves with
\nheavy armour (again). I made a few changes to strongly discourage the borg from
\nbeing a Tank Mage. Mages are now far more less likely to melee. Finally, I
\nallowed the borg to throw his last few oils at Grip and Fang. Before, he would
\nthrow TV_FLASKs but he would always keep his last 5. If he is fighting Grip and
\nFang, he is now allowed to throw them and hopefully dispatch the two muts, and
\navenge the deaths of 50-60 ancestors.<\/p>\n

10-4, I rewrote and renamed the borg_takeoff_stuff(). It works a little
\nbetter now. It is supposed to remove items that are considered useless. I fixed
\nthe circular queu for remembering previous borg steps. I also modified the way
\nArmour Class is rewarded (yet again). I think I like it like this. I also
\nincreased the penalty for wearing heavy armour which decreases mana. I put a
\n“area-clear-of-monsters” restriction in place for when the borg casts
\ndetection spells.<\/p>\n

10-3, I made a few minor changes and 1 huge one. 1. Priests just starting
\nout will sell the Potion of Healing and use the money to buy equipment and cure
\ncrits. 2. Borg will buy and store cure serious if low clevel. 3.
\n“Freedom” grids now include up-stairs and will be chased from the
\ndungeon. 4. Added an array to track where the borg has stepped. Like a trail of
\nbread crumbs. He will consider these grids when trying to retreat to a safer
\nplace. The theory being that where he just stepped from will have less monsters
\nthan retreating down an unexplored corridor which may have more monsters yet
\nundiscovered. “Happy” grids now include these grids where the borg
\nhas stepped. I would prefere to have the borg only store the last 50-75 steps.
\nBut I am not that familiar with CMAKE() and how it works. I set up the array to
\nstore 255 grids. I fear that the borg may get screwy when the array reaches
\nover 255. If anyone knows how to delete the 1st step from memory when the 75th
\nstep is reached, and then shift all values down one position, I’d appreciate knowing it<\/a>. Also if your
\nborg crashes the game, and it generally does not do that, then let me now<\/a>. It may be related to this
\narray overflowing<\/p>\n

10-2, I spent a lot of time this weekend working on human mages. I was
\ntinkering with the value of increased armour class. The mages increased their
\naverage clevel considerably. But they tended to wear so much armour that their
\nmana was reduced to virtually nothing. I still don’t have them getting over
\nclevel 25 with any consistency. Warriors, however,.seem to have very little
\ntrouble getting to clevel 25.<\/p>\n

9-29, Repaired the stat roller for the continual play borgs. Modified the
\nslight bonus given to using melee weapons for low level spell casters. I
\nreduded the random nature to some spells: Various methods of attacks would
\nreturn 0 10% of the time. This had been done to provide random spell use and
\nprevent some loops. Loops have been reduced so this can be removed. I also had
\nto fix an error introduced by using the Magic Missile in emergency situations.<\/p>\n

9-28, I made some huge hacks to keep mages alive. Including: 1. Modifying
\nthe Flow_kill. 2. Emergency use of Magic Missile. 3. Decreased the flee
\nthreshold for breederlevels. 4. Removed the restrictions which kept the borg on
\nthe level for a minimal amount of time. 5. Kept low level mages close to the
\nstairs-not allowing them to wander too far off. 6. Reduced the amount of food
\nthat the player will carry, in an attempt to keep him from becoming slow. 7.
\nRemoved the my_speed variable and replaced it with auto_speed. my_speed was an
\napporoximate, while auto_speed is the actual extracted speed. (At the end of
\nthe day, I had to fix a bug I introduced by messing with the my_speed and
\nauto_speed)<\/p>\n

9-27, I had to modify the attack for Wands of Wonder, for some reason, the
\nborg was locking up on this. Previously, he used them without any problems. I
\nmodified how the borg uses the ez_heal potions to encourage their usage if he
\nis low on teleport ability. Same change to use of Staff of Destruction. I saw
\nsuch a favorable response in the borg to the increase in AC from 10 to 20, that
\nI increased it to 50.<\/p>\n

9-26, I fixed an error in how the borg calculates danger from mana storms
\nand that water storm spell. He had been underestimating the damage. Also, I had
\nsome problems with my ftp program not over-writing my zip files on the webpage,
\nso some of the recent changes may not have been uploaded correctly. I have
\ncorrected the error and, hopefully, the files should all be updated with the
\nmost recent fixes. I also increased the reward for the first 20 pts of armour
\nclass instead of 10. I also restricted the purchase of items from the BM a bit.
\nIt caught the borg buying elvish waybread from the BM when he was only clevel
\n1, those funds would be better spent elsewhere.<\/p>\n

9-25, I fixed a bug that kept the borg from selling certain items to the
\nshops. Modified the use of Holy Word in borg_heal. Increased the reward for
\ncarrying Scrolls of Teleportation deeper in the dungeon. Forced the
\nSeed_Randart and do_randart() with the continual play borgs. Smoothed out the
\nborg_escape a bit more to make him more cautious. Made Nether more scary. I
\nalso had the borg Bash locked doors down if he is too clumsy to Open (Pick)
\nthem. Told the borg to save his arrows when fighting whimps. He would waste
\nthem on easy guys then have none left for the real hard guys. Please give me some
\nfeed back on how well this works.<\/p>\n

9-21, Modified several things: 1. borg_emergency_phase() to avoid a nasty
\nhabbit of teleporting in town when poisoned or bleeding. 2. how the borg
\nhandles fail rates on teleport staffs (again). 3. teleport away, can now be
\nused on uniques. 4. added more clevel dependance to dlevels in borg_prep(). 5.
\nadded more information to the character map dump. 6. borg_escape() to make him
\na bit more cautious at lower clevels.<\/p>\n

9-20, Borg told to escape breeder levels a little more quickly if he is low
\nlevel. Version Date inserted now at the time of compile. Told the borg not to
\nchase down town monsters until clevel 5. He will still attack them if he has a
\nclean shot, but he won’t persue them now. This is an attempt to lower the incidence
\nof death by Battle Scarred Vets (the #2 borg killer).<\/p>\n

9-19, Jurrian reported that a very promising borg died on dlevel 86 from a
\nfatal wound, even though he had 2 Potions of Life. Darn. The borg will now
\ninclude the ez_heal potions in his “critical attempts” to cure poison
\nand cuts. I encouraged the borg to wear items of FeatherFalling if he is low
\nlevel. This might cut down on some trap deaths.<\/p>\n

9-18, Updated the DrAngband borg with recent changes (from before my trip to
\nIdaho) and finally got the Windows version working correctly.<\/p>\n

9-15, Adjusted how the borg reacts to poison. Adjusted how the borg deals
\nwith Farmer Maggot; he won’t attack him until clevel 5. The borg tends to chase
\nMaggot all around waking up town monsters and then he is left to deal with
\nthem. Hopefully by clevel 5, the borg can dispatch Maggot a little quicker or
\nat least be in a better position to deal with the awake monsters. I also had to
\nmodify the borg_surrounded() incase the borg is ignoring breeders. He got stuck
\nin a dead end and kept retreating further into the dead-end. Eventually he
\nwould have starved to death.<\/p>\n

9-14, Fixed several things: 1. An error and some tweaks in
\nborg_danger_aux(). 2. Modified the Retreat and Backing Up routines from
\nborg_caution(). 3. Added an extra danger level for borg_escape(). 4. Increased
\nthe restrictions for low clevel diving in borg_prepared(). 5. Fixed a bug in
\nthe continual play mode. The borg’s recall depth was not reset to zero after
\nthe new borg started. 6. Borg would already ignore sleeping town monsters with
\nranged attacks. He now ignores them with physical attacks as well. Two of the
\ntop five borg killers are town monsters. Perhaps they should be avoided more.<\/p>\n

9-13, Increased the danger of Gravity Breathers. Added a danger check before
\nborg will ‘crush’ items. Too often he would boost bravery then crush an item
\ninstead of fighting. Changes to the web page. Added some Data
\nTables<\/a> to illustrate the borg deaths and see his weaknesses. It was
\nsurprising for me to see just how low the average borg level was. I thought he
\ndid much better than this.<\/p>\n

9-11, Minor code changes, just a few housekeeping issues.<\/p>\n

9-8, Adjusted when the borg will use his cure_crits versus star_heals when
\nfixing his life threatening do_confused and do_blind. Adjusted the fail rate to
\ngive the borg some “desparation” in attempting to use a staff of
\nteleportation. There were a few deaths when he should have tried to use the
\nteleport staff but thought he would fail so he did not even try. His inaction resulted
\nin death. He should at least attempt it on a teleport staff. After all, they
\nare used in a desparate situation.<\/p>\n

9-7, Tiny fix on the has_lite.zip to make sure monster memory is updated
\ncorrectly. Minor fix on a potential overflow bug related to targetting the
\noutside perma-walls.<\/p>\n

9-6, Tiny fix on the has_lite.zip to fix some extra stuff which had been
\nstuck into the .dif.<\/p>\n

9-5, Just a few minor tweaks to help the borg if he runs out of light; to
\nrefuel_torch() & _lanter(), danger of light draining attacks (silver
\njelly), potential for overflows addressed in borg danger(). I reconsidered RR’s
\nsuggestion to remove the amt_ident requirements for borg_prep(), they are now
\nremoved. I made an accomodation for the borg if he is fighting monsters who
\nhave the HAS_LITE flag.<\/p>\n

9-1, Added a sweet routine to get the borg to back into hallways to avoid
\nbeing surrounded by monsters. JWBlack mentioned how borgs get surrouned by
\norcs, and have no way to escape. I have considered this several times before
\nand I always thought to approach this via bord_danger(). As I thought about it
\nlast night, I came up with the borg_surrounded() in borg6.c Basically, he
\ncounts the number of monsters within 3 grids of him (skipping certain types),
\nand the number of free grids (open floors, open doors- something to which he
\ncould walk). If the number of monsters is greater than the number of free grids
\nthen he will consider a strategic retreat. It seems to work really well. I saw
\nhim back away from several monster groups and save himself with the routine
\nseveral times. I believe this will greatly assist low clevel borgs.<\/p>\n

8-30, minor tweaks to a couple things, not worth mentioning.<\/p>\n

8-29, I added the ability to select certain races for the continual play
\nborgs and screen saver. In the angband.ini file you can indicate the race and
\nor class you want all the borgs to be or you can select minimal stats for the
\nborg to use when it is rolling up a new character. See the documentation in
\nangband.ini. For those of you who do not use windows and therefore not using
\nthe angband.ini file, you can make those changes to the variable.c file then
\nrecompile. Just search for the word borg in variable.c and you will find it.
\nIt’s near the top. This function was adapted from Dennis’ Borgband which as
\nthis option. I also made a slight modification to how borgs locate broken doors
\nvs open doors.<\/p>\n

8-25, Fixed one of the possible store loops. Accomodated for a possible game
\nbug. The game forbids the targetting of perimeter walls. So now the borg must
\nalso not allow himself to target these walls. Also, I adapted the borg to work
\nwith extra races or modifications of the races. I know some people have
\nmentioned adding Kobolds and such, each with intrinsic abilities. Now the borg
\nwill accept those new races and know it’s abilities (RPois for Kobolds, etc).
\nThe borg pulls this info from the _info.raw so you can modify the _info.txt
\nwithout having to modify the borg or recompile.<\/p>\n

8-21, Increased the msg buffer so the borg would not overflow the messages
\nwhile paralyzed. Tinkered on the continual play mode to reduce the risk of
\ngetting stuck in walls prior to restarting in the town. Increased the level at
\nwhich the borg will dump a map of the dungeon to clevel 45. Fixed a bug wherein
\nthe borg would disarm a trap under a monster leading to a clock overflow.<\/p>\n

8-18, [V] I attempted to fix the memory leak on continual play borgs by
\navoiding the certain re-init process. But I don’t know how to test for a memory
\nleak. I also patched a problem that resulted in clockoverflows when wielding
\ntorches right after a borg respawns. The borg will create a borg.dat file which
\nI would like pple to send to me<\/a>
\nperiodically. It contains death information about the borgs. I will import this
\ninto a data base and track race-class combination success rates. With this
\ninformation I will be able to determine weakness in the borg then correct them.<\/p>\n

8-14, [V] I had a chance to look at RR9’s suggestions for the apwborg. I
\nwill work some of them in. Mainly the table look-up, legal race-class
\ncombination for continual play borgs, creating a borg-death-log in \\user, and
\nconversion of x,y to y,x in the reports. I considered his suggestion for the
\namt_ident for borg_prepared(). I decided to lighten the amt_ident but not remove
\nthem entirely. I have rarely seen the borg fail to dive due to amt_ident. The
\nbug with the rods was already fixed. Thx for the suggestions RR.<\/p>\n

8-12, [V+D] I worked on the code for the borg flowing when he is out of
\nlight. Previously he would flow to a lighted room and attempt a recall spell.
\nHe would also attempt to flow to the upstairs. However, there had been a flaw.
\nIf he was on dlevel two or deeper he would flow upstairs then stop on the next
\nlevel. Now I have him exploring the next dlevel. So he can explore in the
\ndungeon testing every grid for an up staircase. So now he can run out of light
\nat any depths and still find his way to the town. I also fixed a very rare bug
\nassociated with activation of certain rods on low level warriors. The borg had
\nbeen unhooking performing denfence type 1. This was related to the borg failing
\nto activate a rod properly. This is now fixed.<\/p>\n

8-2, [V] Fixed a bug where the borg would sometimes try to refuel his
\ntorches with oil. Fixed the bugs which kept the continual-play borg from
\nrestarting on certain types of death. And also those terrible clock overflows.
\nI think I got most of them hammered out now. I have not added this to the
\nDrangband borg yet. I am leaving for a 2 week vacation tomorrow, so I doubt I
\nwill get it uploaded. I plan on taking my laptop with me so I will be able to
\ncheck email and bug reports.<\/p>\n

7-31, [V] Fixed a bug which encouraged a starting borg to flow to a shop
\nwithout first equiping a torch. I fixed a few bugs related to continued-play
\nborgs. It does not run perfectly. But it is pretty good. It may have trouble
\nstarting up after certain types of death (those involving Stun, Poison,
\nParalysis, etc). It may rarely get confused on its equipment, and try to sell
\nstuff to the store which the store won’t buy. If this occurrs to you, just
\nreload Angband and restart the borg. He will be just fine after that.<\/p>\n

7-29, [V] Fixed a bug which would make the borg unhook when on
\ncontinued-play mode. There might be some more lurking so let me know<\/p>\n

7-28, [V+D] Finished working on a continuous play mode. Similar to Borgband.
\nUpon death of the borg, he will respawn as a random character and play. To
\nactivate this option, turn on the game cheat “Cheat Death.” It is
\nlisted under the Cheat Options in the Game Options Menu, (using = to activate
\nit. This code is entirely within the borg, you don’t need to modify the game
\nsource at all. This should allow some portability to the Borgband style of
\ncontinuous play. I also found another swap loop bug and sqaushed it. I was
\nreally surprised. I haven’t seen one in several months.<\/p>\n

7-25, [V+D] Replaced borg_los() with borg_projectable(). los() was making
\ntoo many mistakes and the borg kept dying when he thought it was safe
\n“backing up to [grid].” Reviewed and altered the borg_restock() so
\nthat he will be more aware of his needs at deeper levels. Increased the urgency
\nof fleeing to restock. [V] I found that inventory is cramped so I modified how
\nthe borg uses inventory items: ez_heal potions, cool_staff. And I am thinking
\nabout altering which books a rogue will carry. Seems like he carries worthless
\nones around.<\/p>\n

7-21, [V+D] He will attempt to keep a reserve of mana incase he needs to
\nteleport out in the very near future. ie, He will not cast Identify and drop
\nhis mana down to 5 when he needs at least 8 for a teleport. He will wait until
\nthe ID spell can be cast without dropping his mana into reserves.<\/p>\n

7-19, [V+D] Added a “dump map on death” command, code copied from
\nDennis’ borgband. I also included the last 50 messages to be dumped as well.
\nBorg will attack if he becomes blinded and he has ESP<\/p>\n

7-18, [V+D] Fixed a bug I created when I dinked with safe_spot the other
\nday. Now it should be fixed. (no, really). Slightly modified the Level 4
\nborg_escape().<\/p>\n

7-17, [V] Fixed a few sloppy programming errors pointed out by Bablos. It
\nwon’t really affect the game play.<\/p>\n

7-11, [D+V] Fixed a bug with how safe_spot is calculated in borg_danger().
\nIt was possible to encounter a divide by zero problem.<\/p>\n

7-1, [D] Fixed a spell address bug. Magic Mapping was addressed instead of
\nSlow Monster.<\/p>\n

6-30, [D] Fixed a bug where the borg would not swap out his 6th ring.
\nModfied the rewards for having multiple resists.<\/p>\n

6-28, [V+D] Removed the separate borg_offset_target() code and added it into
\nthe borg_target() code. He still performs the offset attacks. But he performs
\nthem more liberally now. Previously he was restricted to using them on
\nsummoners and uniques. Since borgs are more likely to rest in the dungeon
\n(recharging rods, and burning through mana) slightly increased the amt_food
\nthat he will take.<\/p>\n

6-27, [V+D] Borgs no longer carry *Enchant* scrolls unless they need
\nsomething to be enchanted. Borg will restore mana a bit more liberally now, but
\nstill conservatively.<\/p>\n

6-26, [V+D] Added Staff of Holiness to borg_heal(), previously it was only
\nused in borg_attack(). Included it as amt_heal. He tries not to sell them even
\nif they are empty. He will sell them if he has several in his inventory. Added
\nscrolls of recharging to the list of things which the borg will purchase from
\nthe store. He already uses them to recharge, but he did not actively purchase
\nthem, he only used them in they happened t be in the inventory.<\/p>\n

6-23, [V+D] Reworked the borg_perma_spells() a bit, made him more likely to
\ncast them if a unique is on the level. Fixed a formula bug in
\nborg_danger_aux2() relating to Protection From Evil and summoned monsters. [D]
\nAdded the other resist foo spells to the list of borg_perma_spells(). As it
\nturns out a Rogue can have a 5% fail rate on the basic resists but a 95% fail
\non Resistance (all 5 in one spell). I asked Tom about this. No word yet on if
\nthis is a bug for rogues. These lower spells will only be cast if a unique is
\non the level. Otherwise they would drain mana.<\/p>\n

6-21, [V+D] Increased the penalty for casting spells into reserve mana. He
\nkeeps draining his mana too far and then can’t teleport out. If he does
\nteleport, he uses the Critical Teleport then runs the risk of getting
\nparalyzed. Added a check to make sure the borg does not perform the “Light
\nBeam” defence spell in a dangerous location. *ID* now done for Amulets of
\nthe Magi. He still has trouble with Shadow Cloaks. Fixed the address of some
\nspells from Offset Targeting.<\/p>\n

6-20, [V+D] Minor fix to when the borg will cast Hero\/Bless. Added Seeker
\nAmmo to the attack types, discouraged the use of seekers on non-uniques.<\/p>\n

6-19, [V+D] Added another anti-loop check. I saw the borg looping while in
\nthe house trying to get his “Best Combo.” Fixed that. Tiny change to
\nborg_check_rest() to make sure he does not rest near monsters. Added another
\nborg command ‘@’ It will display the borg’s LOS. Edited the borg_recharging()
\nto exclude some upper end staves from being recharged at 2 charges, they tend
\nto blow up.<\/p>\n

6-18, [D+V] Modified the amt_heal and amt_ez_heal requirements for the
\ndlevel preparation code. The borg will now consider the ez_heals as part of the
\namt_heal. But he is still only going to use them in an emergency. The rods of
\nhealing are activated before potions are quaffed. This will allow him to keep
\nthe quantity of heal pots up.<\/p>\n

6-14, [D+V] Tweaked how a borg faster than speed 130 calculates danger.
\nFixed the threshold for penalty for casting spells which put the borg into
\nreserve man. Previously the threshold was 6. But only mages needed 6 pts for
\nthe teleport. I made the threshold class dependent. [D] Players who carry rods
\nof healing tend to have them drained all the time, and run around the dungeon
\nwith out any heals. Dangerous, if not stupid. The borg will now rest to
\nrecharge at least one of the rods of healing. The resting is done in
\nborg_recover(), a good location for this check to occurr. If the borg is in
\ntown, he will rest to recharge all rods of healing. This is great for rogues,
\nless great for warriors. The borg will spend a lot of time Resting and burning
\nthrough rations. So the warrior has a increased concern for carrying food. But
\nthis concern is outweighed by not having a “heal on demand” ready. I
\nam testing this function on the Vanilla borg, but Vanilla does not use a rod
\nstacking code. So the code is much more complicated and may not work as
\nsmoothly as it does in DrAngband.<\/p>\n

6-9, [D] Fixed a bug in on dragons. They tended to carry certain ego cloaks
\nand ego crowns instead of selling them.<\/p>\n

6-8, [V+D] Minor tweak to borg_defend_aux_hero() and _berserk() so that borg
\nwill cast these if fighting a unique. I also added these to the Perma-spell
\nlist. So as long as they are not too expensive the borg will run around with
\nthese on regardless of his current combat status.<\/p>\n

5-15, [D+V] Minor tweak on borg_check_rest(), borg is less likely rest near
\na monster, and more so if near a bad guy. [D] Had to accomidate for a feature
\nof the stacking rods in Drangband. The borg was trying to activate 4 rods of
\nfoo (4 charging).<\/p>\n

5-1, [D+V] Just some minor tinkering on borg_danger(). Not many changes for
\nthe past few weeks. The wife has me pretty busy with some household projects.<\/p>\n

4-18, [D+V] Lightened the requirement for the 2heal for dlevel 45 to 1heal
\nand moved 2heal to dlevel 56.<\/p>\n

4-14, [D+V] Bablos pointed out a very serious bug related to activation of
\nrod and their fail rates. Fixed that. [D] borg_crush_junk() & _crush_slow()
\n& _crush_hole() modified a bit for the dragon players. They had a tendency
\nto carry stuff for a long time. The stores would fill up with sold wares then
\nthey would be left carrying the heavy stuff. Now, after the borg reaches clevel
\n30, he will crush stuff which he cannot wear. Prior to clevel 30 he will sell
\nit for cash.<\/p>\n

4-12, [D] Fixed a bug where Phase Door was listed with the Teleport spells
\nin borg_escape(). This should be spell 2,6 not 1,4. Modified the reward of
\nmultiple resists (lowered poison a bit). Now the borg won’t prefere 3 layers of
\nresist_poison and only one of resist_(F\/E\/C\/A).<\/p>\n

4-11, [V+D] Fixed a problem for linux machines when the borg would not
\nrecognize that his stats were drained. sfuerst[sp] provided the fix. Lowered
\nthe CCW requirment for diving from clevel 35 to 30. Allowed the borg to count
\nhis CSW in with the CCW in order to reach his minimal amount. [D] Discovered
\nTom’s nasty_poison. Had to teach the borg to avoid this like the plague that it
\nis. Also had to figure out a way to get the borg to recognize the difference
\nbetween nasty_poison and regular poison. In the end I just cheated the
\np_ptr->nasty_poison.<\/p>\n

4-8, [V+D] Made some changes to allow the borg to handle “bizarre
\nmonsters” (like Trappers, Mimic, Darksword in Dr.). Repaired the
\n_staff_fail() stuff. Turns out I messed up the previous fail rate calcuations. It
\nshould be ok now.<\/p>\n

4-5, [V+D] Fixed a bug induced when I was messing around with
\nborg_item_icky(). Tweaked how the borg considers amt_recall and amt_heal from
\nrods–added a fail check on them. [D] Fixed a spell address problem. I think it
\nwas Phase Door, and Poison Cloud that had wrong addresses.<\/p>\n

4-4, [V+D] Reinstated a reason to recall “I miss my home.” It had
\nbeen commented out some time ago. This will help out with town scumming. I
\nadded a borg command ‘d’ which will dump the spell counter. Like Borgband, this
\nborg will keep track of the number of times each spell was attempted.<\/p>\n

3-31, [V] Gave the borg the ability to Detect Monsters and Evil. This will
\ngreatly help low level guys. Altered the swap routines so that the borg will
\nbegin to carry swap items after dlevel 50. He does not really need them until
\nthis depth, and they are pretty heavy for low level guys to carry around.<\/p>\n

3-30, [V] Added a version stamp to the borg functions ‘V’. Tweaked the
\nrewards for upgrading artifact lites. Altered the way borgs calculate the
\ndamage from Dispel type attacks. [D] Fixed a bug that caused loops identifying
\nthe name3 random artifacts. Fixed the calculation of damage from pseudodragon
\nbreath attack (the bigger one).<\/p>\n

3-29, [V+D] Altered the reward for borgs carrying multiple copies of spell
\nbooks–borgs had a tendency to get encumbered by them. Borgs wont crush their
\nspell books in order to make room for treasures. [D] Fixed an equipment
\nselection bug for dragons getting stored stuff from the home. They had no trouble
\nstoring things in the home, but they had trouble getting equipment (not
\ninventory items) from the home. Upgraded the resist flags to more accurately
\nreflect the drangband progressive resistance. RFire is no longer a boolean but
\nan integer. Borg will alter his equipment to try to get multiple coverage of
\nthe same resistances.<\/p>\n

3-28, [V+D] Had to fix an emergency use of the ez-heals in borg_caution().
\n[D] Borgs don’t use breath attacks when poisoned. An effort to conserve their
\nhp.<\/p>\n

3-27, [D] Borgs makes offers to the RNG. Interestingly, there is a RNG which
\nresponds “You die. -more-” The borg may unhook, thinking this is his
\nreal death message. But we will see.<\/p>\n

3-26, [V+D] Borg will cast some perma-spells. ex: He will cast speed
\neventhough he does not need it for the situation. Perma spells are speed,
\nprayer, resistance, shield, PFE. He casts the spells when they are cheap to
\ncall. (about 1\/20 of his current spell points).<\/p>\n

3-23, [V+D] Fixed that bug when the borg would shoot missiles down the hall
\ninto a room and the missile would get hung up on a wall. So now the borg will
\nattempt the shot and antipicate a pain message out of the monster. If the pain
\nmessage does not arrive, then the borg will not shoot from that spot. He will
\nmove then reattempt the shop. This is really cool.<\/p>\n

3-21, [V+D] Modified borg_item_icky() so that ID scrolls are not wasted on
\n{good} items when we have {excellent} ones, and when we have enough cash.
\nID’ing {good} items is important when you need money but after about $10k, the
\nID scrolls\/staves\/rods are more important. Elvish wheybread listed with cure
\npoisons. [D] Dragons dont *id* items which they cant equip. They will also sell
\nthese items. Fixed several spell bugs related to poison (I wonder if that is
\nwhy they keep dying.<\/p>\n

3-20, [V+D] Several tweaks to poison handling. Borgs store cure poison in
\nthe house sometimes. Many more tweaks to the Drangband since poison is so much
\nmore dangerous.<\/p>\n

3-16, [V+D] Modified heal potion requirements for the end-game. Life and
\n*Healing* stored in the home and saved for the end-game. Warrior winner this
\nmorning. [D] Borgs carry cure poison potions now (TOM!), and a few slow potions
\njust in case.<\/p>\n

3-14, [D] Worked on borg295. Added graphics support to the dragon borg. But
\nyou must add #define ALLOW_BORG_GRAPHICS to the config.h. Continuing to squash
\nspell errors.<\/p>\n

3-13, [V+D] Added a borg function ‘q’ which will allow the user to stop the
\nborg when it reaches a determined dlevel or clevel. I think Chem requested this
\nlast week in the news group.<\/p>\n

3-12, [D] Corrected a few errors in the spell address (teleport II).
\nIncreased fear of Poison a bit. Will flee to town sooner if he can’t cure
\npoison.<\/p>\n

3-9, [V+D] Fixed a bug with noting the grid where crappy artifacts are
\ndropped. I forgot to “break” the loop so all 50 members of the array
\nwere filled with the same grid.<\/p>\n

3-8, [V+D] Added the prayer Holy Word to borg_heal() (called if fighting
\nfighting a unique, to save mana). It also is found in borg_attack() (called
\nwhen HP are down a bit). Unbarring Ways used to remove traps as well as
\n‘D’isarming. Numerous changes in order to specify a Morgoth combat sequence.
\nChanges to borg_fighting_unique, borg_near_unique(), borg_heal(),
\nborg_escape(). Also changes to defence codes: create_doors(), earthquake(),
\nbanishment(). Priests don’t need 7EZHeals to dive (they get Holy Word). Changes
\nto Annililation and Orb of Draining to conserve mana.<\/p>\n

3-7, [V] Characters now carry more heal pots on dlevel 99 to take out
\nSauron. Added a amt_pot_heal so that actual potions are carried for Morgoth, as
\nopposed to heal spells or staves. Borg was not calculating dispel damage
\ncorrectly. Modified borg_launch_aux() a bit to correct for this.<\/p>\n

[D] Fixed a bug in Dragon borgs and their breath attacks; I forgot to make
\nthem race specific.<\/p>\n

3-6, [V] Lowered danger threshold for certain defence spells.<\/p>\n

[D] Dragon borgs in wide screen mode, had some problems reading the second
\npage of a store. Fixed it. Also fixed an error in damage calculation with the
\nnew drangband spell type fire_sphere().<\/p>\n

3-4, [V] Minor tweak on food requirements for using dnstairs.<\/p>\n

[D] Dragon borgs now breathe, Pixies use dust, Yeeks flee. Tweaked DrBorg so
\nthat he does not need to *ID* artifact lites before wielding them.<\/p>\n

3-2, Put some bandaids over areas where borg could loop.<\/p>\n

[D] Fixed the bug that allowed dragons to store non-usable crap in the
\nhouse.<\/p>\n

3-1, A borg blinded from Word of Destruction does not know that monsters
\nnear him were killed, he might continue to activate the staff. Fixed this by
\ndeleting all nearby monsters. He can simply add them back into his kill array.<\/p>\n

2-29, [V] Fixed it so that the borg can decurse equipment that he currently
\nwearing. Triggered by “Oops, it feels deathly cold!”<\/p>\n

[D] Been working heavily on the Dragon borg. It works pretty good now. It
\ncould be released anytime now.<\/p>\n

2-24, Borg could unhook if reading a Bless scroll if blind. Fixed that.<\/p>\n

2-23, Borg had trouble diving because he could not get enough cure_crits, so
\nI moved the cures spells to be used before potions. Updated the screen parsing
\nfor non-inven, non-equip cheats.<\/p>\n

2-21, Sustains added to home_power. Increased the value of having sustains
\nin the end fight. Changed the winner flag from **KING** to ***WINNER***.<\/p>\n

2-17, Buy time with Cure Lights if he can’t cure poison, cuts. Added some
\nscrolls and potions (hero, berserk, holy chant, holy prayer) to the already
\nexisting borg_defence() (which previously only used the spells and prayers).<\/p>\n

2-16, Priests don’t cast Enchant for as long a period (used to be 2000 turns,
\nnow 750). Check_rest() checks for scary monsters within 3 grids of the borg.
\n(Previously only LOS monsters). Light Beam implemented to illuminate hallways
\nif borg is moving with boosted bravery. I added this code to illuminate a
\nhallway if the borg is being shot by an unseen monster lurking in the dark
\nhallway (a borg_defence maneuver). I only tested this for an hour or so. So
\nreport any bugs with this function plz.<\/p>\n

2-14, Borg told to quaff a ResMana potion if his mana is too low to cast
\nSatisfy Hunger\/WoR. Borg told to place a greater value on lighter weapons which
\ntend to give more attacks per round. Fixed a typo that had the priests casting
\nBlink instead of Prayer.<\/p>\n

2-13, Preferences for XBows removed. Borg may store artifact lites in the
\nhome for later use. Minor tweak to slightly reduce the number of weapons stored
\nin the home. Fail rate check added to cure poison in borg_heal().<\/p>\n

2-12, played Broodwars all night. I was Zerg \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

2-11, Request from Crimson: Borgs quaff stat pots immediately to save inventory
\nand they don’t really need the cash when these pots come around. Heavy Pseudo
\nID borgs with lots of cash will save their ID scrolls for {excellent} items and
\nnot waste them on {good} items. {Good} items can be sold or crushed. Fixed a
\ncleric bug with heal pots and heal spells. Restrictions on Heal and EZHeal
\nloosened up a bit, and fixed a bug that made borg carry 7EZHeal pots after
\ndlevel 86. This should have been dlevel 99. You can now get to dlevel 86-99
\nwith 2 heal pots. The 15 heal and 7EZHeals are for the fight with Morgy on
\ndlevel 100. This will GREATLY speed the borg dive from 85-99.<\/p>\n

2-10, Moved the requirement of RConf from level 56 to 46. Since RChaos no
\nlonger gives RConf, special attention needs to be given to it. Clerics need to
\ncarry a few heal pots and ez-heal pots. HoHo, Imagine my surprise to see that
\nBen added two new summoning flags. S_KIN and S_HI_DEMON. I wish he’d make a
\nfile detailing the game changes. Anyways, I added this new summon routines to
\nthe borg stuff.<\/p>\n

2-9, Added a fail-rate check to staves used in borg_defence().<\/p>\n

2-8, Got the borg to shut doors on breeder levels to seal them off. At least
\n4 awake breeders trip the flag. I have been watching but I have not seen him
\nloop. This should really help neonates. Added a fail-rate check to enchant
\nspells for priests.<\/p>\n

2-7, Attempting to fix the ring swapping problem by removing INVEN_RIGHT and
\nINVEN_LEFT from the best_stuff(). I’ve tested this with Willem’s rogue who was
\nexperiencing the ring-swap-loop. It worked ok. But then he got into a buy-sell
\na ring loop. Fixed a rare cure confusion thing. When he is confused and the
\ndanger is great, he may try to cure confusion with a cure crit pot and then die
\nthe next round.<\/p>\n

2-6, My mage at dlevel 41 keeps getting trashed after being hit from confusion.
\nSo I boosted the reward for mages to get RConf and I also have them carry some
\ncure crits and use them when confused. I made some changes to borg_projectable
\na bit. When wounded he will assume fewer grids are walls, this makes him a bit
\nmore cautious. Also a bug fix: borg would no light a room prior to resting if
\nconfused. This is a mistake, he should activate the phial, so the check on
\ndo_conf was removed. And the funny looking twitchy behavior in town was fixed.
\nThe borg would twitch in town if he could not buy rations from the store. Now,
\nhe will buy low calorie items if high calorie items are not available.<\/p>\n

2-5, Ben removed the message that went with the creation of a Rune of
\nProtection (“You inscribe a mystic symbol…”). Now a priest borg will
\nnot know if he was successful. He will cast it, think it was successful, then
\nbelieve that he is protected then reduce his danger as if he were protected.
\nThis is a big deal! Ben, put the message back in!! And dont forget the scroll
\ntoo. Time_this_panel is reset if enchanting stuff. Seems I was retarted when
\nmessing around with oppose_xxx and I kept reseting them to zero, the mage would
\nloop casting the defence spells. So sorry, I fixed that. Expaned inscribes to
\ninclude Immunities. Mages told to cast Cure Light Wounds when do_cut.
\nBorg_check_rest() also checks for monsters with pass_wall.<\/p>\n

2-4, Sleep, Slow, and Confusion dont work on uniques. I had to tell the borg
\nnot to use these on uniques. This is important–mages will die trying to put
\nKavlax to sleep.<\/p>\n

2-3, Borg was not *ID*ing Holy Avengers, fixed it (borg_test_stuff()). Fixed
\na bug when the borg became twitchy in town when he did not have enough food to
\nrecall down into the dungeon.<\/p>\n

2-2, Ignoring breeders when not having any recall was altered to ignore more
\nthan 4 or 5 breeders. The old way was to ignore even 1 worm and allow it to
\nmultiply and get out of hand. Now he will at least make an attempt to wax the
\nworm and keep them from exploding. This has greatly helped neonates. Breeders
\nis one of the most common deaths for neonates. ( 3 out of 5 at least, in
\ncharacters under clevel 15). Fleeing when unable to teleport altered just a
\nbit.<\/p>\n

1-31, Although Word of Destruction was used as a defence, I forgot to add
\nthe staff. I added it today and included in the the list of cool_staff so that
\nhe will carry one if he finds it. He does not carry or read the scroll though.
\nI altered borg_danger a bit. I decrease the amount of fear from summoners with
\nthe number of occupied spaces. ie: If I am trapped in a hall and surrounded by
\nbad guys, Summon Ancient Dragons is not scary since no dragons can land.<\/p>\n

1-30, Modified armour swap to include rings and amulets. Changed the
\ncrush_slow routine a bit to have him crush more stuff. Applied rr9’s graphics
\npatch-graphics now work (cross your fingers). Fixed the death-reincarnation
\nthing.<\/p>\n

1-28, Spent 12 hrs tracking down the crash that occurs in dos mode with
\nrr9’s graphics patch. It is caused when a group of multi-hued monsters appears
\non the screen and the borg has to parse messages about them. So for now the
\ngraphics patch is removed until I can trace the problem. If you want the patch,
\ngo to the Thangorodrim<\/a> and dnload
\nit. Improved survivability of neonates by increasing fear of multipliers, and
\nmonsters with friends or escorts.<– This helped alot on mages taking on
\njackel packs.<\/p>\n

1-27, Told borg to carry rod of magic mapping, and not to crush or junk
\nthem. Robert Ruehlmann made a patch to allow this borg to use graphics, and any
\ntile sets. Very cool, thanks rr9.<\/p>\n

1-26, Encouraged warriors and rogues to carry more rods of healing since
\nheal pots run low. Fixed a teleport staff problem after level 95 in the game.
\nInvestigated a borg for Dragband. People had trouble understanding how to load
\nup pref files so I had to move all the d_char to x_char and forceably turn off
\nthe graphics.<\/p>\n

1-25, Fixed a gap in the borg_heal(). Borg was hesitant to heal if hp_down
\nwas greater than 650hp. Fixed an alter(+) bug with “Walking into a
\n[kill]”. Sped up the borg by restricting his ability to search for
\npermagrids. No he will only search for a vault after he sees a (non-edge)
\npermagrid.<\/p>\n

1-24, RChaos no longer gives RConf. Bummer. Modified the way spell danger is
\ncalculated. Fixed the {empty,empty} inscription from borg9.c Borgs wont
\ndanger-flee from a level if a vault is on it, or if a unique is near by. Let
\nhim wear the unique down a bit! Guerrila warfare!<\/p>\n

1-23, Fixed a bug where the borg would try to walk into a monster in a wall
\ninstead of alter (; vs+).<\/p>\n

1-22, Got the borg to cheat the screen items and monsters better, simulating
\nthe look command. Converted the bool ’emergency’ to an integer in
\nborg_escape_phase(). Now pple can customize their phase thresholds. Meaning how
\nmany dangerous spots is too many\/risky for this phase attempt.<\/p>\n

1-21, Upgraded the Inscriptions sections to work on random artifacts.
\nTweaked ‘greed’ in _crush_slow, now he is less greedy the slower he is. Adam
\nfixed the store bugs where page 2 is m-x not a-l, the borg was not reading page
\n2 correctly. Told the borg not to shoot at ghosts in walls. Fixed a few alter +
\ncommands and ; commands while walking.<\/p>\n

1-20, Got the borg to read the map correctly (actually Adam did)<\/p>\n

1-19-2000, Working on getting 285 to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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