Polyinit games are a quirky fun feature, but they don't show up on scoreboards. It might be fun for people to see what the most broken perma-poly form is, or see who can ascend as a Dragon first and fastest, etc. Polyinit exists in XNH and nh4+f (and probably UnNH because Un already has everything). It'd be cool to see a page for otherwise unscored polyinit games, preferably ranked by turncount, because score is meaningless if you choose to use a monster form that has no carry limit.
Polyinit mode: You can begin the game permanently polymorphed into any non-unique, non-player-monster monster (even ones that you can't polymorph into normally, like Archons, but take note that the game is not totally stable if you do). Do this by setting OPTIONS=polyinit:[monster] in your config file. Similar to sentient arising from the dead, this gives you permanent intrinsic unchanging, and you will die when your HP runs out. This is a non-scoring game mode.
Similarly, honor-system seeded challenges are a very popular social feature in Brogue and other roguelikes. Try the same seed as everyone else, do the best you can in one run, then post your score. Unfortunately it can't be a scored gametype, because repeatedly trying the same seed breaks the game.
But it could be a fun score page of its own, either sorted by score/turncount for the optimizers and TAS users, or simply showing the most recent games first so that people can run their own just-for-fun week or weekend seed contests and see all their scores grouped together.
It's now possible to play the game in a "set seed" mode. This tries to, as
far as possible, line up random events between different games played with the
same seed (thus allowing for more meaningful comparisons between players).
You can also look at the seed from the dumplog of a completed game you've
played, allowing you or someone else to replay the game in the same dungeon.
Games in this mode are not eligible for the high score table. (4, 4da1437,
76369ee..eee6901, 60cb577, 8642323, 668e8fa, f7aedc1, 41644bc)
Polyinit games are a quirky fun feature, but they don't show up on scoreboards. It might be fun for people to see what the most broken perma-poly form is, or see who can ascend as a Dragon first and fastest, etc. Polyinit exists in XNH and nh4+f (and probably UnNH because Un already has everything). It'd be cool to see a page for otherwise unscored polyinit games, preferably ranked by turncount, because score is meaningless if you choose to use a monster form that has no carry limit.
Similarly, honor-system seeded challenges are a very popular social feature in Brogue and other roguelikes. Try the same seed as everyone else, do the best you can in one run, then post your score. Unfortunately it can't be a scored gametype, because repeatedly trying the same seed breaks the game.
But it could be a fun score page of its own, either sorted by score/turncount for the optimizers and TAS users, or simply showing the most recent games first so that people can run their own just-for-fun week or weekend seed contests and see all their scores grouped together.