Anyone still playing omega around here?

Every once in a while. But more as a distraction than as an attempt to
actually "win" the game.

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I cant help to wonder why moria and omega are pretty much dead while
other roguelikes prosper. Any ideas?

It pretty much depends on which picked up programmers along the way who
could stay with it long enough to actually DO something in the source.

You realize how long these have been around? If someone pick up and works
on it between "real life" events like school and bars for 2 or 3 years
then they get married or get a 60 hour/week job after school they may have
accomplished very little in the way of advancing the game -- and probably
didn't tell anybody (who would be able to continue in the same
direction) about what they were working on.

Mostly just luck of the draw as to which flourish.

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Sure seems to be something to what you've written, however, AFAIK, moria
is still being "maintained". Maybe it's also the players aging :) ADOM,
for example, has been stale for some years - no new developments, but it
has a huge following.

Gerald pravi:

On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 14:29:49 +0100, John Doe

Moria was rendered obsolete by Angband.

As for Omega, it hasn't been maintained for a long time, and most of
the versions that were known in circulation seemed to have some
balance or stability issues.  For example:
- Amiga Omega 0.61 (or whatever version I had) allowed you to
constantly become the lord of chaos and law at the same time - and
everytime.
- The latest prerelease version (when it was being worked on) wasn't
in that good circulation - more like part of a small development group
which eventually became defunct.  IIRC, it may be on Sourceforge.
- Game balance issues either has an ultra-powerful monster kill you
outright, or allow you to get a large quantity of gold through the
bank trick.

A single person can revive Omega - although given the current era of
society, it's unlikely someone will take the flag.  Myself, I've been
focusing on SCthangband as I saw potential for improvement.

In message <06h4v2lbv09u0ollmg7rqfm9378deai...@4ax.com>, Raymond
Martineau <bk...@freenet.carleton.ca> writes

I have OMEGA802.ZIP which is windows XP friendly. Someone sent it to me
about a year ago and I'll gladly email to anyone who wants it ?

edw...@genghis0.demon.co.uk

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I'd go to:

http://www.prankster.com/winomega/

instead.