🤖Neo Angband: Borg v0.8.0

The Borg can be told how to play. Upstream reads about thirty settings out of a borg.txt in the user’s Angband folder; there is no such folder here and no path to one on a phone, so eight of them are toggles in the mod manager beside Let the Borg play, and each description names the borg_ setting it is.

Added

• Eight of upstream’s settings, as toggles. Play risky (borg_plays_risky), the five gear weights - damage, speed, hit points, spell points, armour class (borg_worships_*) - Value gold (borg_worships_gold), and Save up for something it wants (borg_self_scum). Every default is upstream’s own, so a player who touches none of them gets the Borg Angband ships, and the log line written when the Borg takes the keyboard names every setting that is not on its stock value.

  Play risky is the one that changes the most: it skips the early hit-point and character-level floors that hold the Borg above a depth, waits longer before drinking a cure, and backs away later in a losing fight.

  The five gear weights are the closest thing available to saying what kind of character the Borg should become, because what it wears is most of what it is. There is no stat-priority setting, and there is none upstream either: borg.txt describes one in a comment, but no setting backs it and the reincarnation code takes the game’s default point-buy.

  Three of upstream’s booleans are absent on purpose. borg_kills_uniques has no reader here at all, borg_uses_swaps gates two functions that return early because a swap contributes nothing to this port’s power scoring, and borg_munchkin_start would move gear valuation without moving the diving behaviour it is named for, because the stair-scum mode it switches on is not ported. A toggle that ticks and changes nothing is worse than an absent one.

Fixed

• A stock Borg never saved up for anything. borg_self_scum ships enabled upstream (borg_settings[], borg-init.c:82) and both of this port’s call sites read it as disabled, so the whole “set a gold target and work in town until the Borg can afford the one item it decided it needs” behaviour was unreachable at the default settings. It is on by default now, as upstream has it, and it is a toggle for anyone who preferred the old behaviour.

• Nothing had ever supplied the settings. BorgCfg and its stock defaults have been in the port since the self-model landed, and no caller passed one, so every one of the twenty-odd call sites that reads a setting read a default. This is the same shape as the resolver seams 0.6.x wired: code that is correct, present and fed a constant.