ToME WikiSimonSorc (formerly known as Simon. Darn, I hate the login name code and didn't want to be SiMon). You're much more likely to see me pay attention to what is said in the wiki, especially here, than in the forums (I check out the mailing list only on rare occasions).
About myself as a player
I play sorcerers. I used to play an alchemist, but they level way too slowly for the time I have.
I prefer speed over, oh hum, Ents. Unless I play an alchemist.
I'm to blame if the sorcerer's spoiler is quite long and subjective.
About my coding interests
Likes:
-Writing spoilers based on knowledge of the code's formulas and quirks.
-Pointing out bugs, trying to fixing code
Dislikes:
-Doing formal documentation, especially if told "be concise" with expecations that I actually can.
-Wikis lacking the subpage edit feature.
-Politics. My dislike of politics is why I won't bother with fixing a bug as long as there is someone calling it a feature (even if it's obviously not).
Code send to DarkGod so far
Objects vanishing during load/save: I fixed the compact_object half of this bug.
I added "ego" to the automatizer rules, and that rules!
I squashed the duplicate shop in random town bug.
I fixed the numerous bugs in the "add gold" feature of improving alchemy success rate.
Still waiting for DarkGod to reply. This may take quite some time as working on 3.0.0 seems top priority.
Note to self
Fix those bugs:
BugReport25 -Fix possessors low mana (get approval by the powers that be first); to be fixed at the same time monster's powers get to be level based costs so that monster's powers stay 'expensive'.
-Some improvements to the automatizer so there are some clever ways to automatize away a lot more junk.
-(get approval by the powers that be first) Make stores update whenever they first show on the map, so that precognition rings work with stores and that saving a game next to the black market won't allow easy scumming for powerful items.
-Think about optimizing code's readability and maintainability. Extreme programming by the book. Other goals reachable only after augmenting my life expectancy by wearing the one ring. (-;
NeilStevens: With one developer in France, one in California, one in England, and so on.. how do you expect to achieve pair programming? heh.
- Told ya I needed the one ring to do it! And I'd turn you into a bunch of Nazguls for pair programming; I'd need that for five century if we are to really clean up the code. (-;
chatter
Talk to me! (-;
VagaBond [about possessor mana]: The same formula for MP as for HP (20 + 1.6*skill) seems to be good.
[acceptable swears in wiki talk]
SimonSorc: the DoTL with the evil avari mindcrafter takes the cake. Pits of mandos evil! (-;
MayLith: Re: your edit to Spoilers/Skills: Nicely done. See -- you can catch stuff! 
SimonSorc: took 1 hour 20 minutes because I'm formatted-text-blind. If I had known I wouldn't have done it!!
MayLith: Well, I just spent about an hour and a half editing that Curses page of yours, so we're even! (Nice job on that page, btw.... my edits were tweaks.)
SimonSorc: After testing with a friend, which has no computer experience outside of yahoo seach and chat, I calculated my disability makes me spend 21.5 more time if I have to edit formatted text - slower for one line fixes. So yeah I do find coding easier than making formatted documentation or "being concise" in contexts where I need more details than others because intuition isn't coming.
This is why I expected people to help me with formatting. Since help isn't coming, I'll simply code more and wiki less.
MayLith: I understand what you are saying. If you want help with formatting a page, please leave me a note on my "homepage" and I'll take a look.
I'll be honest here: What scares me is that you can write a LOT (and that's good!!! I'm not saying that's bad, not at all!!!), and I only have a limited amount of time to both write my own stuff and edit other things. If I spend all my time editing other things, I won't get my own things done. I've waited and waited for other people to step into the gap and help out on editing your stuff, and that just has not happened (at least not that I've noticed)... and I simply cannot keep up with the sheer volume. It's affecting my own work.
That's not your fault, and I'm not mad at you or anything like that. But obviously, something has to be done. You say, "I'll just go back to coding", but I think you have valuable content to contribute. It's your decision, of course, but consider this:
Here's an idea: Post a General Discussion post and ask for volunteers to help you edit/format your newly written pages. I'll be the first one to sign up (given time of day, etc., <g>) but it would help me a lot not to be the only one.
I'll be adding lenghty unformatted stuff to "SimonSorc" when I'm not doing well and code until somebody formats it. Once I'm done tweaking the automatizer.
[CVS talk]
NeilStevens: If you're using CVS, update to the tome_230_branch with the command cvs update -r tome_230_branch, and from then on you will be using the maintained ToME 2.3.x series instead of the probably-abandoned 2.4.x series. ToME 2.4 will probably never come because ToME 3 is coming.
If you're not using CVS, where are you getting ToME 2.4?
I figured out read-only access. Not that I would know how to safely update the CVS safely myself, I will need to make a test first.
In any case it will have to wait until my current character dies.
My current character, a L50 dwarf zombie alchemist with no skills above 30 as per jack-of-all-trades competition /SimonSorc/Zen