I recently kinged a high-elf rogue in about 540,000 game turns (I think this is the same as ticks, so this number is far more than the number of player turns). From what I understand, expert players often king in about 800,000 game turns (without making any conscious effort to go fast, I imagine). Unfortunately, angband's scoring system kind of sucks in that the number of game turns doesn't seem to have much impact. My other wins, which took over twice as many game turns, have much higher scores, since they got way more xp spending a considerable part of the endgame at xp level 50, vs. the rogue who kinged at level 48 (first speed ring, +11, at xp level 31 on dungeon level 76).
My questions are: Does anyone actually speed run angband? If so, what are good times (in number of game turns, say)?
I would look at the ladder, but it since score does not usefully correlate with speed in angband. Like, if I managed to king at xp level 38, my score would be even worse (wtf?).
[edit] okay, just checked out the ladder. Characters with 5 mil turns and 10 mil xp. Sad. (Extra lulz for the dude with 64mil turns.) Angband devs: devise a reasonable scoring system. I mean, come on.
