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Obviously someone's done a new review of the game, or some of our members have been spreading the word!
At this rate it's only a matter of time before we get even more forum members and more "OMG WHAR IS IVAN 0.6?!"
Well maybe. Maybe we could use this to motivate us to actually do something in the IVAN development section
If we're lucky we'll have new form members who might be able to be of more help.
[/wishful thinking]

^The thread title is misleading. He meant "is there a way to control the ring of polymorph?"
Also the rival to every single piece of equipment, remotely helpful or otherwise is the Mystic Dark Frog, since there currently isn't an item to resist items being teleported off you. Although a ring of telecontrol can help if they try to randomly teleport you, it will only last until they steal it from you.

The worst thing that happened to my character was being teleported into a secret room sealed off from the rest of the level, and having all equipment that could help me escape (scroll of teleportation, wand of teleportation, rings of tele and telecontrol, pickaxe) taken off by the mystic frogs. It was a choice between starvation or suicide. Suicide won once the frogs refused to teleport me out again. Also I didn't know Sophos.

Thanks!
So far i've gotten by simply by cutting/copying pixels of the appropriate colours and moving them to form what I want

Also if you mod you some starting equipment, the slave gets it too since he uses the same "playerkind" entry in the script files.

The slave has identical stats as the player upon creation however.

Enner beast? Definitely not, if he screams and is close to the entrance stairs while you're naked, you'll die.
Any other monsters usually get killed by his screams anyway and aren't much of a problem.
Also the danger level has no effect on "scripted" monsters iirc unless they're part of the scaling that takes place after a certain point.
Would probably be useful however for avoiding mystic dark frogs being spawned. I hate mystic dark frogs.

Hmm no I don't think so. I believe the game checks your "danger level" (as we call it here on the forums) when it's choosing which monsters to spawn. It does this at regular intervals to provide an interesting assortment of possible deaths for your character.
Although if I'm right about it not counting your equipment against you so long as you're not using it, your idea of a naked quadriplegic rolling down the hard stone stairs into the next dungeon level would probably lead to weaker monsters being spawned at map creation, meaning you have a small window of opportunity in which to slaughter the crap out of them and find the stairs once you've gotten dressed and grown your limbs back.
However, removing your limbs on purpose is a dangerous process - Bear traps have a tendency to trap your head. Plus growing them back uses up valuable health potions/wands of resurrection/prayers which could all potentially be life saving later.
Oh, and you could be attacked as soon as your rolling torso hits the dirt on the next dungeon floor.

Maybe that spambot Cap was talking about in the shoutbox?

By who? And what?

IIRC wearing it does, having it in your backpack doesn't. Same should hold true for all other equipment.