Speaking of which, does anyone know if cloaks of fire/elec/acid resistance increase their resistances with enchantment? I always assumed they did, but I can't find any evidence that they do.

Has anybody ever actually taken on the mage room? JoKe?

The "Advanced" button under Quick Reply doesn't work for me, though the Advanced option while editing does.

Is it worth it to chase down the mages on Orees level before taking him on? or is it better to just haul ass to his chamber and pound him in melee?

Packing algorithm
Savefiles now reach tens of MB, hundreds after leveling the world map. Luckily hexediting shows that some bytes (e.g. 0 and 255) and some groups (e.g. transparent color = 0xF81F) repeat often. Create a packing algorithm, which takes advantage of this. It doesn't need to be very complex, as it needs to be both quick (I recommend the autosaves are not packed, only those after leaving level/game). For example you could make an array of used bytes and combinations and replace those with shorter sequences and/or use RLE-packing on them. I think that std::map/std::set could be useful here. Using FeLib's file classes is possible but not required, as the packing is a distinct operation. You may test it on your own program or build it straight into the save system.

[I believe the above is no longer relevant / is already implemented?]

Name generation algorithm
For this one you'll be creating a separate program called Intelligent Random Imitation Name Assembler (IRINA). It analyzes a file containing names and creates a database based on it. This database can then be used to quickly create new similar ones. IVAN will then load that database. IRINA should probably be capable of printing out those new names straight into a command line, so that you can test it before adding it to IVAN. You may decide the algorithms used by yourself. If you can't find anything better, I suggest Markov chains, i.e. some particular character follows a specific N-letter row with a certain probability. N is given by the user or random. Creating a database can be slow, but loading and creating names should be fairly efficient. Main algorithms should be in FeLib so that both users can use them.

16x16 -> 32x32 tile converter

A separate command-line program that transforms a 256-colour pcx-picture four times larger and smoothes the resulting file. You can use FeLib's rawbitmap-class and its saving and loading routines if you can't think of any better. No elegance is required, as the routine is single-use.