Alright. Thanks for the help everybody. Im all out of questions. If I think of anything else I'll ask.

Yeah. I mainly said they were only giant shrooms to rule out the possible effect of magic spores.

So I tested this in wizard mode and found that after being hit without eating any shrooms my perception went up.

I then created a ton of magic mushrooms, and had new attnam kill them all. I had no contact at all. And then after they were all dead I ate them but there was no perception gain.

But you're also kind of right... I zapped myself with a modded 50 charge wand of teleport and my perception went up as well(very slowly that is, after maybe 20 shots). But I also just shot the wand off at nothing and my perception went up. Im guessing that the perception gain is from "aiming" the wand rather then its magic effects though.

And just to be sure I read 50 scrolls of teleport and my perception didn't even budge.


Oh and that brings up another question. Is stat gain effected at all by how high the stat is? Or just that secret stat increase setting?

Yeah. They get stronger according to the ammount of time you spend in the room with her(alive) I think. It gets real fun when giant plants start showing up.

I think Im going to try and see how long I can last in her lair. Maybe other kinds of stuff might appear after those, I doubt it though.



Also I think it's due to blocking, as I gain perception when hit by the shrooms and not when I eat them.(these are just giant shrooms, not magic)

thanks.

Yeah that does make grinding easier. One way I like to grind is to sit within a group of giant mushrooms and just let them beat the crap out of me. It trains up endurance and agility. Also perception for some reason? Does anyone get why that is? Also I can eat them to keep from starving. I just always had kept it short becuase of time limitations. Now I can probably skyrocket my endurance.


Another thing that time seem to directly effect seems to be the carnivorous plant level in the underground tunnels. The longer you wait the more powerful the plants are. I don't think that your stats have much to do with it.

I would think that by 40 days he would have already appeared anyway.

Depends. If you have seges you can feed every 3 hours. Though I might need to test how long you can go after satiation.

If you have both seges and silva you can be guaranteed to not starve though Im sure.

Having a few cans and melis might be doable, but iffy. You might get school food and that's no good.

If you have all three then you're pretty much set for life.

Yeah I had a feeling that had more to do with stats. That's a huge relief. Things will be alot easier without me having to rush through the game trying to avoid the evil crotch biting dwarves.

Although there has to be some kind of effect based on time. Otherwise I could just sit around in town praying for days without having to worry about anything.

So I have recently beaten IVAN. And I decided to look up and test a bunch of stuff on it, pretty much left almost no stones unturned but there is something that still bugs me.

What effect does time have on the difficulty? I think I once saw a picture of some guy fighting a dwarf on day 200 or something and it bit him in half even though he was wearing fancy armor and had crazy limbs. Ever since I have been rushing through the game as quickly as possible hoping that I don't end up like that to some named monster.

I just want to know if it's ok to slow down a bit when playing.

Also, belts count as groin armor right?