sorry but im gonna be ranting for a bit here...just finished eating a gorgon corpse and dying on a very promising hero...but i really believe that we can go beyond ascii mode. all we need to do is the following (and i dnt know how this will be done but it needs to b done)

1) make monster and item detection work decently on normal mode
2) make these fucking missiles move faster on normal mode
3) make toef faster on normal mode
4) make item dropping and picking faster on normal mode
5)make karmic beings change colour on a single turn

i think if these few things are done i think i can loose 50% less heroes cause i play marathon sessions and that leads to loss of concentration and hence i need to go ascii else my brain starts to melt
but then i end up doing stupid things (i know its my fault but you get a good run going and u have air under your hair and u feel u can fly!!)

and other suggestions on improving normal mode? i recommend str8up BANNING ascii mode so every1 play normal mode