Room 0 is left empty so that arriving is not an ambush, but that only
ever covered room 0. An enemy in a neighbouring room within aggro range
and in sight of the entrance woke the moment you arrived -- in one run
in eight before the tunnels were widened, and in three runs in eight
after, because wider tunnels mean more open ground and more lines of
sight. Measured over 200 runs: 25 before, 75 after. A screenshot of an
arrival with enemies visibly in range is what prompted counting.
Room enemies that would be awake on arrival -- within their aggro range
of the entrance with nothing in the way, the same two questions aggro
asks -- are now skipped. That is about one enemy in sixteen. Clearing
everything within aggro range regardless of sight would have removed
nearly a third, which is a different dungeon rather than a fixed one.
The skipped enemy's dice have already been rolled, so every other enemy
stands exactly where that seed always put it.
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