fronobulax, since you were asking for things which should be fixed (to be fair, this is from a Hardcore perspective):
1.) There are several mistakes in how Ascend.ash handles the Level 11 quest, which could probably be fixed by simply updating that part of the script and making this updated script compilation available in the first post of this thread. Erroneous behavior included (for me) adventuring in a zone after it made no longer sense to be there, namely at The Poop Deck after the Swordfish adventure was encountered and adventuring at the Arid, Extra-Dry Desert after Ed the Undying had been defeated.
2.) The script does a number of things which (mostly) do not make any sense. This includes, but may not be limited to:
a.) Resetting the Ballroom song after I have set it to +Noncombat manually (it should always be at +Noncombat, the only sensible exception being once you reach Level 12 and want to do the Sonofa Beach sidequest)
b.) Unlocking the Gallery as a non-Muscle class: A complete waste of turns. Only Muscle classes ever want to adventure at the Gallery. There is no exception to this rule.
c.) Hardcore: If a player is in Hardcore, they cannot use Hangk's (except for free pulls). So it would be nice if the script could detect the ascension style and stop trying to pull things when that is not a viable option.
d.) The script keeps resetting my MCD level. When I have enough skills to survive +10 without problem, I want that +10 Monster Level, dammit. A good solution would probably be to use a flag in the vars_playername.txt file which determines if the script should touch the MCD at all / which value should be used.
e.) The script keeps resetting my auto-attack. While I understand that some combat scripts need this behaviour, I use my own custom combat script. Again this might be solved by using a flag, like dont_mess_with_my_fucking_autoattack = TRUE ;-)
f.) The function checkFood(), which in turn calls eatDrink(), is called from something like fifteen places within Ascend.ash. This seems a bit... odd. I have completely turned it off and handle the eating/drinking myself, cause I couldn't stand seeing the script trying to pull spleen items anymore :-(