Comments for Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup

Comment on On the way towards 0.7 by jlg

jlg — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:09:56 +0000

Can someone tell me how to make the status messages in the lower left hand corner of the tiles version take up less space? I’d like to have a shorter list of recent activities and more of the dungeon visible at once.

Comment on Tournament Sprint map playable on CDO again by Napkin

Napkin — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:05:35 +0000

Thank you! :)

Comment on Stone Soup 0.7.0 “Pacific Pachyderm” by EliteGundam

EliteGundam — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:11:08 +0000

Bit late finding this, but I can’t wait to try the new version!!
Thanks for the continual updates!!

Comment on Tile Changes in 0.7 by eobet

eobet — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 20:20:01 +0000

I only found this out today… in light of having recently played Minecraft, the old more basic tiles enables your mind’s imagination to work a lot harder than what these new, more detailed dungeon tiles do.

The more detailed it gets, it’s easier to see the flaws rather than the possibilities:

* The sheep looks more like a gorilla.
* The new shadow imp looks like a complete wimp, unfortunately.
* The new ghoul as well, he’s shrunk and lost all menace.
* Snorg same thing, a fat blob instead of a huge troll with tree trunks for arms and legs.
* Finally, the shadow has become something from a disney movie, and also ignored the perspective of the rest of the tiles by grounding himself firmly to the bottom row of pixels.

I can’t say I miss the old water tiles, though…

Comment on Stone Soup 0.7.0 “Pacific Pachyderm” by Anticipation

Anticipation — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 08:08:27 +0000

Since when are there alters on the first floor? I hadn’t read anything about that.

Comment on Stone Soup 0.7.0 “Pacific Pachyderm” by Owl

Owl — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 16:23:39 +0000

Great job once more. Very nice improvements in graphics. Congratsulation for you work.

Comment on An update of 0.6 by KiloByte

KiloByte — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 09:01:33 +0000

The DOS port has been known to have grave bugs several months before 0.6 release, and no one bothered fixing them. A release where casting takes no MP would be a bad joke.

Comment on An update of 0.6 by Rugxulo

Rugxulo — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:37:30 +0000

KiloByte, please e-mail me (@gmail) for further discussion.

I don’t grok C++, which is probably the main problem on my end. (You guys should’ve tested the “new” build process under DOSEMU before ever releasing 0.6.0, IMHO. Or at very least hosted my build. But you didn’t. That was no accident.)

Comment on Tile Changes in 0.7 by John

John — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:14:18 +0000

I echo the remarks about the contrast. On a mac, the latest version really gives me fits telling apart walls and floors. Plus it seems to me that the mini-map is smaller and less distinct also. Otherwise I heartily approve of all of the changes!

Comment on Tourney Time Again! by Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:47:20 +0000

I won’t have time to play in the tournament this year. If anyone could spread the word that I won’t be acting as captain of FirstName, I would appreciate it. I edited my rcfile to remove myself as captain. If someone wants to take over the reins, they are welcome to.

Good luck in the tournament, everyone.

Comment on Stone Soup 0.7.0 “Pacific Pachyderm” by evktalo

evktalo — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 08:23:55 +0000

Craig Duck, could you add a Feature Request to the Mantis tracker? It’ll get lost here in the comments.

–Eino

Comment on Stone Soup 0.7.0 “Pacific Pachyderm” by Craig Duck

Craig Duck — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:05:39 +0000

On the aptitude screen, progress and aptitude could (and should) be combined on a single display screen.
Only 1 column of data changes between screens .

The new release is cool, although the monster icons are a bit busy.

Comment on Tourney Time Again! by NO SPOILERS

NO SPOILERS — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 11:59:57 +0000

i won the game in 4752 turns as Level 12 Spriggan Stalker of Sif Muna in Dungeon Sprint “Red Sonja”,(in my own computer not online).
Lets just say +0+0 dagger of distortion BROKE THE GAME. (got it from Sonja)
*hint, i took the easy way and ERASED Tiamat from existance. (as well as other tough monsters along the way)

Comment on Tourney Time Again! by trustworthy authority

trustworthy authority — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 09:20:41 +0000

Yep, first to win gets….ONE MILLION DOLLARS!

Comment on Tourney Time Again! by random player

random player — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 19:31:59 +0000

Any prizes this year?

Comment on Stone Soup 0.7.0 “Pacific Pachyderm” by Balin

Balin — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 18:50:49 +0000

I suspect 0.7.1 will follow soon… ;) Anyways, please keep up yóur great work, crawl dev-team!

Comment on Stone Soup 0.7.0 “Pacific Pachyderm” by Kal

Kal — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 18:04:11 +0000

Also, new skill page will definitely take a long time getting used to.

Comment on Stone Soup 0.7.0 “Pacific Pachyderm” by Kal

Kal — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 17:13:39 +0000

Interesting new interface look- more ADOM-esque if I recall correctly.

Comment on Stone Soup 0.7.0 “Pacific Pachyderm” by onepostwonder

onepostwonder — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 17:05:44 +0000

Thank you all for all the work you do on this great game. I do not understand all changes you do, but I really appreciate your efforts. Thank you very much.

Comment on Stone Soup 0.7.0 “Pacific Pachyderm” by Robsoie

Robsoie — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:57:56 +0000

congratulations and thank you for this release.

Comment on Stone Soup 0.7.0 “Pacific Pachyderm” by Chex Warrior

Chex Warrior — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 13:14:18 +0000

Alright! Lets get the crawl train rolling! Choo! Choo!

Comment on Stone Soup 0.7.0 “Pacific Pachyderm” by Rubinstein

Rubinstein — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 12:20:36 +0000

@N:
No, as you can easily see on the screenshots, “near starving” has become standard now. *grin*

Comment on Stone Soup 0.7.0 “Pacific Pachyderm” by Rubinstein

Rubinstein — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 12:17:26 +0000

Hey you must be rich by now! :P

…ok bad joke, big thumb and big thanks :)

Comment on Stone Soup 0.7.0 “Pacific Pachyderm” by N

Sat, 24 Jul 2010 12:17:05 +0000

erm congratz, but the probability of starving is also less too?

Comment on Stone Soup 0.7.0 “Pacific Pachyderm” by bernh

bernh — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 11:54:22 +0000

Thanks a lot for your hard work! The new tiles look awesome!

Comment on Stone Soup 0.7.0 “Pacific Pachyderm” by Epitaph64

Epitaph64 — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 09:24:24 +0000

Thanks for all your hard work guys! Going to be playing this! >:D

Comment on Stone Soup 0.7.0 “Pacific Pachyderm” by Foom

Foom — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 09:14:19 +0000

Best roguelike out there. I love the continuing development – keep up the good work!

Comment on Stone Soup 0.7.0 “Pacific Pachyderm” by Izverg

Izverg — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 08:16:44 +0000

Finally! X) With brand new trousers on and great dignity within, I can introduce my murderous ways to the dwellers of the dungeon in style…

“No! No more talk! We go in! We kill! Kill! We kill ‘em! They kill us, we kill them! Kill ‘em! Kill ‘em! Kill! Kill!” — X))))

Comment on Stone Soup 0.7.0 “Pacific Pachyderm” by hackum

hackum — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 05:59:11 +0000

Thanks a lot. Where can we find some spoilers on the DS mutations?

Comment on Stone Soup 0.7.0 “Pacific Pachyderm” by ahpla

ahpla — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 05:49:11 +0000

Congrats guys, and thanks.

Comment on Tile Changes in 0.7 by James

James — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 23:12:48 +0000

Neat tiles, but it’s harder to see things. It’s not just telling the walls from the floor, there’s also how all things goblin and koboldish look really similar now. Even previously distinct poses have been changed to be more samey.

Comment on RC3 for 0.7.0 by donblas

donblas — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 05:11:02 +0000

Looks awesome from my limited testing. The mistaken “bugs” I filed were resolved quickly and nicely. Props to the dev team :)

Comment on First release candidate for 0.7.0 by evktalo

evktalo — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:02:14 +0000

Don, there is a new restart_after_game option in the init.txt, which you can set to true. It is labeled as experimental however, as there have been quite a few bugs that have surfaced, and there is not enough time to test and fix them properly before the release.

–Eino

Comment on Tile Changes in 0.7 by Leon

Leon — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 03:36:07 +0000

I like the new tiles overall, but the new door looks a bit too grayish.

Comment on Second release candidate for 0.7.0 by Balin

Balin — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:02:23 +0000

Depending on numlock status, the OS, and terminal you have different behaviour of shift-dir and the numpad. ‘Twas always confusing ;)

Comment on Second release candidate for 0.7.0 by M

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 22:38:20 +0000

I am confused: Shift-Dir and Shift+Numpad5 don’t seem to work anymore?
Windows tile version…

Comment on First release candidate for 0.7.0 by Don

Don — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:00:08 +0000

Guys, I’m loving the new build. One major suggestions I’ve been waiting for: please DON’T make the game turn off whenever you die! I have to start this program like 20 times a day! Thank you :)

Comment on An update of 0.6 by KiloByte

KiloByte — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 21:30:48 +0000

Rugxulo: do you have fixes for the bugs in the DOS version? The code has not been removed, it’s just unmaintained with no one to fix it.

We may actually drop DOS permanently in the future, but right now it’s just a pile of bitrotten somewhat broken code that may be whipped into shape if someone steps up.

But considering the opinions towards, say, Windows 98, I don’t see anyone from the current dev team willing to do that work. If you have a set of patches, please send them in, though.

Comment on An update of 0.6 by Rugxulo

Rugxulo — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 21:21:35 +0000

makke, you run the risk of angering the gods! ;-) DOS was dropped permanently, but I managed to do my own compile of (original) 0.6.0. Yet nobody wanted it. :-(

Comment on Second release candidate for 0.7.0 by barkalot

barkalot — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 19:43:34 +0000

When can we expect 0.7 on CAO?

Comment on First release candidate for 0.7.0 by dpeg

dpeg — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 13:49:23 +0000

Maynot: No, the LOS shrinks for you and the monsters. Therefore, it’s clearly a great feature for (a) melee fighters, (b) stabbers, (c) spellcasters whose main spells have short range.

Robsoie: Ultimately, there should be some in-game parameters to play around with. Right now, the arena is quite raw, admitted. There is some guidance, however: read up on docs/arena.txt.

re menu: with all the many choices we have now (sprint, arena, tutorial), I wonder if having a name should really bypass that. (No question if there’s a saved game, of course. Then you immediately re-start that.)

Comment on On the way towards 0.7 by supulton

supulton — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 12:37:23 +0000

Disarming whips would be awesome. But yeah I normally skip any and all whips unless they have a ridiculously good enchantment.

Comment on Tile Changes in 0.7 by supulton

supulton — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 12:25:47 +0000

The new tiles look amazing. Yeah, it could use some brightening up, but all the new monster details are really superb. Also thanks for toning down the water tiles, the contrast gave me seizures.

Comment on First release candidate for 0.7.0 by Maynot

Maynot — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 05:00:07 +0000

I just encounter the fully upgraded demon mutation of being attuned to the shadows. I have to say this is a very, very bad mutation to get especially for spell casters and archers. Reduction in visibility is always bad.

Comment on First release candidate for 0.7.0 by Robsoie

Robsoie — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 01:19:45 +0000

for the arena mode, it is important to know the exact creature name.
It took me a while to understand that the creature “Royal Jelly” name was not :
royal jelly
but was :
the royal jelly

It would be good if there was some ingame selection menu or a selection list instead of having to look on the wiki each time to find an exact creature names.

The arena mode has a lot of fun potential.
Overall 0.7.0 is fun, the only bad point i can see is the addition of the acid splashing walls in slime, like if the difficulty was not high enough already in there.

Comment on First release candidate for 0.7.0 by David Gardner

David Gardner — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 20:58:11 +0000

You don’t name every character individually? I wonder how many people do — it would never have occurred to me to use the same name over and over — the top 100 scores would look a bit clone-y! :) –DG

Comment on First release candidate for 0.7.0 by Grue

Grue — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 18:54:02 +0000

greensnark: that was precisely my problem. I never saw the main menu. But typing the character name all the time is also annoying =)

Comment on First release candidate for 0.7.0 by Narretz

Narretz — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:10:46 +0000

Great!
I love the Arena, but it often doesn’t work for any apparent reasons, and sometimes shuts down Crawl completely. Also, it would be nice, if the Arena didn’T close so fast after the fight finished.

Comment on First release candidate for 0.7.0 by greensnark

greensnark — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:44:58 +0000

Grue: If you’re starting Crawl with -name grue or a name set in .crawlrc, you’ll bypass the game menu entirely. Try starting without -name and you should see the tutorial option in the main game menu.

Comment on First release candidate for 0.7.0 by Grue

Grue — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 11:07:27 +0000

There is no tutorial option…