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What is the point of this thread again? Both things are good. Use both. Arguing which is "better" is wankery.

this guy

It's the timmy psychographic. It's not about winning, it's about winning big.

so this is what crawl fanfic looks like

Yes, asked before Yes, people agree it would be a good idea It's complicated. The codebase is more than a little spaghetti-fied at this point, and, y'know, is written in C++. The number of people with the time/experience/fortitude of will to take on a project like that is not a particularly large nu...

My impressions: It is a very fun game. Inevitable comparisons to BoI will happen, and it's not quite as deep/life consuming as that game. Subsequent playthroughs lose their luster somewhat, the omg-must-unlock-cool-things drive turns into a grind-for-stat-points thing at some point. NG+ is quite sim...

Extended would need to be rewritten almost entirely.

delarado wrote:I cant run,

wrong

nordetsa wrote:So what is the purpose of this branch, I wonder?

Newbie trap.

Although I thoroughly welcome the idea (I just played a game this morning with few nasty fire monster spawns) I'm not so worried about too many items, rather that it might add a lot of 'unfair deaths'. In so far as, scrolls/pots are your main route of escape/recovery, and if you weren't able to use...

dpeg wrote:The most plain variation where you simply jump (no distraction) has already more uses than just "escape from dead ends" because you can use a rat to escape from an ogre.

finally, a skill that warpers never had access to

A very timid implementation would be as a random, severely restricted blink (have to be next to a monster) with a small chance to distract the monster; the chance depending on HD. I cannot see how you would start every fight with this; still, the spell would have some uses, especially early on. So ...

So, more explicitly: The reason this "is not a L1 spell" is because it scales (very well) into the late game. As designed, there is no reason I wouldn't want to open every single engagement for the rest of the game with this spell. In fact, it's the polar opposite of what you want out of a...

This has been proposed a number of times under different names, the most memorably (to me) being "scorpion teleport."

There is no way this is a level 1 spell.

pratamawirya wrote:
crate wrote:i wasnt aware that quickblades were ranged weapons

a classic counsellor post

Sorry, just had to say that.

Today is compulsory passive-aggressive day?

You're aware that your oka fighter can cast spells, right

pubby wrote:It's mostly because the likelihood of finding a good 2 handed weapon is much greater than that of finding a good shield.

That has mostly nothing to do with it.

The strongest words which have been used (by me) to describe this behavioral box are "decent attitude". So far, all the other councellors have been able to fit into it without any apparent effort. Yes, okay. You don't want him to be a counselor. I get it. You can still read him just fine,...

If there is an image or code of conduct to go with blue names, that's fine. I think you'll be hard-pressed to find enough super-knowledgeable people that are also willing to fit within that behavioral box, but maybe crawl's community is bigger than I think. Pick some other color, give that to minmay...

I'm also a bit curious why Python is the language of choice for roguelikes. Could somebody explain? I know it's Object Oriented and is built for legibility, but what else makes it good for this specific task? The stuff that rebthor said, yeah. On the downside, I'm actually not the biggest fan of dy...

Are you playing on windows 3.1?

I'm pretty solidly convinced that felids are indeed a challenge race. Yes, some combos have boring degenerate playstyles that allow you to win "easily", but that has more to do with those combos being overpowered than fe being a reasonable race.

If you intend to actually win, yes, Trog is basically the only choice. For "melee."

replace them all with krakens, krakens are awesome

Thanks for the replies guys!Btw what do you think of coding a rogue-like in machine code?that would be the epidome of coolness!(just a random thought) "cool" as in "look I drew this picture using my elbows, isn't that cool?" If I were going to code a roguelike from scratch today...

I think that there is a critical mass of knowledge that you have to have before you really start being able to get anywhere. Some people get this from formal classes, some are self-taught. It's just like learning any other language - you have to understand the basic rules of what you're speaking, af...

If I just wanted to winstreak all the time I'd play nothing but hohe, ce--, and --ak.

edit: realized this was in CYC.

Fireball also can't miss, which is important at that stage of the game when you have less ability to deal with variance.

Well, damage to the actual petrified dude is low. If you are using petrify+LRD, it should be for blowing up the dude's friends - it's a bonus that the guy lives longer. If you just want to kill the dude with LRD, blow up a wall, don't petrify him first. Wall type also affects LRD damage. This may ha...

M. Bison's take on the issue

Grimm wrote:My agents are already afoot.

That's helpful, now we know what to look out for.

Initial reactions:

We don't need more indicator lights. Replace jump power with exhaustion.

Remove the ability to jump to empty squares that are not adjacent to a dude. There's no reason this should be strictly better than cblink.

All plate already comes with resistance, it's called AC

Conveniently, the early game is where 90% of the difficulty of the game lies, so trolls are still quite easy to win with.

Instead of blowing a crapton of experience on a useless skill, you could deal with hydras by:

-walking away from them
-using wands on them
-just having a reasonably powerful character and using tab on them (I swear some people have never tried this)

Segue: for those unaware, the crawl difficulty curve is shaped like it is for a reason. It is heavily front-loaded because dying early is psychologically not a big deal. While the bit about psychology is true, I don't think it's the whole story. Crawl tries to prevent unfair, unavoidable deaths in ...

also that point is like on D:4, so if you think you haven't reached it until you have a level 9 spell, you're probably wrong ^ Segue: for those unaware, the crawl difficulty curve is shaped like it is for a reason. It is heavily front-loaded because dying early is psychologically not a big deal. An...

I'm of the opinion that food should be really, truly, deeply uninteresting.

take all the time you were planning on replying to this thread and channel it into learning how to build from source

now you have a useful skill and lava orcs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7OHG7tHrNM&t=31s

Hea-

wizzzargh wrote:Heart.

*shakes fist*

evoke it

Just make food and chunks weightless. Or 1/10th of what they are now.

I have to assume the majority of posts here are elaborate performance art.

So you... weren't ready.. for that jelly?

The phrase 'reductio ad absurdum' springs to mind. I'm not sure why, since as has been said you were using the phrase incorrectly. Just because you managed to phrase something as "players must do x" doesn't mean players have no choice in how to do x. In fact, you were probably using it co...

Why is it called Crazy Yiuf's Corner if he has a house in the forest? His house has corners, doesn't it? The 4-equidistant Yiuf points can be considered as Yiuf Square imprinted upon the circle of Crawl. In a single rotation of the Crawl sphere, each Yiuf corner point rotates through the other 3-co...

You have two options really. Train your brain to process information faster or use better tactics. The brain thing is not a joke actually. You will gradually get better at processing information by playing more. However it's not really a process you can actively speed up. Tactics are simple though i...

Is it possible to create some defensive "skin" with Poison like Stone Skin or Ozocubu's Armour? It could be called Poisonous Slime or something and could grant rPois+++, some minor AC, some average EV (weapons/bolts tend to slip/slide). Also it could make adjacent monsters who hit player ...

Zagmar Oot the Ruinous wrote:My current naga poison mage of Sif Muna is the character I've ever come closest to winning with. That's my experience with the game and most of my info comes from the wiki.

how not to start a GDD post

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