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Do people do this? Do people want to do this? Is this actually a problem that needs solving? I do it a lot in doomrl, it's absolutely the biggest problem with that game (it's probably a bigger problem than everything else wrong with doomrl combined). It would not be quite as extreme in crawl becaus...

Do I include V not trying to annoy me to death in my analysis?

enemy accuracy really isn't that good in crawl

you need to lower your EV pretty considerably to make riposte-longblades actually deal less damage than non-riposte longblades (except probably specifically great swords, since they got a pretty big damage reduction compared to any other longblade)

Because that's how it's been and there's no reason to change it because the player doesn't see it anyway.

[quote snipped] It doesn't matter how much variety there is with respect to a single player. They'll play the game however they want and there's nothing wrong with that. If you want variety, then vary your choices. It's not like everyone is going to pick the most optimal god in a situation where th...

If you're going to abandon gozag I might suggest swapping to the god who literally feeds you (jiyva)

Ok so the thing is the truth is between the two extremes. While I think gods are closer to race/class than to something you choose just based on power level, the fact is that power level matters (and, heck, it matters for race/class choice too). So let's ignore the pre-game-choice part for a moment ...

Spreading out altars is not intended to be a strategic consideration, as far as I can see; after all, you're just as likely to get a strong god early as a weak god (if it was intended to be a strategic choice, you would arrange it so the weak gods were always found earlier than the strong gods, as m...

I still don't see why finding gods in a different places is "an objective problem", even assuming that gods are like races and backgrounds (which is what I've always assumed anyway). There's a piece of your reasoning somewhere that I really don't understand and I would like you to explain ...

On the other hand, owning up to the fact that gods aren't supposed to be balanced and removing the strategic decision element wouldn't be so difficult. It would mean getting rid of overflow vaults and updating Temple so that it included all the gods. I don't follow. I like not finding all altars at...

makhleb + tornado is a pretty good zig combo

vehumet + fire storm is another good one

The only reason poly wand isn't amazing is that other hex wands exist (and all hex wands except slow are effectively an instant kill), it's really a quite powerful effect. But this probably does mean the player doesn't really want to use poly most of the time. As for your original suggestion, http:/...

Oh, well Dith also doesn't give you a warning for spells that he forbids, despite all other gods doing so. The other warning doesn't seem necessary to me, but I don't care much either way. It should also, of course, be extended to all gods if it is added.

The flavour is that you can't be a "good god" without being really obnoxious, obviously.

I said as an explore stop, not as a force_more. I'm too lazy to look up the exact term.

https://crawl.develz.org/mantis/

Post a bug report about it

You can add the shopping list message thing as an explore_stop. This would stop for getting enough gold for any item on your shopping list, of course, but that sounds more useful to me anyway since the most expensive item on your list is not always the one you want the most.

The behaviour where Dith does not warn you when you attempt to cast a fire spell is a bug. You get a warning when you attempt to cast forbidden spells under other gods. You should probably make a bug report.

So uh, how about that original topic post that was about making food not take multiple turns to eat? I think that's a pretty good idea.

Riposte does change two things about how you play: first, you get effectively mini-cleaving that scales with EV; second, you can deal damage while taking actions other than attacking. This applies most in situations where you're fleeing from fast monsters, repositioning within combat, using emergen...

I'd use the boots that aren't running, but I really hate runboots so I'm not really capable of making a rational decision here.

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crate wrote:Fun fact, you can offer corpses that are under deep water to Fedhas, and I assume you get piety since you get the piety message.

could you pray on deep water corpses back when that was a thing?

Nope! Unless you were a race that could pick up items in deep water, in which case you could.

you have to kill all the dudes

So combine that [not allowed to swap in los] with jewelery taking a couple turns to swap out You might as well just not have the "monsters in los" restriction then, though, since if the swap takes sufficiently long that's all you need. No need to complicate it further by adding an extra r...

Ah, I see. Well the problem is that plain escape decks are just bad, they're bad if you want to escape a situation immediately and they're also useless for anything else because they're just bad.

Fun fact, you can offer corpses that are under deep water to Fedhas, and I assume you get piety since you get the piety message.

Plain decks of escape have always been terrible. Just throw them in lava.

You can't do just "in los" since that's really easy to mess with. A simple example is breaking los by going around a corner.

I think the best ally improvement would be making the default behaviour "follow me around the dungeon if there are no hostiles in view but attack anything that comes into los". This would be good, but only if all allies are changed to allow projectiles to go through them. Otherwise this c...

I think the best ally improvement would be making the default behaviour "follow me around the dungeon if there are no hostiles in view but attack anything that comes into los".

Don't walk toward monsters that you can see. I'm being entirely serious here.

You can also use x or X for safe movement, though if you want to use safe movement frequently you should probably just bind the commands.

You can already do this with 0, though I'm unsure if that works in macros yet. 01s is the command that does exactly what minmay wants.

edit: it works in macros but you have to make it a keymap, not a macro

A human moves faster than a speed-10 monster when both are in the leda AoE.

It's mostly not necessary since cause fear is better (and you'd never use it outside of AM), but it's still worth learning.

So the thing about riposte is it doesn't change anything about how you play. You don't train dodging to get more damage because the returns on that are awful. You don't do anything different tactically in combat because getting attacked is still bad. So all riposte does is change how much damage lon...

Dith is really the perfect AM god, except for the whole silly fire conduct thing (but at least branded ammo is gone so that's a bit less of a problem now).

what if i hate ghosts and uniques

I usually just wear robes on tm, but I use ice form a lot more than most players. For blade hands tm I recommend steam, mottled, or swampDA (whichever you find first).

I think your problem is sixfirhies, not orc sorcerers. As other topics recently have pointed out, they are by a fair amount the most dangerous summon an orc sorcerer can have.

At least elliptic and jeanjacques have won DDPr that didn't abandon Zin all game. I don't know a lot else about the games, it sounds no fun at all since you're strongly encouraged to make sure you take as little damage as possible.

okawaru already gives UC double damage once you get to 1*, so I don't think creating a different UC god has much space to work

dblades are 1h for halflings and are basically the same as double swords

they also get slightly more SH for a given shield/skill/stat combination than normal-sized races

halfling is strong, though not in a particularly fun way

Banishment is the main thing I want MR for. Anything else you can deal with unless you're a mummy, though it's pretty annoying in a few cases (particularly vault sentinels marking you).

The non-vault reavers were likely people who spent a lot of time on the floor.

I just checked all tengu reaver deaths since they are reasonably recent. There are roughly 47000 total d:10 deaths since tengu reavers were added to crawl.

Of the 42 d:10 tengu reaver deaths, 37 were from vaults. These, also, are no more common than in old versions.

Uh, minmay was certainly talking about current trunk, where monks are not the same as 0.18 monks. If you read the commit that changed monks (linked earlier in this topic) you see that they do indeed have the same weapon skill gladiators do.

You'd have to have the game tell the player when the player sees the vault (otherwise the player "should" check the vault list screen after every step, which is unacceptable). I'm not sure how much of an improvement that would be anyway, since looking through any sort of vault display is r...

FR provide a ctr-o type screen that lists all the vaults generated on the level along with the vault file. Then everyone can do option 3 without too much tedium/spoileriness. The devs don't want to do this because it's an info leak; you can find out what vaults generated on a floor without moving a...

duvessa wrote:also, that lair vault that is a box of swamp worms surrounded by water

People try to tell me that "travel_avoid_terrain = shallow water" isn't a necessary option. I don't believe them.

cboe is better if your mp is above like 30% since it fails less

wucad mu is better below that

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