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I see no-weapon starts as more hurtful to AM because if you equip a -1 club you can't use your ranged weapons anymore.

If you define a lower threshold for what is too trivial, then the interactions below that threshold need to be eliminated as possibilities first. And a lot of those "trivial" interactions have strong proponents. I was speaking in broad terms only with no specialized definition of "us...

Yeah, presently the things the game considers "useless" are only *mostly* useless. I would make a distinction between "more or less strictly useless" and "not strictly useless, but useless enough that the potential utility of the item is small enough that removing it doesn'...

After identifying useless items, you still have to drop them or else they clutter your inventory until you hit the cap and throw away all the grey/red scrolls/etc. This is doubly bad for equipped bad jewellery because you have to uncurse it, unequip it, then drop it, and likely have to do so repeate...

You're all right, I misinterpreted open-source design philosophy.

Edit:why would I be talking about this here

I would like to note that from a lay perspective the notion of monetizing showcases of a particular intellectual property is prima facie pretty opposed to the whole free software movement

Crawl is under the GPL

you know how in tome you can refund the 4 or whatever most recent points you spent on skills/abilities so you need to manage what the last 4 you spent are to optimize your build or how you can use randomly generated +stat gear to qualify for talents and shit so you ought to hoard basically everythin...

IYou've missed the point completely. The answer here isn't to make something do pure damage, but to make something scary through some other mechanic that still checks your PCs stats. The degree to which hellfire or smiting are dangerous/scary is dependent on how much HP the player character has, wh...

Hellfire "checks" the hp stat. It hits gargoyles more than trolls, for example. You seem to be using pejorative terms like "lazy" and "cheap" to describes something that is actually juat simple and straightforward. I can understand dissatisfaction with ranged ai (althou...

the joke is that he scroll-id'd a weapon over 7 unidentified potion and that he uses tiles

Bell bottoms are awful and no one wears them

There used to be a divination school of magic which was removed for being stupid and encouraging boring tactics

An identify spell would add essentially nothing to the game and is also redundant with scrolls

Judit Polgár is easily and uncontroversially the best female chess player of all time. To quote someone else, "Polgár and her two older sisters, Grandmaster Susan and International Master Sofia, were part of an educational experiment carried out by their father László Polgár, in an attempt to p...

Demon sling

If you want a skill at a given level (say arbitrarily, 12 polearms for mindelay) then you would just allot enough xp to defray the rust penalties 99% of the time

So very little would change except the intrduction of even more micromanagement

Yeah I know in real life if I go for a couple thousand auts wihout casting spells my ability to hex prople really suffers

I had to pick up an eudaemon blade to kill a spriggan air elementalist or something on my oghu

dmsl is no joke

also yeah since unarmed 0 is really awful making characters with 0 unarmed be "are you sure" sounds good to me

...mechanics that contribute the most to player aggravation. - I disagree with you right here. "I want to play the game, and fast! What is holding my travel screen??? Damn menu..." Players want to be "fast" in that they want to skip useless, tedious things like manual traveling/...

If you think humans are boring then you might actually just dislike crawl

I guess I'm completely at odds with the direction DCSS is going these days so I'll not bother posting anything further. There are a couple of things you should probably understand. First, when looking at, for example, this discrete proposal, the problem is not just to do with the "direction DC...

I would raise axes to 16 then learn some spells

Also don't memorize random spells that you can't and don't intend to cast

kiku dislikes eating dragonfruit and undercooking poultry

there, that's "flavor"

Bim wrote:Duvessa, play some trunk and re-evaluate.

http://crawl.akrasiac.org/scoring/players/minmay.html

For a game in active, open-ended, unbounded development I can see no reason for any "tolerance" of an intrinsically bad thing (tedium)from a design perspective

Dang the shadowed

The notion of "experience points" abstracts character advancement to a degree that I find it hard to believe that there is a sifnificant difference in sensicality regarding conditions under which certain skills can be advanced.

Maybe you should be able to train all skills at all times

The game encourages you to allow yourself to become hungry so you can eat perishable food so that you can save nonperishable food so that you can "spam" powerful abilities so that you can win the game

Loki was also impregnated and gave birth while in the form of a mare so

But who actually does that? How many players actually do that? Also, people don't just do boring stuff like that. There's always a reason. Whether or not people exploit a mechanic is irrelevant to whether or not it's a good mechanic. There are many reasons not to exploit tedious mechanics - e.g. te...

If DD of Makhleb had intrinsic free digging it would be optimal to use it extensively in a tedious manner. So buff them, I guess "No one would do his in practice so why remove it" is a terrible argument that has been rejected repeatedly so if we could stop retreading it that would be nice ...

Instead of thinking about an obscure (though not unrealistic) scenario where the player bores himself to death by digging a lot of killholes, we should instead think about WHY the player would want to do that. The answer is kind of obvious, right? Because Fo is rather WEAK, even after their HP and ...

You could also remove that mechanic because who gives a shit about food?

Make it hurt you on equip or something instead

I don't fully understand how holier-than-thou soapbox call-outs are supposed to be foster "peace"

It's almost like monsters shouldn't be able to pick up weapons

I don't think dying is fun. I never really understood that. I think getting better at games is fun. Dying is sometimes useful for this. It makes you more invested in a character, so you tend to play better. If a player gets sent back to the staircase after fighting an orc pack, they might avoid it n...

Because light is an unfeature in crawl and pretending it isn't is mostly bad

76% of players play tiles, and 76% of players haven't won yet.

Mysterious.

There is a method that some players use to cope with the paucity of dwarves in the game currently. The trick is to mentally append "dwarf" to the name of species and play the game as you would if they were dwarves. So, for example, you can play as a "minotaur dwarf" or a "va...

Allowing them to drink magic potions increases their odds of survival significantly, so their creator apparently knows more about "evolution" than whoever wrote the description (in th senses of the word in which it is not nonsensical given the description) Unless it is in fact a slight aga...

growth is limited by happiness, and you can get around beakers through clever tech-trading if you manipulate the ai properly you need hammers for building stacks to defend/attack and for quick expansion through early settlers, plus for wonders if you want them although pop+slavery can substitute for...

You get more MR as you level up, which is an otherwise pretty straightforwardly desirable thing. If you do in fact think MR should always be good you could implement a "get banished y/n" prompt for resisted banish effects which seems fine in the abstract but would possibly be problematic i...

Huh, not sure why I thought otherwise.

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You pummel the hydra!! You kill the hydra! Your Good Ol' One Two skill increases to level 13!

"Armour" should be renamed "Armour & Haberdashery."

Armour skill doesn't affect the ac gained from hats or helmets.

I described earlier that I don't go with Sif Muna if I want a specific spell. For Bolf of Fire I would go with Vehumet. Actually I used Sif Muna just thrice: one MuSu dead in Lair, another MuSu dead before Lair and victorious DsIE . I believe Sif Muna is the weakest god but I bet I am wrong here wi...

If we are in an open system where everybody's contribution is at any time potentially appliable, then I can't see the point of posting a negative opinion. Posting it is driving. Offhand, it seems obvious to me that reporting a negative opinion, even with no supporting argumentation, a.) allows the ...

Food is almost never an issue, whereas learning repel missiles or bolt of fire earlier because sif gifted it to you faster very well could be

Conservation is "very useful" perhaps but only if you refuse to use tactics that mitigate item destruction

Next time, don't make mistakes. Or at least not the same ones.

Imagine it would be optimal for fighters to level Fgt very far and just grab their weapon spec according to the best randart they find by mid game, that would be really lame IMO Yes, that would be dumb, just like how it would be dumb if it were optimal to level spellcasting instead of training spel...

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