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Tuesday, 23rd September 2014, 06:18

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Species evolutions

Replies: 9

Views: 2670

Re: Species evolutions

TeshiAlair wrote:I personally think it would be interesting to have a species get increased LOS and stealth at various points, as a different way of conveying a creature on the prowl.


Wouldn't increased LOS hurt stealth?

Friday, 19th September 2014, 14:04

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Orb of Oddities

Replies: 21

Views: 6788

Re: Orb of Oddities

Orb of Destruction ---> Incest.

Only in the Tavern

Thursday, 18th September 2014, 05:45

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Evocations Item Suggestion: Endless Tome

Replies: 11

Views: 3685

Re: Evocations Item Suggestion: Endless Tome

Siegurt wrote:Indeed, this proposes a no-risk, highly tedious activity, for immense power benefit. This is the very definition of "scumming" and thereby falls completely counter to DCSS game philosophy :)


varkarrus wrote:SO. I had this idea for my own roguelike,

Thursday, 18th September 2014, 05:34

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: CIP: OgNe of Ashenzari - Advice Needed

Replies: 7

Views: 2534

CIP: OgNe of Ashenzari - Advice Needed

Well, I rolled a random character and got an Ogre Necromancer. I was expecting this character to die fairly fast, but surprisingly this combination is actually extremely powerful, and I've had almost no troubles at any point in this game. However, I'm a bit confused as to what I should do next... 1)...

Tuesday, 16th September 2014, 22:48

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Orb of Oddities

Replies: 21

Views: 6788

Re: Orb of Oddities

That's a bit like asking how the shields can block other sources of physical impact without breaking - clubs, giant clubs, warhammers, battleaxes etc. The last time I checked clubs, giant clubs, and battleaxes are incapable of destroying walls or blowing stone giants into blood and fleshy chunks al...

Tuesday, 16th September 2014, 21:02

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Orb of Oddities

Replies: 21

Views: 6788

Re: Orb of Oddities

Sar wrote:You can't actually blow up stone walls with it, only rock and doors (not sure about crystal though, I think you can't).


But the orbs can disintegrate doors and rock walls and yet my wooden dinner plate can take a hit from an orb like it's nothing?

(Also, I said stone giant, not stone wall.)

Tuesday, 16th September 2014, 20:13

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Orb of Oddities

Replies: 21

Views: 6788

Orb of Oddities

So Orbs of Destruction are powerful enough to destroy walls and explodimicate stone giants into a bajillion gory chunks of flesh. Why is it then that you can completely negate the destructive power of an Orb of Destruction with a puny little wooden buckler?

Tuesday, 16th September 2014, 16:52

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Bows on a Deep Dwarf (as secondary attack)

Replies: 8

Views: 2911

Re: Bows on a Deep Dwarf (as secondary attack)

I would go with evo, personally.

Tuesday, 16th September 2014, 15:09

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Is picking throwing with a Centaur a mistake?

Replies: 26

Views: 7102

Re: Is picking throwing with a Centaur a mistake?

Why did nobody ask OP what crawl version he was playing? Because before 0.15 throwing anything but large rocks and needles was really not worth using. Laraso, try 0.15. I enjoyed throwing on both my kobolds in this tourney. Killing oof with tomahawks before it approaches is overpowered. This was in...

Tuesday, 16th September 2014, 06:33

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: What kind of computer do you play Crawl on?

Replies: 17

Views: 6705

Re: What kind of computer do you play Crawl on?

Operating System ⋅ Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit SP1 CPU ⋅ Intel Core i7 930 @ 2.80GHz ⋅ Bloomfield 45nm Technology RAM ⋅ 8.00GB Triple-Channel DDR3 @ 666MHz (9-9-9-24) Motherboard ⋅ Dell Inc. 05DN3X (CPU 1) Graphics ⋅ ASUS VE278 (1920x108...

Tuesday, 16th September 2014, 05:43

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Q: Mummies and Poison

Replies: 3

Views: 1522

Re: Q: Mummies and Poison

Yeah, Mummies are supposed to be completely 100% immune to poison. Either you misunderstood something that happened or it's a bug.

Tuesday, 16th September 2014, 05:17

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Snake Pit Ninja

Replies: 9

Views: 3365

Re: Snake Pit Ninja

Um, yeah... That's a dead spriggan you've got right there if you don't immediately teleport back out of it.

Monday, 15th September 2014, 23:07

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Is picking throwing with a Centaur a mistake?

Replies: 26

Views: 7102

Re: Is picking throwing with a Centaur a mistake?

^ Word. OP, if you are wearing very heavy armor (like plate or chain or heavier, + barding) then that might be what is making your average throwing damage a lot more "swingy," as you can get a long delay added at random. That plus a miss or two could suddenly make your throwing suck enoug...

Sunday, 14th September 2014, 04:08

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Kited enemies as food source?

Replies: 10

Views: 2840

Re: Kited enemies as food source?

Why would you do that? There is already way more food in the dungeon than you will ever actually need. I just recently played a DDHe who was blowing through permafood every other second as I spammed Elyvilon healing, and when I ascended with the orb I was still holding onto over twenty rations... No...

Friday, 12th September 2014, 01:58

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Is picking throwing with a Centaur a mistake?

Replies: 26

Views: 7102

Re: Is picking throwing with a Centaur a mistake?

ackack wrote:Training Throwing to 27 sounds comically bad to me.


It was actually level 22 with a boost from Okawaru's Heroism.

Thursday, 11th September 2014, 21:07

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Is picking throwing with a Centaur a mistake?

Replies: 26

Views: 7102

Is picking throwing with a Centaur a mistake?

Or rather, is picking throwing with any species who can't throw large rocks a mistake? Because I chose throwing on my Centaur to try it out as they have good aptitudes for it in addition to being a Centaur, but it's painful to use. With 27 throwing skill, I have to throw on average four or five toma...

Wednesday, 10th September 2014, 12:20

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Whoops, you equipped a distortion weapon!

Replies: 56

Views: 21182

Re: Whoops, you equipped a distortion weapon!

Respectfully, no, it is not. The ideal weapon is a spear or trident. OK, if we're talking about normal weapons, yes perhaps a spear would be better early in the game so you can make the most out of conjured flame. But a dagger of distortion is not a normal weapon, and in this case it is way more po...

Wednesday, 21st May 2014, 15:26

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: God of Summoning

Replies: 18

Views: 5728

Re: God of Summoning

Is being able to summon many different allies very different from summoning just one type of ally? In practice, you'd only use your top summon in tough fights anyway, and for easy fights its whatever (use melee or or use lesser summons, does it matter that much?) With respect to summon support, Tro...

Wednesday, 21st May 2014, 03:00

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: God of Summoning

Replies: 18

Views: 5728

Re: God of Summoning

I think it was more like 0.11 that Veh still had summoning support. But even then, Sif was the summoning god of choice, for all the reasons you mentioned. Veh's only advantage probably was the more predictable gifting of books, but when that went there probably wasn't enough reason to keep summonin...

Monday, 19th May 2014, 23:12

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: So what do you carry around?

Replies: 71

Views: 16188

Re: So what do you carry around?

The problem here is that duvessa's post was not lacking in content, especially not his second post. damiac's post, on the other hand, was completely devoid of any content, and was nothing but sarcastic remarks towards duvessa. I always carry a bolt wand, a dig(or disintegrate)wand, heal/haste/tele ...

Monday, 19th May 2014, 19:41

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: So what do you carry around?

Replies: 71

Views: 16188

Re: So what do you carry around?

There's an easy way to get people to stop arguing against content-free posts: stop making content-free posts, and stop defending content-free posts. The problem here is that duvessa's post was not lacking in content, especially not his second post. damiac's post, on the other hand, was completely d...

Monday, 19th May 2014, 18:53

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: So what do you carry around?

Replies: 71

Views: 16188

Re: So what do you carry around?

That's about as useful as saying "The best way to win the game is to always take the action that has the lowest odds of making you lose the game". OK, we can close the forum down now, nobody can top that advice, it's 100% true and applicable to all situations. Oh, also, if you want to mak...

Monday, 19th May 2014, 18:35

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Milestone spam in ##crawl

Replies: 9

Views: 3288

Re: Milestone spam in ##crawl

As an alternate solution I propose that the bots that repeat milestones are made exclusive with queryable bots; e.g: cheibriados and Sequell are used for all queries, henzell/gretell/lantell etc. are only used for milestones for their respective servers. That way you can ignore milestone bots you a...

Sunday, 18th May 2014, 21:06

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Best/Worst Draconian Transmuter Colors

Replies: 10

Views: 4386

Re: Best/Worst Draconian Transmuter Colors

I think the differences between the colors are largely irrelevant for a transmuter.

Sunday, 18th May 2014, 19:30

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: So what do you carry around?

Replies: 71

Views: 16188

Re: So what do you carry around?

Lately I try to have only 1 haste/agility/might/brilliance/resistance/fog/fear without conservation, can have more with conservation, these items are too valuable to be destroyed. I like to keep two, for the very reason that you mention makes you only want to bring one. If the item gets destroyed a...

Sunday, 18th May 2014, 18:54

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: How to best/safely use guardian golem

Replies: 4

Views: 2528

Re: How to best/safely use guardian golem

If you're a conjuerer and you want a summon to follow you around and support you, get spellforged servitor, because that's like the entire point of the spellforged servitor. I haven't played summoners much since they got changed, but the few times I did try them I mainly used the golem as a sort of ...

Sunday, 18th May 2014, 18:44

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: So what do you carry around?

Replies: 71

Views: 16188

Re: So what do you carry around?

Klown wrote:I don't use wands of flame, frost, confusion, random effects, and such.


Those are the specific items that I believe should be used most liberally, because if you don't you end up never using them and then you turn them off in autopickup after your stash gets filled up with like 30 of them.

Sunday, 18th May 2014, 17:04

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Amulet of Resist Draining

Replies: 27

Views: 6577

Re: Amulet of Resist Draining

dck wrote:things with sticky flame are game-enders to me, particularly elves.

I think we should remove rings of fire protection and amulets of conservation, and introduce a new amulet of resist napalm.

Sunday, 18th May 2014, 17:02

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Why was bcadren's sprite thread locked?

Replies: 30

Views: 9069

Re: Why was bcadren's sprite thread locked?

Bloax wrote:Image


Hah! I actually wouldn't mind a DOOM cacodemon being the default tile, because DOOM is cool. I just have to ask though, why is the image named "Tomato"?

Sunday, 18th May 2014, 16:51

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: God of Summoning

Replies: 18

Views: 5728

Re: God of Summoning

I remember back in 0.7 (I think?), Vehumet actually used to be a god of summoning. He has since decided that summons are for chumps, and only specializes in conjurations now. Since that change, I've always viewed Sif Muna as -the- summoner god. Channeling in-combat works very well when you have meat...

Sunday, 18th May 2014, 16:37

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Suicide cheese

Replies: 18

Views: 5878

Re: Suicide cheese

I believe that falls into a different sort of platitude: "A man who has himself for a doctor has a fool for a patient." (Same thing for lawyers: "A man who has himself for a Lawyer has a fool for a client.") So are you saying that if you are a woman then it's okay to perform bra...

Sunday, 18th May 2014, 16:34

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Amulet of Resist Draining

Replies: 27

Views: 6577

Re: Amulet of Resist Draining

Also I do think SOMETHING should protect against MP Draining, because Ghost moths are game enders. Normally I would look at this kind of thread and think it was a joke, but with you being you I can't tell if you're joking or if you're actually serious. Do you really think an enemy that you only see...

Tuesday, 13th May 2014, 17:10

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Feedback on Gozag design

Replies: 116

Views: 42830

Re: Gozag

Gozag is largely uninteresting to me, and far too "gimmicky" for my tastes. Personally I think I might find the god more appealing if a few of my ideas were included, because I don't find the current "branch-bribe" and store creation mechanics to be very fun.

Tuesday, 13th May 2014, 16:18

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Spider's Nest

Replies: 193

Views: 928701

Re: Spider's Nest

OK damiac, sometimes I really feel like you're trying to argue with people just for the sake of arguing and nothing more. Nobody, absolutely nobody said that you need to train melee on conjurers just to kill ghost moths. Yes, you need to specialize in the early game or you will spread your xp too th...

Tuesday, 13th May 2014, 06:54

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: feels like alot of indie games are now called roguelikes

Replies: 112

Views: 56258

Re: feels like alot of indie games are now called roguelikes

Rogue Shooter: The FPS Roguelike "First-person shooters and roguelikes have finally tied the knot!" Looks like a DOOM/DN3D-esque corridor shooter with character progression and inventory management. I fail to see how this classifies as a roguelike unless people actually consider random ge...

Tuesday, 13th May 2014, 03:36

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: feels like alot of indie games are now called roguelikes

Replies: 112

Views: 56258

Re: feels like alot of indie games are now called roguelikes

dck wrote:IT'S ROGUE FOR FUCK'S SAKE.


Rouge is the one word that I can never seem to spell correctly.

Tuesday, 13th May 2014, 03:10

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: feels like alot of indie games are now called roguelikes

Replies: 112

Views: 56258

Re: feels like alot of indie games are now called roguelikes

To be honest, I don't even consider "roguelike" to be a genre at all. Long Live the Queen is a pretty nifty game, honestly. There are quite a few similar games in existence, too, although I'm not sure I'd bundle them separately from other manager sims even though they have a common subjec...

Tuesday, 13th May 2014, 02:26

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: feels like alot of indie games are now called roguelikes

Replies: 112

Views: 56258

Re: feels like alot of indie games are now called roguelikes

If "random" is all it takes to be a roguelike, then would you consider a game like Warframe to be roguelike as well? Because I certainly don't. I don't know, I've never played Warframe. Does it have permadeath and does the game refresh with an entirely different set of enemies and levels ...

Tuesday, 13th May 2014, 01:52

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: feels like alot of indie games are now called roguelikes

Replies: 112

Views: 56258

Re: feels like alot of indie games are now called roguelikes

When you say "like a roguelike" I generally assume that means "It possesses the key features that set roguelikes apart from the majority of other games". For me that basically means: - Random environment generation + Permadeath: Most games ask you to complete a challenge or seri...

Tuesday, 13th May 2014, 01:33

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Spider's Nest

Replies: 193

Views: 928701

Re: Spider's Nest

Oh, I assumed the ghost moth would try to avoid the flame if possible like most monsters. And when I said "completely devoid of any chokepoints", it was a slight exaggeration, there are chokepoints but they are very scarce and all floors of spider are generally either wide open or comprise...

Tuesday, 13th May 2014, 00:59

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: feels like alot of indie games are now called roguelikes

Replies: 112

Views: 56258

Re: feels like alot of indie games are now called roguelikes

Permanent death, randomly spawning enemies and bosses and randomly chosen stages. Seems reasonably roguelike-ish to me. Also if being able to get items from your previous playthroughs is unacceptable then you'd have to disqualify Nethack. If "random" is all it takes to be a roguelike, the...

Tuesday, 13th May 2014, 00:55

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Spider's Nest

Replies: 193

Views: 928701

Re: Spider's Nest

or putting up a single conjured flame. Those all take just a few MP and swing the battle in your favor. I'm not trying to disagree with you, but I don't understand; how can one single cloud of flame in a branch that is completely devoid of any chokepoints swing the battle in your favor? It seems to...

Monday, 12th May 2014, 19:51

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: gretell.rc

Replies: 16

Views: 7001

Re: gretell.rc

I don't quite understand, what do you mean "assign a macro to ===gretel"?

EDIT: Nevermind, I figured it out.

Monday, 12th May 2014, 19:45

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: feels like alot of indie games are now called roguelikes

Replies: 112

Views: 56258

Re: feels like alot of indie games are now called roguelikes

There is a game called Risk of Rain that advertises itself as possessing "roguelike elements", noting "permanent death" as the main similarity. Things like that really irritate me, because saying that game is similar to roguelike is like saying the firefight mode from Halo was al...

Friday, 9th May 2014, 16:22

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: fgsfds

Replies: 30

Views: 9332

Re: fgsfds

wheals wrote:I would thank but how could I ruin that perfect 500 number


Don't worry, someone else already ruined it for you, so it's safe to thank now.

Friday, 9th May 2014, 16:17

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Random

Replies: 16

Views: 4092

Re: Random

Viashino_wizard wrote:Better idea: automatically delete any thread bcadren makes.


That's kind of harsh, even if you do think he's annoying.

Friday, 9th May 2014, 06:22

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Spending enchant armour scrolls on a CPA?

Replies: 7

Views: 2322

Re: Spending enchant armour scrolls on a CPA?

You should probably make a stash, it's generally a very very really truly absolutely terrible idea to be walking around while overloaded. You're not going to find yourself in a situation where you need to blow through 16 potions of curing in one go, and it's certainly not safe to be walking around w...

Friday, 9th May 2014, 06:15

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Few Simple Branch Seeds

Replies: 14

Views: 3939

Re: Few Simple Branch Seeds

nicolae wrote:Good gods don't turn holy beings friendly anymore.


Was this recent? I ran into a Daeva in the abyss while worshiping Elyvilon about a month ago, and it was friendly.
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