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Now personally , I wouldn't mind an encumberance system or even an enhanced encumberance system with variety, where big bulky species could have more pages of stuff if they felt like bothering and maybe magically powerful characters could have pages of at least lightweight stuff (some sort of size/...

Ugly things change resistances/attack flavors periodically, so if you see one that's cold resistant you can probably just string it along for a while until it changes color. They only do that if they're close to other ugly things, or to a contaminated player. Or if you use a wand of polymorph on th...

Naga is amazing with mage backgrounds, it has good magic aptitudes AND poison spit AND high HP. I fail to see how Nagas are "amazing" considering that they're, like, one of the two species that cannot easily run away to regen MP in case something goes wrong (more enemies unexpectedly show...

You can use the installation instructions for "regular" Crawl, which can be found here. Since you've already downloaded the archive with the source code, you're mainly interested in "Building on Unix (Linux, *BSD, Solaris, etc.)" subsection. I've just checked, and Hellcrawl build...

TeFE. Cleared most of Swamp 1-4, got the Lernaean hydra vault, ran away because I could not think of a way to deal with it safely. Cleared Snake 1-3, got some new spells along the way, returned to Swamp 4. Killed a few enemies, went back to Swamp 3 and decided to go down using a different stairway. ...

Moanerette wrote:Aha! In the forum font I can't tell the difference between "W a r k" and "V V a r k". Would you spell it with the spaces in, please?

I've settled on W_a_r_k. Your .rc file at CAO is correct.

I'm terribly sorry for the inconvenience, but could you please leave my nickname as Wark, with "W" at the beginning? I initially thought I had forgotten the password for that account and did not want to bother with password reset before the tournament, but I managed to get access to it aft...

Sorry if this is not the appropriate place to post, but I could not think of a better one. The How to play online page explains, among other things, the procedure of playing via SSH on a Unix-based OS and mentions the possibility of using a config file. Alternatively, when using SSH you can give the...

Count me in. Please note that I will be playing under a different name, VVark.

Options guide at github is a good place to start.

Leszczynek wrote:If I simply play the 0.20 version without a clan or any addtion to the .rc file during the tournament, will I still be classified in individual player standings?

No additional actions are needed if you only care about individual stats.

@Moanerette I mostly play offline these days, but would not mind going online and joining a casual clan for a change. By the way, I think we have already played in the same clan once, in 0.15 tournament.

FWIW, my first successful clear of extended happened with character who was worshiping Ashenzari. Monster detection, portal detection and ability to peek into unknown vaults with Scrying were quite useful in Pan/Hell and helped to avoid quite a few unpleasant encounters.

FeCj done (I think I was the only one playing it on CDO). Also, somewhat surprisingly, the first character with "Annihilator" title.

Congratulations to Tavern Drunks for being in top 27! Thanks for organizing the clans, it was an enjoyable experience.

On a side note, have just noticed that my tournament win rate is 27.27% ^_^

XuaXua wrote:For CerealJynx
Code:
# TEAMNAME Tavern_Drunks # TEAMMEMBERS blami Wark irvs ldf Moanerette

I think it should be lrvs, not irvs.

XuaXua wrote: Please make sure you post the name you use for your online games if it is different than your tavern name.

No, it is the same: Wark, with capital "W".

If you do not mind having me, I would like to join as well. I was in reaver's biCYCle in 0.13 tournament, and enjoyed it a lot.

If you want a quick review of most important changes, you could use this changelog.
In order to see all changes in trunk, you can browse the list of commits.

I would cut the species down to just Human, Deep Elf, Kobold, Merfolk, Naga, Spriggan, Tengu, Troll, and Vampire Would you mind explaining the reason you've chosen these ones? Leaving alone other races, I'm particularly interested why you would remove both Minotaurs and Hill Orcs, and what is the r...

Thanks a lot for organizing the clan, reaver. It actually encouraged me to try to get 15-rune wins, which I hadn't done for almost a year, and both winning games turned out to be extremely enjoyable, especially the Dragon Form DgTm one. Hope other players had fun as well.

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Pisano wrote:I'm not sure if there is a max # of people per team, but I'd like to join a team.

The announcement on the main page specifies that clans may have "up to six players".

I would like to join such a clan. Have never been in one before despite having participated in 3 tournaments.

I took a look at my max hp (46) and started training Fighting (100%, no other skills training). When I got message about Fighting reaching level 7 (it was 7.5 actually, I killed something dangerous), I took another look at my max HP and noticed it is still 46 so I stopped training Figthing. But it ...

Stealthy characters have a similar problem; with no gods directly supporting stealth, their best bet is to also pick Okawaru and hope that he gives them some +stealth equipment. Apart from all other useful stuff she does, Ashenzari gives you bonus to your stealth skill as long as you are using ligh...

Mankeli wrote:
Confidence Interval wrote:* DM = Death magnet

I'm truly disappointed that Sandman25 hasn't posted the YASD :(.

Actually, he has.

Doesn't that set waypoints? I see some people playing web tiles that open their inventory and they have aum values listed for the weights of all the items, seems like something you have to change in your rc to me? ctrl+w in inventory screen displays or hides item weight. If you want it to be displa...

Tenaya wrote:IS it possible for the ?vorpal to affix a diety-forbidden brand?

AFAIK vorp scroll is guaranteed not to rebrand to the brands your current god dislikes.

scott9027 wrote:One thing that really confused me, I have a +0 large shield and +5 regular shield. But my AC was the same with either one equipped. Is the +5 referring to something else?

Enchanting a shield increases SH value, not AC.

It looks like you're somewhat neglecting Oka's abilities. You did not have Heroism activated when you died, and the number of times you have used the abilities before seems quite low as well. I would've postponed training Axes to 27 because in any fight that matters you can get +5 to your combat ski...

5. Can you re-assign the key for your spells? Apart from pressing =s in-game, which has already been mentioned, it is also possible to modify the config file to automatically assign a spell to a specific key each time you learn it. For instance if you want to have Blink on "Y" and Repel M...

Some people say that Necromutation is overrated and can kill a character. This thread is a good example of "Haste is overrated and can kill a character". Just curious, how is a character who was not even hasted when he died is a proof of the fact that haste "can kill a character"?

It can also depend on floor drops. For instance, I had a HEHu who switched to long blades because he found the plutonium sword and managed to nearly run out of arrows at some point in Vaults.

The new description for vorp. scroll says: The scroll can make permanent the temporary branding of weapons obtained from some spells, or can be used on a weapon that is already permanently branded to randomly select a new brand. Taken from here . One of the next commits specifies that it won't chose...

rosstin wrote:There's also the issue of rewarding the player for doing an action that is correct.

Such reward already exists. You had "Hungry" status, after eating you do not have it anymore. The message it conveys is pretty clear and comprehensible imo.

I don't think it's possible. Tried reading about 5 times with no success, could've kept trying but then again according to http://crawl.chaosforge.org/Stat_death, it's not possible to read scrolls. I'm quite sure the wiki is wrong about this one. http://crawl.develz.org/info/index.php?q=brainless I...

Unless I'm missing something here, couldn't you just try reading a remove curse scroll and then removing the plate armour? While you have a high chance to fail at reading scrolls when you're brainless, it is still possible to use them.

I Feel like it used to be a +2 +3 ? Some creatures (e.g. jellies) can corrode the weapons which you use to attack them, it has a chance to decrease the +damage enchantment (the second one). The weapon is immune if its +damage enchantment level >=5, although it is already almost guaranteed not to be...

Amnesiac wrote:While necromutation let's you carry more things!(It actually helped my DEWz with 4 str a lot) Isn't it the only spell that gives you "free" str? (I'm at least half serious).

Str bonus has just been removed btw, so no more using a lvl 8 spell for increased carrying capacity.

Deep Elf Conjurer of Cheibriados. Take it easy, dude. I hope you are not serious. DE are already fragile, and with Chei you lose the ability to run away from stuff; certainly not what I'd be looking forward to when learning to play casters. FWIW my first "dedicated" caster who managed to ...

the_clanless wrote:and curse can be a death sentence by starvation

You can butcher with cursed blunt weapons in 0.12.

I'm frustrated to know that I will need to get lucky to find a source of cTele to accompany the spell Blink before I could actually use it as an escape tool. It can be used as an escape tool as soon as you get the spell castable.Blink is enough if you, for instance, want to gain some distance betwe...

Considering you have finished Pan, you should not have any serious problems with the Abyss, I'd do it next. Regarding Hells, remember that levels 1-6 have nothing useful, so you do not need to explore them. If you are engaging the enemy, think whether you'll still be able to comfortably deal with th...

Just bumping because I was wondering what cling's effect/s is/are. I don't know how to read commits because I haven't looked into that stuff too heavily. Clinging is basically like flying (it allows you to traverse lava/deep water); it is a passive ability, but for it to work you have to be directl...

nordetsa wrote:
crate wrote:blade is sometimes worth doing now that you get two weapons instead of one

What do you mean by that?

I guess crate refers to the fact that now HoB contains 2 "rare" weapons instead of one.

Lucy is perfectly viable for extended game, Corruption and the ability to enter Abyss at will are especially useful. Regarding specific races, her abilities can be beneficial to many playstyles, so pick whichever race is the most fitting for whatever you plan to do (e.g. HO if you want a heavily arm...

You are training Traps too much. The character in the OP had 10 Traps while only having 1.7 Dodging for some reason. The one who died to komodo dragon had 8.4 Traps by Lair:1, which is totally an overkill; there are more useful skills to train this early in the game. Any reason you are not using mor...

It is similar to Box of Beasts IIRC. You can use it several times in a row, but it has limited number of "charges". Summons several friendly monsters (not limited to spiders; Knowledge bots say you can get a ghost moth at high Evo, and I think I got a giant mite from it, unless my memory d...

Also, FWIW, the Tengu's flavour is pretty much Kenku flavour. Even with the forest branch added, I don't see any descriptions in the game which refers to any Tengu folklore. Ah, I did not mean to say that there are (or should be) any explicit references to the folklore. It is just that the current ...

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