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It's all about knowing the rules of how skills work. Let's examine them: 1) The most important rule: If it takes 1 arbitrary unit of skill (aus) to train from 0.0 to 1.0... EDIT: These new calculations are correct. Thanks stickyfingers! :) 1) The most important rule: If it takes 1 arbitrary unit of ...

nicolae wrote:fr: evocable item that blocks cell phone reception

I think that's what moth of mundanity did

Imagine if you picked up a roguelike and either intentionally swore to or, just guided by your personality type, never disengage from a battle that you have a possibility of winning. It would become almost impossible to win, because in a roguelike you need to be able to pick fights and retreat, but ...

Leafsnail wrote:There were plenty of bugs in old games

Pokemon Gen 1 is basically the AAA open world sandbox game of its era, and boy was it buggy lol

<nrook> that's what's so great about Crawl: every time, you don't even have rage at the chance of the heavens to sustain you; you know, with a cold certainty something like that of a priest who has lost his faith in God, that your death was caused by none other than yourself, and that a better man ...

This has been known (and i think there is a bug report on mantis) but since there have been no changes to this behaviour it seems that this is either intended or hard to fix. It's part of the general design of how tracers work in Crawl. Let's review! Before firing a spell, a monster fires a tracer ...

There's a special message for teleporting to the exact same tile you started on.

I must be getting a buggered version or something, but mine shows as 0.14.1, and have downloaded it twice. I have looked everywhere in it and find no mention of online gaming, online connection, or any way to view a game (in progress or finished). There is no game mode for online and I find no way ...

I just can't figure out what to do with this. I have tried minotaurs, orcs, dwarfs, humans, elfs with fighters, gladiators, and berserker. They all mostly die on levels 1 or 2 to hordes of enemy's. I have tried to run away bu t just killed from behind. When you run away, are you running into unexpl...

neil wrote:CDO ttyrecs are lost: when the new server's disk crashed and it had to be moved back to the old server, there was not disk space for the ttyrecs.

Permanently lost or 'lost until there's more disk space in the future'?

For example, this one fails: !lg ragdoll killer=hellion 7 -tv And so does this one: !lm lrvs dgfe zot:5 2 -tv Playback failed for: Ragdoll, L25 MuSu, Sif Muna, Pan (r:Patashu): Ttyrec appears corrupted (error: t tyrec url () contains no date? ) at CSplat/Termcast.pm line 316. Waiting for requests (s...

Hopeless wrote:Is this just crazy talk? ( I mean considering it's cyc... )

tripping on stairs and dying while hasted is actually a mechanic in Magicka, if that's what you mean

JK! it's not a FR, it's real. Thanks PleasingFungus! HONK
http://s-z.org/neil/git/?p=crawl.git;a= ... 0bd84d52ff

It seems that the chance to hit numbers in both directions are either misleading or flat out wrong. This manifests itself usually when I have ~50%+ chance to hit, yet miss eight or more times in a row. The odds of this happening are around 100:1, yet it happens many times a run, mostly in the lower...

if you try to take the stairs while hasted, you die. now haste is finally balanced by learning from a game with far superior balance

duvessa wrote:I would much rather use the CPA than enchant a gold dragon hide. Better AC, better EV, better spell success.

Plus rF and rPois are already on equipment, so at that point you're wearing GDA for what, rC? Not worth it.

XuaXua wrote:I think spells shouldn't be so locked in at being topped out, and should scale with spellpower / skill ability throughout the game lifecycle, but that's me.

Well, a club is never useful in the late game either. Some game mechanics become obsolete by design.

On the orb run, abuse stairs. If you're low on HP, wait on every staircase until an orb run spawn appears, then take the stairs, find the next staircase and repeat. (Also stack as much regeneration as humanly possible.) Other than that and using haste/digging/fog/tele/etc to minimize the amount of t...

DCSS is really easy to compile. If you're on Windows, read INSTALL.txt and do the msysgit approach, NOT the cygwin approach (it won't work, period).

Suggestion: Recompile DCSS to add debugging output (dprf, iirc) in functions that look useful/that you would love to know what numbers that produce, then wizmode that.

Did you try Ye Olde Google Search For Error Message (praying to god that someone else had the same problem as you)?
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=___g ... 0&ie=UTF-8
It looks promising.

Monsters that know deflect missiles don't have to cast it, it's just always up all the time. If you x and position it over them (don't v) it will say something like 'deflecting missiles' in their status line where it would say things like hasted/slowed/berserked.

also isnt it counter-productive to choose dithmenos with nightstalker (at least lvl 3) since it reduces LOS and dith gives enemies -acc as well as teleport in ur LOS? or does easier sneaking outweigh that? LOS reduction effects in Crawl (Robe of Night, Nightstalker, Darkness spell, Lantern of Shado...

Wizmode test this - What happens if you use shadow form and have ignite blood? (Shadow Form should make it so you always bleed smog guaranteed)

XuaXua wrote:It's good that Death was removed; too much copying from Gauntlet.

Death has come for XuaXua...

Bloax wrote:Did you in turn also know that invisibility makes them unable to affect you?

You're pulling my leg, come on now, really?

Airstrike has a large damage bonus (I think +50%) against flying targets. So stop flying when fighting something that airstrikes!

Lawndart Jedi wrote:If I am dieing before finishing the tutorials isn't something wrong?

Crawl isn't the only roguelike where you can die in the tutorial (I can also think of Sil's tutorial, great game btw)

If you don't know what kinds of commands there ARE, go to http://crawl.s-z.org/#lobby , pick some random people and watch them for a while. In particular, you won't be able to get a sense of what is good and bad play from just watching people, because most of the time you are not in a life-and-death...

mummie priest and greater can smite u, does double dmg vs ghoul?! Smiting is elementless and ignores all resistances except for things that generically reduce all damage (being petrified, being in shadow form, being a deep dwarf), so no, it doesn't hit undead harder Kiku makes a really easy tomb as...

Also a merfolk javelineer with silver or steel javelins can turn you into paste before you can reach the shore because monster ranged combat is very strong.

is clan down[1/2]: Yes, trying to figure out what happened -TZer0@28.07-10:44-GMT

Just grabbed this rouge like and have to say it's mostly impossible to play at the current settings. I have looked every where and can not find where to set the difficulty setting. The search on this forum is very weak so all i got was bogus results. Where do you choose how hard the enemy's are. Ri...

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tabstorm wrote:Passage of Golubria

Why.

Imagine if you could cast controlled blink but it was cheaper than level 7
If you don't know how to use it, try starting sprints as a warper and experimenting with it
I also think you can trick monsters into taking it, never tried using it like that tho

Hirsch I wrote:their para is irresistible? damn.

It doesn't check MR. Stasis/being a formicid is the only way to be immune to it. (Or breaking LoS or killing it obviously)

[11:10] <Patashu> !lg * recent place=zot:5 s=ikiller [11:10] <Sequell> 669 games for * (recent place=zot:5): 181x an orb of fire, 153x an Orb Guardian, 146x an ancient lich, 44x an electric golem, 22x a Killer Klown, 13x a curse toe, 9x a storm dragon, 7x an Ice Fiend, 6x, 5x a tentacled monstrosity...

Now that inventory doesn't have weight that drags you down, perhaps character ought to be able to slowly dogpaddle their way across deep water. Not being able to attack or aim would suffice to make it something you never did while under attack, and if there are any vaults that are broken by dogpadd...

They're a lot more dangerous than my first kills of them led me to believe. But that's because I had some resistance. I should have been alerted when the first volleys did so much surprising damage. It's hard for me to focus, sometimes. I was being watched, too, and that always seems to unnerve me....

It works in Brogue because Brogue has a pretty tight food clock. (For example, infinitely regeneratable levels in Sil aren't scummy because you are forced to confront Morgoth eventually, and your time in terms of gaining exp and finding loot will be better spent on as deep a floor as possible anywa...

You could also have quaffed a potion of resistance for instant rF+

There are three types of characters: melee, casters, and stabbers. Melee characters wear the heaviest armour they can, put all stats into strength, and never train spells. Casters wear robes of the Archmagi, only put points into int, and only train magic skills. Stabbers wear robes, put all points ...

I think having giant eyeballs exist in their current distribution is problematic, because when a random panlord or whatever busts them out on you you will have 0 prior experience and not know that their para is smite-targetted, irresistible, etc.

It works in Brogue because Brogue has a pretty tight food clock. In particular, roguelikes with tight clocks let you do a lot of things that are 'scummy' in roguelikes without them, because suddenly they're a tradeoff of a valuable resource (For example, infinitely regeneratable levels in Sil aren'...

Patashu, what would be the link if I wanted to watch that sequence as a console replay? I'm curious what it would look like. There really is nothing else like it in the game, at least in tiles. Firestorm is a puff of smoke, by comparison. Come into ##crawl and message me there. It would be easier t...

no but instead the argument would be "why is hellfire a poison thing?" and "who the hell thinks green is a good color for a badass explosion?" I would prefer hellfire being jarring and unexpected to hellfire looking like fire so everyone just assumes it's fire and gets burned (h...

TRJ's pack is probably a good immolation target

If hellfire was green this argument wouldn't exist

Since rule -1 and rule 0 are the best rules for winning the game, I would come up with an anti rule -1 and an anti rule 0. Something like: Anti Rule -1: It doesn't matter if you play Crawl while tired or low energy. It's a turn based game so it doesn't matter if your reflexes are slow, for example. ...

I don't think Sequell has knowledge of when uniques are first seen.

<Sequell> 1. neops the Thaumaturge (L10 MuWz of Kikubaaqudgha), slain by a minotaur (the cursed -2,-5 hand axe of neops' Instant Death) in a Labyrinth (labyrinth_spiral) on 2012-02-20 12:00:15, with 4369 points after 23083 turns and 1:56:22.

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