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Tuesday, 4th December 2018, 08:01

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Experimental branch: Known Traps

Replies: 97

Views: 32660

Re: Experimental branch: Known Traps

Very cool idea! Really excited to have traps exist and be threatening without any weird 'optimal trap avoidance' issues. Besides shaft/tele/alarm, maybe one of the 'triggered when explored' traps could be the old shadow creatures trap? Alternatively, the teleport trap could be tied to a weak shadow ...

Sunday, 6th May 2018, 23:24

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Give the player a message when death is imminent

Replies: 16

Views: 5937

Re: Give the player a message when death is imminent

A better solution would be to add damage information about more kinds of abilities (ranged attacks, spells, etc) to monster xv. Then you can examine a yellow or red monster and make your own informed decision about how scary it is right now.

Friday, 4th May 2018, 10:21

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Remove spell hunger

Replies: 30

Views: 9217

Re: Remove spell hunger

To celebrate no spell hunger: take a low/mid level, non-undead character, try to find summon dragons spell, get it to 9x% chance to cast, sit on the stairs and repeat casting it until it finally works. Go down stairs, kill stuff. Rinse, repeat. Contamination.. oh noes, lots of bad mutations swappin...

Friday, 4th May 2018, 01:36

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Did Orc get harder?

Replies: 7

Views: 2814

Re: Did Orc get harder?

Orc knights have always been able to spawn in Orc:1. Here's some stats: [11:35 AM] Patashu: !lg * place=orc:1 s=cikiller recent [11:35 AM] BOTCerebot: 6313 games for * (place=orc:1 recent): 924x an orc knight, 734x an orc warrior, 693x an orc warlord, 439x an ettin, 434x a stone giant, 400x an orc s...

Thursday, 3rd May 2018, 23:44

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: How does the amulet of the acrobat work in trunk?

Replies: 31

Views: 10031

Re: How does the amulet of the acrobat work in trunk?

Yup trog berserks are pretty safe unless you only just picked Trog up, just making it clear it's not 100% safe.

Wednesday, 2nd May 2018, 23:58

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: How does the amulet of the acrobat work in trunk?

Replies: 31

Views: 10031

Re: How does the amulet of the acrobat work in trunk?

Agree on everything although I'd say that rage's downside is that you can pass out after berserk, which Trog's berserk doesn't risk. You can still pass out after a Trog berserk if your piety is less than ******. learndb: When non-xom-effect berserk ends, there is a 1 in 10 + (rage_mutation_level * ...

Monday, 30th April 2018, 03:16

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Potion of Mutation changes

Replies: 8

Views: 3753

Re: Potion of Mutation changes

If you are a single issue voter and your single issue is 'I want to be able to mutate myself horribly', try Gooncrawl: https://github.com/Floodkiller/crawl

IIRC it doesn't revert the potion of mutation changes, but it does bring back purple (mutagenic) chunks which work functionally the same way.

Sunday, 29th April 2018, 23:39

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: How does the amulet of the acrobat work in trunk?

Replies: 31

Views: 10031

Re: How does the amulet of the acrobat work in trunk?

Also, IMO, this amulet is really fucking bad in general. Wow, +15 EV when not attacking? But, it's disabled for Searing ray/Wu Jian attacks? So, you can only use it when running away, and you can't quickswap to it either to get the effect? And the display for it is also buggy? It just needs to be e...

Thursday, 26th April 2018, 23:34

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Dead, and yet not

Replies: 9

Views: 3294

Re: Dead, and yet not

PseudoLoneWolf wrote:As of 0.19 the wiki says that Treeform sets your hunger to Satiated and you don't continue to hunger while in Treeform. I don't know if that's still the case.


Even if that is true, you could be hit down to starving by a hungry ghost after treeforming, I guess.

Monday, 23rd April 2018, 06:13

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Dead, and yet not

Replies: 9

Views: 3294

Re: Dead, and yet not

You can wait one turn by hitting . or swing your weapon (or tree branches if unarmed) in a direction by hitting ctrl+(direction) or pass a turn shouting with tt. Lots of ways to pass the time.

Friday, 20th April 2018, 12:03

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: YAVP: 3-rune HuCK

Replies: 5

Views: 1978

Re: YAVP: 3-rune HuCK

"Of course then my teleport kicked in and took me somewhere not so safe (albeit still outside the orb vault) but I managed to get a defensible spot and survive that one." Don't forget that if you have Tele status and you don't want to teleport, another source of teleport will cancel it. (A...

Wednesday, 18th April 2018, 05:19

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: YASD - DrIE ^Sif - why so F* hard?

Replies: 17

Views: 4792

Re: DrIE ^Sif - why so F* hard?

You have 36 rations. Don't make decisions based on spell hunger until that number is 0. If you are serious, it is a bad advice. Having 1 ration means player should have been training and using a weapon long time ago In this case 'don't make decisions based on spell hunger' means 'yes, train long bl...

Tuesday, 17th April 2018, 23:25

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: YASD - DrIE ^Sif - why so F* hard?

Replies: 17

Views: 4792

Re: DrIE ^Sif - why so F* hard?

You have 36 rations. Don't make decisions based on spell hunger until that number is 0.

Wednesday, 11th April 2018, 00:08

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Replace labyrinth with a pac-man level

Replies: 11

Views: 3464

Re: Replace labyrinth with a pac-man level

I managed to get a troll going pretty well, I had covered up the orb with a burning bush which is surprisingly durable so that I could move around. I'm not really sure why I <needed> to move around, but I <wanted> to move around. Eventually something caused all the piled up corpses to animate into ...

Tuesday, 10th April 2018, 06:13

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Replace labyrinth with a pac-man level

Replies: 11

Views: 3464

Re: Replace labyrinth with a pac-man level

Hellmonk wrote:I did zot defense with a MuSu of sif. I died a bunch, finally had a run going really well, then had a game crash render one of the runes permanently unobtainable so I couldn't win. That is my zot defense story.


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Monday, 9th April 2018, 23:22

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Replace labyrinth with a pac-man level

Replies: 11

Views: 3464

Re: Replace labyrinth with a pac-man level

bring back zotdef and replace labs with it I was never any good at this, I even tried doing overpowered things like starting as a troll, and still lost. My wins were as OpNe and FeSu of Sif Muna. Spam oklobs along the walls, water everywhere else, get every spell and flood the level with allies. My...

Monday, 9th April 2018, 02:42

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Replace labyrinth with a pac-man level

Replies: 11

Views: 3464

Re: Replace labyrinth with a pac-man level

Add the Arena gameplay mode as a portal instead of labs. You're shown two groups of monsters and have to bet on which one will win, then you see them fight. If you bet correctly, you get the loot. If you bet incorrectly, you fight whatever's still alive.

Friday, 6th April 2018, 13:02

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Enable Beogh to all species

Replies: 10

Views: 3429

Re: Enable Beogh to all species

Enable TSO for demonspawn

Friday, 6th April 2018, 13:01

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Give ?uselessness that Xom chess piece functionality

Replies: 2

Views: 1486

Re: Give ?uselessness that Xom chess piece functionality

I wasn't around for this so I have no idea what you're talking about or what it does

Monday, 2nd April 2018, 23:34

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: auto cast deflect missile when resting

Replies: 9

Views: 3133

Re: auto cast deflect missile when resting

I think there's a LUA script to do this but I'd love it as an rc setting. Something like cast_at_max_mp=spell1,spell2,spell3 and whenever you hit full MP it tries to cast each spell until one of them succeeds.

Monday, 2nd April 2018, 23:15

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Confusion about confusion

Replies: 6

Views: 2830

Re: Confusion about confusion

FR: more fluids

Quicksand, acid, slime, differentiate fresh and salt water, tar, jello, etc

Monday, 2nd April 2018, 01:22

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Is there any reason to choose Long Blades?

Replies: 29

Views: 9204

Re: Is there any reason to choose Long Blades?

I never knew about that before wtf

Kinda hard to make a decision based on something you had no idea about lol

Saturday, 31st March 2018, 05:46

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Found a bugged artifact weapon description

Replies: 1

Views: 1269

Re: Found a bugged artifact weapon description

Not a bug - a side effect of wielding antimagic weapons is that your MP max is reduced to 33%. A possible modifier on artifacts is +9 MP. If you get a +9 MP antimagic artifact, both of the properties apply.

Thursday, 29th March 2018, 21:21

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Pleasant D:3 entry vault

Replies: 21

Views: 6086

Re: Pleasant D:3 entry vault

sanka wrote:In my mental model the big missing part is what the orcs are doing during taking the stairs.

Conga line? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMV3icKalzQ

Thursday, 29th March 2018, 11:37

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Pleasant D:3 entry vault

Replies: 21

Views: 6086

Re: Pleasant D:3 entry vault

Just so we're all on the same page: [10:35 PM] BOTCerebot: stairs[1/10]: Taking the stairs has two parts. The 'leaving' is implemented as a 'delay' - it can be interrupted. It lasts 1.0 turns. The 'entering' lasts 0.75 turns (if you've never been here before) or 1.5 turns (if you have) and is simply...

Wednesday, 28th March 2018, 08:06

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: How to die to invisible melee enemy as 6* TSO worshipper

Replies: 7

Views: 2354

Re: How to die to invisible melee enemy as 6* TSO worshipper

I assume it also means that it is possible to be invisible this way also. Kind of. I tried the potion and spell of invisibility, and it won't let me cast them 'Your divine halo glows too radiantly to become invisible'. But if I renounce TSO, become invisible then use wizmode to get TSO at 200 piety...

Wednesday, 28th March 2018, 04:26

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: How to die to invisible melee enemy as 6* TSO worshipper

Replies: 7

Views: 2354

How to die to invisible melee enemy as 6* TSO worshipper

It's easy! Just wear the Ring of Shadows and your halo is cancelled out. I never would have thought to do this, and probably neither did anyone else. This tv came up on the Discord server and it was surprising until the log was checked afterwards. tv: !lg * map=gammafunk_abyss_rune_reverse_zot -tv:<...

Monday, 26th March 2018, 22:32

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: replace Polymorph with Malmutate

Replies: 14

Views: 4470

Re: replace Polymorph with Malmutate

Polymorph could be buffed (in a way that makes it so you need less spoilery knowledge to use it well) if it tried to pick a lower HD form than it currently does.

Monday, 26th March 2018, 02:47

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Pleasant D:3 entry vault

Replies: 21

Views: 6086

Re: Pleasant D:3 entry vault

No, it doesn't work quite that well. The monster delay isn't even an intentional feature; it just happens to work like that because monsters are generated with zero energy and only act when they accumulate enough. But monsters that want to follow you through a stairwell need to start following you ...

Sunday, 25th March 2018, 22:39

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Pleasant D:3 entry vault

Replies: 21

Views: 6086

Re: Pleasant D:3 entry vault

Shtopit wrote:The only thing you can do is going back immediately, since you have the first action every time you enter a floor the first time.

You do, but:
-taking the stairs takes more than one turn
-Now almost all the orcs have followed you, so this isn't much better

Saturday, 24th March 2018, 03:51

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Rip in pepperoni Ozocubu's Armour

Replies: 18

Views: 6802

Re: Rip in pepperoni Ozocubu's Armour

EV buff spell that is broken if you stop moving

shit I think I just described acrobat

Friday, 23rd March 2018, 22:04

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: 10/10 GhEE start

Replies: 4

Views: 1787

Re: 10/10 GhEE start

Since you can't start with monsters in sight they would have had to lure all these monsters back to the start. I suppose it's possible one or two where hiding directly behind the door but that's unlikely. Does 'in sight' mean 'you can see them' or 'unbroken line of fire to them'? If the latter, the...

Friday, 23rd March 2018, 22:01

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Gell's Gravitas rebalance

Replies: 8

Views: 2792

Re: Gell's Gravitas rebalance

Gell's Gravitas already does increase in AoE as your spellpower increases. If that's all it needs, it just needs to scale faster with spellpower, which is a one liner change.

Friday, 23rd March 2018, 07:00

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Gell's Gravitas rebalance

Replies: 8

Views: 2792

Re: Gell's Gravitas rebalance

I like the idea, but isn't this a strictly better LRD? (LRD on rock wall is 3d(5+power/5)), or 3d15 at power 50, 3d25 at power 100. But this is level 3, AND also works if you have two monsters instead of a monster and a wall)

Friday, 23rd March 2018, 03:44

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Rip in pepperoni Ozocubu's Armour

Replies: 18

Views: 6802

Re: Rip in pepperoni Ozocubu's Armour

Wow, that's a big change.

Tuesday, 20th March 2018, 01:41

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Species Proposal – Troglodyte

Replies: 42

Views: 13535

Re: Species Proposal – Troglodyte

Shtopit wrote:Would immunity to curses be game-breaking? The obsidian axe is the only problem I can think of, because it's designed for not being freely swappable.

What about Ash?

Tuesday, 20th March 2018, 00:34

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Song of Slaying and Allies

Replies: 6

Views: 2236

Re: Song of Slaying and Allies

MainiacJoe wrote:Thanks.

Well, that's ridiculous. There ought to be a percentage chance that the slaying bonus increases based on the percentage of damage that you dealt directly.

Is this a song of slaying buff or an allies buff? :thinking:

Monday, 19th March 2018, 08:07

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: add a key for "rest then explore"

Replies: 7

Views: 2430

Re: add a key for "rest then explore"

Good points.

Monday, 19th March 2018, 04:12

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: add a key for "rest then explore"

Replies: 7

Views: 2430

Re: add a key for "rest then explore"

Well, the way Tales of Maj'Eyal solves this is to make it so, by default, autoexplore rests first if you are not at full resources. That seems like it would be better than adding yet another key that you have to teach newbies how to use. Either it would be an rc setting, or the old autoexplore behav...

Saturday, 17th March 2018, 11:42

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: YASD - MuNE killed by ally

Replies: 4

Views: 1727

Re: YASD - MuNE killed by ally

Zhorgal wrote:How did it attack? I don't understand.

My guess: Just before dying, the orc wizard managed to confuse the guardian serpent zombie, which wandered around randomly, stepping onto the MuNe and dealing the lethal blow.

Friday, 16th March 2018, 12:04

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Dying of hunger

Replies: 4

Views: 1718

Re: Dying of hunger

If you can't safely kill a hungry ghost and you aren't being pestered by anything else, you can drag it up the upstairs, pillar dance until a one tile gap forms due to energy randomisation, then take the downstairs and leave it behind.

Thursday, 15th March 2018, 05:42

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Species Proposal - Faerie Dragon

Replies: 189

Views: 63698

Re: Species Proposal - Faerie Dragon

https://github.com/crawl/crawl/blob/master/crawl-ref/INSTALL.txt If you're on Windows, I used the MSYS2 instructions and they work great for me. How to source dive AKA how to find the code you want to change: For large changes: Search for something similar to what you want to implement that's alrea...

Thursday, 15th March 2018, 01:24

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Species Proposal - Faerie Dragon

Replies: 189

Views: 63698

Re: Species Proposal - Faerie Dragon

I'd love to actually give this thing a go. Realz, could you put it up somewhere? I'll try to figure out how to do this tonight (I'm west coast USA), so within ~8hrs or less from this reply. If anyone has guidance they'd like to offer in that regard (or links/resources to point me to), I'm all ears!...

Wednesday, 14th March 2018, 08:51

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Idea for a new evocable

Replies: 10

Views: 2910

Re: Idea for a new evocable

Sprucery wrote:New evokable: book of secrets. When evoked, casts a random spell. Higher evo skill gives higher level spells. Destroyed when used like box/sack.

We used to have tome of destruction and it got removed.

Tuesday, 13th March 2018, 22:07

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Species Proposal - Faerie Dragon

Replies: 189

Views: 63698

Re: Species Proposal - Faerie Dragon

I was initially skeptical that we needed this when we already have DE, but after thinking about it, having a race that can ALWAYS kill dudes with magic even in the early game makes for a great beginner friendly race. It's like how SpEn is the archetypical and most popular stabber - it can easily ret...

Monday, 12th March 2018, 22:15

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Give Y/N for Walking into Steam

Replies: 10

Views: 3781

Re: Give Y/N for Walking into Steam

njvack wrote:Wait, does steam check rF-? That makes no sense whatsoever. I can see fire damaging mummies more, but steam should not.

Steam is basically a fire cloud variant. It also does other fiery things, like melting ozo/icy envelope.

Monday, 12th March 2018, 09:39

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: YADD: Died to a bat as a Deep Dwarf

Replies: 14

Views: 3868

Re: YADD: Died to a bat as a Deep Dwarf

I don't get it. What is it so hard about bringing a bat to the level with dream sheep? If you mean 'why didn't anyone do this before now', this challenge was a lot harder when it was first proposed. Dream sheep didn't exist yet, so you'd have to find something else to put you to sleep. Not many ene...

Monday, 12th March 2018, 04:44

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: YADD: Died to a bat as a Deep Dwarf

Replies: 14

Views: 3868

Re: YADD: Died to a bat as a Deep Dwarf

This is a historic death. The bat challenge has been on the learndb as long as I can remember, and no one has completed it online until today (confirm with query !lg * dd killer=bat x=dam ckaux!~~inner).

Sunday, 11th March 2018, 21:57

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Give Y/N for Walking into Steam

Replies: 10

Views: 3781

Re: Give Y/N for Walking into Steam

Probably doubling or tripling the threshold would give the desired effect and be a simple change.

Sunday, 11th March 2018, 06:13

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Stuck !!!

Replies: 5

Views: 1945

Re: Stuck !!!

Even if you weren't a formicid there'd have to be a non-teleport way out of the vault, since you could

* have a cursed -Tele piece of equipment and no scrolls of remove curse on you; or
* simply chunk the provided teleportation scroll into the water
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