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Hello, I have been playing the tourney and am looking for a clan to join. Anybody have space for an extra person? I already have one win under my belt.

I really like a lot of the ideas tossed around in this discussion. It has been very interesting. I think the best solution is infinite inventory with consumables not counting towards inventory. My play style is to have a small stash where I put items I want to be able to access as a group. I put spe...

What stat upgrade do you usually pick on your Octopodes? Do you go with Int to help with supplemental spell casting? Dex to help EV? Str to help melee damage/constriction? Edit: Nvm, I see that you said to put all points in Dex. Would you mind explaining the reasoning? Is it for EV? Would you do the...

What about having missile weapons behave like rods? They have a charge number and a recharge speed. No ammo is needed and effectively every weapon has infinite ammo over time, but only a limited amount of ammo over the short term. This would mean the end of carrying around 1000 arrows so you are gua...

I would really like to see damage information when looking at a weapon in my inventory. So looking at a longsword would tell me the standard damage is XdY, or a range like X-Y, and with my current skills and equipment it is YdZ. Or it could say that your skill improves accuracy by X% and damage by Y...

When I encounter Lerny early I tend to use Speed + wands and that kills it quite nicely but uses all your charges. With my TrBe I used Might, Speed, BiA (2 or 3), and a couple wand blasts. I did that to conserve my wands although I did not end up needing them much after that anyway.

Buy a stack of might potions in the very first round, then a stack of healing potions once you can. Don't be afraid to chug some potions if you feel you might need them. This advice helped me to eventually win Thunderdome. I played a Troll Berserker focusing on maces. Troll helped me regen quickly ...

It didn't. That explains it. I thought that it would register without the game ending, but that makes sense that it wouldn't be considered a tournament game if it didn't end before the tournament ended.

Thanks for the explanation!

I started an OpAs game yesterday to get the Nemelex's Choice banner. I ran the character until level 9 in order to qualify and then saved the game. I checked my player page last night and it did not show up after an hour. I did not worry too much because I know it is not live data, but it still has ...

Rain Cloud - Lvl 4 Ice/Air
Creates a mephitic-cloud like array of rain clouds. This would go well with the proposed water-themed god and offer some interesting tactical options for merfolk/octopodes/ranged/etc.

the chance of getting shit cursed artifacts (or worse, contaminated) is an important risk that should be kept in the gameplay. It should not be a nobrainer to pick up and try on every piece of steaming jewelry you find on the floor. I disagree. I have no real problem with the chance of getting a cu...

1. D14 - D26 2. Item swapping 3. Buff casting After I finish the Lair and Orc it seems like the rest of the dungeon is a blur of different types of Trolls/Giants/Footaurs until D27. The new Vault monsters helps this somewhat in that branch, but the rest of the dungeon can be mind numbing. It is alwa...

In my experience, FDA will hurt your stealth too much and make it more likely for you to need to either fight or run away. According to the wiki, wearing armour gives this minus to your stealth rating: -6 × (Evasion Penalty)^2 So an EV penalty of -3 from FDA means -54 to your stealth rating, which i...

I tend to wear Faith if I am an Oka worshipper and I find it early. But generally my go-to amulet is Clarity (unless worshipping Ash). Would you say that Faith > Clarity? Perhaps I under utilize god abilities so I don't properly value the piety boost, but I can't stand getting confused by an orc wiz...

Here some possible options: 1. Make the LOS effect of NS one-way so that it only affects enemies. Probably way too overpowered. 2. Put the NS effect into a cloak instead of having it as a DS mutation. Perhaps replace cloak of darkness. This leaves the effect still in the game, but makes it optional....

A Curing potion will also take care of nausea if you really need to get rid of the status.

I think some suggestions come because different players have different approaches to the game. Crawl is designed (I believe) to reward flexibility in taking what the RNG hands you and doing your best with it. I tend to start a game of Crawl thinking, "I would like to try X this game", wher...

Davion Fuxa wrote:Having Orc Knights and Orc Warlords spawn with Hand Axes of Returning might be interesting.

I would like to die less, not more.

Being another poor player who enjoys octopodes I also really like the idea of a +1 or +2 starting ring of protection to replace the lost starting armour of certain backgrounds. I would probably leave the +1 built-in mutation though because I really like that flavour-wise and limit the ring to +2.

Octopodes are one of my favorite races to play, but I have a very difficult time getting melee podes very far. It may just be my play style, but their squishiness seems to be a big factor. Do I just need to focus on softening everything up with floor trash (darts, daggers, etc)? If that is the case,...

When did you start worshipping Jiyva? Did you convert when you found the altar? Or did you wait until a certain point? Or worship someone else first and then convert at some point?

I think one of the biggest challenges you will have if your SpHu lasts that long is the low strength. You will not be able to carry around enough ammo to be meaningful.

Thanks for the continued work on this port! I have downloaded the version from Feb 1st. The last few versions run for me on my Nexus 10 (hooray!). I have a couple questions. Is the interface supposed to scale with the resolution of my device? Or is there a setting I can play with for resolution? Eve...

It would sure be nice if there were a way in-game to handle situations like this. Either more terrain manipulation options (a spell or item that would dry up water, for example) or a transfiguration spell that would turn you into something that could swim (perhaps one for water and one for lava). It...

Thank you for the continued development on this! On my nexus 10 I now see an SDL loading screen and it looks like the load completes successfully. I can also click on the link to change settings and that seems to work fine. But then the screen goes black briefly and crashes to desktop. If someone ca...

There is a lot of really great advice here already, but I will chime in a bit to reinforce what has been said and to add a couple extra thoughts. If you are interested in playing a fighter-type, my suggestion is to stick with a Minotaur or Hill Orc until you win. Both have really good fighter aptitu...

I also have a crash on startup on my stock nexus 10. Is there anything I can do or provide that would be helpful in figuring out what is causing the problem?

Is there a possibility of taking a one-way hatch to a bubble so that a player could not return to the main dungeon without a means of digging or a lucky teleport? If so, then that is probably something that should be addressed. It may not be very likely, but that would be a pretty lame way to lose a...

For Oka, you probably should have stopped training throwing before 8. If you have a missile skill at 8 or higher, Oka will gift you missiles or ammo. Unless you want lots of darts and javelins, in which case 8 is good. But either way I wouldn't worry about getting it any higher for now. Follow Black...

so things like cloaks and boots and gloves and helmets give you absolutely no EV penalty at all right? so i should always wear them when given the chance? Yes, you are correct. They are always worth wearing, even if they are +0, because each piece of armour decreases the damage you take from acid a...

If you are trying to create an EV-based unarmed fighter, I would certainly use leather. The EV penalty is minimal but the protection is much better. Once it was available I would use a troll or dragon hide. I do not understand all the workings of the Armour skill, but I tend to ignore it on EV-based...

I have been trying to win with an Octopode for a while now and finally succeeded! I had many close calls and in particular a REALLY close call in the Orb chamber when I was trapped by 4 Orb Guardians and a few other things with around 20 HP waiting for tele to kick in. I feel like I had decent luck ...

If you are playing on Windows you can create a batch file in the same directory as your Crawl.exe. Name it something clever like Crawl.bat. Put this inside: del saves\bones.* start crawl.exe Just double-click the batch file when you want to play Crawl and it will automatically clean out any bones fi...

Grats!

I am by no means a great Crawl player, but this is some advice posted by cerebovssquire detailing the order he tends to do things, which I have found very useful. In the quote below "D" = "Main Dungeon". D 1-13 Lair 1-8 Orc 1-4 D 14-20 V 1-7 D 21-27 get two Lair runes V:8 Zot 1-4...

Thanks for putting the time into this project! Put me down as a vote for tiles, if that matters. I will still watch console, obviously, but it would probably be easier to know what is going on with tiles. In console mode I constantly have to examine things to remind myself what they are. :) Either w...

Thanks for the replies. Unfortunately I was soon hit by an orc warlord with a longsword of distortion that sent my to the abyss. I was chased by hell hogs which kept me on fire until I died.

I have a somewhat successful VaEn going and I would like some weapon selection input. I have killed off many VaEn's and I decided to try out Kiku with this one intending to use a Pain branded weapon. I found an early Vampiric dagger and that is what I am using for my primary weapon, with an electroc...

Well if the high scores were separate (like Sprint) then it wouldn't matter. Or it could just be a local-only option so who cares if you "ruin" your own high score list? And balancing wouldn't be necessary - it would just be easier or harder than it is currently, which would be the point. ...

1. Remove Pan and the Abyss 2. Remove Hunger or make it more important 3. Optional levels of Difficulty 1. I like the idea of Pan and Abyss but the implementation needs to be tweaked. It just ends up being a boring waste of time to get all the runes. For Pan I think it might be better to just have ...

http://crawl.aerdan.org/ Crawl Light is a release that makes many things easier by changing some stuff and reverting many nerfs to obviously overpowered things. Here is the changelog: https://github.com/dtsund/crawl-light/blob/crawl_light-0.1/crawl-ref/docs/changelog.txt I was not familiar with Cra...

I got tired of being one-shotted. I know it is because of my sub-optimal play and because I get bored and am not careful when mashing keys. But after 100s of deaths I get impatient and that leads to more deaths. So I downloaded the source and created an Easy mode for myself. It is a separate menu op...

Can anyone explain what this statement from the Wiki Armour entry means? "If your strength is less than 3x EV penalty of the armour, it will be "difficult to use" and offer limited benefits." I currently have a Merfolk Gladiator going. His Str is 15. If I have the option between ...

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