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Sunday, 18th January 2015, 15:50

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Sooo, Where do I find these Runes?

Replies: 2

Views: 1563

Re: Sooo, Where do I find these Runes?

Runes certainly can be another way to shake things up.

Sunday, 28th December 2014, 06:22

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Show success chance for Elyvilion pacification

Replies: 10

Views: 2977

Re: Show success chance for Elyvilion pacification

The "% to affect" display is based on the monster type's base HD, not their current HD. (Likewise the "% to affect you" when looking at monster spell descriptions.) If that's desirable, we can use monster average MHP for this calculation (it's already calculated for sorting the ...

Friday, 26th December 2014, 15:01

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Is this normal?

Replies: 21

Views: 6047

Re: Is this normal?

...lemuel_crystal_altar is a simple altar vault; it places no books.

You probably are looking for evilmike_library_of_no_secrets or similar.

Friday, 26th December 2014, 14:59

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Proof Trog is a troll

Replies: 4

Views: 1883

Re: Proof Trog is a troll

Of course Trog is a troll; it's right there in the name.

Of course, Trog is also an ogre...

Monday, 22nd December 2014, 03:53

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: New God: Wulndraste the Wayfarer (God of No Backtracking)

Replies: 52

Views: 21423

Re: New God: Wulndraste the Wayfarer (God of No Backtracking

I have to agree that our wandering god is pretty boring to play right now; the game I just finished felt like an otherwise standard speedrun with a "no going back to your stash" conduct more than anything else. The change I made to Change of Scenery probably makes it too powerful - I hit o...

Thursday, 18th December 2014, 06:38

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: jan 7th

Replies: 2

Views: 1330

Re: jan 7th

Siegurt wrote:
twelwe wrote:i am so excited that american idol starts again and i hope my favorite person wins this year

I thought you were going to win this year?
I do not see a contradiction between those two statements.

Wednesday, 17th December 2014, 04:19

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Tapatalk

Replies: 11

Views: 3418

Re: Tapatalk

Occasionally.

Wednesday, 17th December 2014, 02:15

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: TSO reform, possible buffs

Replies: 21

Views: 7656

Re: TSO reform, possible buffs

Ironfoot wrote:Shhhh, don't let Grunt know that I'm here.

Okay, not letting Grunt know.

Tuesday, 9th December 2014, 05:35

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Gozag and disintegrate

Replies: 4

Views: 1726

Re: Gozag and disintegrate

I took special care to make sure that particular interplay worked in the fashion it does when I was coding it.

Friday, 5th December 2014, 05:03

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Q re: gfx

Replies: 9

Views: 3145

Re: Q re: gfx

See this commit: http://s-z.org/neil/git/?p=crawl.git;a= ... 1ea45825f5

Ideally, we'd want this to be configurable somehow, but that's beyond me at the moment.

Friday, 29th August 2014, 16:06

Forum: Technical Support

Topic: Can you make android tiles version like this?

Replies: 2

Views: 2094

Re: Can you make tiles for android like this?

nobody on the current dev team knows enough about Android to mess with it. I know enough about Android to at least use the old system to provide a 0.14.2 and 0.15.0 build, but I really want to get the game ported to a new graphical backend anyway so that it will be easier to get a proper Android ve...

Wednesday, 13th August 2014, 22:55

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: I love it when...

Replies: 1478

Views: 2493261

Re: I love it when...

ichbins wrote:
124890 | Pan | Noticed Lom Lobon
124892 | Pan | Killed Lom Lobon


I must admit that I really start liking my "incredibly stealthy" GrBe stabbing boss monsters with his great mace :lol:
You flatten Lom Lobon like a pancake!!!!!!

Saturday, 28th June 2014, 14:21

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Please remove hatches that lead into death

Replies: 13

Views: 4130

Re: Please remove hatches that lead into death

This isn't the first time a hatch has gone into a no_rtele_into area; I've dug into the code a bit surrounding it and it definitely is not supposed to happen, but I don't as yet have any idea why it's happening.

I'll update here if I find anything out.

Wednesday, 18th June 2014, 03:20

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Did I do something wrong? Died in fiery explosion

Replies: 17

Views: 4753

Re: Did I do something wrong? Died in fiery explosion

Scroll of immolation + Discord.

Wednesday, 18th June 2014, 03:18

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: unwielding chaos weapon makes Xom's trick

Replies: 5

Views: 2253

Re: unwielding chaos weapon makes Xom's trick

dck wrote:well do you not like tricks?

I am all the trickery I ever need.

Tuesday, 17th June 2014, 21:11

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Rebalance dragon armors, possibly make hides easier to find

Replies: 33

Views: 8364

Re: Rebalance dragon armors, possibly make hides easier to f

bone dragon armour {SH+5}

Large bone plates, anyone?

Tuesday, 10th June 2014, 03:09

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Is there more food in lair or dungeon?

Replies: 6

Views: 2094

Re: Is there more food in lair or dungeon?

You are guaranteed a food vault between D:7-14 inclusive. Food vaults are guaranteed to contain at least some vegetarian food, and are generally biased in that direction (the rationale being that carnivores can provide their own food readily enough).

Saturday, 7th June 2014, 04:03

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Walking at the pace of your minions shouldn't screw you

Replies: 19

Views: 6880

Re: Walking at the pace of your minions shouldn't screw you

It would have been nice to be able to just wait until an enemy took a step toward you, and have fine control over turns like that. I tried to implement this at one point. The basic concept worked well, but the way it was implemented it caused a major performance hit; a better implementation is grea...

Sunday, 1st June 2014, 00:31

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Stabbing extension

Replies: 22

Views: 6465

Re: Stabbing extension

shoop wrote:One-handed polearms are treated like long blades for stabbing (I would love to stab a sleeping Polyphemus with a spear....)
This is already true for spears.

(More when I get home.)

Sunday, 1st June 2014, 00:30

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Reducing damage spikes

Replies: 17

Views: 6239

Re: Reducing damage spikes

Bloax wrote:Ynxgiaou the Dicecrusher
FR, but only with a name starting with a letter not already used. (Uoaigxny?)

Friday, 30th May 2014, 14:31

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: complex magic idea

Replies: 3

Views: 1549

Re: complex magic idea

imo rename Sublimation instead?

Sunday, 25th May 2014, 16:26

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: colorful clouds

Replies: 4

Views: 1798

Re: colorful clouds

I approve of this demonstration of the rod of clouds.

Sunday, 25th May 2014, 12:47

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Acidic Dissolution Expansion

Replies: 19

Views: 5935

Re: Acidic Dissolution Expansion

bcadren wrote:I've made games in a weekend before, with 60 or 48 hour deadlines to do everything for it.
Show us.

Friday, 23rd May 2014, 18:40

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: The annoyances of Crawl

Replies: 13

Views: 4024

Re: The annoyances of Crawl

vengefulcarrot wrote:My only wish left is to have plums added to this game.
Only if we also get mangoes. Especially death mangoes.

Thursday, 22nd May 2014, 00:38

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: what if the crypt

Replies: 10

Views: 2989

Re: what if the crypt

Fun fact: in ancient Crawl, runes were Orbs.

Now there's only the Orb of Zot.

Wednesday, 21st May 2014, 18:38

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: The problem with curse skulls

Replies: 13

Views: 4397

Re: The problem with curse skulls

Random idea: limit how far they can move from their starting location, preserving their original purpose.

I don't understand at all how the current behaviour is desirable; we just haven't thought of how best to approach the problem as yet.

Monday, 19th May 2014, 19:38

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: File200's Consolidated Ideas Thread

Replies: 43

Views: 9440

Re: File200's Consolidated Ideas Thread

This reminds me of Force Lance (and would probably be better than Force Lance). I was thinking the same thing except "worse than". Generally speaking, you're casting those spells because you want the target to be further from you -- shoving is more likely to make that happen than a random...

Monday, 19th May 2014, 19:37

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: New spell - Total War

Replies: 19

Views: 4430

Re: New spell - Total War

xentronium wrote:Sounds like something Trog would like.
Clearly it sets language = !!! for the duration.

Monday, 19th May 2014, 19:35

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Allow autotravel to consider other floors

Replies: 6

Views: 2364

Re: Allow autotravel to consider other floors

and into wrote:curse skulls are extremely problematic
Start a thread; I want to hear more.

Monday, 19th May 2014, 05:03

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: File200's Consolidated Ideas Thread

Replies: 43

Views: 9440

Re: File200's Consolidated Ideas Thread

Hopeless wrote:After all the threads here are all crazy right?
So are the devs.
File200 wrote:Dispersing Shot: conjurations/translocations 5. Fires a powered-up magic dart that attempts to blink the target. Resistible by MR.
This reminds me of Force Lance (and would probably be better than Force Lance).

Sunday, 18th May 2014, 02:51

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Gods Fun Survey

Replies: 60

Views: 15209

Re: Gods Fun Survey

I demand entries for the two newest members of our pantheon.

Saturday, 17th May 2014, 00:57

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Level generators

Replies: 46

Views: 13821

Re: Level generators

Relevant.

This probably won't be the last adjustment there; I'm mainly trying to get a feel for what will work there and what won't.

Friday, 16th May 2014, 05:30

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Suicide cheese

Replies: 18

Views: 4907

Re: Suicide cheese

cerebovssquire wrote:I expected a far more entertaining thread based on the title
This cheese is overwhelmingly delicious! You die...

Thursday, 15th May 2014, 17:12

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Using some wands

Replies: 9

Views: 2834

Re: Using some wands

Also try using enslavement with Inner Flame. It's a real blast.

Wednesday, 14th May 2014, 17:54

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Normalize !porridge despite species/mutations (except Vp/Mu)

Replies: 8

Views: 2861

Re: Normalize !porridge despite species/mutations (except Vp

and into wrote:(Incidental q: However rare, if you do end up with carnivore 3 mutation, would Gozag start offering potions of blood? Is that niche case covered?)
You can't get the diet mutations any longer, but if you could that edge case is indeed covered.

Wednesday, 14th May 2014, 17:10

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Remove/Reform Lava Orcs

Replies: 27

Views: 9751

Re: Remove/Reform Lava Orcs

archaeo wrote:Remove Lava Orcs
rip

Tuesday, 13th May 2014, 23:35

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Orange crystal statue immune to disintegrate?

Replies: 10

Views: 3538

Re: Orange crystal statue immune to disintegrate?

tasonir wrote:Can orange crystal statue's confuse now be resisted by MR since it's a spell? If so I might actually fight them, if not, not worth it.
Yes.

Tuesday, 13th May 2014, 20:56

Forum: Bulletin Board

Topic: Interim Trunk Win32 builds

Replies: 6

Views: 4799

Re: Interim Trunk Win32 builds

Napkin has come up with a solution to serve up trunk builds again, so I'll be stopping my own builds.

Hooray for Napkin!

Tuesday, 13th May 2014, 17:46

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: A completely serious response to 0.15: "SERIOUSLY?!"

Replies: 47

Views: 13493

Re: A completely serious response to 0.15: "SERIOUSLY?!"

dck wrote:well lets kill ha then


Merge into sludge dwarves.

Or kill both and bring back gnomes.

Tuesday, 13th May 2014, 16:45

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: God: Qazlal Stormbringer

Replies: 156

Views: 49778

Re: God: Qazlal Stormbringer

TheArcanist wrote:Shield of the Gong is loud. And I mean REALLY loud. Like, Firestorm on your position loud.

GONNNNG is one of the three loudest sounds in the game, being tied with alarm traps the collision of two orbs of destruction. Q's storm isn't even half as loud.

Tuesday, 13th May 2014, 15:20

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: A completely serious response to 0.15: "SERIOUSLY?!"

Replies: 47

Views: 13493

Re: A completely serious response to 0.15: "SERIOUSLY?!"

TeshiAlair wrote:I mean, you could always inscribe your weapons with a badass description if you want to customize them I suppose.


To wit.

Tuesday, 13th May 2014, 05:35

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Orange crystal statue immune to disintegrate?

Replies: 10

Views: 3538

Re: Orange crystal statue immune to disintegrate?

Context is important.

tl;dr: they spam you a lot less now and can probably be reasonably killed now.

Monday, 12th May 2014, 22:34

Forum: Bulletin Board

Topic: Interim Trunk Win32 builds

Replies: 6

Views: 4799

Re: Interim Trunk Win32 builds

XuaXua wrote:Hope it fixes the perpetual messages from the gold god about being able to buy a shop.
It does.

Monday, 12th May 2014, 19:01

Forum: Bulletin Board

Topic: Interim Trunk Win32 builds

Replies: 6

Views: 4799

Re: Interim Trunk Win32 builds

0.15-a0-769-g0e16bbe (which is still somehow 100% up to date) is now available! Hit the link in the OP to grab it.

Monday, 12th May 2014, 18:02

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: File200's Consolidated Ideas Thread

Replies: 43

Views: 9440

Re: File200's Consolidated Ideas Thread

making the interaction between fear and constriction from this particular monster have a special casing where all you can do is use consumables (no magic, no ranged weapons, no divine abilities or innate abilities) seems quite strange. Reminds me of a short stretch when some maladjusted designer wa...

Monday, 12th May 2014, 16:15

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: claws attack messaging.

Replies: 5

Views: 1638

Re: claws attack messaging.

Monday, 12th May 2014, 05:10

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: FR: Remove everything

Replies: 46

Views: 14735

Re: FR: Remove everything

### ##<## ##.@.## #####.....##### #...........# ##...888...## ##...888...## #...........# #####.....##### ##.X.## ##0## ### Welcome Lyrick the Spriggan Warper. I thought we removed statues.

Sunday, 11th May 2014, 14:25

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Gold aura for Gozag?

Replies: 16

Views: 4610

Re: Gold aura for Gozag?

Your prices are treated as though you've bought two shops and two sets of potions.
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