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The page I linked to was streaks. Successive wins with no deaths in between. It stands to reason that a player going for a long streak of unqiue characters will get the difficult races/backgrounds out of the way first, and do the easy ones toward the end. Notice that in his 22 streak, mikee played ...

Removing cTele means removing the spell, the ring, and the mutation, not just removing the spell. I don't see how making warper worse is undesirable at all, as it was probably too good (it started with a scroll of blinking and one of the best books in the game...) What about changing the behavior o...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.11.2 (tiles) character file. 975051 Sir Trwz II the Heavyweight Champion (level 27, -10/247 HPs) Began as a Troll Wizard on Mar 4, 2013. Was the Champion of Ashenzari. Killed from afar by Cerebov (61 damage) ... with a great blast of fire ... in Pandemonium on Mar...

I'd like to nominate Psieye for counselor. I may not be the best judge, but Psieye's posts seem to be solid advice, offered politely and often backed with a bit of reasoning.

As a red draconian, exp gain in fire magic is going to be double what you get in ice magic (the aptitude difference is 4), so I would just abandon ice and go for fire. Five levels isn't much, you'll make the jump pretty quickly and bolt of fire kicks ass. Don't know why you brought up dragon form si...

Good to know, I was thinking maybe I'd need to pick up LRD for mining but I suppose not. Nevertheless do you happen to know if shatter is faster or slower at mining than LRD (considering there's nearly two LRDs per shatter)? Body armour with cold resistance won't help me in statue form. It might be ...

I always pictured them as small wolfmen for some reason.

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.11.2 (tiles) character file. Sir Trwz II the Wrestler (Troll Wizard) Turns: 79991, Time: 10:04:32 HP 263/263 (265) AC 12 Str 23 XL: 26 Next: 61% MP 35/35 EV 12 Int 22 God: Ashenzari [******] Gold 4495 SH 43 Dex 7 Spells: 12 memorised, 3 levels left Res.Fire : + . ...

Grimm wrote:They were forced to eat Sir Robin's Hell Sentinels,
and there was much rejoicing

ftfy

In 0.11.2, fire resistance and vulnerability have nothing to do with hellfire, so outside of Gehenna it's pretty unimportant. This could be different in 0.12 but I doubt it.

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.11.2 (tiles) character file. Sir Trwz II the Metallomancer (Troll Wizard) Turns: 57733, Time: 07:05:40 HP 185/185 AC 11 Str 21 XL: 22 Next: 43% MP 25/39 EV 12 Int 15 (21) God: Ashenzari [******] Gold 6262 SH 42 Dex 8 Spells: 12 memorised, 5 levels left Res.Fire : ...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.11.2 (tiles) character file. Sir Trwz II the Brawler (Troll Wizard) Turns: 20740, Time: 02:32:00 HP 107/107 AC 7 Str 18 XL: 13 Next: 70% MP 29/29 EV 12 Int 18 God: Ashenzari [****..] Gold 1307 SH 26 Dex 9 Spells: 6 memorised, 6 levels left Res.Fire : . . . See Inv...

Yes, well. I'm still curious about the calculations involved in stealth, and whether it might theoretically be possible to get the jump on him. I've one-shot stabbed Mennas with a vampire who didn't know Invisibility. I think it was a dagger of stabbing, around +3. I used Passage of Golubria to get...

Right now I'm playing Sir Opwz III.

Well if you're a hasted spriggan you can just move in for the kill and if he wakes up walk away.

All the air magic buffs except dMsl are buffs you'll easily get on charms alone. That said, I generally prefer air magic to earth anyway because tornado is, for me, a lot stronger than anything in earth magic. Though I can see how earth magic might be better for its terrain altering capabilities. Fi...

tcjsavannah wrote:Gods yet to win with:
Ashenzari (this screams SpEn but I have yet to get one really up and running far enough to tackle Vaults/Zot. The binding of a weapon seems to be my weakness because I love switching ranged/melee)

You know you can just not bind your weapon?

Current Vampiric Brand [*]Incredibly powerful [*]Can be a complete game changer [*]Very unreliable to find Game changers are good - they give the game variety, replayability, and depth. IMO current vampiric brand is really exciting and adds a lot of tactical funkiness (what with swapping and food a...

It's basically a given that hard breakpoints are a bad thing. That is the problem with the current min delay system. The breakpoints for spells are okay because they're relatively soft and vary according to the character.

Regarding training magic with Trog, why not make it so you just can't, like how you can't train shields if you're not wielding a shield?

Maybe delay = baseDelay - (baseDelay - 7)skill/27 would be a good formula. The negative constant in this equation, where I put a 7, is the universal minimum delay that all weapons reach at skill 27. Using this formula a graph of the axes' delays would look like this , with y representing delay and x...

nicolae wrote:Probably the next step is to discuss it more in the ##crawl-dev IRC room, and then submit it as a patch to Mantis.

Ugh, I'm not fond of IRC, but I guess I can get around to it sometime next week.

Well it's been a bit over 24 hours since the last response and the proposal looks pretty good. Galefury did an excellent breakdown of the differences between the current system and the proposed and nothing objectionable was found except the danger of power creep, which can easily be remedied later b...

I propose that the way STR affects armour EVP be changed to aevp=(3evp^2)/str. Here is a graph to help visualize it . The first line represents fire/ice dragon armour, the second line represents plate armour, and the third line represents gold dragon armour. The x-axis is your strength and the y-axi...

The discussion is a bit moot at this point because if you (plural crawl players) don't want the proposal then neither do I. As for Chei being good for conjurers, I admit you're probably right since I'm not that experienced and all, but I have a REALLY hard time wrapping my mind around that when you ...

ebarrett wrote:Here's how you make Chei better: you pick Chei when it's a good idea instead of when it's a bad idea.

Except it's never a good idea, which is kind of the problem.

You shouldn't be looking to add downsides to Chei. The fact that you're slow is already a unique downside that is too onerous for most. Nah, I'm not just looking for downsides. It's a flavour thing, him hating quickblades yet being fine with minimum delay which is just as fast or faster. It's contr...

Chei is a lot better for pure spellcaster than melee fighters, but even so pure spellcasters avoid Chei for the same reason everyone avoids Chei - there are better gods. Haste is awesome and Chei's benefits don't really compensate. This proposal doesn't aim to fix that, it aims to make melee combat ...

This would greatly increase the variability of melee combat while doing nothing about spell combat. Is that really a bad thing? It encourages hybridization so you have melee combat as your heavy damage with spells for quick action. Clearly a pure spellcaster would (as now) never choose Chei, which ...

Jabberwocky wrote:Cerebov squire

ftfy

This sounds really annoying and complicated. There are tons of complicated formulas in this game - for example spell damage, CBoE success, and anything to do with ranged combat - but that's fine because players don't have to understand these formulas, they just build a sense of them through playing...

Formula-free summary: when training weapon skill under Chei, your weapon gets stronger (a lot) instead of faster. Does that sound good?

Disclaimer: This is not a Chei overhaul. This idea is meant to be added to current Chei without changing anything else. I propose that Cheibriados prevents you from speeding your weapon up through training weapon skill, so that all weapons act at maximum delay. But because your strikes take more tim...

Delayed Fireball is actually quite good… if and only if you were using regular Fireball anyway. It only costs two spell slots, and you can nova a little harder on some part of a difficult fight because it doesn't cost any time to trigger. It doesn't take a turn to release? If so, I suppose it is be...

Maybe because delayed fireball is currently really underpowered and this effort would increase its chances of getting replaced by a not-useless spell? How is a fireball that takes 0 turns to cast and for which you have already paid and recharged the MP cost "underpowered"? Because it's le...

Galefury wrote:
XuaXua wrote:Delayed fireball exists, why not build a permutation on that?

Why?

Maybe because delayed fireball is currently really underpowered and this effort would increase its chances of getting replaced by a not-useless spell?

I've ascended about a dozen characters and gotten dozens more past vaults - not many, but according to you I should have died by traps plenty of times, especially since I have never ever on a single character ever trained traps & doors. I can only recall dying by trap once, playing a Spriggan so...

That's pretty odd..you would expect the two means of water creation to be consistent in this respect.

Oh right...duh...it was by dumping Geryon in the water that this happened...*facepalm at self*

I'm pretty sure mutation roulette is always a bad decision. If you hadn't had so many mutations piled up, when you got bad ones your cMut would have been able to cure you.

Doesn't tornado?

Or the lava and water could be walled off until you blow the horn. just get rid of the horn of Geryon thing already and open the gates when Geryon dies These would be perfectly viable solutions, except neither would solve the problem Jeremiah brought up about runes falling in deep water too. IMO ru...

One problem this might have is that consumables would only be lost when used, so the player would be more stringent in using them (in the current situation, if you don't consume a consumable the RNG might, so you have more incentive to consume). Another side-effect: this would make carrying large st...

Or make it float on water, so flight/ice form/orc jesus etc will suffice to retrieve it.

would apportation work?

If you mash 5 to get to bloodless you're also rotting any blood you might have in your inventory. This is kind of a big deal unless you're with kiku. Interesting...with the proposal, vampires would be able to switch to bloodless while retaining the blood in the inventory. If this is not desirable t...

Learned many new things today: telnet, IRC, and how necromutation speeds up tomb. Thanks fellas!

All right, now it's starting to make sense to me. But what is ##crawl and how do I get there?

footv is also available via browser on http://termcast.develz.org/ (This is awesome, thanks to whoever did that) Well that looks like exactly what I get when I do telnet termcast.develz.org in the command line, but with the same problem...how do I request a game that's not on that list of active on...

https://crawl.develz.org/learndb/#footv No idea what telnet is and the link appears to just take me where I can watch games in progress. EDIT: googling telnet helped. I think I can figure it out from here. EDIT: nope, still haven't found a way to request games. In cmd I do telnet termcast.develz.or...

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