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The arrogance of people around here is really astounding. Time to leave this place.

I'm pretty sure crawl is a GPL game (can't seem to find it on the website for reference though but don't we mention that here all the time). Thus, you should be free to redistribute copies, either with or without modifications, either gratis or charging a fee for distribution, to anyone anywhere. B...

The logging is now optional (by default on). Would you mind setting the default value to off? I second this. Also, please provide an optical indication in the game or in the lobby for games that _do_ log chats. Otherwise private talk in other people's games becomes pretty much impossible for people...

For a Demonspawn, demonic weapons add a random number between 0 and 2 to the damage at the end of the damage calculation (but before the speed brand or stabbing is calculated). (0.10.3)

(See melee_attack::player_apply_weapon_bonuses() in melee_attack.cc.)

The idea that you can carry all that you want is a bad one. Nethack has it, and is a worse game for it. Where's you proof or reasoning for that? 1) The interface gets worse. More pages to read through == bad. How can the interface possibly have more pages than the current interface? Ctrl-f finds 90...

Scumming is bad because "it encourages players to bore themselves". (Quotation from the menual.) Can you please explain why stash management does not encourage people to bore themselves if scumming does? What is the difference other than that obviously some people who are in the power like...

I disagree strongly. Limited carrying capacity forces interesting choices. What choices please, and are you saying that "interesting" is identical to "fun"? It just leads to people wasting 10% of their playing time doing stash management - for an average (winning) game of mine t...

Great effort has been put into Crawl to eliminate the tedium from ... stash management ... Carrying capacity and stashes are the single biggest spoiler to (not only) role playing games. It may be "realistic", but it's stupid, boring and a horrible waste of time. Crawl would be better = mo...

Removing references to humans could even make playing them more attractive. Stressing that they are not particular good or bad at anything, but raise their levels fastest among all races might be an incentive to play them.

So, here's a plan: 1. Convert to Zin, wait for max piety and then erase all mutations. If you don't need your gold anymore you can offer it to Zin by praying at an altar. I think about 4500 offered gold are enough to get max piety (however it takes a few hundred turns to build up). Of you're not in ...

yes, stasis would be best. Er, I'd never dare to enter Zot:5 with teleportitis - statis or no. There are some option to get rid of mutations: - Zin's max piety gift. - Scumming Pan for a potion of cure mutation. - Raiding a Ziggurat; they often have a potion of cure mutation at a low level. - Getti...

But rF+++ does not help against being teleported into a host of high tier monsters.

Cool and dangerous situations like this ambush on Zo1:1 come up:

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(Hm, how do you get images without scrollbars?)

Guppyfry wrote:how I could have avoided getting into it in the first place (other than scumming abyss for cure muts...)

By wearing an amulet of stasis.

eeviac wrote:Doesn't this mean that spellcasting is slightly cheaper to raise now, and stealth/invo/evo slightly more expensive?

Spellcasting is 8.52% cheaper now and stealth/evo/invo are 5.11% more expensive.

wolloloo: I personally doubt that the problems on CDO have to do with the webtiles networking code, but you're welcome to take a look at the source and propose changes or other actions. Where can I find a) instructions on setting up a Webtiles server locally, b) the source code that is specific to ...

The second is to get rid of the piety loss for allies dying, and possibly replace it with actively disliking allies themselves ("Okawaru wants you to rely on your own strength!"). The current situation interacts very poorly with demonic guardian, for example. As a side note, TSO should re...

Yeah, whatever. You probably have better information and take that as a reason to turn down an offer for help and to share experience in an unsuitable way. *Shrug*; your problem; consider the offer as taken back.

Me. A quick experiment shows that _local_ Webtiles consumes 18% of one cpu core on my slow box if I just keep "5" pressed near the stairs. That's 30 keystrokes per second, and I guess it needs about ten online players to create that load. So my estimation is that if fifty people play at th...

Is there any way an experienced Unix programmer can help with the obviously suboptimal networking code of webtiles? That is probably the top reason why it's so hard on the machine's resources. Hey, fifty people playing and sending maybe five packets with keystrokes per second each should really not ...

I wonder where I've read this bad information, I'm pretty sure I haven't invented it - oh anyway, sorry for the bad advice, there's no need to take off that gloves! (unless you're scared by death curses :D) Wearing gloves gloves without AC bonus or other effects can kill you if they get cursed and ...

Still the same game but much further. The runes of Snake, Vault and slime could be collected, and as long as monsters leave corpses, Summon Dragon is the standard offensive spell and Demonic Horde the defensive type. I may or may not do Pan, Hell, Tomb or Abyss - depends on equipment found and mood....

This one is a really, really stupid death: I enter the Vestibule with a summoner and a couple of dragons. The fight does not get on very well, and I have to run away from the stairs and take a couple of fire hits down to low HP. So I put on that ring of teleportation and evoke it to jump back to the...

Well, a comparison page monster vs. character would be really cool: You press ctrl-x and select some monster in view, and from there you can switch to the details page. This page would list all known combat information about the character and the monster and show equipped weapon/bullet of the charac...

Very well, I replaced Ugly Things with Horrible Things and added Ignite Poison, and that allowed to complete Snake. The Horrible Things made short work of Mennas and a swarm of Ice Beats took care of Xtahua who spawned in the rune chamber. However, al Hellion on Snake:2 that was (permanently) summon...

Just pick up Mass Abjuration so you can cast Demonic Horde with impunity (if they go hostile, send em back where they came from.) Huh? Mass Abjuration just to send back an Ufetubus or an Imp? Are you confusing this with Summon (Greater) Demon? But its a huge waste to train a skill just for the chan...

Okay, same character and a new question on how to proceed in the game. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.10.3 character file. Miau the Convoker (Felid Wizard) Turns: 65359, Time: 07:05:17 HP 58/58 AC 3 Str 5 XL: 15 Next: 67% MP 47/47 EV 20 Int 24 God: Sif Muna [******] Gold 2774 SH 0 Dex 17 Spells:...

The weapon is _not_ unequipped when you fall below full.

Tiber wrote:and you can get the same results more reliably with the level 4 spell 'Animate Dead'.

Or with the lowly level 2 spell Call Imp, if you have the patience and MP to get a shadow imp and let it raise corpses.

Learndb should answer most questions: A weapon brand that turns everything you kill into friendly zombies if a corpse is generated. Can appear on scythes and unrandarts. Considered evil by the good gods. Anyway, it's only a spear and probably costs much gold. If found on the floor it _might_ be wort...

Okay, demonic horde sounded too unreliable - I have learned it only recently and not tested it with that character yet. Anyway, walking up the stairs was the right thing to do. Rupert moved next to the stairs but did not attack. I've set up big, fat warning signs in red letters as well as travel exc...

Playing a FeWz summoner, I noticed Rupert too late in the crowd of enemies and summons. He's one step away and the character is standig on the staircase up to Orc:2. Normally I'd just panic and run up the stairs, but Rupert can paralyze or confuse. Other options might be to use a scroll of fear or t...

Is webtiles on CDO down permanently? Tempreatures in Germany have been back to normal for several days, so that cannot be the problem anymore(?).

A result is that people end up developing a lot of bad habits and unnecessary concern about mechanics like str/dex weighting of weapons or the popular off-hand punch. ... Many times I have read a help request from someone who states he has been using information from the wiki, and when he explains ...

Wikis with access control don't work. ;) Relying on infromation from the Wiki has killed my characters so often ... For example this advice Berserk, which will haste you and add 50% temporary HP... but when it runs out, you will be slowed instead, and you won't be able to berserk again for a while! ...

While CDO is down I'm trying out a felid or two locally. They actually suit my way of playing (preferring fast, defensive races), and I beleive that summoning plus extra lives pretty much outweighs the equipment limits. Well, anyway, as I expected from a summoning character, the game runs rather smo...

white_noise wrote:Dammit to hell! 71dmg by titanic slime. How can I anticipate this?..
Lost my best char to this thing. And he was so young...

Learned the lesseon not to fight merged slimes when my character got mangled for 100 damage.

Don't be paranoid. I'm not paranoid, I'm frustrated that it takes sooo much effort to get decent information about game mechanics. And anybody can read the source. Nope, the vast majority of people (i.e. players) can _not_ read source code. And of the relatively few people who can read code, most w...

I have been laboring under the impression for years now that the reason spellcasting and related skills cost more to raise was one of balance - the utility of spellcasting is partially offset by a slightly increased experience cost - would that be readily replicated by simply adjusting all Spc and ...

Okay, I get it. I did not have the factor 0.5 that is applied to spellcasting before the calculations on my radar. This mistake made me play spellcasters badly for half a year. By the way, I really _hate_ the secrecy the devs make about important game mechanisms and formulas. It would be so easy to ...

When good players give advice or write guides on spell casting characters, they often say things like "train spellcasting if you need more spell levels". I read that as "do not put skill points into spellcasting unless you are short of spell levels". Why do people consider spellc...

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