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Okay so the shindig is, in previous versions of Crawl which stat to pick when given a choice on levelling up was either binary or a pretty simple flowchart. Has anything changed recently here? And whether it has or hasn't, what is the optimal "Stategy" for placing points? Or at least what ...

Can confirm I'm getting the same issue, just downloaded 0.23.1 today. I'll file a report.

edit: never mind, report already filed

Finally after all this time and months of inactivity I decided to log into cbro and trunk it up. So I got my first online win. Then I did it again back to back which I guess means I can streak And anyway they were both Bes and one was a Mi and the second was a HO So you know I still suck don't worry

If you're willing to stray a bit farther afield into "roguelike-like" territory, FTL is pretty great. Randomly-generated space systems with semi-realtime combat. If you have a choice, I'd get it on iOS, the UI there is really good. I've been playing FTL again recently pretty non stop on m...

Just like the vast majority of all items that exist in the game

Arrhythmia wrote:More like, Lame of Groans!!!!!!!!

I recently switched to console across all the roguelikes I play where it is an option after being a diehard tiles player my whole roguelike life. It all started with playing and losing several games of Nethack on NAO, and now for some reason I just can't kick it. Who knew. You pick it up quick is my...

An idea to keep interactivity is to name shopkeepers after dead players, maybe based on those players' skills. Pros: Keeps old player names reappearing like ghosts do Gives the dungeon a haunted hotel-california vibe Cons: Welcome to pussysmasher's Used Wand Store! What would you like to do? Idk cod...

kuniqs wrote:In practice DD has +0% HP aptitude since 95% of the time you're not at full HP.

Then in practice they should have a -20% HP aptitude, since 95% of the time you're not at full HP.

I think it is extremely annoying in a long, enemy dense game like crawl to take every single popcorn encounter dead seriously to prevent having your health slowly nickle and dimed away, which in turn incentivizes going a HP restoring god like Mak even more than they already would be for Mak. I don'...

You and I both know that "DD is unfun" is a non-starter, and I talked about "just remove DD" in my proposal itself.

This is a very simple proposal. Deep dwarves are powerhouses- they feature a very easy and flexible playstyle, serviceable aptitudes for accessing support spells, an outstanding +1 spread across their defensive aptitudes, unrestricted armor slots, damage shaving, and to top it all off, a whopping +2...

Let's pull Murray and Ignacio out of hellpan sometimes too and have a big frightening rare uniques party.

Because uniques are more fun and impactful when they show up.

Just gonna chime in and say that despite all the work that has been put into into nethackwiki, wikihack results still top google searches.

Source: I shamefully started playing nethack again recently for reasons unbeknownst to anyone, the lord included

So yeah, that shit is complex and difficult.

I don't think any of these "veterans" is claiming you haven't run into packs of jackals or strings of individual monsters in tight quarters. I'm sure you have, and I'm also sure the other people who have chimed in understand that you have. The argument is that through proper play, deaths t...

You're right, it is my mileage that I feel like not going to the Abyss in the first place is luckier than finding random shit on the ground in the Abyss when I end up there. My mileage and the way it clearly, wildly, and drastically varies from yours isn't what I was talking about whatsoever, though.

What it comes down to for me is, with the current state of Crawl, I don't want the game deciding what's completely useless for my character.

The underlying problems (the ID and curse minigames) require more drastic steps than this band-aid to alter.

stoneychips wrote:
ZipZipskins wrote:Honestly, I'm not sure why we haven't removed Abyss already.

Because it's nice to have an occasional bit of luck for all the characters that didn't want to be there at all?

What?

By the way: Make fountains useful again (somehow, please). At least some of them. Maybe make it so your can quaff from them, to reduce hunger. And maybe a water moccasin or water nymph could rarely pop out. Sure, and you could dip items in fountains to get different effects, one of which would be a...

Honestly, I'm not sure why we haven't removed Abyss already.

It is hard for me to estimate how bad it is for native English readers, my point is that if we had most fire spells called like fire ball, fire storm, fire explosion, fire bolt, fire ring, fire dart, fire flame, it would be harder to distinguish spells in you spell list or book of fire. Ok, alterna...

Nod2003 wrote:All powers also need an associated hunger cost. Munchies...

whats a "hunger"

So they actually removed pudding farming in NetHack, and "too tedious to be worthwhile for optimal play in a game with permanent death" rarely exists in actuality (see: all manner of degenerate gameplay across various roguelikes). Regardless, the argument that it's already tedious does not...

-sound of points whizzing over heads-

please add to hellcrawl

This is one of those suggestions where I look at it and say "wow, I can't believe it isn't like that already"

That doesn't mean you shouldn't.

Majang wrote:Well, there should be some good reasons for players to consult the crawl wiki.

Why?

See when I made my one who jobs comment, I legitimately had no idea what jobber meant, because I can count the number of fucks I give about professional wrestling on 0 fingers

gammafunk wrote:What the hell is a jobber?

one who jobs

Sprucery wrote:
Spoiler: show
What kind of kins are Zip Zips kins?

Spoiler: show

Sorry I know this is off topic, but is it "plan tissue," "plant issue," or my top pick, "plant is sue"?

n1000 wrote:thanks for reading.

Gotta say you didn't disappoint

i feel like you should mention denny's, it's not fast food but it's the 3rd or 4th place i'd go if i wanted to hire a hitman I got so wrapped up writing my denny's review that it's going to have to be its own thread. bear with me I think I speak for all of us when I say we've been on the edge of ou...

Compared to this, Gr is probably the second most powerful species in the game (behind DD), except in extended, where Gr is number 1. (Gr has some torment resist while DD is pretty vulnerable in torment-heavy areas like Tomb or the Hell end floors). do you actually think Gr is the 2nd most or most p...

Imo your x axis is pretty much right on, but your y axis is a little screwy.

duvessa wrote:i pronounce "corner" like "yiff"

crazy yiff's yiff?

come here if you need to get hammers were removed from the game?

And indeed verily if thou figurest THAT out, how doth one pronounce "corner"

I don't ever speak about my shameful time here aloud

No, because it's extremely easy to exploit even a basic knowledge of noise, LoS, positioning, and exploration to provide yourself a safe kill room with rapid retreat to stairs or similar. You'll note that all of that is significantly more tedious and spoilery than luring. And as an added double wham...

That does sound cool! From the OP I liked this most: "******: while being stationary, every killed enemy gives a +slaying bonus (like song of slaying), the bonus resets when you move (obviously a cap is needed)" It's anti-luring and a nice contrast to the more recent high-mobility gamepla...

HA HA! NOW THE JOKE IS MORE CORRECT!

cerealjynx wrote:Killer Bees -> Wasps

The tile even looks like a wasp, c'mon!

The vi keys discussion should probably be split on account of 1. this thread is way more heartwarming without it and B. who cares how others pilot their tab machines On topic, I can't wait to introduce my kids to roguelikes. I work in education so I get to see the amazing minds of kids at work every...

Wait you're salty that you didn't have to do a labyrinth?

Well ysee they're way lighter on account of losing all their flesh and brains and, idk, whatever is in your stomach and stuff, so the bones are strong enough to keep themselves up.

Please don't rename spiny frogs. They've been around for forever, and I like them. Every player who has been to lair a couple of times knows perfectly well what a spiny frog is. It is absolutely not important to make their name less misleading. Even if there were not already at least one conclusive...

"Doesn't make winning significantly easier" is, of course, very different from "significantly harder".

just look out if the band starts playing "the rains of castamour"

yeah like for example USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST

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