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VeryAngryFelid wrote:Who cares about meta, it is a SP game where there are very hard and very easy combos.

he thinks meta means strategy

Needlessly punishing.

freeze was the ish when that bug in .15 (.16?) let you smite-target @ full range

HEWz w/ light armor and Lbl

Aethrus wrote:I want to add my two cents here and say that to me this conversation seems to be mixing up two very different concepts: luring and retreating.

Retreating is a fundamental tactic in Crawl and should not be punished in the same fashion as luring. y

this

daggaz wrote:
kuniqs wrote:- no rElec. You have some !oCureMut - eat some mutagenic chunks 'till you get rElec.

I cant possibly see this as having any kind of desirable expectation value.

"luring" seems like a really difficult mechanic to identify/define and control (I'm no designer so maybe this isn't true at all)

edit: missed a page in the discussion and want to reform my ideas

dith gives dazzling spray a solid kick

not the optimal god though for reasons mentioned in posts prior

xentronium wrote:There's probably some way to automate deleting any files that appear in the bones folder.

Could make a batch script to delete the folder then open crawl

dynast wrote:I hope Pakellas raise up the question "why do rods need to be wielded to evoke?"

I assume to differentiate them from wands.

Not saying that's good design but it's the only reason I can fathom

HE are also one of only 2 races who enjoy positive apts in both Fighting and Spellcasting (the other being Og), which is another reason they can train a little extra Fighting to compensate for the -1 HP.

HE have pretty big HP malus and also a noticeable XP malus, which means their HP/depth ratio is not very good! I have never found their XP rate to be problematic, esp considering the very strong apts. I wouldn't call -1 HP a "pretty big" detriment, esp when considering comparably magic-af...

I usually pop on my favorite VG soundtracks and go from there

Moose wrote:wow, I had no idea people played this game with a mouse...

mouse support is 90% of why I play offline

Right clicking on skill screen used to do the same thing as typing a capital letter (i.e. putting 100% into the clicked skill while turning off all other skills), but now it simply closes the screen (in offline tiles .17 stable).

Was this intentional? It's kind of annoying.

kuniqs wrote:And what happens when you renounce Sif Muna? You lose those spell levels, but what spells exactly you do lose?

let the player choose or

make it random (another lil punishment for leaving siffy)

try HEWz

good apts for both magic and melee, plus decent hp

and the Wz starting book is fun

remove on-tap amnesia
give player 2x spell levels

I was under the impression that Electric wouldn't be so hot in extended, due to it's "fixed" damage per hit/proc. Do you find that the relative rarity of Electricity resist (no Storm Hell, as it were) makes up for this, or am I underestimating just how much electric does per hit? additive...

Third, I notice that skill improvements are only announced as a message when they hit an integer value. Does this mean a skill improvement does not take effect until the next integer value is reached? I mean, if I leave a skill at 3.9, does it mean I'm basically wasting 0.9 of it until I hit 4? Asi...

I'm a little worried that this nerfs them too much, but there's also a concern about them being a relatively common one-shot-kill against squishier species. Scaling their damage over two dice makes that less likely, but at the cost of making AC way better against them. So are adders and ogres and c...

if an orc shouts and nobody is around to hear it

did it make a sound?

play yred

yeah but sometimes you polymorph a hydra into a storm dragon and get yourself some cool armor

ThreeInvisibleDucks wrote:
partial wrote:And also don't be a hater.

Not going to happen.

lmao

And also don't be a hater.

tc obv

I see race choice as a difficulty slider for the class/play style you're looking to play.

Want an easy Wz or a hard Fi? Play a DE.
Want the opposite? Play an Mi.

It's part of crawl's meta more than the game itself.

Longsword is also a pretty strong starting wep.

Lava Orc never stuck either

Lets just make them immune to curses and unable to worship ash (a fair penalty for never having to deal w/ curses)

melee fighters can afford to train defenses earlier, as there are fewer offensive skills for melee bashers to focus on as opposed to casters (fighting+wep skill vs. all the various spell schools)

GG is a crap version of Singularity (which I always thought was a v cool spell and should still be in the game)

I wouldn't want to use shadow dragon since you have to go to the extra effort of giving your character rN+++ to get useful results. That was fixed a while ago , at least assuming nothing has re-broken it since then. Players with draining brand are still a problem for fsim results, though; that comm...

Your example is bad, because removing the amulet will freeze your current spell gift for a while. Which is super useful; Veh gets a lot of mileage from removing amulets of Faith. True story I forgot about this quirk, but I still don't consider it good design. It's a little spoilery and is really a ...

Making more "unswappable" items is the wrong design direction imo. It's already frustrating to (p)ut on an unID amulet and get stuck with unwanted Faith (e.g. on a blastycasty^Vehumet, where Faith can make you miss spell gifts). Seems like a punishment for characters who are low on ID scro...

D:1 shafts are so rare that I doubt shafts have ever caused an unavoidable death. I've certainly never seen it or heard of it happening. If you just said "remove traps" then I'd agree, but instead you've made it sound like you not only don't understand why traps are bad design, but don't ...

Sar wrote:FR: shields of reflection confuse/paralyze monsters on hit. Flavour text: "(monster) reflects on the meaning of life".

or it just makes the player-character depressed as he reflects upon the gravity of his situation

bcadren wrote:Still think non-runed should always be +0 Uncursed. Runed being a chance of -2, cursed is one thing, but a plain spear should be a plain spear.

Yes I also agree with this.

I honestly thought this was already the case.

Hurkyl wrote:The trick to amnesia is to want more spells than you want in a normal game.

So every single game of mine :lol:

90% of the time I go 2H

but don't think that an elec/pain dwhip or a holy scourge won't be more than enough to ascend

Remove low level damage wands imo.

Or consolidate MD/fire/frost into one wand that randomly picks an element (poison/fire/cold/elec) and does equivalent minor damage.

I stand corrected; thanks for looking into that!

don't wield strange weapons unless you're feeling brave

Nemelex seems to grant plenty of decks as it is, and this might be overkill.

duvessa wrote:What about an amulet that reduces MP costs instead? Similar quality of life improvement, more useful in combat, and not useful to swap in for resting.

this would be dope

I love Sturdy Frame

Wahaha wrote:I never thought of shields of reflection as mirror shields. Not the same thing.

this

I'm pretty sure non-glowing/runed weapons are always completely mundane (+0 uncursed)

big fan of mutators causing contam instead

as long as it builds up quickly enough, it'll be a sufficient threat without being as heinously obnoxious as current malmutate

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