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Still Trunk only? or 0.17 so we can double count for tourney?

Likes: collecting a few runes then splatting trying to get one more thing.
Dislikes: playing carefully, etc.
Seeking: n-way clan of like minded individuals of any gender/species/role for exciting adventures.

HenryFlower

Three runes. Then self spatted on V5 trying to get all the loot, particularly an un-id'd scroll that I was sure was acquirement.

http://crawl.berotato.org/crawl/morgue/ ... 041801.txt

Had fun playing melee-spriggan though.

A good trick for the spider rune vault is to clear the rest of the level, then open the vault, then run away at full health. This makes everything wander so you can come back and take the rune. This. An alternative is to engage for a while to clear out the easy stuff, then teleport or run to stairs.

As I noted, a hard early game, with some trouble with swamp rats, etc, and good luck early mid-game, with an early altar of Veh, a dagger of electricity, and some potions of beneficial mutation (5 in all), that gave me breath poison gas, which combined nicely with Veh's early gift of ignite poison. ...

Strange string of luck. !bene-mut gave me breaths poison cloud, Veh gave me Ignite Poison. Well then. Then found a dagger of elec. This despite an epic swamprat +gnoll chase early on that an ogre joined in on.

Yes, please.

Have splatted thrice as a MiGl of Oka in Lair, so amping up the difficulty is working. Besides the UX feedback already mentioned, not sure that draining is an effective menace to reduce the incentive to rest, etc. The experience boost means that it's cheap to acquire the levels of experience that mi...

In OS X:

I had to add:
#include "math.h" in timed_effects.cc

to get a compile, then got crash post launch on:

./dat/des/portals/ossuary.des:670: Invalid depth for D in spec "D:6"

Another idea on the same line: a species with silence as a random ability with permanent silence for the player.Gives an interesting tactical tradeoff: No EW/EA, no ability to use many god powers. Couple with detect the cursed/uncursed status of items. Alternately: a god with a vow of silence and a ...

Unlike combat, all the key variables are laid out for you nicely in the UI: Optimize for: Success rate/miscast, spell power, spell points/spell levels, hunger (roughly in that order), all of which easy to inspect in the interface. The only difficulty is picking a good learning path, but that's a fun...

This was a PITA. Wanted the Tier 2 bonus, but my dungeon didn't spawn with a Jiyva altar any place convenient. Tried to dive down to Slime 6 with predictable results. Just as well. VS are pretty much not my favorite species.

So what's the advantage of starting that way? Clearly, works for you....

Your fingers have an independent life too? I have mine on leashes... Yes, and even my fix isn't right. A better way to express this: Skill training: http://crawl.develz.org/info/index.php?q=skills; gloss: higher skill levels are orders of magnitude more expensive than lower skill levels. Therefore ...

HenryFlower wrote:
Lyrick wrote:2) Min-delay

Min-delay is just a special (and wrong in the general case) example of "Spend skill points to maximize utility understanding that higher skill levels are orders of magnitude cheaper to acquire than lower skill levels"

More, god dammit, more.

Lyrick wrote:2) Min-delay

Min-delay is just a special (and wrong in the general case) example of "Spend skill points to maximize utility understanding that higher skill levels are orders of magnitude cheaper to acquire than lower skill levels"

I wrote up a whole long document mostly for myself that contains most of what you've outlined. My conclusion from the process was that knowing and doing are two very different things. I personally found the illustrated MiBe guide by Psieye the best approach, because it focuses on practical tactical ...

"Fewer polls" not "less polls"

Not sure what I'm missing. Ran a SpHu up to Throwing 14 and was still doing absolute crap for damage? Strength. You're missing strength. I've run other SpBe in 0.14 who did decent damage at relatively low levels of Str. Just reran a SpHu in 0.14 who was killing things nicely with tomahawks at 8 Str...

Not sure what I'm missing. Ran a SpHu up to Throwing 14 and was still doing absolute crap for damage?

Yes, please!

Igxfl wrote:Orange Crystal Statue + Wand of Disintegrate is one of the Nethackiest interactions in the game.

This. What's the play value of a monster that you either avoid or instakill, and if you aren't spoiled, is a (slow, painful, frustrating) instadeath?

Thanks to all who helped set up these clans -- it added to the tourney for me in some weird way (given that I have no idea who my clan-mates really are). I'm a pretty mediocre player, but it was sure fun watching Pikel's Freed Slaves toy with the top 10-20 throughout. Looking forward to the 0.15 to...

The major obstacle to a SpEn build is the obsessive need to kill everything. The true ninja is happiest teleporting into the middle of a pack of nagas on Snake:5, apporting the rune, and teleporting out. The true SpEn goes down to Vault:5, blinks down a corridor, and runs around the outer ring, then...

Well, I did manage to put together one win with a new god for Pikel's Freed Slaves, though a monkey could probably have won with a minotaur who found such an early Crystal plate. Still, points are points, right, and it helps with embarrassment of having died to my own spellforged survivor earlier ....

Sandman25 wrote:I solved the problem by modifying my options file to automatically save the game after getting high damage.

You have a lua script you can post?

DracheReborn wrote:We've been busy crawling this weekend! Xen (DDBe, MiWz) and Zooty (NaVM, GhMo) with 2 wins apiece, including a 15 runer for Xen.

Yeah, I seem to have some ringers on my pickup team.

My only contribution to the team so far is bagging Arachne with a DgTm in revenge for getting a DEFE nailed by her.

I found the skill progression fascinating. Pretty much stealth only for a long while, then hexes, then a little bit of SB/fighting/dodging. Didn't get mindelay on dagger until bottom of spider! Supa ninja.

tasonir wrote:It's working as it is; double check that you have everyone though, I don't know who is supposed to be on your team

Yeah, not sure what's up. My rc file is set up like so:

Code:: # TEAMNAME Pikel's Freed Slaves # TEAMMEMBERS Xen Cedor Strat christhawk Zooty

Cedor & Zooty aren't showing up.

What if it was more like the spell power/hunger screen? The m screen could show the relative amount of xp required for 1 level of skill instead of your aptitude like this: letter - skill - level - xp cost a - SB - 12 - ###... b - LB - 0 -- #..... and so on The problem here is that it's non-linear a...

Just to be super clear, team names have to be All_1-Word, with only [a-zA-Z0-9_-] allowed, correct?

So Pikel's Freed Slaves is Pikels_Freed_Slaves, yes?

I'm not really sure as to how one changes their rc files either, could someone tell me? This is my first tourny. Assuming you are using web tiles: On the lobby page of whatever web tiles server you are using, just to the right of the DCSS 0.14 link, there's an (edit rc) link. Click that link -- tha...

A relative skill cost screen would be awesome. Would be nice to normalize to something most players understand (e.g., one Ogre's worth, or one Dragon's worth, or 100 Newts' worth).

Or relative cost of a full level gain.

WalkerBoh wrote:Teams are allowed to have 6 members so you still have one spot left.

I was going by reaver's OP, which lists 5 per team. More the merrier as far as I'm concerned!

OK:

Here's current state for Pikel's Freed Slaves:

HenryFlower (Captain)
Xen
Cedor
Strat
christhawk

That's full up, correct?

Strat wrote:If you're still open, and really don're mind weak players (total of 7 wins under a couple of different usernames), then I'd like to join. I had great fun during the last tournament.

You are in for Pikel's Freed Slaves -- do you play under Strat?

K -- I've got it set up as Pikel's Freed Slaves for now but can be changed before Friday.

Cool -- Just saw the documentation was updated to reflect this (or I missed it before -- either possible.

Now: need a team name, or we will be TeamFoo, TeamFooBar, or TeamCursePinkyToe

reaver wrote: Ideally a captain would have at least meddled with their rc options a bit, since last year we had trouble with some misunderstandings of the clan declaration syntax.

If that's the only job description.

Code:: # TEAMNAME TeamFoo # TEAMMEMBERS Xen, Cedor, HenryFlower

da?

I'll jump in. Never done the tourney thing, but the weekly challenge has been fun.

HenryFlower wrote:Minotaur with a rod has been a pretty nasty event the few times it's happened.

Sorry for the self quote here, but on re-reading, I realize that "Nasty minotaur with a rod" has interesting connotations.

Minotaur with a rod has been a pretty nasty event the few times it's happened.

Ants for communism. Viva la revolucion.

Since he's green and not blue, does that mean we don't need to respect his play advice?

Perhaps you should bitwise and the blue and green.

But there's a lot of room for guides, especially combo specific ones. Newish players are often confused about things like what skills to raise when, what to do about specific encounters you might experience early on (for example, what to do if you see an orc band, or a bunch of bees, or Sigmund). Y...

Sar wrote:I think he meant Lair 8.

Yes!

Just for fun, I spun up a GrBe* to see if there's anything worthy of a guide. About the only thing unique about Gr as a species is the easy mode built in resistances and AC; the only thing worth of a guide here is to warn the player that playing Gr may lead to surprises later on. I continue to maint...

What's unique to GrBe/GrFi of Oka that isn't covered an a generic "how to melee" guide? Or isn't covered in Psyeye's How to MiBe? https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=7699 (which has some slight modifications needed for trunk, but otherwise golden). The real guide that'...

I would generally use ID on a wand (particularly the big three and major attack wands) before a scroll. But perhaps I'm doing it wrong.

Get enough invo to get finesse up and running as well.

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