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What Xom considers good is not the same as what the player considers good. Why does the game even differentiate between "good" and "bad" Xom effects, then? xom.cc dates back to at least the svn days and diving its history forces you to roll sanity checks the further back you go ...

I'm not sure myself if this is a serious suggestion or not, but I want a discussion on the design philosophy of "transform to escape". It's better to have escape effects attached to (fixed at itemgen and nonrechargeable) charge limited items within Crawl's ruleset. Otherwise you run into ...

I see no reason to allow returning to the despawned level at all. Obviously, but this is easier for some people to swallow if we boil the frog. There's also the minor problem of floor connectivity between branches if you start disallowing access to despawned floors. This could be fixed with a hub l...

Despawning items is good, I like it. For me, uniques are sacrosanct because they're tracked in Ctrl-O, and for flavour. Your buddy Sigmund will wait for you on D:2. I don't think much has to be announced. Look at it from the perspective of a new player (who is not aware of the current situation): s...

Except for "one stair per level", this looks a lot like what I have in mind. In addition to "monster wander more", I would also like it if re-entering any level would not just re-place monsters (with emphasis to cluster them, potentially near stairs), but also if the game could ...

dang, I thought this was going to be a twelwe thread

A question to anyone in this thread who prefers the existing behavior of displaying the level where you originally picked up the hide: Why? There are only a few use cases that I can think of where displaying pickup location is interesting to the player: 1) You're autoexploring, and autopickup grabs ...

I'd love to see the average xp score script. I'm too bad at Sequell to form robust queries that give meaningful experience values in the midgame. Seconding this. My sequell-fu is too weak to be certain of my analysis, in particular, trying to exclude branch entry milestones wasn't working to disabl...

http://git.develz.org/?p=crawl.git;a=co ... 43d926cf11

Done.

Hey, I didn't see this thread when it was posted. This is a good topic. For what it's worth, here's a nonexhaustive list of some ideas I've had kicking around in the back of my head, wanting to implement in a branch: Dungeon Blitz: (spoilering for length:) - Staircases removed. All level exits refla...

First: does this indeed mean that I suck? Second: When I spectate people online I am utterly amazed at how fast they are playing, even while having a conversation with me! They seem to be making decisions and pressing keys so much faster than I do or can. I have a very hard time actually following ...

There's space between Type and Failure for everything except like, triple school spells. e: Thanks Doesn't. If there were to be a short, 3 character, form for each spell schol (Conjurations -> Cnj, Necromancy -> Ncr, etc) you could cut down the longest strings to 11 characters which should be enoug...

Sourceforge not as good as Github? Also, since we're talking about compiling: is there some kind of super easy guide to compiling for people who don't get how coding works? http://git.develz.org/?p=crawl.git;a=blob;f=crawl-ref/INSTALL.txt These instructions are pretty straightforward. If you follow...

Base HP: 100 Effective HP against fire damage at rF+: 200 (+100 HP) eHP at rF++: 300 (+100 HP) eHP at rF+++: 500 (+200 HP) Maybe look at this from another angle, with the same functional result: Damage: 50 (2 hits to kill 100 hp), 25 (4 hits, +2), 17 (6 hits, +2), 10 (10 hits, +4) Damage: 100 (1), ...

Hi, does anyone know where I can get the list of XP per each monster? Even if it's in the git codebase, it should be more or less centralized, no? Thanks in advance Most of the code the game uses to calculate experience granted on monster death is located in these places: mon-util.cc line 2178, mon...

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This thread becomes increasingly mysterious. There are many spells that allow one to reliably run away from nearly all monsters without using any consumables. Almost any spell that produces allies fits this description, for example. Indeed, one of the best spells for this purpose is a level 1 summo...

PleasingFungus wrote:harm is good

Look PF you're usually pretty on point but everyone should know that this is a foul untruth

I'm not going to support this assertion because this thread is in CYC and I assume tabstorm or minmay will bust out a diatribe on why they don't like it shortly

Perhaps Crypt could connect as a through passage from Orc into Vaults? Either acting as a backdoor to the runelocked V entrance -- or alternately, to preserve the runelock, by increasing the depth of Crypt to 4 and giving it a rune, maybe some additional branch end layouts, and a secondary runelocke...

Racial butchering is relevant in at least one edge case: Trolls butchering other trolls to try to pickup a troll hide/TLA. Unfitting armour makes the possibility at an early hide armour more appealing for player Trolls than it might otherwise be, and stacked regen is always appealing. I actually ran...

Perhaps we need some guidelines, or just examples of what we consider "reasonably randomised", to make it easier (for vault making and modifying) to achieve some standard? I would like to request that anyone adding randomized vaults to trunk ensures that if they can contain grossly depth-...

from a design standpoint giving formicids access to giant clubs undercuts their concept Formicids are humanoid ants from deep below. They have four incredibly strong arms that allow them to wield practically anything, along with a shield. They are incredibly adept at the earth, allowing them to dig...

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Tiktacy wrote:Can you throw stuff or is that a weapon?

only if it's fun stuff (fruit, etc.)

Just watch out for those sneaky gloves of archery making your bread deal damage

Then you have to kite the thing you hit until it's back at full HP before you kill it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzdRQCnDBlw

this topic really belongs in GDD but it would be moved here anyway

Or just disable melee animation automatically while TABbing, and use it when you hit things manually. For what it's worth: I play tiles almost exclusively, most of the characters I play are heavily melee focused, and I don't use autofight. Autofight has terrible threat prioritization (or did, the l...

There appears to be a minor error in the google spreadsheet:

There is a score listed for me under TrAM when I definitely haven't gotten around to playing anything past TeSK yet.

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Maybe it's just me but that looks like some kind of twisted jackalope demon thing that's out to steal your children more than a cockroach.

What if, as an alternative to a FSIM-style number dump, the game were to color code weapon names in inventory based upon their relative damage output per turn compared to the equipped weapon? Better damage = darker shades of green. Worse damage = darker shades of red. You could include some threshol...

duvessa wrote:scroll of blinking does not have the effect of the controlled blink spell
controlled blink is semicontrolled on -cTele levels, scroll of blinking is not

From a clarity standpoint, this inconsistency should either be made more explicit or go away anyway.

whether a new jewelry effect should be a ring or an amulet. For simplicity's sake I chose to highlight the utter mess of ring effects in DCSS. Dismissing for the moment the notion of consistency in effect type per body slot (which is a topic for another thread), the reasoning is unchanged whether y...

Any thoughts on this? The argument below contains several blind assertions for which the underlying reasoning has been snipped out in the interest of clarity of the overall point: rDrown overlaps with Flight. rSilence is uninteresting for several reasons. rSilence is the more relevant attribute of ...

Thanks for the reply. I still feel as though I don't understand what the code is doing. crawl.random2() makes a call to the function registered in the Lua lib "crawl" called "random2". In the DCSS code, files containing Lua libraries tend to be prefixed as l_whatever.cc, in this...

Sar wrote:fr: all enemies with para also summon

pls no, DracoOmega might hear you and then it will turn out like that time people voted for Noxico

Something really dumb, like killing TRJ without first meticulously clearing the rest of the floor for eyeballs. It's pretty obnoxious that Slime:6 is set up for this to happen, and in my opinion giant eyeball paralysis should be restricted to not work through translucent rock. http://i.imgur.com/9vS...

While we're at it, is there any quick and dirty way to turn off my other huge pet-peeve, the tides in shoals? Quick and dirty patch below. Caveats: There's a lot of code dealing with tides in Shoals, and it's bizzarely mixed in with things like level generation. I created a wizmode game to verify t...

As of right now the enchantment level is only hidden on hides, but there is also currently a small bug in that if someone wears a hide and then gets hit by acid to reduce the level of invisible enchantment of the hide, that remains invisible until such time as the hide has ?ea used on it to become a...

To me it's holy fucking shit obvious that being able to cast spells sometime sooner than Vaults and not attracting the nearest third of the level's worth of monsters every time you do something is better for your character's practical defense than a slightly bigger number next to your AC, but thank ...

since these [robe characters] tend to have much better defenses than guys in plate I don't agree with this at all. I don't want to put words in anyone's mouth, but I take it to have been dck's intent that "dudes in robes" meant "dudes that upgrade to leather and then MDA as soon as p...

Patch uploaded to mantis.

https://crawl.develz.org/mantis/view.php?id=8095

My favorite moment of this week's challenge, for your entertainment:

Apply the patch below, recompile. This is quick and a bit spammy, if you don't want to see any messages related to item destruction just edit out the mprf bit. From 83bfd8e34eb900b6f4e1e61293d5ad660fb71d94 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Implojin <implosionwow@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 01:39:4...

But it wouldn't be very realistic to be able to train Shields without having a shield equipped.

(This thread is about filling out tavern bingo cards, right?)

I just finished a VSMo of Dith. This was my first time playing with either Dithmengos or Vine Stalker. Morgue here: http://dobrazupa.org/morgue/Implojin/morgue-Implojin-20140201-150149.txt My major critique of this species is that my game played a hell of a lot like a Vampire with lower max HP. It w...

dck wrote:Also all undead have umbravision, so they get no penalty,

If this is really a thing it should be an unthing because I have trouble imagining a more opaque mechanic.

damiac wrote:playing crawl right means you have to go to the wiki

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Step 1: Start the game with your chaos mace. Step 2: Unequip your chaos mace as soon as a not-suicidal weapon is available. Step 3: Hope that the game decides to spawn a lantern of shadows or clarity or some evoker items. Step 4: Play just well enough that you don't screw it up. Alternately: Scum fo...

And I've had a bad time with the 39 I've splatted, which is where I base my opinion from. I have had lots of fun with both Troll and Formicid. Troll: "This race is ridiculously strong, so let's see what kind of dumb shit I can get away with doing." Formicid: "This race's conduct is d...

my question is why is extended not so fun? Extended is something you do a few times, then you reach a point as a player where you realize "Hey, I already know how to deal with all the threats the game will throw at me and I have a fair understanding of my current character's strengths and weak...

Did you even read the whole post? Siegurt definitely did not say that you should always increase strenght because it increases the damage in melee. The whole point of his post was to compare to-hit and to-damage boni gained from dex and str not to write an universal guide on what stats to pick. Obv...

raising str is ALWAYS better than raising dex for increased melee damage Melee combat in DCSS doesn't really work like this. Raising dex on levelups and getting your damage from skill contribution gives you EV and damage. Raising str on levelups only gives you (a minor contribution to) damage. EV i...

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