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For me the low success rate does just the opposite. Since I know I want my Really Goog Weapon at some point I must now stack up scrolls to ensure that I get good enough enchant for it. Why waste a scroll on some weapons that I know I'll replace probably sooner than later. For better or for worse, t...

There's a function in l_you.cc that tells you your contaim level (contaminatedl() if I'm reading the code correctly.) The problem is getting the prompt to work whenever you cast those spells, and I'm going to guess there's no way to do that because crawl code isn't designed to support Lua macros to ...

I can see how this would encourage enchanting multiple weapons, which has its merits, but I would also like to see less diminishing returns for the endgame weapon that I have chosen. Even if the chances of corrosion are relatively small when it’s enchanted to +4, I’m still not comfortable using the...

I believe the reason that success rates are set as they are is to encourage people to possibly enchant multiple weapons, either in sequence (enchant a trident even though you know you will replace it) or in parallel (enchanting both a antimagic and a freezing great mace in the endgame). The only ser...

Might want to put this thread somewhere else like CYC. I was trying to find it after reading about it on ##crawl-dev, and I couldn't until I resorted to the search function.

Link to elliptic's current notes on the matter. (Who appears to be in charge of banners)

KoboldLord just posted for the first time in over a year.

Just make Faith a (rare) randart property. It's much easier and already handles the unwield problem.

(I also think every other amulet property should also be a randart property, particular since some unrandarts already have things like Clarity)

Rather than an annoying special case, just make a new unique. (I do think a unique profane servitor would be a good idea.) For example, something like this anti-Zin proposal would be nice. Annoying special case? It'd be just an alternate version of mennas and making them mutually exclusive. Uniques...

Grimm wrote:yeah hi DracheReborn thanks for punching the report button

i guess people are down for this, i'll roll it out soon, your colour will be hot pink

How will you deal with people like neil who are both?

(also think this is a good idea)

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/63152810/n/crawl/cockroach.png https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/63152810/n/crawl/cockroachexample.png A bit too stoney for my tastes, but I don't know. I think it's better than the current one for visibility reasons (which is what this thread is about), althou...

reaver: I would think that with your nick you'd try hard to get the reaver background back into the game :) I've never played a reaver. The name just sounded vaguely cool and crawl-related. (I actually would prefer any new Cj/Melee class to have a different name, since tengu reavers existing has ca...

I'm trying to create a hybrid type character. One that isn't a caster that happens to melee, nor a warrior that uses spells occasionally. This is a very nice explanation. I now understand what you're doing, and can tell you why the goal itself is wrong: Hybrids already exist in the game. Not just s...

Well, yes it is but then every level is basically the same. I mean I played three games with new gong and every level was basically the same, the difference with mark is that things wouldn't start charging your way the moment you enter the level and you could have more control over how much of the ...

Rather than an annoying special case, just make a new unique. (I do think a unique profane servitor would be a good idea.) For example, something like this anti-Zin proposal would be nice.

I'm really confused about what the point of this is supposed to be. It has confusing touch and a weapon, recall and nothing to recall, and the other spells seem pretty much random? Why does Crawl need this new background in the first place? Ninja'd Serious, why do you think this would be good for t...

n1000 wrote:id heal wounds wand (possibly charge it)

Yes, IDing wands. Staggeringly obvious use for all those ID scrolls, but it slipped my mind.

stop training stealth. If you are about to win, there is no point in training it. I switched to it because I thought a few quick levels would help more than a tiny bit more of my standard Evocations, Fighting, Armor, Dodging, Weapon suite. Does stealth only start returning in plate at high skill le...

Dump: Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.14-a0-3257-gc543470 (webtiles) character file. reaver the Evocator (Gargoyle Berserker) Turns: 105466, Time: 10:11:53 HP 188/188 AC 69 Str 26 XL: 27 MP 14/14 EV 29 Int 9 God: Trog [******] Gold 8604 SH 0 Dex 19 Spells: 0 memorised, 26 levels left rFire + + . ...

Another way to only partially remove abjuration: Add a check that monster has the actual spells flag before letting it cast it. A few monsters have had special casing removing their abjuration because it was unflavorful (Example, elemental wellsprings before their removal because they talked about m...

I didn't know that such a god had already been proposed. Oh well, I didn't really invest much into this idea yet, so it's not a big deal. I want to ask though, was there a particular reason why the original proposal got rejected? The Gold God hasn't been rejected, it's just in a state of indefinite...

Not to rain on your parade, but the old Gold God idea on the wiki does many of the same things as this in a significantly more polished and interesting way. (Even all the way down to bribing monsters and opening shops. The similarity is actually kind of eerie.)

Well since none of the 20 or so viewers of this thread deigned to give me an answer Please note that this counts your own views of this thread every time you refresh, and it also includes multiple views from one person. This is a forum, not a chat room, and there are many people who lurk but don't ...

Here's a more general idea I had for some Crawl monsters have lopsided risk/reward ratios: The amount of XP you get from a monster goes down as you kill more of them. So for example, maybe the first time you defeat a Centaur (currently 112 XP) you get 560 XP, but the next time you get 448 XP, and so...

dpeg wrote:Patch wanted for renaming the potion of speed.

Done.

You aren't suppose to discuss multiple topics in a thread, although this rule is pretty selectively enforced only when topics degenerate. Actual feedback: Too many to tell you specifically why the bad ones are bad (generally overcomplicated). Good ones: Silent is the best and an effect I've never se...

I want to try out glaciate and webtiles are unbearable because of the latency. A) Make sure that you're playing the closest server, although that's no guarantee that you'll get high enough performance. B) Maybe try playing console but also spectating yourself on webtiles. Combines immediate feedbac...

Why's there so much fanfic on the Tavern recently? Chronicles of Crawl and now this.

clearing d1-d10+lair+orc with minor magic is slow and boring My favourite spell Wizards start with is Tab. Agreed. This does not sound like a design issue. It sounds like the game isn't communicating that picking up a melee weapon on a wizard is a good idea. For example, try a MfWz and pick up a po...

reaver: I fully agree with what you say there. On the other hand, we have seen so many experiments with species (including new species landing in trunk) lately, that it may indeed be best to take some time. The idea of "HP and MP combined" is easy to remember, and starting afresh in a yea...

Still, a crazy old idea I had was for Chei to passively delay and spread-out all damage you receive. So if Nessos would deal 100 damage, you would take 10 damage each turn for 10 turns. I don't think this is worth implementing for Chei, but it would solve the problem that you described. Having a da...

Djinn had it's chance and failed at it. Just let it rest in peace. This is a bad attitude. What if claws had abandoned the Vaults:5 layout change after the initial negative feedback? What if Gargoyles had been abandoned after the failure of the self-petrification ability? What if the rune lock was ...

Of course I don't think a perceived issue such as this warrants at all brutally butchering the flavor of shoals and severely impairing the clarity of the monsters it contains, which is something that has already seen enough damage lately . What are you referring to? I'm guessing satyrs/fauns/new si...

"increasing the ability of Cheites to walk away" seems like a red herring to me. When I made my suggestions, I was focused on making an ability which would make Chei significantly less awful, and possibly also reduce the wild swings of difficulty Chei sometimes produces. This is why I sugg...

Combining WalkerBoh's suggestions and my own thoughts, here is how I would implement this: Whenever an enemy comes into your LOS, they is a HD-based chance they lose their next turn. This is a zero piety ability, triggered from when you first join Chei. The HD save is designed so it occurs basically...

Trunk binaries in general are rarely updated. The Windows binary was last changed in February, and the Mac OSX ones in November of last year. I recommend playing online or compiling yourself if you want to keep on top of the lastest Trunk changes.

nicolae wrote:Or... did it?

That would explain the error message on the mantis page.

Glad to see everything's back online. Looks like the server move went well.

Your options are Spider, Shoals, or late D. Slime and Elf are too hard and the Vaults require a rune as you mentioned. I would probably choose Shoals because I've found it's easier in general, but I haven't experienced the recent changes to the branch. Note Spider has the same invisible monsters - G...

Klown wrote: ???

There are two possible connections:
A) They both can resurrect themselves (pretty obvious)
B) Borris and Natasha are the primary villains from The Rocky and Bullwinkle show, a 1960s animated cartoon. (I think this is what the thread is referring to.)

it is an amulet, not a ring. Amulets in DCSS tend to fill the space of strategic use rather than tactical use, thus if this item were added it would be better as a ring. Implojin: Note that the whole "Amulets are strategic rings are tactical" thing was a vague correlation noticed by dpeg ...

What I was talking about were actions (in this case donning a particular item) that are worse than an omission when following a particular criterion (in this case, AC) Well if you have +2 gloves and put on randart {autocurse +0} gloves, it's the same as if you had no gloves and put on randart {auto...

Actually I find this advice useful to new players who are unaware of silence. Initially I neglected to buy a wand of teleportation when I had conservation and many scrolls of teleportation, timed bazaars with little money felt disappointing. Even if it is correct to buy a wand of Teleportation as s...

johlstei wrote:opportunity cost.

There should be a link to an article on opportunity cost in the "must read before posting in GDD" thread. It's one of the most common misunderstandings around here.

What's the distinction between being able to survive in deep water and just flying over it? The only one I can think of is being able to pick up items that have been dropped in the water, and I don't know if that particular distinction is quite enough to justify adding an amulet of unbreathing when...

Perhaps minor necromancer or something? And the zin one doesn't have hostile monsters, so I figured they could just fit in as decoration that happens to move around. Any monster which is "just a rename" is considered bad design. They make the game less clear without adding significant val...

I think negative enchantments are a bit of a red herring. The real, more general, problem is that the acquirement/randart algorithms are poor at creating items which are: A) Powerful enough to play with (if this was fixed the number of randarts would be tuned down, this is just to stop garbage from ...

Actually, something like this was very recently implemented. Recommendations have been changed so that they are not always a two way link. For example, picking a Troll first does not recommend Chaos Knight, but picking a Chaos Knight does cause a suggestion of Troll. (This shows species difficulties...

You know it's in game canon that Beef Jerky is made from Minotaurs, right? That's pretty flavorful to me.

Point 1: Going out of your way to find weapons to test in order to sacrifice is about as entertaining as banging your head against the wall. If you do that kind of stuff, well, you're welcome to your fun or lack thereof. And this is only actually worth it (leaving the mind numbing tedium aside for ...

dck wrote:here you can look up most basic stuff like that.

That version of the learndb is a couple months out of date (look at the date at the top of the page) due to a pipeline problem. This version is current.

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