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The divisions are again based on the number of online wins, am I right? What are the cut points? Nah I used a similar method as in Season 1, and I'm afraid it's not very scientific. It's a combination of wins, win rate, and average score. I used performance in Season 1 as well, when I needed more i...

XuaXua wrote:Well now I'm at the bottom. Guess there's nowhere for me to go, but up!

Actually the sheet is hard-coded to keep you at the bottom regardless of your performance. Someone has to take one for the team and make everyone else feel better about themselves, sorry.

+1 for removing curse skulls. I don't do crypt any more at all solely because of this enemy.

My problem with the skill curve of Crawl is that you get from newbie to decent by figuring out good gameplay, and then get from decent to excellent by taking essentially the same set of tactics a decent player would use, but forcing yourself through the tedium of applying them perfectly by rote on ...

The danger of a fight in crawl is not fixed, but rather flexible based on your actions. As you correctly hint at, the goal is to make all fights into type 1 or type 2 fights. By making mistakes, even non-threatening type 1 encounters can turn into type 2 or type 3. So your issue is really that the e...

I guess technically you could view ranged combat as being "hand-to-hand"... If you have some strange aiming priorities, I suppose. I think you typically (ahem) shoot for "hand-to-head" or "hand-to-heart." :) Technically that is exactly the same thing you're doing with ...

I guess technically you could view ranged combat as being "hand-to-hand"...

I don't think Gastronok, cyclopes, etc. are good either. Being ranged does mean that they can be briefly dangerous if you teleport/shaft into them, unlike the melee-only slow monsters, but they're just as slow and bad as the melee-only ones in other circumstances. And you know what's even more dang...

don't hate me please, but I don't understand how is okawaru average in the FUN department. He gives two invisible no drawbacks powers, and the gifts are, most of the time trash. I guess he is fun in the way a slot machine is fun: you win big one day and keep playing expecting to win more. Then you ...

As promised: Divisions Division 1 1 Cheibrodos 2 DracheReborn 3 flun 4 KarsaOrlong 5 Lasty 6 minmay 7 Moose 8 mopl 9 MorganLeah 10 MrPlanck 11 rchandra 12 Sandman25 13 Sphara 14 tabstorm 15 WalkerBoh 16 zooty Division 2 1 archaeo 2 caleba 3 dpeg 4 fearitself 5 guppyfry 6 Magipi 7 Midpoint 8 rast 9 s...

You have one. It's the one shaped like !.

"It's better to sit in silence and be thought an idiot than to speak up and remove all doubt." Take notes. Too bad Beogh will never get removed, because as a friend pointed out, many people unfamiliar with Crawl just know it as the game where you get to be orc jesus fucking christ. And tha...

Cool, that's 50 people! Just a reminder that I'll announce the first combo this Friday but signups will still be open through the first two weeks of the competition. Tonight I'll put up a draft of the division groupings and I'll get the standings sheet up too when it is ready, which will hopefully b...

So what's the advantage of starting that way? Clearly, works for you.... There's no advantage, it actually actively makes the game harder early on. But I'm just using !next in ##crawl (assigns you a random combo that you have to win next - once you win that combo it gives you another). So after HuF...

That's how I play all of my games. I can't stand using conjurations for a variety of reasons.

3rd game on a streak, RNG selected FoVM. I went hard, real hard. Had never won Fo or Qaz before, so let's do that. Two bad things that go bad together. Didn't matter. Went hard. Everything came flocking to see me. They all wanted a piece. I gave it to them. Then they didn't want any more. So I gave ...

You can't improve upon perfection!

@hurkyl: To be fair, if those are the things you are interested in knowing, it's better to ask those questions specifically and not a super broad question.

I like dudes with interesting abilities mostly, by which I mean abilities that change how you can handle tough situations. I think Lugonu has a really neat set of abilities, and Zin is also one of my faves. Jiyva too cuz slimify is sweet. I also rate Trog highly. Ash, mak, Xom, TSO, Oka, are gods th...

I'm just going to go ahead and answer the spirit of the question. You guys nitpick over useless shit too much, I mean jeez. These are the general (emphasis on general) guidelines I follow for choosing to drop or not. First, only carry things you actually intend to use. I never carry things around be...

As an alternate solution I propose that the bots that repeat milestones are made exclusive with queryable bots; e.g: cheibriados and Sequell are used for all queries, henzell/gretell/lantell etc. are only used for milestones for their respective servers. That way you can ignore milestone bots you a...

I like the announcements. Our AWBW group has a bot in our IRC channel that repeats the ##crawl announcements for only our members, and it's really nice for seeing how people are doing. I agree that it's bad on such a large scale of people as tracked in ##crawl, but I'd be sad to see the announcement...

On those occasions where you get poisoned while having rPois, just imagine how much more poisoned you would've been without it.

Well there is definitely an inherent cost for adding any new material. 1) It takes work and debugging and testing and tweaking etc., and 2) it makes Crawl's learning curve a little steeper because it's one extra thing you have to experience to learn. Those costs are there whenever you add any new co...

Worms are a good teaching monster for new players.

I am convinced that applying a delay to all actions is not interesting as a species' defining trait. I can see slow movement being interesting, but Naga has filled that niche. Having slower attack speed, quaff/read speed, etc does not change any tactical decisions, it just arbitrarily makes you wors...

Enslavement is most useful for packs of monsters. On Ar, I use it against early gnoll and bee packs with great success. It's also good for things like ogres that would be too dangerous to take 1v1 but have low MR. Enslavement is easily the best wand Ar starts with. I personally never use slowing. An...

Edited: it seems like you're aiming for a slowness theme, and added a bunch of stuff to try to balance that. To be clear, I would remove the slowness + extra things to balance slowness and instead focus on the unchanging aspect of the race, which in my opinion is the interesting portion.

Remove: - clarity - amphibious - archmagi - accuracy - slow metab - slow healing These all seem like things you threw in at the end for literally no reason that I can see. Additionally, tempo control somewhat steps on Fo's stasis conduct, so I would remove Tempo Control also. Seriously though, it is...

Well right, but the vast majority of mummies never make it past D:4.

The only problem I see is the unwritten rule of Crawl development: Thou shalt not buff mummies.

Surprisingly this one make me way less argumentative than the strength one.

While both are fully subjective, the strength one pretends to be objective so people are more argumentative about it.

The good news is that crawl is forgiving enough that even really "badly built" characters can win just fine. It turns out that positioning and making smart "fight or flight" decisions is more important than your skill training or preferred method of killing dudes.

Clearly we need a "Caster" background, just to confuse everything even more.

They start with the Book of Casting:
- Stoneskin
- Statue-form
- Summon statue
- Conjure gargoyle

I would recommend getting away from him, but if you use zerk from full hp you might get him. Just be ready to cry when he completely humiliates you.

Also I'm putting skjari on my foes list just for starting this atrocity of a thread.

Man, you can't use FSIM to support arguments. The assumptions made in FSIM are completely different than what actually occurs in a Crawl game, as people have pointed out. FSIM is most useful for comparing damage for different weapons against a given foe, and EVEN THEN it still is relatively worthless.

fr: ghost dragons

There is never no reason to insult Bcadren.

It's low-hanging fruit. Surely you can do better.

Someone could tell a knock knock joke on this forum, and I probably still wouldn't know if they were serious or not.

Guys, don't you see what's happening here? The ghost moths are turning us against each other.

Let's not forget who the true enemy is here.

The Wall doesn't mean it turns into a mummy btw. It means you go from tabbing anything mindlessly to easily dead if you keep doing so. A noticeable difference occurs where you're seemingly invincible early game and have to actually start using your head mid-mid game. Then it seems to me that most o...

With hansel in a better place now, RIP.

Trolls hitting the wall in lair? Any troll should shred lair easily. Just keep training UC and fighting. I don't think I've ever "hit the wall" with a troll. In my experience you always find dragon armour before HP and claws start being insufficient to just murder everything (i.e in late v...

If someone was holding a gun to my head, rolled a random char and told me I had one chance to win it to save my life, I would be MUCH happier to see Fe than Fo for almost any choice of background. If, on the other hand, I wanted to just have fun playing crawl and not hate everything forever, I would...

Really? Min delay?

No, Wanderer is allowed. There is only a 6 out of 27 chance of drawing it though.

I thought that's what this thread was for.

I think with Trog, as long as you have a digging wand Elf:3 should be really easy. Just make a little kill chamber with the digging wand near the end vault, and lure the dudes out in small groups. Use Trog's Hand for the banish-happy dudes and be liberal with zerk and BiA. Trog is probably one of th...

You can think of this also as, "If you could send one page worth of advice back in time to when you first started playing Crawl, what advice would you give?" I wouldn't give so much advice. Crawl is largely about learning for yourself and thinking through things. I would give the followin...

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