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Just did a clean install of Ubuntu LTS 16.04, coming from LTS 14.04. While in the old version the default terminal worked just fine to play DCSS, in the new version DCSS is unplayable. Lots of stuff are apparently just not visible; map features like walls are not retained, in the ability screen only...

3 Hours is very fast for a 3rune game. I'd say 6hours is fine. >10 is absolutely normal for first few wins.

Also the reverse case of having 5+ names for the same brand:

Vorpal

Bashing
Cutting
Slicing
Crushing
Piercing
Velocity

Please rename to "of more damage" or somesuch.

Oooorrrrr allow desperation flight from trunk to be activated voluntarily, thereby forever and ever solving the "no flight" problem?

Fan is good on Orb Run or other stair dancing events. Helps leave those nasties on the floor below.

Nah, its unnecessary. A +8 speed battleaxe is a very fine weapon indeed, should make the game easy enough anyway and the only thing you'd get from switching to vamp is that the game will take less long, youll have to retreat less often. Its still a huge waste of XP to switch - playing conservatively...

A) Get a buckler, train shields to 4. B) Read ?acquirement, get wand or armour C) Get a good melee weapon, get 4-6 skill points in it (+3 scimitars of freezing/flame are common and fine, or nice +9 artifacts) D) Dont wear +0 leather armour, see if you find a branded robe or artifact robe/leather/rin...

you know that it's actually possible to abandon gods and not die right. like, it's usually very easy. Thats actually my main learning effect from Abandoned Altar, learning about different wraths effects and how they scale. Like, did you know early Vehumet Wrath is actually very survivable? Instead ...

I am worried about the slow Ashenzari-nerf creep we have been experiencing over the years. Ash is the God(ddess) of convenience: *berserk? Doesnt matter. "you feel a little angry?" Doesnt matter. " *Confuse? Didn't used to matter, *slow now does. "It takes you a little longer to ...

No clue about disc of storms/V5, but you have also have high evo+elemental evocers which give you a ton of staying power in form of damage/allies. I would still probably not try to fight at the entrace.

5/6* piety is when gifts are incoming. Keep an eye out for area of effect spells, bolts/clouds are awsome. Sink ?enchant armour into that hat, draconians cannot use body armour anyway. Battlesphere/mystic blast should get you trough lair with careful play- a bit tedious at times because not the most...

Certainly good enough for at least a single scroll - any hide armour is an improvement over robes for TR. Then see how playing feels, if you still feel atrociously squishy dump more into it, or - if you are feeling realllllyy lucky - poke into depth if you get a fire dragon /ice dragon.

Loot is insane. Stumbling upon it in E:1, I got in the main chamber armour of dragon king+glaive of guard, two randart rings, a randart amulet, multiple misc items, and good potions (haste/heal).

Yeah, Tornado is really different from other spells: you cast it, then you do your thing (eating/walking/channeling/weapon/spells) and the monsters just get shaken up. Feels as if the distance they end up from you is about the same as from where they started, with a small randomized component? That ...

Playing a +0 rapier chei Op is like... eating only fat-free yoghurt on the all-you-can-eat gourmet buffet. If you'd spent that 12 skill points in unarmed or anything else you'd be shredding everything in your path thanks to tentacle power. Dont ever train more than 14 on Short blades. To tackel V:5 ...

What about God(ddesse)s whose wrath is two levels of XP worth long? Permawrath?

In Trunk Fan/Lamp dont make allies anymore, and Stone has been removed.

So what does this unique do that Vashnia/Nessos dont already?

Misc thoughts:

Amulet of Wind is kinda not very useful for you, anything else'd be better.

Absolutely curse a second ring, 14% (yellow) miscast tornado is fine and will go down further very soon.

Its criminally that you havent maxed dodging yet.

Honestly I play so many Octopodes that I dont have a good feel for how often cloak of invis drop. But it feels like whenever I do start something else up Crazy Yiuf has one or it just lies around on D:5.

I just now discovered that Sprint map Fedhas Mad Dash actually is unplayable for Op/Fe since you get a cloak of invisibility -_-

Wasn't aware of that discussion. Removing ecovable invisibility altogether is a can of worms I especially did not want to open, thus a proposal thats relatively neutral to status quo.

(I think there is something to be said for having rare evocable invis, mostly fun arguments)

A while ago a couple of sources of Invisibility were removed, namely wand of invisibility and rings of invisibility. This probably was a good call; invisibility is a very powerful effect, and the game really doesn't need 5 different sources. The way it was done does not seem as if it fullfilled its ...

@bcadren I have issues wearing heavy armour because suddenly everything hits me - hunger/draining/acid attacks, lightning bolts, crystal spears. EV based chars have other problems, but not getting to -20 corrosion in the blink of an eye.

I'd agree for past lair but lair has many opportunities to participate in the fun activity called fighting. Around Death yak packs/Hydras ponderousness is deadly.

The str-3 is shit, you'd need to swap your +5str for it, making it a lot harder to cast spells, and also giving you a net deficit or at best even trade in defensive capabilities.

Well in practice heavy use of auto explore is very noticeable even on gods with slow piety decay (on weak chars with long resting times). Fast piety decay is an even stronger dis-incentive to use autoexplore. Thats a bit at odds with the whole avoid-tediousness philosophy. Not sure what to do about ...

You will not be missed. 6f6d809 | Chris Campbell | 2016-08-12 22:38:19 +0100 Make jelly item-eating Jiyva only It no longer makes any sense as an effect on random jellies since it can only ever trigger out of LOS, making it extremely unclear as to what's actually happening and how. Removes a few vau...

Also there is such a thing as "maximally poisoned" for monsters (but not for players) that encourages even more kiting, instead of killing monsters just early.

Agree with Sprucery. While it can be tempting to try to not cripple yourself too much with many minor saccs that means the healing/jump/wrath come that much later online, when the worst of the game is already over. If you start by saccing artifice you immediately get healing access. What to sacc tho...

Today I got a +0 dagger of draining on a dude/gal with zero SB skill and 10 in maces... Man is scroll of disappointment ever an appropriate name.

Note that if playing a low HP species like felid/Spriggan you absolutely want full resists.

Iron Rod would probably have worked, also /acid+/iceball. Iceblast ignores EV. Probably still wouldn't have been clever to do, mind you.

And or have access to inventory/ctrl+f search interface.

I almost always play her nowadays. Any other character feels weak without the skillboost, casually getting lvl5-6 spells online is OP. Other people complain and ragequit about shafts, traps, abyss? Ash is your (wo)man. Rupert dropping a nice vamp battleaxe but you are commited to long blades? Switch...

How about a universal reduction in food shops by 25%?

not that you aren't right, I always want more stuff for free.

Code:: Vaults:5 !%%%??%%

That feeling when after a game of bad shops you get 8 shops in V:5 - and 5 of them are food... Seriously we could use a reduction in food shops in late-late game!

How about removing the [loud noise aspects of] alarm traps, howler monkeys, and bringing back rings of invisibility?

Make the reaper also talk LIKE THIS and have us tell us all about TROUSERS OF TIME and HAVE YOU MET MY NIECE SUSANNE?

And then we can also have a rat unique that makes SQUEAK and EEK-EEK sounds...

Please dont call "wand of elemental blasts" that if it has a non-elemental component, eg. draining. Call it "wand of conjuration" or "boom wand" or "blast wand" or somesuch.

a - (") an uncursed amulet of faith b - (") an uncursed amulet of magic regeneration c - (=) the cursed ring "Jyolosch" {MR+ Slay+2} d - (=) the cursed ring "Laif" {Wiz rF- MR+ Str+4 Int+9} e - (=) the ring of Geps {-Tele rPois rN+ Dex+4 SInv} f - (=) the cursed ring o...

Its wand of teleport? Plus whatever else invisible loot it took.

The minotaur zaps a wand. The minotaur looks slightly unstable. _It is a wand of teleportation. The minotaur struggles against the net. ... _The minotaur disappears! You lose your grip on the minotaur. By all that has been written about how tedious labyrinths are - this seems like the epitome of wh...

Because they take so much experience they are more of a supplemental weapon, although in extended they are fine. You need fighting/defenses/staff skill/evo/elemental skill for them to do their thing, instead of fighting/defenses/melee weapon. IIRC air staff got changed a while back to also have AC c...

Why not melding her name with her postdecessors? Maud+Urug = Maurug or Murug or or or.

I have used them before in extended. ID all the plain decks of escape for shaft and skip straight to hell:7 by repeatedly shafting... But that was probably not worth the effort.

The boots are bad. -3 AC for 4Int is a bad trade. Your shield skill should be 4; you have relatively high evo for your point in the game. Your conjurations are a bit high compared to the secondary schools - bolt of draining which you used often was at 5. Since all of these are relatively minor probl...

Its also been nerfed in trunk, only giving 33% spellpower more instead of 50%.

Sure, that works. Paralyze works a lot better for obvious reasons and by the time one meets Mara one usually has one left over /paralyzes.

Because in an emergency you cant zap all the AoE wands you have. And later in the game you cant zap tele/heal/hasting if you ran out of mana.

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