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Its fixed, thanks for the patch, Advil. I apologize for repeated rudeness and shall filter myself more on that. I like many of the trunk changes like EV-cap removed, dex long blades, and so there is no static version that does all of what I want.

Currently some items in inventory change color and indicate usability randomly by emergent design. Can we either not do that, or use a unified scheme at least? This is all linux console. Identify greys out when nothing left to identify, but also greys out if there is nothing in my inventory left to ...

Just the usual stuff, self-mutating for aux attacks, using summons for stab opportunities, hexes, strong evo for elite monsters etc.

The reduction commit says "its to get people to not just tab with SB, instead using creative solutions". I agree that not many people are going to be moved by that.

Hey everyone. Recently we got a couple changes to short blades, good by themselves, no complaints here. https://github.com/crawl/crawl/commit/e8845773e3cb1a3035fb3f1baf4b27ade2b16f9c This one reduced non-dagger SB base damage by one. This is really painful on trying to stab with a rapier/short sword...

Hey everyone. TLDR: Autotravel is a pillar of the game. Some minor cases where it could be better integrated. Long ago the 3 pairs of staircases used to not show that they were "known" stairs at the other end. This caused the optimal tedious behaviour to go them up/down to manually check a...

Before the overhaul, I was an almost 100% Ash-only worshipper; afterwards I have not finished a single game with her. New!Ash is a nightmare in terms of complexity and userfriendlyness. I support any change that makes her more simple again. The first large offender is the randart-transformations. It...

I play mostly octopodes. The EV-ignore 64 damage hits are a bit much, honestly. Same with the frostbound invokers(?), the new monster type in vaults: EV-ignore/shield-ignore frozen ramparts in very tight vault layouts need rc++(+) to not die in 2-3 turns. Unfortunately I don't have any good solution...

A while back Gauntlet had all its monsters changed to have them all generated awake. Ostensible goal of the change was that sleeping monsters lead to annoying creeping around while exploring the loot, trying not to wake them. I personally think this trades off against in an unfortunate manner agains...

Thanks, much appreciated! I hadn't even seen the , option yet, that'd have worked fine too.

Hi, New search has a feature "results on your position", t his is a full rehash of a situation from 2016, see https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=20374 and got reverted back then. Basically, some very fast players search for items by muscle memory - I know a buckler is ...

Much obliged you two. Sorry for the panic mode, I feel very strongly about UI changes and overreacted. I use the default ubuntu terminal btw.

Today on starting a new Trunk game on CDO I noticed the console interface has changed colours A LOT. This reduces the amount of visual information available. Blue and green script has been made grey. Unnecessary stuff got bright yellow highlighting. That seems like a bad idea, given that console nee...

Thanks Hellmonk, lots of great clarifications. I would have sworn that poison monsters wreck me worse than ever before - just another one of the many illusions ones develop while playing.

A while ago monsters had their attack speed changed. Do you like it? My Octopodes hate it. My intuition which fights I can take and which I can't is all shot. Early game is even more deadly than before(!). Snakes suddenly hit like motherfuckers. Halberd Gnolls swing more often. Siegmund is a worthy ...

Looking through the portal codes, many of the sewers have specific items placed that I never even noticed, bullfrog sewers have often ?cblink. I mean this one, contains !berserk or !haste to fight against a single monster. With the way Ashenzari is used as testbed for features that later everyone ge...

This has come up from time to time. Universal opinion is that all the spoilery consumable placement should be ID'd but so far noone has taken the time to go trough all the vaults. Its not just flight - the "alligator" sewer has berserk, the baileys with ?ACQ/!XP, the Elyvilon sewer with fl...

Dang, the push for more relevant randarts is pretty cool. A lot of +12 weapons lying around in early D where they are actually relevant.

Its usually pretty easy to empty the rest of the death yak level and then lure the pack to another upstairs. D:11-12 can be fine to do before lair but will have hefty spikes in difficulty you'll have to evade. Can't comment on skills.

Since you are going with melee 'pode and are already wearing a kite shield I will recommend staying away from magic for now. Nemelex+wands will get you trough to lair. The problem is that 'pode combat is very swingy+fragile. You don't lack damage output due to constriction but one good hit will also...

Greetings, new overhauled Ash has arrived in trunk. A major redesign, abilities got shifted around: scrying now comes last instead of first. On exploration you get offered curses, which give you the opportunity to curse an item, which becomes the source of two random skill boosts. You get an ability...

?Teleport makes Monastery of Wucad Mu trivial. You enter, you are on the clock against summoned monsters so you pop 1 or 2 ?tele scrolls. You don't even have to fight the statue unless you want the Wucad Mu staff - ?acq, !Xp, spellcasting manual are worth it to just ignore the statue. Maybe we can f...

DEX provides several other benefits over dodging EV

I am aware of a very low utility stealth bonus and a mild shield bonus. I'd rather argue for removal of +EV rings if +DEX rings are better anyway.

I can only speak for Octopodes, for us gameplay also has become smoother. Its not just small size species,normal size species that max dodging profit heavily.

At 97EV titan hit chance is 9%, so if we can get devs to remove unfair 5% minimum treshold we are at true to hit of 4%. Seems fine for wearing all dex/EV rings, that is a large penalty. With Chei it'd up again by 30ish or so, 1dex ~ 2EV @27dodge.

I almost don't dare to post this for fear of nerfs but behold the 143 EV spider. This is on a 'pode with 8EV/Dex rings, maxed dodge, not yet Ring of Hare. Base EV before spider form 97.

Hi everyone,

Ru is currently the only godling without a uniquely searchable name. Searching "Ru" will also return altars of "Okawaru" and if present "corrupted altar of Lugonu", leading to false worship when playing fast.

Thats all, regards

Good question. Playing around with fsim, against Titan with their 20HD @50EV: Source | AvHitDam | MaxDam | Acc | AvDam | AvTime | AvSpd | AvEffDam Attack: Player | 7,5 | 47 | 94% | 7,1 | 50 | 2,00 | 14,2 Attack: Mons | No hits Defend: Player | No hits Defend: Mons | 27,7 | 55 | 31% | 8,7 | 100 | 1,0...

Post your screenshots of disgustingly high EV chars here!

I can't believe Gnoll Village floors are back again! So nostalgic! Now please return Orc Giant Fortress to its former glory too!

Also new mutations! (+Will) Love it all.

Edit: also Artifacts now on D:3 O_O

Pretty nice. My way to do it is map ?IDs to r so I can spam rr[x] quickly. Next step would be to have it make smart decisions? I never want to randomly ID items. "start with potions, stack size 2-3, never do stack size 5+, if known scrolls are amnesia, uselessness, noise, immolation, fear, tele...

Thanks again to all devs. New, "true" stealth bar is appreciated. Also a ton of new vaults! Lots of !FUN! with OoD vault monsters.

Condenser Vanes. Why are they so good? Is that intentional? Is that good? Will that be toned down or other evocables up? - Costs very little, 200-280gold. Its always the best item to get in gadget shop. Probably beta feature to encourage use? - no drawbacks on use like extreme noise or slow rampup l...

Upon further thought of your reception here, I feel like I've missed to make my point in the OP. Its not that stealth is bad, or that stealth should be good. Its that very weak species, namely Octopodes and Felids, are able to make use of stealth to an amazing degree. This offsets their weaknesses t...

@Majang: Its entirely correct to play that way I think on normal apt characters. I play only octopodes and with +4 apt its still worth it. You can't finish the game but you get enough incidental value that you don't mind the XP sunk. Eg. stealth is so bad that you need +4 apts to make it good. Lucki...

Generate Gauntlet monsters awake Let players explore around and see all the options without feeling bad about waking monsters up. (You'll still make monsters notice you, but there's less downside to that.) TLDR: a long series of small incremental changes make being stealthy much less rewarding, and...

Delver is so great! Immediately replaced Assassin as favorite for me. Maybe we can even get "super delver" with even high starting depth?

Any species with decent +stealth apts and stealth modifier does well as delver. Starting with 6+ stealth allows you to kill enough stuff to level.

Just wish the "short blade" start would be a dagger instead of short sword, to go with the stabbing theme.

Harm is good if you do ranged damage and/or have high HP to tank spiky damage rolls. I've worn Harm on SprigganConjurer to boost magic missile damage and on a couple polearm characters.

Sweet. Yeah a starting ration might be needed regardless but it'll help.

New hunger clock is actually relevant on weak species. I expect that must be changed a bit. I play quickly on melee octopodes compared to average players and even there its been tight a couple times.

Recently a couple changes in early D monsters were comitted in Trunk. Now, Ufetubus and White Imps can spawn. I'm alright with the White Imps, since they have the hard hitting ranged attack, making retreats potentially dangerous. However Ufetubus are very popcorny even on D:4. Please, let the trend ...

I'll be damned! Then I haven't seen them in 5 month of crawling at all!

the cursed +2 hood of the Assassin (worn) {Detection Stab+ Stlth++}. A soft hood, enchanted by members of the Assassin's Guild to allow the wearer to sense potential victims nearby. It also allows the wearer to easily spot vulnerabilities when attacking unaware opponents, allowing effective stabbin...

10$/monthly might just be a private sponsor who wishes to incentivice people to play more. But sure, lets keep this hopefully very nice gesture accountable.

Recent console quality of life feature is hugely appreciated. Polearm/wand status now in monster sidebar! Gnolls orc warriors are less annoying now! Thanks so much!

That exists already in the game. There is a potion, a ring, and two species that can get it guaranteed + one species that can get it with the right mutation. Its called "flight".

As everyone knows, magical sleep powder doesn't work over the lungs. It works over the eyes.

by sprinkling magical sand onto their eyes.

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandman

You can forget a full respec from spellslinger to melee brute. You don't even have enough piety nor XP in the 3rune game left for it. Just wearing bloodlust+vampire tooth will make you respectable at melee. What you really need is better rings, go do crypt which has a very high chance of multiple ar...

Ring managment for 'podes isn't so much about diminishing returns as about opportunity cost of other rings. Your weakest ring is +5Int, I'd choose +8Str over that. I would not change any of your other seven ring against the +8Str.

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