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As far as I know njvack, users can edit posts indefinitely, but only mods can delete them after a short period of time.

duvessa wrote:
archaeo wrote:I mean, to be fair, this was 0.15; I don't think #RetroactivelyMakeCrawlGreatAgain rolls off the tongue quite as easily.
This situation hasn't changed since 0.15.

The new fainting status light at least acts like a better final warning, I guess?

You can do it for free in wizmode with the bugged version, I'm sure.

ydeve wrote:This please.
This type of death is like accidentally walking into lava. It really shouldn't happen.

I mean, to be fair, this was 0.15; I don't think #RetroactivelyMakeCrawlGreatAgain rolls off the tongue quite as easily.

It's worth pointing out that the game suggests a DE caster for new players with hints mode (DECj, along with MiBe and CeHu). I'm not sure where I fall on this debate, though I think there's an argument to be made that for new players in particular, 20 % of HP isn't often the margin between defeat an...

#RemoveFood2016

#MakeCrawlGreatAgain

Yeah, I agree with Sprucery's identification of a problem, if not necessarily the solution. I don't really have a problem with online ghosts; I understand the dissenters here, but I think they're good on balance and their problems have solutions. But offline ghosts are exceedingly frustrating. As fa...

MainiacJoe, while there's probably a real mathy way of looking at this, it's something you probably intuitively know just from playing the game. High AC characters take less damage, but still take the hits; high EV characters avoid hits, but when one lands, it hits hard. I'm sure someone will be alo...

I've split off the Nemelex argument into its own thread.

Jarlyk wrote:1. Really early on, spell hunger feels 'scary' (or at the very least, annoying), so you prioritize getting rid of it. Eventually you learn to pretty much ignore hunger as a mechanic, as much as the game lets you.

#RemoveHunger2016 #MakeCrawlGreatAgain

Would someone be kind enough to explain or link to an explanation of how you can build a specific version of Crawl? I looked through the docs, but I didn't see an example of how you do that.

god, Sar, do you not keep your graphing calculator handy whenever you're playing Crawl?

dynast, the problem is that we already have a spell that's better than that for melee dudes (except UC, esp. trolls, for whom I guess this is a weird stealth buff), and for everyone else it would probably be less effective than canine familiar with the majority of weapons, and getting really good ef...

For what it's worth, I don't think the Tavern's users lack even a "shred of maturity," and I don't think being a forum moderator is anything like being a parent/teacher/boss/developer. I'm more like a janitor who occasionally works for the school basketball team as a referee.

As I've said to njvack elsewhere, this leaves a "purely devoted to silly" subforum that will be of questionable usefulness; CYC was recently described to me as Tavern's /b/, and removing all the actual non-joke content from it will only make that more true. What are the moderation rules fo...

Moreover I think my "most sensible people" comment has been blown way out of proportion and taken personally. Archaeo, you were acting out the will of mods and what I would consider to be a vocal group of protestors and as a forum general moderator this kind of thing is what you have to d...

As I pointed out in the announcement thread: We've discussed the Thanks feature a few times in recent history. The most recent discussion was here , but some other previous discussions can be found here , here , and here . This OP only served as a reminder of something that had previous mod consensu...

That would be functionally identical to turning channeling into mana regen. Maybe that's the right idea, but I assume there's some kind of resistance to that idea or it would already be done.

Does literally anyone else think this is a good idea? I mean, seriously; previous threads included a number of posters who were in favor of removing thanks, and I notice that exactly 0 people have shown up to support it now that it's done. If nobody else is even willing to step forward with tepid ag...

To respond more to the substance of this feature request, this would amount to a kludgy patch for the actual problem of out-of-combat channeling. It's the worst kind of mechanic: strictly optimal and annoyingly tedious, and something that the average player will do hundreds of times per game. Automa...

No, pubby is playing a trick.

Spoiler: show

I'm locking the thread; we've gotten pretty far off the main topic, and two devs have stopped in to say it'll never happen. Feel free to PM me if you'd like to split off a topic from this thread, but I suspect better OPs can be found for threads like "Remove Felid" or "Remove Food Sho...

duvessa wrote:you people are taking this way too seriously

can someone translate this into Latin for the Official Tavern Seal

Why don't you? Expressing appreciation doesn't do anything useful. Why do you sometimes thank posts you find funny? This exchange gets at the heart of the matter, to me: are thanks socially useful, or are they a useless distraction? We can debate that endlessly, or we can just try not having thanks...

For a future write-up, I'd love to see a comparison between sapher's NaWz and sapher's later DDWr. I bet there's some interesting contrasts to be drawn between these two speedruns; you might also make a detour to point out that PurpleRed probably would've beat the NaWz run if it hadn't been for one ...

Can thanking be enabled/disabled by subforum? If so, please fully enable it in CYC. This is possible, but doesn't seem remotely desirable. If we decide to stick with full thanks removal, I can't imagine a scenario where it makes sense to bring it back in the one subforum where its "signal-to-n...

Turukano, it's a serious attempt to make the Tavern a better forum. If it doesn't succeed in doing that, we'll bring it back.

I've seen gammafunk use it to good effect, it's just literally the only summon that's even marginally difficult to use.

Is this even happening? Deleting posts is an action that shows up in the mod logs, and I don't see any posts by Arrhy getting deleted.

You'll note that I didn't use it as an argument against adding an interface feature, duvessa. I just said, "There's almost certainly a way to do this in your rc file." (edit: which is admittedly not the most useful contribution I've ever made to a GDD thread, but seemed like a. something t...

I've moved this for being off-topic; it may have been sparked by my reply to bcadren's thread, but it's definitely its own topic. As for my suggestion, I suppose I could've been more thorough, but I dashed off a reply without really thinking about it, and truth be told, I know very little about rc f...

Hard to say, Sar; the best Crawl streaks are longer than the best NetHack streaks , anyway. If you asked me to speculate based on my limited experience, I'd guess that NetHack has more ways to kill a Hypothetically Optimal Player than Crawl does, but I don't know if that's true, especially since Hyp...

how would you like a 10% chance to instantly die for no reason when you first enter the depths? I'd like that, as long as the death is sufficiently entertaining. Instant deaths are rarely fun, best deaths are these where you try everything in your arsenal and still can't come out on top. If Depths ...

236 | D:4 | Noticed an ogre 237 | D:4 | :( 246 | D:4 | Killed an ogre 246 | D:4 | Reached skill level 5 in Unarmed Combat 246 | D:4 | Reached XP level 2. HP: 14/16 MP: 3/3 246 | D:4 | Reached XP level 3. HP: 17/20 MP: 4/4 246 | D:4 | Reached XP level 4. HP: 20/24 MP: 5/5 I'd have to watch the ttyre...

There's almost certainly a way to do this in your rc file. I bet you could get it to eat for you if your hunger state changes too.

Unfortunately, bad advice gets thanked just as much as good advice. And removing thanks fixes the situation how? Bad advice still gets given as often as good advice. duvessa's point is that thanks are a pretty bad indicator of which advice to pay attention to. In my experience, anyway, bad advice t...

Okay, as duvessa and johlstei have demonstrated, it looks like you can bypass the setting and continue thanking. As far as I can tell, the only way to prevent this would be to edit the user permissions so that nobody can thank any posts at all. I'll look into the settings to figure out what might be...

The point of the thanks feature is to quickly allow people to agree with a post or to acknowledge a post as a significant contribution to a discussion. It serves that function well (although it would be better if there were a way to distinguish between its two possible meanings). One of the issues,...

The difference was between "click one box and hit save" and "wade through endless user permissions menus and hope you don't break the forum." This writer decided to take the easy way out.

The things about Fedhas that I find kind of annoying: ⋅ The list of things that prayer does is kind of nuts, and Fedhas is now the only god that does corpse sacrifice. I'd make the two extra effects (skeletonizing zombies or killing ghouls) just happen some piety-dependent percentage of th...

n.b. as the number of "official thanks threads" goes up, the probability of all official thanks threads being stupid removed approaches 1.

not like thank counts are visible anymore GRATITUDES Has thanked: 3411 times Have thanks: 2875 times I can see this at the bottom of your user profile screen; is that a mod thing? If it isn't, then as far as I can tell it's impossible for mere admins to remove and requires Napkin to change. In any ...

I'm pretty sure you're not being serious, Sar, but I will take the opportunity to ask that if people have a problem with this, they register their opinion here instead of gaming the system. Most of those threads I linked in my OP included plenty of jokey "me too" posts as an example of wha...

We've discussed the Thanks feature a few times in recent history. The most recent discussion was here , but some other previous discussions can be found here , here , and here . In my reading of these threads, as well as the related discussions in the moderator's super secret subforum, I think it's ...

Proposal: Introduce elemental torments. Firetorment halves HP if you lack rF (and still does damage if you have it, 35% damage at rF+++), Icetorment if you lack rC, regular Torment if you lack rN; and Irontorment can't be resisted but is reduced by AC. For the most part, big elemental damage in ext...

Extended is just this giant monolithic part of the game which is all about hellfire and torment. It's worth pointing out that the "giant" part of that is probably a large part of why hellfire and torment feel so overused. Not that they couldn't be improved, but still, reducing the size of...

"Rime" sounds prettier than "frost." PleasingFungus has a way with words.

well I was a felid I think I spotted your problem. You also have 19 in invocations and only 8 in fighting, as well as a puzzling amount of earth. Summoners don't "tend to be frail"; there's no reason for a summoner to have lousy defenses, though FeSu doesn't have much of a choice. When I ...

An update to note that I haven't heard any real objections to a trial run of restricting thanks to OPs, so I plan on pulling the trigger on that in the near future.

So, to update people on this, I think the mod team would generally prefer to tweak existing subforums instead of adding a new one. There's not much enthusiasm for a general "off-topic" section, and pulling the Crawl out of CYC would give us one. Furthermore, I'm skeptical that a "GCD&...

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