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tabstorm wrote:"Hmm, I wonder what's going on with DCSS? I haven't checked on it in a few years..."
"Remove butchering and eating."
"It's over. It's finally over."

Truly a light in these dark days.

Incredible. Food is finally over.

Good afternoon, Crawl friends. I got a PM about this thread, which surprised me, since I’m not exactly an active moderator here. It’s also not abundantly clear that any other mods are available, so in the meantime, rather than handing out any punishments, I’ll be closing this thread. Any other mods,...

KoboldLord wrote:Pet management should probably move to a prominent space on this list now, not sure why it wasn't already there.

Oh, this is why I always liked playing with allies in Crawl, because I came from playing NetHack first and pets are such garbage in that.

I still can't totally believe how weird and bad tome was/is.

Airwolf wrote:Don't forget that we're supposed to enjoy the game!

I'm pretty sure this bug was already patched out.

what if Mu and Vp just got hunrgy like any other species? I mean it might surprise you to learn that I'm not a big hunger fan, arrhy, so I'd like to prevent its spread. Archaeo, you may not be aware that hellcrawl implements your suggestions #1 & #3, as well as removing food. If you wanted to t...

The "spawns are bad" position has a long history on tavern. There must be similar history in dev channels as well or there would still be spawns. I don't think it's cynical to recognize that decision processes in human institutions, like open source projects, involve negotiation and that ...

I hope that you've already found a solution to this problem, but I'd suggest getting on ##crawl and looking for rax or |amethyst, either of whom could probably help, if not.

Just remove food. For God's sake. I'm of the opinion that if your one and only fixation above all other things including entertainment and sanity is to win such that you will resort to "degenerate" and "unfun" behavior to even slightly increase your chances of doing so, that is ...

However, from a game design perspective, it's poor design. It's possible to understand this from the perspective of someone who thinks we should remove all zealots; I strongly disagree (Be, AK, and CK all make the game different enough that I have no problem with them whatsoever, and I honestly wou...

Threads where people disagree are usually the most interesting and most useful! This is absolutely true, but I responded to a report in this thread, and as a reminder: it's fine to disagree with people's ideas, but don't personalize these disputes. Arguing about video game is fun. Stop getting angr...

If y'all want to talk about Be, please start a new thread. If the interest and energy is there, it could easily be part of a crawl branch with the ethos of Poschengband. Yiufcrawl is already staking out that kind of ground. There's a good niche there for a branch that looks to try out new content an...

Regardless of whether or not we keep tloc around as a school (I don't mind it, personally), please don't make a spell where you actively want to keep spellpower low in order to have an easier time predicting what it will do. Short and reliable blinks would be useful in lots of places, but the most s...

've heard people refer to permacharms as somehow like equipment, as though that's a bad thing. It is a bad thing. Crawl already has equipment. The only possible advantage you get out of "permacharms" is that you need a second skill to use the equipment, which isn't enough of an advantage ...

I've always favored the idea that, on the lowest level of the Abyss, portals randomly appear to the realms of the various named Pan Lords, while random ones show up as you're searching.

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I'm a fan. I've always really loved the idea of Gnolls, I hope this one works and I'm looking forward to giving this one a try. What do you like about such characters? I think Crawl is more fun when you have to worship the floor god, and my most memorable games have been with generalist characters ...

I would be interested to hear what people who like playing generalist characters think of Gn. (I can't think of any such players off of the top of my head, so I can't just go and ask them.) I'm a fan. I've always really loved the idea of Gnolls, I hope this one works and I'm looking forward to givi...

I vote for 0.16-0.17. A bunch of quality-of-life improvements, but still quite a lot of older Crawlness. It's a friendlier era for the player.

I'd pick 0.16 outright if it wasn't for shadow traps.

Diamond Golem? Duralumin Golem?

yesno and Vajrapani, this is GDD, and even if the OP is satire, I'll lock the thread if we start treating the discussion that way, thanks. Feel free to come back with more substantive replies if you like. Also, you may have heard that social psychology in general is in a big replication crisis. Conf...

Sprucery is right, and so is n1000 but, Finally, it seems like if this is something you're passionate about, crawl isn't exactly the most useful forum, there's a pretty small number of crawl players worldwide, and the number of those who are female is tiny, not to say inclusiveness is a bad thing, j...

as long as we're being unironic in this thread, I have a confession: I like playing Fe, it's probably my most played species offline.

I also like summoners though so my taste is questionable at best.

e: I even especially like FeSu!! Send help.

Complaint 1: the whole thingy is written in such an elitist fashion that a not-very-patient reader will stop reading before learning anything. A top player, I guess, will agree that Crawl is easy and you should streak easily unless you are a complete idiot, so I assumed they are the target audience...

I got a report on this thread, and now that everyone has had a chance to vent, I'm locking it. Please take any further concerns or analysis to GDD, ideally for a more focused discussion. Please take pointed, "wry" memes directed at other people who read this forum to tileschat, where they ...

In the past, Tapatalk has also done obnoxious things like leak ban notifications. I've always found it incredibly obnoxious to boot and experience the same bug when loading the forum that Shtopit mentioned. I wouldn't mind seeing it go. OTOH, I don't know that anybody on the mod team has experience ...

No, it was always a pointless walk back to d:1 FWIW, it's not entirely pointless, just pointless enough to merit a thank. I like the idea of an ascension; you get a trip through memory lane, an opportunity to see the journey you made to the orb from the other side. In practice, it's a very easy str...

I'm locking this thread, since the idea that it will get back on topic seems remote, there's not much more to be said about the topic in the first place, and if Siegurt and WTRL want to argue about home decorating, I'm sure they can start a CYC thread to that effect. Anybody who wants to continue ta...

Why my thread got moved here? I am pretty serious - Trog is a really broken god, and needs at least some serious nerfs. Or I should write a wall of text explaining this obvious fact? Please read the GDD guidelines for more information. We don't move topics all that often anymore, but GDD OPs will i...

yiuf'd, as this months-old thread wasn't exactly GDD material to begin with and reopening it isn't likely to change it. Feel free to come back to GDD with a more fleshed out proposal, folks.

In-N-Out is the only fast food place I've been lately where I was actually surprised at how good it was. Honestly, where I'm sitting, takeout from better restaurants is only a few dollars more than the average fast food meal, and it's universally healthier and tastier. Or it would be healthier, if I...

Seriously tbh when I see a dev thank some random idea in GDD i wonder "does this mean this dev will propose this change to the dev team and support it?" This is a good reminder to edit the GDD rules to that end (i.e. nope, that's not what those thanks mean), thanks yesno. I agree with che...

I think it's flawed insofar as the reasons for forbidding GPL software in the iOS App Store don't actually advance the causes of "strong copyleft," nor would putting this up for free on the App Store constitute a real reduction in how "open" this piece of open source software is....

Minor contributors wouldn't be make a "copyright claim," if I'm understanding this properly; the legal issue turns on the language in the contract. Perhaps there's a legal argument to be made that the license is unenforceable as written due to the unreasonable burden it places on the prese...

Basically, you have somewhere around 258 people whom you'd need to get to agree to a license change. This seems like a pretty crippling flaw in GPL2, given that any project with as many contributors as Crawl has had will find themselves almost totally unable to alter the terms of the license. Is th...

I don't think any of these is sacred (and of course there are plenty of roguelikes without them) but surely food is more under threat? I can well imagine a Crawl where food serves some specialised function but routine eating to survive is gone. I don't think they're sacred, just that they're founda...

3. Ideally, identification methods depend on circumstances. I am always interested in hearing how this can be strengthened. I'm not totally sure what methods of "strengthening" the ID game you haven't already heard, dpeg. Players have suggested IDing all items after reaching some point in...

Lava, well, it would be no worse than flame clouds or Zot traps in this regard. We don't have vaults that cover 25% of the level in Zot traps Yet. More seriously, any change involving how deep water and lava work would impact a large number of vaults, so even though I like this proposal/have made s...

I moved this to CYC instead of DCA, even though part of me thinks it should be in GDD. IDK. Let me or another mod know if it ought to be moved elsewhere, I guess.

I usually don't fight draconian packs after fighting an orb of fire, I usually go upstairs to restore HP and that means gourmand-like would be functionally identical to current vampiric brand. If it's not clear, I believe vampiric is the most overpowered thing in the whole game, it's the only item ...

(My emphasis) I see no evidence for this proposition; it seems to me to be begging the question. What does "problematic" mean anyway? There are thousands of things in Crawl. Hundreds of things are "remarked upon" every day. What makes this special? As I said, I don't mind that t...

"Western fantasy" is pretty broad. If I were better versed in sci-fi and fantasy subgenres, I would probably have said post-Tolkien high fantasy or something along those lines. I think if you look at the more commercially successful titles, from Tolkien's oeuvre to The Sword of Shannara t...

Western fantasy is romantic reaction against industrialism, urbanization, disintegration of pre-modern class structures, modern social thought, democracy, etc. It renders imperial concepts of race as differences of species, where the difference between elves and dwarves, for example, is comparable ...

split off the monster "squelching" discussion. Let's use this thread to talk about other solutions to this problem, such as duvessa's and Siegurt's.

There's no way RNG "carries over" to the next game, regardless of where you die. Right?

It's been a few months since I talked about removing food, right? ⋅ Merge permafood into a single item, "ration", that is N% of the size of a current bread ration. ⋅ Replace food in vaults with the equivalent nutrition worth of newrations, assuming no diet mutations. ...

Honestly, we should just get rid of recommendations like this altogether, and just offer "recommended characters" as a menu option that takes new players to a list of, say, 6-12 species/background combos that are ideally suited for introducing new players to various aspects of the game. Yo...

The Marathon Trilogy is all free / theoretically still has a multiplayer scene

What's interesting about either of those things, Siegurt? The former is a situation you can only get in if you purposefully play suboptimally (and "don't wield unidentified weapons" is hardly some Hypothetically Optimal Player behavior), while the latter is literally just "pick a card...

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