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Getting rid of chunks and make monsters sometimes drop permafood that you can only eat while "hungry" would be an easy first step that lets you automate everything without losing piety. Can we make that change first and worry about exactly what form hunger should take later? Unless you me...

Getting rid of chunks and make monsters sometimes drop permafood that you can only eat while "hungry" would be an easy first step that lets you automate everything without losing piety. Can we make that change first and worry about exactly what form hunger should take later?

My proposal was that butchering and picking up chunks doesn't use a turn and takes no time if no monsters are in view. I stopped pushing for it because I found that auto_butcher was recently added, and I'm not a speedrunner so that was mostly sufficient for me to not worry about it. I'd still like t...

If you want branches to be bigger, just play this game I thought up called twicecrawl. You have to win regular crawl, twice in a row. All the lair and vaults floors you've been missing.

Diablo 2 and 3 hardcore take a very long time to beat, and they have permadeath. Are they bad designed games? Millions of people play them for years and enjoy. I know this opinion is unpopular on the Tavern, but please don't turn Crawl more and more into arcade. Diablo 2 hardcore would not hold up ...

I assumed we can use "easy"-"dangerous" scale which already exists, it is displayed for every monster in x. It's not always accurate though, for some characters certain enemies marked as "dangerous" are actually quite easy to kill. False positives on calling something ...

And if you don't believe me, imagine a different situation - you start as a "changeling" with some generic stats and need to reach a certain spawn place to choose your actual race, except the place might not be in your game. Did you want to play a Deep Elf? Ooops too bad heh heh have a Hu...

Reduce the temple from ~12 gods to 5. That adds to the desirable "adapt to what you find" notion from the OP while preserving the new player milestone.

This might be the best argument for sound effects in crawl - not something I'd use but I bet some small things could be huge, like "you just killed the last visible monster". Thank you for making this thread, playing crawl blind sounds unimaginably difficult to me so it's awesome that you'...

Terse posts like "gargoyles are weaker than demigods" or whatever strike me as opportunities to derive the reasoning on my own. Sure, I could have it explained to me, but it's a much richer, more fulfilling experience if I embark on the rollercoaster of abstract learning myself and soon I ...

Right now, the magic mapping scroll is very strong. There are kind of a fixed few places where one is going to want to use it. Portal vaults, branch ends, zot levels, etc. Exactly what order you prioritize these in is going to depend on the character, but I think most people would agree on the small...

Shafts rule and my most memorable crawl characters are ones I survived very tense situations with. Exploring a new level with monsters that are often too strong to fight head-on, desperately searching and "diving" upward is something you don't get in any other part of the early game, and i...

spoken like someone whose never tried to complete 26% of donkey kong 64

I agree with the OP. I'd also change High Elf and Deep Elf to Half-Elf and Elf personally but that's just me.

Come on, it's always funny to find a great randart you can't use. People screenshot that all the time, it's fun. Alright then keep the artifacts, fine by me! Duvessa has a decent point but...the new players picking felid have bigger problems. Maybe it could be a default-off rcfile option but I'd ra...

Dungeon generation shouldn't change depending on your character. Troves have no right to be an exception to that. It'd be cool if useless items weren't even displayed though, and just poofed on the ground or something if a monster dropped them. What is the point of telling the player that there are...

Why do multiples of elemental evokers spawn again?

Dungeon generation shouldn't change depending on your character. Troves have no right to be an exception to that. It'd be cool if useless items weren't even displayed though, and just poofed on the ground or something if a monster dropped them. What is the point of telling the player that there are...

Yeah I don't like inappropriate names either but that one carries sufficient irony that it made me laugh instead.

mods rename me weedkillz420

Swapping brands to adjust to specific threats is pretty different than swapping every single time you autoexplore. I don't love any sort of swapping, but protection and evasion seem particularly notably ripe for it.

Rather than have it scale with time, which feels kinda terrible, what about rebranding it as Parrying, and have it scale with weapon skill. That solves the axe-wielder carrying around a dagger of protection issue at least. Ehhh carrying a hand axe of protection isn't much better. Scaling with time ...

duvessa wrote:rod recharging isn't problematic in the way that wand recharging is, but rod recharging alone is not enough reason to keep ?recharging in the game

Allowing ?enchant weapon to work on rods would be fine here I think.

Making pickup take 0 turns would make it easier to pillar dance/kite with arrows. Not sure that matters much but it's the only case I thought of.

Separate tactical and strategic hunger today for a better tomorrow.

The hippogrinch hits! The hippogrinch steals your christmas!

If you zap a satyr who feared you with teleport, can you use the fear effect to find out where he's gone?

Gonna +1 the idea that the aptitude changing is the interesting part here. "Other races have quirks like forbidden gods and resistance pips" isn't really a good reason to continue the trend. I would get rid of pretty much everything else on your list, and focus on making the proposed aptit...

I'd be happy if the proposed change went in, but sheesh, there are some terrible posts in this thread.

Comedy proposal - rings are more rare, always on, take up. say, 7 inventory slots each, and disappear on drop.

I'm sad at how skilling a little better might have saved that dude and his sweet gear.

You're want to remove his main drawback with no replacement? Isn't the noise like,fundamental to the god's design? I don't understand the purpose of this change.

Might I just say that death yak is a pretty goofy monster name for a monster near the top of the lair pyramid. I think they should be rhinos but lion would work.

njvack wrote:oh jesus it doesn't even require a POST request it is so terrible.

Be happy it doesn't let one thank their own posts or thank me for your posts.

What improvements to the current food system, if any, do you believe could help improve the game as a whole? Goldify chunks (take no inventory space) and make them automatically appear in your chunk slot when you kill something that leaves a corpse. Corpses can stay as they are for Animate Dead/Ani...

Compromise - multiple thank buttons that all do the same thing.

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I don't like how the same system has to be tuned for both strategic (pushing the player forward) and tactical (limiting use of spells, abilities, berserk, etc) concerns. Having to make compromises between the two is quite unfortunate because if they had just been two different mechanics to begin wit...

An early creature that banishes you to the AK abyss might be an interesting way to teach players about banishment and allow players to worship Lugonu without the AK start. I forget if the lugonu abyss spawns regular exits though - honestly not sure how that works.

SH and shields are two different things. Especially since this thread is talking about SH from amulets. SH doesn't prevent wielding 2 handers, shields do. Yeah but SH is just like EV with some shield-flavored seasoning. If you remove the things that are unique about SH currently, you get items that...

Right but if you take the same setup, and see a guy get 40 heads in a row with only, say, 500 flips total, you can nearly discard the chance that it was random because its much more likely that he is actually skilled at flipping a coin so it lands on heads. That is certainly seems like the case here.

The problem there was understanding the rate of change of such a number. It didn't mean much to be at 400% vs 600% spell failure if you don't know the relationship between skill level and failure rate. (Is it linear? Not at the low end certainly.) It'd be cool if it tied in to the relative skill cos...

You should probably allow 0-skill weapon attacks just for sanity reasons.

Sprucery wrote:
johlstei wrote:What kind of crawl player has no intuition for what gaining (8*ER - 12) stealth entails???

Well, stealth is displayed in-game with +s, not numbers.

I was being sarcastic - I have literally no idea what a pip of stealth means, let alone a raw number, other than more is better.

At level 3 it should make your large, RIP your equipment/EV.

Sar wrote:the numbers, what do they mean?

What kind of crawl player has no intuition for what gaining (8*ER - 12) stealth entails???

Does the mutation affect your ER for ozo's purposes?

If this isn't esoteric enough for you, allow his frogform to be dispelled by purple draconian breath.

Proposed solution: put a warning on the skill screen about how spellcasting works compared to schools. Flash it or something if a new player focuses spellcasting. Experienced players get an rcfile entry to toggle to turn it off forever.

What do you think of the food/butchering system as it stands?

GrEE seems like a reasonable choice to me. HOFE is probably a bit easier.

I have this problem, especially when playing something fragile like spriggans. My best theory is that I have some poor tactical instincts that are fine or even beneficial to me 99.99% of the time, and catch up to me around lair branches/vaults/depths. It's pretty hard to crystallize the issue and it...

I'd go for the LB, assuming I found/started with one.

I don't think thanks fulfill their original purpose very well, ie rewarding people who help others. That said, it's unclear whether removing them will improve things or not. I treat them as a joke but I like jokes. On the other hand, as njvack suggests, I suspect the recency of the removal is part o...

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