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It's fine to have a game-timer forcing you to go forward. It's also fine to have a resource that's spent to cast spells, that you can choose to consume extra of to have more of a buffer at key moments. It's not really very good for those to be the same resource. Separate "food-as-clock" an...

Randomly dying to grinder and not being able to do anything about it isn't very interesting. It's frustrating. I have been through this feeling, as I guess most other crawl players. So it is a natural feeling. But it is wrong. You do not "randomly" die to grinder, you die because you play...

Oh man - it is too long, but the beginning is perfect. Floors 1-8 *are* the the interesting part of DCSS if you wanna be reductive about it. They're when tactics matter most, every consumable counts, and the ratio of hard fights to trivial fights is pretty high. I fully 100% agree that the game shou...

You have to write the new orb spider ai.

ebering wrote:The rc option is vampire_rest_alive set it to false to manually manage your blood.

I didn't say it in my post but I think it should set you back to bloodless once you're full if you started bloodless.

Can't you fix the keypress issue by having '5' automatically switch you? Would you ever not want that?

I'm afraid this will make the game more difficult. Not everyone plays games like you play chess. Not everyone cares about the winning rate and the winning streak. Even now, DCSS is difficult. Don't make it any more difficult. Always be mindful of newbies. I don't think this is the right attitude - ...

You could make any manual work for all skills, but have the same capped amount of skill XP so it expires in the same time and raises each skill less than a manual normally would raise one skill. Reading a manual of axes and getting a new perspective on summoning seems pretty gnoll-ish.

I got the "blurry vision makes scrolls take longer to read" thing put back in trunk...I'm sorry. I died in zot to it but a week later and realized what I had done, but it was too late.

What if the bad thing is not that the player can't run away here, but that they can run away elsewhere ??

I don't know how I feel about your proposal. Are you familiar with hellcrawl and how it doesn't have upstairs? I think it's pretty fun and good to not have upstairs, but it means that every floor has this exact issue - you don't know the risk of going to the next floor and you can't get out without ...

Necromancy is obviously god power stolen from the good gods by Kiku and bestowed upon mortals in spell form, that's why it's "Evil" (Where the crawl definition of "Evil" is "Something that TSO doesn't like") Yeah - the issue isn't healing, it's that you're messing with...

Show the whole damage distribution or nothing at all.

If regeneration is evil necromancy, healing potions should also be evil necromancy. It's a bizarre inconsistency. TSO characters can take the hit.

I think adjusting the probability of finding a barding at all should be a separate conversation from combining the two items. I think combining them is good either way but if you do it without discussion of said probability, you should take the item weight of one barding or the other rather than the...

Even if you think there should be something forcing you to thoughtfully choose when to cast higher level spells, it should not be the same as the turn clock. (Call this theoretical second timer thirst instead of hunger if you want.) This discussion might be more productive if it's focused around sep...

I want the complexity to be in places that crawl focuses on purpose, such as choosing where to move, using consumables wisely, and attacking. Not hitting tediously hitting c on every corpse after the fight is over.

maybe each god could have its own minigame, labyrinth sounds like ashenzari

nemelex players get to play mtg with their decks instead

You can rename deep elf to fairy if you want. DCSS has a long history of getting rid of elves.

I cast suggestion and suggest the goat give my a sweet bassline with its hooves while I drop rhymes.

CanOfWorms wrote:...that's how it worked for two and a half years

Wow....embarrassing....guess I ain't been paying attention.

I would have rather folded the two failure chances together than eliminated the random portion but...I'll take it.

One thing that annoys me in RPGs, both crpgs and tabletops, is effects where you gotta roll dice/rng, and your choices are "thing you want" or "nothing happens". "Nothing happens" sucks all around. It should be interesting success, or interesting failure, not nothing. I...

Can we work on getting rid of "easy" XP instead? I mean obviously it's a relative term but if a monster poses no threat, it should not give XP.

I would argue that a feature that unavoidably makes an already difficult game harder for the sole purpose of entertaining experts is a bad feature to require. In roguelikes, I'm a big fan of optional difficulty. If "streaking" is too easy, try streaking as a TrEn where you can't use unarm...

I like them a lot. If I survive I'm a lot more attached to my character, if I don't I make a new one because it's crawl.

To quote an earlier post: 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 par...

Script git to randomly permute which items give permaflight and which ones give temporary flight every hour to keep the player on their toes. EDIT: For serious though, changing what items do randomly per-character doesn't seem like a half-bad idea offhand. Maybe in this one some potions are randomly...

SS: pressing directional buttons to move on the grid while monsters are present, and pressing directional buttons or tab to attack monsters S: pressing o to autoexplore A: pressing a to use cool god abilities B: pressing z to cast spells C: pressing f to fire ranged weapons D: pressing anything to l...

Apparently there's an open source tapatalk clone that can use tapatalk forums:
http://www.siilihai.com/

I haven't tried it yet and tapatalk is still annoying but at least with that it's offensive.

I'd like to note that if autotravel cannot be interrupted, it does not make any sense - just instantly teleport the character from Lair:6 to entrance to Orc:1 or that shop on D:3 I'm confused as to what you're getting at here. Yes, this is what autotravel does currently if there are no interruption...

There is maintained ui code that only functions in one of the three uis already. I think having the options editor in webtiles is probably good enough. I play console exclusively but I still go on webtiles when I want to edit my rcfile, that's really not bad. Maybe a validator for the existing one w...

Bring back the ood timer and monsters, with two differences. 1. They can't traverse stairs 2. They spawn with and pick up no items 3. They can't be killed. I think this would require them to not surround the player which is weird but yeah. Durable summons that you get no XP for would work as well I ...

You could also make her spawn a random number of times instead of a fixed 3.

I always kinda wished she got stronger each time she spawned instead of weaker though I guess that's not how felids work.

Doesn't playing to win compromise novelty in almost every sense, not just god choice? If you're using optimal tactics, if you want to play to win you have to just keep using them. You're generally punished for novel branch order, tactics, skilling, etc. I think god selection is one of the cases wher...

Replace all the orcs in orc with orc warriors.

If penance weren't meant to ever be triggered by choice, why would it even be in the game outside of switching gods?

I don't see how removing food/hunger could be a net win for the game. At that point the only thing pushing the player forward would be the OOD timer. http://crawl.chaosforge.org/Scumming Why not just nerf scumming tactics instead? Food's entirely ineffective as a clock for any competent player who ...

Let gargoyles worship Yred.

That's a pretty good counterexample. I guess just letting jellies eat even things that are not displayed to you would address it though - you still don't have to be able to see the items or pick them up. I don't think not being able to place junk for intentional jiyva healing would be a bad change -...

What it comes down to for me is, with the current state of Crawl, I don't want the game deciding what's completely useless for my character. The underlying problems (the ID and curse minigames) require more drastic steps than this band-aid to alter. The game has already decided some things are comp...

I would go further and not even spawn things are are identifiably useless as you go through the dungeon. Why should a felid have to ever read lines of text like "you see a broad axe here"? Don't display or allow the player to interact with stuff their character can never use. I realize thi...

iirc X > lets you cycle through portals that you can enter, and skips shops. doesn't help much on levels with other portals, but otherwise it's convenient. i would prefer a better long term fix but it's something in the meantime. Yeah this should be fixed IMO. Either give shops their own, distinct ...

It'd be good if tapatalk support would be removed from the forums so that 1. I don't have to see annoying popup advertisements for tapatalk, and 2. No one else is conned into giving them money. They should be paying the forums staff for the free advertising, if they aren't, cut them loose.

Did you add "armor"? End of an era...

This introduces tedious behavior in that I have to toggle flying on and off based on whether the level has water/lava or not. Obviously leaving flying on and never getting shafted isn't an option since it'd eliminate some of the most tense, fun moments the game has to offer.

This has been discussed before, and it turned out that it's pretty hard to find a better targeting system for Conjure Flame. While you are correct that Conjure Flame targets are empty squares, the current behaviour has one, huge advantage: it is predictable. If you can come up with a system/procedu...

Tetris rules:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_b6H8dHHm0

Am I the only one who kinda likes getting high priests/sorcerers? Maybe another tier of those is justified but they summon demons and smite and stuff, I like them.

This fork rules, thank you for doing all the things I want crawl to do.

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