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Saturday, 20th May 2017, 16:51

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Does contamination do anything?

Replies: 11

Views: 4366

Re: Does contamination do anything?

Unless I'm mistaken, cblink also causes contamination, so you can't just keep bopping all over the place until your MP runs out. But yeah, contamination is a system you don't interact with much; it's more of a regulator to keep you from overusing some strong effects or casting spells with high fail ...

Friday, 19th May 2017, 18:19

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Neutral monster AI

Replies: 6

Views: 2254

Re: Neutral monster AI

Yeah -- I noticed them paralyzing an OOF; alas, there were so many abyss mobs that I couldn't actually get to it to bludgeon it.

Thursday, 18th May 2017, 20:26

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Neutral monster AI

Replies: 6

Views: 2254

Re: Neutral monster AI

Interestingly, they also seem to aggressively attack player-allied summons.

Corruption is god-damned fantastic, by the way. OOFs and aliches kind of overpowered it on Zot:5, but even in Vaults:5 it took care of really a massive number of the monsters.

Thursday, 18th May 2017, 20:10

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: The most shops ever

Replies: 4

Views: 2300

Re: The most shops ever

Won!

38 regular shops and three bazaars for, I believe, a total 50 shops. My vault-reading skills are not super great, so I could be wrong there.

Wednesday, 17th May 2017, 21:24

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Neutral monster AI

Replies: 6

Views: 2254

Neutral monster AI

So, I use Lugonu's corruption on a level. The monsters are neutral. They mostly (but not completely) ignore me, but seem to wreck all the hostile monsters they can see. They seem to do some really non-neutral things (eg, starcursed masses scream at things, worldbinders summon stuff). How do neutral ...

Wednesday, 17th May 2017, 14:21

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Not gozag

Replies: 6

Views: 2160

Re: Not gozag

Vaults don't show in the dump until the game is over, right?

Wednesday, 17th May 2017, 04:22

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Using stairs should use just 1 key

Replies: 8

Views: 3485

Re: Using stairs should use just 1 key

No! I really like needing to say explicitly "I want to go down to Vaults:5" or whatever. My brain farts sometimes and I'll stand on a downstair and press "<" and Crawl will be all "no you can't do that" and I say "whew I didn't want to go down anyhow."

Wednesday, 17th May 2017, 04:12

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Not gozag

Replies: 6

Views: 2160

Re: Not gozag

Holy crap. V:5 delivers: Shops: D:6 }??* D:7 =[*(} D:11 = Orc:2 !*:} Elf:2 :?[%% Elf:3 } Snake:1 ! Vaults:1 ? Vaults:2 ( Vaults:4 } Vaults:5 =[:=?%?!%?!?! Depths:4 * 38 shops. And now I have enough !curing to hit up that trove without thinking twice. Because I totally need whatever's in that trove. ...

Tuesday, 16th May 2017, 15:22

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Not gozag

Replies: 6

Views: 2160

Re: Not gozag

Kinda? But it's not like I really need much of what's in the shops. I have all the consumables I need, and it's not like three more lightning rods or two more lamps of fire are gonna do me any good.

Tuesday, 16th May 2017, 13:49

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: Another "Which Armour" thread

Replies: 7

Views: 2624

Re: Another "Which Armour" thread

Yeah, and really I don't just care about damage, I also care about blink, tele, and banishment and fsim doesn't sim those. I suspect that a disto spear is a fine endgame weapon, to be honest.

Tuesday, 16th May 2017, 03:31

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: Another "Which Armour" thread

Replies: 7

Views: 2624

Re: Another "Which Armour" thread

Thought this was fitting

  Code:
 The mace of distortion is devoured by a tear in reality.
_Lugonu claims a new guest.

Tuesday, 16th May 2017, 02:43

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Not gozag

Replies: 6

Views: 2160

Not gozag

D:6 }??* D:7 =[*(} D:11 = Orc:2 !*:} Elf:2 :?[%% Elf:3 } Snake:1 ! Vaults:1 ? Vaults:2 ( Vaults:4 } Depths:4 * Yep, I'm not done looking around Elf:3 and that's 25 shops. There are six sacks of spiders sitting in gadget shops. Also: You have visited 3 bazaars.

Tuesday, 16th May 2017, 02:03

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Can Ranged Weapons be Your Only Killdudes?

Replies: 13

Views: 4516

Re: Can Ranged Weapons be Your Only Killdudes?

Huh, thanks. I remember javelins being super strong, guess not quite so much now.

Tuesday, 16th May 2017, 02:00

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: wow that abyssal rune

Replies: 13

Views: 5549

Re: wow that abyssal rune

The more I think about it, the more I realize I should not have tried to mess with that vault, and just kept running away until I either found an easier situation or just found the rune laying around.

Tuesday, 16th May 2017, 01:56

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: Another "Which Armour" thread

Replies: 7

Views: 2624

Re: Another "Which Armour" thread

Enchantress had a buckler of protection she was kind enough to donate to my cause, so I'm wearing that now and can apport and shroud and butterfly and soon will be raising some zombies. Dunno why I forgot shields had such a big effect on spell success; I just kept thinking "I don't remember cas...

Sunday, 14th May 2017, 20:57

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: Another "Which Armour" thread

Replies: 7

Views: 2624

Another "Which Armour" thread

Here's me: Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.20-a0-1122-gb7cbeb9 (console) character file. njvack the Slayer (Demonspawn Abyssal Knight) Turns: 72958, Time: 10:26:38 HP: 200/200 (201) AC: 31 Str: 23 XL: 23 Next: 92% MP: 36/36 EV: 10 Int: 13 God: Lugonu [****..] Gold: 1903 SH: 17 Dex: 15 (16) Spells...

Sunday, 14th May 2017, 20:43

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: wow that abyssal rune

Replies: 13

Views: 5549

Re: wow that abyssal rune

If you're with lucy you can also go to abyss if you're gonna die in V:5, plus you can gate in a ton of abyss beasts to wreck everything else on the level. I imagine "hatch in, if you're in a bad area, read ?noise, corrupt, and tele out once things get scary" is not a terrible plan actually...

Sunday, 14th May 2017, 03:12

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: wow that abyssal rune

Replies: 13

Views: 5549

Re: wow that abyssal rune

Thanks, I did manage to gank the rune. Corruption in slime does sound easier.

Sunday, 14th May 2017, 02:57

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: wow that abyssal rune

Replies: 13

Views: 5549

wow that abyssal rune

Playing DsAK, I figure "Abyss has to be easier than Vaults:5, I have Lucy" Good GOD DAMN trying to get the rune out of vaults there though, there's just an endless stream of so many regular ol' Abyss monsters that fighting my way in was terrible. And yeah I can bail but to try again hahaha...

Sunday, 14th May 2017, 02:09

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Can Ranged Weapons be Your Only Killdudes?

Replies: 13

Views: 4516

Re: Can Ranged Weapons be Your Only Killdudes?

If you really want to stick to a ranged only conduct, do two kinds of launchers with one of them slings. You'll have no problems. You'd probably need to start slings and startscum the early game to make sure you had enough rocks and an early altar. I think it would be a very tedious game :/ wait ho...

Saturday, 13th May 2017, 19:05

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Remove Animate Skeleton, change Animate Dead

Replies: 11

Views: 3809

Re: Remove Animate Skeleton, change Animate Dead

It's a spell I always use; I should really just macro 'c' to cast it

Friday, 12th May 2017, 18:04

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Background attributes

Replies: 58

Views: 21067

Re: Background attributes

One other thought: what if, every two levels starting at level 3, you got the ability to move a stat point from one category to another. So, over the course of your game (assuming you make it to XL27), you would eventually get chances to re-allocate all background's stat points. This way, background...

Friday, 12th May 2017, 16:32

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Background attributes

Replies: 58

Views: 21067

Re: Background attributes

zackoid wrote:MORE IMPORTANTLY it would ruin one-and-winning, which is the only fix for those of us in checklisting withdrawal after finishing the greatlists.

...

I feel really dumb but I have no idea what this means

Friday, 12th May 2017, 01:47

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Lower LCS to level 7

Replies: 7

Views: 2801

Re: Lower LCS to level 7

tabstorm wrote:How about making LCS have bolt targetting/penetration instead, to differentiate from iron shot? In practice it just gets used as a coverage spell, where it competes with iron shot and OOD.

It's a crystal spear, it should at least have reaching

Thursday, 11th May 2017, 15:02

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Best/Worst Artifacts

Replies: 2878

Views: 3405082

Re: Best/Worst Artifacts

I dunno, it has Stlth-

Thursday, 11th May 2017, 15:02

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: CIP DrMo^Ru

Replies: 6

Views: 2277

Re: CIP DrMo^Ru

also a draconian wielding wyrmbane is pretty great

Thursday, 11th May 2017, 14:00

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Background attributes

Replies: 58

Views: 21067

Re: Background attributes

The odd of Fi finding Minor Magic (or any starting-level book, really) before lair are pretty damn slim. And then you get to decide if you want to get those spells castable (maybe ditching your armour and shield?) rather than getting better at using the gear you started with. I guess it seems like g...

Thursday, 11th May 2017, 02:49

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Chei, Bend Time

Replies: 4

Views: 1802

Re: Chei, Bend Time

The change in move speed is not particularly relevant, either. You want to slow monsters' actions, because movement is the only thing that's slowed for you.

Wednesday, 10th May 2017, 14:34

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Dith shadow mimic

Replies: 16

Views: 4513

Re: Dith shadow mimic

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaugh

Wednesday, 10th May 2017, 02:22

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Let spells use the ranged weapon/quiver interface

Replies: 16

Views: 6136

Re: Let spells use the ranged weapon/quiver interface

I think option 1 of the OP's suggestion might work, actually. There might be some way to select some conjurations to be your "quiver list" (a screen like the autopickup screen) and then, with autofight_throw and autofight_throw_nomove, you could spam your "quivered" spell with ta...

Friday, 5th May 2017, 20:59

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Remove item identification

Replies: 31

Views: 20556

Re: Remove item identification

4. Spoilery: no. What you mention is a level of knowledge that's easily gained by just playing the game and being slightly observant. It's similar to saying "spoiler fact: ogres with weapons are very dangerous". You'll figure it out. Well, it's a *little* spoilery, unless I'm mistaken. I ...

Friday, 5th May 2017, 16:08

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Mara and not getting killed by him-PLZ ADVISE

Replies: 8

Views: 2843

Re: Mara and not getting killed by him-PLZ ADVISE

Mod note: added code tags

Thursday, 4th May 2017, 21:03

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: FR: Can distortion not blink monsters under Lugonu?

Replies: 16

Views: 5038

Re: FR: Can distortion not blink monsters under Lugonu?

You're missing that monsters in transit are not actually guaranteed to appear in Abyss. Unless the monster is a unique, it and its inventory are probably going to be destroyed. Well, that's silly. Both of those things sounds like bugs to me. Of course, monsters could drop their inventory on banishm...

Thursday, 4th May 2017, 18:39

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: FR: Can distortion not blink monsters under Lugonu?

Replies: 16

Views: 5038

Re: FR: Can distortion not blink monsters under Lugonu?

It looks to me as though yes, all banished monsters go to the abyss unless they were pacified, in which case they drop their gear and are just gone.

oh wow oh wow oh wow monster_die() is something else

So technically banishment is not item destruction.

Thursday, 4th May 2017, 15:19

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Are hot dogs sandwiches?

Replies: 108

Views: 43799

Re: Are hot dogs sandwiches?

VeryAngryFelid wrote:I was surprised when I saw "grinder" in a menu for the first time since I knew the word from crawl only.

A little known fact about Crawl's Grinder is that he is a sandwich. That's why he casts paralyze.

all imps are actually somewhere on the sandwich alignment chart

Thursday, 4th May 2017, 13:53

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: FR: Can distortion not blink monsters under Lugonu?

Replies: 16

Views: 5038

Re: FR: Can distortion not blink monsters under Lugonu?

It's a lot less annoying (and stronger per AUT) with a polearm.

Wednesday, 3rd May 2017, 15:21

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: FR: Can distortion not blink monsters under Lugonu?

Replies: 16

Views: 5038

FR: Can distortion not blink monsters under Lugonu?

OK. I know distortion is supposed to be a powerful brand with some powerful downsides. I mean, on 1/20 of hits it basically instakills monsters. So it's pretty good. But when using it in melee (I just rolled up my first AK... maybe ever?)... it blinks monsters. All. The. Time. Very occasionally, thi...

Monday, 1st May 2017, 19:32

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Troll Transmuter

Replies: 33

Views: 16357

Re: Troll Transmuter

i just like typing

Monday, 1st May 2017, 19:31

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Apportation

Replies: 20

Views: 6614

Re: Apportation

If your strategy is "kill all the dudes" then apportation will not be very useful to you. There aren't many cases where there's an item you see that will help you in your current fight, but you can't get to it because dudes. But! If you plan on leaving dudes alive (hint: this is often bett...

Monday, 1st May 2017, 19:10

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: The definitive flying/drowning/terrain reform thread

Replies: 22

Views: 8675

Re: The definitive flying/drowning/terrain reform thread

I'm assuming monster behavior with respect to water would be unchanged?

Monday, 1st May 2017, 19:07

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Riposte: the post

Replies: 56

Views: 30422

Re: Riposte: the post

The amount of game where you haven't found a relevant enhancer or stat stick is not exactly small. It also coincides nicely with the part of the game where any additional damage is useful...

Monday, 1st May 2017, 16:06

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Stabber of Kiku Pain Branding

Replies: 8

Views: 2874

Re: Stabber of Kiku Pain Branding

The other nice thing about branding a demon blade is you don't need to switch weapons before beating on a lich. (Well, okay, you probably have dispel undead but still.) I'm real bad at remembering to switch weapons, so 'tab will ultimately kill pretty much anything' is a good place for me to be in.

Friday, 28th April 2017, 14:24

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Troll Transmuter

Replies: 33

Views: 16357

Re: Troll Transmuter

If you want a statue troll, I'd roll EE instead of Tm, it's not like Changes is super useful to Trolls outside of Ice Form. Having a reliable ranged attack helps with Chei's downsides, if you want to go the "take it easy" route.

Friday, 28th April 2017, 01:40

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Shouldn't rpois prevent hornet paralysis? Thx.

Replies: 9

Views: 2971

Re: Shouldn't rpois prevent hornet paralysis? Thx.

yesno wrote:wowzers

wzrs

Wednesday, 26th April 2017, 01:24

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Killing stuff

Replies: 8

Views: 2976

Re: Killing stuff

Mod note: switched spoiler tags to code tags. First: you have two runes with an XL20 drac, you're basically doing okay. But! You have enough (way more than enough, actually) M&F skill. Generally, you don't need to train a weapon past what's known as "minimum delay" — the fastest you ca...

Tuesday, 25th April 2017, 23:22

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Killing stuff

Replies: 8

Views: 2976

Re: Killing stuff

The .cs file isn't really what you want; it's best to post a character dump (press "#" in-game) and put it in [code] tags. Where are you generally running into trouble? It's hard to tell you if you should be training conjurations (in general, not unless you started with conjurations); bows...

Tuesday, 25th April 2017, 15:19

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: oka's heroism should ignore the SL 27 cap

Replies: 9

Views: 3508

Re: oka's heroism should ignore the SL 27 cap

My main reason for agreeing with the OP: it makes the mechanic clearer. Heroism adds 5 to the relevant skills. End of story. I'd also argue that you should see the HP boost from Fighting as well.

It's also kind of cool to have a way to have your skills go past 27, if only temporarily.

Saturday, 22nd April 2017, 04:16

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: How bad is inaccuracy?

Replies: 14

Views: 5086

Re: How bad is inaccuracy?

FWIW I remember that after saccing an eye with Ru, melee still killed dudes pretty okay

of course I also had Ru so there's that

Friday, 21st April 2017, 15:34

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: how do i pray on mac?

Replies: 11

Views: 4672

Re: how do i pray on mac?

This is weird, you can't pray at altars at all? It sounds like your key bindings got messed up somehow, maybe 'p' is macroed to something?

Friday, 21st April 2017, 14:50

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Unify commands for picking up items

Replies: 15

Views: 4623

Re: Unify commands for picking up items

Personally, i mostly chop up corpses, eat chunks from the floor, and leave the rest there. Huh. I never thought of doing that. That's a good idea. What if 'c' weren't a thing at all? What if you 'e' standing over a corpse, and you get some nutrition and turn the corpse into a skeleton? It's not lik...
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