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I think learndb and wiki have different target audiences. People who use the learndb are usually familiar with the mechanics of the game and just want a quick reminder of some very particular case. Asking those people to work on including more detailed explanations will yield no result. If you want ...

I guess: Jewelry, potion, scroll

But I only read it on jewelry when it doesn't equip-identify and I never read it to id scrolls.

Sprucery wrote:You could probably spend the turns more wisely doing something else.

Like casting corrupt

Magipi wrote:The challenges and the tournament will only clash is the latter starts within 4 weeks. Is it "pretty clear"? Is it even likely? Is it even possible?

Some dev said yesterday in #crawl that it is planned for 0.14 to branch in the next few days.

Question for WalkerBoh:

It's pretty clear now that CSDC and the 0.14 tournament will clash. How do you intend to deal with this? Pause CSDC and continue after the tournament in 0.15a? Allow games from 0.14 stable?

You think the easiest 15 runer is a GrBE? Would you stick with trog the whole way? Gr because free rElec and rTorment. Also you can wear lighter armor and still easily get 50+ AC. Be Background to mitigate early game RNG variances. After the typical 3 rune game drop Trog for either Makhleb or TSO (...

damiac wrote:So, on the "powergamer" front, if someone had a gun to your head and told you you have to win a 15 runer, what would you go with?

GrBe

But I don't think this is related to the original topic anymore.

Already exists. automagic_enable = false If true, the autofight function will resort to casting an assigned spell at a target. Initial spell slot is a. automagic_slot = a Setting this changes the initial spell slot for automagic. Can be changed for games in progress in-game by setting a macro to cal...

Magipi wrote:But departing the Abyss only comes at * of piety, no? So you still have to search an exit even if you convert.

You get enough piety to depart the abyss upon conversion.

but why would you subject console players to that. I don't want to force anything on anyone. I just stated how it should be in my opinion. My interpretation of this sub-forum is that new / different design concepts are discussed here to give an indication to the developers whether an idea is worth ...

Unfortunately the nature of console doesn't allow secondary windows. A 'console' is by it's very nature confined within the display of the displaying program, and is hence out of DCSS's control. Originally consoles were just that entire terminals where a single text-only display connected you to a ...

TheArcanist wrote:I swear to whatever gods there may be, every goddamn enemy in Pan can cast malmutate.

Better not swear by something important to you. For the most part only cacodemons and neqoxecs mutate you.

I think most people overvalue the importance of rMut...

and into wrote:[...]give porcupines a chance to give you a weaker-than-manticore version of barbs every time they hit you in melee

Don't forget to give Hell Sentinels the uber-version of barbs

(this is not a joke, I support that solution)

As an alternative approach: Would it be possible to combine tiles and console chat? In console you can press "_" to add new chat messages to your message log. This could replaced by a full screen window which mirrors the chat like it is in webtiles. Of course console spectators would need ...

From this thread : (This is probably a side-effect of the server move, along with CDO console still being down, and presumably will be fixed whenever Napkin, who hosts the Tavern and Mantis and the development wiki and Wordpress and all of the trunk builds and probably more stuff that I'm forgetting...

Side note. I am not sure giving extra points for the fastest win in division is a good idea when we don't know in advance which combos will be played next weeks. I mean I tried to speedrun MfFi (some players tried the same with NaEn as far as I know) hoping it will give me 3 points but it could be ...

Lasty wrote:When fighting electric golems and storm dragons, keep in mind that you don't resist electricity and their damage ignores half of AC (IIRC). You should still have little trouble with them, but just don't get too overconfident..

He has rElec.

1. Did you attempt the bonuses? If not, why? For me it is raw calculation for points. I did tier-2 for DrCK because it did not matter too much. You can't reliably plan a game with Xom anyways. On the other hand I did not even plan on trying Zig:20 with MfFi. The risk does not justify the bonus poin...

dpeg wrote:Bart et al: If part of the problem is players waiting out the competitors, what about giving some bonus to early achievers?

It rewards people with the most free time - not skill. I could never get a bonus like that. To finish a game I pretty much have to spread out the play time over the whole week.

Orc should be suuuuper easy with that axe, unless you encounter someone really tough (Saint Roka and a pack of orc high priests). But taking a peek doesn't usually hurt. It hurts the turncount (though orc is usually worth it in speedruns due to the shops). --- Pharaoh: If you want to go for that hi...

On a side note. A few days ago I had a discussion with Bart and Yermak about the scoring system. We kind of agreed that the weekly rankings are skewing the competition a bit. They lead to players waiting other players out to see what score they have to get to be number 1 that week. Also they seem to...

I don't see why you advise keeping Trog for extended. Yes, it is possible to get 15 runes with Trog and it is far from the more difficult combinations for extended. However going with Trog is just inferior to switching to Makhleb. Healing on kills is the best support you can wish for in extended. On...

dpeg wrote:Perhaps the mode should be changed: instead of fixed divisions, a long list of participants, sorted by current score.

I guess the main argument against this solution was that it would be too similar to the actual release tournament and discourage lesser experienced players from participating.

Regarding this discussion from one of the other SDC threads: I agree. The whole thing drives on participation. If people flake out, that takes away half the fun. It'd be really cool if players who lose motivation (or just don't seem to find the time) can pm WalkerBoh about it. And he'd then replace ...

Sandman25 wrote:actually I don't even know how to check player ghosts which seems to be very useful for online play.

Code:: !log PLAYERNAME LOCATION

usually suffices for that.

I think Dex.

tedric wrote:Also, it feels terribly strange that this bone-headed challenge conduct is my second online win.

You have accomplished what even the best players are not able to do! Congratulations!

(Sorry I could not withstand the temptation... Seriously congrats on your second win.)

Damn this was pretty close... <Tedronai> | !hs * mffi <Sequell> | 2884. TedronaiSDC the Conqueror (L27 MfFi of The Shining One), escaped with the Orb and 15 runes on 2014-03-07 21:29:52, with 14513385 points after 109121 turns and 17:05:50. Almost missed the previous highscore of jeanjacques. I gues...

TeshiAlair wrote:Why not just make his last ability an active aura of antimagic?

Trog definitely does not need a buff. He is one of the best balanced gods as of now.

Serious question, when's the deadline for NaEn? Since it started on Friday, then there should be less than 24 hours remaining? I'd like to know the deadline for wrapping up my NaEn game. The deadlines are contained in the scoring sheet. For NaEn it is the 2014-03-07. Since new challenges are releas...

Sprucery wrote:Of course it's easy with all those wands...

Just do 15 rune FeBe in trunk then

Yermak: Nice one, too bad I missed the show...

This is making me very strongly consider switching to last stable release for next season, though we will stick with Trunk for the remainder of this season at least. Most people are playing trunk online. This would require participants of the competition to keep the mechanics of the last stable rel...

I'd go with the bardiche unless you have a really amazing shield sitting around. I would wait until my attack speed is at least 1.0 with the bardiche. Helps me anticipating what enemies will do when I swing the weapon. But I guess this is just a personal preference. My current status: Dungeon Crawl...

You are put under penance. So be prepared for some bros.

As you can see it took 27 turns to kill an orb of fire (with +5, +6 bardiche of antimagic + might + 26 Polearms + 25 Fighting). So I would prefer to see fsim results (both for offense and defense), I suspect a single OoF is expected to win the fight vs +5 spear of freezing despite all those 271 HP....

Well, I cannot run fsim tests now but I suspect it will be extremely hard to kill Orb of Fire, Cursed Skull, Ancient Lich, Bone Dragon etc. even with BiA. Hell Sentinels, Hellions, Fiends and Panlords during orb run will be very fun too. No wands of hasting/HW of course. No need for fsim... This he...

Sandman25 wrote:I am not sure even the best crawl players would be able to win with Trog using 0,+5 spear of freezing.

I contradict. It would be tedious but not actually difficult...

Pity. My game is ending unexpectedly on CLAN. Just crashing. I am not able to open it neither to start a new one. XL 15 approximately. You should report that to mantis with the corresponding crash reports. Looks like these are the ones regarding your recent crashes: http://crawl.lantea.net/crawl/mo...

Hirsch I wrote:but stealth is really useful, anyway, is't it?

This thread was originally about Mi and Gr. Taking this into consideration the answer is: Yes, stealth is useful but in not necessary for a melee oriented Gr/Mi.

I'm still not sure which one of those two is the "stronger" one. Both make the game incredibly easy. With Gr you are a bit fixed on M&F, as a Mi you have good apts for pretty much every weapon class. I agree with investing several points into evocations for "pure melee" chara...

Wahaha wrote:
Robotron wrote:Just wondering if it's possible to encounter Orbs of Fire in Abyss in latest trunk?

No.

It was definitely possible to encounter orbs of fire in some versions of 0.14a. I don't know if the possibility has been removed, though.

Keep moving. Kill easy stuff before it piles up. Escape from scary stuff by blocking LOS or activating teleport. Do that until you find an exit.

Just be aware that mummy floors can appear early. If you want to try diving deeper you should be prepared for the eventual smite/summon/torment fest.

I'm playing catch-up on challenges right now, and some new stuff is in trunk. Is it fair game to learn new spells like "Summon Forest" that weren't available to other players during this challenge? My personal standpoint is that you should feel free to use any advantage you can get. Some ...

You can train long blades without wielding one. It will be enough to have a sword in your inventory for enabling the skill training. Thus you can keep using axes while training long blades.

However I think you should not switch to long blades.

Hirsch I wrote:this would be permanent, and yes, that is the point.

Its only effect is to make the game more annoying, not actually harder for the player. This is why I think it would be a very bad mechanic.

lugonu should corrupt all altars of the god you are following if you leave it at high xl. "Lugonu is filled with jealousy" You'd be stripped of the option of blessing your weapon at the altar of TSO or removing your mutations with Zin, if you are not careful. This only leads to dancing ar...

I really like the Depths. They made the late game interesting again.

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