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This is a giant misunderstanding.

Short version Trying to diversify the game's source material is good but if you treat some sources as conspicuously exotic, you're making the game more Eurocentric, not less. I agree with this conclusion but not with all of your examples. Re: the monster names, I think it's fair game to lift names ...

Okay, I agree "Bultungin" was overambitious and not a successful name. They're going to be renamed to Gnolls; just need to figure out a couple complications first.

Names are always weird until you get accustomed to them, and Crawl has intentionally been trying to draw from non-Western sources in recent years. I don't really have a problem with them being named Gnolls, but I think here is an opportunity to draw from a fresh source that hasn't been endlessly ite...

Cyno, now Bultungin, have been merged.

I think this is a much better approach than the original background angle.

Oops, that was an oversight. Thanks for noticing! I've replaced them with potions of cancellation.

I agree. It's fixed, now.

Adjust Conjurer and Air Elementalist spellbooks

Thanks MPA.

I pushed a branch with these changes, as they were trivial to implement. If a few other devs think this is a good idea then it'll go into trunk. fwiw when we were discussing whether to lift Lightning Spire or Airstrike from Book of the Sky to fill the RMsl hole, I decided to go with Lightning Spire ...

I like the idea of giving backgrounds 1x or 2x of various consumables, so I would support this even if Tm was strong. Making the early game easier would reduce the randomness of the game, which I don't think is wanted. Randomness can be overcome by intelligent decisions and anticipation. Is it pref...

Outer space.

TonberryJam wrote:What I'd like to avoid seeing is crawl being like making a munchin character from Ad&d. It's more fun when death lurks around every corner.

Which changes do you think have been made that decrease the likelihood of death being around every corner?

Merry Christmas, by the way

That altar isn't used for anything in the game. The current ecumenical altar tile is intended to be used for magic mapping, for when you found an unknown altar via mapping. So I'm gonna go ahead and implement. Thanks for the catch!

happycrawling wrote:Thanks...but could you explain me? example) how can silenced mage run away from mennas? Just I'm curious.

Try a Fan of Gales to shove Mennas away from you. Other evocables also help for creating water/webs/allies to interfere with him chasing you. Also use !Haste (if you're not a Mummy, anyway).

Fixed, thank you for finding this.

Dowan and Duvessa are canonically deep elves, now.

It's probably a good idea to take a look at Duvessa's berserking being one-time-only.

I agree that the twins are spoilery (and this could be improved) but I'm not in favor of removing them.

This is a good idea!

I prefer D the most.

And now something about popularity of Xom and Zin... Number of games with Xom, sorted by species: !lg * god=Xom s=species 160655 games for * (god=Xom): 43352x Demonspawn, 20525x Troll, 14755x Mummy, 7665x Minotaur, 6331x Octopode, 6225x Felid, 4932x Ogre, 4908x Draconian, 4689x Human, 4152x High El...

papilio wrote:Also, this banner seems to have a BUG again - PurpleRed should got this (He reached Geh:7 at 26k turn), but it didn't count.

This is being fixed - thank you for the heads up!

Shtopit wrote:I don't think it's worth go looking for historic names, they would just make the meaning opaque and defy the purpose of a name change. Also, cognitive load.

Is it cognitive load to have a "boggart" instead of a "monster replicator"?

Rast wrote:Yes, let's give all three shield types obscure names so that nobody except a military historian will know which is which without checking the stats ingame.

Erudition is a good quality to instill.

After some more digging, I find that there are fourteen kills for Depths greater mummies. Most of them are attributable to ragdoll_tomb_raider and lemuel_MiniTomb. Possibly worth taking a look at, but at a glance the danger level doesn't seem disproportionate from other Depths vaults.

Unless I've overlooked something, this vault has a total of one recorded kill online: <+Brannock> !lg * map=minmay_guarded_unrand_sceptre_of_torment <Sequell> 1. rosier the Phalangite (L25 MfSk of Okawaru), slain by an emperor scorpion (summoned by a greater mummy) on Depths:3 (minmay_gu...

The problem here is riposte is "better damage than other weapons but no gimmick" in disguise. So maces and long blades still don't have real differentiation. Better damage against enemies that physically attack you in adjacency when you have moderate-to-high EV, yes, but against every oth...

Rast wrote:Korean NSFW is disappointing.

You haven't dug deeply enough

Please just split CYC into a "General Crawl Discussion" forum and a "Jokes" forum. That's the biggest thing, I think... merging CYC and DCA into a general discussion forum, moving the "advice" part of DCA into CIP, and having an actual, legitimate jokes forum that'd st...

njvack wrote:Pretty much I lost all tavern mod energy :/

What's involved in the cleanup? Just moving threads and creating/renaming subforums, or is there more complicated stuff that needs to be done? I'm willing to do the reorganization myself, it shouldn't take too long.

HardboiledGargoyle was asking an actual question and maybe instead of being a rude, condescending dick and telling him to "shut up" you could have just answered him Brent Ross put an enormous amount of effort into his rewrite; insulting his ability as a developer, especially after it'd be...

scorpionwarrior wrote:Keep in mind that it took more than SIX YEARS of Stone Soup to get rid of the victory dancing bullshit

This is a volunteer project. Patches are always welcome, especially when they work properly and have the intended effect and no ripple effects.

It used to be much worse. A couple years ago I had a thread discussing the bot announcements. The announcements were pared down dramatically, to about half of what they were before and the channel became much more conductive to discussion/advice. Since then, however, the playerbase has grown by a si...

goodcoolguy wrote:Wow, someone got the botnet going on this one.

What does this mean?

duvessa wrote:Unfortunately, riposte does nothing to differentiate the two weapon types.

Not all combat situations are strictly 1v1, as I hope levels like Vaults:5 and Depths demonstrate.

Make Hell/Pandemonium more like the Lair branches: for each branch of Hell you get either the Hell branch (like always) or Pandemonium branch (with floors randomly generated every time you enter them, like ADOM's Infinite Dungeon). Remove 3 runes (2 exclusive ones and the pandemonium rune). Why wou...

The frustration factor of losing a character that you've invested hours in is exponentially higher than the frustration factor of losing an early character. I believe it should not be considered valid argument. Do you want to see "Let me win, I have been playing this character for 3 hours alre...

How do you feel about the fact that the strongest threats players experience are all early game? Good, bad, neutral? Unless Crawl is shortened I don't think this problem is avoidable, nor is it a good idea to avoid this problem. The average three-rune victory takes several hours. The frustration fa...

Malevolent wrote:... for just another optional timed portal with more loot and no other impact on the game.

XP, items, a risk of death. In what other ways do you think it could impact the game?

lethediver wrote:Keep watching until they auto-explore auto-fight themselves to death and suddenly your own playstyle looks a lot better.

Try this:
autofight_stop = 65

FR: In the list of wins, indicate which wins were streaked. So if win #37, 38, and 39 were all streaked, somehow bracket them together or separate it slightly from the other entries on the list.

Another thing that could be done: Highest score/fastest/shortest/best streak broken down by each version of Crawl. Currently the high scores for each category are universal and forever, which make competition increasingly stagnant over time. Imagine a scenario where, for example, 0.20 of Crawl imple...

1. CAO and Sequell. Personally I don't like that so much stuff is buried in IRC with Sequell. I'm comfortable using it but I know many people aren't, and even more people than that don't even know that the option exists. The ingame scoreboard is a joke. 2. Essentially every time I'm playing, and occ...

As of 2439ae934 temporary mutations now have a 50% chance of doing nothing to undead.

I don't have an opinion on whether all gods should be guaranteed in any given game, but I think it'd be a mistake to remove the Temple itself. It's an important and exciting progression marker, especially for newer players. "Can consistently reach the Temple" is a good halfway point betwee...

Some "conventional Crawl wisdom" have a tendency to be outdated, or excessively angled towards new players who should be playing Mi/Gr Fi/Be and nothing else if they want the slightest hope of winning. I frequently use broad axes on my winners (and in fact my last 3 winners all used broad ...

Wands are great, and they're awesome. Real problem is - lack of weapon skill in the beggining, slow exp gain apt's for Ds and complete randomness on what you get in the first floors. - Hey, I wanna use long swords in this run! - me. - Nope, not gonna happen (deletes all long blades from the D for u...

goodcoolguy wrote:Another good thing would be making really loud spells not really loud.

Why?

Did this proposal for change get forgotten? I think a Tavern cleanup would do wonders for the health of the forum.

The idea is to use your stuff to prevent any chance of your ever getting into a bad situation, not to save your ass from a bad situation. Ounce of prevention, pound of cure, etc etc. Of course there will be some games where you just get overwhelmed with pickups and fill up your inventory anyway.

If my inventory is hitting max slots then that tells me one of two things: I'm either carrying stuff I don't actually need, or I'm not using my tools and consumables enough and making the game unnecessarily riskier. The arbitrary number of slots does not quite make sense to me. I suppose there shoul...

ion_frigate wrote:Fast movement is incredibly powerful on players because it lets them escape danger, and on monsters because it prevents the player from escaping them. Neither is particularly significant to an allied monster that's capable of respawning.

Did people forget Transpose exists or what?

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