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Potential counsellors would have to submit Morgue files for a specific number of wins - or at least have that many in the saved Morgue files for a Webserver. don't forget a cover letter and at least two letters of recommendation. if you're going to follow pubby's suggestion, how about instead of ar...

i'm pretty sure you have more important things to train, and you have THREE decent bucklers (you should be using the one with protection, rpois doesn't stack with the ring). anyway: http://crawl.develz.org/info/index.php?q=shield 2. You need 5/15/25 skill to eliminate evasion, melee speed, and casti...

"And by good Traps, i mean paranoia-good Traps, more than 10, probably even 15." don't do this, that's awful advice. 5 is what most people do and you can train some more for zot. 15 traps on a troll is simply absurd. also shields on a troll that's not using tm is fine, specially if your de...

fully hiding it? does that work
i was under the impression that it was broken for summons, for instance

the message spam with the aura on is so annoying i don't think i'm playing another one of these

Code:: R - 2 potions of resistance

http://crawl.develz.org/info/index.php? ... resistance

you may be glad to know that your ghost suicided by self-firestorm. a fitting end.

"d:3"? are you parodying yourself? ezmonkey: with cross-training you effectively have a +6 apt until skill 16 so you can switch if you really want to, but it's hardly necessary if you'd rather play a maces+shields character. trog may not gift a really good one-handed mace for a while thoug...

the skill boosts fluctuate depending on cursed slots and also piety, which you lose/spend, so i don't see how you can do this elegantly.

with oka it's even easier, since you want a whole number (22). you can even set up a --more-- for that if you want. (you can also just pay attention.)

easy_open = false

(j/k)

jiyva increases your chance of winning though.

are you running this through fsim? i'm bad at this but i'm pretty sure a +5 demon whip or morningstar should be better than a +10 hammer.
also yeah who cares about the undead, you can slimify the bad ones.

i don't know how recent that build is, but you can probably just pick up a morningstar.
have fun finding a good brand though.

edit: oh, you already have a demon whip...

boris, flood, all day, every day.

also it doesn't fuck with your ability to move around (no water, no spiderwebs).

what was the "predecessor to this board"?

oh, that was in reference to the quote directly above my post. i find strings of internet memes very tiresome, but maybe i'm just too old.

is that boisterous and humorous

someone who relies on blink probably shouldn't be writing guides.

For once, I don't think I made any tactical errors that led to this death.

well, doing newnewvaults with 0 traps would be strategical rather than tactical, but it's still pretty much on you i guess?

i don't really have numbers, but 26 polearms at a -1 apt doesn't seem much cheaper than 20/26 axes at +1, and they cross-train.
those two weapons which you already have (at xl13!) are very good and i would probably use them (you want clarity for trog's wrath though).

died a painful death in 0.11. made us all very happy. Items: Ammo enchantment has been removed, which greatly simplifies inventory management for those who use ranged weaponry. Weapon skill now fills the role of ammo enchantment, instead. You can now abort changing your armour instead of slowly gett...

-DeMo of Mak. Besides the name just being silly (Demo...heh. i'm a sucker for Species/Background combinations that make words), This build seems really fun if i can survive to the lair (though i've only made it that far once). Mutations feel really cool; Mak gives ranged attacks (which means option...

That's without mentioning that late D gives you a portable stash (Vestibule) anyway so this scenario can be side-stepped.

i give up.

to anyone that isn't bothered by item destruction i say: take a heavy-armour, low-ev "melee" character through late D without conservation. it's simply insufferable, an exercise in frustration. you make more decisions related to item destruction than to actual survival (or you just don't c...

that's about what you get with maxed out armour skill, the scales ac, +14 CPA, a +4 barding and normal +2 gear for the other slots (it's 72 iirc but i'm quoting from memory). add a protection brand and rings or randarts and you can go over 80. basically you just need to chance into the armour and th...

hi blade

i started to write about all that stuff but i thought it diluted the message so i removed it :$ i also like how tough vaults-y monsters (titans, multiple shadow dragons, giant "packs") are more common now, it's much more coherent. significant changes to the monster set could mean changing ...

i honestly think V is mostly fine now.

please focus on the rest of the sentence. and tell me it's not bad design.

it doesn't have to be a mummy, you know. both ghouls and vampires can drink potions. you could even call it a "lich" (mummies are mummies and necromutation is commonly known as "lich form" but that's not its actual name). anyway yred's problems are: 1) permanent allies are an abo...

play a mick or a hock, ignore all the messages.

edit: well yeah what crate said i guess, i don't bother with that. trck is a bit of an acquired taste though. anything that can wear plate easily works semi-reliably.

if that thread doesn't work for you you can also just try iterm 2.
i use iterm, but i think you shouldn't have problems with modern built-in terminals. i think it's pre-snow leopard that their implementation was pretty messed up though, so your os version may be a factor too.

you can also not do snake:5 at xl20.

I ended up sacrificing both armor and EV to use my subpar storm dragon armor randart. Overall the branch seemed pretty trivial to me and I didn't have any trouble clearing it on my first try, but this is probably due to me putting off the branch for as long as possible, and being level 20 with 80% ...

i don't think your skill level factors much in what order you tackle branches. if you've built your character poorly you'll suffer anywhere. <Wenzell> elliptic[1/4]: Lair -> Orc -> D:19 -> Crypt -> V:7 -> D:27 -> get three runes -> Zot that's good advice and i've settled into pretty much that routin...

if you still have the backed up save, can you turn on wizard mode and magic-map the level?
if you can't do it (i don't know what version you're using) upload it to the bug tracker and someone else will.

Ninjorp wrote:http://www.blackmesasource.com/soundtrack.html

i had no idea this (the game) was out :o
goodbye crawl

on topic: just get burial's kindred (it's like 2 or 3 bucks on bleep.com) and loop it, it doesn't get any better than that.

you could also use iterm2 instead.

I had no good way to handle orbs of fire you had tornado! I didn't know what to do other than try to random teleport out and heal, that's a panic move, but I don't see how I could have cleared that room from the middle, it was just too many things coming at me from all sides at once. If there's any...

i somehow read that as zot:5 having hell-like portals back to D. if we're still talking about locking the player in zot, well, what dpeg said.
and anyway the idea was to make 1:4 more interesting. i think that's easier with more open layouts or vaults.

nobody stairdances zot, unless you find one of those insane welcoming party vaults. this is not an issue.

a single layout could be alright (maybe even preferable) if the layout was different than normal ones. wider corridors have been suggested a few times and might just work. it'd affect balance a bit though.

http://crawl.akrasiac.org/scoring/players/farkougg.html
click on the score for the files.
nice cpa.

sgrunt wrote:The big addition here is constant regeneration of the level outside the player's line of sight (this borrows heavily from the Abyss code) (...)

you mean this is scummable? do items and monsters keep generating?

manual selection by class (uniques handled separately) would be best, yes. you're keeping track of all the converted dudes anyway.

i'm generally gameplay over flavour, but disabling conversions this way seems just awful flavour-wise. dpeg wanted to restrict your allies to a fixed number ("the apostles") and let the rest of your followers prance around happily, which should be enough. there are other ideas in the dev w...

herbivore basically means that you need to eat more chunks for the same amount of nutrition, so you'll probably get nausea more often because you end up eating more brown chunks, and it's annoying coupled with fast metabolism. i don't think removing that particular mutation would matter much, becaus...

What is the key to being up the message history during the game? ctrl+p it *is* in the help menu, to the bottom: "Ctrl-P : show Previous messages" Also, when spectating someone playing online, is it possible to view their inventory and skill list while they are playing? i don't think so, ...

i also like yred's permanent allies, but unlike some of you i do find them a pain to manage (which doesn't stop me playing yred games every so often). but i agree that he currently plays very differently than the gods that give you summoning invocations, in that you have to care at least a bit for t...

you can get donald too, now! (if it hasn't changed again already.)

i haven't checked that spot in a couple versions. there's been so much talk about removing it i figured someone would've done it already. (you'd probably want to remove the trees while you're at it, though, yeah.)

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