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So it was a meanie comment. Thanks. It may just have been a comment left in frustration because people were afk too often for his/her liking and so sarcastic comment to remedy said frustration. (My guess.) Also I found people will comment bomb often enough in online play that it isn't worth opening...

duvessa wrote:
Hopeless wrote:Orcs and Ogres like Rotten Chunks.
Not anymore, in 0.15 only ghouls can eat rotten chunks.

Huh that must be a later commit than what I have downloaded. Thanks for the heads up.

I know chunks are probably going to be removed, but I don't find them annoying and genuinely like them in the game, so I'm going to ostrich and pretend I don't know the inevitable, and thus set seeds to derail this thread. Anyway. I don't get the point of rotten chunks. They clog the inventory, and...

There are some sprints made with certain play styles in mind. You won't beat Fedhas without a stealthyman and you won't beat the arena of blood without ripping and cleaving. Out of all sprints these offer the least replayability, sure, although I'd say they're not made with replayability as a goal ...

Part of sprints is that the threat in that door is never going to change. There's always a ring of invisibility in the prior room, and oklobs don't sinv. Can you see the solution to the specific problem? Yes I found it immediately after dying the first time. This does not seem cool to me. Sure, sur...

As you can see in the attachment I opened a door and died. As I understand it, this is converse to the philosophy of the game and also is pretty darned unfair since there was no reasonable way to know what would be there when I opened it. Yeah I've been sprinting a bit lately trying to discover more...

"Fundamental Philtre of Arcane Revocation" My utterly unwieldy yet flavorful attempt. :p

Yo momma is the best part about escaping with the orb...

Hello darkness, my old friend, I've come to talk with you again, Because a vision softly creeping, Left its seeds while I was sleeping, And the vision that was planted in my brain Still remains Within the sound of silence. While I am not a huge Paul Simon fan that is one of my favorites. Good choice.

*Rage can lead to situations (if you aren't intending to be "red faced" occasionally by worshiping Trog already) where you end up helpless to stop it and come out of it before your enemies are dead, slowed and exhausted and possibly starving. I am not saying its the worst property to get ...

+Rage is a very good property early on (even at XL10) - unless you're a Troglodyte. Since XL10 suggests that you haven't even mutilated Lair yet, and lair isn't known for having enemies that Mark you, summon big demons while casting very damaging spells or recall and might other monsters which is j...

Honestly I don't see why you would want an exact number. It isn't hard to estimate. Without adding up the times you can figure an approximate average amount of time on any given game and multiply that by the number of games approximately you have played. Shouldnt take long to do looking at the hall ...

there is a tiny arrow where the avatar's suposed to be, try clicking it. took me days to find that. OK found it and phew. Was going to send out hounds...but why??? does that exist at all? lol. (I know someone wanted to change the real estate of the forums, without changing the layout too dramatical...

It seems that sometime last night the grinch crept in and stole our avatars right off the forums...(Or hid them if you want to be more accurate.)

crate wrote:mantis is for bug reports, not feature requests

Is requesting some logical resolution to this asking for a feature? Or is it a suggestion that there may be a bug in the implementation?

I can't say I understand the question...Though with 2 wins (offline at that) and hundreds of 'not wins' I guess that is besides the point for me.

XuaXua wrote:https://crawl.develz.org/mantis/view.php?id=7355

Wow almost a year old and nothing lol. I guess it was considered to be a non-issue?

I think this thread has gone too far down the tube to return to GDD, but I'll stab at a serious answer: because there's already a mechanism by which staves become more powerful as melee weapons. I certainly think staves could be clearer mechanically (eg, it's not super obvious that they are suppose...

How should I manage my followers ? Here's what I have been thinking to 1) Rush to Mines and gather a lot of followers. Pro : A lot of them early, easy Lair etc Con : They might not get XP fast, "hard" gameplay (where are all my fellows...) 2) Gather a little army (5-6) and make them XP Pr...

pressing 'o' or 'shift arrow' will not move you towards a ballystomcyte because its a monster!!! But you can't target one with a spell (unless you use an extra 5 or so keypresses) because its NOT!!! a monster??? Anyone else find this contradictory and absurd?

2 memorable and avoidable deaths. 1) Being chased by Orb Spiders on N4. Zigged instead of Telezagging. When the area around you is filling up with Orbs of destruction, it is time to vamoose. If you can't direct them into each other. I've done that and escaped being hit but not doing that and not tel...

duvessa wrote:It's a version of the learndb from like a year ago, i.e. horribly outdated. Don't use it. Here's an html version of the learndb that will actually be up to date.

Is there a query form attached to that version? Kind of a pain to try and ctrl-F every thing. Particularly with such a long format.

Yes, it is disappointing. Too little bang for the buck, it's restricted to some races (Humans in Vaults? Yuck.) and it's too random. Also, the allied guys will drain your wallet with continuous requests of money, assuming you are also spending a fair bit for shop request and the odd potion petition...

Klown wrote:If a new tavern member proposed Formicids, it'd be moved to CYC and ridiculed.

And rightly so, Formicids are ridiculous! :p

zrn wrote:imo remove deep elf priests so this won't be a problem.

Imho remove elves so this won't be a problem.

milo wrote:Mkay, whittling it down...

Velocity is a feline nightie. *tick*

Wiz Mode reveals Warp Weapon does not work on ranged weapons. *tick*

So, does anyone know whether velocity (unlike other launcher brands) stacks with ammo brands?

It does.

http://crawl.develz.org/info/index.php?q=velocity

If my math is right, that weapon will never hit mindelay (46 skill needed with a cap at 27...) so it is a really really slow melee attack that may kill or not kill what you swing at. I'd skip it. From what I understand of the game, it is a good idea for casters to have a melee weapon and skill at le...

crate wrote:I'm leaving for Denver today, in about 4 hours. Anyone who watches, enjoy the stream, and thanks for any donations.

GL and HF!

You can do a couple things. 1. Go to Vaults (after you've cleared the rune branches you want.) There are always more Orcs there. Including some high level priests/Warlords/Warlocks. 2. Return to Orc 4. Respawning does happen. 3. Wait for Beogh to gift you with a troop. He does that when you are amid...

Exploration is probably my favorite aspect of DCSS :) I used to play a Mummy and I would have levels fully explored before advancing - all staircases included. It was indeed a very slow, patient, coldly calculating build. Playing a Vampire now the blood-lust keeps me going, metaphorically: I am usu...

Vorpal is nice but it would take an unknown number of scrolls to bring it up to par slaying-wise. The IIs are only guaranteed to give you +0/+4. The III can vary quite a lot. (+2/+1, +1/+2, or +2/+2, I think. The bonus variance could be higher, but its been awhile since I lasted got anything other t...

The dungeon is pretty tame these days. Falling down a level is pretty much meaningless unless you fall down to D3 the instant you get to D2 or something similar. 1) You can and will fall down multiple levels on occasion. This can put you in the middle of a horde of awake slightly OP monsters. That ...

These are currently implemented as 'player ghosts,' although the archer version is currently broken. Each and every last one of them is a jerk. True; ghosts can be similar...in online anyways; in offline, they are so rare; they are like a memory of how you died that one time. Tell that to my last w...

Xcom is not at all like Rogue. nor Moria, nor Angband nor Nethack, nor Adom, etc. It is a tbs with squad based tactics. It does have the game over aspect that Roguelikes are famous for, but it also has the techtree that 4x strategy games are notorious for and the missions/quests of RPGs. I do recom...

Xcom is not at all like Rogue. nor Moria, nor Angband nor Nethack, nor Adom, etc. It is a tbs with squad based tactics. It does have the game over aspect that Roguelikes are famous for, but it also has the techtree that 4x strategy games are notorious for and the missions/quests of RPGs. I do recomm...

Magipi wrote:Congrats!

Thanks

Congrats! I am guessing you are at GMT standard since your time stamp says June 20th.

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.15-a0-1548-ge962be8 (tiles) character file. 1723050 fu the Shatterer (level 27, 245/255 HPs) Began as a Deep Dwarf Berserker on June 17, 2014. Was a Priest of Trog. Escaped with the Orb ... and 3 runes on June 19, 2014! The game lasted 11:06:55 (75518 turns). fu t...

As far as I'm aware, they're largely there for decoration and serve no real gameplay purpose. Demonspawn can just get a different ability in place of their flame on bleeding whatever. Don't get me wrong, I do think they look cool, I just don't think they do anything that warrants keeping them. They...

Never trust shopkeeps who tell you they don't know what an item does - they are just trying to pawn their junk off on you. One shop had TWO un-ID'd artifact robes; one turned out to be a crappy +0 rPois (which I already had on a ring) with -3 dex. The other was Misfortunes, and gave me a level of B...

Congrats! Nice speed too

Longbows are anything but "utterly useless" gifts, especially if you're playing in Trunk. It's worth putting points into bows so you can soften up/kill tough enemies. Perhaps but it might also be worth it to use them as a skill less ranged weapon... All non-sling/dart ranged stuff got a b...

Re: wraiths and weapon aps Id expect at least a good long blades apt. And re: passwall that seems like an obvious and good ability for something that is essentially a Ghost. (Though not a player Ghost. Wonder how that would work...you encounter a mighty WrCj ghost...?) Also regarding food vs hunger....

Bloax wrote:If you want heavy armor casters I'm very much going to question why you would pick Fo^Chei over something like Te/Gr^Chei, because not only are formicids no spectacular casters - but they also have the additional disadvantage of losing the primary method of escape as a Cheite.

You mean shafting? :p

raikaria wrote:Running into a Gnoll with a Spear of Dragon Slaying on D:2 as a Draconian sucks.

Anything with a weapon of dragon slaying yeah even later on like say d3 with Siggy + a scythe of dragon slaying...yeah that sucks too.

OK, I apologize. I was pointing out that you were basically saying "the new crosstraining bonus is useless since it's different from the old system." In your example, if the new weapon really is better quickly, then you want to use it right away; if it's not, even with either type of cros...

^ If those were the only items offered, then... Wow, that's pretty bad. How much did you spend to get that shop? The ones I have found (gozags platinum reserves) just showed up near his altar without needing to be a member of his religion or to spend anything and likewise they all contained unobtai...

Could be a streak of bad luck - I don't remember a commit about decreasing Lab loot quality. I may have a general bad luck experience (items wise) with the game. I rarely find (useful) artifacts nor the better (ego or just magical) items until I have gotten 2 runes at least. I have seen a few early...

Sar wrote:Labs also generally have pretty damn great loot.

I think that was more true prior to .15. I haven't seen a worthwhile Lab since .14. Every single one I've found in .15 has been completely unsuitable lootwise. I have assumed this is just as intended.

This sucks. At 6.8 staves and 4.0 polearms, the bonus to polearms has shrunk from 1.8 to 0.9!!!! What the...? I put more points into staves and the bonus halved?! I'd like an explanation. Edit: as the gap between the receiving skill and the enhancing skill closes, the bonus to the receiving skill g...

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