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It's really not all that hard to figure it out. Relative to skill level 0 we get: -5: 42.0% as fast -4: 50.0% as fast -3: 59.5% as fast -2: 70.7% as fast -1: 84.1% as fast 0: 100% as fast 1: 118.9% as fast 2: 141.4% as fast 3: 168.2% as fast 4: 200.0% as fast 5: 237.8% as fast I'm not making any st...

Kismet wrote:Is there any chance of rods getting the same treatment?

Nah.

In trunk, you no longer have to wield decks to use them; you just use them with V, like other evocable items. I have 'display card descriptions in the same way as spellbook spells' as a TODO; it's work, but doable. I've mainly been holding off in a vague hope that decks of cards will stop being a th...

I'm guessing this is a bug relating to shadow traps, and not all summons. Earlier I was spectating a game and was surprised to find a vampire gain HP by stabbing a monster created by a shadow trap. This shouldn't happen, and I'm unable to reproduce it when testing. If you see it again, report it on...

I guess if we're talking in speedrun terms then I'm getting close to playing optimally, but if we're talking in the general winrate optimality terms then I'm intentionally playing very suboptimally. Mostly because playing optimally for winrate would be making an already boring game (the time where ...

Probably not.

feh. too many bats!

Also aren't most creatures who are batty also flying? Would it make sense to have this be one of the traps not set of by flying creatures? There are no such traps. Also: - Bat - Harpy - Shard Shrike (flying) - Unseen Horror - Thrashing Horror - Death Scarab (not flying) I think that's all the batty...

Changing the description of the speed brand description for melee weapons from "attacks with this weapon are significantly faster" to something similar to "all melee attacks while wielding this weapon are significantly faster" (which doesn't necessarily include or exclude aux at...

Just make them one-shot and summon actual monsters instead of actual monsters that don't give actual experience points. It should very rarely be a good thing to step on a trap. Just noted over in Crazy Yiuf's Corner - the 'I don't love it when...' thread. Xom altar with a shadow trap and a butterfl...

octagon levels are rare now.........

shadow craps

summons a game of chance native to the current branch & depth

Most recent versions (starting in 0.13) spawned less than one trap per level (outside Zot and Slime), because of an implementation detail of mechanical trap "removal".

Not sure what the first 'trapless crawl' was; probably that was before my time.

Thanks!

that's pretty clearly a bug; toss it on mantis, please.

also, if caught in a net in a situation where you're in no danger (e.g. a net trap), it's optimal to switch away from your weapon (unless you have claws, in which case you should switch to a non-vorpal, non-flaming, non-slicing weapon) and put on any -str/+dex items you have, to maximize your chance...

I'm not sure they were *intended* as anything (just more leftovers from divination miscasts), but I think they work pretty well as strategic costs.

You're right that we could switch over to some other kind of strategic cost; draining is feasible. I'll mull it over.

nicolae wrote:for some reason I feel like taking this guy's kobold opinions more seriously

crawl trivia: in linley's dungeon crawl, the monsters that later became "big kobolds" were named "kobold lord"

With most gods it costs enough piety to be really bad, but yeah. IMO not regenerating stats is terrible gameplay right now though (ever tried playing DD?) because of the things stat drain typically comes from. Putting max MP drain on monsters is basically like putting rot, item destruction, permane...

Where I draw issue with the design of this trap is when enemies like bats can spam it very rapidly without you being able to do much about it. Most monsters I can position and manipulate to avoid this happening, but several times now i've engaged a bat and 2 turns later the trap has already been hi...

While I like the concept, this won't really work because it leaks monster max HP. Maybe change pacification to work off HD instead? By my understanding the MR check already leaks HD changes anyway. The "% to affect" display is based on the monster type's base HD, not their current HD. (Li...

Here's the current glyphs.

That's alright, but I don't think this has to be communicated to the player very explicitly. (I mean, it probably should, but if it's just some appendix in the manual, say, that'd suffice.) The main point of differentiating weapon types is to let the player make strategic playstyle choices. How can...

**Topic:** 19.12.2014 - It happened

nicolae wrote:Nostalgia is forever...

https://loom.shalott.org/learndb.html#nostalgia[3]

eeviac wrote:the longer you wait, the more 'fun' the devs pack into extended and my high score becomes all the more secure.

Please Respect Fun

I very rarely use maces because I don't like the great mace brand set (iirc draining,holy,protection?) static const vector<brand_weight_tuple> M_AND_F_BRANDS = { { SPWPN_PROTECTION, 30 }, { SPWPN_NORMAL, 28 }, { SPWPN_HOLY_WRATH, 15 }, { SPWPN_VORPAL, 14 }, { SPWPN_DRAINING, 10 }, { SPWPN_VENOM, 5 ...

brown oozes were removed a while ago. also, technically, you missed dissolution (not that dissolution exists)

anyway, I'd be fine with removing the UC special case.

This is getting offtopic so i ll put it simple: ignite poison is a spell that you usually learn when playing a transmuter background because its useful since 3 out of 4 of the possible rune branches for lair are poison themed. i could create a topic about changing the spell to ignite blood and elab...

wheals wrote:I can't be the only one who saw the title of this thread and was very confused.

You were not.

damiac wrote:Plus, why do poison chunks have a Y/N prompt if you have no rPois, yet pressing Y doesn't do anything.

That prompt went away some time ago. Alas. I suspect it was eaten.

- Talisman of Displacement is hilariously, absurdly strong. Huh. 12 EV could be toned down, of course, but that's still 13.5 translocations just to get a ring of evasion +6 in your amulet slot (assuming it scaled linearly with skill). Or is the point simply that having EV in your amulet slot a bad ...

Chatted with other devs about this a little bit. Decided to look at these items purely from the perspective of "new suggested items", rather than relative to the existing buffs. Rough consensus: - Talisman of Displacement is hilariously, absurdly strong. - Boots of swiftness are a little f...

I'm a little confused about why you're including Swiftness in this proposal.

how does this keep happening https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=7500 https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?p=60817#p60817 https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?p=47294#p47294 https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?p=47275#p47275 https://crawl.develz.org/...

Piginabag wrote:This would also turn apportation into even more of a value point than it is already, so limit door manipulation based on skill in translocations

How?

Well right now the problem is if you play a summoner of TSO you are not allowed to attack enemies half the time. The least-intrusive fix here is to make it so monsters cannot become distracted if you worship TSO (this makes sense anyway--you have a giant halo), but I would see any change that lets ...

I liked the idea of "no penance for attacking distracted/disabled enemies, can't get stab bonuses" the last time it was suggested, but the main concern is that it makes the conduct pretty much toothless for primary-spellcasters of TSO. Which I don't think is something we want. (Maybe I'm w...

where's it. where's, the edit button.

I'd argue that Marvin's post better summed up THIS thread. Which is to say he used his powers to edit the posts of someone he disliked, then (falsely) quoted that change in an attempt to discredit the poster instead of providing any actual counterpoints. http://i.imgur.com/9x8m3es.png I can't find ...

twelwe wrote:nago would be a tomb titivator but he has a lame custom title instead, no one cares

brutal.

XuaXua wrote:I want to play an unarmed transmuter character where it is optimal to be an unarmed transmuter. Truly the option here is Human.

Or draconian, felid, or octopode.

Didn't Aule update the card page on the wiki? e: maybe that was just the decks? The decks and some of the cards. PF: All of this is true. Couldn't we just (ask players to) slowly migrate good content from chaos wiki to dev wiki, and rename the latter? It's a pity that wiki editing is so hard... com...

I think with Makhleb corpse sacrifice you just kind of did nondescript but presumably violent Stuff to it. "The goblin corpse disappears without a sign." "The orc corpse flares red and disappears." "The minotaur corpse flares blood-red and disappears." I am a little co...

And share it with a quickness you did!

I started at the wiki to learn a lot of the basics of the game, which it is very good for. It's also good for finding out what spells do, and seems to be the only way to find out what the hell the various cards do. The learndb has listings for the cards, but many of them are obsolete. Of course, so...

The second half of that sentence is reasonably true.

Insular Community wrote:No, no, the pretty colours is (used to be?) Nemelex. MAKHLEB make corbse BUR IN A COLUMN OF FLAMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE *FWHOOOOSCHHHHH****

actually, you're thinking of okawaru.

cigotuvi's embrace isn't ice magic

also I'm probably going to buff it sooner than later (not the duration thing tho)

something involving the 'use_animations' rcfile option & the term 'hp' should fix the hp flashes

wretched star flashes involve the term 'monster'

my favourite was "mummies have the worst MR in the game" In complete fairness, the difference between racial MR values is relatively subtle in-game, since the per-level difference is much, much smaller than the smallest value that's displayed. Even if you played mummies, you could easily ...

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