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Some of those are kind of annoying actually. I had to rest a few times in that one where there's a pan lord and a bunch of imps behind glass, and it took a while for all the taunts to go by each time I 5'd. (although admittedly it was cute upon first glance) IIRC, that one was removed a few months ...

nicolae wrote:Currently they aren't removed if they're behind glass, though I think all the D:1 arrival vaults that place monsters behind glass use them as decoration instead of something you might have to fight later.

Plus one or two entry vaults that have a big pile of enemies behind glass & a rune door.

Trample is very far from being introduced "late", as crawl mechanics go - for example, in Snake alone, you have Blink Allies Encircling, Teleport Other, Virulence, Toxic Radiance, Ignite Poison, Haste Other, Portal Projectile, AF_ANTIMAGIC, shock serpents, and probably others that I haven'...

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PleasingFungus wrote:what do the numbers on the ability icons mean

MP cost

dang, that's ugly. and unnecessary. removed. (for free abilities.)

what do the numbers on the ability icons mean

it is a bad name.

Sar wrote:What's wrong with resistance robes?

Their AC, mainly.

To be fair, it's all based on aptitudes, so the long blade experience is calculated with -2 apt, and short blades with +3, which is another factor here. Still, it does seem low. if it was a 20% game, and now it's 40%, then that should solve it. But I played the game just last night, the commit was ...

Have you ever tried using it outside rune vaults, or the elf:3 vault?

My take is that summoned demons are generally on your side, but maybe don't invite them for a sleepover. If this behavior is a bug, I think it's a good one. Demons specifically have a much higher willingness to hurt allies than most creatures do. I dug it up in the targeting code the last time this...

Roderic wrote:Is still too soon to merge Ru (formerly Iashol) experimental branch into 0.16 ?

0.16 isn't getting any new features until after the tournament, since we kind of want people to play & test 0.15!

Wizmode is a decent learning tool for the less experienced players imo. (allowing you to continue when you die)(that is, if you don't abuse the other Wizmode commands) Or just making a seperate "easymode", which has a seperate scoreboard and lets you revive as many times you like. My gues...

duvessa wrote:Why do you think people went to the trouble of using summons to evade them, then?

that is similarly stupid

(again, for basic 'mummies', which are the enemies who dropping your inventory is relevant to)

duvessa wrote:Use the quiver instead of the weapon slot? You'd save the 3 or 5 aut spent on switching but that's probably not a big deal.

It would also be a buff to using sandblast/s2s under ash or while wielding a vampiric/distortion/contam weapon. Though, again, that's not a particularly big deal.

Speedrunning is completely irrelevant to this conversation. Whether or not this change will be made has nothing to do with the impact on speedrunners, and everyone talking about 'breadswinging' is wasting their time and filling the thread with nonsense.

duvessa wrote:Dropping all your cursable items is much more interesting and fun.

does anyone actually care about lower-case 'mummy' death curses

like, at all. ever

(as opposed to greater/guardian/priest mummy curses, which at least do something sometimes)

Lasty wrote:You finish putting on the cursed -7 leather armour "Gafaamir" {+Blink rElec rPois rF+ Int-2}.
_Oops, that feels deathly cold.

That's on a ghoul with 5 int.

Gonna be honest: I think the -7 ac is a worse problem than the -2 int.

lets add that to the list of things that took me years to discover. thanks. in the past, it was possible for giant eyeballs to give a "you resist" message... if you were already paralyzed (currently or within the last few turns), and therefore had 'paralysis immunity'. this wasn't mislead...

Now that corrosion is no longer a permanent effect, it isn't really necessary for it to provide 90% resistance, like conservation did and resist mutation does. Why not bump it down to 66% so it's more along the lines of rfire/elec/pois/cold, so slime's difficulty is less dependent on you finding on...

Patashu wrote:TRJ's pack is probably a good immolation target

tested & confirmed

all before wrote:Dumb side question: how do I include someone's name when I quote them?

Either add an '="name"' to the opening quote tag, or, more simply, hit the 'quote' button in the bottom-right of every post.

I don't really think that's a major concern, to be honest. The chance of accidentally holding down a key while pressing d seem a lot lower than the chances of messing up your autopickup in other ways (eg invisibility, that one key that reverses your autopickup settings) Those are quite bad enough w...

It has been repaired. Many players do not necessarily know that they exist; not because they can find the altars, but because they have read spoilers or are trying to identify the "best" deity to follow for their course of action. To be quite honest, I still don't understand this sentence...

Are you suggesting that the corrosion damage be lowered and that rCorr be nerfed to compensate (so that you take less damage with without rCorr, and the same damage with it)? Or are you suggesting that TRJ and acid blobs do more damage to players when rCorr than they do now? Perhaps something in th...

Experienced players know that Beogh, Lugonu and Jiyva exist. Heck, you can start a game under Beogh. Not since 0.13 came out, no. Many players do not necessarily because they can find the altars, but because they have read spoilers or are trying to identify the "best" deity to follow for ...

dck wrote:sun demon ammo when

ASAP

Yeah, it's not like it would do any harm, or be an extra interface hassle. "But this only makes the game a little bit better" isn't really a good reason not to do something, if there's no way that it makes the game worse. Added complexity? More time wasted when people try to hunt through ...

The reason I discourage the use of terms like melee, mage, hybrid, and caster to describe characters is that I've seen several posts by new posters (and even regulars) who saw the words being used commonly to describe characters and made bad assumptions about how they should play as a result. It's ...

also, mimics.

The Fix Is In . It's unclear that players need to rest for the lava to recede, so always leave a path around the outside leading back to the exit, and also always make all of the created lava eventually recede to make sure it's not possible to trap players. Make the lava rise a little more slowly, ...

What don't collapsing ceilings get anything from ogre magi to minotaus and cewarriors? They do, yes. It's a really cool vault. volcano_overflow , the subject of the main post, I'm not as fond of. It's very much a puzzle vault, and very unintuitive re: the danger of the lava - I know that I assumed ...

Also during this piece of the game, a patch was pushed that increased sling accuracy by not requiring ranged attacks to pass two separate attack tests. This didn't happen, actually. There was some confusion over whether there were two separate attack tests, but in the end it appeared that there wer...

My impression was that the current cost of apporting the Orb was the hideous screaming, which could lure dangerous enemies - especially if you hadn't cleared the other "lung". Possibly this is insufficient. @XuaXua: There already is an extra-high failure chance for apporting the orb, and m...

My main gripe with inventory slots is that the max slots you have (52) does not mesh with the inventory graphic. When my inventory is full, I can still clearly see empty slots. Should be slightly better now: http://i.imgur.com/OuWCWNp.png Might try to remove those last few squares entirely, if I ca...

Lasty wrote:I thought artifacts weren't affected by newcorrosion either, but I could be wrong.

Nothing will save you from corrosion now.

(Except rCorr, of course.)

Patashu wrote:Note that calling it potion of dispel/dispelling/etc is misleading since it now cancels the slow from post-berserk, even though the slow from post-berserk is flavoured as 'not a spell'

Much like scroll of vulnerability cancelled the slow from being hit with curare, which is not a spell.

I just hope that Qazlal isn't too strong with Hill Dwarves.

Also: why does being resistant to damnation make you immune to ordinary fire? This is a trivial detail of monster implementation that isn't exposed to the player. And why does damnation cause your icy shield/armour to melt? Presumably it wouldn't. But.... but... why are djinn immune to damnation? W...

In a more serious note I dislike that this potion can dispel an important thing like berserk slow even if it was misleading to have berserk slow be not-actual-slow sometimes. Why? Well it's a limited resource, and one that can be used pretty creatively, like what you've suggested (Does it also remo...

Done.

Now Patashu gets to update his post

Hello, winwons! What role do you think this race would fill that isn't already filled by kobolds? They seem very similar.

... cancels magical effects, but seems to do nothing for contamination. Is that by design, or is the description misleading? Exactly like the old scroll of vulnerability, it reduces contamination by 1000-5000 points. Yellow glow is between 5001 and 15000 points of contamination, so it could take an...

Just remove tornado. With one spell to have so many special conditions in the code or whatever it's just too much to comprehend and handle. And remove flight. Heck, just make the game Progress Quest. Crawl design philosophy: simplify things because they're too unintuitive and spoiler-y, then get ri...

MarvinPA and I discussed this in IRC earlier today, and agreed to revert the change. Further reasoning in the link.

Hail Terpsichore...

Any chance you can get your friend to do more surveys? I have idle curiosity, at the very least, and if the Korean community feels like we care about their opinion, they might want to try their hand at contributing. Even in spite of the language barrier, a larger pool of people reporting bugs or wr...

Artificer's 3 wands are in my opinion the single most interesting start in Crawl and it's not even close. Nothing about this needs to be changed. Your problems center on the premise that Artificers should focus on Evocations as their main killdudes method, which I think is incorrect. I think the bi...

It sounds to me like you mainly want less haste in the game, in which case wouldn't it be easier to just, like, generate fewer potions? This seems like a better solution to me than the OP's proposal. It scores major points for being the simplest solution, and I think it addresses the problem more n...

Everyone knows that the “demigod” race is boring Some very experienced players on this forum (and also me!) don't consider them boring. Now, you can argue that playtime does not make their opinion more significant; but I would argue it doesn't make it completely insignificant and non-existent as we...

Got in touch with my friend again, and had him translate & post this: Hello! Thanks to everyone for the responses - it’s great to hear from players on the other side of the world! Responding to the most common feedback: - Superficial parts of the game are being simplified, with changes like jewe...

Frankly I believe there is already a fair amount of overlap amongst melee weapons and while the ranged reform has been a great improvement in terms of clarity on just how these systems work, it does look like they simply replicate the overlapping problems melee has but at range which only makes dis...

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