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More stuff coming along. The arena will have a "difficulty" level that is randomized, but also based on absdepth and some other factors. You'll have a minimum number of waves (2) and a maximum number of waves (6) but beyond that the total difficulty level will be a factor - this will preve...

################################################################### # # Testing Ground Portal # Created by 7hm. # Flavour: God challenge arena. Defeat successive waves of monsters # to collect your reward. # # # PLAN: # # Create monsters waves # Create better randomized monster lists # Create "...

e: I posted new code but I realized something and am going back to make a major revision.

Captain's cutlass on a SpBe or KoBe (you know it's coming eventually).

For myself this game there hasn't been any one thing, but the sword of jihad I found in elf makes me more confident for the endgame (i still hate torment) and the hat of pondering has been pretty solid as well.

How do you safely fight a berserking stone giant? He even stops you from abjuring them. He prevents it to a certain extent. That SpBe that I ascended used a rod of warding and it never took more than two casts. Admitedly my evoc was extremely high (high teens at the time I think). Also, the safe wa...

Nothing stops a Berserker from dropping Trog and switching to Kiku, TSO, or Nemlex (save racial restrictions). It's a lot of fun doing this too. Use trog to give you a really good item, probably by mid-late lair. By that time you can safely drop him, wait out for 35-50k turns, and pick another god....

Interesting stuff. First off: the vault should be timed, I think. We don't want players to wait until it's trivial. The timer can be very forgiving. Yes, the way it would work is that the guardian would have a timer attached to him. When the timer expires the portal will no longer be created by the...

The timed edit is ridiculously annoying. Seriously, get rid of it, what purpose does it serve. Anyway - the original reason I wanted to post in the thread wasn't to respond to galehar / dpeg but to post some general monster list / god ideas. The gods that I think work best as being arena "overs...

Well, thanks, looks like this is shaping up. I was sceptical at first, but you seems to be commited to the idea, and since you're implementing it... You have to be careful to distinguish your arena portal vault from Ziggurats, since they are already quite close to the arena concept. But your design...

Code / coding questions / vaults related to Testing Grounds Portal concept. As galehar said, it would be better to keep code and implementation in this subforum. The original idea with some additional thoughts through the thread is here . The code (as of this particular moment in time, I'll post upd...

I just keep adding to this myself, but oh well. :) I've worked out some of the basics of what I want to do. Right now the portal is spawned when you kill a randomly named unique (just a goblin or kobold atm). You get the prompt on whether or not you want to fight in the testing ground. You only have...

Up on wiki here: https://crawl.develz.org/wiki/doku.php? ... ng_grounds

How about an objective other than killing? On each side of the room, there are some turrets (oklob plants, dangerous statues, etc.) that are immobile but have significant firepower. The player starts on one end of the arena with some friendly turrets, and the enemy forces start on the other with so...

I think a lot of roguelikes have a similar concept. The closest thing in Crawl would be a zig, I guess. Certainly the ability to grind in the arena would be contrary to Crawl's design intentions, and portal vaults are really more one-offs. Waves of enemies could make sense though. re: magekyun Perha...

Spriggan Berserkers are a blast. The toughest part is food early. This is my best character (SpBe or anything else): 7933802 Jordan7hm the Intangible (level 27, 227/227 (237) HPs) Began as a Spriggan Berserker on Mar 5, 2011. Was an Elder of The Shining One. Escaped with the Orb ... and 17 runes (of...

This idea is really in the early stage and isn't ready for the wiki, so I thought I'd ask for some feedback here. Basically I'm thinking of a new portal, intended for the midgame (somewhere after Lair, before Zot - possibly accessed through the mid Vaults and later dungeon levels). The concept would...

DoomRL is better than it sounds. While simple, there's quite a bit of tactical depth. It's also easy to learn and makes its mechanics nice and transparent. I just picked up DoomRL a couple days ago, and I have to agree. It's an extremely fun roguelike, and it doesn't take hours to figure out the va...

The RNG is overall going to be in your favour the longer you survive. Even Xom is largely positive over time. The trick with becoming good (or at least better) at Crawl is to learn how to survive / escape the tricky situations. Don't just give up - some of the best characters I've had (including a 1...

Which gods have wrath that is pretty survivable? Despite what people on ##crawl told me, Trog is surprisingly survivable, because his wrath consists of summoning monsters. They're scary monsters, but if you're willing and able to wait out 20-50k turns, they're easily dealt with. The trick is to cre...

I find Shoals pretty easy to rush through. Magic map when I get down and just hit the building one by one hoping for an early rune. Up and down all three stairs to get the quickest route to the buildings, don't spend much time on the level. Invisible / haste if possible while going from building to ...

danr wrote:In that case, I think I'll do Elf next, that'll give me some stuff hopefully that'll make Shoals easier, and then Vaults.

If you can do elf:5 you can do shoals.

If you mean just going to 4, probably a good idea.

To get all this initial information I had to jump around in the document quite a bit. Somewhere along the way, Vim is mentioned - this should probably be right at the start in a "Tools you might find useful" section. You don't want to get part-way through the instructions then have to go ...

I would totally support making game time the standard turn count. This would really help players understand game mechanics without being too spoily. I see no reason why it should be opaque to the player how long it just took them to do something. It would screw around with online scoring. Not sayin...

Don't lock the thread just because you don't agree with it. In any case - I don't like the idea. But I also tried to get my girlfriend to play the game. I don't think limiting a new player's options would be a bad thing in her case. She was undoubtedly overwhelmed by the options. And this includes g...

I've been thinking (and this is totally non-representative of the rest of the devteam as I haven't talked it over with anyone else) that it might be interesting to merge all three enchant weapon scrolls into one. Basically, remove EW I and EW II, make EW III show up earlier but overall rarer than a...

It's one wand charge, guys. I think 150 XP (the current number) is actually too much, seeing how trivial it is to destroy them that way. One randomly generated wand charge. Wands of disintegration aren't guaranteed; I've hit Zot without ever seeing one generated before. If one did generate, orange ...

I haven't looked at the code yet, but maybe we can say that you just can't get banished when in hell. So the special casing is in the banishment code instead of the miscast. Maybe easier to do, and easy to explain flavour wise (can't escape from hells). I think this makes sense. It certainly makes ...

It's random.

on "strategic element", after banishment loses gameplay relevance, the whole reason for avoiding banishment is that it is horribly tedious. using actually threatening effects would be better. on "deserving it", again, crawl should punish with gameplay-relevant effects (like glow...

I think that's actually a really cool idea.

A portal entry that is actually a randomly named unique monster, appropriate to the portal. A giant rat for the sewers, or an orc warlord for a bailey.

Hmmm...

So in the late game the abyss is just annoying and pointless and as such bad for the game. So far I am all with you. But for the early game the abyss is annoying, pointless, and almost always fatal which makes banishment a save or die spell which is a bad mechanic. So why does banishment exist agai...

Having done Hells last night and seen this for the first time, definitely have to agree. Hells was constantly threatening and occasionally very dangerous. By that point in the game (or for that matter by literally 75k turns earlier in the game) the Abyss was neither threatening nor ever dangerous. W...

on the "free ride" business, making optimal play (grinding up fighting) tedious (by requiring them to go through the training minigame, whacking spammals and rats and whatnot) is bad design As for fixing the problem of grinding fighting, I see two ways to approach it: Fix fighting: The ea...

This is the Beogh vault that has already been posted to the mantis. It's pretty simple. There's a room with lava pools. Two of the pools have islands filled with ogres, trolls and orcs (who do not have ranged weapons). Between those two pools is an altar to beogh. There are some items on the ground ...

I wanted somewhere to put this stuff - I'm going to describe the things and post the code. If anyone has suggestions for them, I'd appreciate. After they're up for a bit if they seem ok I'll post em to mantis. The first trap (that I haven't put on the mantis) is a Xom altar. The Xom altar is a small...

There's a second LP thread on rpgcodex now here.

or: Why are wizards smarter than everyone else? ... Now, I'm personally very curious exactly why wizards have their own special stat set. Especially since it gives them a mechanical advantage over other backgrounds that cannot be compensated for. Assuming the same gear, skills, god, piety etc a wiz...

My second suggestion (which I think less likely) would be to map spells automatically across the keyboard, instead of alphabetically, so asdfghjkl; for the first 10 spells, then either qwertyuiop or zxcvbnm for the next bunch. I don't think this is realistic because it'd obviously mess up keys that...

This is around what I was thinking. As I said above, I'm not too great with the coding thing, so this is pretty hacked together, but it works. (only issue that I've found is that the doors looked screwed up in tiles) All of this is in traps.des The function that the trap calls: function callback.mon...

I think more complicated (read: pressure plate) traps would be cool. Things like the basket trap and the grate trap. Stuff like kobolds with dispersal darts etc. (I'm fooling around with it now, I'll post results eventually. I have some traps designed but I'm pretty ass with programming stuff, so I ...

And these are the final fortress entry vaults ############################################################################## NAME: sevenhm_entry_fort_6 TAGS: entry no_pool_fixup ORIENT: float : if crawl.one_chance_in(4) then SUBST: z : @, Z : =, X : x, p : tR, m : c : else SUBST: X : @, Z : c, z : c...

Is there a way to pick the floor tile below an exit?

eg

Code:: xxxx@ xWWWx xxxxx

I want to make the exit both an exit and W.

Thinking some more about this, some questions do arise: Players will wonder why they cannot put things into the chest (we don't want them to do that, of course). On the other hand, having the loot safely wait in the chest (as items do in shops) may be okay -- the alternative would be that you enter...

e from above: I meant blink frogs of course now to see if I can get this code function working NAME: sevenhm_entry_fort_5 TAGS: entry no_pool_fixup ORIENT: float : if crawl.one_chance_in(2) then SUBST: w : x, u : x, z : @ : else SUBST: z : x, u : w NSUBST: w = 1:@ / *:w : if crawl.one_chance_in(3) t...

Thanks! Just finishing up some more along the same theme, will post those here as well, and then assuming all looks good put them in Mantis afterwards. One question - can blink toads warp through trees? I'm concerned about place:lair:8 usage in that case. (not for the stuff I linked above, but for a...

Is there a "recommended sequence" for clearing these branches? Persistent rumors to the contrary, there is no recommended sequence. The next level to clear is always going to be a risk-benefit analysis, based on your personal experience. The facts on the ground once you actually poke your...

"Traps & Doors" should be renamed to "Perception". Then the devs will think of better ways to make it relevant than door-creaking and trap-setting (the first doesn't matter, the second will never get interesting). I think the magic skills should stay with their current names...

Teleportitis and berserkitis is worse than teleportitis. Teleportitis and slow movement is worse than teleportitis. Teleportitis and slow healing is worse than teleportitis. etc etc If you drink enough of them you'll usually fix your problems. That's my normal solution. You will end up with OTHER p...

Do you think permadeath could become a popular concept in mainstream game design? Why or why not? Yes, I do. Ok let me qualify that. I think there are limits, and I don't think you'll ever see it truly targeted towards the casual market, but it can certainly be used in a much large sense than it is...

1. Did you have trouble understanding any part of introduction.txt or syntax.txt? If so, which part(s)? In particular, were NSUBST and SHUFFLE hard to figure out? 2. Did you encounter difficulty getting your vaults to work in the game? 1) No, no they were fairly straightforward 2) A couple times - ...

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