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The only similar game that interests me now is Dwarf Fortress' adventure mode. A new version (first in 11 months) of Dwarf Fortress hit the servers today. Judging by the dev updates I've been following, it's going to be interesting. Looks like you can explore tombs, and get killed by your own reani...

What if nausea prevents you from eating unless you're starving? Then you're back where you were, incentivizing people to hover over starving (stupid as it is). Nausea should only prevent chunk eating (and possibly meat ration eating for herbivores), and you should consider calling it indigestion.

I'm not surprised people dislike the multiple tresholds, but I suspect that it is because they insist on trying to do something (squeezing the most out of their permafood from eating low-quality chunks) that isn't supposed to be worth it anymore. The way the reform has failed, is that it hasn't con...

snow wrote:Food is a simple balance tool. It's not supposed to be anything else... especially not some elaborate system.

The current system isn't all that simple, if you're not used to it. We want the food system to be simple to the user, but it need not be simple under the hood.

So maybe using video chat (hangouts?) rather than IRC for discussing crawl's future would make the process less frustrating? I'm not surprised people dislike the multiple tresholds, but I suspect that it is because they insist on trying to do something (squeezing the most out of their permafood from...

I appreciate that it is stressful to hang around at hungry/very hungry as a herbivore all the time, although in principle it's not very different from hanging around between full and very full for a carnivore. what? the difference is obvious: you can drop many satiation thresholds as a carnivore. a...

I appreciate that it is stressful to hang around at hungry/very hungry as a herbivore all the time, although in principle it's not very different from hanging around between full and very full for a carnivore. That centaurs don't feel the nutrition advantage from being herbivore is not as I wanted i...

AFAIK, potions of mutation (from distilling monsters with mutagenic chunks) are the exception. Sacrificing those are a good way to get decks of wonder, which even have a card that will likely give good mutations. Haven't they fixedthat yet? I used to play around with getting 40+ mutation potions fr...

minmay wrote:XP is no longer based on the finishing blow, but on the percentage of damage dealt. So if you take a monster down to half health and then your summons kill it, you get 75% of the XP.

Wow, that explains why I'm having so much success with my summoner-hybrids lately!

(Rationale: You're ending up in nastier parts of the infinite Abyss.) I like this. It could even be formal. "You are thrown into the first level of the abyss." -- a barren and somewhat boring place, but not without danger. ... right up to ... "You are thrown into the 666th level of t...

I'm currently working on the abyss. I've improved the morphing (again just last night) and made it get faster with time spent down there. The monster generation will be scaled with the abyss speed too. Regarding exits, I've said it before and I'm saying again. We keep the current rate for normal ex...

No transformations? As if Zin wasn't bad enough?

Sometimes I think the devs screw over Zin and make a joke out of him because they have issues with a certain real-world religion he's inspired by.

Going to drop in on the wiki and make some suggestion, I suppose.

KoboldLord wrote:Wearing one means you sacrifice almost ALL spellcasting

This combines poorly with Sif Muna... though maybe with the new experience system, Sif gets happy from the experience channeled into spell skills, rather than use?

Ogre for first win? Hats off to you!

I'm going to study the log to see how you worked around ogres' pathetic lack of defense.

The food clock is very much an issue for non-mummies - but not as a clock, rather as a nerf on high-level spells. It's just that with a HE or DE, you just can't spam orb of destruction or similar-powered spells, while you have them at ration hunger. They will stay at high hunger for a very long time...

I think I got Mara to severely wounded twice, but just couldn't finish him. Similarly Mennas chased me off with a nasty blessed scimitar, and was just itching to provide me with YASD. :evil: So I just dodged them and returned to the main dungeon. Later, I killed Xtahua and thought, "hmmm"...

One slightly less radical idea: (some) creatures get better at following you through stairs, but no creature can follow you through trapdoors. This would make trapdoors more interesting. * The advanced stair-followers should be only particularly relenteless, intelligent creatures (such as uniques wi...

It's been a while since I followed Crawl... did you really change crusaders into skalds? Oh no... worst name since arcane marksman, but in a new and creative way. Skald is a heavily culture-bound term. It may sound exotic and cool to you, but I come from that culture, and sorry, there's just no way ...

I always thought the double sword/triple sword were references to razor-manufacturers' habit of adding more blades to their razors as a gimmick. So they definitively need to stay or go as a pair :) Maybe to explain the joke (which apparently not many people got), there could be a fixedart five-blade...

I, too, think Tiamat is far preferable to Lom Lobon. I didn't succeed in getting the orb without waking her, but she has less nasty ranged potential (Lom Lobon's ball lightnings hurt!), and is possible to flee from.

dpeg wrote:it is about gods existing only because humans believe in them.

I don't like how this kind of wacky Pratchett-idea has sneaked into crawl. It made for a good joke, but the Crawl gods aren't really very much like the Discworld gods, and I'm not sure it makes for good gameplay.

Let's look at the factors one by one: Slots: Currently matters little. Especially if you are not a caster - high-level warrior types can have all the nifty little utility spells. Success rate: Currently matters for the very high-level spells, and for armored hybrids. Is effectively what keeps hybrid...

I would really have liked if the shadow summoning thing could be toggled on/off. That would make it more palatable to the good gods too.

Does this think really work as advertised? I had a DS with the full shadow mutation, once he needed to rest I equipped the lantern, figuring with that small LoS nothing is going to find me here in this corner. I was rudely awakened by a Storm Dragon lightning bolt from halfway across the room, way o...

The game is randomly generated you know. We can't fine tune the timer so that it matches perfectly with the opposition you'll face to get to it. Like everything else in the game, randomness will create easy situations, hard ones, and sometimes impossible ones. This is unavoidable. What you can do i...

You can get mutation resistance from Zin if it's very important, but Zin would otherwise not be much use for you. Piety could also be hard to build unless you've got lots of gold to spare.

I think a "berserk other" spell would be hard to balance. See how good BiA is. However, a frenzy spell could be fun. You could use it either as a debuff on enemy casters, or as a dangerous buff on allies. Well, that is one option... another is to nerf berserk for monsters. Really, it does...

JeffQyzt wrote:
XuaXua wrote:Cue the Chundering Vegemite Barbies of Zot:5.

For the non-Australian English speakers out there - that would a horde of vomiting barbequeue pits made out of processed yeast extract.

That sounds like a Dwarf Fortress megabeast.

dolphin wrote:Of course, it would make Orc Warlords pretty beastly when they berserk the orc knights around them.

No, it shouldn't be Orc Warlords that have it. It should be Ogre Mages

lucy_ferre wrote:Lee's Rapid Deconstruction and Shatter.

Yeah, but LRD requires a lot of spell power and multiple castings. It can occasionally break walls that disintegrate can't though - something nice to remember if you rely on those metal walls to stay where they are.

casmith789 wrote:Zin got an overhaul.

Again? Is this something that happened recently or is it something I've been playing for a while? From the wiki it's kind of hard to see which changes are in and not...

I wish it was possible to play a good summoner. TSO and Zin are possible, but not very practical. Ely would be awesome, but it just isn't practical due to the piety hit of allies dying.

I think Vehumet is probably a better god for starting out than Sif Muna. The problem with Sif Muna is that it takes a long time before you start seeing those book gifts - by that time you've almost certainly found a useful book or two already. If you're going for direct damage spells (and it's sensi...

The thing you need to know about invisibility is that it gives a huge stealth bonus. Also, if the opponent doesn't have see/sense invisible, all attacks upon them will have a chance for opportunistic stabbing. Also, it's great against ranged users. They will miss a lot more than melee users. But it ...

by it? Does it really say that? I thought the morgue file would say "an invisible master archer" or something similar.

Jessica often spawns with a wand. If it's a powerful one, it's "downgraded" to polymorph.

Big weapon hitting a (usually) smaller target = more skill. Maybe the GSC could get a small bump when wielded against large foes? NO! That's double-dipping again, the bane of Crawl balance. It's already the case that large creatures get an EV penalty, poor dodging aptitude and reduced benefit from ...

I think actually "moon moth" is a far better name that ghost moth. Anyone remember the creepy "moon dwellers" in magic carpet?

Training stealth is such a pain, I never turn it off if I'm aiming seriously for it. A great god choice for stabbers is Ash. Not because of scrying, primarily, but because of reskilling. You can get rid of things like the necromancy you accumulate from Fulsome Distilliation, and turn it into increas...

Well, I have some ideas to deal with the horrors: 1. Don't open that door. They are in a separate room from the lumps and necrophages. Lumps don't open doors - though necrophages do, so make sure they aren't wandering. Much better if they run for YOU than that they open that door. I've taken out the...

Demonspawn Earth Elementalist with shadowstalker mutation, one of my favorites. Vehumet. As usual I don't have the morgue file here, but it's much like you would expect.

That's not how you win! I avoided Lom Lobon, grabbed the orb and ran away from Tiamat (does she always have that berserk potion, by the way?)

I agree Sif's power is less useful now. Fact is, you find enough amnesia scrolls, almost no builds need to juggle spells all that often. Before, you at least had to find a book with selective amnesia, i.e., it was either switch as much as you need, or don't switch at all for non-Sifmunites. Now it's...

His wrath was arguably less dangerous than his bad mood. I think they're identical, actually. I've never had much luck with him. By lair, I tend to get hurt a lot and be forced to rest up a lot, and this quickly bores Xom. Also, his "good" acts have a tendency to be detrimental more often...

The assertion that I haven't won it yet is no longer true, BTW

I've had luck with these before (got one as far as Cerebov), and now one gave me my first win in the Red Sonja sprint. The shadowstalker mutation combines really well with earth conjurations - if you can see it, you can shoot it. If you don't want to shoot it, you can sneak away. Anyone else have ex...

My experience with heavy armour is also that it's generally better to go for EV. At best, heavy armour is as good as light, but even then only when you've already ruled out stealth/casting. I found a Gold Dragon Armour on D:1 once with a merfolk. I wore it out of sheer bloody-mindedness, figuring th...

For various reasons I've been a bit bored with the main game lately, going so far as to suicide some rather powerful characters because they were just too boring (SETM of Chei who found the hell portal vault in lair:8... and decided to take a visit). So, I've been playing Sprint. I'm finally startin...

I'm not sure I like the plan for 0.9. Minimum competence in all skills you have is a lot more interesting than boosting the stuff you're already focusing on, IMO. True, it's going to be best for casters/hybrids, but it makes sense that knowledge mostly helps with spellcasting. I'll certainly delay u...

That is actually kind of against Crawl's philosophy. Accidentally vaporizing a big stack of food isn't a sensible penalty for apportation.

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