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For non-winning games, it seems weird to have time affect score. I think score should basically depend on the XP gained, which is the closest analogue to "progress" a non-winning game has.

The inclusion of chei-specific and player move speed-specific logic seems overly complex.

Could you simplify this by looking at the ratio of game turns vs game auts?

I submitted a PR for this: https://github.com/crawl/crawl/pull/1088

Here's another idea for the hells: each is only one floor, but all monsters respawn if you leave and re-enter. Hell effects could be removed too, perhaps.

You can translate descriptions of items by updating the files in here: https://github.com/crawl/crawl/tree/master/crawl-ref/source/dat/descript Updating the UI to show different text is currently not possible due to how crawl is coded. Most strings (like "You are too berserk!") are hardcod...

- similarly, apparently there used to be a player spell from the charm school which enable the curing of poison, but was removed. Why was that deemed necessary? Here's the commit in question: commit c635424f1d444f85316c0fc5a4b62e1c64b02df6 Author: Emily <emilazy@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Thu ...

can you learn apportation and quaff a potion of brilliance without any body armour on?

Does it work to build the latest release (0.23)?
What version of gcc are you using?

When you would be corroded, rCorr prevents it 50% of the time. So effectively *Corrode would proc half as often as usual. *Corrode is usually not a big deal, as it happens relatively rarely. A troll is probably one of the best cases for a meleedude to have this effect too, because your base damage a...

Poison vulnerability used to be on Formicid but was removed as a "bad idea": commit fc6d5a5dec65f01f1e3bfbe51bda4e11f6b8dbc2 Author: Chris Campbell <chriscampbell89@gmail.com> Date: Sun Feb 23 12:28:35 2014 +0000 Give Formicids 0 HP, 1 XP apt and remove poison vulnerability The poison vuln...

What made you pick 0.18?

I like how much more intuitive the maths of that approach is, but the gain from each additional pip falls off much faster than the OPs proposal. I think part of the benefit of reworking resistance percentage like this is that you can make resistance scaling a little flatter, so resistances are less ...

I don't think that's totally true. It would be easier to remember "oh that deep troll has red highlights, that means it's the battlecry variant, because the red orc variant had battlecry too" than "oh orc wizard has spells x y z". There would be a common language across different...

I was worried about luring initially too, but I think you can only tell for sure with play testing.

I like this idea in theory. It would make enemies much more comprehensible to players. Right now the range of spells monsters have (or can have, with multi spell books) is so wide you don't really play in a specialised way against most of them. I'm worried it might make luring much worse, but I thin...

I've never quite figured out how much of the hash to use for the short hash stuff, so I just paste the full hash code.

You can use the shortest prefix which is unambiguous (eg no other commit in the repository has the same prefix). Git generally won't print <7 char short hashes though.

Zealot backgrounds are usually justified by saying "the game plays meaningfully differently for characters that start with this god compared to starting atheist and finding a the god in temple". Berserker starts with Berserk, which trivialises much of the early game. AK starts in the abyss...

A forum thread isn't a blog. If you want to comment on videos, you can comment on the videos. Or start your own blog.

So I think it's clear the big problems are: 1) bad tactics (you were fighting lots of things at once, and you underestimated ancient lich) and 2) bad strategy (bad skills, wrong branch) But to answer these responses: Only my long sword was holy Holy brand is good in crypt, but it's not *that* good. ...

Nice wall of text about an unimportant aside.

There was an early dungeon portal vault prototyped where you were given an ally. dpeg designed it, but it fell by the wayside. That could be a good place to start.

You can't modify the offical repository. You need to fork the repository on Github. This will create your own copy of the repository. Then you can "sync" (push changes) to it.

Very cool. What is the battery life like? What did the build cost you? Does the system just boot up and automatically launch crawl?

Was this thread inspired by the reddit thread a few days ago? In any case, this was fixed following that Reddit thread and the force_more is gone in trunk.

In mechanical terms, how would this be different to the current behaviour?

Chance of friendly orcs for non-Beoghites seems like a very bad move.

Why should existing gods become stronger?

Also, it would be sad to lose most of the backgrounds which start with a book and weapon. It's a good archetype which is already poorly represented in Crawl's starting screen.

That's a very simple problem to fix: change the 100% proc rate to something lower.

I think it's a good change to switch to a non-reaching dire flail. But I'm not sure it's a good approach to have an artefact effect which helps only worshippers of a specific god in such a strategic way. You'd probably be incentivised to carry the weapon around all the time and swap to it right befo...

Is the reply online?

1. Does the chosen enchantment or properties have any thematic connection with Beogh? I don't really think so, which makes me wonder why it's named after Beogh. I guess +LOS gives you more range to smite unbelievers? 2. It seems unnecessary to make this a reaching flail. It could be either a polearm...

The tournament scripts used for the official tournament are hard to use. To use them, run loaddb.py to load the current data and then run taildb.py to load all future data.

I'm not sure if the website logo has an official license. I don't think anyone would mind if you made copies and distributed them for free. Distributing for money might be frowned on, I guess.

I turned these into a pull request for you: https://github.com/crawl/crawl/pull/1021

All player sprites have to fit the same equipment sprites on top, which means they need to be very similar. If someone wanted to make alternate versions of all equipment sprites for large/small species, the dolls could be more varied.

There are a couple of changes I'd suggest:
* Depth needs a branch as well, for example DEPTH: D:2-5

It sounds like waiting until you were at 100% hp wouldn't have changed anything?

There are also the dgn-*.cc files which define special whole-level layouts. To be honest, it would probably be simpler to create a new system rather than porting crawl's code. Crawl could (in theory) use your new tool to generate new layout types. Crawl's vault language ("des") is pretty a...

It's about +5% damage for each point of strength

This could be implemented as: if you have the rune for a branch, you are permanently marked while in the branch.

I closed the PR as I was unable to think up good lore. "Alchemist's Stone" is no good as that references a real-world legend, which crawl is trying to move away from.

One problem with forms you can voluntarily shift between is that one form will be optimal for auto-exploring and one for fighting. Even with exhaustion, you will autoexplore in shadow mode, find a scary monster, back out of LoS, transform to blood mode, and then fight them. You'd need to charge a mo...

Looking at minimising turns spent recovering from fights, it's almost always better to lure and berserk. The main benefit is reduced resting time as stormdragon mentioned above. A few points: * The "-Berserk" status lasts for 12 + 2d12 aka about 24 turns. * Damage taken while berserk is ef...

You need to add python to your PATH environment variable. You will also need to install python-yaml if you haven't already.

The problem isn't DD's difficulty, the problem is DD encourages an incredibly tedious play style.

Perhaps seeded play should imply presentation. I can't see many use cases for seeded play without that.

Move inhibited regeneration from Ghoul to DD.

It answers the question from a game mechanics standpoint. If you are after a lore-wise answer, I propose "because the trap contains an evil spirit. When the trap is disturbed, the spirit seeks out the closest dungeon invader and debuffs them".

Hellcrawl removes hunger and piety decay and adds in a Doom Timer. If you spend n turns on a level (5000 in normal mode), you start rotting every turn until you descend. You're given 1000 turns countdown warning before this happens. This would be harder in vanilla Crawl, since it expects you to re-t...

As I understand it, Oka only cares about damaging allies if they can be angered.
The prompt should exist when there's a chance of damaging an ally that could be angered.

Demonic guardians can never be angered, so it's safe to use arc blade, but the prompt is a bug.

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