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Are there any rules about the version of DCSS used? I see this new record is in trunk, but other speedrunners use various older versions, right?

Thanks for the info. I submitted a pull request based on this feedback: https://github.com/crawl/crawl/pull/1554

Can you explain in more detail how the suggested commands fail, and how you figured out the above command to run?

Nice one! Good work hitting 27 on two skills. Did you consider training earth magic? It has +5 too from memory. Actually, cavepeople gain the innate mutations of speed, magic mapping, and monster detection. They are a direct (as possible) clone of the nethack class: https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Cave...

Arches are useful features to represent things like "there was a portal here, but it's gone now" and as flavour. Perhaps they shouldn't show up with magic mapping. I submitted a pull request to fill in the middle of this vault. It's a vestigial location from back when cTele existed, I think.

Are those things considered scummy? What is the alternative to not resetting a fight when you get a string of bad rolls? It's not scummy to reset some fights. But if you have unlimited time, it would be optimal to reset nearly every fight where you fail to dodge the monster's attacks. (There's no c...

I think a clock fixes two classes of repetitive behaviour. Class 1: * the way monsters wander away from stairs after you escape upwards can be removed (and possibly has been already). * xom scumming Class 2: * Resetting every fight multiple times * Extremely conservative exploration strategies The d...

Griefers have done this a few times in the past. There's no defence except to pre-register your account on all servers.

Give panlords still winds and blink close and constrict. Make them like liches so that looking at them reveals multiple possible spell sets until they cast a spell. And add a new spell: blink stairs. Some panlords blink to an 'up' staircase and have a trample attack. Also I'm not sure how, but I th...

I think it's alright for the spell to have obvious power spikes due to changes in the number of balls summoned. As long as the probabilities of getting more balls increases smoothly with your spell power rather than with breakpoint steps like now.

Originally it said the minimum attack delay of 0.7 would be reached at skill level 36 (or so), which IMO was funnier but probably even less useful.

I don't think Xom is the right god to propose adding guaranteed gifts to.

Yes, that page is the real thing, although it's still being worked on. Your overall point score is an average of all categories, including categories you scored 0 in. I'll update that sentence in the rules to be clearer. What made you discount it being the average? Some of the display maths is possi...

I'm not sure I agree with the idea that current playfeel is tightly connected with the specific details of the current damage distributions. For all we know, the playfeel would be identical to replacing all these formula with much simpler formula which more-or-less match the mean and stddev. "M...

The third central moment is the measure of the lopsidedness of the distribution; any symmetric distribution will have a third central moment, if defined, of zero. The normalised third central moment is called the skewness, often γ. A distribution that is skewed to the left (the tail of the distribu...

I'm assuming this thread is in response to the pull request proposing the same, which seems like it will get some dev attention after 0.25 comes out:
https://github.com/crawl/crawl/pull/1329

Yes, your size is determined by your max health. Which means things like losing mutations or going berserk can affect your size. That autoexplore bug sounds like an issue with very large players being able to walk in deep water, but autoexplore not knowing. Bloatcrawl 2 is basically finished, so don...

Congrats! Actually, there is one final size to grow to beyond very large...

I think I fixed that shield unequip bug in trunk, but nobody has updated the windows offline builds yet.

Shafts affect flying players because there are cheap non-permanent ways to fly and it would be optimal to keep re-activating flight with these tools if they didn't.

The only remaining tool here is the ring of flight -- maybe it would be easier if the ring made you fly permanently while worn.

Does this mean optimal vampire play is to always be as close to engorged, but not quite engorged, as possible?

I think it's a little reductive to say the only reason fan of gales was removed is "inventory management". I also think you are giving a false choice when saying there are only "two possibilities" (remove all inventory management vs accept all inventory management). A third optio...

Remove merfolk boots slot!

What's wrong with that?

I'm wondering if it's more optimal to generate Gozag call shops at the deepest possible absdepth?

It used to be, but now gozag merchant quality scales with XL

Dream dust's messaging is ambiguous as to how the dust works. But both "visual effect" and "inhalation" work with the messages. In crawl-lore, the dust could have two methods of working.

Air horn uses the sonic wave spell, which basically damages everything in LoS and makes an extremely loud noise. The damage is a little mediocre, probably.

Here's an alternate proposal: any non-fire >0 damage attack against a hydra causes a head to grow. Fire attacks cause a head to be removed.

How about:

Code:: This weapon's attacks take 13 TU at 0 skill. Its fastest attack speed (6) is reached at skill level 14. At your current skill level (7.9), attacks take 8-9 TU.

https://github.com/crawl/crawl/blob/mas ... process.md

How does this change the current behaviour?

Dying multiple times in quick succession is really unfun from a player perspective, so I think any system integrating NoRevive is good.

It's like deterioration. They clear with xp gained

I like this idea. 1. Players should have a clear idea of how much time they need to spend in NoRevive state. (Presumably it would last 1k-10k+ turns.) Here's one idea: when you die, your progress to the next XL is set to 0%. You need to gain an XL to lose the NoRevive status. a. This would be a vari...

Monster AI is a little more convoluted than that. In the case of a monster with spells (and no items), the monster will first decide if it's casting a spell, and if so which spell. It will continue to normal AI if it decides not to cast a spell or if the spell it picked to cast is invalid (eg fireba...

To be honest, I'm not sure if you're suggesting shields are either mandatory or never used. About 75% of winning games have shields skill >15.0, which is not really either of those extremes.

TheMeInTeam wrote:One of which is to avoid no-brainer decisions, which OP presented troll UC to be. Is that in dispute?

You should read the PR, in particular ebering's reply, which does dispute this.

Another suggestion: corona could make it impossible to miss the affected actor

As a general announcement, I don't think Hellmonk or myself are planning to keep Bloatcrawl up to date or fix the various little bugs identified over the past couple of weeks. If anyone else submits pull requests to merge in upstream trunk or fix bugs I'll happily accept them though.

Idea: remove the MP cost of necro spells, so they only cost whatever this new resource is. It would make them much more powerful (you could always cast Borg's), but much simpler UX

I submitted a PR that proposed re-adding regeneration with an extra rot cost, but it was knocked back. However, this seems like a broader and possibly more interesting change. Having two different forms of rot seems really confusing, so I agree you would have to unify them. Most rot sources now coul...

Don't use the targeter. Do this instead: whenever you move, the weapon attacks the nearest monster in that direction. Instead of a standing throw, just allow melee attacks with the weapon. So if you have javelins quivered and you step east in this situation: @....o -- you will automatically throw a...

Yes. It would be an easy pull request to change the minimum place depth from 13 to 9 (in mon-pick-data.h).

You could use LoS to prevent slimes from attacking you. Not sure if that's a good or bad thing.

5. Assuming each turn lasts several seconds (5 for convenience), the average 3-rune winning game of 70k turns would take the character around four days to complete. In this time they do not sleep and eat around fifty rations.

Yes, Gnolls have souls. All species do, except Nagas and Humans.

I think you're right there is a vocabulary problem. Maybe the way forward is to create a layout you think illustrates good design, and contrast parts of it with an existing layout you think has problems. I've personally found this thread a little abstract. Your example with the "loops layout&qu...

Whoops, I built the 2.1 macOS binary as console, not tiles. Here's Bloatcrawl 2.2 with working builds: https://github.com/Hellmonk/bloatcrawl2/releases/tag/2.2.0 Changes Reduce piety for Zodach sacrificing love Improve messaging for Kitsun'e charm Add ghost undead type for Silent Spectre and Mirror ...

Bloatcrawl 2.1 is out, with offline builds for Windows & OSX: https://github.com/Hellmonk/bloatcrawl2/releases/tag/2.1.0 Changes Let tiny species wear robes Buff Bunyip Bug fixes Don't equip Fencer's Gloves at game start for Fencers who are too small (eg Protean) Fix rune lock game modifier sele...

CKO only updates forks once a day, so you'll have to wait a day :-(

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