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I macro animate skeleton to 'c' and pretend I have auto_butcher turned off because the spell is too tedious to use "optimally." You're overthinking this.

The play-times per day of the top 10 players were much lower this tournament than people in this thread think, with only King Poopsock himself playing more than 8 hours per day to once again dominate the tournament: Yermak: play-time/day 11:49:39, total time 8d+9:04:06. ManMan: play-time/day 7:03:58...

bel wrote:No pain, no gain.

Indeed.

Code:: pureman has played 2759 games, between 2018-02-01 01:54:56 and 2018-08-05 22:33:47, won 39 (1.4%), high score 5410381, total score 196966105, total turns 14296130, play-time/day 1:17:53, total time 10d+1:26:34.

Did you acquire that holy weapon? Weapon acquirement with Ash grants cursed weapons, so perhaps that bypasses the no curse feature of holy weapons.

How about by a quite-reasonable measure of development activity? Below are the results of measuring devolpment activity by version number via the number of lines in its changelog entry, excluding bug fix versions like 0.19.1, and starting from version 0.9 (which I chose for the arbitrary reason tha...

108. [dam=41] ScrubMan the Slayer (L27 MuFi of Gozag), blasted by a revenant (dispel undead) on Tomb:2 (tomb_2) on 2018-06-16 01:14:59, with 607441 points after 90940 turns and 3:04:30. I died by underestimating a revenant in Tomb, who in retrospect I could have shut down by reading silence. This r...

That foul-mouthed realtimer was me, and I am a big fat liar: 3729. pureman the Pandemonic (L22 DDFi of Makhleb), escaped with the Orb and 3 runes on 2018-06-01 01:18:36, with 3289499 points after 21625 turns and 0:28:31. https://crawl.jorgrun.rocks/morgue/pureman/morgue-pureman-20180601-011836.txt H...

Here's a MiMo run that followed the entire conduct except for no potions, if you're willing to forgive 1 net I accidentally threw at an orc warrior while clearing Orc: http://crawl.berotato.org/crawl/morgue/ScrubMan/morgue-ScrubMan-20180531-003317.txt Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.22-a0-441-gcf...

3129. inmateoo the Grand Master (L27 VpFi of Cheibriados), escaped with the Orb and 3 runes on 2018-05-08 19:29:28, with 2037120 points after 48867 turns and 1:34:47. Congratulations to inmateoo for breaking the vampire record! I'm sure that this will be just the first of many species records to be...

Please include people beyond just #1 in each category. Even if it's just their names linking to morgues for #2-10. IMHO this would encourage more competition. This is a good idea, although I might reduce it to 3-5 so that the table doesn't get too bloated. This is too much work to do manually howev...

While watching Demise's recent speedrun stream, in which he attempted to realtime speedrun unconventional races like DE, Tr and Fe, I came to the conclusion that having a leaderboard like the combo highscore board on CAO would be a great tool for the realtime community. Thankfully Ultraviolent4 was ...

And if you do want to be on the top 20, as mibe said, you have to play nearly constantly all tournament long :P I placed 9th without playing a single game in the final week of the tournament and committing on average less than 4 hours per day, and Dynast placed 4th playing just 10 days of the tourn...

Conveniently Demise just posted a video in which he did exactly that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHp0-F7aJvM

Clearing the initial vault guards is a joke but running low on HP and MP without having time to rest is still an issue.

Here's a quick and easy one that can save some headaches for aspiring greatracers: on the background page, change the total number of playable backgrounds from 25 (incorrect) to 24 (correct).

Hello my friend, Try adding the following line to your rc file (settings\init.txt in your crawl directory): warn_hatches = true This will prompt a warning whenever you try to take an escape hatch (upward and downward). warn_hatches = true doesn't work very well, because autotravel tries to take pat...

Downward escape hatches are almost never a good idea for the player to take, and can easily be catastrophic if taken accidentally ( http://imgur.com/a/uhLQe ). I therefore suggest that attempting to enter an escape hatch causes a prompt like when trying to enter the Abyss or Pan ("You cannot re...

Shadow creatures is still so overpowered in Zot that I don't mind it having a drawback.

My condolences. You should have been wearing the MR+ ring. Your {rN+, Slay +3, sInv} ring was bad for this character - the extra pip of rN was basically useless (I go most games without any rN), the Slay +3 isn't very useful for a mage and sInv is completely unnecessary. On the other hand, MR is arg...

Shtopit wrote:I just decided that Meatsprint's PC is actually Ignacio.

FR: Ignacio spawns with the Axe of Woe.

Tabbing through a summoner only to realize that auto-combat is attacking a tanky "dangerous" adjacent summon instead of the squishy adjacent summoner is quite frustrating. My suggestion is to modify the auto-combat algorithm with something along the lines of the following (in pseudo-code):...

tldr version Dg challenge:streak Dg with backgrounds choosen in alphabetical order(AE,AM,Ar,...,Wn,Wr,Wz). Every streak is a succes.So if you get this streak:DgAE,DgAM then you win the challenge(with 2 points). Depending how good(and lucky) you are you can get between 2 and 21 points. 1)people who ...

An infinitesimally small number would be the difference between 0.333333333333 repeating * 3 vs 1/3*3. In other words, 1 - 0.9999999 repeating. It's equivalent to 0, clearly, but equally clearly it's not quite the same. The difference between those two numbers is 0.0000 repeating, followed by 1. Th...

I tried to fight in corridors in Slime.

While I wouldn't say he plays optimally, Demise plays well enough to have snagged second place in the 0.18 tournament (in fact you can see many of his tournament runs on the channel). The antithesis of zxc, his style is all about playing fast - I've nearly halved my average real-time for wins since ...

Thanks for the advice everyone. I managed to win with the glaive afterwards. Killing OoF's with a base damage 15 weapon of electrocution was brutal, but with tons of resistance, might and haste I managed it. The demon trident + shield probably would have been even worse despite the extra rF. On a si...

Stick with the glaive. Can you explain why? I know from experience that a demon trident of pain shreds every living creature, I have access to top-tier necromancy (death channel and simulacrum) and the shield of resistance more than makes up for the resistances I'm losing by dropping the glaive of ...

I've been rocking the Glaive of the Guard since before lair on my lucky MfMo run, but I just now found the Shield of Resistance as well as two decent demon tridents (+1 pain and +3 flaming with 4 ?enchant weapon available). Does the tavern think I should switch to trident and shield or should I stic...

ZoFy wrote:
http://crawl.develz.org/learndb/index.html#conjuration_challenge wrote:1. Win a pure conjurer: magic dart, searing ray, IMB, IOOD, no other spells, and no damaging or affecting any monsters with anything else.
2. Won by: jle (3 runes, SpWz, 0.9)

I'm honestly not surprised that this has been proposed before but I think it could be fun for current tavern users to try.

Important question: is this a real-time or turn count speedrun? (I'm guessing the latter). Edit: Nevermind, I figured out that it's a turn count speedrun from the comments. Basically you should have blinked to the stairs after taking 40 damage like you said, then went back downstairs after casting s...

I've heard it claimed before that orb of destruction can win you the game. Let's put this claim to the test. THE CONJURER CHALLENGE Win a game only using conjurations-only spells. More specifically: You may only cast or memorize spells exclusively in the conjurations school. This means only magic da...

With cautious play on a non-speedrun I would have gone with the CPA, but the MR from Dragon King made me a lot more comfortable tabbing through Depths and Zot:5, and I knew I could win with either. If I had found a ring of MR I would have switched. And yeah, my luck was obscene. :) Check my secondar...

Tier 3. Tier 2 is automatic since the win took less than 2 hours, and I hope you'll believe me that I reached Lair in less than 45 minutes. I pushed this character harder than necessary in an attempt to beat my real-time record, but I played too cautiously due to no permanent source of MR for most o...

Are we just letting this go without comment? Do you want to prove me that investment in Invocation for getting hostile Neqoxec/Executioner or weak ranged attack is better than getting weapon/armour/dodging/support spells? If you don't care about hostile Neqoxec/Executioner, you don't need them. I w...

Code:: Rupert the Wild comes into view. He is wielding a battleaxe of distortion.

Fully enchant troll leather armour and learn Ozocubu's armour if possible. The extra MR from your robe does nothing for you (spriggan + Four Winds is already immune to all MR-based attacks) and spriggan speed trivializes the speed penalty from Ozo's. If TLA is not available then robes of (cold) resi...

If you worship Okawaru for the god gifts you're gonna have a bad time.

Think of Okawaru as Ashenzari for melee dudes and you'll fare much better.

Code:: +14 plate armour "Ydghaateiwn" {Slay+5}

Found on a high strength quick blades user.

Code:: the +6 faerie dragon armour {-Tele rC++ rCorr Str+8 Clar}

So close...

Rast wrote:So I could play a HaFi^Oka in trunk, and switch to a new god on the way out with the orb?

Tier 3 lol. Thanks to Rast for the idea. Tiers 1&2 come from my ill-fated HaFi^Uskayaw (posted above).

https://crawl.jorgrun.rocks/morgue/manman/morgue-manman-20160603-201259.txt

Tiers 1&2.

https://crawl.jorgrun.rocks/morgue/manman/?file=manman.txt

I realized late in my game that invocations is actually very important for Uskayaw.

I wanna be Bruce Lee Win a monk of any race with -2 unarmed aptitude. You must be true to the playstyle and actually use unarmed as the vast majority of your damage (you can train backup support in magic or ranged combat, but no weapons and you have to use unarmed for most things). Transmutations a...

Tier 1. Tabbing too fast got me petrified by a catoblepas and that was all she wrote.

https://crawl.jorgrun.rocks/morgue/manman/?file=morgue-manman-20160525-010140.txt

Does anyone know how this losing game got the all-time high score on CAO?

https://crawl.project357.org/morgue/edsrzf/morgue-edsrzf-20160320-213950.txt

"This is a relatively tame Vaults:5." 468240 Manman the Convoker (level 22, -37/181 HPs) Began as a Demigod Wizard on May 8, 2016. Annihilated by an ettin ... wielding a +1 great mace of protection (63 damage) ... on level 5 of the Vaults on May 9, 2016. The game lasted 08:30:13 (100779 tu...

I can't believe I pulled it off! A successful DEMo! http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/ManMan/morgue-ManMan-20160429-231132.txt Thanks to a D:2 Okawaru altar and amazing equipment, this character was actually quite potent. Funnily enough, the game never let me take advantage of DE's greatest strength...

Good luck when you berserk your first juggernaut, caustic shrike or iron giant!

Thanks for this post! I'm having a lot of fun with my current DEMo. A D:2 Okawaru altar and liberal use of heroism got me through the early game, and great gear drops (including boots of the Assassin!) make my character feel OP if anything. I'm hoping to find some hexes and transmutations spells on ...

Trove: Give +4 Ice Dragon Armour Contents: f - a +0 shield of reflection g - a +0 buckler of protection i - a +2 buckler of poison resistance j - the +2 hat of Baypt (worn) {*Drain MR++ Str+10 Stlth+} k - the +2 pair of boots of the Assassin {DetectMon Stab+ Stlth++} m - the +0 cloak of Kitun {*Con...

Back in 0.9 or 0.10, I had managed to get my first successful DECj down to D:20 or so. I can across a ring of lava producing smoke with some imps on the other side and decided to just ignore them and walk around. After I was about halfway past the ring, a demon I'd never seen before emerged from the...

Completely filling the temple floor with zombies to wait out Kiku wrath.

Tier 3! I'd forgotten how fun DE is so thanks for the challenge. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.17.1-1-g73c8601 (webtiles) character file. 3283521 Manman the Petrodigitator (level 27, 170/170 HPs) Began as a Deep Elf Earth Elementalist on Apr 18, 2016. Was the Champion of Ashenzari. Escaped with...

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