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vt wrote:I really think it was not that unclear.

It was not, or at least it was clear to your target audience of orange-names.

It's additive, you can expect to get the full set of charges from both.

When talking about trunk it's best to include a version string from your game and the server you're playing on, since things tend to change rapidly. For example, earlier today I increased the curse rate to speed piety gain, but we have no way of knowing if your feedback is based on the old speed (wh...

Re 1: autofight is written entirely in lua and can be found in the file autofight.lua in the crawl source tree

Re 2: Hmm, I'm not sure; SOLID vis SOLID_SEE: two bushes block los, one is transparent but blocks lof. Maybe look in automagic.lua or the new targeting hooks?

Competition cancelled because the form was spammed with slurs and harassment and I can't be bothered to wade through filth for this. Sorry everyone.

Hi everyone, the 0.26 tournament has ended, you can read a write up of the results here . Thanks everyone for playing. This thread is for feedback on the still evolving rules as well as the webpage. Known issues that we'll try to fix (time permitting) before the next tournament: ⋅ Display...

doc.dcss.io has been updated, enjoy!

And thanks for the suggestion, I'll add something to that effect. Happy hacking.

I went and looked into the ldoc issue again and it turns out it was not any kind of versioning incompatibility. ldoc is just very brittle and will crash with useless error messages when certain things are missing. As of latest trunk (0.27-a0-62-g2af701fde4) and 0.26-b1-60 if you run `make api` it wi...

Hello everyone. Terribly sorry I didn't get it together to organize a CSDC for 0.25, Corona times are strange times indeed. As a consolation I'm organizing a different kind of contest. A guide writing contest for guides in the style of elliptic's SpEn guide . To enter, submit your guides on the Very...

Runed door vaults are not no_tele_into with the exception of ghost vaults. They're fair game for shafts and teleports, and give these features some extra surprise potential. Enjoy!

I would simply remove the item.

I would be interested in consulting the spreadsheets you produce.

Hi everyone, I hope you enjoyed the 0.25 tournament. Thank you all for your input, bug spotting, &c. on the tournament rules overhaul. I want to open a space to collect feedback on how the rules played, as well as share some changes I think are a good idea going forward. ⋅ Use a sum i...

It is still the average, not the sum.

Hepliaklqana wrath prevents you from gaining XP for the duration. A cheese strat that's ruled out by this rule is to abandon hep for the wrath and stick with usk for actual play.

I’ll start this with: part of the reason why the combat formulas don’t see a lot of change is that in the dev team we like the current playfeel of the formulas that were ad hoc matched to behave similar to linley’s ad hoc formulas long ago when crawl was much more opaque with numbers. A consequence ...

I've updated the draft again, thank you for the feedback regarding typos and wording clarity. It now consistently uses "score" for points and "rank" for ordering. As for what the harmonic mean is, these draft rules are a design doc and not the final webpage; they include a link t...

By "nothing's really changed since then" I was referring to tournaments that have happened so far . Oobviously your proposed rules change things quite a bit, and for the better, but they're for a future tournament that hasn't happened yet! Sorry for the ambiguity of that. It appears I too...

First Win: Makhleb will also rank those speed demons who are the first to win a game in the tournament. This category is ranked by the finish time of a player's first win in the tournament. First All Rune Win: This category is ranked by the finish time of a player's first all rune win in the tourna...

Hi everyone, in preparing for the 0.25 tournament we're looking at overhauling the tournament scoring system. I would appreciate both general impressions and specific feedback on the point values in the "banner score" section.

The current draft is available here.

Thanks for the play-testing feedback. For now I'm keeping nameless horrors durably summoned, but I've halved their HP and lowered their AC. I've also toned down miscast effects across the board, and improved status light coloring: grey failure only displays if no damage is possible. If the possible ...

Well this thread went way off topic very fast. Most commentators read neither the pr nor the wiki page. (Thanks to tealizard, petercordia, and duvessa; gold stars for actually reading). In terms of the wrath effects being more severe than the miscasts they're replacing: yes, good. These effects are ...

The current spell miscast system is... an adventure. It is at times flavorful and amusing, but it is so opaque that most players go with the option of "miscast as little as possible", while some players who have read the flowchart spoilers are more cavalier. As a part of my ongoing magic r...

Send us some PRs you coward we know you know how to write them.

For what it's worth, ebering's math in the PR comment is wrong because it equivocates weapon base damage to unarmed base damage, which is only accurate when weapon skill is 0. Yes, I left out the skill modifier to damage for weapons that unarmed doesn't get; I also left out the impact of enchantmen...

Aaand closed. Have to say I disagree with the response (you can't just gloss over the fact that shields are a thing, specially for Tr and Og) and that it doesn't really seem consistent with Crawls own philosophy You said yourself earlier in the thread that your goal wasn't to make big sticks optima...

Can you stop derailing threads with lesswrong sloganism mixed with (willful?) misrepresentation of devteam positions. Regen was not removed because it was like Trog's hand. Regen was removed for the combination of reasons presented in the commit message taken together as a single conjunct. The desig...

The Challenges have commenced!

Click over to the website for week 1.

Welcome Friends, a new installment of the crawl sudden death challenges will be starting soon. The format returns, this time in a five week series, running from 31 January to 6 March. Sign-ups are now open, and will close 7 February. Details can be found on the homepage . There will again be cool pl...

This thread was doing so well sticking to playtesting feedback. Maybe we can get back to it. I’m especially grateful to Sydney for translating cwz feedback. The issue with cflame and slow has been fixed. Foxfire was literally designed with the expressed purpose of being bad in corridors; that FE as ...

Now that it's in trunk Mantis is a fine place for reports.

Update: The branch has been merged into master. Continued feedback for tweaks &c. is of course still welcome. Thank you all for the feedback in the development of this.

It turns out allowing monsters to swap with foxfire and having foxfire attack on this swap were of equal technical difficulty, and that difficulty was lower than I initially expected. Monsters will now walk in to foxfire (taking the hit) to try to get closer to the player, so it no longer can be use...

Thanks for the report, I've pushed a fix.

The issue with the targeter is known, there are some similar issues with other friendly checks in the new spells; the right solution is a bit involved code-wise so it will be a little bit.

sdynet: Thank you for sharing this around with the Korean community! The feedback is very helpful.

One clarification question. I think this is a language barrier issue. By decrease in convenience do you mean "decrease in when you can cast a spell without moving" or something else?

tealizard: Re chasing the technical demons in crawl code. There are a lot of branches with good ideas in the main repo that died when they hit a technical wall; I'm trying to avoid the trap many of my foredevs fell into. The best I can say is "we'll see".

TheMeInTeam: You often write long posts arguing for some position, but just about every time I read one you've taken some strange definition or a "problem" that applies to all of crawl specialized to a spell to argue against it. In the case of conjure flame: using it requires understanding...

Some further updates. Starburst now fires unfuzzed bolts in the 8 crawl directions at range 5 (6 with Veh). Anisotropy and fuzzing seemed cool on first draft but they're not good. Eringya's Noxious Bog is implemented to round out the poison revision. I think this will be in experimental-ready state ...

Regarding "going all the way" and getting rid of single target spells outright. I hope to look at prototyping Implojin's "action button system" using clua once I merge a PR adding a targeting prompt to clua (you might think this is in the wrong direction, I ask you withhold judge...

Thanks for the feedback re: Foxfire. Having monsters trigger them when moving into them turns out to be a huge technical headache; (letting the player do it was fairly easy and has been added to the branch, Doesnty also pointed this out). To keep them from tanking invisible things I've made them SIn...

The previous thread on the topic was a brainstorming thread that concluded with some workshopping of design of specific spells and the beginnings of a sketch for a big magic overhaul in 0.25. I've been hacking away, and in this thread I'd like to gather specific feedback about the results. For those...

Please don’t use mantis to report wiki inaccuracies. The wiki is an independent project run by the chaosforge community and not the dev team, I’m not sure any of us have access. The in game descriptions are the only canonical documentation, if they’re incorrect then it’s a bug. In this case, the in ...

tealizard wrote:My dudes don't realize they can deal with these hydras with summon imp.

Shhh this thread has been producing good ideas let's not get it off course.

Curious. Maybe I'm too scared of hydras. I'm intimidated by the idea that they could one-shot me. I do note you're losing 40% of your hp on a 110%hp species, against a 4-headed hydra. Those numbers don't look promising for the frailer races. (Because 8-headed hydras do show up occasionally) I don't...

petercordia wrote:I'm a a bit worried what this will do to early-game Wizards and FE.
If Conjure Flame is nerfed as suggested, how can a wizard kill hydra's and other rPois nasties in Lair?

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I don't claim this to be anywhere close to the optimal use of the spell. But I think I make my case.

My suggestion for CF would be to spawn a "smoke cloud" on the player which will disperse if a monster walks into it or the player stays in it the subsequent turn and which ignites into the usual fire cloud after two turns. My previous suggestion was adjacent to the player in the direction...

you should not allow CF to create gaps the way it seems it can from the description. This version of CF is otherwise very clean, a major improvement to crawl magic on its own. Let’s workshop this. The options for a clean CF are: ⋅ On the player, then they can step out ⋅ Random...

For the most part the removals are of player spells; monsters will have the old spells. Teaching monsters to use positional spells seems like a nightmare and an exercise in making monsters too smart to be fun to fight. Some pruning of monster spell sets might be warranted but that's an exercise for...

I still think it would be nice if a one-press keybind UI were written to reduce offensive ability use down to a single tap that combined all of [ability selection + activation + targeting confirmation]. Ideally these binds would be visible from a window in-game and not require player engagement wit...

Have you already implemented the new spells described on the wiki page? Implementation is a work in progress (the branch linked on the wiki page is not yet in the main crawl repo, it's my draft work). Currently I've done Air and Fire, and am working on Ice. There's a lot going on here, so it will b...

“Goldifying” food would be a welcome change, especially now that Fedhas no longer uses rations. There is a question of the best place to display the two numbers (rations and chunks) but that can be worked out as a part of the development process. Have at it!

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