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Yo dpeg, not to tag team you or anything, but have you guys ever considered linearizing and/or otherwise simplifying some of the formulas that make the actual numbers so inscrutable?

Pretty much the same deal as in starcraft. Creates an indestructible grate-like obstruction on a tile or collection of tiles. Monsters with the spell either use it to cut off escape routes, block favorable terrain from players (i.e. chokepoints), or prevent players from approaching monsters with sca...

No, the whip is not worth switching. You don't need to put points into str on this guy. Dex until 24. You should wear decent plate if you find/have it. Translocations is for phase shift. Passage is good, but it's best to focus on not needing to escape, i.e. high defense and offense, with formicids. ...

All cool tavern posters play on cszo. You should try playing there if you want protips, imo.

e: Here's a protip to whet your appetite: Try expanding your search to the missed connections section of craigslist.

Oh wait, I misread. Okay, if these are actually fast, that's p dangerous.

Berder wrote:Yes, 30 auts.

This thing is almost orb of fire danger level for stabbers that may not have an effective way to kill it or escape it when they are entering depths.

Watch out, Chei statue stabbers...

lol, looking forward to seeing one of these in the wild.

what kind of awful character This is the core of it, because crawl offers all manner of "awful" character combos. If you think crawl is easy, stop playing only the easy combos, and play some "awful" ones. But, no, instead you want the game made even harder for all just to serve ...

Sounds okay as a monster for orc, but I'm skeptical of things that appear with packs then kill other monsters in the pack with some side effect. I think an AI tweak to keep other monsters from getting rekt by it would be needed.

I have to say, I think the current system provides an excellent balance of control and low maintenance. It's one of the best things about crawl. In practice, I think a system like this would just add another failure mode for inexperienced players. Even if your xp is being wasted by autoskill, at lea...

Generally speaking, you want to pay attention to people whose go-to models for human interactions are high school kids who thought he was a loser and the X-Files, especially when such people offer vague and equivocal affirmation of what you want to be true.

Yes, diminishing returns on physical skills tends to start after 2 runes. Let me rephrase my original statement: The higher your skill, e.g. your weapon skill, the less you gain in terms of survivabilty for every skill point. That starts early: Raising your weapon skill from 3 to 5 is huge. From 8 ...

Te > DE, imo, but they're close.

re: Fault tolerance, there's also luck tolerance to consider. For example, how exposed are you to bad altar placement or bad item generation? How would your guy do if he got shafted 3 floors in early d? etc.

archaeo wrote:gamma I'd suggest trying a love line segment first before jumping straight to triangles

sick dunk b

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I didn't mean that you will definitely die if you waste resources, I just meant the odds of death correlate positively with amount of wasted resources.

emikaela wrote:
yesno wrote:i wonder why women don't post here

We do, you just have to stop assuming that everyone is male until proven otherwise

Good point, but I think yesno's talking about all the women who don't post because of the guys yesno's pissed off at in this thread. Who knows how many people that could be?

In crawl, idle/useless skills, xp, gold, etc. get you killed. Don't skill air when you could be skilling something that directly contributes to your survival right now.

I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess you mean d:2, not u:2...

Staves are all over the place. Books are a reason to start skilling a school, not staves.

What happened next will restore your faith in humanity.

duvessa wrote:fuck i hated school

Guess you should've fucking educated yourself then.

One thing that would help in the long run is cutting a lot of the bad character types so that you're not balancing the whole game around keeping them viable.

Also, re: smaller maps, imo part of the problem is intricate maps with narrow corridors. One of few things tomenet got right: Corridors should always be at least 2 squares wide. Get rid of the spirals, generate fewer hairpin turns.

Orb on U:5, picking it up teleports you to orb chamber in Z:5. No other way to enter zot.

Kiku's good for melee dudes. Guaranteed endgame quality weapon by the end of lair, miscast protection for a school where the good spells don't need spellpower. Get zombies anywhere. Solid choice.

Less offensive and more accurate.

Don't use more than one EA on the mottled dragon hide. You need AC, but you don't need it that bad. Plan to use FDA in the endgame.

Trog akbar!

Yes, and many reasonable nerfs have been proposed, as I mentioned upthread. This is not one of them.

Don't skill stealth to 27. You've already wasted a ton of xp, don't send good money after bad. Soon hexes aren't going to work on the dangerous stuff anymore and you're going to have to either get some other kind of spells or you'll have to switch to a more heavy-melee oriented playstyle. I recommen...

Actually, fedhas is only the second best god. They're close though and reasonable people could disagree, imo.

Actually, I usually take the best god on the first floor I encounter altars, with a short list of take-on-sight gods. I just notice that when that happens to be Trog, games go very smoothly. Anyway, randomly giving hostiles instead of allies is tedious and bad. The remedies are straightforward and b...

Counterpoint: Trog is great. Also, the fact that you can't cast any given spell and have Trog is a relevant balance consideration as long as Trog remains the best god in crawl.

As you may have guessed from my comment, I'm not keen on hostile demon summons either.

There have been lots of reasonable proposals for toning down animate skeleton, including some made in this thread, e.g. HD vs. spellpower dependence in various permutations. I'm amazed by the OP though. This is exactly the kind of bad-random pseudo-challenge that needs to go where it still exists. L...

Going the wrong direction. Magic sucks down too much xp as it stands. If anything, removing spellcasting and adjusting fail rate formulas, etc. to compensate is the way forward.

Well, the problem is only gamma has the grit to do summoner speedruns anymore. Testament to the indomitabilty of the human spirit, rly.

One time I was on d:2 and I hit a goblin with a spear (reaching, natch). It died in one hit.

Make of that what you will.

omg don't go shields... Take dex for all stat upgrades. You should skill dodging to about 5 levels behind armour until armour is at 20. Lots of people skill invocations all the way to 27 w/ qaz, but in reality, you just shouldn't go qaz. Anyway, turn off fighting until both armour and dodging are ar...

Worth pointing out that if you go spectral weapon + polearms, the downside is that you went polearms.

The streaking data is a product of people's playing preferences, not optimal play. People intensely dislike "optimal" ally play, even though it's good AF. I see the same thing in my own experience with Su's -- I die because of impatience, not because I can't easily wreck everything. But it...

Because xbows are a better defensive skill than shields. If you get a really good demon blade, okay, but xbows are 2-handed and unless you want to put 25 levels into throwing, they're your best option. Also worth mentioning, you'll easily hit the 70-85 AC+EV defense range with a KoBe around v:5 anyw...

Yes, diminishing returns on physical skills tends to start after 2 runes. That's what spells like phase shift and shadow creatures are there for. Cloud spells are conjurations, hence bad.

With KoBe, you want to start with long blades and skill that in the early game. Use good daggers if they generate, but don't skill short blades, just use the crosstraining in early D if you have good brands available, e.g. electrocution, venom, maybe draining depending on what your long blades situa...

Worship Chei and wear Gold Dragon Armour. A wise man once said: "Get big or go home." In all seriousness, though, compromising on defense for spells is bad unless the spells are summons. If you want a "hybrid," get two runes and either FDA, storm DA, or shadow DA, then learn som...

The proposed spell differs very substantially from recall -- it has a much stronger positioning effect. It would be completely broken when used with kiku or yred zombies, for example, an area where recall is already quite strong. I think it'd be pretty broken in combination with elemental force and ...

The numbers I see here suggest the following: 1. Polearms are sometimes better in 1v1, well-controlled fights, especially against weak opponents. This strikes me as fairly obvious. 2. Raw damage from polearms is generally lower at comparable xp investment given equal aptitudes. Given my analysis upt...

Significant player nerf, imo. Current doors are quite powerful.

Please stop wasting my time. This is worse than the distortion thread. I'm not interested in discussing this with someone who wants to equate weapons having base damage 15 and 17.

This would be a great use of spell levels. The effect Berder describes would stop some or all monsters from approaching you and keep your summons attacking every turn much more consistently than they do moving on their own. It would achieve the first faster and more effectively than recall in many s...

Polearms are not just slightly worse than M&F. If you cannot reliably exploit the range of polearms in fights, it is not worth 4 to 6 extra xp levels to use them. One extra attack is not reliably exploiting range.

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