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Thursday, 21st December 2017, 01:19

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Cool new god of giving you a weapon

Replies: 9

Views: 2812

Re: Cool new god of giving you a weapon

> Charge Rod:Activates your rod to fire off the spell stored inside the next couple times you hit something. Spellpower depends on invocations I guess? Costs 4 mp, 2 piety. After firing it off, you are Exhausted and cannot charge it again for a few hours. Also, you have to apologise to the monster f...

Monday, 20th November 2017, 20:12

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: One Fly for All Bardings plz!

Replies: 8

Views: 2943

Re: One Fly for All Bardings plz!

Rast wrote:There should also be only one kind of barding.


Maybe kitties can wear it too.

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Thursday, 16th November 2017, 06:24

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: Now YASD - GrFi - Lots of Slaying

Replies: 12

Views: 3478

Re: Now YASD - GrFi - Lots of Slaying

If playing Gr in Pandemonium, never stop flying. There's almost no downside and it's easy to forget.

Monday, 13th November 2017, 19:23

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: rShatter for octopodes.

Replies: 2

Views: 1530

Re: rShatter for octopodes.

Maybe simplify to 1x for all monsters with an extra 1x for LRD-able monsters, which all EE players have memorised anyway.

Friday, 10th November 2017, 19:32

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Hypertext manual?

Replies: 6

Views: 2003

Re: Hypertext manual?

I'd rather just have the wiki pages be actually kept up to date.

Thursday, 9th November 2017, 06:28

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: [CiP] DEFE of Vehumet, looking for advice

Replies: 8

Views: 2464

Re: [CiP] DEFE of Vehumet, looking for advice

> If Vehumet offers me Firestorm, should I learn it before extended?

Level 9 spells are offered as a batch of 3 right at the end of your rewards and never time out, so there's no need to worry about this decision.

Also, LOL at the +8 spear STR-5.

Thursday, 2nd November 2017, 17:52

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Enemies can use stairs

Replies: 4

Views: 1774

Re: Enemies can use stairs

I think actual good AI would be too powerful to be fun given the massive numerical and power advantages of monsters vs PC. Even weak mobs doing things like flanking or calling for help significantly raises the threat level. It's less "oh wow they're so clever" and more "oh pfft I'm de...

Monday, 30th October 2017, 23:52

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: [YASD] DsVM ^Veh - just wanted to show-off....

Replies: 11

Views: 2983

Re: [YASD] DsVM ^Veh - just wanted to show-off....

The gear that I'm most impressed with is that Book of necromancy, but you didn't memorize anything from it...

Monday, 30th October 2017, 22:26

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Is Ru poorly designed?

Replies: 25

Views: 10120

Re: Is Ru poorly designed?

Keep in mind that the exhaust timers for the different abilities are different. Using draw out power only locks you out of Ru actives for a short time, but apocalypse locks you out for a very long time. The calculation is whether using one of the lesser powers can get you out of trouble to a suffic...

Sunday, 29th October 2017, 23:03

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Math Question not Crawl related (its CRAZY tho)

Replies: 10

Views: 3055

Re: Math Question not Crawl related (its CRAZY tho)

Is this what the potion of lignification is for?

Thursday, 26th October 2017, 06:33

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Is Ru poorly designed?

Replies: 25

Views: 10120

Re: Is Ru poorly designed?

Having apocalypse at 5* is good because it's often hard to pick the best low-yield sacrifice to get the last pip. So being able to refuse a couple of sacrifices and not be hurting is a good thing. IMO that makes the last pip of Ru into a series of boring non-decisions. Ru becomes vastly less-intere...

Friday, 20th October 2017, 16:54

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: A Conduct Panel?

Replies: 6

Views: 2118

Re: A Conduct Panel?

I thought you meant automatic conduct tracking like Nethack.

[*] Never used an upstair
[*] Never ate
[*] Never killed anything
[*] Never used melee
[*] Never cast any spells
[*] Never used any scrolls

etc.

Friday, 20th October 2017, 16:49

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: New god- Blorki - God of living and undead

Replies: 7

Views: 1971

Re: New god- Blorki - God of living and undead

Most of my games I already Transform to Dead, usually by D:10 or before.

Monday, 16th October 2017, 16:41

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Scarf of Repulsion vs +2 Generic Cloak

Replies: 21

Views: 7910

Re: Scarf of Repulsion vs +2 Generic Cloak

Probably depends on the branch. I like permanent rMsl for branches with a lot of missiles - snake, shoals, vaults, depths. Less useful in extended and zot.

Sunday, 15th October 2017, 05:16

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Is Ru poorly designed?

Replies: 25

Views: 10120

Re: Is Ru poorly designed?

Having apocalypse at 5* is good because it's often hard to pick the best low-yield sacrifice to get the last pip. So being able to refuse a couple of sacrifices and not be hurting is a good thing.

Thursday, 12th October 2017, 05:37

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: I had a few questions

Replies: 33

Views: 7207

Re: I had a few questions

I must say, my best two characters found an early amulet of gourumand, does that have anything to do with them doing well? Confession: I personally often play better/faster/more confidently with gourmand. Not because it actually helps conserve food, but because it takes off a cognitive load of food...

Thursday, 12th October 2017, 00:18

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: [YASD] was [CiP] DrEE level 16, something unusual

Replies: 13

Views: 3480

Re: [YASD] was [CiP] DrEE level 16, something unusual

torrenera wrote:15 runes with DEFE


Sounds like you understand just fine how a magic user works! :)

Monday, 9th October 2017, 23:59

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Add Poison Arrow to Another Book

Replies: 19

Views: 5711

Re: Add Poison Arrow to Another Book

Remove poison magic, replace with a new skill - Alchemy. Make potions and other consumable evocables that have spell like effects from enemy corpses, so that poisonous and mutagenic corpses can make more damaging and interesting effects.

Monday, 9th October 2017, 16:23

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: CIP--> YASD HOFi of Beogh

Replies: 21

Views: 4584

Re: CIP--> YASD HOFi of Beogh

You should check Felid's recommended branch order, and note that it doesn't even contain Elf:3, reason being that it's much more dangerous than the preceding levels.

Monday, 9th October 2017, 05:48

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: [YASD] was [CiP] DrEE level 16, something unusual

Replies: 13

Views: 3480

Re: [YASD] was [CiP] DrEE level 16, something unusual

Second or third naga proved me that I've not understood how magic user works. Personally, I've found that DEFE^Veh or Sif is easier in terms of learning how to play a blaster mage. I kept splatting Dr long after I'd got the hang of playing elves, because: 1. The uncertain color at level 7 means it'...

Monday, 9th October 2017, 05:23

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: YAVP DrCj^Ru First 2 win streak

Replies: 28

Views: 7018

Re: CIP DrCj^Ru Abyssal rune acquired

Good job, but keep in mind that crystal spear TRJ until it's in range then blowing everything with LRD works kinda well and could have been an easier way to get the 3rd rune (and you had several ?blink so you could have escape kinda well from a fight with bad rolls) That is definitely right. Actual...

Sunday, 8th October 2017, 17:42

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: YAVP DrCj^Ru First 2 win streak

Replies: 28

Views: 7018

Re: CIP DrCj^Ru Abyssal rune acquired

The Abyss challenges, but the Abyss also provides. Somehow picked up the exact tools to beat the abyss, in the abyss itself: h - a +3 sacred scourge of holy wrath (from an angel) g - Apportation Tloc ####.. 1% 1 None r - Regeneration Chrm/Necr ######.... 1% 3 None x - an amulet of magic regeneration...

Sunday, 8th October 2017, 05:57

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: YAVP DrCj^Ru First 2 win streak

Replies: 28

Views: 7018

Re: CIP DrCj^Ru Can't do vaults (Mennas), alternatives?

Dipped into Abyss 1 and it was stupid difficult. Bloody hell, sometimes it's like I'm just not good enough to win the game. :( Main problem is wretched stars and no rMut. Every time I see them for more than a few turns I need to bail out and reset. Only made it to abyss:3 once briefly, and then had ...

Sunday, 8th October 2017, 05:27

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: YAVP DrCj^Ru First 2 win streak

Replies: 28

Views: 7018

Re: CIP DrCj^Ru Can't do vaults (Mennas), alternatives?

Thanks Felid. Shatter doesn't affect slimes much, and melee with the TRJ with this character is suicide. To the abyss it must be, then...

Sunday, 8th October 2017, 05:15

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: YAVP DrCj^Ru First 2 win streak

Replies: 28

Views: 7018

Re: CIP DrCj^Ru Can't do vaults (Mennas), alternatives?

Dang it, Mennas showed up while I was stairdancing Vaults:5. It's hard enough without uniques, this makes it basically impossible. I guess I'm going with Abyssal for the 3rd rune. Or, I could try to take down TRJ by luring it to be adjacent and then repeated LCS. Hmm. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup versio...

Saturday, 7th October 2017, 19:01

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Sacrificed Love to Ru, can I cast Battlesphere and OOD?

Replies: 2

Views: 2000

Sacrificed Love to Ru, can I cast Battlesphere and OOD?

Are battlesphere and ood considered allies?

Saturday, 7th October 2017, 15:48

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: YAVP DrCj^Ru First 2 win streak

Replies: 28

Views: 7018

Re: CIP DrCj^Ru 2 runes down, clearing Vaults

Notes: 1. You have to remove -Tele BEFORE reading ?tele, not after. I didn't know this, either. Good to know. 2. It's pretty quick to remove 2 rings as long as I do it before I get in trouble and not after. 3. Except for Draw Out Power, Ru's panic buttons all require MP, don't wait until 0MP before ...

Friday, 6th October 2017, 17:10

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: YAVP DrCj^Ru First 2 win streak

Replies: 28

Views: 7018

Re: CIP DrCj^Ru 2 runes down, clearing Vaults

Should I wear this: > E - the ring of Kooxticy {Ice -Tele Int+6 Slay-3 SInv} Most of the bonuses are nice and I can swap out to my Slay+5 ring for melee. I'm mostly worried about wearing TWO -Tele rings since the other ring is r - ring "Mapowk" {-Tele MR++ MP+9 Str+3 Int+2} One -Tele, I ca...

Friday, 6th October 2017, 17:01

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: YAVP DrCj^Ru First 2 win streak

Replies: 28

Views: 7018

Re: CIP DrCj^Ru Lerny and Nikola are guarding the swamp rune

Found Boris in Vaults:2. Came back via another stair, promptly got marked because I stupidly forgot to wear my MR++ ring. After that it was a fun obstacle race to the stairs while having to kill all vault wardens and convokers on the way, before Boris could join the party. Got Iron Shot on line. Wen...

Friday, 6th October 2017, 14:13

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: YAVP DrCj^Ru First 2 win streak

Replies: 28

Views: 7018

Re: CIP DrCj^Ru Lerny and Nikola are guarding the swamp rune

I'm currently training SpC - my spellcasting is optimal for single-school spells but less than optimal for double school spells (like iron shot). Since the primary spell I'm trying to get online now is iron shot, I need to up spellcasting more to around 10 before I go back to Conj/Earth again. Now t...

Friday, 6th October 2017, 06:05

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: YAVP DrCj^Ru First 2 win streak

Replies: 28

Views: 7018

Re: CIP DrCj^Ru Lerny and Nikola are guarding the swamp rune

Got the snake rune, but Lerny and Nikola are both guarding the Swamp rune. Lucky ?tele got me out of that situation, but I have no clue on how to solve it later. Probably involves using Apocalypse and then spamming iron shot in some form.

Friday, 6th October 2017, 04:28

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: YAVP DrCj^Ru First 2 win streak

Replies: 28

Views: 7018

Re: CIP DrCj^Ru how do I improve my killdudes

Dramatic moment - got abyssed by some mosquito bumbling into a Zot trap. Ran around like mad, and then found an exit vault, but it was surrounded by transparent rock. Oh no, I had sacrificed evo, no wands of digging... but I had just learned LRD and had just got it castable - blew open a hole and ra...

Thursday, 5th October 2017, 22:59

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: YAVP DrCj^Ru First 2 win streak

Replies: 28

Views: 7018

Re: CIP DrCj^Ru how do I improve my killdudes

Chardump updated.

Met Roxanne in Swamp:2 and she gifted me with the Book of Earth. This plus the LRD in the shop means I'm going all in with Earth magic now.

Thursday, 5th October 2017, 14:19

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: YAVP DrCj^Ru First 2 win streak

Replies: 28

Views: 7018

Re: CIP DrCj^Ru how do I improve my killdudes

Knucklehead mistake: I made an early arcana sacrifice that lost me the air school, which was a strategic mistake, because I found the book of the sky later. Note to self, don't sac arcana on conjurer starts. I think I'll stick with melee for now until I find something good. At this point I've found ...

Thursday, 5th October 2017, 05:48

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: YAVP DrCj^Ru First 2 win streak

Replies: 28

Views: 7018

YAVP DrCj^Ru First 2 win streak

http://crawl.akrasiac.org/rawdata/Blobbo/Blobbo.txt Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.20.1-1-g8b1a95d (webtiles) character file. 1441698 Blobbo the Slayer (level 27, 270/270 HPs) Began as a Green Draconian Conjurer on Oct 1, 2017. Was the Champion of Ru. Escaped with the Orb ... and 3 runes on Oct ...

Tuesday, 3rd October 2017, 14:56

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Stupid ideas -- Started for 0.19, and Still Running!

Replies: 233

Views: 822811

Re: Stupid ideas for 0.19

New god: Ugh Like Ru, but all your sacrifices are quality of life losses. Sacrifice durability - your scrolls burn, your potions freeze Sacrifice automation - no more autoexplore, autoeat, or autobutcher, cannot use CTRL-F or Shift-X Sacrifice insight - can't figure out enemy's remaining health in a...

Monday, 2nd October 2017, 17:56

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: best strategy and god for Mummy's

Replies: 26

Views: 9440

Re: best strategy and god for Mummy's

Novice player playing mummy sounds like you super-hate food management and are willing to quadruple the game's difficulty level just to avoid the food minigame. There's a less painful way to do that: try playing hellcrawl instead then: viewtopic.php?t=21527

Saturday, 30th September 2017, 15:39

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Is crawl too easy now?

Replies: 18

Views: 6907

Re: Is crawl too easy now?

Quality of life changes make the game feel easier because everything goes smoother and faster but don't necessarily increase winrate. However the shorter games makes it possible to make more attempts per time which increases the win totals over time played, which can contribute to a perception of ea...

Friday, 29th September 2017, 01:23

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Player ghost aggravation

Replies: 143

Views: 39707

Re: Player ghost aggravation

Alphaeus wrote:So, I have to stair-dance.


Agree, problem isn't the inherent difficulty of surviving ghosts, problem is that it's almost never a good idea to fight most of them and avoiding them is both trivial and time-consuming.

Monday, 25th September 2017, 22:27

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: (lol j/k) Whisper Farewell When You Leave, Arwen.

Replies: 9

Views: 3329

Re: Whisper Farewell When You Leave, Arwen.

pedritolo wrote:They're being replaced by double maces


Double maces are two handed though. Do they maybe mean double flails.

Monday, 25th September 2017, 06:03

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Player ghost aggravation

Replies: 143

Views: 39707

Re: Player ghost aggravation

I also don't like the metagame where you can (should) assess a ghost's threat level by digging around server morgues to find the exact stats of the player that was killed.

Wednesday, 20th September 2017, 14:43

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: 3 runes for the first time!

Replies: 1

Views: 1288

Re: 3 runes for the first time!

You died because you had cold vulnerability (rC-) on an item that wasn't easily removable. The shield wasn't really helping you at all, a regular non-magical one would have served you better.

Tuesday, 19th September 2017, 16:37

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: rMsl from scarves permanent until scarf removal?

Replies: 3

Views: 1851

rMsl from scarves permanent until scarf removal?

The old rMsl spell ablated after repelling some missiles. Does the scarf version drop or is it permanent? Can it be dispelled by quicksilver bolts etc?

Wednesday, 13th September 2017, 21:27

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Which axe is better?

Replies: 14

Views: 4151

Re: Which axe is better?

Exec axe no question. They're comparable in damage at your current skill level (and Exec axe will strongly dominate in damage the more you get closer to min delay skill at 26, really easy to do with +3 apts), and most importantly -Tele can be a death sentence.

Wednesday, 13th September 2017, 04:24

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Replace permafood with a single generic food item

Replies: 30

Views: 15611

Re: Replace permafood with a single generic food item

This would of course create some problems with necromancers, who wouldn't have to choose between food and servants (or miasma) any more. Food is an annoyance, an ally is a tactical asset. So basically the choice to animate or butcher is just a question of whether you're solid enough tactically to n...

Tuesday, 12th September 2017, 06:50

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: remove mummies and vampires (or let them starve)

Replies: 62

Views: 25936

Re: remove mummies and vampires (or let them starve)

Actually monsters stopped picking up *seen* items, so if you don't explore the level first critters could pick up unseen items and potentially use them against you. Not that that's important or a big deal. Maybe monsters should start waking up and go around randomly picking up stuff and destroying ...

Tuesday, 12th September 2017, 06:31

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: YAVP HOFi^Yred

Replies: 11

Views: 3676

Re: YAVP HOFi^Yred

I don't think Mennas would have spammed his spells. Spectral creatures tend to cast less than their originals for some reason, I think their targetting gets wonky when not used against the player. I enslaved Josephine and was anticipating a lot of delicious negative energy fireball awesomeness heali...

Monday, 11th September 2017, 15:46

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: YAVP HOFi^Yred

Replies: 11

Views: 3676

Re: YAVP HOFi^Yred

You probably could have taken mennas with your army, but a good chunk of your army would have been shredded. Yup, and that's the same army that saved my butt when I got brainlessed in Zot:5. 2 OOF and one ALich, and me brainless, I thought I was dead for sure, but I hit Recall undead servants, hast...

Monday, 11th September 2017, 07:25

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: duvessa's spell guide for cool people

Replies: 145

Views: 586368

Re: duvessa's spell guide for cool people

4Hooves2Appendages wrote:I've seen people suggest that Discord is good in Zot, but I haven't tried it myself.


Works very well on draconian packs, who have low MR, travel in packs, and are one of the few Natural-type groups in the endgame. I'll let others speak to whether it's strategically sound to invest in it.
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