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• Stock ammo will be infinite, brand ammo finite, and all ammo will mulch
• Chunks removed. Use 'e' to eat corpses on the ground.
• God gifts will drop pre-identified
• Turn queue will be displayed

UI Negatives: I agree with you assessment. Enemy strengths and weaknesses would be better represented with symbols and mouse-over explanations of those symbols or at least short hand like player status effects: -rP, Mindless, Fast, Small. Lack of clarity is definitely a major obstacle for getting ne...

If the roguelike radio episode is any indication, URR will be procedurally generated Carmen Sandiago.

Why is 'c' used and not consolidated into 'e'? Is there a time when you are standing on a corpse and you'd choose to eat food rather than chunk it?

At the very least 'e' should chunk a corpse and eat a chunk if the player presses it while standing on a corpse.

Could Dark Souls 1 be co-opted into fun traditional roguelike? Assume that bonfires would be removed. There are more branches in Dark Souls than crawl and each branch tends to have a specific challenge and rule set. Players tend to be able to choose from several branches at any given time - but beca...

I think this monster idea should be revisited. Spawning Area: Orcish Mines and Elf. Invisible, Low HP, No Physical Attack Only Two spells: a. Telekinesis (throw item from the floor at target - range = LoS) and b. Blink. By itself it should be an annoyance rather than a threat, but in the hall of bla...

I'm not sure there is an elegant way to do that for this particular message, though. True. If players had a way to see how many skill points they need to reach specific skill level for given skill... Point buy would work. Instead of allocating 40% of xp in this skill and 60% in that, have a running...

1 strength = d (1/39*((10+[1-10])/20) percent of the base damage of the attack before fighting or weapon skill. Or an average of between .7% and 1.28% per point of strength (depending on weapon type) Stupid question: How is this formula supposed to be read? Does d stand for damage roll or die faces...

This mechanic increases the opportunity cost of skill choice and prevents advancement of low level skills from becoming trivial later in the game.

This might change my behavior in that I would be more careful about what to train for the first few levels.

So if I understand correctly: while enemy skill xp is static, the amount skill points required per level is a positive function increasing with player level? Citing the OP's example: while that hobgoblin is still awarding 50xp at D:6, the amount of skill points required to move from 0.0 to 0.1 throw...

I've noticed on a SpEn that after a while low level enemies stop providing skill XP. Killing that hobgoblin on D:6 with Throwing at 0.0 and 100% will result in 0 skill xp earned. Is this determined by the level differential between you and the enemy? Is it better to dive to seek harder enemies at th...

I'm also a beginner to the game and have just started to find the Lair survivable. MiBe is definitely an excellent combo for survivability against Yaks. They provide chunks so you can easily chain beserks against them at basically no cost. Keep track of important escape items: haste, blink, and tele...

If there is a problem with too many charges there are many better solutions than item destruction:

• Eliminate the wand
• Lower max charges on the wand
• Less effective recharge for the wand

I could see this working for a 7DRL. I'd recommending it being streamlined to simply add status effects to defenders being attacked while standing in a door frame rather than requiring the player to press 'c' next to one.

adozu wrote:it's harder than dark souls (most dark souls players have a bit of a masochistic side)

I was playing Dark Souls II with some friends and recommended DCSS. They were horrified by the idea of losing their character on death and it proved to be a major hurdle in the discussion.

What's the best way to introduce or describe DCSS to an outsider that has never heard of roguelikes but is familiar with modern RPGs?

For instance, how would you spark the interest of a hardened "Dark Souls" veteran?

Personally I like the quirks of circle LoS when it comes to approaching enemies diagnally. I always internalized this as flanking rather than approaching head-on.

Also learned of this game some time ago. Wish it hadn't taken me so long to get into it. Easily the best designed roguelike.

Thanks for all your hard work!

If the question is "what weapon is best in most situations for my character?" why not simply flag/highlight/star it in inventory upon identification? Even without taking brands into account (holy, flaming, freezing, vampiric, electro etc.) best weapon vs monster with AC 0 can be really di...

well undead are magic right? it's magic poison that disrupts their magic, same applies to golems, spellcasting statues and whatever That's acceptable. It all comes down to how viable and powerful you want to make the god at the end of the day. If everything becomes vulnerable to this god's damage t...

If the question is "what weapon is best in most situations for my character?" why not simply flag/highlight/star it in inventory upon identification?

Balance: I like the idea of poison brand being a temporary power rather than permanent brand although the distinction is a bit unimportant for the moment. Potions of poison doubling as might as magic is a great idea! Although as your regen gets higher that might unbalance the game later since you'd ...

I'm a new player and would appreciate this feature. In a game of with permadeath, I think information should be as forthcoming and transparent as possible.

Edit: In my excitement I posted woefully off topic, so here's a different comment

I think Jorgr needs an umlaut and you're set! Players will call him Hiss anyway :p

*Edit after further thought* A Max_HP bar in and of itself probably isn't so helpful to a new player without revealing more statistics. If your goal is to identify threats that the player would have to risk many turns to defeat in melee, why not add a Best/Worst/Average analysis a la brogue? Example...

Thanks all for explaining!

I felt very stupid to be unable to figure it out via the manual.

Noob-question: saw someone on web tiles cycle through all the stairs on a level before selecting one to travel to. How is this done? Ctrl+X only shows what's in view. Thanks!

Fourth. 0.15 ran but 0.16 will not on OSX 10.6.8.

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Re: Predict the future of Crawl development

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Dark Souls RL

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Skill XP Dropoff

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Best Way to Introduce Crawl?

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Cycle Through Stairs?

Re: 0.16 for Mac OS X 10.6.8?