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Pretty certain they meant that you can only play each combination of species and background once, so several hundred games before you're out. It's still a pretty bad idea IMO, but it's not that cruel. that would indeed do very little and is not what I meant, though I did consider it. if abolishing ...

how about only counting the first game played for each species/background? I can't believe that you guys are actually seriously discussing this idea. The bar is pretty high for the "worst idea ever" title, but this certainly qualifies as a candidate. An average player probably loses 20-so...

Of course, if your streak breaks on the 10th game, then you just give up and don't play for the rest of the tournament since it is now literally impossible for you to win, so that would save some playtime... Or perhaps the point system for streaking could also be changed, if this idea is adopted......

how about only counting the first game played for each species/background? should cut down on the grind without much if any negative impact on casual players. probably increases variance at the highest level but if that's even a bad thing i think it's still the lesser evil.

if not this, then at least make the brands unique to one weapon type each. it's redundant to have poisonous needles/tomahawks/javelins all in the game.

you can press * and then any key to get the same effect as pressing the key while holding ctrl.

this one is similar but works like you want it to. why is beyond me though, at a glance they seem to do the same thing, but i'm not very familiar with the syntax. { add_autopickup_func(function(it, name) if it.is_useless then return end if it.class(true) == "armour" then local good_slots =...

it is tracked on the score sheet, do you mean like that or are you looking for something else? !decentchar will give you a random combo that you haven't played. i also forgot to mention greatoneandwon and greateroneandwon which could be the next step (win a combo on the first try with each species/b...

i did: :if you.gourmand() or you.race() == "Felid" or you.race() == "Kobold" or you.race() == "Ghoul" then auto_butcher = full :else auto_butcher = hungry :end there is probably a cleaner way to do it, idk. i imagine hooks for background and god are similar.

polytheist and decentplayer are fun. tiamat, greatrace, greatrole, and fanatic are a bit more repetitive but that's also something do to.

why are you so desperate to train a weapon on a caster^vehumet? is there anything right now that your current spells can't handle? i would train some evocations and then probably more magic with this character.

It seem to me these last two are worth thinking carefully about for developers of crawl or crawl-like games. If it's more fun not to have to manage skills in the way you do in crawl, that suggests a lot of room for reform in standard crawl skilling. The recent level targeted training change is a st...

WingedEspeon wrote:Add 5 more runes. getting 20 rune turns the orb of zot into the icosahedron of zot, which is better than the orb of zot because it can be evoked to generat a random number between 1 and 20 inclusive.

your score is then multiplied by this number.

i like the feel of this version more than the others, but it's likely a bit too strong, maybe try it with +6 or +7 apts. running a gnvm^ash currently with two runes, and so far i've never felt limited by skills at all, i can just use whatever i find as if i've trained for it from the start. i guess ...

don't forget "." (everything on the current floor)

not really playing any other roguelike actively right now. i want to get into sil and qud more, and intend to play through the tome4 expansions at some point (there's a lot i like about the game, but it's so long i always seem to lose interest halfway through). hoping the next brogue update is not t...

As you read the scroll of identify, it crumbles to dust. _e - the +11 great sword of Defence by Offence {antimagic, rN+ Dex+5} As you read the scroll of identify, it crumbles to dust. _k - the +10 plate armour of the Grey Skies {MR+ rCorr} pretty good haul from orc for my minotaur, death by hubris inc

i think the second is much easier to read at a glance (at least as long as you know what you're looking for), since there is more redundancy distinguishing the names from each other. it gets more taxing if there are only a few letters that differ.

If we are going to seriously talk about male vs. female representation in uniques, won't we also need to talk about non-binary gender, trans, etc.? Possible workaround: refer to all uniques and gods as neutral "they" in descriptions. i like to think of all the uniques that had their prono...

iirc X > lets you cycle through portals that you can enter, and skips shops. doesn't help much on levels with other portals, but otherwise it's convenient. i would prefer a better long term fix but it's something in the meantime.

AM and Hu are a lot like Ar but with a hand crossbow instead of wands. +2 accuracy and 12 base damage is insane for the first few dungeon levels. However, Hu is left in an awkward situation when it inevitably runs out of bolts, whereas AM can lean on Slow and Cause Fear. (Hu's short sword and extra...

Code:: b $ 1272 gold the amulet of the Everdark {Faith rN+++ Str-4 Slay+6}

obviously, i'm playing a demigod. still possibly better than any vanilla amulet.

thrown brands are a pain and should probably go away eventually. as a slightly less radical alternative perhaps they could all be unique to either tomahawks or javelins. for example, remove poisoned and returning javelins and steel and silver tomahawks, while keeping their counterparts. maybe even r...

Could give lignification as an active ability, make all other actives available only when lignified, make all fedhas allies immobile and make them disappear when lignification ends. i like it. maybe have fedhas buff lignification somehow too, like with trog and berserk? though not sure if that's ne...

Is Chei no longer the best in 0.20? chei was never the best. Except being the most common god for speedrunning. Cheibriados has most high scoring games. sure, i just didn't get the impression that this thread was about speedrunning. i could be wrong. but you're right in that "best" is imp...

Phew, rough night of crawling... think the best I did was a XL9 or so VSMo. I was really surprised by how annoying Troll was to play, that increased metabolism is not fun at all. Why a strong race should be balanced by tedium is beyond me, but plenty of normal metabolism species left to work with! ...

huh, i found them to be pretty much the opposite of demigods, getting skills quickly and relying on a god to carry them late game. i've had fun playing them, but i can see them becoming samey after a while. otoh so do a lot of other species. random thought: the current version seems to me like they ...

I did some "Berdering" for fun. In particular I used the following Sequell queries: !lg * recent urune>5 god=chei s=race !lg * recent urune>5 god=chei !won s=race And looked at all races which had at least 15 games for the first query. (I also ran some other queries with all 15 runes; did...

ouch. well, you can try to go northeast and loop around to avoid the eel on the current screen, it can't follow you over the bridge. you're probably likely to die while walking away but there's a chance. if there are more eels that way i guess random effects or reading scrolls blindly are your outs.

i don't see a 100% safe option, but i think i'd settle for hopping west, which gets you away from the eel but forces a fight with the centaur. then temporal distortion to get it into melee, and beat it up with the aid of a snake or two. if you know there are other monsters in that area this becomes ...

i'll give it a shot: vehumet makes you better at things you're already good enough at, and does little to shore up your weaknesses. though still better than sif who usually does neither. i do enjoy playing with vehumet since it's so straightforward, no need to worry about training invocations or usi...

why not both? keep all the current commands, and also add 'u'se that lists everything. everyone happy? when i'm in a sticky situation and don't know off the top of my head exactly what consumables i have, i'll scroll through all of q, r, and V. would be nice to just press u to see everything at once...

DrKe wrote:updated for 0.19

what changed and why?

I'll try here first and maybe avoid making a thread, although if no one answers I might get desperate enough later on! Two slots left on my team: "When lesser beckoning goes horribly wrong"! We're not planning on being super competitive, I'd like it if you can get a win or two, but we are...

and some general thoughts: i was surprised to see more caster buffs. i think mage backgrounds are already way stronger than others since equipment is scarce and your starting book lasts much longer than your starting weapon. every buff after that (better spellcasting, lower level multi-school spells...

i tried going for 15 again and am stuck on tomb:1. there's no rune and no downstairs, even after shattering the walls. also, the hell branches were still 7 floors deep. upon entering dis:7 i got the following message, possibly related: "Lua error: C:/Users/Mikaela/Desktop/crawl-ref/crawl-ref/so...

i'm up for it too, account name is the same as here

well, i died with 15 runes while trying to go for the zot:100 challenge, if that makes you feel better.

got tier 1-2 at least, but it still stings.

i tried going for a 15-runer and found something gamebreaking: no pan (or abyss) entrance generated anywhere. i assume the intention is that every character should be able to try extended? personally i guess i'm more interested in making "crawl but shorter" work properly than in "craw...

ugh, died to grinder waking up just after i hit level 5, killed me before tp kicked in

in, let's do this

i found one the other day that wanted 2 scrolls of acquirement. not sure if worth it, would you go for it? i never got the scrolls anyway. If 1) the Trove was found first and 2) I then found a stack of two or more ?acq, I would probably go for it. I would never save one ?acq in hopes to find anothe...

i'd try to get the snake rune and clear vaults to 4 first. maybe depths too. is there a reason why you really want to deal with lerny for your first rune?

i found one the other day that wanted 2 scrolls of acquirement. not sure if worth it, would you go for it? i never got the scrolls anyway.

i used lear's in my kobold^nemelex win, to save inventory slots. probably not optimal but reduced tedium a bit. dragon king is a pretty awesome find for anyone who can use it unless you are in extended with infinite enchant armour scrolls already. it's better by far than the average armour i finish ...

nice work! sadly, my game crashed after i trained a single skill to 27 and got prompted to choose a new one (crashed upon closing the prompt), so that probably needs looking at. since the game state apparently reverts to my last staircase, i can replicate it if needed. or i could just get around it ...

neither of those is noticable enough to be worth your last !cure mut. if you find another or if you find !benemut and want to clear first, sure. otherwise just ignore them.

my throwing experiment turned into a fairly easy win. had tons of ammo left over by the end. it was a little funny how i got mutated by the stairs during the orb run. Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.17-a0-1787-g7a43428 (tiles) character file. 2679722 em the Hawkeye (level 27, 314/314 HPs) Began a...

more thoughts after playing some more: the ranged buff is huge. my crossbow hunter was able to clear lair and orc without ever doing any melee combat. probably too strong. otoh the odds of a good launcher dropping is lower i suppose, and was what eventually led to my demise in d:5. i really can't re...

the windows compiled works fine for me so far. i just started a game and am totally confused about everything since i've only played webtiles until now and the interface is slightly different. i'll get used to it. next i'll see if anything breaks when i try to import my usual rc file. i didn't notic...

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