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Ah, you're right. It's been that way since... 0.16! Your work? it's a little inconsistent, though, that the 'almost dead' indicator rounds health up (1-20% shows ~1/5 the bar), while the 'lightly wounded' indicator rounds health down (81-99% shows ~4/5 of the full bar), while the other indicators co...

That isn't what i said at all, it isn't even remotely close to a synopsis. well, Siegurt, I don't know then! Your whole post reads like a complaint or rebuttal, in particular regarding removing an available skill+effect set (which is plainly: blasting and hexing): By the same logic we could elimina...

let's recap: Siegurt claims that training evo is not as interesting unless it lets you blast or hex monsters damn hard with common but limited items. (I think; with Siegurt, you never know, he could be simply musing.) jwoodward48ss takes the opportunity to note that OP encroaches upon the Needle Sta...

i think 18 base ac (50% more than GDA) is way too good even with ponderousness
i mean, people know running is powerful but dislike it; they wouldn't mind the ponderousness

Most wands can be replicated with other existing kinds of items; witness: Iceblast - buff exploding tomahawks Digging - make exploding tomahawks dig tiles adjacent to the center of the blast Disintegration - cool and elegant, so much so that it should be a spammable rod Enslavement - frenzy needles ...

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what's the rush? Another version: all gold in sight automatically apports itself into your pocket, at the speed a hasted spriggan, or like a Jiangshi/Sixfurhy. This is pure visual fluff but I'd like it.

have you actually tried killing a monster over deep water while worshiping gozag?

ha, yeah, stealth affecting monster memory/determination is documented but weird nonetheless

tabstorm wrote: just put everyone under Xom wrath at all times

an actual reason to worship Xom?

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Wahaha wrote:What other tile the has the properties of "can be fired through freely but cannot be walked through"?

BUSH

Sexy.

Phoenix Dwarf

Like Deep Dwarf but cannot heal by any means; loses Device Recharging.
Reaching 0 HP makes you die and resurrect, like a felid, with 1 less max HP.
You stop resurrecting when you reach 0 max HP.

ideas for improving the health bar: ⋅ don't just remove chunks of the HP bar. Paint them red instead, and leave the remaining HP green. Just like the player. ⋅ there are 5 states of woundedness but the "almost dead" sliver is noticeably smaller than 20% of a tile's widt...

Yes, well, hopefully, you can get to your points henceforth, instead of trying to manage other people, which is starting to piss me off. Shard made a point about the best games. I have yet to see your example about how compromise improved your game, or even some game you know about. I don't know wha...

it's fun anyway and CYC was never innocent

Relevant: not just what you're trying to explain, but how you frame the whole conversation. You've been talking about anger and hostility this whole thread, nobody else. Also you say that people have different understandings of fun - no joke - okay, but what is the consequence of that? You say it as...

the main objection i can think of is that it will make it hard and annoying to shatterkill monsters on floors where shafts can form, and overpopulate bottom floors

My philosophy is always aimed at bigger and better. It is always aimed at more fun *for a variety of people with differing tastes*. I have a personal belief that *thoughtless* removal is poor work. I have a personal belief that when a section of playerbase wants something gone, but another section ...

oh sorry, I wasn't done yet no one in their right mind would say "removing food is good because removing stuff is generally good." Right, that has absurd consequences, and I don't think anyone really says that. But rather many people say that "removing X is bad because removing stuff ...

jwoodward48ss wrote:And there are far more dwarven uniques than Mi uniques.

Because Jorgrun is the equal of TEN Asterions!

One thing brought up in the conversation is the loss of fragile monsters with dangerous weapons. But if that's desirable, why not add a rare "goblin lord" monster that spawns with (and can pick up) branded weapons? The description can even say that they're otherwise identical. The objectio...

replace the minotaur with a formicid

ah so you want me to justify how Haelyn's assertion has no evidence behind it? (note: I said "AFAIK, unsupportable" - change my mind)

I should have been more descriptive; if it helps, I meant "every moment of a player's attention which is diverted to a feature that is "good enough" is not spent on anything better." Crawl is not the only game in the world, but competes with hundreds of better games. It is better...

I swear I'd never be able to tell whether icicle is >50% or <50% irresistible, from just playing. It's bad documentation. I've just checked and Glaciate description doesn't even mention its partially irresistible damage. Wouldn't even need numbers, just something like "A big part of the damage ...

Yes, eh. Unsupportable, groundless. It's a bad idea. oh geez, you went on so many tangents. I told you to start a thread but maybe you need to start a blog. Bad ideas can help a developer create good ideas, or get a project started, sure. But then you're talking about the creative process, not the g...

@Haelyn Mediocre weapon types are interesting for being faster, requiring less XP, or simply having their mediocrity overwhelmed by other reasons: consider +11 trident vs +0 demon trident. Plain morningstars, though? Much of the time, you will have approximately 1 good weapon and up to thousands of ...

this seems needlessly complicated and imprecise why not just use base damage instead of your ranks? multiply by some factor corresponding to your strength and skill (doesn't have to be exact) add enchantment, modify by brand (add or multiply), divide by speed, and you get average damage doesn't take...

-_- monsters still trade up weapons

e: even your snappy comebacks are fail

It's very hard to qualify in any serious sense things like this, regarding context and flavor since they're largely subjective. For example, I don't understand what the nuts you're on about. I wouldn't suggest something if I thought it would break context, and I don't get the point of your analogy....

so if I understand it correctly, Pur is problematic because... Vit is stronger?
I mentioned Ru because Draw Out Power cures you of roughly the same statuses as Pur, and gives not-exactly-minor healing.
Is there something that redeems Ru when Elyvilon is so unforgivable?

oh hi, mps, long time no see! so what is this Zin made of: 0*: life protection, rHell, rMut, donate gold 1*: recite (which can also pacify) 2*: 3*: imprison 4*: purification (actually a buffed vitalization) 5*: sanctuary 6*: cure all mutations I would be more OK with this if we also simultaneously r...

"i personally don't mind, therefore nobody cares" why write or even read about something you don't give a crap for I mean, I don't feel an urge to go to every thing that doesn't concern me, to let everyone know how little I care in this thread, you've said ways these proposals make the gam...

And honestly, from the gameplay point of view, it makes more sense for uniques to have the same equipment every time while normal, far far more often encountered monsters, to have different ones. Eh? I think this quote effectively posits that it's best to have all monsters be eligible for being &qu...

that's if you stick with Ru; if you abandon for Trog 100 turns later, your monk bonus is wasted

Part of the proposal is making most standard equipment plain, or just 1 predictable brand. Reapers are known for unpredictable scythe brands. There are also fire giants, spriggan riders, necromancers, centaurs, yaktaurs, and afaik javilineers and anubis guards. Ogres are close. I don't know what you...

He's a deep dwarf with 45 AC. Will he even take any damage from the fire?

I appreciate the merits of ion frigate's recommendation to "abstract away monster weapons". At the same time, it may be somewhat too radical-sounding, and it takes away a good chunk of flavor of being able to see and play with the equipment of killed monsters. The following achieves many o...

No powers unless explicitly included (so no life-saving): ZIN 0*: Donate Gold 1*: Recite 2*: Purification 3*: Imprison 4*: active Str/Int/Dex/HP/MP boost (crib Vit + DV) 5*: either passive suppression of mutations or passive immunity to malmutating effects ELYVILON 1*: Lesser Healing 2*: passively s...

The first five pictures show that you can kill your own wizards and priests, if you don't want them, without incurring penance. Just position them into water and aim a wand of flame next to them. The generated steam kills them, indirectly.

yes, but why is your first comment and focus centered around this extremely unlikely and often completely irrelevant event?

rework Ignorance?

Make Lugonu not evil, just chaotic. One: distortion weapons are not evil. For good reason! We don't want the good gods to make your hand unusable, or make you risk wrath or banishment. This is a discrepancy: Lugonu is evil, but its signature brand isn't? Two: impromptu conversion to Lugonu is often ...

I believe Sandman25 was talking about orbs of fire and their Bolt of Fire, which would become blockable with the stoppage ego. Mennas/Asterion/Wiglaf are fast or can haste themselves, but not Donald/Louise. Did I miss anyone? They could be rigged to never generate with a shield of stoppage. I'm not ...

also wearable by spriggans, don't forget the spriggans
as a side-effect, it would no longer generate with rF/rC(/ponderous?) under rare circumstances
+1, iron dragon armour is much cooler than crystal and it could stand to be more available anyway

being nice is about having an environment that's fun to post & discuss things in. it's not fun to interact with people set to 'maximum abrasive' 24/7.

Speak for yourself.

Magma, icicle, etc. have different proportions of elemental and physical damage. There's good reason to make it 50/50: you could actually remember what the composition is, and tell the player, like is done with "up to half again as much" brands. And 50% is good enough. I doubt anyone would...

fireball isn't a bolt spell or penetrating projectile, plus fireball never misses, so no

wow I can't believe duvessa liked my suggestion to ADD something to the game

how could it? it's like vamp or protection or anti-magic: you don't just spit out a number. Drain reduces monster accuracy and spellpower, among other things, so you'll take less damage from them, but this debuff grows as you keep hitting it, and the beginning is important. Unless Fsim simulates a b...

dunno but anyway you can just modify your stats manually
note that fsim won't take into account the debuff the rapier would apply

for shields and +SH amulets
makes SH apply to bolt spells and penetrating projectiles
pros:
simple to understand
combines well with reflection ego to supplement fun with giggles
promotes player awareness of how shields normally behave
changes the likelihood of seeking a shield and/or reflection

Something like the mezzanine, if I understand it correctly, is partially in the game already! The way the abyss works, (just mmap it in wizmode,) it generates new terrain when you come close to the map's edge, and destroys terrain on the other side, moving the player character to the middle of the n...

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