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Bug reports/feedback for last offline version (stone_soup-5.4-158-gd919104b9a-win32): 1) Transmuters still start with arrows. 2) Intelligence boosts (through rings, for example) doesn't change your MP properly until you level up. 3) Something about the new bazaar implementation doesn't feel quite ri...

Communication being what it is means that the speaker can always be clearer and the listener can always try harder to understand. That doesn't mean that either of the parties can just assume the other has to do all the work. Because that's not how that works. I don't really see a plausible argument ...

I'm down with removing chunks(/food) but will I still be able to eat the flesh of my enemies? It's not about the nutrition - it's about sending a message.

I'm only 10% joking.

That's true, probably you don't have enough details for starting a thread in GDD. It's more like "what's the idea of heavy armour?" and "let's braintstorm how to change it". The point of the thread seems to be getting away from us so let me restate it. Context : Crawl, as is, do...

I didn't compare anything, I just got unexpectedly high damage, it was close to max monster damage. No AC can help with that. Ok, so if you made monster damage less spiky would GDR still be necessary? Is anything gained by light armour characters getting hit by spiky high damage? I was trying to an...

It is easy to see with Dr. Personally I was surprised that I got so high damage but then recalled that I have no GDR. Is that because you were comparing X AC with 0% GDR with X AC with Y% GDR? Would the amount of damage you are taking be comparable to X/(1+Y) AC? I often switch from heavy armour to...

I think I'm answering questions you never asked at this point though... No, no, that's the sort of answers I was hoping to get! For more context I'm think of this because of the defense of hidden numbers thread. Specifically: Crawl's math should be transparent enough for players to (a) make intelli...

What I would like the game to do is every time I put on body armour is to print something like: "...Finished putting on X. Your stats have changed! AC:12(+3); EV:12(-3); ... Stealth:200(-24); etc... Press ? to find out more." Where "?" would take you to a screen which would expla...

Let's say I'm trying to decide which armour my character should be wearing out of the ones she found in the dungeon so far. What information (values and/or how those values interact with the greater system of crawl) do I need to make an "informed" decision? Bonus questions: Are all of the ...

Part of the problem with clocks in crawl (wherever local to a level or global) is that crawl has branches and you are expected to backtrack a bunch. A tighter clock will introduce a greater cost to going from branch to branch which might lead to players just sticking to the branch they are currently...

Hellmonk wrote:Probably should cut elf too, but I like the branch ending.

Just an idea: if only the branch end is worth keeping maybe it will work better as a portal?

Thanks for working on this, by the way!

While I broadly agree that simply dumping every number available in front of the player wouldn't be a good thing... 2. Making the math "easy enough for anyone to understand" is a false goal. The reason we have computers is so that they can do math for us, being able to represent the math i...

The first part of your rational only makes sense if you forget that the player can deliberately mutate himself, which is usually what happens, and its then the malmutators job to mess up your mutation set, which covers the second half of your rational. So is the mutations part of the game supposed ...

Proposal: Increase the chance of getting a good mutation when being Malmutated. Rational: Bad mutations can change the gameplay in a variety of interesting ways, however if I see a fat stack of red on my mutations screen I'm just going to drink a potion of cure mutation to make it all go away. By di...

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Re: [proclick] new fork, hellcrawl

Re: Why phase out races at all?

Re: FR: Remove chunks, and (optionally) lengthen hunger cloc

Re: Information necessary to choose between armours

Re: Information necessary to choose between armours

Re: Information necessary to choose between armours

Re: Information necessary to choose between armours

Re: Information necessary to choose between armours

Information necessary to choose between armours

Re: Food reform AGAIN

Re: [proclick] new fork, hellcrawl

Re: defense of hidden numbers

Re: Increase chance of good mutation with Malmutate

Increase chance of good mutation with Malmutate