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What would work very well would be for the webtiles chat bots to be able to launch it on command, on a new tab page, with the current game's data and LoS monsters.

If it's too much trouble to remove mimics because of those vaults that use them, at the very least prevent portals and shops from being mimics. It's probably the most obnoxious mechanic in crawl.

It's more powerful when it's not a permabuff, because currently you can cast it to help you run away. You gain 2 squares in 1 turn. Being a permabuff also gives you the option of casting it to get away as long as you remember to just turn it off when you are not using it. It's actually better, sinc...

Instead of inferring the dist through a monte carlo, wouldn't it would be more useful to just know the worst case damage, which should be deterministic per monster. Perhaps, in the actors queue, the order is irrelevant as long as you play out multiplicative damage effects (like tormentors) 1st, then...

This got very real very quickly

Sorry if I came across as a bit unpleasant on my last post, Leo, I thought you were a troll since your 1st post was pretty confusing. In this case, Personal Information Manager. Could you explain what you mean by PIM ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_information_manager ) is in this context, ...

duvessa wrote:As much as I admire the dedication to trolling here, you really need to get some new material.

At 1st I actually thought it was some sort of Markov text generator prank

Was there a fog area in los, like a dith altar?

Since other players seem to be having similar experiences, I wonder if the likelihood of a shaft triggering shouldn't be toned down a lot? Frankly I prefer to be confronted with dangerous situations that are mostly of my own making and could have been avoided through careful and intelligent play, bu...

What's expected average number of shaft events, lets say if a player fully explores each dungeon d1-d15 map? I'm asking because it seems to be happening nearly every game now, very often multiple times per dungeon clear. If I take my last, lets say, 10 games where I lived past lev 5, we can see that...

If the actual *point* of the OP is to remove the tactical heal wounds from the equation, a quick and dirty solution would be to have DD get the ambrosia effect instead of the heal wounds effect (for the same cost), this would give them roughly the same amount of total healing, while making it almos...

Could always just remove the fiddly food system (make blood bottles permafood and greatly simplify their nutrition so you don't care about being bloodless on purpose) and give them a totally DIFFERENT gimmick instead. I agree, making vampires use rations the same way as other races, with a cosmetic...

I could be wrong, but I think that while this proposal does make DD less broken in their get-out-of-jail HW card, it doesn't change in any way their dependence on some gods for their normal healing needs. Unless you give this regen thing a lot more charges, but then why not have DD heal normally sin...

ah gotcha

I suppose it lets you game the system by leaving dangerous fights aside, then search for an easy monster (like a goblin) that you parked away somewhere, taking off your armour and shield, and wait until the goblin hits you through your ev, which might indicate that your next ev hit will on average t...

The only resistance not covered by potions is mr, so I thought a new potion that would increase it by + or even ++ would be nice. A drawback could be either lowering physical resistances, like ac and/or ev, or a net % increase in damage received. Some lore to tidy it up about being more attuned to t...

The only resistance not covered by potions is mr, so I thought a new potion that would increase it by + or even ++ would be nice. A drawback could be either lowering physical resistances, like ac and/or ev, or a net % increase in damage received. Some lore to tidy it up about being more attuned to t...

Gj!
Btw, how do you feel the other rougelikes you've played compare to DCSS?

I'd try Vaults 5. Don't stairdance and/or use immolation, since managing your noise levels is the most important. Be sure to climb down using either a hatch or reading tele beforehand. Buff up before you descend (agil+might+haste). When you land, if you don't land in a critically dangerous area, rea...

Both of these cards could probably be removed with no replacement, and I suspect they would not be missed? I'd probably miss them. I see Tomb as the ability to create a chokepoint on-demand. Degeneration can be used to get rid of dangerous uniques, where in most cases what they're replaced with is ...

I think both new and veteran players would stand to gain if they could see in a simple format the damage a weapon does. A uniform distribution really helps there. I'd be able to examine a weapon and see displayed: "Broad axe of freezing. It does 10-25 damage + 5-8 fire per turn, given your curr...

ah yes I seem to remember you mentioning it had a very large right tail

This results in a pretty large variance. Is it a desired behaviour? How does that compared with the variance of the original formula (I mean an estimation, since like you said its awful to calculate analytically)? Maybe make it a normal dist, or some other skewed distr?

It's probably a combination of issues. From what I can tell 1 - In V5 I'd have kept teleporting until I got to a secluded corner and then tried to manage my noise and los to attract only small crowds to me. 2 - You need more dodging. Ac alone is not enough IMO. It should be balanced with at least SH...

Let me start by saying that my remarks are merely my personal preference, and other experienced players will have different opinions on the matter. I prefer to focus on only 1 attack skill, be it ranged, melee or a specific magic school (possibly with some supporting schools like conj or spellc). I ...

* Improve spellcasting's default targeting algos so that they maximize the potential # of monsters affected (bolts, fireball, lrd, etc). This should be an optional setting in the rc file.

I could just generate the map offline, and examine each level in wiz mode. It's pretty fast.
Rand seeds are pretty interesting, but I doubt they'd be used in tourneys, unless it's a friendly game and it's no biggie if someone wants to cheat.

Possibly one of the most annoying features of dcss, imo

Have you considered macroing 'Tab o' instead?

Just a reminder that there's already a pot that gives rN+++

If I had some wand charges left, I'd just wait for other altars, since none of those gods increases my immediate survival prospects who am I kidding I'd pick xom in a heartbeat.

That's... some tremendous dedication to DEWz's of Sif

So my impression after a few games on experimental branch. UI: - No problems that I could see. It's streamlined and works fine. No inventory management: - It's awesome. Max cards capped at 13: - Not only quite frustrating, but it also encourages the player to leave large areas of easy levels unexplo...

Even without any other changes, making shafts always visible would go a long way to improve the game. They'd become interesting strategic resources instead of pointless streak-killers.

If their necro skill is high enough, they can even raise other bot's long decayed threads

Siegurt wrote:Hm, what if stealth reduced noise from attacks and spells as well as opening doors? (Just spitballing here)

I like it

Aean wrote:Sac speed like this should be at least an "incredible" sacrifice, if not more.

...also, if you sacrifice a hand, eye, and leg, you should totally be able to get a parrot familiar that decreases stealth, but adds an auxiliary attack.

Or perhaps increases los instead of the aux attack?

Siegurt wrote:Do you also get a parrot as a pet?

I think that'd be pushing my luck

Get a water nymph in the bailey, probably via polymorph, and it will cover the stone arch with shallow water, which you can turn into deep water with Rain (make sure the nymph isn't standing on the arch though, because Rain won't make deep water directly under the nymph). The resulting deep water i...

It would halve your movement speed, perhaps also forbid boots?

I have a dream where I'd get to sac an arm, a leg, and an eye, becoming all-mighty. Isn't it a thing of beauty?

I wondered if another possibility would be to exploit tornado's buggy behavior (maybe get a hostile air summon through air miscasts) and wait until you're placed inside the vault. I tried and it doesn't work. Maybe it's only the player's tornado that has that bug. Or maybe I'm just wrong about torna...

Couldn't you instead drop a plant in the arch?

Hi, I hope this is the right place to ask. The current behavior of shift+direction is going in a straight line until I bump into a wall or spot a monster. I'd like to change it so that it only moves 1 square unless there's a monster in LOS. Is there an option already for this? If not, I'd like to tr...

How about no monsters spawn with nets before, say, d4? d5?

wouldn't it just be easier to open the door, enslave everything on the other side of the door, order them to go back into the room you came from, and also to close the door behind them. that way you don't even have to open the door. This certainly makes sense, but I believe the optimal strategy her...

I usually do something similar, but instead I cast fear on a lightning spire i made hostile by casting inner flame+killing a snake i summoned

DDoor, for sure. Does it work with statue form? abjur+ddoor+immol seems like a great combo if things go sour

Edit: since you're on a speedrun, infestation will be a LOT more useful later on, while in hell/pan, to save turns. And it's not bad in tomb either.

Interesting problem, thanks. I did try it a few times. I can't think of any good strategy besides the ones we all already know, but I'll still recap. There are 2 usual scenarios: 1 - TRJ awakes and wonders outside. Usually bad, that Lightning spire did too much noise. Here I find that using a blink+...

Demiham wrote:The tournament rules are only a problem for the more serious players ~top 50 or so.

Not quite. It's also a problem for possibly hundreds of other players who had a fair chance to be top 50 if only they were able to dedicate 14h/day to the game for the whole duration of the tournament.

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