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Wednesday, 8th May 2019, 23:23

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Hrrrrnnggh Cerebov,

Replies: 2

Views: 1810

Re: Hrrrrnnggh Cerebov,

This is your brain on extended game.

Monday, 29th April 2019, 05:39

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Leo Littlebook's thread

Replies: 76

Views: 24215

Re: Leo Littlebook's thread

Uv4, my definition of objective truth as regards DCSS is appropriate. If you want a complete defense of my list, you can wait until I organize my notes during the demo. If you want to debate it now, you can provide a competing list to focus the discussion. The adversarial process is good enough to ...

Monday, 29th April 2019, 04:32

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Leo Littlebook's thread

Replies: 76

Views: 24215

Re: Leo Littlebook's thread

In this context, something can be considered objectively true if no reasonable alternative can be proposed. You can say anything you'd like if you change the meanings of words to mean things they don't. In any case, I'm not sure how to disagree with any of your true combos because you haven't told ...

Monday, 29th April 2019, 03:39

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Leo Littlebook's thread

Replies: 76

Views: 24215

Re: Leo Littlebook's thread

I'm asking you to explain the basis on which a true combo is objective. You said: "True combo certainly means something different than optimal combo, although both are objective. " (Emphasis mine.) I understand how an optimal combo could be objective. Players might disagree on the exact cr...

Monday, 29th April 2019, 03:27

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Leo Littlebook's thread

Replies: 76

Views: 24215

Re: Leo Littlebook's thread

Leo_Littlebook wrote:> How would I go about confirming a true combo?

Here are the rules:
1. Use every species once and only once
2. Use every god
3. Use every background

Looking forward to your list.


You haven't given me any basis on which to make a list. What objective criteria would I be looking for?

Monday, 29th April 2019, 02:52

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Leo Littlebook's thread

Replies: 76

Views: 24215

Re: Leo Littlebook's thread

If true combos are objective, there should be some objective criteria which other players could use to reproduce your findings.

How would I go about confirming a true combo?

Monday, 24th December 2018, 23:55

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Hot DCSS Spell Poll

Replies: 5

Views: 3827

Re: Hot DCSS Spell Poll

In summary: if the spell has an apostrophe in its name, there's a very high chance it sucks.

Monday, 27th August 2018, 23:09

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: YAVP - 1st Win (Troll Berserker)

Replies: 7

Views: 2676

Re: YAVP - 1st Win (Troll Berserker)

Congratulations :D

I love hearing these success stories <3

Friday, 8th June 2018, 23:46

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Remove Lee's Rapid Deconstruction from the Book of Burglary

Replies: 4

Views: 2520

Re: Remove Lee's Rapid Deconstruction from the Book of Burgl

The first thing I think of when I consider burglary is "explosions". I don't want to live in a world where people just trying to quietly steal some stuff from a place don't start by blowing a gaping hole in the wall! I think you're unaware of the commit which stopped Lee's Rapid Deconstru...

Thursday, 7th June 2018, 05:52

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Remove Lee's Rapid Deconstruction from the Book of Burglary

Replies: 4

Views: 2520

Remove Lee's Rapid Deconstruction from the Book of Burglary

This was pointed out to me on YT by Garin: LRD no longer has any business being in a book "containing many diverse spells useful for theft, breaking and entering, and other miscellaneous larceny".

Tuesday, 29th May 2018, 04:11

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: The player gargoyle / shatter interaction is bad

Replies: 4

Views: 2038

Re: The player gargoyle / shatter interaction is bad

Shard1697 wrote:Adjusting it would be a lot better than replacing it, considering pan lords can also have it(and the spell is fine besides this interaction).

Remove Shatter from pan lord spell lists

Thursday, 24th May 2018, 03:24

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Redesign Proposal - Demigod (or, a new Species?)

Replies: 92

Views: 29761

Re: Redesign Proposal - Demigod (or, a new Species?)

But let's assume for the sake of argument that HE deserved to be axed. Let's first clarify the point at issue -- because the discussion threatens to become confusing (I already see duvessa's post which is confusing). Let there be two separate species -- "atheist Ogre" (AOg) and "thei...

Wednesday, 23rd May 2018, 08:45

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Species Proposal - Faerie Dragon

Replies: 189

Views: 63723

Re: Species Proposal - Faerie Dragon

For anyone who'd like to play Faerie Dragon online, I've just been informed that it's on the Korean server under the branch called "demigod_Rework_1.2"

I accosted one poor player in English:

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Wednesday, 23rd May 2018, 02:04

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Redesign Proposal - Demigod (or, a new Species?)

Replies: 92

Views: 29761

Re: Redesign Proposal - Demigod (or, a new Species?)

this strikes me as mean-spirited and counterproductive. I would post more often in GDD (and on Tavern in general) if the experience wasn't so often unpleasant. I've been contributing only when something especially excites me but, even then, my participation has been with apprehension due to how per...

Tuesday, 22nd May 2018, 14:05

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Redesign Proposal - Demigod (or, a new Species?)

Replies: 92

Views: 29761

Re: Redesign Proposal - Demigod (or, a new Species?)

A Gn is not a Hu where you train all skills at once: Hu don't have a big positive aptitude in all skills. If you tried training all skills at once, you'll fall behind on XP by a lot, which completely changes your power level and play style. Similarly, Na is not just "Centaur but slow", a ...

Tuesday, 22nd May 2018, 07:45

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Redesign Proposal - Demigod (or, a new Species?)

Replies: 92

Views: 29761

Re: Redesign Proposal - Demigod (or, a new Species?)

This definitely seems like it belongs on a new species, since, y'know, the whole point of Dg is that they don't have god powers. Before 0.20 I would have said the point of Ogres was to be extremely skilled with Maces and Flails (and thus, giant clubs). Sometimes these things change for the greater ...

Tuesday, 22nd May 2018, 00:17

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Redesign Proposal - Demigod (or, a new Species?)

Replies: 92

Views: 29761

Re: Redesign Proposal - Demigod (or, a new Species?)

How is current Demigod meaningfully different from a Human who doesn't worship a god?

As is, Demigod evokes nothing in me. This proposed one immediately stirs up images of ancient mythology.

Monday, 14th May 2018, 01:19

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Species Proposal - Faerie Dragon

Replies: 189

Views: 63723

Re: Species Proposal - Faerie Dragon

I just finished playing a Faerie Dragon run ( morgue ). I very much enjoyed the experience, with no hunger costs being especially nice. My highlight was perhaps using free Shocks to kill ghost moths in Zot while completely drained of MP :D As far as balance goes, I think the species is in a pretty g...

Tuesday, 8th May 2018, 10:58

Forum: The Dart Board

Topic: New Leaderboard for Fastest Times by Species

Replies: 8

Views: 7131

Re: New Leaderboard for Fastest Times by Species

i like how the fastest Vp has 4 runes and cleared elf and crypt minmay's games also violate the "No lua script at all is allowed in the rc file" rule however Consider old runs grandfathered in :) Please include people beyond just #1 in each category. Even if it's just their names linking ...

Thursday, 15th March 2018, 00:45

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Species Proposal - Faerie Dragon

Replies: 189

Views: 63723

Re: Species Proposal - Faerie Dragon

It looks like Realz forgot to say this but the flight is Tengu flight: 0.9 movement and +20% EV

I'd love to actually give this thing a go. Realz, could you put it up somewhere?

Wednesday, 14th March 2018, 04:57

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Species Proposal - Faerie Dragon

Replies: 189

Views: 63723

Re: Species Proposal - Faerie Dragon

Isn't Draconian already a species under Simple that's well-suited to killing things with spells all game? It is indeed and I always recommend to noobs that they try out magic with a Draconian. But, almost every time, they choose to play Deep Elf instead of Draconian. Why? I think it's because DE is...

Tuesday, 13th March 2018, 12:52

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Species Proposal - Faerie Dragon

Replies: 189

Views: 63723

Re: Species Proposal - Faerie Dragon

As far as I know, we've never been given criteria for the categories. We just have to infer. I don't think the exactness matters too much. Just try to think about a noob picking. What do they care about when choosing a Simple species? I'd guess the biggest consideration is that everything works out ...

Tuesday, 13th March 2018, 12:26

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Species Proposal - Faerie Dragon

Replies: 189

Views: 63723

Re: Species Proposal - Faerie Dragon

I think it contradicts to "Why?" section from OP. If your intent was to create a simple species like MiBe in magic, then it really should be "better Deep Elves". Currently it is strictly inferior to late game Draconian IMHO. It seems like you're equating Simple with "strong...

Tuesday, 13th March 2018, 07:46

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Species Proposal - Faerie Dragon

Replies: 189

Views: 63723

Re: Species Proposal - Faerie Dragon

I'm quite excited by everything you've done here, Realz. I happen to know you've spent a fair amount of time playtesting and thinking about balance but you haven't included any of that in your post. Could you tell us a bit about the idea behind -1 spell costs and about how you've found Faerie Dragon...

Thursday, 22nd February 2018, 01:36

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Why I Dislike DD

Replies: 6

Views: 2193

Re: Why I Dislike DD

You can just heal yourself. You can certainly try. https://crawl.project357.org/morgue/YTcomUltraviolent4/morgue-YTcomUltraviolent4-20180118-061603.txt You feel less confused. Something hits you but does no damage. You fail to use your ability. You block something's attack. You fail to use your abi...

Saturday, 17th February 2018, 07:03

Forum: YASD! YAVP! and characters in progress too

Topic: YAVP: DCSS-CA

Replies: 1

Views: 999

Re: YAVP: DCSS-CA

Well played!

I was lucky enough to witness this:

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Friday, 5th January 2018, 11:44

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Shaft Reporting Thread

Replies: 2

Views: 1316

Re: Shaft Reporting Thread

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Tuesday, 25th July 2017, 01:47

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Ease of use improvements needed in .21

Replies: 66

Views: 25988

Re: Ease of use improvements needed in .21

A visual indicator for when monsters are corroded.

Wednesday, 19th July 2017, 22:00

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Job/Economic Musings

Replies: 18

Views: 5056

Re: Job/Economic Musings

Tedronai wrote:This is about Gnolls, isn't it?


Yes lol

Monday, 17th July 2017, 13:35

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Job/Economic Musings

Replies: 18

Views: 5056

Re: Job/Economic Musings

A lot of jobs have associated costs (like commute time, or rent somewhere nearby). Unless you do only one job on a particular day ("Monday job", "Tuesday job"), these costs can add up. You really want to think about the practical concerns rather than the overriding theory of whe...

Monday, 17th July 2017, 11:39

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Job/Economic Musings

Replies: 18

Views: 5056

Re: Job/Economic Musings

What currency are you talking here? In your example, what proportion of medium income is "5k" and what does the distribution look like? I'm not really sure. Maybe say a median income is 25k so if you worked 5 x 1 day jobs you would get 25k total and 0 tax. Do you mean multiple full-time j...

Monday, 17th July 2017, 11:20

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Favorite Stable Version

Replies: 22

Views: 8245

Re: Favorite Stable Version

Is the double-damage melee bug allowed to be present?

Monday, 17th July 2017, 10:51

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Job/Economic Musings

Replies: 18

Views: 5056

Re: Job/Economic Musings

Have you seen Idiocracy movie? IMHO this is what happens when government is not interested in high level specialists and I really doubt it is possible to become high level specialist when you work in 8 different areas 5 hours each per week. High education would be destroyed as well I think. No I ha...

Monday, 17th July 2017, 10:41

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Job/Economic Musings

Replies: 18

Views: 5056

Re: Job/Economic Musings

It's unclear what your goal is and why, but "job" doesn't have a well-defined meaning, except for "someone pays you for something they want you to do". Given this definition, it's trivial to split up a job into two jobs (or ten jobs) and call them all "separate jobs". ...

Monday, 17th July 2017, 09:38

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Job/Economic Musings

Replies: 18

Views: 5056

Job/Economic Musings

Suppose for a second that the government wanted to encourage people to work multiple jobs rather than just one. I don't have exact numbers here (economics isn't my strong point) so just think about the theory here. Say the government introduced a tax scheme that didn't tax the first 5k people made a...

Wednesday, 5th July 2017, 00:30

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Real-world scientists

Replies: 36

Views: 14672

Re: Real-world scientists

Not really, the source of radiation is too different. The cage captures it from the environment and then bestows it upon you, the plutonium sword emits it and needs no further source. AFAIK Marie Curie defined radiation, identified radium as a source and found a way to purify it. Conceptually it's ...

Tuesday, 4th July 2017, 22:06

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Real-world scientists

Replies: 36

Views: 14672

Re: Real-world scientists

even if the OP is satire It's not satire. I put quite a lot of time and effort putting this post together because it's a serious issue; I work in the STEM field myself. I am against random use of a rl woman scientist for stuff that has nothing to do with her. For example, Curie's Etheric Cage: what...

Tuesday, 4th July 2017, 05:42

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Real-world scientists

Replies: 36

Views: 14672

Real-world scientists

This thread is intended to build upon the foundations established in duvessa's about real-world references in crawl. That thread highlighted the issues that occur when lazily-implemented, real-world references serve to potentially offend and alienate. I’d like to raise a similar (but no less importa...

Wednesday, 28th June 2017, 06:25

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: duvessa's unironic tier lists

Replies: 128

Views: 68953

Re: duvessa's unironic tier lists

I'm still a little (pleasantly) surprised that any part of my Og nerf proposal went through at all. Their melee is less ridiculous now, although it's still very good due to high Str. While throwing is really broken once you have some skill, early-game throwing is pretty fishy and definitely worse t...

Tuesday, 16th May 2017, 03:14

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Do you think Gnolls will make into stable release?

Replies: 8

Views: 2850

Re: Do you think Gnolls will make into stable release?

In the meantime, if you really must play 0.20 instead of trunk, you can always play humans. The strategy for skill training on humans is almost identical to that for gnolls, although gnolls are significantly stronger due to their high apts and fangs. Would you mind summarising that strategy in a fe...

Sunday, 9th April 2017, 09:58

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Mushroom conduct

Replies: 9

Views: 3257

Re: Mushroom conduct

duvessa wrote:This is some ultraviolent4 shit right here. I apologize profusely for inflicting this suffering upon you.


I'm legitimately impressed :D

There's an old saying about crawl that goes something like: what's tedious and doesn't kill you can only make you stronger...

Friday, 7th April 2017, 08:29

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: I've uncovered a giant conspiracy

Replies: 9

Views: 7779

I've uncovered a giant conspiracy

Credit goes to REDACTED (he knows who he is but I'm hiding his name to protect the innocent) for doing most of the investigative work here. Brannock was made a member of the dev team in late 2016. Since then he has been directly involved in many different changes and commits. But while it may look l...

Thursday, 9th March 2017, 10:58

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Bikeshedding time: Power Leap

Replies: 19

Views: 5929

Re: Bikeshedding time: Power Leap

I vote for Power Drive.

Friday, 24th February 2017, 08:16

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Rebrand Maxwell's thermic engine

Replies: 4

Views: 2347

Re: Rebrand Maxwell's thermic engine

chequers wrote:You've copied an idea from the pull request and are trying to pass it off as your own?
https://github.com/crawl/crawl/pull/388

He better cheq himself before he wreq himself

Wednesday, 15th February 2017, 07:28

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Vp proposal: remove bloodless and very thirsty

Replies: 7

Views: 2346

Re: Vp proposal: remove bloodless and very thirsty

shping wrote:Ultraviolent has a semi relevant long diatribe on the dcss subreddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/dcss/comments/ ... amination/
Worth a skim, maybe even a read!


You shouldn't encourage him.

Friday, 3rd February 2017, 07:07

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: post itt every time you lol that trump is president

Replies: 30

Views: 12292

Re: post itt every time you lol that trump is president

Trump is not my president.

Sunday, 15th January 2017, 06:02

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: What should I do for my 500 Twitch Follower Special

Replies: 37

Views: 13864

Re: What should I do for my 500 Twitch Follower Special

Convince Celerity to stream and then host him

Wednesday, 21st December 2016, 01:41

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Make +Blink option on randatrs more common

Replies: 32

Views: 11138

Re: Make +Blink option on randatrs more common

When were wands of haste/tele/heal removed, and if the latter is removed, is Deep Dwarf getting axed? Nope, their recharging ability is replaced to ability of heal wounds. So DDs have no problem with it. After this patch, mummies became fucking crap. (which were already crap before) Wand of heal wo...

Friday, 16th December 2016, 05:59

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Seriously though, Rename halfling and hill orc

Replies: 19

Views: 6433

Re: Seriously though, Rename halfling and hill orc

I really like the name Kappa.

Kappa.

Friday, 16th December 2016, 05:13

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Add bladder

Replies: 4

Views: 1772

Re: Add bladder

Fedhas appreciates your contribution to the ecosystem.
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