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dynast (nawn) has played 100 games, between 2016-02-03 19:24:42 and 2017-12-02 16:00:01, won 90 (90.0%), high score 3626230, total score 199444601, total turns 5437043, play-time/day 0:31:51, total time 14d+19:11:43. I bet you cant do that on a NaTm. I know i cant, and let me explain why: You are co...

Except that landing in the middle of a vault/level is totally different from approaching from the safety of a clear line of retreat... Yes, and vault makers already provided us with a large supply of ambush vaults. Meanwhile there are vaults who were not designed for the player to fall in the middl...

Aside from zot traps, traps only serve to break the game progression, putting you in a place that you would eventually and inevitably reach and then claiming it made a interesting situation, like landing in the middle of a vault, as if that vault would have never existed otherwise. They always provi...

Self polymorphing in order to turn into something that is not slow so you can run away from a bad situation is one of the dumbest, most fun strats you can do as a naga. You are sugesting that a naga, that is already considered a bottom tier race, should move slow while in pig form and is calling the...

Use this place to share your "fun" shaft experiences. Starting with:

Code:: 3202 | D:4 | You fall through a shaft for 2 floors! 3203 | D:6 | Noticed a troll 3203 | D:6 | Noticed a white ugly thing

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I would not consider that Orc death unavoidable though; it would've been avoided by not going into Orc so early, for example. I mean, you dont even need to enter orc mines to win the game in a viable way, but thats how the branch is designed, with a bunch of gold scattered around the ground of the ...

Running away from the enemy makes the game trivial to you? Are you one of those people who have 100% winrate on spriggan or you cant do that because its tedious bad design?

not sure why this ghetto cblink/ctele is still in the game considering ctele got removed and cblink got nerfed to the point you would just learn passage instead, specially with the orb effect in zot.

If NaTm is a hard combo, it should not become trivial by means of level 3 spell which is in starting book. if natm is a hard combo its because it doesnt have anything that makes it trivial. having spider form movespeed doesnt make natm trivial in the slightest. Having a spell be used for the sake o...

i like the idea that natm is a good combo.

VeryAngryFelid wrote:Do you mean other species don't have a reason to cast the spell provided they are already normal speed?

If you use spider form to sit in front of a enemy instead of biting it twice and leaving.

Do you want nagas to not have a reason to cast spider form?
Edit: maybe chei piety gain shouldnt be based on something as dumb as killing enemies faster than you

So, does someone have a single example of an unavoidable death resulting from a shaft trap? Because, as stupid as floor traps are, it seems to me like it'd require an incredible level of coincidence for a shaft trap to be dangerous, let alone cause an unavoidable death. Squares that monsters have w...

duvessa wrote:So, does someone have a single example of an unavoidable death resulting from a shaft trap?

do you need more than the ones that got shafted inside qazlal's toilet?

http://crawl.berotato.org/crawl/morgue//Dynast/morgue-Dynast-20171222-225410.txt This is the game i least was prepared to fall down a shaft, i was playing a silly opee blaster with a amulet of harm 4960 | D:5 | Found a staircase to the Ecumenical Temple. 4983 | D:5 | You fall through a shaft for 3 f...

http://crawl.berotato.org/crawl/morgue//Dynast/morgue-Dynast-20171226-211358.txt There, now it doesnt look OP anymore. Hahaha i read it as 71 somehow. But still, he is killing things with ranged attacks and using a non-skilled greatsword to finish it off/remove popcorn. Your presentation was less th...

I have, personally, by myself, I have looked up your player page on previous occasions already. You still havent won more games than i have won nagas, and cant even win 4 games in a row with all that experience. But its ok, you are probably just a casual player who doesnt care about rng and is just...

But more importantly, when playing optimally skilling is mostly irrelevant(mostly), surviving is about methodical execution of combat engagements and luck, you usually just pick whatever is the best thing the dungeon generated and use it, regardless of how much skill you have on it(for generalist r...

VeryAngryFelid wrote:Now I am interested to see how you justify 0.2% chance as a guarantee to never meet a firestorming ghost...
Let me guess. Events with less than 1% chance never happen, right?

I will probably stop playing crawl before i get the chance to meet that ghost.

Similar to simultaneous "I have never seen unkillable ghosts, they are not dangerous" and "I was killed by a ghost". I agree, we should stop talking to each other in this thread, we use different meaning for the same words. Whenever i say something you interpret it to fit your b...

"whats the point of this race?" I believe it is a great hybrid race, for instance, you can enjoy playing Wz without micromanaging what to train next and thinking if you should train Hexes for Slow or not. jack of all trades =/= hybrid. I see hybrids as someone who wanna be good with more ...

Why are you so sure it will never happen to you? Did you miss post by duvessa with link to such death? Because im not that dumb of a player to get stuck in d:1-5 with an entire inventory of unindentified gear, including 6 scrolls of identify to EVENTUALLY find a firestorming ghost. I am not sure yo...

I have a very negative one: Is this a race or laboratory rat's maze? How does this race adds anything to the game other than confusion to the player's head as he asks himself "whats the point of this race?"? But more importantly, when playing optimally skilling is mostly irrelevant(mostly)...

watertreatmentRL wrote:Do you ever get killed by player ghosts? You don't get to say this if you do.

I remembered, it was actually pretty recent, it was during the last tourney, i was playing sptm and feel down a shaft 3 floors into a GrEE ghost who one shot me with LRD.

did traps get removed?

Why are you so sure it will never happen to you? Did you miss post by duvessa with link to such death? Because im not that dumb of a player to get stuck in d:1-5 with an entire inventory of unindentified gear, including 6 scrolls of identify to EVENTUALLY find a firestorming ghost. So i apologise f...

If you see nothing wrong in getting one-shot by fire storm on d:5 I cant because: a) it never happened to me. b) it will never happen to me. c)im still hoping it happens to me. Crawl's instability is why i still have a collection of screenshots(like the ones i posted before) for a very long time, h...

Yeah, its because i dont share those problems Yes, I got what you mean. If a problem is shared, it is not a problem and it is not shared :) ANY enemy with a polearm, undead or with a blink spell falls into that exact same problem i just showed you they share the same problems They are a problem by ...

VeryAngryFelid wrote:ezero
You continue to talk in "But there are other problems also" direction, sorry, I am not interested.

Yeah, its because i dont share those problems, whatever you say about ghosts is something regular with everything else regarding this game. You just sound traumatized.

Once again, why current ghosts are different from uniques and cannot be fixed: 1) They can be unkillable. FOR YOU! Never in my life i had a player ghost i couldnt kill, many more times had i got a ood spawn or just a unique that i had to completely and constantly avoid. d:2 sigmund with a scythe of...

Ezero. You argue pro ghosts in a very wierd way: you agree that they are bad but then you keep mentioning other monsters who share their problems. I don't know what to tell you except what I have already told: presence of other problems is not an excuse. You dont see me arguing about the removal of...

enemies not being able to follow you up stairs, You realised that its not whether or not a enemy follows you uptairs thats the problem, but having stairs in the first place? or just having a bad clock? Any enemy who can blink is basically a more annoying undead to kill, how do you think a killed il...

Slain by a centaur ... wielding the +8 dagger "Weedd" {venom, *Contam rPois rC+++ MR-} (12 damage) The devs decided that absurdly strong weapons can generate early on vault rooms, which are populated with enemies that can usually walk over it and pick it up because they think it makes the...

how do you stairdance 2 ghosts to death when theres only one access... nevermind. How do you think i killed mara, ilsuiw and polyphemus in shoals as a naga? This thread will keep going in circles whenever you state something that happens with player ghosts and dismisses that it also happens with eve...

Do i have to spoon feed you? d:1 orc wizard = d:3 player ghost in the sense of "you lost the game", heck why did i even bother with orc wizard. Here:

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versus

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which of the three is more likely to lose the game?

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VeryAngryFelid wrote:Are you seriously comparing Orc Wizard (9-20 HP, AC 2, MR 20, needs to have Haste and spend little time on cantrip) with an XL 5 CeFi ghost who was using a trident of draining, regular shield and +3 chain mail?

No, im comparing the probabilities, not whos stronger.

So uncommon i never find them, probably because those races with good gear are VERY unlikely to die. Do you bother if i compare them with regular enemies? because a orc wizard, who can spawn on the first floor(unless it was changed with the spawns removal) with any of those brands is just as dangero...

Uniques chance of spawning and spawning depths for monsters are selected by the developers and are presumably balanced to enhance gameplay. But with a ghost its just a random grab bag. Ghost's strength is presumably balanced by the developers. See? i can make no sense too. But ghost strength and sp...

You are not reading mine though. You think i wouldnt play a mummy because its weak? I wouldnt play it because its a very poorly designed race that only exists to fill an idea of a niche for the players to try out. What would be like if the game had no clock, no potions, no poison and no negative ene...

like i would play mummy...

I would be interested to hear what people who like playing generalist characters think of Gn. (I can't think of any such players off of the top of my head, so I can't just go and ask them.) I pick draconians because of flavor and roleplaying and then choose my skills according to what i feel like d...

What I did personally is I met a Gr ghost with about 70 AC (I don't remember details now) on Spider:4. It was very unfun to teleport every time it got in my view (I was Na) and I wouldn't like to have it happen again. Retreating 50+ tiles to closest stairs is not fun either. There should no be unki...

Do you want me to write that link 3rd time in this thread??? It has a link to D:6 ghost with glaciate right in OP. YES! I do know its possible, im just annoyed that i wasnt lucky enough to have it happen to me. Why are you so boring? And before you think im trolling you, why do you think dying to s...

No, i actually wanna see these xl27 ghosts on my d:5.

Did you miss that the chances are selected by developers? Not presumably selected, but selected. There is an explicit range of possible floors for every unique in source code of DCSS. Ghost's strength is not balanced at all, not presumably, just not balanced, you can get XL 27 ghost with 5 level 9 ...

*whole thread of why ghosts are bad* guy 1, wryly: It's almost like every thing unique to ghosts is actually bad... guy 2, looking surprised: What? Name one thing that's bad about them! This is the only decent piece of argument in this whole thread: You cant change the odds of OOD monsters or uniqu...

Hellmonk wrote:There are a lot of things that can be said about player ghosts that can't be said about any other enemy in the game, and coincidentally all of those things are bad.

Such as?

Ghosts are a reason *not* to play Webtiles. I play online because I've met some cool people there and I like the record keeping and the tournaments and such. The novelty wears off after the 300th MiBe blob of HP, AC, and EV with a weapon of insert brand here making the game more of a chore than it ...

Ghosts have something that every other equivalent problem in this game doesnt: Novelty. You cant understand why the only reason to play webtiles still a thing in crawl?

duvessa wrote:
ezero wrote:MuTm is a combo that is allowed to win the game like any other combo.
are you sure about that

It has been won.

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