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Nightstalker reducing range feels like a penalty, not a bonus. I think it should reduce range for the monsters to you, not to you to the monsters. I would think the "sharpened eyesight" mutation could cut through the distance for the player. http://crawl.develz.org/info/inline.php?q=night...

Thanks for the clarification that it is a joke. I never said that... I just meant that since crawlers seem unfamiliar with the term, I would love to see it catch on with them so you can be annoyed by every one instead of just me. Dude, if you think I'm annoyed by trolls that I already know are trol...

Thanks for the clarification that it is a joke.

I have the link as a URL search myself, so I hit Control-T for a new tab and just type 'crawl shields' then enter and it takes me right to my search results (I'm a bit of a url-based search-a-holic) In case anyone else wants to do this, in chrome you go into your settings, hit manage search engines...

^ I still can't tell if this is something that is really used by many people, or just possibly the most bizarre joke use of verbing I've ever encountered -- it sort of implies that 'legging it' entails turning something into a leg. or that if you 'booted' something it turned into a boot. WTF. Very n...

You've certainly amused me, and as a rationalist, I actually like that premise. But suspension of disbelief is about consistency, not realism. House cats can cause tornadoes if they want! As long as it's consistent with the rules of the particular universe. That's why specific stupidity is more prob...

Not that I necessarily like (or dislike) that proposal, but the argument "why monsters just don't..." doesn't really work in this context. Why don't orc priests smite you every turn? It's the most potent attack in their arsenal by far. Why don't enemy summoners run around with their summo...

Thinking a little bit and reading the comments: the worst thing in paralysation is that sometimes it's completely unexpected, when you got paralysed by the turn the monster comes into LOS, and when some common enemy somehow happen to have paralysation (wand or random spellset). So I come up with th...

Problem: Not every god accepts undead worshippers, and being a mummy is the only way to win this even in theory.

BTW: What is with this 'bodied' word you use? In English, that's not a word on its own. Do you mean one of these words?: 'killed' 'destroyed' 'massacred' 'annihilated' or maybe even 'ruined'?

^ Pfft. These changes are not actually good for the game. By which I mean this approach is very simple and short sighted, and will naturally have a significant effect on game balance. A patch that is not just a quick+dirty fix would modify other game elements to compensate for the change in resource...

@Amnesiac: Close enough. +4 trains twice as fast as 0, +8 trains four times as fast.. Your effective aptitude can be -8..+12 (+12 being 'natural +4 apt, plus crosstraining bonus, plus bonus from manual').. from 1/8th the speed (at -12) to 8 times the speed(at +12) How is it possible to get -8 aptit...

@Amnesiac: Close enough. +4 trains twice as fast as 0, +8 trains four times as fast..
Your effective aptitude can be -8..+12 (+12 being 'natural +4 apt, plus crosstraining bonus, plus bonus from manual')..
from 1/4th the speed (at -8) to 8 times the speed(at +12)

stickyfingers wrote:Fulminant Prism in corridor allows you to "kite" monsters faster than you.

Not sure if you're serious. How does that work, and why would you use this in preference to something cheaper like IMB?

What is the ideal god/race for a Demonspawn spellcaster? Well I dunno about god, but as to race.. I am guessing Demonspawn would be a good bet? ;) Ideal weapons are usually daggers, because you don't need much (any, initially) skill to manage to kill weak things with them. Pretty much standard issu...

I agree this was a pretty terrible situation. Quaffing berserk rage for the extra HP + speed + damage after casting Blade Hands would have been my only suggestion.
Or possibly invoking Heroism instead/ as well.

The orc priest shouts! The orc shouts! The orc wizard shouts! The orc shouts! The orc warrior shouts! The orc shouts! The orc warrior shouts! The orc warrior shouts! The orc warrior shouts! The orc shouts! The iron troll shouts! The orc shouts! The orc shouts! The orc warlord shouts! The orc warrio...

I'm not sure what to make of what's happening here (it's CYC, I find it hard to tell the special edition BS from the standard issue), but I can confirm that Grimm made a post with that exact text in this thread, seemingly apropos of nothing.

There doesn't appear to be an option for this purpose. It would probably be simple to write a patch implementing it.

If you run crawl-tiles --help, though, you can see a set of options that allow you to immediately start a character with a specific name, species, and/or background.

Potion of comparative advantage.

Same here, but I'm running arch linux x86_64. If you search the options_guide.txt, you'll see that 'sound' is the only sound-related option. This is the entire code for play_sound: void play_sound(const char *file) { #if defined(WINMM_PLAY_SOUNDS) // Check whether file exists, is readable, etc.? if ...

Stub _expose_invent_to_element out to simply 'return false', and recompile.

This has the side effect of reducing xom stimulation, so you might instead want to change all instances of 'return true' in that function to 'return false'

It happens. A few times I've found that a stack of 3 potions I thought were HW or curing are actually mutation, cure mutation or experience. That's the problem with making statistical inferences from a few (and by few, I mean "less than 100") data points. It doesn't mean shit. Every possib...

Nearly every game I use scrolls to identify jewelry before potions. Maybe faulty play, but I do it, and I'm sure I'm not the only one. It is objectively awful play. Using a scroll to identify a ring of fire resistance is a waste of a scroll because A) you can just drop your scrolls and step in a fl...

... Didn't I make a reply here suggesting that you have exactly reversed the intended meaning of XuaXua's post, Arrythmia, and are pointing out the exact same thing which he is pointing out?

Oh well, whatever my memory claims, there is a post now.

Mutations from evolution are 20% deletion of bad, 40% good, 40% random. In addition, there is a independent 10% chance of losing the Evolution mutation, separate from whatever other action is taken by Evolution. The chance of losing evolution is reduced to (10% of 10%)== 1% if you have rMut. These p...

Sounds like a pretty clear improvement to me.

Yeah, this isn't much of a contest. Stat boosts just aren't that good, unless they're huge (eg. Chei stat boosts at high piety). Not useless, just not as useful as you'd think.

Physics. It's a sentient -housecat-. Even if it were a car-sized sabertooth tiger, it would never approach the amount or angle of leverage needed to do actual useful things with weapons or armor. Just try to imagine a cartoon showing such a creature using weapons -- it looks totally absurd and ineff...

No weapons and no armor is definitely not "boring." In fact, the no weapons and no armor thing is actually a good thing IMO. Weapons and armor are kind if arbitrary a lot of the time. Dodging is generally the better way to go, so armor is usually pretty arbitrary and changes a grand total...

Arrhythmia wrote:
duvessa wrote:I encourage everyone to check out this guy's post history.

He's been making the same arguments for two years.

years

Thank you. I now finally understand what the hell is going on with the metatextual BS over here

Animations don't really add anything to Crawl other than: 1) flavor (which is admittedly very simple since Crawl doesn't have very good graphics :P ), or I always find this kind of comment very odd. Speaking as a pixel artist, Crawl has excellent graphics -- They are clear and communicative, crisp....

I have no fear quaff iding In how many situtations that your characters die in would they have survived if they had quaffed a potion of speed that could have been scroll-IDed? quaff-IDing is dangerous if you consider the long term. Can we avoid oversimplifying here? Quaff-iding is dangerous at a ce...

https://gitorious.org/crawl/crawl/source/192af8142f6b13e335719d228740645f0848ef50:crawl-ref/source/mutation-data.h probably has all the data that you want, since it's the actual code, and is surprisingly readable. The wiki is missing at least the 'Fuming' mutation. Annoyingly, the MP effect of the F...

Losing a beginning character on D:1 does not hurt me a bit. I expect Crawl to be cruel, and the fear of dying should be present from the start. In my opinion, nothing in the current situation with regard to the danger level of D:1 should be changed. The game does not have to guarantee that every ch...

How about Devs finally cave in and simply add meaningful traps? Obviously traps that simply damage the player are a snooze fest... but shaft traps have great flavor tactfulness, as well as tele. I think traps should be HARDER to detect than they are now... an included in more strategic locations. T...

I have to admit, it's strange that Dith doesn't dislike Dazzling Spray, which unquestionably generates light even though it blinds. This is not actually OP or anything, just ironic that I'm getting piety through liberal use of DS. Sort of like how most Healer characters do spend a reasonable portion...

That's a good point.. perhaps it's just because nobody's written a patch for it that it is not implemented. At least one of the devs wants to get rid of mindelay because it's confusing. That would be my preferred solution, because I agree that it is confusing. But it could still be good to have a cl...

Sure, but it's vague what exactly 'quite fast' or whatever means, and unclear when you've reached the cap. I feel like adding what speed you're at, specifically stated instead of just described is a pretty logical evolution given the change to see base/min delay in a weapon's description. It's not ...

I agree about b. Do you realize that @ basically tells you your current weapon delay? I just try for 'fast' or preferably 'quite fast' according to how heavy the weapon type is. With this info, I personally never bother to look up tables. I train til it's fast enough, then stop. Maybe start again la...

If you were making this serious then having the same seed is not necessarily a benefit--a player could gain an advantage by simply waiting to view a competitor's ttyrec (to learn the dungeon) before playing. In my opinion this is actually a much bigger deal than the randomness of having different d...

^ I see that learndb agrees with this Spells with multiple schools - eg. Fireball - Fire/Conjurations - use the average of the schools (for Fireball, Fire Magic and Conjurations) to determine their efficiency. And this is definitely confusing interface wise.. based on layout, I have expected eg Meph...

Without a character dump, we won't get far here.

The motto of roguelikes everywhere.

I certainly found it easier to do so after I learnt it was a programmed, balanced statistical effect.

This pretty much works: @echo off "crawl.exe" for /F %%i in ('dir /B /O:-D "morgue\morgue*.txt"') do ( call :open "%%i" exit /B 0 ) :open start "dummy" "morgue\%~1" exit /B 0 Drop that into a batch (whatever.bat) file in your crawl directory and run...

A NaWz or NaCj is not a weak character on D1. Spit poison is just great at that point in the game. Without it, I would agree that NaCj or NaWz is probably one of the weakest starting characters. It was picked to be weak against jackals(who come in groups, so maneuverability is even more of a benefi...

There are similar tools available for Windows, but I don't know anything much about them.

Not in-client, but you can do this with inotifywait on Linux. #!/bin/sh #Save this as something like 'crawlwatch' and chmod +x it. # then use it to run crawl instead of typing 'crawl-tiles'. # Hit Ctrl+C to exit the loop. VIEWER="geany --read-only" # if you don't have wmctrl installed, thi...

This is crawl 101: Don't waste stuff, don't conserve it either. Use it when it's useful, not before or after. In the case of really good items like potion of experience and scroll of acquirement, that means ASAP (before it gets a chance to be stolen or destroyed). It is possible to get some gains on...

spindart wrote:Perhaps you should try mutating yourself like crazy beforehand? I read that with each mutation you have, it becomes harder for you to mutate overall Nice run though

The only possible reply to such an idea is:

"Bad forum"

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