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A simple suggestion is to use different colored text for mod actions. Like this: This is a mod trying to moderate. This is a comment by the mod as normal user. Also a rule specifically against "record sniping" seems to be in order. I can see why you're disallowing it - but it's not obvious...

Can please one of those who voted for "well-rounded characters" provide an example? I still don't understand what type of character it is. HO in plate armour with Sticky Flame? That's heavy armour melee. Like Sprucery I play a mixed bag of characters... since it seems I can't actually ret...

Politely and well written response that explains the reasoning behind the moderation actions while taking everything said at face value in order to deflate any aggression, leaving the perpetrator shamefaced.

Code:: High AC caster (AC >= EV, killing with conjurations/hexes/summoning)

I actually checked my last games ... and usually it ends up with AC>EV, some necromancy and whatever high end nuke I can squeeze in. Except three rune Op/Sp.

Weird. I thought I tend to play EV casters.

At the risk of turning this into an 'educate the truant player' session... here's a couple more specific questions: How is not being able to eat poison a specific nerf to casters? Because of the Cure Poison spell? I admit never needing enough satiation on corpse-eating characters to have thought of...

Congrats!

Also, you're nuts.

Still that's impressive... the DD was incredibly tanky with Statueform/Cheistats/Damage shaving, I take it?

Changes in 0.17: ⋅ less early game MP ⋅ undead expiration ⋅ can't eat poison chunks ⋅ invisibility nerf ⋅ removal of enslave spell ⋅ removal of flight spell ⋅ removal of control teleport ⋅ removal of singularity ⋅&...

Flat out removal seems an over-reaction. As usual, the ##crawl-dev logs provide some clarity. People there were quick to point out that, without damage, singularity becomes a fairly weak spell in comparison to all the other tloc spells you could be using, especially at level 9. And, if you drop the...

I don't think TLoc needs a level 9 spell. But Singularity was an interesting spell. Toning down the damage - or removing out of los damage would've been enough IMO, since the pinning effect was pretty useful and the tactics it opened up with blocking alone were interesting and fun to play with. Flat...

advil wrote:Make Singularity a monster-only spell (10 hours ago, 3 files, 2+ 8- ) https://github.com/crawl/crawl/commit/e3e75563cf90

Ugh, well, that's that I guess.

Well shit. Was a fun and interesting spell while it lasted though.

I also kind of feel like the actual translocation effect is smaller than my 'flavour' conception of a level 9 T'Loc spell. I really disagree. I've seen this sentiment before and I think most people who say this have mainly used it on reasonably strong characters (ok ac, resists, etc) and so just ha...

Tukima's gets a significant boost compared to confuse - so many targets that are hard to confuse are a target for Tukima. At that practically every enemy wielding a big weapon is a good target. Ogre's get smacked by their own clubs ... later you can disarm ettins/convokers/frost giants/orc knights/o...

Distortion dagger.. oh fun! Shops can be seen on Ctrl-O (overview screen?) - and when you enter the level they generate pretty close to the stairs and are visible on the map. Here it is: Shops: D:9 = I'm undecided myself what the best shop for a Sp is... I usually bet on Jewelery/Books/Armour - thou...

Nice. Always interesting to learn odd cultural tidbits... To actually add something... Mhmm.. I'd say all simple buffs will be removed or changed to be always on - with some way of compensation. Recasting Shroud is among the most annoying crawl habits. :/ Ozocubu's Armour Stoneskin Shroud Phase Shif...

Why not simply flat out remove blowguns?

You can rebrand needles as darts if you like, though throwing needles are a staple of fiction anyway. In either case no more switching, Ash gets a minor boost. Not sure why you'd want to move needles away from the Throwing skill though?

Sounds really complicated :/ Part of that seems to result from the instant healing. Why not a gradually increasing Regen effect when no monsters are in sight. It would take ~4 turns to turn on completely, scale with HP/MP and degrade twice as fast with a monster in sight. In any case 3) and 4) sound...

There's a decent chance to find the Necronomicon - in the Crypt usually, while a pain branded stick is really nice to have as early as possible (just get more necromancy though). Add to that, that you're quite a bit away from getting Haunt castable... well, you don't need the pain brand NOW, but it'...

83375 | Zot:5 | HP: 6/124 [Killer Klown (24)] 84022 | Zot:5 | HP: 2/124 [orb of fire/fireball (34)] Congrats! And woah those were some close calls! Judging from the morgue you had a pretty bad Zot:5 so I'm not too surprised - especially as you were spread a little thin skill wise - and didn't all t...

Thanks for the extensive write up! A few things about Sanctuary certainly surprised me - I would have thought that tornado/singularity/recite interrupt it. Or Holy Word for that matter... Then there's the friendly fire trick - i.o.w. Sentinels not casting their Hellfire when it would harm an ally (o...

Sure, if you say so!

Actually jutsu means Technique in Japanese.

Well, in that case dowan is the obvious choice. Having extra MR/AC could be alleviated by the debuff on melee hit we were discussing.

congratulations on your very own (bad) early artefact

Thanks, guys. Well, I got a signature now.

I really would rather get a bit more in T'Loc rather than rely on brilliance. I mean, 16 potions is a lot, but I don't want to run out. I'll probably end up quaffing it anyhow when I go for the actual orb chamber. I could see an aggressive Apocalypse -> multiple singularities clearing the lungs pre...

... I honestly sort of start spacing out once 'optimal play' comes up in the discussion. What does that even mean?!?

Also, uh, on topic: I'd still seriously consider Ash if she only granted passive divination and Scry.

z - 16 potions of brilliance Just going to remind you that if you're already dumping your XP in a level 9 spell in Zot... well, honestly you could probably just dive Zot:1-4, clear as much as you're comfortable with of Zot:5 and have enough !brilliance to cast Singularity as you like. ...food shoul...

While he may lack some grammatical niceties, I think he generally gets his point across. I can't imagine that it would be easy for a non-native english speaker to read though, as they're probably not going to have as easy a time filling in the blanks. As a non-native speaker... Nahh, it's fairly re...

I've done it just recently. I've switched ZIN->TSO->ZIN several times to apply the collected potions of beneficial mutation (whenever I had enough of them). Instead of paying my way back to max piety with Zin (50% of cash as donation) I stayed some time in PAN/Abyss to get 100% mutation prot. again...

Doesn't Oka wrath nowadays just mean: Fight a bunch on some random Pan floor, trigger wrath, hop into a portal. So long, suckers :) That random Pan floor can have a rune. I had Oka's wrath 3 times on Gloor Vlox floor, almost died. There's that, yes. Mhmmm. I wonder if I can get all four pan lords a...

This is a Gargoyle of Zin with 18 completed ziggurats. (Vitalisation is on for this dump:) Invok: Heroism | | | 4 | 20 | 18 | 13 | 18 | 8 | 36 || 117 Finesse | | | | | 1 | | 4 | 2 | || 7 Vitalisation | | | | | | | | | 1138 || 1138 Recite | | | | | | | | | 488 || 488 Sanctuary | | | | | | | | | 138 ...

In general a demon trident of pain is an amazing weapon for pretty much everyone that can skill necromancy. However you have a point that especially with a mummy bolt of draining is just that good - while a pain branded weapon doesn't really solve any situation you can already deal with adequately. ...

Man. I have irridescent scales, bony plates, fire resistance, and one other decent mutation I cant remember, after finding a whole stack of beneficial mutation pots in an ice-cave. Then I got zapped by an eye in slime, through my rMut amulet. blurry vision. Character is a tank with a wand of telepo...

Then you could make it work even better by giving Oka a 50% chance of striking you dead immediately upon conversion! It's possible to play with taking wrath into account like it's possible to play with taking teleportitis into account (I have the latter experience). For example, with some character...

Already there's an argument about Oka->TSO~ That's good, showing that whether or not abandoning Oka is a good choice isn't so clear cut. It's a meaningful decision, just as in the design doc. Woooh! And that was my point Hurkyl. Leaving a risky option open offers more interesting decisions, more opt...

The decision whether or not to change gods becomes trivial if gods switching were disallowed or (effectively) fatal. Leaving the choice open - even if it is a bad choice - is more in line with the design goals. On the other hand Oka/Sif/Veh are frequently taken for their gifts - which the player ret...

Feel like making a post in Crawling Advice? Not everyone peeks into YAVP/YASD and this is generally useful information. (And I found it quite surprising!)

Nice! What about Fishing though?

One was when I was in Abyss. I sensed a nasty monster by passive mapping. I scried, and it was a bone dragon, guarding a rune, with rock walls. I zapped a wand of digging, apported the rune and teleported. Oh hey, I just got that exact same vault! I scryed - but had no wand of digging/disint so fur...

It doesn't matter much to me, but it would be consistent with the way hexes work. Why should a KoBe needle stabber be penalized for using a different method to apply his hex?

I wouldn't mind an early demon (portal) vault with a toned down random panlord. Of course even then entering could be suicide, so naturally I'd do it!

Congrats and welcome~! Blind tabbing will get you killed. Just because your melee brute has a low INT doesn't mean that you are obligated to play like Leeroy Jenkins. Goddamnit, that killed so many Trolls. On the other hand with Ru at least you can at least go. "Would everyone on screen please,...

Well then.png I actually got one! It looks just about how you'd expect. But Mennas suddenly interrupting my cunning plan had me a teensy, tiny bit worried :P As for cheating/easiness - well I gotta admit I don't think I'll play Chei frequently. It changes the game too much. I prefer playing Crawl w...

XP bags, huh? Player ghosts are pretty much always worth a short look at least - and sometimes a good reason to abandon a half-explored level. Could randghosts fill the same niche? Perhaps - but sometimes I recognize the name, sometimes I even spectated the death - and can give a short mental nod be...

Remember Tunnel 17

Mhmm. It certainly would - 8-12 piety per slouch, 4 to 5 slouches IIRC. But then again the piety is there to be used - and it is a swift death to a not very threatening - but large contingent of monsters. I certainly wouldn't use ?immo/stairdancing in V:5, no matter how amusing - since the center is...

Damnit. I knew taking Chei was a mistake.

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.17-a0-1399-gd5b76e1 (webtiles) character file. 19511639 Zwobot the Portalist (level 27, 271/271 (273) HPs) Began as a Demonspawn Monk on June 18, 2015. Was the Champion of Cheibriados. Escaped with the Orb ... and 15 runes on June 19, 2015! The game lasted 10:54:4...

When no one replies to a YAVP, you should just think that everyone is rendered speechless by your awesome Crawl skillz :) I've read an etiquette rule that a person should not praise another person who is much better for doing easy things. Not sure if it applies to crawl 100% but a new player congra...

...actually I bet most people were rendered speechless by your spell list ^^ (Though I memorize bullshit myself on occasion :p)

Gah. I hate it when I start another game after a win - and immediately tab into an adder/jackals and die 'cause I'm incapable of seeing them as threat.

Otherwise Crawl's vaguely too long, but darn addictive.

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