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Bim wrote:are there any plans to put in a lesser bow/crossbow in at an earlier stage?

Some kobolds have crossbows.

I noticed some talk about abjuration It was already split into two spells a while ago in the demons branch A level 3 single-target "Abjuration" and a level 7 "Mass Abjuration" that affects everything in LOS (as per current abjuration) Sadly, not much seems to be happening with th...

I think the meaning in the description is that his rainbow suspenders are hideous and make him look more hideous, not that he's using them improperly.

Well then that downside needs to be more noticeable, too.
(but the point was that just making that less powerful won't fix the worst case, or even the typical case)

To my understanding, it's already fairly weak in those situations; the primary overpowered use case is in open areas with lots of monsters around (notable instance: ziggurats)

We're sliding off-topic, but silence aura is shown fine in tiles. Continuing the slide, I think Galefury meant the halos that surround holy monsters; I did, at least. Yeah the more i think about this guy the more i think he should only show up in Pan/Hell But not as a "Boss" more like a M...

oh right I completely forgot about Elf.
and yes, halos color floor tiles yellow in console, which isn't so great when the floor was yellow originally (Snake, at least)

If I recall correctly (and it hasn't changed), Boris/Mennas can spawn in Dungeon/Vaults/Crypt/Tomb/Blade/Snake/Shoals/Swamp -- not really endgame, most of the time. Spawning in hellpan (somewhat like Ignacio or the Serpent of Hell) might be nifty. I'm okay with a unique that's particularly menacing ...

Rather, it's how much you add to calculate your effective aptitude for crosstraining.
(so your m&f and polearms are effectively +3)
aptitudes work on a log scale such that adding 4 doubles how well you train (and subtracting 4 halves it).
(so +3 is twice as good as -1)

It would be easy to game this system. Want to identify a potion? Poison self, drain some mp, drain some hp, etc. Potion effects are dangerous enough to make the potion identification minigame interesting (relative to other identification minigames) even with guaranteed identification on usage; there...

minimap is tiles-specific
constantly checking the X map would be an interface burden for console players

There's a "demons" branch on gitorious, wherein demon tiers got shuffled around a bunch; the nonthreatening 1s are now 2s in there.

Magic mapping is not a tactical effect.

please don't special-case spell requirements or usage. thank you.

Instant reliable lifesaving at no cost (other than skill investment, mp to cast, hunger, etc.) would be ridiculously imbalanced.
It used to exist, too. (now it doesn't)

That's for selling items to shops; if I understand correctly, this is much more like Nemelex Xobeh sacrifices.

coolio wrote:Since 'cheating' player ghosts away is so trivial, there should be an option to switch them off completely.

Would have to be overridden or compiled out for online play, or at least tournament play, such as not to make it optimal to disable for competitive reasons.

Be sure to keep upgrades strictly better, such as not to potentially make low power desirable.
Bolt of fire, for instance, is often far more useful than fireball, and as such should not upgrade to it.

that's for both cao and cdo

easy and fun

is there a game design concern here

rPois is of rather low utility in Lair . In my experience, hydrae and death yaks are more of an annoyance than a threat - they're normal speed monsters only distinguished by their attack strength, which makes them no harder to escape than ogres...and you were escaping ogres on D:4. It's black mamba...

minmay isn't complaining about difficulty

minmay is complaining about how open levels' high frequency makes too many levels too similar because they all feel the same.

not sure what each of those spells is supposed to do, but half of them sound like hexes, and the rest charms

It'd still easy enough to milk it for a long while, and then there's necromutation.
Not to mention how it'd probably end up being both tedious and optimal (bad design in my opinion).

Pretty sure the intention was to entirely remove from generation (acq. and vaults included, but probably not wizmode) but not remove the item itself, (such as to preserve save compatibility?)

& it's already done in 0.9
If you can still normally get katanas in 0.9, then yes, it's buggy

Isn't katana removal not in the 0.8 branch?

Also, lots and lots of things that don't leave skeletons can be animated.

Also also, necrophages do leave skeletons.

Tukima's Dance is a hex. Haste used to be level 8 from a comment in the source: // lowered to 6 from 8, since it's easily available from various items // and Swiftness is level 2 (and gives a similar effect). It's also // not that much better than Invisibility. - bwr (this comment is kind of ridicul...

That's the speed at which you can bash things with your bow. If I recall correctly, bowbashing got a healthy nerf.

The rod of striking is a bit less awful, now (1d8 and misses instead of 1d5 and misses, if I recall correctly), but yes.

My transmuters don't always change form before combat, which I guess is why I haven't complained already. For instance, putting a form up up just to kill popcorn, or handle any otherwise trivial situation, is kind of silly.

having to cast (and recast) a spell just to go into combat sounds awfully annoying, and melding a weapon to get the binding strikes me as hacky/inelegant, but whatever. Is it any good in practice?

On katanas, I've never encountered the trope but I'm not sad to see them go.

On double/triple swords, these names are excellent.

On afternoonstars, I think noonstar would be better, for sake of brevity.

http://gitorious.org/crawl/crawl/commit ... 71d1b39b39

Eronarn's reform is taking place?

Kiku provides a bit of torment shaving, not immunity.

felids aren't restoring saves after death

evaporate isn't throwing potions

not that I like either of them, or think it's cool to be vague or omit reasons, but whatever

1) Both dual-wielding are already on that list of things that won't ever be done but people still suggest all the time for some reason.
Read the list; stop suggesting.

2) Erolcha only has one head.

3) what's this about ogre aspects

Extension doesn't exist

galehar wrote:But you complained that channeling needs XP. Training necro or evoc needs xp too. Spellcasting even more. Now is your problem with channeling or with the invocation skill?

what? that was my first post in the thread.

Kiku's corpse drop relies on Necromancy, and the biggest effect is on the corpse quantity and quality

Nemelex also doesn't use invocations (Nemelex uses evocations)

On those notes, it would make sense for Sif's ability to use Spellcasting, but only if it had a good gameplay effect.

hive's lack of difficulty is kind of unrelated to its monotony but it is indeed horribly monotonic acvar, what I meant by challenging for high level characters was that usually only extended-endgame characters even need to think about the free extra bonus food, and often not even then; if Hive doesn...

My XL 10 MDFi one of the biggest problems with Hive's difficulty is that it's optimal to be of a much greater XL than 10 before entering, when bees, and Hive as a whole, are trivial. easy solution principle: either force entry at an early stage, up difficulty to make it meaningful at a later stage,...

waiting out poison/confusion/whatever is still annoying after it stops being dangerous, too.

It's like how armour acquirement can give shields
rods are a type of staff that are different from enhancer staves
crawl should just be a little more clear so it's less confusing

rods aren't about bashing; they're about evoking.

It is just deceptive to have staves as a skill, and the ability to request a staff, and get a rod, which is actually a mace/flail. I am not saying get rid of the rods, but using the word "staff" for an item that does not fall into the staves skill does not make much sense. The rods can be...

rodbashing respects the maces skill, but they are of base type OBJ_STAVES

extra lives also help a lot as a stupidity/badstuff failsafe; even if the bot dies, any summoned BiA will probably take out the killy threat
with better risk assessment/management, though, that would probably matter a lot less

Notes: phybot isn't purely a bot; phyphor occasionally helped it. the current bots are designed to play FeBe I'm assuming putting the trigger on d is so it will choose dexterity on levelup, so put it somewhere else if you would prefer a different stat I might make my own bot sometime, or at least an...

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