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dd wrote:Much better would be to allow targeting to scroll the screen, similarly to the (x) command.

You can't see the beam path if you're scrolled all the way across the level, though.

Extremely niche consideration: hugeterm players would get to target at pretty much any angle, while normalterm players would be limited to fewer firing directions. You're 99% right though, it shouldn't stop you from firing toward squares just because they're behind fog or walls. In particular, this ...

randomly slapping on schools for balance reasons isn't a satisfactory solution, especially when it means everyone is a conjurer in endgame

(fighting^2)/5 is a bad curve; use something like (fighting^1.6)/1.3 instead

really though you should use the TGW HP Formula™

The stair ambush changed hasn't been implemented. The YASD that initiated the discussion was actually wrong. I'm pretty sure that it is not possible to get killed on the turn you enter a level for the first time. Monsters are generated asleep, so the worst they can do is wake up and shout. Waking u...

This would make Okawaru a lot less attractive to casty builds. There's already a god like that.

I don't see why the game still pays lip service to the self vs. other split when it actually mostly uses the much better positive vs. negative split.

Silence should be a hex in either system, but hey.

What was the point of the committed change if "bad" and "poor" are both still used? "Terrible" was perfectly clear. "Bad" and "poor" are synonyms. The point was to remove some useless details and simplify. I didn't realise there was any ambiguity. I...

What was the point of the committed change if "bad" and "poor" are both still used?

"Terrible" was perfectly clear. "Bad" and "poor" are synonyms.

Why not remove them in general, then? Why remove them? They don't create any gameplay problem for non-ash worshippers. They add a little realism and flavour to the curse system. And this is good, up until it starts stepping on ash's gameplay. And they take a huge chunk out of Ashenzari's flavour wi...

Why not remove them in general, then?

Tell him learndb is better.

That was tried briefly a while ago (0.6 trunk) and it was very unfun. Basically, people would die on D:1 because they were getting poisoned by kobold corpses.

What if Ashenzari let you choose which appropriate skill to boost instead of the old two boosts? This would let people use it to increase their highest skill as well as for picking up new skills if they want. Let the player change the boosted skill for a piety cost.

I think that rather than introducing flavour kludges, entirely removing layered curses and requiring a blade to butcher would be preferable. I don't think either of these are particularly interesting mechanics.

Man-at-Charms.

(You don't strictly "need" it but you do suffer horrific penalties without it.)

http://crawl.akrasiac.org/learndb.html#fuk_da_sac

What about using my spell hunger scale?

(Hunger expressed in grape fractions: tenth, fifth, half, one, two, five, ten.)

It's not even necessarily out of date. It's just not accurate a lot of the time. For example, the first random page I go to says imps are "impossible to catch with a throwing net" (and that they have -9 MR). The second refers to pandemonium lords as "tier-1 demons" and recommends...

https://crawl.develz.org/wiki/doku.php? ... lass_order

Keeping something explicitly unfun just because other roguelikes have it is an awful idea, and not how Crawl works.

'Hexes aren't supposed to be good against everything' is a bad design decision, because nobody will ever consider getting 20 levels of a skill if it's useless against most endgame enemies.

I prefer partial success to the other proposed solutions, but of course there's the problem of coming up with appropriate partial successes - what do we do with Teleport Other, polymorph, banishment? tele other: longer duration polymorph: partial as now, full success polies to something with lower ...

Don't screw with spell schools to try to balance things. It doesn't work, plus it takes mephitic cloud from the playstyles that use it. What are you going to do for Wz, Cj, VM, and AE? 1) Reduce confusion duration from cloud. Things shouldn't be incapacitated forever with one cloud. 2) Tie cloud dur...

Partial success is the correct solution. Successful hexes work as now, unsuccessful ones can confer a lesser effect. With regards to mephitic cloud, don't screw with schools to try to balance things. 1) Reduce the confusion duration. 2) Tie cloud duration more strongly to spell power. 3) Intelligent...

rwbarton wrote:For the record, Sure Blade is far from useless both early and late in the game. If anything, the spell is closer to being overpowered than underpowered.

Reserve one slot for lava orcs and another for nomes.

Crusaders should be removed if the enchantment split isn't reverted or fixed.

Mumra's got the right idea. Also, people should note that the variety of possible characters is just as big a draw for many new players. When I showed Crawl to a friend, the first thing he picked was DSCK of Xom. Correct approach is to help the player choose a character if they want. There are propo...

shout out to all the devs

except marvinpa

Racial categories are basically completely arbitrary and meaningless. I don't know how the suggested ones would be meant to help anyone.

Instead, now people hold off on using their items just because the mutation curing system penalizes people who have any mutations, even ostensibly "good" ones.

Note that Mf already lost its absurdly high racial HP.

you're my favorite person ever

Elementalists have completely different books and playstyles.

easy_exit_menu = false does this, I think. It's an important option for anyone who doesn't like being killed by the interface.

The learndb has a lot of entries for 'apropos randarts' and 'unapropos randarts.'

Point 3 is a terrible idea. Training skills should not confer gigantic penalties to a character.

I don't agree that majorly redoing the experience system is feasible, but getting a bonus for runes could be kind of neat.

My proposal evens out the class HP difference by XL 27. :S

[(Old Class HP)(27-XL) + 10(XL-1)]/26 + Racial HP*(1+fighting/18)

(Old Class HP being the current class HP modifier, a constant; and Racial HP being the current HP curve determined by race.)

It's about average for a Soup version in terms of power. Some stuff was nerfed (mostly OP stuff), some things were added. A good thing about 0.8 is that MarvinPA has been fixing a ton of awful features. Sandblast, Stone Arrow, Static Discharge, and LRD are much improved, while Slow, Ring of Flames, ...

HD is the number of 'dice' rolled to determine the monster's HP (the number of sides on each is a different variable). It's also used in monster spell power calculations and in resisting a few effects. http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/bots Type in "orc wizard hd:100" or something to see h...

it already is

New Class HP = [(Old Class HP)(27-XL) + 10(XL-1)]/26

it's the best proposal

New HP = Class HP + racial HP*(1+fighting/18)

danr wrote:With merged chunk stacks, would the game be able to remember how old each chunk is?

Think potions of blood.

Elementalists are all completely different. I question whether you've actually played them all.

I mean it's tedious to summon something just to finish off something weak.

"For magic-user, no, not really." What does this mean? Vehumet gives bonuses to magic use and none to melee. This is enough without requiring people to use all magic all the time.

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