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I have no interest in discussing it, nor I'm complaining about anything.

I'm playing Mountain Dwarf right now in 0.10 and having fun with it. Is that okay? Good.

If you don't mind me asking (I mean no ill in this): what is your desperation to play Mountain Dwarves? weren't they removed because other species were too similar anyways (and you'll miss all other additions to the game since then)? Jabberwocky totally nailed it: There maybe well be a nostalgia fa...

pratamawirya wrote:I have the 22-10-2011 version. Let me upload it first.

Bless you, kind sir! May you win every game from now on!

Learn how to use git, that's the easiest way to get a specific version. I installed it and it downloaded something that's probably a source code for the latest version, but it's WAY too advanced to a non-programmer like me beyond this point. Thanks anyway. Try this: http://sourceforge.net/projects/...

Not funny.

Hi! I need a specific version of the game, but the so-called "archive" http://crawl.develz.org/trunk/archive.html only contains new 0.11 stuff. Are older versions still available somewhere for download? I'm looking for 0.10-trunk versions from Oct 2011, but older than 25.10.2011 (according...

I'm a noob then - you are both right - always thought that either !curing or !heal cures rotting. Looks like it's true only for curing permanent HP damage, and not rotting itself.

As for the bow, yes, monstrous indeed.

Hi! Couldn't help myself but had to write an obituary of my most successful character of all time who died in a most unique game of all my games. What's so unique about it? Well, I found several nice randarts with +dam and useful resistances around Lair depth, got a +12 crystal plate from Oka and a ...

I feel your pain. It reminds me of...
In one of the YASD threads someone with an ass-kicking character too did cast Statue form while killing Antaeus, levitating over deep water.

Yet another MiFi. Found a vorpal trident and some useful artefacts (+dam, rElec) pre-Lair, took Shield of reflection off Donald in Orcs, and right after that god giveth me +12 crystal plate. I never, ever had 48 AC before! :shock: Right after that found rPois ring. Decided NOT to descend into main d...

Be prepared to switch jewellery at a moment's notice, as it's very unlikely you'll be able to get all the necessary resists stacked up together. This is is actually very important. The only thing I remember from my first ascension is that in Zot I constantly switched staves of element and rings of ...

When I reached 6 delay with bows (around 18 skill), equipping buckler increased delay to 9, that's like eating 1/3 of your attacks. I believe you can reach 6-7 delay, but you will probably need both bows/shields in high 20's and use bucklers only, no medium shields, unless you are fine with trading ...

Aizul says, "I wasn't actually sleeping!"
Aizul yawns, and then pretends he didn't.

That's me.

nicolae wrote:What happens when your opposed schools are exactly equal and nonzero?

The school you trained last receives a penalty. Tried that.

Grats on your win! Deterioration 2 with just 4 int. That's just terrifying. Thanks! How about Deterioration 3 with just 3 Int while meleeing 2 Orbs of fire? :lol: Thinking of it, should have visited Elf:5 before Zot, especially that I could hit "extraordinarily resistant" with gear. It wa...

Thank you!

I always tried to play Hunters from the start as ranged characters and was extremely frustrated with all the ammo micromanagement in the early game. Switching to ranged post-lair works just great.

mageykun wrote:Wha haf ye don ta ya speech?

I'd like to know that too. :mrgreen:

Hi guys. I did it - hell yeah! (E5 powerchord) Inspired by cerebovssquire 's thread https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=4227. TLDR: archer's early game ammo management is not fun, so start as melee whatever, collect 500+ arrows/bolts from centaurs/yaktaurs between Lair and Vault...

Thanks for sharing! I thought glow always forces bad mutations, turns out it's not.

Roulette is nice with like 50 potions from Distillation, the most important thing is knowing when to stop.

The thing I don't like about auto_eat_chunks is that I never notice the eating messages while auto-exploring, so I lose track of where my hunger is. I tried easy_eat_chunks too, but I seem to be addicted to pressing ee whenever I get hungry. runrest_stop_message = You finish eating ? It still requi...

Hi! Haven't been playing Crawl for a while, but hearing 0.10 is out, picked it up again, and after playing countless wizards, conjurers and whatever elementalists decided give melee a try. You know, I always tried to avoid quaff-ID'ing potions because of some bad experience with !mutation, or even w...

well its not that i detest ghosts, i kinda like them, but i like them with variety, and i play one class race combo excusivly till i can win with it, taking out all of my failed deep elf wizards is a pain in the ass and i dont want to do it every time. in webtiles i dont mind finding a ghost cu the...

PROTIP: to defeat a newt, hit the directional arrow buttons until it dies.

Thanks, guys! @KoboldLord 2. Yes, I was planning to level weapon skill a bit, but later, after getting the weapon. 3. On the second thought, I have absolutely no idea what to do in Tomb:3. Ashenzari, while giving good utility overall, won't help me at all there. As for TSO, summons probably won't li...

Hello there! Right now I'm trying to achieve a more-than-3-rune win for the first time, but don't know what to do. Could anyone experienced help me please? Quick overview: - HEWz_SM, cleared D:1-26, 3 rune branches and Elf, no Crypt yet - OK resistances for Zot, probably not OK for multi-rune - stil...

Thanks! It worked!

1. When playing Webtiles, all messages are shown in Courier New (or similar) font. My browser (Opera, if that matters) is configured to use Consolas as fixed-width font, but everything still shows as Courier New. Is the font hard-coded on server side? Can I change font to Consolas 18 somehow, by som...

It's probably not a "proper" feedback, since I played with the new Tornado for only a couple of minutes, but it's better than nothing, right? I made a Wizard in b1-53 and pumped primarily Spellcasting/Air. Picked up Tornado right before Vaults at [#########.] power. It was very powerful in...

Vehumet gifts *much* later than Sif Muna, unless you're barely training magic skills at all. So Vehumet is reliable...but also reliably slow. From my [probably very little] game experience I have to disagree here. With Vehumet, I always recieve first book before Lair:7, except when his altar spawne...

(Since me and speciesxx are doing the same thing, but in different versions, might as well highjack this thread) There's a reason one of the most common adjectives used around Tornado is "ridiculous." As soon as Tornado came along it was immediately and unanimously decided as vastly more e...

http://crawl.develz.org/trunk/changes.txt

d50b75e | Adam Borowski | 2011-06-09 02:51:22 +0200
Disable octopodes in 0.9 betas and later.
(the check matches 0.9-b1, 0.9-rc1 or 0.9.0, but not 0.9-a or 0.10)

Bronzemurder is also a great DF story. It's very short, but beautifully illustrated.

Unfortunately, no, I didn't even think it was report-worthy, since it obviously has an in-game solution (finding wand/spell or another altar).

Yes, disintegration or blink would have helped too (this char is already dead anyway), what I meant is: this is the first time I see access to a dungeon branch cut off in such a way, so maybe there's a way to lift the grate by stepping on something, for example... Looks like there isn't.

I have just found a Temple entrance in a small room which can only be entered from below. However, the only staircase on the level below got blocked by an iron grate. How can I remove this grate, or is finding a wand of digging the only option to get to the Temple? I have already checked for secret ...

A cheap trick for melee creatures (in your case, yaks). Lure 2-4 enemies in a corridor like this: ####### @.YYYY. ####### Conjure flames on the both sides of yak pack and fire a Mephitic cloud at the nearest. Two yaks closer to you will get confused and bump into the fire and die (melee them), and i...

The one thing i would prefer DE/HE before Naga would be MP pool. I am not sure about the exact numbers, but i felt a bit low on MP all the time, especially in the end game. Even when using a staff which gave me some extra MP, i felt it was a bit low. Looked through YAVP-posts... 50 vs 49 MP, yeah, ...

Tnanks, guys!
You are most probably right, it's a feat, since it seemed so easy yesterday, and today a dozen of different characters already died on the way to Lair. After a win, that's especially frustrating. :)

@speciesxx Congrats on first win! I'm really interested in trying an extended game too, and thinking about NaWz melee/conjurer hybrid. (my theorycrafting from here) Comparing HE's to nagas, nagas get much more HP, for example, at XL27 with 20 Fighting: 211 vs 257 (0.8) 204 vs 250 (0.9) not counting ...

This win is half-year old, but congratulations anyway! Good that this have been bumped, very nice and enterntaining read. Zicher was happily slinging javelins at anything that decided to flee, which brought the skill all the way up to 8, and Oka noticed. Next eleven(!) gifts in a row were darts. ---...

Forgot to mention - I read about "just do controlled teleports" strategy for the Orb run and was really surprised by -cTele status while carrying Orb. Beware of the 0.9! :) your analysis is point on, and you are mistaken about the winning part being nothing special, only a percentage of al...

TL:DR version: playing safe = win. OK, from reading other YAVP's I pretty much understand that 3-rune win is not something extraordinary and lots of people can do it, but I felt that for the first win it's better to do it fast but safe, than to die again from something I didn't know about. I had to ...

I play trunk only for 3 days, and first of all, tuning up Lair difficulty is a good thing, and petrifying monsters are good in that regard. In 0.8, when I reach Lair, it's "finally, the easy part, yeah!", and now it's not the case, and one has to be careful when moving around. However, som...

Also, you may already know this, but Shift-tab = autoattack_nomove. Doesn't chase fleeing enemies, generally safer.

The best weapon you listed is the demon whip. Demon whips are the best mace-type weapon for combat damage, period. You'd need an implausible array of artifact properties to consider using a mace over a demon whip with a melee character, because the base damage of demon whips is so much higher. You ...

Hi. I have a post-Lair/Hive melee HEIE. I went long blades, but right before Lair I found a demon whip of venom, so I thought, why not clean the Lair with this? And while I was doing this, Oka gifted me 2 white mace-category weapons (the other gifts from him were mostly junk, like +0 gray boots, +1 ...

For some reason I thought Mephitic cloud doesn't fill corridors... Anyway, I did exactly just that - Freezing clouds everywhere, Icicles and Bolts at everything, and it was really really good until he finally died. YASD info: After successfully running away from Boris and Mennas on V:6, Lolwut the S...

if you aim for ice storm you should also continue to train conjurations and ice magic. a few ranks in summoning go a long way, too, as they increase the power of abjuration iirc, and you get all the summoning spells anyhow. i'd suggest that you do the dungeon. if you encounter an unseen horror you ...

Melee MfIE is way easier than MfCr, indeed. 1. Higher Int and Dex. 2. Lv1 Freeze seems better than Lv2 Freezing aura (freeze AND damage). 3. Why throw junk like darts when you can Throw Frost? Seriously, this "warrior with defensive magic" approach is almost ideal for my playstyle. Getting...

Yay! Maybe it's not worth bragging about, but it's an achievement for me nevertheless. It took me a week of playing Crawl to even get my first character to the Lair, and another week to learn not to engage monsters at half health/mana. Today I've been to the Swamp for the first time, and managed to ...

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