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I'm so excited to see this finally implemented. Thank you, Psymania! I don't love the current square aura, I keep thinking the monster is on a special tile. I'm sure I could get used to it though. I'm intrigued by the dotted line version. What does it look like with health bars displayed? Re: the ga...

I like the threshold idea. Makes it easy for everyone to pick the right balance for them.

Proposal: new option - tile_show_threat_level (default: true) example.png This would save a lot of xv'ing for offline players and could even give online players more situational awareness, though the monster list does a lot of the same work online. I posted this a couple years ago and it was very w...

CanOfWorms wrote:the problem with C is that when I look at it I just see an ogre playing with a red ball, not some kind of indicator of threat level

OK, yeah, fair.

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Included the easier two for completeness, but those still feel unnecessary to me.

Oops, forgot to attach the smaller version of the icons.

Made a comparison for the ideas being floated here.

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Edit: Looking at this for a while, I think I prefer C myself.

I really like a lot of this, but the summons don't quite feel right to me. Perhaps summoning/moving statues in some form would work? Though trapping yourself could be problematic unless you could move through them ala Fedhas/plants.

Tankra's all sound like solid alternatives.

Ah, that makes a bit more sense. I don't really care either way about the demon icons, if that's something people want to keep. It just seems like a good system to copy for a broader threat level system.

A follow up to this little thread: https://crawl.develz.org/tavern/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=21614&p=294651 I did some digging, and it seems like the demon tier icons (tile_show_demon_tier = true) were created to help users identify the threat level of all the various demons you can encounter. (So...

So, thanks to hurricane Matthew, I found myself forced to play offline again yesterday. While forlornly combing through the options txt, I noticed the "tile_show_demon_tier" option for the first time. demontier.png I didn't even know demons had tiers and I'm not sure why that's important. ...

Community aspects aside, the Monster List HUD in WebTiles is easily the best thing about playing online. It is extremely handy to have a visual shorthand for how dangerous every monster in your LOS is. It also greatly cuts down on the tedium of examining monsters to get their danger rating. I honest...

Well blast. I'm very familiar with confirmation bias and it crossed my mind but I did a few more tests to probe it and everything seemed to point to something funny going on around that stairwell. This was tempered even further by flubbing some more reliable spells near the stairwell when an orc war...

Been playing Crawl off and on for years now but I've never ran into this before. I'm on D:8, MuWa of Ashe. Trying to throw up Repel Missiles before I go downstairs and it's just miscasting every single time. (Fail rate is 30% right now) If I walk away from the stairs, I can cast it easily. When I ap...

I'd love this if it were to become fully functional, alas I have no programming knowledge I could help you with. My Crawl experience isn't nearly as vast as many users on here. If there's any behaviors you see in the first post (or witness the bot doing) that are wrong or questionable, please do of...

In celebration of my first win, I thought I'd work a bit more on this.

Certainly need to track down that lua hook for the level up choice and get that working at the very least.

Victory!!!! I've updated the first post.

A huge thanks to everyone who offered advice.

And of course the dev team for making one of my favorite games!

Argh! I'm standing right next to Orb and life interrupts. Back in an hour or two.

Mapped Zot:5 and cleared out all the normal parts. Strangely few enemies. It's quiet. Too quiet.

Heading up to the Orb area now. Spamming dragons... never enough dragons....

Cleared Vault:8 without incident! I'm in Zot:4 now. It's been a lot easier than I expected so far, but I've only seen a single Orb of Fire. More shots are getting through my dragons than I'm used to but nothing's had me down to half HP yet. I can see how things could go bad very quickly for me here ...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.9.2 character file. Mumra the Demonologist (Mummy Summoner) Turns: 91353, Time: 1, 06:02:16 HP 149/149 AC 20 Str 14 XL: 21 Next: 96% MP 37/37 EV 18 Int 26 God: Sif Muna [******] Gold 4114 SH 15 Dex 17 Spells: 10 memorised, 3 levels left Res.Fire : + . . See Invis....

I knew of the cTele strategy but I keep forgetting Recall doesn't have a range limit. That may well save my life!

Got the Swamp Rune! \o/ Also finished the Crypt, Hall of Blades, and Elven Halls. Not much in the way of loot sadly, but I finally found Haste and Deflect Missiles, though neither of them are dependable casts. Gonna go deeper in the Dungeon for a while and then go Vaults:8. My current plan for V:8 i...

Oh geez, I completely blanked on the Vault rune. Thanks! Just dropped into the Crypt and got the nasty surprise of Khufu showing up right away. Luckily I went down with a group of dragons and they made relatively short work of him and the accompanying horde. (BTW holy crap, dragons are awesome! ) Fo...

Cleared out most of Elven:5 but I didn't go near the vault. The rest of the level seemed easy enough but I didn't want to push my luck. I think I'll go check out the Crypt or Dungeon dive a bit more. @Mattchew Shuffled my equips around and got Summon Dragon up to Fair, though that puts my rF at 0. R...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.9.2 character file. Mumra the Convoker (Mummy Summoner) Turns: 64326, Time: 19:23:53 HP 122/122 AC 23 Str 11 XL: 17 Next: 82% MP 34/34 EV 12 Int 27 God: Sif Muna [******] Gold 1844 SH 14 Dex 17 Spells: 10 memorised, 4 levels left Res.Fire : + . . See Invis. : . j ...

Progress! Finally found a book with Summon Dragons in it but sadly my success rate is still Useless. Located the Hive and am planning to clear that out for XP. I also found an amulet of guardian spirit, which I'm currently wearing. Not sure if that's the wisest course of action but as a MuSu of Sif,...

Very nice, congrats!

I'm amused your whole 15 rune run took last time than my current MuSu that hasn't gotten a single rune yet.

I've cleared two floors of the Elven Halls pretty easily but caution kept me from the 3rd after taking a peak. Didn't find any loot though, aside from a slightly better buckler. Then I scored a very nice haul at a treasure trove (entrance fee of 2 cure mutation potions, very nice for a mummy). It co...

Cleared out Swamp down to level 4 without incident, though those wisp swarms sure are annoying. Went ahead and picked up Horrible Things and am fairly pleased with it for now. Already met an Unseen Horror on D:15, still no sign of Hive or Vaults. Pretty sure I don't want to enter the Slime Pits so I...

@TehDruid: Man, I would be ecstatic with just a 3 Rune Win out of this, especially considering my lack of late-game experience. Been playing roguelikes sporadically since I was kid with the result of great fun and absolutely no success. I've cleared Orc already but I'll go pick over the robes again ...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.9.2 character file. 1300099 Mumra the Demonologist (level 25, 173/175 (176) HPs) Began as a Mummy Summoner on Feb 13, 2012. Was the Champion of Sif Muna. Escaped with the Orb ... and 3 runes on Feb 18, 2012! The game lasted 1day 10:34:52 (103929 turns). Mumra the ...

I have a deep nostalgic love for the ASCII version based on playing an old Hack variant as a kid. I tried out tiles last year though and I really enjoy the extra info available there.

Yeah, I'm looking forward tinkering with this some more when I get a chance. I've just been super busy lately. And Zelda and Skyrim aren't helping.

Yeah, it used to keep and use all throwables before I had it look at skills. Was considering changing that back as well.

I need to get back to tinkering with this. Been busy lately!

If your chunks are contaminated, eat them anyway. Really. This bit of advice (well, obviously, another with basically the same content :P) was a massive help to me when I started out. Aha! I think this is what I was missing. Rolled a DDNe for a change of pace and I'm currently on D:7 with a nice su...

Great! That'll be a huge step in getting it to play better. Hopefully it'll let a lucky few make it down to D:8 again.

Maybe this is a problem with my expectations. I've tried a SEEE and a DEEE now and I ran into the same problem with both. D:2-5 I spent most of the time at Hungry or worse. I try to save my permafood for emergenceies when I hit Near Starving and get by on chunks in the meantime but it seems like mos...

I've been playing DCSS very sporadically for years, but I'm now planning to make a more focused effort at getting my first win now that victory dancing is gone (hooray!). I've dabbled in a few builds but the vast majority of my characters have been Mummy spellcasters of one sort or another. I love p...

Updated the file. v0.1.5 -Uses ranged launchers when skilled in their use. -Prefers ranged weapons over melee only if its starting skills dictate it. It will retain its starting melee weapon regardless of its skill level with it. -Improved inventory management. It now drops any item if it isn't skil...

Success! \o/ The bot is no longer a macro. I patterned it off the ready() function in fireworks.rc and it works great! Autoplays without any initial button press and surpasses 1000 turns without being aborted from infinite loop detection. Still have some hurdles to overcome before it could be a viab...

Hmmm. Looping does work but it seems to cause a lot of problems. I've tried looping it 5, 10, 20, and 200 times. The longer the loop lasts, the longer the game hangs before the bot makes any moves. It also seems to mess up the bot's logic. I think it is triggering the command for it's initial decisi...

Odd, I tried you.spells() but I couldn't get anything out of it. I'll give it another shot! That's awesome! It really doesn't need to be able to win the game to make a good screensaver :) Haha, yeah, but the better it is the more fun it'll be to watch! Right now, I'm just hoping for some basic compe...

Figured I'd ask this here instead of starting a new thread. Is there some reference I could use to find all the various players values I can access via Lua? Specifically, I'm trying to parse what spells the character has learned. A lot of handy values were already referenced in the bots I linked ( y...

That'd be great! I'll keep working on my bot in the meantime.

What is Zot Bot? Zot Bot is an AI script that will play DCSS by itself without any player intervention. These are commonly called "borgs" in the context of roguelikes. Mine was inspired by the APW-Borg for Angband which was eventually turned into a screensaver . Zot Bot's base code was pr...

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