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I like people watching me. And I like a bit of informal banter while I show how much of a noob I am

I see webtiles watching is very popular. I'd love it if people could watch my games in tiles while I played in console, because I've tried tiles and I really can't get used to it.

The 0.8 Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup Tournament is only 3 hours away! Remember, rules are at http://crawl11.dyndns.org/ and the tournament will be held from 00:00 Saturday 14 May to 00:00 Monday 30 May. The tournament will be held on the CAO and CDO online servers http://crawl.akrasiac.org/ and http://c...

Yes. The teams currently there are being used to test tournament scripts ahead of the tournament. Don't worry, it hasn't started yet

The 0.8 Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup Tournament is almost upon us! Do you have what it takes? If you're a casual player, or trying to prove you're the best in the world, this is the tournament for you! Featuring competitions and pennants, team spirit and individual brilliance, this is the crawl event yo...

The 0.8 Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup Tournament is almost upon us! Do you have what it takes? If you're a casual player, or trying to prove you're the best in the world, this is the tournament for you! Featuring competitions and pennants, team spirit and individual brilliance, this is the crawl event yo...

Slaying is a good ring, no doubt about it. There are some key balancing factors: Slaying doesn't help your character stay alive. I often don't wear slaying when I have it. I was in an interesting situation in a bazaar recently when I found a good randart amulet and a +4,+4 ring of slaying and could ...

Seems a bit odd. There is already this system in place with GDR. If I'm wearing CPM and have 40 AC I have 40 AC and almost 50% GDR. If I am an octopode with 8 rings of +5 protection I have 40AC and no GDR. This means I am likely to get hit for more with the same AC. Your system adds stoneskin/ozocub...

Maybe I'm weird, but I think they do. In particular, it means you may want to avoid cursing your cloak until you find body armour you want to leave on, and that you may want to avoid cursing your gloves until you have two rings you want to leave on. Yes, they add a little something to the curse min...

I agree that cursed weapons blocking butchering add nothing to the gameplay except to annoy new / inexperienced players who want to butcher. This should be removed imo. Removing the others should be done for all characters if it is done for ash as well. No need for inconsistency.

Abilities Ashenzari has should not overhaul current cursing systems. I am not sure which, if any, of these are still in however none of them should be: You can swap weapons if cursed / you can butcher using ash ability You can wear armour if your cloak is cursed and rings if your gloves are cursed K...

"I haven't played 0.8" Try it. In many key aspects it's a lot better than 0.7. Maybe gone a bit overboard but I'm sure anything too powerful will be nerfed again for the proper tournament in August. FE sticky flame is hardly a nerf, more a redirection of the spell. Other buffs - many, many...

You have lost all credibility to me by suggesting this is a good idea. 1) Orc priests are not the most dangerous monsters in the game. Many others are more dangerous. Orc wizards, for one. 2) The ability you are suggesting is ridiculously overpowered for such an early monster. This ability would mak...

Thanks. IIRC the Cutlass is a sabre. Thanks. Apparently the +6,+7 Sabre of Speed with +3 Damage (Captain's Cutlass) gives 25.9 damage/turn. the +6, +5 Vorpal Quick Blade gives 27 damage/turn. Guess I gotta go with my Quick Blade unless fighting jellies. Also, I'm playing trunk with nerf'd Speed bra...

If you want to justify it, then the wizard who made the ring was using Nethack logic. He assumed cursing a ring of sustenance would produce a ring of hunger. :p Doesn't do this in nethack... rings of slow digestion and hunger are separate there too. IMO don't wear-ID rings especially if you don't k...

mageykun wrote:...is this some kind of joke?

Lava Orcs? Really? 0_0

Um... no joke?

Pretty strong species, probably OP. rF+++ is pretty strong. Expect them to be nerfed soon

[rant]So I was feeling pretty annoyed. Lost my 100% streak account megabat on the 14th char, DSWz. Streak on CDO if you want to look. Tried speedrunning a HOPr - died on zot 5. Tried some SpAr divers for fun, then lost a realtime speedrun with a bot/human hybrid with the bot half played by elliptic...

rPois isn't too strong because it isn't too useful. Many characters go through zot and most other areas of the game without rPois because it can be nullified by the huge stack of healing you've built up and it just makes sense using an extra rF+. Adding extra levels would make it almost never worth ...

- Having just have one generic fighter package without options would close that one background off to a lot of species that don't have good aptitudes for the particular generic build that is chosen - shields vs no shields makes a big difference (Yes it does). If you pick a weapon that goes with a s...

Categorisation shouldn't be necessary, because each class should be far enough from another that you can't meaningfully lump them together.

I preferred the old screen too. But as I've been told already on this forum, maybe I'm just change-averse!

The criticism is fair, but also cheap. I know this is not ideal. But I don't have a good replacement at hand. How about having chei slowness depend on piety, not on items? This way, you get the slowness, the piety, and don't have the ponderous mechanic which is one of the things about chei I would ...

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OneTrueFelid wrote:It still looks ridiculous. Hey. Hey guys.

BATTLEMAGES.

Just one step short of Witches, I'd swear.

Care to enlighten us with a better proposal?

The term generally used for training magic skills and non-magic skills is "hybrid". Not sure it would fit that well, however.

One slight observation about the new screen: It shouts at you quite a lot. Why the capital letters? I think it would look better if: Warrior: Zealot: Battlemage: Mage: a - Fighter h - Berserker n - Crusader t - Wizard b - Gladiator i - Abyssal Knight o - Enchanter u - Conjurer c - Monk j - Chaos Kni...

I don't want to start quoting everything you say and giving counter points. Instead I'm going to condense it back down. 1) I'm not "messing with you" - I see little point for the use of meph outside its intended targets, and this coupled with the poor use lategame makes it underpowered for...

No investment to speak of" = level 3, three schools. This means meph will be miscastable (not excellent) even when you reach lair, assuming you train one of the skills and then deliberately train the others (not the case - because you need to learn more than those 4 skills (poison magic, air m...

Ogres have an awesome niche not shown by other roles. Get one to xl20 and you'll see what that is: it comes from extremely unbalanced magical aptitudes which while being a lot more challenging than humans is great fun in its own regard. Ogres are fine as they are. Go to crawl and there are two thing...

I see you need clarification. "No investment to speak of" = level 3, three schools. This means meph will be miscastable (not excellent) even when you reach lair, assuming you train one of the skills and then deliberately train the others (not the case - because you need to learn more than ...

Mephitic cloud is not overpowered and I think it is in fact underpowered. But let's move on from that. Maybe it is too common. What on earth would qualify as overpowered, then? Yes, Mephitic Cloud uses utility in the mid- and late-game. Doesn't matter, because it outrageously outclasses everything ...

Mephitic cloud is not overpowered and I think it is in fact underpowered. But let's move on from that. Maybe it is too common. If you look at what characters really take meph if it isn't in your starting book it isn't very many. DDNe today, had the option of meph, haven't taken it; why - not very us...

minmay wrote:Also, "koboldly" is the best pun on this forum.

Yes, when it comes to puns, worst == best

a - the +8,+2 executioner's axe "Yciniam" {god gift, elec, rF+ Dex+1 Stlth++} b - a +0,+6 executioner's axe of electrocution {god gift} h - the +2,-2 battleaxe of Nunesai {god gift, flame, +Inv Str+4 SInv} m - a +0,+4 dwarven anti-magic battleaxe {god gift} p - the +5,+0 executioner's axe ...

Wow, you're welcome.

Now I've got to remember why :/ Lol

Just to say: Poison arrow gatling gun forever! Go kiku!

If you're unspoiled, the many ridiculously high OP uniques like Margery, Xtahua, Nikola. But with the right resistances they're easy. Most dangerous for me, Agnes. That thing is crazy, speed 18 O_o. Aizul too, really hard to escape and a ton of damage. Mennas is just annoying rather than dangerous. ...

varkarrus wrote:GIANT SPACE KOBOLD
To KOBODLY GO where no KOBOLD has GONE BEFORE.

Lol, this is the worst pun ever

Zicher wrote:Go SpVM .

Hehe. Sadly, already a spriggan in this streak!

DECr are awesome!

Hard to start but if you get to temple it's only up from there, go kiku, and you have a beautiful easy game with high enough hp, great apts and a great god.

Wolfechu wrote:That's good to know. Kinda answers my other question too; guessing it's not worth keeping dodging turned on if you're going down the heavy armour route?

Yeah, that's right - dodging will train slowly, and give you virtually no EV. Just stick those skill points in armour!

Which chars are the best to play on-streak? By that I mean, 100%able without major bad luck. The best char I've found for this is DDCK, or DDNe, but SpEn comes close :) I have a 3 streak at the moment, TrMo (okawaru), SpEn (nemelex), DDCK (makhleb) and am currently playing a MfIE of kikubaaqudgha. A...

My way of playing DE so they don't die. Step 1) Pick a good DE class. Any will do. DEFE before sticky nerf, or DEVM in your case should be fine for a while, although you'll have to get slightly lucky with books. DENe or DEIE would do fine too. Step 2) Go Ashenzari, curse what items you can. Step 3) ...

DE of Ash is insanely awesome. Reskill 13-15 points into fighting & pick up a weapon, demon whip if you can, if not whatever weapon is best in your game (katana, double sword, demon trident etc) and reskill a few points into that weapon skill too so it hits base delay. With that ridiculous str y...

Strangely, there are still two unwon combos. They are SEMo and MuAs. From ##crawl: [10:17] <Zicher> !lg * won semo [10:17] <Sequell> 2. Nosferax the Grand Master (L27 SEMo), worshipper of Okawaru, escaped with the Orb and 3 runes on 2010-08-07, with 1398284 points after 108796 turns and 6:57:47. [1...

In the 0.7 tournament, I played a few HERe. I prefer it over HECj for its nice melee, and I designed it to do 15 runes and beat Cerebov. If you play Okawaru -> TSO or Okawaru -> Makhleb (as I did, Makhleb is better than TSO in a few ways such as he allows necromancy), this is a pretty smooth run, ho...

You can start a DrPa. However, especially when compared to how strong TSO is lategame, he is incredibly weak early game, and provides little benefit at low piety. As said, it may be worth switching gods to Okawaru (for the might, armour and weapons) or Ashenzari (who can sort out your invocations be...

Some stuff I've been messing around with :) **IE of kiku. Mf**/HE** of kiku (** is NOT Ne). DECr of kiku. The above are awesome at necrusading, DE for its amazing apts, Mf for its strong hybrid ability and IE for the same. Of course, MfIE of kiku is also amazing. DEFE/DEIE (after sticky nerf) of Ash...

Over on ##crawl, we've been collecting a good lot of them

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

I've found some ridiculously good ones. One of the best was a AC+7 EV+4 Dam+7 ring.

Casmith! <3 How the crap does hunger not matter as a spriggan? Granted, they have the slowest metabolisms in the entire game, but they also have to worry about running out of permafood. xl15 = done hive ergo, food doesn't matter. I did a kenku recently that waited 35000 turns without doing anything...

PS: turn enchantments off. It's too high - you can cast haste so you don't need it anymore. Is there a way I can bring the food cost of Haste and Invis down? Would raising Enchantments help at all? As szanth said, increasing spellcasting would do that, as would raising int. So would wielding a staf...

well if you're zerking, that's +1d10 slaying. So I'd use the dagger of speed

I love speed weapons plus slaying though

If this is 0.7 -- throw that robe of the archmagi in the bin. If this 0.8 -- use it :D Now that's out of the way none of the armours are very good. Out of those the troll leather is best (hunger doesn't matter) but that's not helpful anyway. As you want to cast it's going to have to be a robe. You w...

Last one! (for now) 0.7 wins: ordered by percentage :) 55/3567x Deep Dwarf [1.54%], 37/2852x Halfling [1.30%], 11/1154x Centaur [0.95%], 109/11794x Spriggan [0.92%], 68/8392x Merfolk [0.81%], 22/3367x Ghoul [0.65%], 33/5161x Sludge Elf [0.64%], 32/5624x Kobold [0.57%], 26/4847x Naga [0.54%], 14/3103...

Kiku.

I started a guide on this but never finished it

http://www.casmith789.comoj.com/ (but yeah, not finished)

Basically, get a polearm, use it a lot, use ice defensively and offensively, and necro the same way. Soon you'll have a fully fledged necrusader

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