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delarado wrote:So that gifted weapon... -6 -3, surely not worth even bothering with no?!?

Broad axes are bad and this is worse than a +0 broad axe you could find anywhere on the ground. God gifts are not guaranteed to be good, and indeed are often hilariously terrible.

The formula you quoted for the impact of armor on stealth is based on the old EVP rating - leather had an EVP of 1, and thus subtracted a whopping 6 from your stealth. I'm not sure what the new formula is, but suffice it to say that leather barely impacts your stealth at all. In general, it's kind o...

That's... even worse. It encourages you to carry around piles of junk. And then go back and hoover up more junk whenever it all turns to gold.

If you play tiles, you can put "tile_key_repeat_delay = 0" into your init.txt / rcfile. This should disable keys repeating completely. If you play console, you can probably change it in the settings for whatever shell program you're using.

As it stands, I usually step into the hall in hopes that a unique or two will spawn there, to remain forever parked. Note this does not actually work. What, yes it does. If you set one foot on a floor, that floor is generated, and any uniques that are placed will be unavailable for generation from ...

I mess with the levels on nearly everything I commit, don't worry.

Then remove them. The only thing hunger or bad stat rings do right now are possibly make you mildly annoyed for like 5 seconds. Less if you have a remove curse scroll, which you almost always will because the dungeon is basically filled with them. Then you drop the ring and it will never be relevant...

The brain, bog body, and plague shambler look great. Ugly things... I dunno, these are impressive, but the current ones are pretty awesome too. Maybe I'll use yours for Very Ugly Things. I'm not so keen on the Redback. Redbacks are a real thing from Australia and have really distinctive markings. It...

In my defence, it is a recent (as in, past month or so) change in trunk that clouds render over monsters; when I made and implemented the new fire vortex (like a year ago) they would override the fire cloud sprite in their tile and were thus much less camouflaged. I'll make them brighter. ...you pan...

Cerebov slipped me a twenty.

Well, glyph mode is a thing that exists - hit F10 on webtiles. Changing the font would probably be pretty easy, but fancy blackletter is gonna murder your eyes pretty quick. As for hand-drawing our own font, uh. I really have no desire to do some actual work on this! I'm not sure what to say about t...

ontoclasm is probably right about Corona but is completely wrong about Sure Blade Fair enough. I suppose I should check these things before saying them. I went through the code and it appears that recasting Corona adds more duration, but does not increase the effect; if a target is backlit for any ...

some1 is correct; despite the perhaps confusing messages, recasting Corona (apparently I'm wrong about Sure Blade) just resets the duration. Also, Dig now makes lots of noise and is thus very bad for Passwallers (since it will wake up the guy you're trying to stab).

Surely we can do better than "[Song] of [Game Mechanic.]"

1. Savescumming while forgetting to save. 2. Endless pan raids. 3. Abyssal raids. The raids wouldn't be as dull if you weren't savescumming. Just sayin'. I guess mine would be 1) Inventory management, especially on low-strength dudes 2) D:20 - D:26, due to the lack of notable OoD guys 3) D:1 - D:3 ...

It's perfectly normal to see multiple uniques / nasty monsters together; that's just the nature of random generation. A key point is that you almost never really need to kill something; if a floor scares you, just take the downward stairs and forget about it. In other games this would screw you over...

"Jazz hands."

Myrmex (the plural is apparently Myrmekes).

It might also have the fun effect of making the orb run a lot more fun, although I haven't checked if the OOD timer is used for that. The orb run completely overwrites normal spawning with its own spawn list (i.e. "lots of horrible demonds"). What spawns doesn't depend on depth at all, so...

Davion Fuxa wrote:Orbs of Fire are too dark

Sorry you weren't impressed.

Both of those are actually on the won't do list!

Also, God of Making Ranged Characters Better doesn't sound terribly interesting, sorry. Gods are best when their theme is "perpendicular" to the skills you're using. Note Ash, who's one of the coolest gods, and works for basically everyone.

xzanthius wrote:As there is no selling of gear in this game I would be good to find another (less redundant) way to capitalize on the purchasing element.

"There's no selling in this game, so we should put selling in but call it something different."

Yes, it's a vault. It places a bunch of uniques that missed their chance at generation earlier.

+1 and +2 are pretty similar, and are in particular both really good. Remember that UC scales differently (read: much much better) than everything else.

Maybe you're over-thinking this a little?

khalil wrote:it would add varity.

It would also require us to make seven new branches from scratch.

monofur. Haters gon' hate

Basically, whenever it's "your turn," you do whatever action you choose (move, cast etc) and unless it's a multi-turn action such as putting on armor it resolves completely. Then the monsters are granted energy based on how long it took, and if they have enough energy they can act. So yes,...

Casting a spell is instant; if the monster gets to act then your spell failed to kill it for some reason (i.e. you miscast, or missed, or it just survived the hit).

Since the idea of Collect Power is (or rather, seems to be) that you give up the permabuffs in order to start casting again, how about it be an instant ability which instantly removes all your buffs and "converts" them into mana; i.e. you get a small amount of mana no matter what, then a b...

I'm pretty sure you can thrash someone with a club or mace. Also, this seems like it'll be a lot of message clutter, since (nearly?) every single melee attack you ever make will print a second line. If you get surrounded by club-wielding orcs you'll get "The orc is whaling on you!!!" half ...

Shoals water has already been darkened at least once; I suppose I could do it again, but I'd really rather have a whole new set of tiles for it. Sadly, drawing water is really hard so it'll take either somebody else doing them or me getting miraculously inspired for that to happen, so...

And the longer you were in the Abyss trying to escape, the better. I had a game where some deep elf banished me at XL 12. I was in the abyss for something like 10,000 turns and came out, with the rune, at XL 19 or so. I like to imagine that poor deep elf hanging out in his house on a rainy night, w...

Fire dragon armour is very good, even if you use spells heavily. Especially then, even. Don't wear it now, because it'll ruin your casting rates, but it's definitely something to hang on to for later.

Try "roguelike."

Galefury wrote:To find out the most common killers in a place, you can query the IRC bot Sequell with something like this:
Code:
!lg * cv>=0.11 place=D:10 s=ikiller

For kicks, I did this for basically every place in the game. Nerf warriors.

When they split, they split the HP as well, so a single "colony" effectively has a communal health pool. AoE spells like freezing cloud will, however, hit multiple masses and thus do their damage many times over, and are thus very good spells for dealing with them.

I didn't think chunks could be cooked, but I do remember briefly thinking (in Nethack, which has the same message) that I was doing something wrong by eating them. "This tastes terrible!" doesn't sound like "This is not only perfectly good food, but your primary food source period.&qu...

Since rMut, rCorr, and Cons are the most boring and most swapped amulets, and generally considered not worth wearing on their own, how about just nail them all together and then give them a ramp-up or swap penalty as dpeg suggested? General protection from "strategic damage," and less swap...

Others might disagree, but I like IOoD against OoF's. Orbs of fire have tons of AC, EV, and resists - all of which an OoD completely ignores. Getting it to connect can be annoying though.

Also you're blowing up an orb with an orb over the Orb.

TrHe was hilariously easy. I imagine MiHe would be similar.

Thanks for your feedback! The serial vault you're looking at is the stunningly complex column_ruins by infiniplex; I made the tiles for the columns. Dungeon furniture is definitely an interesting addition, and I'd be glad to consider any submissions in that direction. However, mad is correct: for su...

Those look quite nice. I look forward to seeing them finished! As for constraints, most of the current splash pics are 416 x 416 pixels including the title; there's no restriction on colors or formats (Crawl uses .pngs exclusively, but I can just convert anything else you submit). If you look in /cr...

That's the Sea of Fire; it's still in. It's probably my favorite encompass map simply on account of how parts of it have to be entered from below, which makes the dungeon feel a lot more 3D.

These look quite good. I'll put them in unused for now, for whenever new uniques get made.

So it's a race that can use giant spiked clubs and large rocks, wears dragon armour, casts fire storm as well as a deep elf, gets +HP, has no bad muts, and has a very good exp apt.

Sounds legit.

The octopodes and butterflies look great; I'm not so sure about the cloud. Maybe it's just my pixel art elitism showing?

What's the blue orb for?

I originally considered this as a way for Xom to do stuff, but it works just as well here: you've got a number that basically counts how long you've gone without doing something proactive. It goes up every couple turns if you're at low tension, and drops quickly while at high tension (or it could be...

I think that'd still blend in with normal ogres a bit too much; the tattoos are pretty subtle and the jazz hands are gonna vanish into a busy background. Maybe something more dramatic? Erolcha is looking great, looks like she's been dieting https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1000017/crawl/ogremage.png The UH ...

Probably ill-advised to be spriting at 3 am while watching Stargate, but here's a possible lorocyproca:

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