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rebthor wrote:Real advice to the OP is get some experience with coding, Lua or otherwise and then look at the source code.

May I suggest that a real piece of advice to the OP should be that monsters attacking each other would pose a nasty balance problem? I'm thinking of orc raiding parties in Elf1 here

Just do a save-scum script and get on with it.

This comment makes me wonder a bit if the permabranding part of Vorpalize is actually a good feature. Maybe spell brands should be temporary, period, and permanent brands the realm of floor finds and divine intervention? Vorpalize is nice if you find just the right weapon type but it's not branded....

Link wrote:@palin, nope not running out of space, and yes, using ext4

If you're playing tiles, you can try to start crawl with strace and see if the last lines contains something useful. Of course it will do a mess with a console game.

Link wrote:Nope, and i compiled it from the source for .11

Check if you run of of space (df -h) or of inodes (df -i) where you're saving your files, and check if you are saving them on a linux partition (ie. not FAT32 or NTFS).

Last time I used a mac, you had to look for some directory named crawl (or containing the word crawl) in the Library directory located in the user space (usually /Users/<username>), mind that it's different from /Library. I was able to mount my mac volume under linux, and the path is /Users/<usernam...

Psieye wrote:Not as useful as making sure he has dig wands at hand.

You're right. I assumed it had one.

Thanks all for the advice! I checked out Zot1-4, found two golden dragons but neither left a corpse. Bah. Put everything onto plate armour, then cleared out Zot:5 without a problem, and I'm now standing in front of the Orb debating whether I want an all-but-guaranteed 3-rune win (AC now 53, nothing...

Grimm wrote:Is there someone ready to be new coordinator? Tell me and I can change both of your statuses.

That's the point: nobody else answers either here or in transifex, that's why I'm stuck.

I wish to resign from Coordinator for the Italian translation on Transifex. Currently they are two pending requests for the team by people I don't know, I posted some translations and some translation guidelines but the member which was forced into the team never commented and never acted: so I was ...

Start here: http://crawl.develz.org/wordpress/

With the ammo buff they are very nasty...

It could add a fixed amount of contamination when it expires, so if you've some other glow, you are asking for a dangerous effect...

Psieye wrote:It's the budding summoner's dilemma - they want summons to tank, but not to steal EXP by doing much damage. Way later on they're not so concerned with the EXP loss, but earlygame you don't want your summons draining you of your growth.

Fewer XP is still better the dead...

Also, I never memorize call imp (worthless and boring playstyle) What? Never memorise your best corridor escape mechanism, your best tank for conjure flame, your poor man's Animate Dead, your "get out of this ugly surround" card? Certainly don't use it as your main battle spell but it's u...

alastair wrote:A 3D engine with the quality of Diablo 3 graphics

Who wants a 3d engine on a rouguelike? :shock:

Link wrote:Yup, it works! Thanks, thought there might be something special to do :p

it was the case once, where different compression methods where used, but it's no more.

crate wrote:Summon demon will not create 2's.

I feel you're right even if I got it wrong from the comment from mon-cast.cc:

Code:: case SPELL_SUMMON_DEMON: // class 2-4 demon

The choosen demon is common, so it's 3- and 4-tier. Sorry for the wrong info.

You haven't directly responded to my point. What is it that you want? That's stated in the proposal. To let melee character get a meaningful choice between one-handers and shields. Currently there is no choice, you go two handed. Also to make SH skill have sinergy with Armor not by improving the ap...

They both have summon demon which can summon 2- to 4-tier demons. So both can summon Hellions if they get luck (or the player gets unlucky, it depends on the way you look at the situation).

With a serious investment in Shields, it's not hard blocking 2~4 attacks in one turn. It's just that by the time you make that investment, the threats you care about don't get blocked by shields: stuff like beams (e.g. bolt of fire), mutagenics, paralysis, hellfire and torment. AC/EV do a good enou...

As it stands now, each actor (player or monster) takes their entire turn independently. Parallel computation of turns by itself would be a massive undertaking. Even if you handwaved that part, the number of corner cases you'd have to handle in order to predict which attack would be the best one to ...

BlackSheep wrote:To power up apportation to get a ring? That's a bit wasteful...

It depends on what you want to accomplish. If you want quick and dirty it's ok, if you can wait and return later, it's a potion use.

Well I frankly don't understand what your proposal is trying to do. It doesn't seem to me to make shield skill more useful (I am actually only very rarely blocking more than one attack per turn to start with--unless I'm worshipping Chei--except from multiple-attack enemies, and there are few of tho...

ebarrett wrote:Say, you want a shovel to help with that hole?

No, thanks. I'm being more polite than you deserve.

I think it's easier to find a way to get done with the food clock once and for all

I have acknowledged that shields are bad for those characters and I strongly believe that unless you dramatically overhaul how shields work entirely (and somehow make them really terrible for characters who are casting spells or something) that if you make shields good for that type of character th...

You have now twice failed to realize that a GDR-like minimal block chance is not "guaranteed damage reduction", it's "guaranteed block chance" following roughly the same rules for the sake of consistency and simplification. Congratulations! So let's call pears oranges and then p...

GDR is bad on shields. It would mean increasing GDR to spellcasters.

They are not going to take that extra poke at the Ogre and hope that it dies, they're going to run until they can kite it better. Making an example with an unordinary monster to prove a point is a flaw in you reasoning. You don't take chances against an Ogre, shield or no shield unless you're sure ...

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crate wrote:Get more apportation power.

It's a long walk back and forth to try it -- any idea how high? My translocation was at zero (my char is only level 8).

You could have quaffed a potion of brilliance.

I think that for full flavour compliance it should completely resist torment and pain-based spells like an undead, but it should no be vulnerable to holy stuff (weapons, scrolls, and so on). The destroying book stuff is harsh for beginning characters, I'll do away completely with books for a mechani...

Are you looking at my proposal on the other shield thread? This and that seem to go toward the same general direction, even if people are arguing my proposal is wrong based on what character they prefer to play.

If by "pure melee" you mean a character who looks like he worships Trog, then yes, that character shouldn't use shields. If I don't worship trog then "pure melee" doesn't exist when I play a character You use "I" a lot, and I tell you that pure melee is a character who...

I don't think many would recommend attacking with a weapon at 1.5 turns delay, so I'm not sure why to take the risk of that 1.5 turn attack coming at exactly the wrong time. May would not recommend attacking with a 1.5 constant weapon delay. But here we're gambling weapon delay with an attack block...

The problem is webtiles-related (yes, even on the console), but it's not dependent on the browser (crashes basically never are). Would it depend on a particular PuTTY configuration then? I never use putty for crawl but from my sysadmin experience, on some complex console app sometimes it does a poo...

So basically you're saying there's no problems with pure melee and shields, in the fact that's a no brainer: pure melee should use 2-hander unless they are small.

Note that no game you mentioned is a pure melee except the halfling, which is small...

Shields not being good in extended is fine imo. It maybe but pure melee aren't good even if you limit your routine to Snake/Spider and Swamp/Shoal, Vaults and Zot, even to the point that unless you are basically a spellcaster who just happens to do a lot of melee, you're never going to use a 1-hand...

varsovie wrote:Throwing net trap/Gnoll.

Yes but those comes in packs and are way more dangerous.

edlothiol wrote:Yeah, I did already figure out as much, but it doesn't help me reproduce this -- even with your save that crashes on startup, even if I run it with your rc file and on CSN, I don't get a crash.

Could it be a particular browser to trigger the crash? If I read correctly this is a webtiles game...

Sar wrote:BlackSheep is correct. So, I guess I should just copy character's save file, load game, enter wizmode (I was mainly interested in testing some stuff with fsim) and then copy non-wizmode save back after I'm done?

If you want to experiment with a character in wizmode, I think this is you only option.

Other than the advice given on the Wiki, is there any other tips to successfully Temple Dive? Is it a good idea to Temple Dive or should I take time to explore the floors and clean them up? I'm playing as a SpEn. It depends on the god you want to choose. You're increasing your chances to build up p...

Tried loading a character in wizmode, it loads only my skills and stats, but doesn't load XL, race and equipment. Is that how it is supposed to work or am I doing it wrong? I'm using Windows tiles build 0.12-a0-984-g507c6f2. My characters saved in wizard mode are OK. Are you trying to load characte...

Oka characters with shields right now are fine, in fact they're better under Oka than under most other gods since you actually get to benefit from Heroism's +5 shield skill. Oka is the one god where I will actually already wear larger-than-buckler shields just for the extra SH on non-Trolls (well I...

Just make higher shield skill reduce the rate at which effective SH value gets reduced per blocked attack in a turn, and maybe even implement a GDR-like lower cap % based on shield size. THERE I FIXED SHIELDS FOR YOU I don't agree GDR makes sense on shields. The reduced SH value increasing with SH ...

I still maintain that the spell would be used more if it appeared in more than a single book which is neither a starting book nor gifted. I do not want to derail the thread, but wouldn't it be possible that certain spells are available to some races when they reach the right spellcasting skill or c...

But it's not trivial for "melee characters" ... many of my necromancers (these are melee characters) end up with shields. Many of them do not. If you train no spell skills then sure it's an easy choice, but then you're worshipping Trog (or should be) and I see nothing wrong with Trog char...

aka ball python? Ball pythons constrict, which is like holding but they also inflict damage, plus they almost never do it to larger characters than small ones since otherwise they'll be too deadly, so most characters never see a python constricting them. A Mantis could hold a character regardless o...

If something about shields is a problem then it is the fact that a large majority of shield-using characters want only the smallest shield that that character can wear (so buckler for almost all races). You finally got my point here, my other point is that the choice is trivial for melee characters...

jwb wrote: Not to mention that this is something that can be really really easily tried out in practice and changed back if it doesn't work out.

And you're assuming nobody tried it out, right?

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