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did a recent trunk change up the frequency of shops? My last few games have been seeing tons of them, floor after floor. My current run has ~9 shops before D10.

Does an rMut amulet stack with the rMut mutation, specifically with a halfling?

That makes sense.

dpeg wrote:You know that you can train Inv these days, if you really want to?

Really? I have no idea how to unlock invocations if your God doesn't ask for them.

I don't really understand why Trog's abilities don't require Invocations in the first place. What makes a God want invo or not? Nemelex Evo makes sense, and Ash not wanting Invo jives with the whole skill boost/free XP thing. But Trog, though? It could be seen as a god buff (like Ash) in that you ca...

minmay wrote:None of those work through translucent walls in 0.10. If you find something that does it's probably a bug.

What about eyes? They were getting me through translucents a few days ago.

@eeviac: How shields fare in the extended game is quite irrelevant to what I'm saying. And If I may... If you don't care about them so much already, why don't you ask them to be removed? Why do you even bother replying to a thread related to such an unimportant part of the game to you anyway? You d...

Can a randart amulet have multiple amulet-only brands? e.g. rMut and Faith?

I don't think this change makes strength more important or interesting - it makes shields worse. From what I understand, shields aren't that useful in the extended endgame as is, because torment/hellfire/paralysis don't care how much SH you have. By giving shields a heavier requirement, you're just ...

zapping lightning bolt through air elemental meatshield

How/When does Dispel Undead work against player Vampires?

Depending on the god - nemelex/yred come first to mind - faith is practically broken. It's useful for the other gifters too, and also those gods who's best skills are spammable and burn piety.

Faith is good.

'Complete' was the wrong word - with commercial releases, I've always understood 1.0 means 'done enough that it's worth spending money on'. Crawl isn't commercial, and it seems to be in perpetual development, so I don't really understand what would be so significant about changing the number. 1.0 wo...

VpEn^Ash has been my favorite win so far. With all stealth-stab characters, even moreso than normal characters, you've got to learn to pick your fights. There's no reason you should ever die to an imp with stones - just walk away. Once you get confusion up and running, anything you can't put to slee...

1.0 would imply the game is complete. Is there even a plan for 'completing' Crawl?

how does spell power affect summon elemental? HD? duration?

I would much rather have levitation removed, than turned into a mostly negative status effect for the sole sake of differentiation.

I figured I couldn't have been the first on this, but searched and didn't find a topic.

The only difference between levitation and flight is that flight allows one to interact with the ground. Having controlled flight changes levitation into flight. I don't believe this distinction adds anything meaningful to the game. Levitation is 'interesting' in NetHack because: a) Rings/Boots of L...

Boring Beetles hit harder than Death Yaks.

You're only level 14, what are you doing running around Snake:5? You should leave branch ends / rune grabbing until much later unless you know exactly what you're doing. I learned this after dieing in the Orc Mines a few times :( Related: I've noticed that crawl never notes / reminds the player of t...

Huh, I didn't think of doing that. Oh well, I'm dead now. I'd thought I was fast enough to get out of the LOS of an Orc Sorcerer and Gastronok, but they nuked me down. This would've been cool but yeah, I'm still too bad at this game.

If it crashes my game, we'll find out soon enough, I've nearly cleared Vaults and am heading to Mines+Elf next. I don't have cblink yet, and would rather not burn scrolls to do this if I can avoid it. And I don't care if it's a bug - I'm betting the chance of getting mimic stair to all Lair branches...

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.10-a0-3196-g496a1a7 character file. eeviac the Eclecticist (Spriggan Stalker) Turns: 40533, Time: 05:18:02 HP 77/77 AC 8 Str 9 XL: 16 Next: 7% MP 40/40 EV 27 Int 18 God: Vehumet [******] Gold 890 SH 16 Dex 19 Spells: 12 memorised, 10 levels left Res.Fire : . . . S...

My latest CAO trunk game has all 3 of Swamp/Shoals/Snake Pit. AFAIK only 2 of the 3 are supposed to spawn? Is this a bug or a recent change? Does this mean I could get 16 runes on this run? This sounds like a stair mimic to me. Have you actually entered all three branches? Not yet, I just cleared L...

My latest CAO trunk game has all 3 of Swamp/Shoals/Snake Pit. AFAIK only 2 of the 3 are supposed to spawn? Is this a bug or a recent change? Does this mean I could get 16 runes on this run?

doesn't matter how strong your dude is, if you're not paying attention and don't have a blink, constriction will kill him. Scroll of fear and hasted escape attempts will fail you.

I agree that saccing corpses is tedious / Nemelex is OK in my book / haven't played Fedhas yet. Auto-explore-sacrifice is an excellent solution, if rebalancing all these gods isn't on the table.

In two of my four wins (all .10 trunk), I used my first acquirement to get a weapon that carried me from pre-Lair to the end (speed lajatang / elec demon trident). They were so good that they effectively broke most of the game for me. Maybe I've just been lucky?

nevermind, I was stair dancing hydras for a while but they got me eventually. New plan: start AK, swap to Zin when I've got the Abyssal rune.

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.10-a0-3179-g9fc1a79 character file. eeviac the Orthodox (Human Priest) Turns: 9118, Time: 00:42:15 HP 62/62 AC 9 Str 13 XL: 9 Next: 88% MP 21/21 EV 14 Int 15 God: Zin [****..] Gold 408 SH 0 Dex 12 Spells: 1 memorised, 13 levels left Res.Fire : + . . See Invis. : ....

No, I didn't have a staff of earth. Freakin' orbs of fire - 6 of them between me and the orb. Gave me berserkitis through my rMut. Makhleb kept sending hostile summons, too. I won though - LRD/Shadow Creatures carried me for the most part, iron shot for when I could get an orb by itself. Now, I neve...

oh yeah, needed Str is 3xEV, not 2x. I'll go with the FDA. Iron shot, though, misses way too much for me to trust it to kill orbs :\

You can apport the orb? huh, never thought of doing that

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.10-a0-3151-gc04e6d2 character file. eeviac the Metallomancer (DDEE) Turns: 133928, Time: 14:19:08 HP 223/223 AC 28 Str 13 XL: 26 Next: 44% MP 44/44 EV 20 Int 28 God: Makhleb [******] Gold 4214 SH 29 Dex 16 Spells: 15 memorised, 0 levels left Res.Fire : + . . See I...

^whether or not Evaporate is a good spell doesn't have much to do with my complaints. The spell doesn't fit. It doesn't make sense within the context of the background (or at least what I'd like the Stalker to be).

Use an ID scroll on the book. If it's a Necronomicon, and you've got the needed skills, and still can't read it, then it's a bug.

I'd post this in Game Design, but don't think I've got the credentials to make threads like this yet... I really like the Transmuter/Earth magic side to Stalkers; Dig/Passwall to set up stabs is great fun, and feels different enough from the 'brute force' EH-stab of En to justify itself as its own b...

Tab is 'autofight the closest monster in view'. It sounds like the command is working correctly when dudes aren't around ('no unsafe monsters...'), but as to why you're getting 'unknown command' when dudes are around, I can't say. Have you changed the config file/controls at all from standard?

Game crashed again, rax isn't sure that it can be saved :( That VpEN was gonna go all the way... Many other questions: 1. How does Vampire's stealth boost work? Are you more stealthy as a Vamp with 27 stealth or does it cap somewhere earlier? 2. In a 3 rune game, does stabbing need to be maxed if I ...

My trunk CAO game just crashed, and I get a message about my saved game being in use when I try to reload. What can I do about this? The char was about to start collecting runes, I don't want to lose him

So, Unseen Horrors are faster than bat form.

I'd like to see the relative requirements for all skills then, is this documented anywhere?

If Corona reveals invisible dudes, why can a Corona'd dude cast invisibility and disappear?

Assuming equal aptitudes, do all skills need equal XP to get from level X to X+1? e.g. for a human, does it take the same amount of work to get spellcasting from 4->5 as T&D from 4->5?

The crawl ID minigame has some oddities, but I fear if we take too much out, it'll become as shallow and pointless as Diablo II's. There's very little strategy or choice involved with ID'ing a wand, does that mean we should remove it entirely? Wasting a single charge is no big deal, why not just hav...

Anyone know of a Connectbot setting that could fix this, or maybe a dcss config line that would change those particular characters? You could use the feature option in your config file. For example, if you want to use the unicode character 0x2240 (≀) for trees and 0x2211 (∑) for shops: feature = sh...

eeviac: report the bug on mantis , please. done. https://crawl.develz.org/mantis/view.php?id=5070 Thanks for the help, this sounds like it will work BUT I haven't been able to start a new game yet, which would load these new preferences. (I just got my first rune ever, in Swamp, surrounded by trees...

So I think I've got a bug here? My DrAr of Nem is in Shoals:1, standing next to deep water with death yaks on the far side. I 'draw one' my deck of destruction, pick Spark, target death yak, hit death yak. "Nemelex Xobeh does not approve of your wasteful card use." I draw again, get spark ...

I would like to see this change, as evilmike proposed.

Anyone here familiar with Connectbot? I play on CAO via my Droid and, while a bit awkward, it's 100% playable - EXCEPT - the 'shop/portal' and 'tree' characters screw up the display. Makes fighting in a forest nearly impossible. Anyone know of a Connectbot setting that could fix this, or maybe a dcs...

what does the {=f} brand on the starting stalker dagger mean?

my trunk, early game HuTr of Chei just found an artifact quarterstaff (+3,+6, flame, +Lev, rN+). (UC is lvl 4, Transmute is lvl 5) How does this weapon stack up against blade hands or later transmutations? I could conceivably abandon transmute at this point and start training summoning or conjuratio...

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