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Sidestepping the question of whether the game is too hard or easy: Arguments of the form "this change will make the game too hard" can easily be dealt with by simply buffing the players. For instance, If it is determined that caster types are too weak after some change, one can give starti...

Whoever recommended Slay the Spire, thanks.

You can access the morgue files directly.

Sequell doesn't track seeded games. Although there was some talk of adding that functionality (in a separate category, of course).

Seeded games can be played online as well. On some servers like CPO, there's an option in the menu. On other servers, you can enter a custom seed by using your rcfile.

I doubt anyone knows anymore what this thread is about. I would say random pointless sniping, but that would be too accurate.

Usually when threads get this way, I suggest that people realize that there's no referee on this forum, so just declare victory and go home.

FWIW, the idea of "going downstairs and you see you're screwed, so you go back up again", is addressed in my "upstairs pass" proposa l. The idea in the proposal is simple: make taking upstairs not free, but provide limited "outs". So you can't stair dance indefinitely, ...

I think in this case it would be fine to use Gong.

Potion of lignification is quite useful in Tomb. Carry some. You don't seem to have learned enough Tmut for Necromutation: that is another useful (but not required) spell.

Several spells have changed in trunk. See this thread and this document. The latter might be out-of-date, not sure.

I wouldn't say "half as useful", but I get your point that Foxfire is indeed less useful even in a corner.

However, I feel that DEFE is completely fine as a recommended background. I didn't have any problems with it when I tried it. I don't know about HOFE.

I don't understand the comment above. Statues don't move.

Foxfire is only less useful in the middle of a corridor. If you're in a corner and the monster is still some distance from you, it works fine, because there are two free squares adjacent to you where they can spawn and path to the enemy. Besides, hobgoblins are speed-10, so it's usually always possi...

If you're talking about proposal 2 (or the Brogue mechanism), then in your case, Azrael will not follow you all the way to level 1. A single teleport will get rid of him, most likely. You can also jump down a shaft. In Brogue, you can jump down a hole and non-flying enemies will not follow you. Goin...

Well, the OP said that the question "should stair dancing be nerfed?" is not within the scope of this thread. If you want to create another thread, I'll gladly respond to about your argument, which I feel is flawed in many ways.

It might be useful to define more precisely what is meant by "luring", because people may have different definitions. I think a reasonable definition is: "retreating to a cleared (and thus safer) area so that you can fight monsters there, and thus control the situation better". T...

Unarmed combat without forms sucks for damage. You haven't trained too much UC anyway, so it wouldn't be a big waste if you started training a weapon now. But maybe you want to stick with UC because that's how you want to play. The following advice is meant if this is the case. You might as well get...

Yes, Brogue has that mechanism. It works like this: if a monster has "hunting" status and is N distance away from you when you take stairs, then the monster appears on your floor after N turns (assuming it's normal speed).

(Brogue stairs are instantaneous, btw.)

First, a correction: Brogue doesn't pull enemies upstairs based on LoS, but based on "hunting" status -- similar to how monsters remember you in DCSS even if you break LoS. I'll stay within the context of this thread and not talk about removing upstairs. I have proposed before that upstair...

Agency --> player's outcome is consistently determined by player's choices. Let us unpack this statement. First, "determined" is a strong condition. Crawl has a lot of RNG-influenced stuff, so it's hard to have deterministic outcomes. The game has inherent variance. Instead, a better form...

Traps should be relatively "dangerous" because the player has a lot of resources and if you don't increase the danger by a significant amount, you're not increasing the variance by a meaningful amount. Certain types of variance can feel un-fun or unfair because the player doesn't have mea...

I really like shafts, think they make the game far more interesting, and would like to see more of 'em. Fundamentally, what do shafts do to "make the game more interesting" that you couldn't do by intentionally moving into bad situations? People say what you say about shafts fairly often,...

The ballistomycete ability seems pretty good (read: OP). It's like having an limitless supply of passive ball lightnings. And it confuses enemies as well. And you can place the ballistomycete to block line of fire as well. Crowds are no problem at all with one or two of these around. Not as broken a...

"Unavoidable deaths" is kind of irrelevant, because almost no death in Crawl is strictly "unavoidable". However, we can tweak the idea to "difficulty level", or "chance of dying" to make the idea relevant. I think the reason why shafts feel bad is the followi...

It seems to me that you have no positive vision of the game beyond what it already is. You might be sad if .24 were the last stable release, but only because that is a change in the way things are in crawl, not because you have any real hope of things moving in interesting new directions. As for th...

nvm. I don't know what's going on in those Sequell queries. I just hope the discovery that those figures are apparently wrong is not buried beneath the usual tide of tealizard guff. I've had an interesting conversation with ebering where it turns out the Sequellese in the earlier thread...

nvm. I don't know what's going on in those Sequell queries.

Why do most people complaining about shafts claim they've started disliking shafts specifically after those were made exploration-based? Because shafts became 500% more common, that's why. Is that number true? According to posts in the thread I linked above, the number of shafts over a won game has...

"Unavoidable deaths" is kind of irrelevant, because almost no death in Crawl is strictly "unavoidable". However, we can tweak the idea to "difficulty level", or "chance of dying" to make the idea relevant. I think the reason why shafts feel bad is the followin...

Btw, you do not need to switch gods for extended. Often, switching gods can get you killed. Okawaru wrath can drop multiple titans on you, so without access to teleport his wrath can be non-trivial even if you're reasonably powerful. Okawaru is a completely fine god for extended. If you want to bran...

The reasoning is somewhat unclear. Are you talking about shafts in general, or just the new exploration-based system? All the new system does (in principle) is to have shafts depend on exploration instead of having an actual shaft trap tile on the floor. The trap rate was toned down from when it was...

If you shoot or cast spells at an enemy your allies will almost always move to block you from further doing so, and there appears to be no command to prevent this. This is indeed really annoying behaviour. Allies are sometimes useful as shields, and thus this behaviour can make sense. In other case...

I haven't found time to work on this more. That said, the latest healing function is quite serviceable in practice. It is enough for a proof of concept, at least, and it can always be tweaked if needed. The branch is playable, if people want to playtest or try it out or whatever. There is some debug...

As mentioned, this has been proposed before. Several other games use this mechanic, including Brogue and Sil. Though it can create its own problems, like Sil destroying items if they have no place to spawn nearby. Why is every discussion on this forum derailing to some extremes in neighboring topics...

I also watched the ttyrec. As duvessa mentioned, the death was very far from unavoidable. The first and main mistake was fighting the worker ant in an unexplored area. From there, the mistakes compounded. They even had two identified scrolls of teleportation in their inventory when they died! Keep i...

The usual way to use conjure ball lightning is to cast it in a relatively open area once or twice against an enemy monster or group at the edge of LoS (or slightly outside), and move backwards. As for its power level, it does a huge amount of damage and few monsters have rElec, so it works against m...

OP seems reasonable. Items "disappearing" in deep water (but not really) is quite confusing.

There used to also be an interaction with Sunlight and deep water -- you could evaporate water to retrieve the "disappeared" items.

Switching gods is usually a bad idea.

If you're using a robe, learn Ozocubu's Armour.

You can try Slime next. TRJ isn't hard if you have immolation and/or ignition. Haste/brilliance, then hit it once with OoD, then read immolation and fireball or ignition it. Repeat immolation if needed. Lack of MR might hurt you in Slime. Golden eyes come in swarms and can chain confuse you. You can...

Control-U is also pretty odd as a 'clear this text field' shortcut, is that some kind of standard thing that I haven't come across? (it's not vim/emacs/anythingwindows/visual studio) nor do I see it in any help documentation (you'd want a hit for something esoteric like that on the menu, but that's...

FWIW, players in Brogue backtrack to machines all the time to replace an item to pick up an alternate one. And it doesn't have to be within-level backtracking either. I know one person who picks up the amulet (this step reduces hunger), then backtracks all the way to D:1 to optimize his build to go ...

You probably need to read fear to survive.

[Of course, it's preferable to remove food altogether; but since some kind of clock is desirable] If the devs thought a food clock was necessary, the mummy & 0.24 vampire wouldn't exist. This is a larger point which is hard to discuss in this thread, but some general comments. I think that the ...

Proposal looks ok. I think some variant has been proposed before. My preferred solution would be to remove chunks/nutrition from corpses altogether. Chunks are mostly important for countering spell hunger -- this problem can be fixed by removing spell hunger . While we're on the topic, can the silly...

I have proposed this before. Variants of the proposal also been proposed before IIRC.

Making the spell gifts overwrite the previous gifts is BS. With other gods, you don't lose old gifts when you get new ones, so why does Vehumet work this way?

I recently played a game on CPO (0.23 seeded version). Where do I find the morgue file?

[Edit: ignore earlier comment. It's not an issue.]

OP seems fine to me. I don't see any issues.

That's pretty thin gruel.

You know all the resistances, spell sets, AC, EV, HP, MR of all the monsters without looking them up on the x-v screen? Is that a reason to remove these mechanics from the game?

I recall already having discussed this in another thread . Suffice it to say that I don't find Silence to be particularly complex or unintuitive. Everything one needs to know is available on the x-v screen. Silence has a lot of niche uses. I would much rather have an underpowered spell in the game r...

I think the vast majority of cases where Silence affects something or not is shown in the "x-v" screen. Most of the "hard things to remember" can be determined by looking at the "x-v" screen. So there's not much upside to simplification, imo. The proposal itself seems t...

From what I gather, you want to keep thing similar to what they're now, just a bit more convenient interface-wise. The main advantage here is that you wouldn't need to backtrack across levels to get the items you need. Everyone has their own take on inventory in DCSS, so if people don't agree with y...

I don't think there's any particular reason Formicid has dig other than some vague "close to Earth" theme. Unlimited digging is a pretty bad thing to have, design-wise. As for whether Formicid should have Swift or not, whatever. Stasis no longer exists in-game except as Formicid racial pro...

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