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Wednesday, 8th June 2016, 09:05

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: buppy vs gammafunk FIGHT OF THE CENTURY

Replies: 18

Views: 5114

Re: buppy vs gammafunk FIGHT OF THE CENTURY

Did you know that "mouldy", creator of my favorite Doom WAD of all time, Going Down , is actually the amazing animator Cyriak ??? Wow, that guy is an *actual* creative and "edgy" genius that we can admire. And with none of cloying need for Internet friendship you see from the mor...

Friday, 27th May 2016, 08:37

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Shout out to the new peeps

Replies: 16

Views: 3540

Re: Shout out to the new peeps

toastedzergling wrote:What about us lurkers!?


Go back to twitch!

Monday, 25th April 2016, 03:02

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Favorite Vaults

Replies: 51

Views: 16271

Re: Favorite Vaults

I like the pakellas vaults that have stuff fighting each other. I had fun making those. There's one with a monster fighting an orange crystal statue, and one with monster fighting a lightning spire. When I tested it with each monster getting like 20 fights, you'll never guess which of the following...

Friday, 22nd April 2016, 00:15

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: What strategies can you no longer use?

Replies: 42

Views: 9055

Re: What strategies can you no longer use?

Standing next to a bunch of plants so you can safely blind draw escape decks to get piety.

Thursday, 21st April 2016, 05:27

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Allow setting skill 'goal level'

Replies: 10

Views: 2907

Re: Allow setting skill 'goal level'

The target skill code is originally by elliptic, I cleaned it up some and put it in my repo. You can find instructions here: https://github.com/gammafunk/dcss-rc#target_skill We've talked about adding it into the default lua somehow, but it still has some issues menu-wise and probably should get a b...

Thursday, 14th April 2016, 09:21

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Favorite Vaults

Replies: 51

Views: 16271

Re: Favorite Vaults

Cheibrodos wrote:It was originally a lot more graphic but gamma made me edit it.


You have to admit it does look better without the equivalent of the vaginal canal.

Wednesday, 6th April 2016, 09:26

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Reorder Sif Muna Abilities

Replies: 66

Views: 15386

Re: Reorder Sif Muna Abilities

Yes, most (perhaps all) book backgrounds can get to Lair on their starting spellbook alone. But having more flexibility in spell selection is always a good thing. So if Sif provided a low/mid level spellbook by **, say, then in my opinion that would increase appeal (somewhat higher strategic flexib...

Monday, 4th April 2016, 23:46

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Reorder Sif Muna Abilities

Replies: 66

Views: 15386

Re: Reorder Sif Muna Abilities

I would prefer to see Sif gain piety by killing enemies rather than only having the xp going into magic schools contribute, but that's something seen as flavorful by some (including some developers). As for the strength relative to Vehumet not meaning much, well sure, but OP was comparing to Vehumet...

Monday, 4th April 2016, 21:57

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Reorder Sif Muna Abilities

Replies: 66

Views: 15386

Re: Reorder Sif Muna Abilities

As gammafunk would note, Sif Muna works great for squishy summoner types who are able to split their skills into summoning power and Invo without regret, but she's pretty limited for most others. gammafunk wouldn't note this. In fact he would say that Sif is a stronger god than Vehumet for any book...

Monday, 21st March 2016, 12:41

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Splash screen requests

Replies: 17

Views: 4953

Re: Splash screen requests

That image isn't accurate because I don't roll up my pant cuffs like that.

Tuesday, 15th March 2016, 12:40

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Summoner Tactics

Replies: 25

Views: 9465

Re: Summoner Tactics

I disagree re. tw over ta; I prefer ta because it helps me better predict where my summons will be relative to myself and the monster in the next few turns. I only use a t command in general when I feel the cost of making noise is worth having my summons move in a specific, relatively predictable wa...

Wednesday, 9th March 2016, 00:26

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: What's with the DgWn meme?

Replies: 6

Views: 2296

Re: AMCA(ask my community anything) - Korean Roguelike Galle

I don't think there was anything racist about the DgWn joke. There was a certain group of Japanese players who played on cszo before lld existed, and they played the combo some and thought it strong. Ayutzia, a newer (at the time) american player observed and chatted with them. Perhaps something was...

Friday, 4th March 2016, 12:36

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Quick Nemelex fix: No more Nemelex

Replies: 34

Views: 8210

Re: Quick Nemelex fix: No more Nemelex

This is an old FR I pushed for at one point, but it was roundly criticized as being too simplistic. Critics pointed out that Nemelex could be redesigned every other version or so, effectively removing old Nemelex to make new Nemelex, thus satisfying everyone.

Wednesday, 2nd March 2016, 02:55

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Luring reform

Replies: 7

Views: 2287

Re: Luring reform

Wahaha has ruined crawl before with his simulationist-metroidvania-roguelikelike proposals and patches that are basically lifted wholesale straight from Brogue, and now he's doing it again. Thank this post if you agree that his councilor status should be revoked (again).

Tuesday, 1st March 2016, 21:20

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Official Sar thanks thread

Replies: 15

Views: 3578

Re: Official Sar thanks thread

archaeo wrote:n.b. as the number of "official thanks threads" goes up, the probability of all official thanks threads being stupid removed approaches 1.


That's why you should have just disabled thanks altogether! Never trust a writer to do a programmer's job.

Saturday, 27th February 2016, 06:25

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Sarcastically thank devs for things you hate

Replies: 28

Views: 8669

Re: Sarcastically thank devs for things you hate

Thanks for removing item destruction and player inventory weight!

Friday, 26th February 2016, 00:50

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Tier List: Tavern subforums

Replies: 11

Views: 3081

Re: Tier List: Tavern subforums

Funny story, we move problematic posts/threads to the mod forum to discuss how we'll deal with them, and they usually just stay there, so the mod forum is the trash forum, and it basically never gets emptied.

Wednesday, 24th February 2016, 00:17

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Tier List: Tier Lists

Replies: 12

Views: 3194

Re: Tier List: Tier Lists

TehDruid, will you please tell a certain person that I've unedited his silly post and that I never would have edited posts in the first place if he didn't always start with the insults and that this certain person just is always really mean to me for like no reason but he he acts like he's joking an...

Monday, 22nd February 2016, 10:59

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Tier List: Tavern Posters

Replies: 15

Views: 4693

Re: Tier List: Tavern Posters

It's interesting how you remark that my ranking is the same in South Korea. My listing in Japan in SS tier, but only because of some slight difficulties in overcoming the language barrier in my discussions with them in Tiles chat, which was back before lld existed and the japanese players still play...

Monday, 22nd February 2016, 09:48

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: DCSS Race Tier List

Replies: 80

Views: 596796

Re: Tier List: DCSS Races

I think one problem with this is that 'best role' listing is not terribly helpful in quite a number of instances. I'm not terribly likely to choose Berserker for a number of these species, even when it is the best. This is a similar to the problem with an overall god listing. These images aren't rea...

Saturday, 20th February 2016, 22:57

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: It's time to show them

Replies: 29

Views: 12949

It's time to show them

Players do not have proper respect for this masterpiece of design that we roll every day with our golden commits. Tavern we'll show this HOP that he can't mess with the devteam, do your worst!!!

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Saturday, 20th February 2016, 09:23

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Stone Soup on Twitch

Replies: 23

Views: 5418

Re: Stone Soup on Twitch

Man, I totally forgot how infiniplex wanted to put special elven glass all over elf.

Friday, 19th February 2016, 08:14

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Stone Soup on Twitch

Replies: 23

Views: 5418

Re: Stone Soup on Twitch

People use beem to look up things from monster and learndb and lg every day (just like they do directly on IRC). Read the bot help if you don't know how the bots work, prozacelf, it's really not that hard.

Friday, 19th February 2016, 07:23

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Korean Tier List Broken Down to Easily Analyzed Format

Replies: 24

Views: 7508

Re: Korean Tier List Broken Down to Easily Analyzed Format

Yes, that list was made by DrKe as his personal assessment, and he would be the first to say that it's no 'definitive' listing of any kind, just his personal opinion. Also, the Korean listing is the result of one person putting such a list forward, we don't know how many people were involved in such...

Thursday, 18th February 2016, 01:20

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Race proposal: Moon Troll

Replies: 35

Views: 7696

Re: Race proposal: Moon Troll

Nice try but I would never approve a new species with -2 Summoning apt. Also, according to official DCSS lore , Lehudib preferred to be referred to by the title of 'Lunar Mage' rather than 'Earth Mage': Lehudib, whose famous writings on earth magic left few personal details, is said to have studied ...

Wednesday, 20th January 2016, 04:20

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Tiles

Replies: 1

Views: 833

Re: Tiles

but at what cost?

Wednesday, 20th January 2016, 04:20

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Press F to pay respects

Replies: 12

Views: 2784

Re: Press F to pay respects

Special shoutout to me for bringing up the topic in the dev channel.

Wednesday, 20th January 2016, 04:17

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: guys stop posting god ideas holy shit

Replies: 20

Views: 4845

Re: guys stop posting god ideas holy shit

What if we held a 7DD, a seven day deity challenge? You have 7 days to propose and fully discuss your god, and at the end the prize for the team with the winning god is they get to have their god discussed further?

Saturday, 16th January 2016, 17:17

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Solving Issues With Channeling

Replies: 23

Views: 4583

Re: Solving Issues With Channeling

I play a lot of Sif games, and I too don't find the keypresses to be that onerous (I do use a macro, but a very simple one like 1->aa). As said in the post above, using channel out of LOS of monsters is often not really out of combat since you're preparing to go right back into combat, but now with ...

Friday, 15th January 2016, 22:06

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Ru + Silence

Replies: 20

Views: 4372

Re: Ru + Silence

Nearly all gods give you the ability to do certain things as a result of your sacrifice of worshiping them and sacrificing your piety to this god and not doing so for any other god. This is along with any other sacrifices they might have you make. Having some gods arbitrarily not be affected by sile...

Friday, 15th January 2016, 20:25

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: Make Curse Skulls Silenceable

Replies: 11

Views: 2411

Re: Make Curse Skulls Silenceable

The backstory on curse toes is they were originally attached to some ill-fated human who was on vacation in the woods and got attacked by demonic spirits. This person had their toes possessed by an evil spirit, so they cut them off with a chainsaw. The possessed toes retained the ability to speak in...

Friday, 15th January 2016, 06:09

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: DCSS Perler Bead Crafts

Replies: 13

Views: 4405

Re: DCSS Perler Bead Crafts

Hey guys! If I should be posting this to CYC instead of here, please let me know and I'll delete/repost (or just move the topic, whatever is best). I'm new to the forums but definitely not to Crawl. This is such a fun (and addictive) game that I decided I'd try my hand at creating some perler bead ...

Wednesday, 13th January 2016, 21:11

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: God Elimination Tournament; Round 1: Trog vs. Okawaru

Replies: 33

Views: 7097

Re: God Elimination Tournament; Round 1: Trog vs. Okawaru

So far as comparing abilites goes... Unable to use spells -> Massive Negative Power on most strong characters. It's only a "Massive Negative Power" if you compare current Trog to a version of Trog that had the same abilities but didn't restrict magic. It's not much of a negation compared ...

Saturday, 19th December 2015, 13:49

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: nethack updated

Replies: 15

Views: 3960

Re: nethack updated

dpeg wrote:Not only I do I know damn well, I encourage Crawl forks. What's your point? A game is better if it has more forks? Perhaps you should invest in cutlery!


That's the god damn dunk of the month right there folks.

Thursday, 17th December 2015, 16:29

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Recanting on iron rod

Replies: 20

Views: 4923

Re: Recanting on iron rod

Shadows can spawn OoFs and packs of draconians for you, so I don't understand what you find underwhelming about this rod either. The rod of shadows uses the spell "weave shadows", which draws monsters from either D or Depths, depending on the spell power, so it can never give Zot branch m...

Sunday, 13th December 2015, 14:35

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: What do you listen to when Crawling?

Replies: 7

Views: 2362

Re: What do you listen to when Crawling?

I have a bot that takes song requests, so when playing crawl I listen to: ⋅  At least 20 different metal tracks requested by NilsBloodAxe. ⋅  A sprinkling of reggae and something I could only describe as "trip-techno-reggae", requested by the above. ⋅  At leas...

Thursday, 10th December 2015, 08:22

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: BAD GOD CHAMPIGNONSHIP SPONSORED BY FEDHAS

Replies: 53

Views: 10719

Re: BAD GOD CHAMPIGNONSHIP SPONSORED BY FEDHAS

Well rod wielding is annoying, I'll grant that, but it's only rods, of which I have like 2 to 4 max. In particular it's not: Pour over this massive list of decks comprising like four different types, but each having one of potentially three different power levels, and where to even use it you have t...

Thursday, 10th December 2015, 07:46

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: BAD GOD CHAMPIGNONSHIP SPONSORED BY FEDHAS

Replies: 53

Views: 10719

Re: BAD GOD CHAMPIGNONSHIP SPONSORED BY FEDHAS

My god tier list based on fun, strength, and quality of exploration of the design space is too epic for this forum in it's entirety, but here's a condensed version. Fun, useful gods you should play and which have a reasonable enough design for crawl. High enough quality that they can't be ordered: s...

Thursday, 10th December 2015, 06:53

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Come here if you just need to get MACED

Replies: 9

Views: 1986

Re: Come here if you just need to get MACED

I made this joke already in one of my trunk update posts on CDO, get good.

Wednesday, 2nd December 2015, 02:46

Forum: Suggestions & Criticism

Topic: Development Tracker/Purpose of GDD

Replies: 27

Views: 11759

Re: Development Tracker/Purpose of GDD

I think if commit logs properly express the intent behind particularly complex changes that would be enough for the crawl community to be savvy enough to pick up on it and begin discussion, I don't think an appointed person is really necessary for this. There's no appointed person necessary for thi...

Tuesday, 1st December 2015, 09:05

Forum: Suggestions & Criticism

Topic: Development Tracker/Purpose of GDD

Replies: 27

Views: 11759

Re: Development Tracker/Purpose of GDD

As archaeo said, if someone with reasonable judgement and neutrality wanted to maintain a kind of list or summarization of trunk changes in a tavern thread, it could work, but there are a lot of caveats. This person would have to be relatively disciplined to not encourage a lot of negativity, and it...

Wednesday, 25th November 2015, 13:26

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: Apporting the Orb

Replies: 4

Views: 1242

Re: Welcome amalloy to the Dev Team

Amalloy's favorite commit so far disliked by none other than Bart?! I foresee great things for this orange name. I am kind of curious why you'd want that old behavior back if your argument isn't about consistency or spoilers.

Wednesday, 25th November 2015, 11:21

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: New Dev: amalloy

Replies: 11

Views: 2715

New Dev: amalloy

Original post: viewtopic.php?f=18&t=18315

He's unfamiliar with the delightful and charming culture of CYC and Tavern in general, so please give him a proper welcome.

Wednesday, 25th November 2015, 07:36

Forum: Bulletin Board

Topic: Welcome amalloy to the Dev Team

Replies: 1

Views: 2693

Welcome amalloy to the Dev Team

Hi everyone! I'm pleased to officially welcome amalloy to the Dev Team and to the list of names more orange than any other. amalloy has contributed numerous bugfixes and refactorings to DCSS, and hopefully will continue to do so. If you appreciate the fact that apporting the ORB now begins the orb r...

Sunday, 22nd November 2015, 07:56

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: i did it

Replies: 23

Views: 4903

Re: i did it

Just pointing out that RD is basically like reddit, but actually did some science, which is kind of cool, so he doesn't have to answer the question like I did. I didn't really have to answer either now that I'm twitch famous, but I did anyways because down with the patriarchy.

Thursday, 19th November 2015, 11:44

Forum: Crazy Yiuf's Corner

Topic: new branch

Replies: 9

Views: 2646

Re: new branch

And I assume undead turn into something like meat golems (with a bone in the middle still). You could have flesh eating bacteria for those, so it would be basically the holy wrath for reverted undead meat, which would give the branch a unique feel that's different from crypt.

Monday, 16th November 2015, 07:10

Forum: Game Design Discussion

Topic: ?summoning giving durable allies

Replies: 4

Views: 1190

Re: ?summoning giving durable allies

The summons from scroll of summoning are particularly strong, and it makes two or or more of these summons (sometimes a lot more than two). Even two summons are very often more than enough to escape from or kill whatever monster you were fighting.

Friday, 13th November 2015, 10:35

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: MuSu kicking my @$$

Replies: 10

Views: 2867

Re: MuSu kicking my @$$

On my twitch page is a VOD of my first MuSu, which got to lair and 6* piety with Sif. I was messing around trying to kill a really huge yak pack with two komodos and got chomped to death by one of the latter after killing the Yaks. Wanted to see if I could kill the whole group instead of escaping pa...

Friday, 13th November 2015, 10:03

Forum: Dungeon Crawling Advice

Topic: Question about Vow Of Courage III

Replies: 5

Views: 1668

Re: Question about Vow Of Courage III

Yes, getting any of the Hell or Pan runes (the latter e.g. through the pf_orc_diabolical Orc end vault) to complete VoC III is allowed, and I think this was always intentional, at least for Hell since I think the evil_forest end has been in for a long time. I did check the banner awarding code to be...
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