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Klown wrote:Also, since 0.14 is basically evil. Maybe 0.15 can bring some cool new things(iron troll armour, no more bad potions, etc.) Little nice things to balance it out.

The best way to do this is to learn to code and make patches for cool new things.

I don't remember why I started playing Crawl. Why do you people have photographic memory of why you started playing particular computer games?

Here's rw's code, by the way.

Magipi wrote:Qw won!

http://dobrazupa.org/tournament/0.14/players/qw.html

Hmm, looks like Crawl needs to be made harder.

Leafsnail wrote:Energy randomization stops this, doesn't it? The monster will step into the door sooner or later.

This is correct.

Opening a door could just take an aut or two less than closing it, perhaps only you opened it a turn or so after it was closed if you want to effect just this one case.

Buffs don't work the same way, so they forgo the above gameplay effects. Alternatively just make Buffs not spells. It causes such an endless amount of problems they just shouldn't have success that depends on conditional factors or have to be recast. (Some Charms like Death's Door or Song of Slayin...

0.14-a winrate is dramatically worse than 0.9-a winrate (0.60% vs 0.71%, or 0.68% vs 0.84% if you exclude quitting/leaving). 0.14-a isn't the outlier, 0.9-a is. In the entire history of Crawl, the 0.9 - 0.11 period was when it was easiest to win a game: Winrates: | 0.5-a 0.7-a 0.9-a 0.11-a 0.13-a |...

You guy realize the < key exists right?

Even if it didn't or you entered a new branch ?tele exists.

I would bet Boris died some other way, such as stepping on a Zot trap. Did you see him in the Depths again after seeing him in the Crypt?

Plenty of things already exist in the game that could be adapted(lignification itself seems to be a take on statue form). I'm pretty sure lignification is a take on treeform. (Treefrom was already in the game as something enemies could polymorph you into, it received buffs when lignification was ad...

Now that evaporation is no longer a thing...what if all bad pots were replaced like this; some effect that has a risk/reward instead of just...bad potion. Strongly in agreement with this. So are the developers. If you code up 4-5 interesting risk/reward potions which do not significantly affect gam...

Pikel's freed slaves is in the #13 clan. There is no need to worry about tournament points. it's certainly doing better than the other 3 clans.

GlassGo wrote:Is it a haiku?

No it is not.

Is there some way to run from those Dire Elephants? You might cast Swiftness or quaff invisibility and try to run to stairs. You have potions of healing also. The Dire elephants are gone. I am in the Abyss. My problem is there's an Eidolon and a wretched star in sight and I'm at 30 hp. I suppose ar...

Grimm is no longer a moderator. I haven't seen any announcements about it - He just silently isn't a mod anymore. You can look at any of his posts to confirm this.

Something I realized a little after posting...if you could pull this off...you'd probably have the server high score. Since you'd get the early rune last and be able to sweep those branches with pan lords from the orb run being your greatest enemies during (which give more XP to add to your XP scor...

Ran into a bit of trouble at the end of the Lair: Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.14.0-16-gc76c4f0 (webtiles) character file. reaver the Fencer (High Elf Abyssal Knight) Turns: 32894, Time: 02:34:58 HP 29/95 AC 11 Str 12 XL: 13 Next: 45% MP 21/30 EV 22 Int 17 God: Lugonu [*****.] Gold 724 SH 0 De...

I like this idea too, especially if it ends up being a level 5 spell to replace Blade Hands in the Tr starting book. Simple damage boosts are boring. However, I don't think you can call it a Sky Beast Form without the uncontrolled invis (which might be fun if it can be implemented properly). If tha...

I was working on the spell version of this char, but then I found this:

+10 chain mail "Noesuomy" {+Blink rC+ Int+3 Dam+4}.

Hopeless wrote:I am certain you can also write a config into the init/rc file but I don't know precisely what that is.

I believe this line:

Code:: autopickup_exceptions += lignification

will work.

What kind of spells does this bro have handy? Swiftness and Apportation are already memorized, Haste is in a Book of Wizardry, but probably slightly out of reach right now (and I have a /Haste anyway.) Book of Geomancy and Book of Earth. Book of Debilitations. Saw a book shop earlier, most notably ...

dump: Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup version 0.14.0-16-gc76c4f0 (webtiles) character file. reaver the Fencer (High Elf Abyssal Knight) Turns: 23496, Time: 01:55:02 HP 90/90 AC 16 Str 12 XL: 12 Next: 5% MP 25/28 EV 8 Int 17 God: Lugonu [*****.] Gold 547 SH 0 Dex 19 Spells: 2 memorised, 8 levels left rFire ...

That's not to say it couldn't be balanced, but right now it sounds like 'Play a powerful character or die to the first enemy you can't beat, because there's no escape'. Wake up grinder on D2? Better hope you're next to a staircase. Grinder can already paralyze you, which is significantly more debil...

I added reaver as my TEAMCAPTAIN and yet it doesn't recognize me as teammember. What could be wrong? reaver has you in as "klarki", but I think he needs to change it to "Klarki". If you see him online here or playing on cszo, send him a message and he'll fix it. I mentioned it t...

I do not think a species which gets random traits like this makes much sense. Xom already covers tactical randomness, and each "state" would have to be individually balanced. Since the player would be constantly switching, they would not have time to appreciate the subtleties of each form....

don't understand the aversion to "gimmicks" though. They're gameplay mechanics and/or restrictions. Evokables were "gimmicks" until they suddenly became a legitimate part of the game. Is spriggan's fast movement a gimmick; Troll's saprovore and hunger; Gargoyle's construct natur...

I think 27 species/backgrounds/gods is way too much. It already takes a very large number of games and a very long time to figure out what all the gods do, unspoiled, and 19 is pretty far short of 27; even at that number I think removing gods would probably be better for the game than adding more. ...

DracheReborn wrote:reaver: so klarki goes on your squad then?

Yes.

To be frank the proposal is perhaps *too* safe and conservative. It's not very exciting, you basically start with Slow Movement 2, rC-, and a small amount of fire damage on hit, eventually switching out Slow Movement 2 for rF++. I agree with this. Other than the rC-, which is something slightly new...

Fixed khalil's name, sorry! :? Speaking of problems with nicks, what would you guys think about having theme teams next year. Basically, I would set up teams like this: "uniques and necromancy" Boris (captain) Nergelle Khufu Menkaure Murray Josephine With each team member having an account...

The extinct "moon trolls" the item gets its name from were an aborted type of troll. Permanently invisible and surrounded by a Tornado effect, they would have been found in a moon-themed mini-branch that was never released. hahahahahahaha From the Moon troll leather armour page. May or ma...

we don't have much in the way of defensive gods right now. I'm pretty sure that isn't a coincidence. I think defensive gods are inherently harder to design well than offensive ones. It's much easier to build a deep system with an offensive focus. Likes: invoking the elemental forces (using flame/fr...

sgrunt wrote:
Grimm wrote:new game: dungeon crawl: nethack
I wonder on occasion what NetHack would be like reimplemented on top of Crawl.

"Considerably more playable" comes to mind.

This really needs to be sprint. (Maybe a mutlisprint)

Midpoint wrote:Oh. I'll take that spot. Same name as forums.

Ok, you're in. One spot left.

Yes, sorry, i did see that - I'm not trying to disrupt things with that recruitment. But, like I said, I had already started recruiting and signed up a couple of players for this last minute team before I found The Dart Board, otherwise I would have joined. Yeah, I saw PsyMar in IRC, I'll remove yo...

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EDIT: Disregard this, he didn't accept.

We still have a couple spots left at Tournament Clans for Crawl 0.14 (2 slots left) thread. Which is sort of the thread directly below yours. I've already added you to my TEAMMEMBERS line, just add #TEAMCAPTAIN reaver to your rc file and you're on the team. If you do join the team, post in that thre...

Lyrick: It is hard to make messages pop out in specific circumstances. Donald having special speech when he was certain other uniques was specifically rejected, for instance. Main exceptions are branch and god (mostly because of Donald) and Silence (which is already handled by the Singing Sword). I ...

Could felids with rods just be special-cased to deal bread ration levels of damage? Yes, but this special case is more silly than the current "no rods" special case. Also note Felids would lack the opportunity cost of being unable to equip a weapon with a rod active, which may pose balanc...

Why do people in this thread keep mentioning potions of water like they weren't removed? (and I don't think they're likely to come back, even if they gain a new use.)

XuaXua, I don't have a team yet. I'll jump on board Deez Mangoes, alright? Sorry about not placing you in a clan. :oops: I've decided to close new clan creation, unless we get another sudden spike in players. However, we still could use a couple sixth players. Note that we can manipulate clans for ...

Here would be my alternative: Implement the "variable wait" idea that's been around for a while. This means when you hit ".", instead of always letting 10 auts passing, it waits 1 aut then checks if anything has happened (most critically: enemies moving) and stops if something ha...

I wasn't intending to be a disruption but since the teams were at 5 when I mentioned it just picked one at random. No need for moving around or hokie pokie. It's totally cool. I'd be happy as a one man clan. <-- sounds like it's even named. Don't worry about it. With 2 new players and XuaXua and te...

I also feel a hard cap would be easier to balance. He shows up the average number of time he currently shows up (assuming you kill him every time you see him) and then he's dead forever. And the fact that I know nothing about lua has nothing to do with that fact. It's also a lot easier to see tic t...

khalil wrote:I'm working on the running away bit, but changing his chances of appearing after being killed would require somehow changing the weighting of his vault.

Which would be trivial with lua.

Recruiting clans to 5 would make them more balanced, and then each clan still has space for one late signup. Yes, in retrospect, I should have done this in the first place. I don't want to toggle them around because I think we'll reach at least two more players before the tourney, but I will make s...

I'd probably make this a softer cap. If Boris is killed than his chance of reappearing should drop, but it should never actually reach 0. Of course, this would require making Boris reappear when you run away from him first.

everytime I visit the tavern I leave under the impression that noone likes the game. IMO a game needs to annoy you in order to have something worth overcoming and mastering - by definition, a game with nothing annoying can't be lost. It's just a question of what and how much. There's a difference b...

treerex5 wrote:Who exactly is Lugafu?

Trog rename.

Ah, complexity! (I'm definitely going to ban other clans advertising in the 0.15 thread, since it's caused some confusion here. I'm not going to ask anybody to not do that here though, since several teams have already come by.) christhawk is in HenryFlower's team, because he specifically asked for t...

This would be fine legally, at least in the US, under the defense of fair use (specifically parody). Not that anybody would actually care if it was illegal. (Nethack has a pseudo-unique hobbit w/a cursed ring of invisibility and mirthirl gear) However, if this vault was actually created (Possible as...

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