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I've generally found giant spores to be "hit them with a stone or other ranged attack to take no damage". Also if the giant spore did hit you there often wouldn't be enough nearby monsters to make the effect meaningful if it didn't insta-kill you. Monster OOD is an effect which has the sim...

I don't think this is a good idea: A) It is very difficult to incentivize switching gods, even if you don't deduct piety players create builds around their gods and there would be costs to switching (For example a FeFE would not want to switch to Dith) B) If it is possible to incentivize switching g...

Isn't Spider basically this?

I guess it has emperor scorpions and entropy weavers etc. but most of the threats in Spider are fast.

On a more serious note, me and another player didn't know if (46%) means (46% to fail) or (46% to succeed). There's enough message clutter in Crawl that adding those two words would be harmless. You already have the word "failure" right there in the spell and god screens. Agree with this....

The solution to luring being really good is to make all monsters speed 11 >_> <_<

Grudge wrote:Even if extra lives stay, Felids still need some changes.

What problem are you trying to solve? Why do Felids "still need some changes"?

It's hard to give feedback on a solution when you don't know the problem

I would oppose a patch to remove extra lives/otherwise move Fe towards Sp. The major design features of Fe are: > Extra Lives > Extreme equipment restrictions > Fast speed > Low hp Of those, the last two are explored in other species - notably Sp. Fast speed is kind of degenerate and I think too man...

Barbs UI are kind of hard to deal with. Sometimes barbs are dangerous enough to cause stupid deaths, but other times the player wants to move despite triggering the effect. Originally there was /no prompt at all/, which caused several player deaths. My original idea for the prompt was the above &quo...

just now a new trunk branch has been set up where the four Lair subbranches are cut down to four levels (from five). This was just pushed to master, btw. What do you mean by pushed to master? "It's in Crawl proper now" basically. If you start a new game on CPO, it will have 4 level Lair r...

dpeg wrote:just now a new trunk branch has been set up where the four Lair subbranches are cut down to four levels (from five).

This was just pushed to master, btw.

Oh hey, this is something fun you should know: Has anyone else noticed ice beasts doing less damage than normal in the latest trunk? Seriously, they can hardly hurt high-AC enemies anymore. Summon Ice Beast is now near-useless as an anti-hydra and anti-bee weapon now, and it's easily outperformed by...

well I was around when spider's nest was designed so let me fill you in. the design of the branch was always "things that poison you, sometimes in slightly different ways." but the dev team ran into a problem here, which is that poison resistance allows you to resist poison. but they real...

Perhaps we just have to bite it and accept that charms don't belong on spells. Seconding this. I've said before that I like most Charms effects but they do not belong on spells. Most decent perma-buff proposals change Charms to be so different they're only spells in name. Charms that actually "...

I have considered this as a replacement for shaft traps. (I think this was originally minmay/duvessa's idea).

(Except possibly without the MR check, just the idea of "monster with a ranged, line of fire shafting spell").

Potion shop I just found on Orc:4: a + 650 gold a potion of experience (unknown) b + 130 gold a potion of resistance (unknown) c + 52 gold a potion of might d - 65 gold a potion of restore abilities e - 32 gold a potion of mutation (unknown) f + 104 gold 2 potions of might g + 52 gold a potion of ag...

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PleasingFungus wrote:Also, increased the existing 1-3 turn death's door cooldown to 10-29 turns. (Should be 10-27 turns? uncertain.)

if that's an excessively brutal nerf, other knobs can be tweaked.

Is that for players casting DD too?

No

Current 0.17 plan is to drop these branches to 4 levels each, which should help the tedium some.

My "solution" for this was suggesting removing the AC + EV score boost for 0.17. The category was already dominated by Gr.

I've thought about this issue before and here is my prefered solution: The player cannot normally access the skill screen. Instead, every time the player gains a certain number of skill points, they are given the option to "purchase" skills with skill points. (Similar to how the player is ...

This makes me feel bad for the devs. Imagine people standing around your sculpture and going, "which parts wouldn't be missed if they were lopped off?" For criticism to be constructive it should be specific, and arise out of repeated frustration shared by many. I wish people were more OK ...

I'd argue that the problem is that there's so little cost for resting off contam after every cast - otherwise, it would be an actual limitation, rather than just an annoyance. I have considered changing contam to wear off on an XP timetable, like god wrath or draining. This of course has the genera...

"Overcomplicated" Find /one/ theme for your suggestion, and then build the species to be the /simplest/ possible implementation of that theme. If you want adaption I'd say Ds and Dr fill that niche pretty well. Both those species are also less complicated than this one (well Ds is arguably...

This is an "intentional" feature of that entry vault, freezing_bzr.

"Intentional" because it's definitely questionable design and I might change it to shallow water.

The big problem with this is that "Holy" enemies are defined in such a way as to make them poorly designed right from the get go. "Holy" damage basically punishes certain character types (undead/demonic/evil god worshipping) just for existing, with no possible countermeasures. Si...

B) Changing the Poison chunk type to a monster flag (I think Ignite Poison, for example, needs this) um, not being able to tell which monsters will be affected by ignite poison kind of sounds like the worst thing ever Ok, so having the monster flag prints a blurb on the description like M_SHADOW an...

If somebody made a patch A) Turning Poison chunks into Clean Chunks B) Changing the Poison chunk type to a monster flag (I think Ignite Poison, for example, needs this) then I would probably push it.

I saw an offhand reference in an old thread I was looking at for some reason, and according to that, vp got some MP restoration when they vampire-bit enemy elves. 1.) Was this ever true? 2.) Please tell me it is no longer true. This commit removed draining elf corpses giving vampires MP I don't kno...

The +7 dagger of Deffence by Offence {Pois rPois rF rC rElec} Not only is the name contradictory, the double misspelling really got under my skin. Seriously, which dev doesn't know how to spell "Defense" and "Offense"? Picked up from a shop as an un-id'd "ivory dagger"...

Aule, this idea is bad and you are ignoring various people stating it is bad and explaining why it is bad. Attempts to sap all sources of said fun in the name of protecting against purely hypothetical "abuses" is not necessarily optimal, either. An exploit isn't really "hypothetical&q...

The results of this don't/won't mean anything since "you have an account on the Tavern and are willing to vote on this poll about Crawl" is an insanely biased sample. (Although this probably causes it to underrepresent offline tiles so)

Since I didn't mention this here I'll just repeat something I said in IRC: I think the ideas behind this species would work better as an unrandart rather than a species. This is mostly based on the fact that giving a species several spell school skills for free is going to make all characters with t...

The commit: Remove jump-attack The ability never worked particularly well in its original form. Its original intent was to combine attacking and translocation, but because it ended up being a low-level ability, the attack become only a tool to ensure the repositioning wasn't brokenly powerful rathe...

It seems like Wiz mode is basically what you want for testing new starts (or, you know, just playing those new starts). Also, combos better in the Arena would not necessarily be better in the main game. As a simple example, spriggan's fast speed is significantly less useful when you cannot run away....

So, since the monk + Ru mechanic is already implemented all I'm really asking here is that we apply the same logic to every god i. e. Gozag and Xom... maybe my proposals aren't up to snuff yet but I'm sure I'll come up with something after a good night's sleep. I think a better change to Gozag woul...

Ru does indeed already have the monk bonus in place.

I feel kind of neutral on the proposed changes.

Cantwell wrote:Also, does Ashenzari's clarity prevent berserkitis? I got the mutation very early on, and I don't think it's gone off a single time.

Yes, clarity stops berserkitis.

Implemented as of 0.16-a0-2021-gafa1673, Thanks!

My only concern for the "amnesia spells on joining a god" is a player could join a good god for the amnesia and then change to a different god. Something like A Tm joining Zin to wipe Beastly Appendage etc, and then immediately joining their actual choice of Dith or whatever. Or possibly a...

A better solution would probably be to just amnesia any forbidden spells (for Trog, all spells) upon joining a god.

Hmm, this looks better than before, but I feel the colour mechanic is still a little unfocused? I'm not 100% sure what the intended gameplay is here - toggling between spells + choice of when to alter you colour seems reasonable, also possibly keeping track of several melee weapons? I'd like a clea...

I think this should do it, hopefully I didn't mess up :? It's based off the 0.15 version rather than the latest version as I was working off 0.15.2 if that info is relevant. https://www.dropbox.com/s/hb5jdl4i5d7752d/ugly_things_species.patch?dl=0 The patch is also more recent that the build, it has...

Ohh, An update! Hmm, this looks better than before, but I feel the colour mechanic is still a little unfocused? I'm not 100% sure what the intended gameplay is here - toggling between spells + choice of when to alter you colour seems reasonable, also possibly keeping track of several melee weapons? ...

Wait, you can get loot by digging in that vault full of bees? Why did no-one tell me of this? I'm assuming wheals is talking about hive_lemuel, which is just a big solid block of honeycomb walls without any bees around it. It's really obvious that you should dig. no it is not! it is just a piece of...

Those damn electric eels seem to show up earlier and earlier (and in larger numbers.) Not sure if this is the clustering illusion or real - since most other types of fish/water creatures were removed, does this mean that any monster that spawns in water is guaranteed to be an electric eel so there ...

You're playing an old version, in 0.15+ Dith worshippers of this rank are "glorious shadows".

duvessa wrote:How about just getting rid of sense invisible and replacing it with see invisible on the monsters that have it?

I liked this suggestion.

I'm very happy you wrote a patch rather than just a proposal. It's great to have somebody work on the technical side of things rather than simply trying to write up a design and asking others to complete it. I probably would not be giving feedback if there hadn't been a technical implementation. How...

I remember hearing somewhere Henzell filled Zot with weird monsters because he never expected anybody to actually get there. (I could be misremembering though) This isn't really Zot-specific but a lot of weird monsters come about because their mechanics were designed first and their flavor was creat...

Reaver, you organizing another one of these threads for 0.15? :) apparently it's a week away :) I'm sorry, I'm sort of taking a break from Crawl right now. (Classes starting and all) and I don't really have the time/will to create a 0.15 thread. If anybody wants to copy the original post and organi...

Goat or boar, where do I go to petition an implementation? Well you're sort of already there. You could go to ##crawl-dev too. I'm also not opposed to an early trampler, but I'm not completely sure one is needed. Early game works excellently right now. I can't remember the last time a new monster w...

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