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These are pretty amazing. Crawl would probably look a lot better overall if I were as good at art as you are.

Splash screens are heartily welcomed!

I would implement (and help make) this sort of thing under the same criterion given by duvessa; i.e. that it doesn't slow the game down at all by default. It'd be nice if that could be done in a more elegant way than "they're completely off by default," but if that's what it takes, then th...

Also, their chosen example for having two recite books available, and having to choose between them, is a skeleton.

Only Ablutions can be read to a skeleton.

You must look within, and realize that it is not Mara you must defeat, but yourself.

Merge sirens and mermaids, calling the result "sirens." Why does Shoals need two mesmerizing monsters, one of which is completely non-threatening? Remove the maintain range thing; while they have you mesmerized they just stand still and shoot conjurations or throw stuff at you. Otherwise t...

It's a problem with latency. Tab works by pressing buttons to aim at stuff, and if you mash tab really really fast and the network is really laggy, sometimes the buttons go in the wrong order and weird things happen. Maybe throttle down the button mashing.

Ghosts replace monsters that have been removed.

I personally like crate's suggestion, but in order to preserve more of the existing subvaults, and allow for more freedom in their design, maybe each vault could be allowed a single closed corner, thus resulting in a layout like this: +-------------------+ | | | --- +---- | | | | | | 1 | | 2 | | | |...

This is extremely unlikely. Most characters use stairs or melee attacks at some point. For example, a naga that starts the game by moving 8 squares has taken 112 aut and 8 turns. That's why I specified "in-game" turns, i.e. 10 aut. Setting true on show_game_turns, in addition to adding th...

Well, if it's been 1539 in-game turns, it's actually been 15390 aut. So presumably you'd want either 15390 (10) or 1539 (1.0).

The prime issue I have is with the new (second?) altar. It looks too similar to Yred's in shape and color. Also, both look shaped like the Temple exit stairs. If nothing else, I would at least change the purple/violet color on one of the altars to something markedly different, like dull orange or g...

By the time Grinder shows up it's unlikely the kind of player who can have problems with this spoilery stuff even knows what a shadow imp is, not to mention xv shows his spells. By the time poly shows up he's likely killed a lot of cyclopes. I can understand keeping him in the game and I can unders...

EP is just HP plus MP. Period. Anything that would give you more HP (e.g. Fighting) gives you that much more EP. Anything that would give you more MP (e.g. Spellcasting) gives you that much more EP. There's no weirdness whatsoever; however much HP & MP you would have had, you just add them toget...

Why would you be stuck? That's not the exit, it's just some bonus loot if you have flight. If you don't, ignore it.

Also breaking free of constriction is very easy now, and you'll almost always succeed on the second try.

EDIT: Not helping is the fact that my typical experience of the result of running away is that you die anyway . I found your problem. Run away sooner (and/or more effectively). Being able to see dangerous situations developing when there's still time to beat a hasty retreat is probably the single m...

Yeah, they can only wear one item of jewellery (ring or amulet).

None. They're all the same.

I agree with evilmike's assessment. However, if a noise conduct is judged to be interesting enough, I think we could manage to make it transparent, possibly with a little bit of tweaking (which should probably be done anyway). I'm going off of the wiki pages for Noise and Spell Noise for the numbers...

"Increases your damage dealing abilities" is a really confusing way to describe it, but it affects melee and ranged (bows, throwing, etc.) attacks. It doesn't affect spells at all.

I was one of the ones who suggested the god hating noise, and the idea wasn't to just lose piety on making any noise at all - it'd be dumb to get punished for hitting stuff hard with your weapon or whatever. The god would pretty much just dislike: a) intentionally shouting or singing, and b) spells ...

nago wrote:Every time I've tried to use it, I've got the message "the shadow isn't still enough". Or are other problems?

You can only shadow step to enemies that are immobile (generally because they're asleep).

Grimm wrote:Instead, how about...0.01 Bitcoin, ontoclasm?

Dude, once the market really gets going that'll be worth like a thousand dollars!!!

The "multi" pickup mode became the default. To pick up everything in multi mode, it's ,*[enter]

If you want the old mode (where it asks you for each item one by one), set pickup_menu = false in your rc.

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Situations where a tough monster is body-blocking you are good, since they can force you to find a way out, possibly by using consumables or putting yourself in danger. There are already numerous such escape routes available, some of which have been mentioned by others; adding another simply further...

Why would this be a bug? That dragon is only barely out of depth; you can get stone giants on D:10 if you're unlucky.

some way to make use of the various 'bad' consumables you find This basically boils down to selling them, which is on the won't-do list. Basically this is because, if you can wring a little value, even a tiny tiny amount, out of all the trash that litters the dungeon, then that encourages players t...

if nightstalker should not be reacted on at all, then Demonspawn is in serious need of a rework. What? You can redirect your character into a sneaky stabber to mesh with nightstalker if you desire, but if you don't want to, it won't cripple you. Sounds perfectly designed to me. I mean I guess we co...

It makes your LoS smaller. That means enemies can't see you until you're close to them, and vice versa. I guess it has "synergy" with melee, stabbing, and short-ranged stuff, and harms long-ranged stuff, but neither to a great amount. My first win was with a DsCj that had Nightstalker and ...

You can rely on your ranged tool. But an Xbow in particular is crazy powerful in the early game, and a bow only a little less so. I dare you to find an enemy before Lair that can take more than 6-8 arrows, whereas tons of them take more than 6-8 melee attacks. And, importantly, those 6-8 arrows are ...

All the monsters in the dungeon see purely in the infrared spectrum. Potions of "invisibility" just lower your body temperature, making it more difficult for them to sense you. Conversely, they can become transparent to the visible spectrum and still see you just fine, since that's not wha...

The problem with giving permanent allies to the player is that they're permanent. If they can't follow you out of the portal that seems just fine; they're basically scenery at that point.

It's been explained multiple times that these suggestions (yes, these exact ones) won't happen because they in no way change how you use the weapon; they're just invisible background numbers. The weapon class specials were given a very specific set of criteria, which I'll try to quote from memory: a...

I don't know if this is new or not, but Xom can animate your weapon. Since he can also swap your weapon with a monster's, it is a really good idea to carry a secondary weapon when worshiping Xom. My HeHu of Xom had a +8 longbow of velocity. Xom gave it to a draconian in the middle of a huge pack wi...

The chance for them to be cursed is really really high, but not 100%. Good ones do happen. What? This isn't even remotely true. They have the same chance to be cursed there as everywhere else, i.e. not enough to really matter. Magic items are often crappy but there's nothing special about the early...

You could listen to the above guys... if you're a wimp. A real hero welcomes any chance for mutations - it's not a true victory unless you exit the dungeon as a twisted, inhuman, fire-breathing monstrosity!

Mennas + Mara = Silas Marner?

There have been several ideas raised for new portal vaults, including an early demonic one, and since they're "extra" content in a sense they seem like they'd get in pretty easily. The main obstacle is just the amount of work necessary; you need quite a few possible maps to prevent the por...

One thing sort of gets me about this, though I guess it's just a matter of taste: I think it might look better if she had those blank stone eyes. As in: http://dentist.blog.ugm.ac.id/files/2009/10/roman-statue-300x298.jpg Obviously plenty of statues have carved or painted pupils, but maybe this migh...

I believe enemies will still hit your allies, even when not distracted, if your ally is in their path. In other words, non-distracted enemies effectively push whichever arrow key gets them closer to you, and if that causes them to whack an angel, so be it. It's the same reason neutrals will attack y...

Insects are also all weak to poison (barring emperor scorps) and low on HP, so you can pretty much remove them from the game completely by picking up a blowgun.

I would just have you eVoke either half from your inventory. "Combine X and Y to form Z? (y/n)"

There's a set of two swords in Warcraft that you can use separately, or glue together into one big sword. Something like that seems reasonable. So like, you'll find the +10,+0 war axe "Lefty" {chop, rF+} and the +0,+10 broad axe "Mr. Right" {chop, rC+}, and then if you find both ...

The two-tiered item set (items on the floor, items in your invenotry) is also interesting and would be lost with item destruction vanishing. As I said last time, this is a really common argument for item destruction, and is totally not true. You can only carry the least of a) X weight of items, b) ...

Probably Boris.

The problem is that using your HP as fuel for spells is strictly worse than using MP. This isn't true. It might be worse overall, but it's certainly not strictly worse: you can cast for far, far longer with a Djinni than with anything else. My current DjFE has 127 EP; that means that she can cast 1...

:) The idea of a rare consumable that provides a temporary form of extreme damage reduction might be interesting, though. Maybe something like (numbers pulled directly from my colon): * When successfully activated, you get a status that reduces damage taken by X% (50%?). It lasts for Y (30-50?) tur...

Perhaps, at least on tiles, it could display what their player doll looked like, instead of the random one it seems to use? This wouldn't help if you're one to customize your player doll, but it'd at least let you know which character that was in that case. Of course, it'd probably be more useful t...

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