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Yeah, this makes special levels like forest-themed depths or those Lair endings more interesting and dynamic. It's not necessarily a bad thing to restrict these to the cool guys who can train the relevant spells but you're definitely missing out now. It's a bad mechanic to restrict areas of the gam...

VeryAngryFelid wrote:Why? If it's such a good feature, it should happen in every game.

But shafts do exist in every game. Your argument is tantamount to saying that nothing in Crawl should be random. Got a sword? It should always hit when you swing it. Hitting is a good feature, right?

Come on, man.

Would it be better if all characters got shafted from d:4 to d:6 after 100 turns on d:4? The same from d:8 to d:10 and from d:12 to d:14? No because the player simply waits for the shaft in a safe place. If you randomize what level you do this on, you encourage camping on each of the possible level...

bel wrote:Of course, if you don't know the cursed status of the new ring, there's nothing wrong with having a prompt anyway,

That is exactly my point.

You are wearing ring A and ring B. You have a copy ring A2, which you do not know is cursed. You often swap ring A with some other rings, as ring B is a central piece of your defenses. However, you find yourself in a special situation where you should use both ring A and ring A2 at the same time. If...

Only if you know the new ring is not cursed.

My argument was that it wasn't really an option. Its a non-decision 99.99999% of the time. Crawl design policy, and all.

Yeah, but the chance that shaft gives you an immediate unavoidable death is not that high. I mean granted, dropping into a swarm of killer bees at XL3 or something can happen, but it most often does not. I admit that tweaking the XP tables etc is a better all-around improvement (please make this gam...

Ru should have piety decay. You would need to keep sacrificing in order to keep your powers. If you dally too long, you might be a cripple by the time you make it to Zot. What a clock!

shields penalize accuracy too By the time you can confidently swing a 2H-weapon, no, they don't. By the time you can confidently swing a 2H-weapon, you dont even care about accuracy because you hit almost every time anyhow. You also do more than enough damage, not only to make up for the times that...

Change the game in a significant manner because of reasons that I am sure of but which I admit are highly complex and hotly debated, but dont ask me to explain any of that I cant be bothered to actually defend my position (even in my OP), just believe me when I state my extreme opinion despite the ...

Im always surprised to see people so often get angry about shafts since they are rare and usually survivable, whereas getting blasted in the face by Ijyb with a wand of disintegrate, or walking around a corner and getting LOADED with poison by an adder on d3 without a cure potion in sight because th...

You also need to be leaving WELL before you get to 17 hps, which is when he hit you with that last shatter.

duvessa wrote:Even when they realize their dildo is gone, they'll never ask you if you stole it, because it would mean admitting that it's their dildo.

Did you steal the dildo, Duvessa?

Somebody will come along with more specific advice, Im sure, but for starters: Op's greatest weakness is having to melee anything. Avoid that at all costs, so yeah throwing or some form of ranged is a very good idea, even more so than typically. Evocation is also a big idea. Stealth is a really good...

On a related note, if 99% of the time, any given character who could wear robes should ditch folly, then folly needs to be reworked (two pips of negative MR is obviously far too much) or removed.

Maybe put it as the first "item" in your (I)nventory screen, then.

I am so completely and utterly confused as to what you actually want here, Shtopit.

Nasst wrote:how do we convince players to train fighting on book backgrounds?

By repeatedly taking away all of their hitpoints.

Spiders have "web-sense"? That explains it...

I want a Consuela "noooooo...." button.

Lol did they legalize it where you are from?

The correct answer is to always hit apocalypse and just put all your skill points into fighting

Because with a non-summoning character, you don't have anything standing between you and death/advancement. Therefore, your skill level is directly tested in every battle. Combined with breakpoints like the integerisation of AC, it makes it optimal to push one skill at a time. That said, you can cer...

Summoners are advised to have a non-allies method for dealing with non-threatening enemies All characters who use magic as their primary kill-dudes are advised to have a non-magic method of killing popcorn, question is why so as to avoid needlessly missing out on XP. ...and that's not it, no matter...

Is the tree you get, like, a prize for the graph? A potted plant? Sounds neat. Lol, no just if you graph out the branches you end up with what is called a "tree" in the study of graphs. What you actually get, is an army of variable number of units (strength) based on how you stack the dec...

Just kidding, its not really that crazy. Say you have a deck of 52 cards, and you have to pull n cards. On each card is a command to pull between 0 and m new cards, with each value having a given likelihood in the deck (for example 10 cards will tell you to pull two new cards). You get a tree if you...

They're not allies, and no they do not.

Also, you shouldn't worry about losing XP. There is a glut of XP in the game, and if using a given mechanic helps you get some of it easier, it is making your game as a whole easier, not harder.

0.x implies we are moving ever closer to removing food.

I've definitely seen randart rings with fire/ice enhancers, and I want to say that I have seen it on amulets or possibly weapons but I imagine I am wrong here.

I figure this has been asked before, but the search restrictions on these forums is ridiculous. Why are only ice and fire allowed to have ring or randart enhancer properties, but not earth and air (at the least, they are elemental too) or necro/summoning/poison/etc.. I cant for the life of me figure...

Yeah except as mentioned in this thread, the game purposely minimizes the final sacrifices so that you will only overshoot 6* by as little as possible.

I still think Ru should get apocalypse at 6*. I also think the piety power meter is a good idea (also for other gods).

How do you know if they rarely fly or not if you dont even know if they can fly at all?` Protip, they can : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2owjAJ5hho

Also, changing things to make a fantasy computer game more realistic is terrible game design.

If you can afford a shop, might try to pop an armour shop first on the off chance that you get either a hat or a GDS. If you havent done lair yet, might want to do it down to the bottom, in case that elephant slug unique loads, he always has a hat. Definitely do orc for the shops as well if you have...

Why isn't Beogh revamped to only allow a few followers at a time, max? This just screams tedium. Might as well hardcode all the steps players are taking here to optimize their allies. You could even do something fun like : Beogh moves an orc warrior to join your cause. Your party is already full. An...

That's not a continual clock. The player is going to be disadvantaged at the start of every floor, and you may push bad play (especially among less skilled players) much as timed portals can do as the player rushes around trying to uncover as many tiles as possible. After some time goes by, dependin...

Agree, but turn it off if you drop a wand with zero charges.

Robust 3 is excellent (possibly the only good significant muts along with wild magic) but teleport 3 is deadly on end vault - where dangerous enemies are grouped together - double so with blurry vision 1 Stacking up a bunch of AC mutations is a significant improvement for most characters, and simpl...

I'd rather remove stones altogether, and not have effectively infinite throwing ammo available. You need to get rid of awkward throwing too for this to work, of course. But this removes that interesting decision that every one of my characters comes up against in mid-lair: I really need another pot...

@ crawlnoob: that makes sense in theory, but has the effect of making the early game harder and the late game easier, which would strengthen an already present problem. Yeah I was thinking the same thing, but then I prefer the early game. One fix there is to try to make monster behavior increasingl...

Why not inverse the noise cap. Players should be rewarded for training a skill, not punished, and vice-versa. So using an untrained weapon gives you the greatest chance of attracting attention, and skill would gradually reduce this noise. You could tie that in to weapon delay even, if you wanted to ...

Bump. I got the correct file in, really would like somebody to tell me what happened if possible. I cant see that I am petrified here.

You're clearly only just good at this game, but not secret good.

Firestorm includes irresistable damage, so you can nuke OOFs with it too. I like to soften them up and then hit them with iron shot or OOD for the easy kill.

Ah-hah.. I wonder what the dice difference is between 5* and 6*, and why do they even mention min-piety or do they mean the earliest piety you can get the ability at? For that matter, does the game tell you if you hit the natural piety cap/automatically cap piety the moment you hit 6*, or can you fo...

All of the runed doors are vaults that can be memorized (spoilery), so you should open them and learn them on earlier characters who are probably going to die anyways. Some notable runed vaults : Early D: A big rectangular room at the starting position that you can walk around, this is full of slime...

Ahh, I knew there had to be something.. but yeah, that is not very apparent is it.

Its basically a no-brainer for any low-strength species (and frankly a smart option even for high strength species), to carry these around specifically for totally negating the constriction status-effect. The more recent game design momentum been focused on, among other things, reducing inventory cl...

Whether or not you think apocalypse is OP or not (its pretty much a win-button with only a restriction on the immediate rate you can mash it), the main question is why do you get it at 5* and what is the point of Ru continuing to offer you sacrifices afterwards when you have nothing to gain for taki...

It was the wand of digging that the other guys had that killed me, it just opened up so much space for their earth elementals, it wasn't even funny. Just FYI, the earth elementalist elves dont have a wand of digging, they have a spell, so you can expect to encounter that tactic every time unless yo...

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